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Ha you know that might be its very purpose!!
Had a mid 70's P bass for years. Looking back, it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Think that many other companies make Fender styles that are better made and sounding. I played several levels of Fender Jazz basses a couple of weeks ago and the sound and quality were all over the place. Some MIMs sounded better than some US made ones. Some Squiers were great, others of same line were bad.
It's a sad reflection on how these companies are run these days, living on a reputation hard won but now cashing in on it putting current profits first. I know each single guitar will sound a little different due to variations in the timber they're made from but there's no way that there should be vast differences between similar instruments like that. It seems that this comes as a surprise to some people all the same, blind insistance that a MIA bass will by default be better than a MIM or even a MIIndonesia and even if they played them side by side I doubt they would have the sense to differentiate differences especially if they weren't as expected
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You're doing it wrong!
Just gouge the crap out of it - Lots of 'Bird humpin' going here.
Looks like you'd be better off in a french maids outfit with a nice soft apron instead of whatevers digging at your BirdsYou're doing it wrong!
Just gouge the crap out of it - Lots of 'Bird humpin' going here.
Comon now!
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.303 Bullet belt occasionally. It's an '89, so it's a player and I'm it's only owner, all the dents and gouges were given with love
Love hurts. You know if you've been loved because you have scars..303 Bullet belt occasionally. It's an '89, so it's a player and I'm it's only owner, all the dents and gouges were given with love
And same for your bass!
Gaolee
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Ever thang's legal in Texas. So long as it's Austin.
I got a chance to flog the 2002 for three sets last night. At an Eagles Hall. Lemme tell ya, that's hitting the big time! It sure was fun, and there's some magic hiding in that particular bass guitar. I like the other ones a whole lot, but it's just a more enthusiastic dance partner. It doesn't balance quite as well as the '91 or '15, but it just has something that's hard to define. No .308 belt, though. I might need one of those.
There were a few people taking pictures. I'll post 'em if they ever filter down to the bass player.
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Love hurts. You know if you've been loved because you have scars.
And same for your bass!
Nazareth, I saw them about '75 or '76, sat out front of the Paramount in Seattle from noon on. Sat about 8 rows back on Pete Agnew's side of the stage, he played an EB-3 through 3 Marshall stacks, F*&%^$@ roared! I can only imagine what it must have been like to play a hugh rig like that.
God. Must be like that, more or less.
Now there's a good reminder keep my Aria EB-3.
Gaolee
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As a person who hasn't played through a really big stack, but who does play through an Acoustic 360 on a regular basis, I can tell you that being able to be heard on the moon is a lot of fun. After a show I was playing the upright through the new 360M, a guy in the audience came up to me and mentioned that the bass was resonating in his chest cavity at the back of the venue. That's power, baby!
All I know if them is that they and Jim Capaldi both had a song "Love Hurts" out at the same time. The radio station I listened to chose to play Jim Capaldi. Can't remember if they were the same song or just same title.
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'Love Hurts' was written by Boudleaux Bryant and originally sung by the Everly Brothers in the '50s. Nazareth's and Capaldi's version are the same song.
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Spot on Andy! Pretty much nailed my sentiments as well. My first bass was also a Fender USA P which I've since sold, I still have a Fender MIJ P and a Squier P which I bought cheap as a purely practice bass.
You're doing it wrong!
Just gouge the crap out of it - Lots of 'Bird humpin' going here.
Ouch! Looks somewhat similar to my BC Rich (Rico) Mockingbird which has some serious belt rash on the back, not only ate away at the finish, also gouged the piss out of the wood.
I look at it as battle scars, we did some serious battle on the boards back in the 80's!
Best thoughts, wishes and prayers to one of the true Thunderbird ambassadors, Pete Way, who suffered a heart attack and blood clot on the lung over the weekend (Saturday).
Former UFO Bassist PETE WAY Suffers Heart Attack
Former UFO Bassist PETE WAY Suffers Heart Attack
Gaolee
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That's tough. It's about the same as what eventually killed my father. All the best to him.
