Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

Things got better yesterday.........
Our show was local and thus once we arrived I noted that one of the preceding bands was using their own bass rig - So, we turned around and picked up the SWR /GK, thus you have a Happy Queen.

Sexy rig. Nice bass amp too!

 

[Count Bassie]

so true, but if I could count the times I've heard "my dad (or mom or whoever) tried teaching me and I so wish I would have kept at it"...

My elder daughter tried guitar... actually no, I got her guitar lessons... she had the ear and the touch, but rejected it after a bit. She did take up string harp later, but has since left it behind.
The younger played violin, then viola, then also left it.
They were both raised as choristers also, did that together for 10 or so years, so they got a musical education. Who knows, maybe they'll return to music. You offer what you can to help them realize what they've got. They eventually pick up their own ball and run with it.

 

[PillO]

My elder daughter tried guitar... actually no, I got her guitar lessons... she had the ear and the touch, but rejected it after a bit. She did take up string harp later, but has since left it behind.
The younger played violin, then viola, then also left it.
They were both raised as choristers also, did that together for 10 or so years, so they got a musical education. Who knows, maybe they'll return to music. You offer what you can to help them realize what they've got. They eventually pick up their own ball and run with it.

We all add and delete activities over the years. I was an avid photographer in high school. By university I had dropped it. But, around `03 I picked it up again and pursued it in more depth than I had in the past. My brother played guitar in high school. By the time he finished university, he had all but dropped it. When I started playing 3 years ago, he came back to it and is pursuing it with greater zeal than ever before.

It is great to expose kids to as much as you can. Even if they drop the activity, they may pick it up again later.

On the other side, best not to push too hard. I went to high school with someone who made the Olympic team. He was expected to take gold by the time he was mid twenties but suffered a career ending injury. So now he is stuck without an education and a stunted career. I don't know what he is doing now except that every 4 years he has a two week gig on TV as an Olympic skiing commentator.

 

[Engle]

ironic part of that story is that you could have run the Centurion without a load..

Better safe than sorry was probably what I was thinking.

 

[TBird1958]

Sexy rig. Nice bass amp too!

Well now, aren't you a sweetie

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I agree - we have had some grey, cold and windy weather for months! First a really rainy winter (good) but no spring and into foggy, chilly, windy summer! (at least on the coast!)

We've had a real, long spring. Unusual for Austin. I only got around to shaving my bears off a week ago; usually it's gone well before now. But it's only recently gotten into the high 80s for more than a day, much less the couple of 90-91F days we had recently.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Like others here, I had a busy day yesterday.

Part one
My daughter had her first piano recital. I was very proud of her, I didn't hear any errors and told her "see, the hard work and practice payed off". She told me that she did make one mistake but just continued as if it had never happened just as I had told her to.

Woohoo! Please congratulate her for me. Way to go on keeping going! How old is she?

Most mistakes have to be pretty blatant before anyone other than a real musician can notice, and often even they won't. But man, one mistake in that song? That's terrific.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Excellent! Cool way to spend time with your daughter. That’s what it’s all about. Mine officially moved to Boston on Tuesday. I miss her already. She had been home with us for about six months. My son is going to see Silversun Pickups with me Tuesday night. My wife has no interest in seeing them...music is a great way to bond.

Some of my favorite memories with my son as a teenager involve music- from concerts to driving around in my Miata with the top down, stereo, blaring, and singing at the top of our lungs. POD was a fave. Metallica, too.

 

[PillO]

Woohoo! Please congratulate her for me. Way to go on keeping going! How old is she?

Most mistakes have to be pretty blatant before anyone other than a real musician can notice, and often even they won't. But man, one mistake in that song? That's terrific.

Turns 11 in a couple of months. Been playing almost 3 years. She has been diligent in her practice (with some encouragement) and because she was doing well and doing the work, I bought her a top end digital piano last fall.

 

[JIO]

Didn't Mark Twain say something about the coldest winter he had experienced was a summer in SF...

If you don't like the weather, just walk for a block.

It's true - I mostly don't complain because over the hill is usually sunny. Part of living on the West Coast. I lived in Chicago for 10 yrs and when it was grey - it was grey everywhere.

 

[JIO]

Blue is the best flavour Gatorade.

Yah - what is that flavour? When people ask what flavour it is, I also say "blue". Blue popsicles are good too! Whenever people in futuristic movies drink something, it's usually blue.

 

[mr zee]

It’ll help.

Especially since I find myself back at The South Street Seaport.

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Hey, oranges. I like a nice pear myself.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

imagine waking up to this....

needless to say....mid Derby season....watched some pretty awesome bouts this year..

 

[Gaolee]

I'm off to play a local Pride show later today - Supplied back line will be the polar opposite of this...…...More later.

A DI box then?

 

[Gaolee]

She's a fantastic human being, who manages to conjure an awesome wall of noise out of (just) one reverb and one delay. A rotating wah would be messing with (minimalist) perfection.

She doesn't have to use it. Just have at hand should the need arise. Plus it is about an acre of chrome on a box the size of a small bus. Shiny is important.

 

[Gaolee]

imagine waking up to this....
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needless to say....mid Derby season....watched some pretty awesome bouts this year..
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I can think of worse things to wake up to. And some of it has to do with what caused the nap in the first place.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

imagine waking up to this....

Lucky dog!

 

[Gaolee]

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  I never could bend my wrist enough to bow German.

My bow is plastic. It works and still has hair left. It is probably Gary Indianan, not German.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

We have three bass players at church, and someone else (an excellent player with serious band experience) was playing this morning. He said his bass went quiet half way through the first set (we came for second service), so he dug out his mini-keyboard and played that. I [pointed out that the third bass player leaves a bass at church (forgetting that we also have a Yamaha bass of unknown ownership there as well). He said he didn't know if it was the bass or his pedalboard, so that wouldn't work. Alas, I didn't get a chance to discuss it further.

While I like my board, I have no problem plugging straight in. When my board developed a problem mid-set a while back, I did exactly that. I practice without any effects most of the time, and occasionally play that way just because.

Just curious- do any of you feel you have to have pedals? My compressor and EQ are on most of the time, but the only thing I *have* to have is the bass.

 

[Gaolee]

Yah - what is that flavour? When people ask what flavour it is, I also say "blue". Blue popsicles are good too! Whenever people in futuristic movies drink something, it's usually blue.

There is no blue food in nature.