Yes, that was me.Ok, someone was asking about strap locks before, maybe a hundred or so pages back.
Anyway I think I said I have Dunlop on my Gibby, took another look today and they are actually Ernie Ball.
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Thunderbird Club
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wow, talk about light weight cabs.....
Her father's going to have fun lugging those heavy boulders of amps around, I suspect his back and spine are going to hate him, lol.
1.09 million people would disagree with you. What do you like?
I think it’s in the garage next to the freezer.
Johnny Thunders with the afore mentioned geetar
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They are admittedly super bass geeks - but both are also super players and extremely versed in music theory and technique. I never slag players who are far superior as players. Aside from that, I have always found both of them to be insightful, instructive and very entertaining as teachers.
Back in the day, a lot of people couldn't stand Jaco's ego - but discounting his immense talent and unique innovation on the electric bass is a sign of someone who has a very limited ability to appreciate greatness... or simply is just jealous. And claiming to "not know" about him is willful ignorance. It's like "not knowing" about James Jamerson, Charles Mingus and that guy who played bass with The Who. lame.
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But still he ended up playing short scales for the rest of the seventies excepting that brief fling with Geezer's Rickenbacker*.
*The Ric is on the Hammersmith Odeon gig that was filmed for video and according to Geezer it was only as he had forgotten his usual stage bass and even stage clothes.
I'd never heard of Jaco, or Jamerson, until probably Scott Devine mentioned them in his YouTube videos that I watched, maybe 3-4 years ago. And Charles Mingus, I had to look him up just now
It's just that where and when I grew up, and the kind of music that exposed me too, those guys were so far out side of that .... Jamerson would be the only one I'd even heard in passing. Even Entwistle....I'd heard a couple of The Who songs, but only what played on the radio by the late 80s, and I didn't know him by name until probably the last decade or so.
I didn't get into music at all before the mid 80s, when I was able to move to stay with my dad, and as a new teenager, if it wasn't some kind of rock or metal, I didn't have much to do with it until probably the late 90s? I guess. Then it was country & alternative rock for a while, then (modern) rock & metal.
Then I started hanging out with you guys
So now I've heard of those guys, and listened to some of their music, but really not my cup of tea for the most part....
I'm not dissing or making fun of his talent as a musician (which I admit he has plenty of it) All I'm saying is that I can't stand him. No need to call me ignorant or lame, don't know what I did for you to say that to me...
I prefer the Tbird, but they sound pretty similar through AirPods. The Fender sounds surprisingly (at least to me) good.
SIT Power Steels or the stainless Dunlop Marcus Miller Superbrights open up Tbird Plus pickups quite nicely. But nothing wrong with EBCFs. I’d like to hear the difference between the two played between the bridge and neck pickups.
That was when we came up to see you.
Ken always had good advice. Wisdom follows good advice.Oh, that’s it! Pile on while I’m trying to fight off GAS!
