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Happy Birtday Donnie, here's that new bass you wanted!

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A Marin resident who lived on the same street as a good musician/cyclist friend. I attended a few shows where he played - RIP

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SFJAZZ.org | Zakir Hussain

The SFJAZZ family is heartbroken to hear that musical visionary and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain passed away in San Francisco today at the age of 73.
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dagrev said:
Dude...these clips are all too short. You gotta fix that or it's just a tease and you don't want that reputation.
But come to think of it, Chuck Tease has a certain ring to it. More a syllable fit as much as anything. But feel free to use it if you ever have any side gigs as an exotic dancer. :whistle:
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Or a Tee shirt company
 
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JIO said:
Has anyone here had a dream where your T-bird is involved? I had one last night. I was moving or exiting a space and I couldn't find the gig-bag for it (my '64 II) so I had it slung across my shoulder/back like a soldier carrying a rifle. ??? It's interesting that out of all the many basses I own - my T-bird was the bass involved. It reminded me of nightmares I regularly had when I first owned my '63 II, later stollen. I would see it submerged in a frozen stream. Very surreal - I would feel distressed as I could clearly see it but couldn't get at it... and then I'd wake up and feel relieved.

Maybe my nightmare was triggered by this surreal image from the great 1955 film Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum. If you've never seen it I highly recommend it. Robert Mitchum, who was also in the super-suspenseful film Cape Fear, is every bit as 'feared' a character in NotH.

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And also this unsettling 1851 painting "Ophelia" by Sir John Everett Millais. Actually my dream was more like this image.
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That pic sends this song through my head.

….
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day


On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
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RedVee said:
That pic sends this song through my head.

….
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day


On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist
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Miles_ONeal said:
You have plenty of room on that board with a little reorg. Doing a reorg let me fit a BBE Sonic Stomp (not a small pedal) onto mine. Buy cables with very flat 90 degree plugs, too., although you're a long way from *needing* those. I like the EBS Premium Gold.
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I did pick up some flat 90s for the board, much better for organization now. After measuring everything our, I should have ample room for the Boss DC-2W, Future Impact, and Foxy Tone Box. Swapping to the mini volume pedal was super helpful, the old DeArmond/PAIA volume pedal I had on there was nearly as big as the Parachute. The SuperFuzz will be too big, but I can always build myself another in a smaller enclosure.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
I'm disappointed that in this day and age of AI and signal processing, we still use phono jacks ftom the late 19th century.......:facepalm:
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Miles_ONeal said:
The problem, of course, is standards. You'd have to sell old->new adapters until the new standard reached critical mass, then sell new->old adapters. You'd really sell both all along, but the new->old would have very low sales at first (early adopters, newbies, etc.)
The RCA phono plug would take less space and provide better connections. The 1/8" / 3.5mm plugs like some headphones use are just smaller versions of the 1/4" phone jacks.

For those who don't know, they're called phone plugs / jacks because that's what the early switchboard operators used when plugging in to connect one line/extension to another. The first patents around these were filed in the early-mid 1890s. So it is, indeed, ancient tech back when the phone switch was an operator.
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I've thought about this too. I would think 1/8" 3.5mm would be a decent next step for pedal board considerations without going to something radically different. I mean if it works, it works, the main issue these days is just the 1/4" taking up too much real estate. To get around adapters, at least at first, you could have 1/8" sockets in parallel with the 1/4" next to each other on the pedal, so you could use either, could even plug 1/4" from your instrument to the first pedal in line, then 1/8" out to subsequent pedals, and then the last pedal go back to 1/4" to the amp. Maybe I need to start modifying my pedals as such, would certainly save some space.
 
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