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Wow Marshall, Take it easy and hopefully you're feeling better soon!
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Thunderbird Club
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Wow Marshall, Take it easy and hopefully you're feeling better soon!
Chuck, I appreciate you taking this on. Any idea the year of this amp?
They sounded good to me, plugged into a Hiwatt/fridge.
Thanks Jeff. Enjoyed our conversations. Talk soon.
I don’t remember seeing a Travis Bean with this body before. Awesome sounding/playing bass, but way too heavy.
- Jun 30, 2010
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It looks petite - looks are deceiving...
Thanks so much Miles and enjoyed meeting you also. Looking forward to future events.
This old Jazz is sweet. No tag, and I don’t know all the year by year changes, but it looked original to me and had a colour matched headstock.
Just realized my arm is covering the worn-down-to-wood section.
Just realized my arm is covering the worn-down-to-wood section.
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Okay, that’s what I was thinking. Yes I purchased from Dave probably 10 years ago?
Okay, that’s what I was thinking. Yes I purchased from Dave probably 10 years ago?
Mudbucker outpowers all other(passive)pickups.
DMZ5000?
Kramer DMZ 5000 1979/1980 - Natural | Reverb Finland
Michael Sadler of Saga used to play that kind of Kramer before he and Jim Crichton both switched to Zon.
Speaking of Sadler, here he's playing the Kramer:
And here with some image updates with the Zon.
And here with some image updates with the Zon.
LOL - I think we’re talking about different basses. My comment was about the Orville that Irv was testing. They always seem to list at higher prices than a lot of the other Japan era birds.
I think you might be talking about the Eppi Tbird Pro (trans black 4 knob active bass). I’ve never really been drawn to that model so I don’t know what they are worth. But it’s NIB so it’s probably worth more than your average used Pro.
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- Jun 30, 2010
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I want to share a recent issue related to our recent (last Sat night) BG & TSC's show at Winters' Tavern in Pacifica. I need to set it up with some background to make it clear.
Winters' Tavern was taken over by San Diego residents CJ & Corrine 10 years ago. (they had a music related bar there) Before they bought the biz, 100yr old Winters' was a dismal 'biker bar' with very marginal local live music. Pre CJ/Corrine I played there a couple of times and people were confused by our original songs/music. ("when are you going to play something we've heard hundreds of times?") Anyway - when CJ & Corrine entered, they actively promoted local bands playing original music. (AKA - no cover bands) There is a place not far from Winters' in an old Pacifica mall that books cover bands - I've played there too. Anyway - Winters books grass-roots originals, down & dirty R&R, punk, post-punk, folk, jazz - whatever etc was the norm. Word got around and the internet emerged for national networking and Winters' has evolved into thee place to play in the Bay Area. And not just local - Mile Watt played there a few times, Agent Orange, and other famous/infamous bands.
I introduce this caveat to explain my related story; most bands that play at Winters' do not exclusively play there "because of the money". Take that any way you wish - bands play there because CJ & Corrine provide a venue to play. When I first approached CJ shortly after they took ownership of Winters' for BG, he was reluctant to book a 'cover-band' but needed a slot filled the week between Christmas & NYE. We worked it out and since then BG & TSC's has played there numerous times over 9+ years. We've grown a very small but dedicated following in Pacifica - especially Winters' staff. It feels like 'home turf' to play there regardless of its shortfalls. (marginal PA, playing for tips...) We are "friends of the family" there and always enjoy playing a night of music.
So, BG's more recently enlisted drummer Phil, who we all love and does a great job - is in another band called The Road Runners. The RR's is a generic 'cover band' that plays paid private parties etc. I like Phil, and have interfaced with their female bass-player who is nice, and their guitarist John who also is nice. I've not had communications with their front-man guitarist Geoff, even after giving them a gig with us a couple times so far. So last Saturday at Winters', I orchestrated the night with TSC's, RR's and BG. Seemed like a fun, easy to coordinate night of 3 related bands. Everything seemed to go well and that was that.
So I get a call from CJ mid-day today that RR's guitarist Geoff was on fb slagging Winters' !!! - I was crushed that a band that I coordinated to play at CJ's tavern lashed-out at them! I couldn't believe what an a-hole this guy was attacking my friends' establishment. I apologized to CJ - he laughed it off and the loyal fans of Winters' chimed in to negate this clueless "wedding band" hack. I have nothing against musicians making a living playing music of any sort - but all players in that band have day jobs and I won't suffer their "we only take paid gigs" BS.
BG plays James Bond covers, and TSC's plays a mix of original music and covers so CJ has always been very tolerant of our straying from 100% original material. So for this ... to go out of his way to post a mean comment is unacceptable. Needless to say - that's the last time we share a night. I tried to post the fb posts - but they didn't transfer. He revised his original post to 'soften' it later... (a-hole)
Winters' Tavern was taken over by San Diego residents CJ & Corrine 10 years ago. (they had a music related bar there) Before they bought the biz, 100yr old Winters' was a dismal 'biker bar' with very marginal local live music. Pre CJ/Corrine I played there a couple of times and people were confused by our original songs/music. ("when are you going to play something we've heard hundreds of times?") Anyway - when CJ & Corrine entered, they actively promoted local bands playing original music. (AKA - no cover bands) There is a place not far from Winters' in an old Pacifica mall that books cover bands - I've played there too. Anyway - Winters books grass-roots originals, down & dirty R&R, punk, post-punk, folk, jazz - whatever etc was the norm. Word got around and the internet emerged for national networking and Winters' has evolved into thee place to play in the Bay Area. And not just local - Mile Watt played there a few times, Agent Orange, and other famous/infamous bands.
I introduce this caveat to explain my related story; most bands that play at Winters' do not exclusively play there "because of the money". Take that any way you wish - bands play there because CJ & Corrine provide a venue to play. When I first approached CJ shortly after they took ownership of Winters' for BG, he was reluctant to book a 'cover-band' but needed a slot filled the week between Christmas & NYE. We worked it out and since then BG & TSC's has played there numerous times over 9+ years. We've grown a very small but dedicated following in Pacifica - especially Winters' staff. It feels like 'home turf' to play there regardless of its shortfalls. (marginal PA, playing for tips...) We are "friends of the family" there and always enjoy playing a night of music.
So, BG's more recently enlisted drummer Phil, who we all love and does a great job - is in another band called The Road Runners. The RR's is a generic 'cover band' that plays paid private parties etc. I like Phil, and have interfaced with their female bass-player who is nice, and their guitarist John who also is nice. I've not had communications with their front-man guitarist Geoff, even after giving them a gig with us a couple times so far. So last Saturday at Winters', I orchestrated the night with TSC's, RR's and BG. Seemed like a fun, easy to coordinate night of 3 related bands. Everything seemed to go well and that was that.
So I get a call from CJ mid-day today that RR's guitarist Geoff was on fb slagging Winters' !!! - I was crushed that a band that I coordinated to play at CJ's tavern lashed-out at them! I couldn't believe what an a-hole this guy was attacking my friends' establishment. I apologized to CJ - he laughed it off and the loyal fans of Winters' chimed in to negate this clueless "wedding band" hack. I have nothing against musicians making a living playing music of any sort - but all players in that band have day jobs and I won't suffer their "we only take paid gigs" BS.
BG plays James Bond covers, and TSC's plays a mix of original music and covers so CJ has always been very tolerant of our straying from 100% original material. So for this ... to go out of his way to post a mean comment is unacceptable. Needless to say - that's the last time we share a night. I tried to post the fb posts - but they didn't transfer. He revised his original post to 'soften' it later... (a-hole)
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