I played soccer in High School, 2 years as captain. College, Air Force, Europe comp, and Utah comp, 35 years total. Did I mention I now have a bad back?
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Yup, Lumbar (L4) Laminectomy at 34.....
L5 wafer thin, but still there. L4, L3 and a couple of bad ones in the TsYup, Lumbar (L4) Laminectomy at 34.....
50+ years of ice hockey takes its toll. Broken fingers, detached tendons, and C4/C7 foraminal narrowing, moderate to severe on the right and severe on the left. Meaning 50-80% closure impacting control of my hands. So, I do have an excuse for myYup, Lumbar (L4) Laminectomy at 34.....
y playing. 
Dang, we sound like old gas bags.
50 years? When my Achilles started going in my 35th year I was done.50+ years of ice hockey takes its toll. Broken fingers, detached tendons, and C4/C7 foraminal narrowing, moderate to severe on the right and severe on the left. Meaning 50-80% closure impacting control of my hands. So, I do have an excuse for my
The real reason to have an 800W bass amp and cab; liquefying the obnoxious guitar player's finger bones. The rest is just a bonus.
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Sonic weapon for your obnoxious neighbors?
If at all concerned this might happen, I set levels with my volume pedal backed off a bit. And my Super 800 Plus has a mild boost at the ready. So I have two emergency volume boosts available without touching the amp.
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Or a 300 watt all tube SVT.
I have not. I play mostly in dumps. Now if you could get those in ears to connect to a busted fry-o-lator, I'd be in business!
Which Trace is that?It has a much warmer tone to my ear and there is this lo-mid bump that travels out real well without being too bassy. The 7 band eq lets you really fine tune the frequencies much better than the 4 knobs (bass, lo-mid, hi-mid, treble) on a GK, it's easy to get a good tone without much work, even when I take all varieties of T Birds in my collection into account the TE is so much easier to work with, especially at lower volume. For me, the 700RBII is simply too much amp for any situation I was regularly encountering with the band, my rig only very rarely has too carry the bass for the show because we play shows that have good FOH. In this situation a large, high powered amp isn't a good choice because you're not really "opening it up" (GK's manual for the 700RBII says to start with the gain and master at noon, at those levels it's insanely, unusably loud). So you have to really knock the gain and master back quite a bit and you lose the tone that the high volume setting gave you or you're pissing the FOH crew off. In this situation I just couldn't get what I wanted out of the amp or the GK cabinets, even tho I used it for quite a few years, I wasn't real gushy about it's tone, no warmth, kind of metallic, almost brittle and no lo-mid bump.
Frank and I visited The Bass Shop with the notion initially of buying an SWR amp there, and we tried it and liked it, but there was this Trace sitting there too and we plugged it in and my ears just "knew" that was "The tone" I had been hearing in my head and wanting all these years - The Trace came home that day, and I just love it, great tone, even at modest volume and it's really easy to move with it's cool little carrying case. A couple months later I came back and got the SWR as well, I left the GK there at that time - it's on their website. The other part of the equation is the SWR cabinet, the speakers are voiced different than the GK cabs I was using, again much better. After I bought the 6x10 I found a 4x10 as well, it stays upstairs in the practice room, the 6x10 is downstairs in the rehearsal room.
Anyway, I'm not down on GK, they make good stuff, I just happened to find something that suited my needs and tastes a bit better.
Trace Elliott and a Lull T4II = Bliss!
My GK MB150-112 combo was enough to piss off my neighbors.
I briefly ran track in 6th grade. There was no training, just "practice" and meets. I think I once got up to mediocre. It was in high school I figured out I could actually sprint ok and run distance if I tried, with a little help from a very athletic friend. But by then I was way more into other things (including trombone and guitar) and had come to hate the small town sports culture.I could run the 40 yard dash at 4 and some change my Sophomore year, the track coach really bugged me about joining the team, but by then I had my first bass (EB-0 copy) and was learning how to smoke various things...........
If only someone had given me a Thunderbird then.
CP/CT The Rolling Stones vs pretty much any football team
Unless you're right next to a loud drummer and/or the FOH is too loud and the room hates you.
I managed to screw up my back a couple times without any help from sports.
"I did it myyyyyyyyy waaaayyyyyy..."
50+??? Did you start in the womb? Which did your Mom hate worse, the frozen rink or the zamboni trundling around?50+ years of ice hockey takes its toll. Broken fingers, detached tendons, and C4/C7 foraminal narrowing, moderate to severe on the right and severe on the left. Meaning 50-80% closure impacting control of my hands. So, I do have an excuse for my
Dang, we sound like old gas bags.
Does anyone else find that sometimes the stupid forum software randomly adds strikethrough to a section of text?
