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#329,321
GonePlaid said:
TY, but that's an old pic from 2021. Actually, both will be for sale when I figure out what to ask for them. I'm kinda outta the biz. :(
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No BFD, I've had a good run-1967 to 2025, rock/country, jazz, big band, concert band; read and 'fake'. Our group ran outta places to play and AFAIK, the world ain't beatin' down the door to get an 80 y/o bass player.
Oh, well. 'Stuff' happens. LSTYD.
 
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GonePlaid said:
No offense intended to those for whom bass is a 'hobby', but if I ain't playin' out, I ain't playin' at all. Last gig was 8/15/25. Haven't touched a bass since except for about 30 seconds to make certain an amp I was consigning still worked. (it does)
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It's one of the reasons that I'm glad I wasn't a "professional" ...
 
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JIO said:
It's one of the reasons that I'm glad I wasn't a "professional" ...
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It was my main gig for a lotta years with local truck driving for beer-or whatever-money. Then those two got flipped. Then in 2007, I hung up the driving and went back to mainly music on weekends. Now that's dried up.
Carp. :(
 
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5StringBlues said:
Hey, hey, I'm back from my year long TB vacation!


What'd I miss?
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More of the same. Some vintage sixties Gibsons, Bicentennials getting some love, a couple of cool builds, a few new members who fit right in and contribute, some new music from some members, car talk, girls, and bikes. We’ll see you in a few months once you’ve caught up. In the meantime, good to see you!
 
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I’ve got nothing to add.

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I consider myself very lucky. We don't care about playing out anymore, still do the occasional gig but losing the desire. We still love playing together. Other than the drummer, my guitarist, singer and I have been playing together for 27 years.

Despite marriages, divorces, job changes, and severe differences in political views we really care for each other, are good friends, get together weekly when we can, and are even motivated enough to learn new songs.

And I figured out a way to keep things fresh. We were getting into a rut with the songs we were playing , so I listed the songs we knew alphabetically (85 give or take) put them under transparencies, and every time we play a song put a mark next to it. When a song gets 5 plays, it's put aside until the others have 5 marks, except the last song of the night, then anything goes.

Did I mention we're still learning new songs?
 
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Last night was a lesson. Brought the wrong rig. Never played at this place before and found out that the house Is a stickler for low stage volume and counting on FOH. Literally has a db meter above the front door. The drums were behind a clear plexiglass screen. I brought the Ashdown Geezer and GK212 Neo 4 ohm, and had it set at virtually zero. The very lowest output notch where it would still make sound. Then, there was a huge terrible resonance when I hit B on the E string. Finally after pulling the DI, and determining it was from my cabinet, I found a severe cut at 180 on the EQ got rid of it (noted for future), purely a conflict between my choice of cabinet and this room. Very high stage, lotsa space below. Definitely would have liked to see if “de-coupling” it from the floor, like with casters (if this cab had them) would have helped. So, with that solved, I still had virtually no stage volume and, although the idea is to get myself heard through the monitor in front of me, there was still so much “woof” from everything, not just me, but guitar and vocals, I just didn’t want to put more bass in the room, so no stage volume, no bass in the monitor, I basically was playing with earmuffs on. Literally was playing the right notes and hearing wrong notes. This caused so much confusion that I made a number of big mistakes trying to correct for sounds/mistakes I wasn’t making. The bass player in the band after us just had a pre-amp pedal directly into the board, no cab on stage. While I’m not really a fan of that, If we ever play there again, that may be my route, or maybe just my PF-50 into a sealed 210 and making sure to have myself in the monitor.

We seemed well received, and even the other band members said it sounded really good out in the audience. I hope the bass wasn’t very clear in the audience because at times I was playing like a beginner, making big mistakes trying to correct for things that were being played right but sounded wrong. After a few songs I just made myself concentrate on playing the right notes, trusting my memory, no matter what I was hearing.

A lesson in how to handle a bad situation.

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BuddhaFingas said:
Sorry for the delay. Had a workday to finish up, just now getting "lunch."

So, busy with that, and....Oh yeah, and unpacking what appears to be a almost-never-played, never even been set up, back-cover-still-has-the plastic, 98% flawless 2018 model BAT4H18LVSBC1 THUNDERFRIKKENBIRD from its original case... wearing what look to be the original strings...

And which had the original docs tucked in said case, including the signed inspection card showing a 2/8/18 birthdate.

I am essentially over the moon just now.
Pics incoming. Once I can put it down.
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Sounds fantastic so far!
 
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