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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

#30,942
Squanch72 said:
Do you gents with Ric and Ric scale lengths use heavier gauge strings with them? I want to order some Chromes for the Waterstone but not sure what gauge to go with for E standard. The shorter string length says higher tension to me but then the neck through design makes me nervous to go too heavy a string gauge.
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Same gauge for me. The scale length diff is not that big.
 
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#30,945
I think I'm playing the least doom event ever this afternoon
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We're in Madison, WI. Some americana kinda deal. Doing another lovely, yet mellow gig tomorrow in Appleton
 
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Muddslide said:
I got lucky when I found my wife. She's a much more accomplished musician than am I and has toured and played venues I could only ever dream about. Even though she's out of the game (aside from playing for her own pleasure and sometimes recording with me) she is still very supporting and encouraging, both for me and my daughters.

Also, my dad was a big classical music fan and jazz-head who plays trombone. (STILL, in fact, blowing 'bone in two jazz bands at the age of 80 and while afflicted with COPD.)

I am so thankful he turned me onto so much music (and literature as well, him being an English prefoessor.) He really got me interested in 20th century classical stuff like Mahler and Bartok and even John Cage when I was very young, and he hipped me to Monk, Miles, Mingus, Coltrane, Coleman, Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Sam Rivers and a lot of pretty damn challenging jazz cats. I was pretty deeply interested in and invested in this kind of stuff by the time I was 10.

I still gravitated towards rock and roll and punk and metal and such, but even there, he was very supportive. He drove me to my first band rehearsals and so on, and always praised me when he'd hear me practicing.
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I also come from a musical family.

Pretty much everyone can sing (four part harmony, I mean), my grandmother plays piano, my father played trombone, my uncle also plays trombone (and guitar, and banjo, and ukelele, and a bit of piano, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting), my aunt plays cello, one cousin plays guitar and piano, that cousin's wife also plays piano, my sister plays clarinet and piano, another cousin plays drums, another plays trumpet. So houses without musical instruments in them freak me out a little a bit. They feel alien and weird.

The_Janitor said:
Heading to a small town fest tonight to see Warrant. Going "backstage" thanks to my work connections. Oh yeah, i know you're all jealous.
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...why?
 
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#30,949
Blank_0101 said:
Probably just limit the boost. My mb500 was very clean, still kinda growly amp at most settings though.
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Yeah, I'll likely use boost at 0, since I like it clean (well, okay, amp clean, but still with pedal dirt). I only have the boost at 9:00 as is, so it won't be much different. Heck, I'll get to use my volume and woofer knobs more, make me feel like I'm louder maybe?

I'll probably have to limit the GK Rails Pedal boost, though. If I remember right, it's made to emulate the GK rails sound AND go beyond it, so the boost is a bit crazy. We'll see. I don't have to engage the boost at all if I don't want to, but who knows. Excited to know when it's coming back to my house!
 
#30,950
Muddslide said:
I got lucky when I found my wife. She's a much more accomplished musician than am I and has toured and played venues I could only ever dream about. Even though she's out of the game (aside from playing for her own pleasure and sometimes recording with me) she is still very supporting and encouraging, both for me and my daughters.

Also, my dad was a big classical music fan and jazz-head who plays trombone. (STILL, in fact, blowing 'bone in two jazz bands at the age of 80 and while afflicted with COPD.)

I am so thankful he turned me onto so much music (and literature as well, him being an English prefoessor.) He really got me interested in 20th century classical stuff like Mahler and Bartok and even John Cage when I was very young, and he hipped me to Monk, Miles, Mingus, Coltrane, Coleman, Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Sam Rivers and a lot of pretty damn challenging jazz cats. I was pretty deeply interested in and invested in this kind of stuff by the time I was 10.

I still gravitated towards rock and roll and punk and metal and such, but even there, he was very supportive. He drove me to my first band rehearsals and so on, and always praised me when he'd hear me practicing.
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Dude, with this sort of story, I love your dad! Mine weren't terrible parents or anything, but man, they didn't support my hobbies. They vocally opposed my bass practicing habits after about two weeks when they were tired of my devotion. I mean, they taught responsibility, etc., blah, blah, blah, but music was never a common ground, or even supported or understood.
 
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Korladis said:
I also come from a musical family.

Pretty much everyone can sing (four part harmony, I mean), my grandmother plays piano, my father played trombone, my uncle also plays trombone (and guitar, and banjo, and ukelele, and a bit of piano, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting), my aunt plays cello, one cousin plays guitar and piano, that cousin's wife also plays piano, my sister plays clarinet and piano, another cousin plays drums, another plays trumpet. So houses without musical instruments in them freak me out a little a bit. They feel alien and weird.


...why?
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Because i know the guitar player through work, it was a free show outside next to the river and the weather was perfect, there was a selection of world class local microbrews on tap, a half dozen food trucks, several friends and co-workers were also going and it was a hell of a good time. Hair metal is far from my favorite thing, never went through a phase where I listened to it, but I can still have fun at a show like that.
 
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The_Janitor said:
Because i know the guitar player through work, it was a free show outside next to the river and the weather was perfect, there was a selection of world class local microbrews on tap, a half dozen food trucks, several friends and co-workers were also going and it was a hell of a good time. Hair metal is far from my favorite thing, never went through a phase where I listened to it, but I can still have fun at a show like that.
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Good reasons.
 
#30,960
I was offered $565 each for both my DL4 and bass whammy on reverb. This reeks of obvious scam. What do you guys think? Potential downside to accepting/potential scam damage? I feel like as long as I have the pedals still, I can't be scammed by accepting.
 

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