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#154,861
MCF said:
Have we spoken of this before? Garcias are pretty much all I wear. Steinmart and Kohl’s are where I usually find mine.
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You're like my long lost brother!

Accessories, accessories, accessories - all part of stage presence. Our Queen gets it in spades!

Crazy rockin neck ties, wild shoes, your best belt, groovin hat, killer guitar strap... post em with your bird if ya got em!

When I was gigging I didn't wear ties often but I did wear them on occasion, and it was usually a Garcia, sometimes a bolo tie. Shoes were either western boots or smoking shoes (liked doc martins but don't recall wearing them on stage), belt was normally studded black leather or western style, straps were all over the place (everything from skulls and studs to Grateful Dead teddy bears). Black pants or jeans (never cargo shorts) with a white or black collarless shirt and on rare occasion a suit jacket. A western hat, cabbie cap or ball cap was always on top.
 
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#154,863
MCF said:
Is playing ok? I always rotate one of my basses into the home office. I usually pick one up and play (no amp) during our excruciating weekly office meetings. Let’s me get about a thirty minute to an hour session.
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I do the same. Mostly its a short scale Hamer Slammer double-cut, but I will rotate other basses thru as well.
 
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GBassNorth said:
You're like my long lost brother!

Accessories, accessories, accessories - all part of stage presence. Our Queen gets it in spades!

Crazy rockin neck ties, wild shoes, your best belt, groovin hat, killer guitar strap... post em with your bird if ya got em!

When I was gigging I didn't wear ties often but I did wear them on occasion, and it was usually a Garcia, sometimes a bolo tie. Shoes were either western boots or smoking shoes (liked doc martins but don't recall wearing them on stage), belt was normally studded black leather or western style, straps were all over the place (everything from skulls and studs to Grateful Dead teddy bears). Black pants or jeans (never cargo shorts) with a white or black collarless shirt and on rare occasion a suit jacket. A western hat, cabbie cap or ball cap was always on top.
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If I wear a tie, it's almost always a bolo. If I absolutely have to wear a "standard" tie, it's at least going to be fun. My Alfred E. Neuman is a fave.
 
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Speaking of short scales, I got tired of waiting for a guitarist friend to record a solo part for “Now I Wanna Be Your Dog”, so I decided to run my DA copy through an octave pedal and into my Superchamp on a high gain setting. Who needs a guitar player?
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Engle said:
Speaking of short scales, I got tired of waiting for a guitarist friend to record a solo part for “Now I Wanna Be Your Dog”, so I decided to run my DA copy through an octave pedal and into my Superchamp on a high gain setting. Who needs a guitar player?
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Very cool Armstrong! Does it have the slide out pups?
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
If I wear a tie, it's almost always a bolo. If I absolutely have to wear a "standard" tie, it's at least going to be fun. My Alfred E. Neuman is a fave.
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I am actually well known around my industry for wearing bow ties. Best comment I ever had about one was from a former business colleague "I didn't know we were having soup".
 
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MCF said:
Is playing ok? I always rotate one of my basses into the home office. I usually pick one up and play (no amp) during our excruciating weekly office meetings. Let’s me get about a thirty minute to an hour session.
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Of course! You could take it a step further and plug it into the amp and give them some interlude jams whilst you’re waiting for people to join the call!

During lockdown, I’ve had occasions where my working day is done and I plug my Thunderbird in and play and then someone from work calls me. I decide to answer it because I want to know what they’re after but I’m pretty sure there’s been some audible sustain ringing out from my last note played as I pop them on speaker phone!
 
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PillO said:
I am actually well known around my industry for wearing bow ties. Best comment I ever had about one was from a former business colleague "I didn't know we were having soup".
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Is this you, coming from the restroom, headed back to the soup bowl for seconds?
I didn't recognize you W/O any melon accessories. But I get it, you were in disguise to fool the fans.
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GBassNorth said:
Hey, why is your guitarist playing your bass?

Just kidding. It's always great to see a bass player front and center on stage vs buried in the shadows, stage right or left.
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I’ve never been a hide in the background player..just something left over from my early days in a three piece band..When I joined my current band ten years ago it was like...Move over MFers that’s my spot.

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