The Combo Club

[iagtrplyr]

Not to hijack the positive Hofner vibe you guys are feeling, but I wanted to tell you that something box-like will be arriving to the house by UPS on Tuesday.

Call it an impulse if you will, but I'm only human! More in a couple of days!

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

Not to hijack the positive Hofner vibe you guys are feeling, but I wanted to tell you that something box-like will be arriving to the house by UPS on Tuesday.

Call it an impulse if you will, but I'm only human! More in a couple of days!

Now I'm excited!

 

[GonePlaid]

Not to hijack the positive Hofner vibe you guys are feeling, but I wanted to tell you that something box-like will be arriving to the house by UPS on Tuesday.

Call it an impulse if you will, but I'm only human! More in a couple of days!

I fear that our illustrious leader has succumbed to a GAS attack.

 

[iagtrplyr]

Now I'm excited!

Oh Doc, you probably say that to everyone expecting a cardboard box by the end of the day! If I can steal a minute away for doing something school-related I'll post a pic. Don't get overly excited, but for a measly $136 I couldn't resist. Anyway, knowing me it'll be on C-list in six months for $75!

 

[iagtrplyr]

I fear that our illustrious leader has succumbed to a GAS attack.

Oh GP, my friend, you don't know the half of it. I bought the Rumble back in June and three months later you'd think I hadn't purchased a single musical item in ten years! I told my wife, "It's the pressures of life that force me to have to find solace in bass amp acquisitions." I dunno, it sounded good at the time. So I emptied my secret cash account (in my wooden GI Joe Box from the 60s) and made an impulse buy. But now I have at my disposal 8", 10", 12", and 15" speaker options. Now will begin the two-driver configurations!

 

[G-Dog]

Oh GP, my friend, you don't know the half of it. I bought the Rumble back in June and three months later you'd think I hadn't purchased a single musical item in ten years!! . . . ...

[BORISACCENT] Fearless Leader should have purchased R-R-Ruble ..., uh, R-Rumble Studio 40, instead. Although blatant copy of Pottsylvanian Sikorsky 4000, is equipped with numerous features designed to occupy enquiring bass minds for wery many years. [/BORISACCENT]

 

[ghostinthemach]

[BORISACCENT] Fearless Leader should have purchased R-R-Ruble ..., uh, R-Rumble Studio 40, instead. Although blatant copy of Potsylvanian Sikorsky 4000, is equipped with numerous features designed to occupy enquiring bass minds for wery many years. [/BORISACCENT]

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[GwenOnBass]

Not sure if this is humblebragging or whut, but today is kind of significant for me personally as my workaday office was across the street from the World Trade Center. Did my job, hey? Never did go back to that site. Shoot, used to eat my lunch outside, under the Twin Towers. For reasons that make nearly no sense to me, used to muse that the height of the Twin Towers is about the same length to ascend as the Bottleneck on K2. So I wondered about people going UP, not down.

And it was at the bar at the top of the WTC where we learned of a concoction of one part brandy and one part Blackhaus. Something I reserve for the holiday season now. It really warms you up nicely. Our joke is that drink should be called Time Travel Juice. Oh and we enjoyed grappa nearby after work hours. Italian colleagues.

In touch now with only one player from those teams that day - night job of a drummer in a Pink Floyd tribute band. We never did play together. Did day work together some eleven years.

So now the new project is learning to read treble clef again. Picked up the music today. Looks very well transcribed. Charts, lead and rhythm guitar lines all properly written out, and (ugh) guitar tab.

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

Not sure if this is humblebragging or whut, but today is kind of significant for me personally as my workaday office was across the street from the World Trade Center. Did my job, hey? Never did go back to that site. Shoot, used to eat my lunch outside, under the Twin Towers. For reasons that make nearly no sense to me, used to muse that the height of the Twin Towers is about the same length to ascend as the Bottleneck on K2. So I wondered about people going UP, not down.

And it was at the bar at the top of the WTC where we learned of a concoction of one part brandy and one part Blackhaus. Something I reserve for the holiday season now. It really warms you up nicely. Our joke is that drink should be called Time Travel Juice. Oh and we enjoyed grappa nearby after work hours. Italian colleagues.

In touch now with only one player from those teams that day - night job of a drummer in a Pink Floyd tribute band. We never did play together. Did day work together some eleven years.

So now the new project is learning to read treble clef again. Picked up the music today. Looks very well transcribed. Charts, lead and rhythm guitar lines all properly written out, and (ugh) guitar tab.

I appreciate you sharing. As a Canadian I am a bit separate from that event, although it was tragic, emotional and I will always remember what I was doing when I learned of it (writing my Masters's thesis in my parents basement). So it makes such a huge and abstract event so much more personal by hearing from someone with a personal connection to the Twin Towers.Thank you.

 

[G-Dog]

 

[iagtrplyr]

[BORISACCENT] Fearless Leader should have purchased R-R-Ruble ..., uh, R-Rumble Studio 40, instead. Although blatant copy of Pottsylvanian Sikorsky 4000, is equipped with numerous features designed to occupy enquiring bass minds for wery many years. [/BORISACCENT]

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I know, but my current ruble-count was low and I had a hankering for Chinese! It's on the list...

 

[iagtrplyr]

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Beautiful image. You can knock us down but never out...

 

[iagtrplyr]

Okay, so after a whopping 3.5 hours sleep last night and still having to read a couple of chapters on the RTI movement, I thought I'd do as I promised and post a picture of the latest acquisition. Behold! More updates as they come in...and no, it's still in the box. too pooped to play.

 

[G-Dog]

Okay, so after a whopping 3.5 hours sleep last night and still having to read a couple of chapters on the RTI movement, I thought I'd do as I promised and post a picture of the latest acquisition. Behold! More updates as they come in...and no, it's still in the box. too pooped to play.View attachment 3147291

[BORIS] OMG! Fear-r-less Leader will review this new combo for us! Since no one answered query of this, he will do it himself. He is truly fearless!! Hail, Leader!

Oh, but is so easily amused. No wonder Mrs. Leader can be so understanding. Knowing will only be spent 136 to 299 rubles every 6 months surely is no threat to caviar, wodka and borscht budget. Meanwhile, Mrs. Dog faces unexpected G.A.S. explosion of 800 to 950 rubles, or more, every year or two. Sometimes double! Poor Mrs. Dog. She dislikes homegrown wegetables and water diet so.

But I fear Fearless Leader will never fully review Studio 40, much less, Stage 800, at such low expenditure rate. While this poor KGB-Dog will be sent to Siberia at next G.A.S. attack.[/BORIS]

 

[ghostinthemach]

[BORIS] OMG! Fear-r-less Leader will review this new combo for us! Since no one answered query of this, he will do it himself. He is truly fearless!! Hail, Leader!

Oh, but is so easily amused. No wonder Mrs. Leader can be so understanding. Knowing will only be spent 136 to 299 rubles every 6 months surely is no threat to caviar, wodka and borscht budget. Meanwhile, Mrs. Dog faces unexpected G.A.S. explosion of 800 to 950 rubles, or more, every year or two. Sometimes double! Poor Mrs. Dog. She dislikes homegrown wegetables and water diet so.

But I fear Fearless Leader will never fully review Studio 40, much less, Stage 800, at such low expenditure rate. While this poor KGB-Dog will be sent to Siberia at next G.A.S. attack.[/BORIS]

Pack for chilly weather Boris!

 

[GonePlaid]

Pack for chilly weather Boris!

Mrs. GP and I live 140 miles apart, no joint checking, no complaints about my GAS(or gas).

 

[ghostinthemach]

Okay, so after a whopping 3.5 hours sleep last night and still having to read a couple of chapters on the RTI movement, I thought I'd do as I promised and post a picture of the latest acquisition. Behold! More updates as they come in...and no, it's still in the box. too pooped to play.View attachment 3147291

Did you hear that?
A muffled voice coming from that box over there....
[let me out, I can’t breath in here]
There it is again...

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

Pack for chilly weather Boris!

I woke up to snow on the ground today and supposedly it's not even Fall yet!

 

[G-Dog]

Pack for chilly weather Boris!

[BORISACCENT] Borees have warm black leather coat, but only ever get to wear it on travels north. Secr-r-et assignment now in warm climate just begeenning to get livable. Snow wery unlikely here. Borees like. Keep G.A.S. contained by playing with ill-gotten capitalist toys from previous attacks. Precision, Jaguar, Rumble, Bassman, Strat, LP, Deluxe, EJ-160E, Acoustasonic, pedals, gadgets, etc..[/BORISACCENT]

 

[GwenOnBass]

And

and really not a great deal to say, beyond I do what is mine to do
and
I know the difference between what is mine to do and what is not

And

seems to me the line of thinking that combo players utilize with the bass and beyond. There's a certain practicality in combo amp player thinking that for me looks a bit like this:

I find my own background helps me understand the physical relationship of my body as a whole and my body's relationship to the bass. A semi-hollowbody like mine is a big bass and it's a completely different experience to play than to play my StingRay.

And in this, something practical — I mean, ya gotta love practical — um, I really hate HTML but we guess that's practical too — Oh yeah. It means of the five straps I own only one is long enough and adjustable enough to be a "perfect fit". An amusing journey to what makes holding my bass optimal for my whole body landed me with four straps ain't never thought of before.

The tailpiece extensions that make the straps long enough to be actually considered functional now arrive and are threaded in the strap ladders. Which means it's time to get some proper practicing done .... Now is good.