Yet, as a man, you still feel the need to get out a tool to be sure.
I get it. It's what we do.
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Yet, as a man, you still feel the need to get out a tool to be sure.
I get it. It's what we do.
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Almost pulled the Trigger on a Dillion a while back and glad for the review. I had one of their Ric copies and it was a pretty well made bass. Didn't really sound like a Ric, but had good action. Only issue was at the price point for a used one, you were in the same ball park as the Epiphone classic, with Gibson pickups.
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Give us some pics of your new 'Bird, I'll add you to the club - And Congratulations on your new bass!
Do you know the band The Dingoes? I knew Kerryn for a while when we lived in the same neighborhood. Super nice guy. Haven't seen him in years, though.
Thing is, when I measured and taped it all out it just didn't look right or match the original. I don't know if it's right measurement wise but it "looks" right so good Enough to go tear up on stage lol
They are really nice basses, very high quality and finish, but that damb neck and rediculous dive. The pickups are crap but same size as Duncan and EMG for a good price they're worth it. Maybe light weight tuners or the right strap would help. Matter of fact, now that it has small tuners it doesn't dive. I've had 3 of these btw REAL mahogany btw
I have to admit to liking inxs when I was middle school age in the mid 80s, and going back to all the old men at work stuff when I was in my early 20s in the late 90s. Introduced to midnight oil when beds are burning was on MTV in the late 80s, and really got hooked by blue sky mine. I think I like the oils the best, but man those men at work hits, and inxs kick album really bring back memories. I remember being 23 in 1998 in an upstairs studio apartment playing along to basic men at work songs with my then new swr bass 350 and a peavey 1516 cab, at full volume and never got in trouble (middle of the day everyone must have been at work), Kenwood receiver and cerwin Vega d3's cranked up and the bass rig shaking the whole building. Later that year I got Mackie hr824 active monitors, and the neighbors threatened to call the cops. Playing along with incubus songs in 2000 with my then new Warwick FNA and swr workingman's 10 almost got me evicted, a one more time and your out warning. I didn't get evicted till 2013, same place for 15 yrs.
I became the quiet one being bothered by all the young tenants, then finally lost it and went 180% on the Kenwood/cerwin Vega reactor in the middle of the night 2 nights in a row with a feedback loop wired with my valve Jr and petrucci guitar and ended up with a taser dart in my shoulder, soaking wet on my bathroom floor. Beat that rap too, but certainly got evicted. Sometimes you have to make a big exit. MKultra never really stopped, but I don't expect anyone to believe me.
The truth is out there.
Get loud!
Gaolee
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I need a tool to do things like that because I don't see straight lines very well. My wife does. She can measure things with her eyes in a way that absolutely puts me to shame. When I think something is lined up just right, she'll take a casual look and say it isn't. It looks perfect to me. Then I measure it with a tool. It's not perfect. It's out exactly how she says.
DNA. What're you gonna do.
(Edit) I got the level-by-eye thing going on too, but I do that for a day gig. Some surprising things I have little patience for. You get what you get!
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Yeah. Funny thing, guys who actually do stuff where they have to gauge things by eye can do it...or they don't eat. Others can stay little boys and ask their mommies for help.
My old man was a barber AND a machinist. He was born in the back of a barber shop, the machinist part he picked up on his own. The precision part of being a machinist came easy. His first job was cleaning up 'neck beard' with a straight razor at age seven in Cataldo's shop.
Little doubt why he had no tolerance for sloppiness and could have given a good haircut with hedge clippers.
Gaolee
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It's partly practice, partly just eyes. I'm out of practice, to be sure, but I have done a whole lot of work that requires precision. I still have to rely on measuring tools. My wife doesn't do precision work, and never has, but she's got the eye for level and alignment. I just flat cannot see it. I blame growing up in a rural area with no straight lines in a house that was out of level and out of plumb in all ways. But, I can look at something and rotated it around in all directions in my head. She can't do that. I have no problems with spatial relations and can find almost anything once I have got there once. I didn't get lost in London. She did. She grew up there. That drove her crazy. We both have our uses.
Just woke up from a dream -- no a nightmare -- where I set up my rig downstairs in the street, as we all do, every other day ... and went inside to get something, and some bastard had loaded it into a van and driven off with it, leaving me with nothing but a cream Italia Maranello Z in the wardrobe.
Saw Midnight Oil lots back when. Very good band! They lived near me when I was in my 20s and used play locally a lot before they really took off.
But yes, Radio Birdman were the band I really liked and still do.
Divinyls were a force of nature live as well. Used also love a couple of the Melbourne bands- Jo Jo Zep and the Sports were always great live.
@ubernator - INXS and Men at Work were way too radio friendly for me. I'll admit to a bit of a soft spot for Cold Chisel and the Angels, and have discussed with Roni, @Stevis and others how much we like the Hoodoo Gurus. The reality is that most of the bands I used to see when Sydney had a thriving live music scene were 'local', ie Sydney/Melbourne, the same as they would have been for anyone in Vancouver, Manchester or New York, and never found a wider audience.
No not at all actually. I'm not from around here and considering the proximity we heard surprisingly little Australian music - it was mainly British and American.
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I still love that Outline single - "cicada that ate Five Dock".
Five Dock being a suburb in Sydney not far from where I grew up.
Five Dock being a suburb in Sydney not far from where I grew up.
Haji
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I've seen INXS four or five times and they were awesome every time. Totally different style, but Final Drive, a southern thrash metal band from St Louis, has never done a bad show that I've attended. Comes from being in the road most of the year, every year, for more than a decade. And, in top of that, every one of them is totally cool.
Me too. I grew up in Lane Cove. They used play at a place in Gladesville frequently.
