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Thunderbird Club
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That must be some exciting dancing. . .
Ok, that makes sense. I thought I was losing it for a minute there.
(Well actually I am, but for other reasons).
This one band I play with....well you know how some songs have a jam at the end and then you need eye contact to end together....drummer is always looking off into space somewhere. I'm doing jumping-jacks to get his attention.Three songs later and it happens again, LOL.
What happens if the rest of you end together on 2-3 songs in a row?
One of the things I long ago realized is that everything affects everything else. This really came home to me with guitar amps. You change a bias resistor and it changes not just the gain structure and response spectrum for that stage, but how that stage interacts with the following stages.
Some things have more of an impact than others, obviously. but they all interact. Kind of a butterfly effect of systems.
The same is true of (bass and other) guitars, as well as their interactions with individuals. Body/wing/neck wood choice will matter less or more in a given instrument, and for an individual player. It may impact tone, attack, sustain, and/or decay. The differences may seem negligible or dominant depending on the bridge (material, configuration, mounting), the nut (same), strings, scale, etc. I've noticed differences others didn't, and vice versa.
My Epi IV and Pro-V are so different that I wouldn't dare hazard a guess how wood selection impacts them. I have noticed the difference in (apparently) otherwise identical Strats.
And yeah, in many cases it's only noticeable to the player- but that can make a big difference in the playing, which the audience can hear. The band and audience comprise a system, too, including the subsystem that is the band with its instruments, PA, etc.
"Roll, cymbal crash."
fun at the Crow's Nest the other night....singer's a hoot...who'd thought you can dance to Floyd......HATE smartphone camera lenses........
But where is the THUNDERBIRD???
True, but that's not relationship.
Captain Sensible, Captain Obvious, and Captain Underpants are triplets separated at birth and raised by (respectively) Jeff Beck, a lesser known Disney witch, and sheep in wolves' clothing.
You forgot Captain Spaulding.
The others deny there is any relationship, as does the rest of their family. The last person who suggested otherwise was thrown into a pit full of rabid, starving, baby hippogriffs and sphinxes. A word to the wise.
I have come to notice that songs that end tight and abruptly bring on greater applause, as if that matters. This could be because a crowd wants fill that uncomfortable sudden jolt of silence, or maybe they just appreciate tightness. Sometimes bandmates will draw out an ending for what seems like forever and that is kind of funny...like a war to see who gets the last word in. False endings are pretty funny as well...The whole thing just cranks on up again. Most new bands do benefit from some kind of arrangement cop. I don't enjoy that role, but if ending after ending is just a mess... I will certainly try to fix it.
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Owning an amp with a functional tone control section (and learning how to use it) is helpful too, but yes, I def agree.
I was thinking in terms of training the drummer. 8^)
Plus I should also mention that Captain Spaulding is our zebra shark at the aquarium. The other Captain Spauldings are imposters.
That one is most certainly not related. At least by blood.
Feed the imposters to the real!
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I should have ended my statement at "single coils tend to be more articulate. . ." I did not mean to imply that one can not play with expression using hum bucking pickups. That would be ridiculous, and a man in my position can not be made to look ridiculous (Sorry, Godfather fan here and I couldn't resist )
Haha!
I guess all I’m saying is when we attempt to make any sort of definitive musical statements about what works for what, someone comes along and shatters all that in such a wonderful way. All those ‘best bass for metal?’ and ‘best bass for country’ type threads just make me come unhinged a bit.
I just watched a Rush documentary and was very moved by it and I’m not a Rush ‘fan’ by any stretch of the imagination. But that doesn’t even matter because they were honest to themselves and each other about who they were and what they were hoping to do with their art. I can get behind that
^^ Very much this.
What matters is what works best for *you* out, what you want to do, out of the options available to you (however that is defined for you).
I've seen bands with the "perfect gear" that didn't sound that great, and bands with all the "wrong gear" that sounded fantastic. A lot of people would call a THUNDERBIRD the wrong bass for whatever their favorite genre is, but who cares? (OK, if it's a band leader or session producer, you might have to make a choice to stay or go, but otherwise...)
