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And a bow on your heine
Post a pick of them all lined up. Would be sweet to see that. Congrats!
Don't forget to move Lemmy to the end of the list...
I did that and it worked well actually. Brought these GHS Flats up to E standard tuning and no tweaking yet.. and these suckers are HIGH tension compared to other flats I have used.
Yes, very sad. I was still in the last couple of years at school when first Hawkwind became known in Australia. I still have three of their albums on vinyl. My father did not provide the excellent guidance you got, but it didn't matter- Motorhead didn't exist at that stage. I agree with your Dad BTW- listen to Hawkwind first. I found Hawkwind through friends and loved them. Lemmy and Geezer were the reasons I first decided to play bass several lifetimes ago. Then I found King Crimson, Jethro Tull early Bowie, Mott, Wishbone Ash, Deep Purple. Man, what bands- what bass tones! The job on me was finalised when I heard Prakash John playing his Ric on the immortal album Rock and Roll Animal. My early heroes were largely playing Gibson basses and Rics, or heavily distorted P Basses (Geezer). Even though I loved Led Zeppelin, I liked JPJs tone best on the very early stuff when he used an early 50s single coil P Bass. I have always liked big thick bass tones and the basses that produce them. Jazz basses have never done it for me and I find not a lot attractive in some virtuoso slapping/ popping and shredding his way around a Jazz, often with little reference to the music. I guess that's why I do so well in the general population.
I have two I use, a Soviet era black Big Muff, used mainly for power chord intros or the big ending. The other is a Ibanez Bass Tube Screamer used mainly to grit up supplied back lines or fill sonic space during solos.
Gotta do that soon! I'll load my van full of 'Birds and we can cause a disturbance in the time/space continuum by having that many Thunderbirds in one place.Deluxe!
Will, make some time to come for a visit, we'll have many Thunderbirds all in one place!
