Exactly, knob settings. I kinda wish more manufacturers took the lead of Peavey when they did their T-40 where the black top pick guard layer had small dots carved out to show the middle white layer, and those served as the knob position marker alignment points.
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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At first, I thought Eno was tripping balls, but, his pupils aren't dilated. So, using my maths,...he's just nuts.
The legendary Les Paul Thumb Slicer!
JES, you'll be a welcome non-lurker. You certainly have the gear bona fides. Long time vegetarian here as well.
Also: educators...filthy leftist hippies! As a filthy leftist, I welcome you.
Also: educators...filthy leftist hippies! As a filthy leftist, I welcome you.
Weekend notes. Hmmm nothing really good. My horse (well, he's my wife's) is sick, not being able to poop, which is bad for them. So, he needs to take a hella dump and blast some farts to feel better. I claim he ate too much cheese, which everyone down at the barn calls idiocy, but I'm sticking to my guns.
Bass-wise, nothing special. Just playing along with some Oasis in the basement to prep for a jam this Friday amongst my clique of old dudes. They aren't down with the real heavy, so we molest classic rock tunes. It's a fun time, lots of banter, real good hang. Then we'll be hooking up for a round of golf Saturday morning before the drummer heads back to Columbus. It sucks that he lives 2 hours away, because he's a really good guy, and a hell of a drummer who sings as well. Since we are all mediocre/average golfers at best, the golf is really more of a hang than anything else. He's also a filthy hippie leftist.
Bass-wise, nothing special. Just playing along with some Oasis in the basement to prep for a jam this Friday amongst my clique of old dudes. They aren't down with the real heavy, so we molest classic rock tunes. It's a fun time, lots of banter, real good hang. Then we'll be hooking up for a round of golf Saturday morning before the drummer heads back to Columbus. It sucks that he lives 2 hours away, because he's a really good guy, and a hell of a drummer who sings as well. Since we are all mediocre/average golfers at best, the golf is really more of a hang than anything else. He's also a filthy hippie leftist.
IIRC, those are actually the "pot placement" tabs. But yeah, generally the thumb slicers. It's why you don't really see them too often anymore.
Slow weekend here, worked a bunch, my wife got fed up with EVERYTHING so so the kid went to my moms and we went on a karaoke quest. After 3 bars, a lot of drinks and a drunken cig we ended up finding a bar with a short wait and they got to sing. Yay!
Sat, I met up with a drummer I'd been chatting with about doing some more jazzy/fusiony/whatever type stuff, but the pretext to this meeting was he was playing a show with one of his bands that did a bunch of covers and interpretations of video game music, so all in all it was a pretty cool set and jam, as the three of them were drums, bass and keys... but the bass player is doing the whole guitar-player-playing-bass thing and he wants to play guitar.
So. I might have found a new project. We'll see.
I also have feelers out for two other things... one is another collection of old dudes doing hard rock originals n stuff and the other is as a hired gun for a kinda solo artist, but he's doing a doom pop thing with a strong foundation from us here in stoner/doom/post metal land, so it could be a cool deal.
Lot of cool projects in the pipeline.
Bummer they're not down with the heavy... maybe you can start sneaking in some heaver sabbath or zep songs in...
Sat, I met up with a drummer I'd been chatting with about doing some more jazzy/fusiony/whatever type stuff, but the pretext to this meeting was he was playing a show with one of his bands that did a bunch of covers and interpretations of video game music, so all in all it was a pretty cool set and jam, as the three of them were drums, bass and keys... but the bass player is doing the whole guitar-player-playing-bass thing and he wants to play guitar.
So. I might have found a new project. We'll see.
I also have feelers out for two other things... one is another collection of old dudes doing hard rock originals n stuff and the other is as a hired gun for a kinda solo artist, but he's doing a doom pop thing with a strong foundation from us here in stoner/doom/post metal land, so it could be a cool deal.
Lot of cool projects in the pipeline.
Bummer they're not down with the heavy... maybe you can start sneaking in some heaver sabbath or zep songs in...
Yeah. First time I saw one on a bass, I went NOPE and it went back on the wall.
Sadly, they've veto'd the Sabbth on several occasions, and, I, as a devout Zep hater, have done the same for that misbegotten band.
I've been coming around to do more covers and stuff like that lately, but I can def understand not wanting to play some stuff. I loath playing anything grunge or some of the more overplayed (back in my day) nu-metal songs.
Would i want to do them for myself or a group of friends? nah... but if the band wanted to do some covers, a few of those would be good choices.
There's def. songs that I don't want to play that we play live, cause $$$.
sir i thank you for your service in the coverbands
I had a fun show for a Sunday night. Local bands were great, good Sunday turnout, quality all around. I had some stage issues, but solid night over all. Our singer is turning it up w/ energy (which I back) and accidentally stepped on my board knocking something loose. Instead of teching it, I plugged direct to the amp. Then the powerstrip on my side kept tripping. It was the venue's and was old AF. Lessons learned... keep my pedalboard by my cab and bring my own quality powerstrip.
Glassing were phenomenal! Like Russian Circles meets Deafheaven with John Theodore playing drums. Sweet gear too, a Mason guitars guitar (Cult Leader guitarist's brand), a Hex 300x (Model T pre w/ 300w tube power), Emperor cabs, Peavey T40, vintage Acoustic head into an SVT cab, cool pedalboards... Nice doods too.
Glassing were phenomenal! Like Russian Circles meets Deafheaven with John Theodore playing drums. Sweet gear too, a Mason guitars guitar (Cult Leader guitarist's brand), a Hex 300x (Model T pre w/ 300w tube power), Emperor cabs, Peavey T40, vintage Acoustic head into an SVT cab, cool pedalboards... Nice doods too.
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Since it's just a casual jam, and none of us are good enough to write decent songs, the covers gotta be it.
This track has been taking my lunch money lately. Hits like a sledgehammer...
Terrible news out of the Neurosis camp over the past few days. I'm in a weird fan space of being extra disappointed in Scott Kelly because on my perception of him based on the art he helped create. He always had a dark, heaviness to him but I was not expecting anything like this. I'm heartbroken for his family and bummed for the guys in Neurosis.
NEUROSIS release statement about Scott Kelly, had cut ties in 2019
NEUROSIS release statement about Scott Kelly, had cut ties in 2019
Yeah - that SK post was a rough read, especially considering his family was probably subjected to way worse than the few things he talked about. Good response from the band though.
If you read the comments, you will see just how screwed we are as a society in 54 short posts. I'm praying for the appearance of the dragons from "Reign Of Fire".
I'm sorry to tell you, nothing good has ever come from "the comments."
My Wattplower came with these for some reason. I just removed them when I swapped knobs, which is not a euphemism.
