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#138,181
TBird1958 said:
Happy New Year
I’m waking up in a strange town, trashed from last night’s show......
Time to pack up and hit the road to Seattle, standard fare for New Year’s Day.


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Same! Headed home from Spring, TX. Gonna be a long day!
 
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#138,182
fasterpussycat said:
I'm not having a go at those who slap or play solos but that's all pretty antithetical to my personal bass 'philosophy'. My job (in the sort of noirish dark-glam, psychedelic goth stuff I play) is to provide a harmonic ground ('continuo' if you like) as well as rhythm, texture and dynamics.
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#138,183
gaffster said:
That Jaco sound and style...never really acclimated to it. OK, slapping has a place. I play keys in a martini bar band...they had this very technically skilled bass player for a while who slapped on everything. Why?
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'Cos that's what all the 'cool' bass players do?:rollno:
 
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So... is this the 'Always on' model Broughton HPF?
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I've bought it, but am still going to try that cable/capacitor jig that @Chucky Stiletti turned me onto. If that does enough of the job I'll flip this. But they're so hard to get used I went for it.
 
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#138,186
GonePlaid said:
'Cos that's what all the 'cool' bass players do?:rollno:
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Larry Graham was certainly cool. Louis Johnson too. For the most part these days, slapping an electric bass is the opposite of cool. Fine by me since I couldn’t do it anyway :)

the generous super fan showed up at the gig last night. For my birthday last year he commissioned a hand made Robin bass for me, but it’s still not done. He wound up giving me a US made Robin guitar, which was incredibly kind. Talk about tort content! Even the pickup covers are tort! I only play guitar on recordings so it makes no difference to me. I’ll just leave a pic so some of you knuckleheads can bust out all your lunch meat comments because lord knows that never gets old :)
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Count Bassie said:
So... is this the 'Always on' model Broughton HPF?
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I've bought it, but am still going to try that cable/capacitor jig that @Chucky Stiletti turned me onto. If that does enough of the job I'll flip this. But they're so hard to get used I went for it.
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Broughton makes awesome stuff! Mine’s the high and low pass filter, which is nice for upright
 
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dukeorock said:
Larry Graham was certainly cool. Louis Johnson too. For the most part these days, slapping an electric bass is the opposite of cool. Fine by me since I couldn’t do it anyway :)

the generous super fan showed up at the gig last night. For my birthday last year he commissioned a hand made Robin bass for me, but it’s still not done. He wound up giving me a US made Robin guitar, which was incredibly kind. Talk about tort content! Even the pickup covers are tort! I only play guitar on recordings so it makes no difference to me. I’ll just leave a pic so some of you knuckleheads can bust out all your lunch meat comments because lord knows that never gets old :)
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Ankers away!
 
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Count Bassie said:
So... is this the 'Always on' model Broughton HPF?
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I've bought it, but am still going to try that cable/capacitor jig that @Chucky Stiletti turned me onto. If that does enough of the job I'll flip this. But they're so hard to get used I went for it.
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Footswitch dude.

But you can leave it on always.
 
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#138,197
dukeorock said:
Ive never in my life wanted a Beatle bass and now I have 2 of em somehow! Both were gifts though. The ‘67 Hofner records amazingly well. The Epi Viola plays and records great too. No way in the world I’d play either live!
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Put a long end peg and spin 'em like an upright. That would be different.
 
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