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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

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Not a bass obviously, but I thought y'all might like to see my new Matt Pike 9-string

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The weird lighting in my basement doesn't do it justice. It's basically a greenburst goldtop and it's stunning in person

FWIW I also have a goldburst Woodrite Graver Bass on the way soon
 
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mpdd said:
going to namm tomorrow, still have brain fog from the flu i got after my arizona trip, totally forgot that i have to go to some museum event in downtown LA around 6pm, gonna be a lot of photographing and driving tomorrow, the dayquil diaries or something like that
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Say hi to Steve from Does it Doom and Woodrite Guitars. Cool dude.

I'm going through the brain fog thing now as well. It's awful. Hope you feel better soon.

I miss NAMM. I would go every year when I lived in LA.
 
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HP Hovercraft said:
Not a bass obviously, but I thought y'all might like to see my new Matt Pike 9-string

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The weird lighting in my basement doesn't do it justice. It's basically a greenburst goldtop and it's stunning in person

FWIW I also have a goldburst Woodrite Graver Bass on the way soon
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I don't understand... what is a 9 string guitar? Are some, but not all, of the strings doubled like an 8 string bass? The neck doesn't seem big enough to have 9 strings, but it clearly has 9 tuning posts. I'm confused...
 
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kleinenenten said:
I don't understand... what is a 9 string guitar? Are some, but not all, of the strings doubled like an 8 string bass? The neck doesn't seem big enough to have 9 strings, but it clearly has 9 tuning posts. I'm confused...
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Only the three highest strings(G, B, and E)are doubled…usually. I first heard of it as played by British blues godfather, John Mayall….

Nine-string guitar - Wikipedia

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kleinenenten said:
I don't understand... what is a 9 string guitar? Are some, but not all, of the strings doubled like an 8 string bass? The neck doesn't seem big enough to have 9 strings, but it clearly has 9 tuning posts. I'm confused...
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Strung C, F, A#, D#/D#, G/G, C/C. The three highest strings are paired. It's sort of like having a built-in chorus on the high strings.
 
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BC Rich also did similar 10 strings with the top four courses doubled. I've also seen acoustics with the bottom strings doubled and top strings single (for playing bendy leads, I guess?), and 12-strings strung with 11 strings with a single bottom E and the other five courses strung in unison. Often accompanied by slap bass on either DB or ABG, alternating verses with sousaphone... which is pretty far from doom metal, heh.
 
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pklima said:
BC Rich also did similar 10 strings with the top four courses doubled. I've also seen acoustics with the bottom strings doubled and top strings single (for playing bendy leads, I guess?), and 12-strings strung with 11 strings with a single bottom E and the other five courses strung in unison. Often accompanied by slap bass on either DB or ABG, alternating verses with sousaphone... which is pretty far from doom metal, heh.
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Doom could use a little more sousaphone tbh
 
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cornfarmer said:
huh, so Washburn is reissuing those Scavenger deals? Kind of a weird move, though they did make a fancier 2-pickup one back then that are pretty hard to find now.
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Now why they would do the Scavenger again is beyond me. They all neck dive unlike any other bass I have played. Now the Wing Series guitars are a whole different story. The semi-hollow looks nice in a refined 60s Italian semi-hollow way.
 
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Kawai2g4b said:
Now why they would do the Scavenger again is beyond me. They all neck dive unlike any other bass I have played. Now the Wing Series guitars are a whole different story. The semi-hollow looks nice in a refined 60s Italian semi-hollow way.
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Haha, I had to look up the Scavenger as I was unfamiliar with it. First thought: "neck dive"

Looks cool, though, and a nice price
 
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My very first bass was a Lotus L760 which was basically a Scav copy, but I can't remember if it suffered from neck dive. I bought another one maybe 10 years ago while feeling nostalgic, but sold that one too after monkeying with the tuners and pickup.

I gotta quit looking at equipment & all that sh1t anyway because I am way under-employed and have no good reason to have the amount I do when it comes right down to it. Sold 2 basses and 3 amps in the last month to have some extra cash reserves. Not really doing much musically, kids are sucking up all the air and I'm going to start a welding course next week and see if I want to go all in for the full certificate.......the job market in my field has been in the toliet for a looooooong time and it's not getting better anytime soon. My musical buddy went the Johnny Paycheck route and is going back to school for auto/Diesel tech/repair. I think the trades might get flooded with tech/computer/white collar/etc. workers who are getting f'ed over by AI replacing them.
 
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cornfarmer said:
I think the trades might get flooded with tech/computer/white collar/etc. workers who are getting f'ed over by AI replacing them.
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My understanding is that it will take a LOT to flood those fields at this point. They've been massively understaffed for a long time, and I don't think most people are interested in doing those jobs. I'd imagine your friends will have no problem finding employment. As an educator myself, I've always thought it was crazy how we pushed for college for so long, and seemed to ignore the obvious fact that we NEED people to do the basic, everyday sort of jobs. Even while I was in college, my classmates looked at me like I was nuts when I pointed out that there were only so many jobs available for our degree, and we were a single group of 30ish students out of how many sections of this exact class in this university, not to mention the numerous other universities - many of which were larger! - who had the same programs. Graduating at the top of my class didn't help - everything was so flooded with applicants it still took 4 years for me to find employment commensurate with my degree.

As an adult who realized later in life he also enjoys building things and working with his hands, I've wondered many times if it was a disservice to myself to NOT take more "shop" classes in high school, and if I had, how would my job prospects have differed. Depending on the path I took, I could easily be making far more money than I am now!

Good luck to your friends!
 
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cornfarmer said:
My very first bass was a Lotus L760 which was basically a Scav copy, but I can't remember if it suffered from neck dive. I bought another one maybe 10 years ago while feeling nostalgic, but sold that one too after monkeying with the tuners and pickup.
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I actually had the neck-thru guitar version of the Lotus wing series copies (L650). Weirdly I lost it in a move as I was refinishing it and it never turned back up again. Absolutely killer guitar though
 
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