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#199,563
bobyoung53 said:
I have a SS Ampeg on behind me almost all day, I have my NR in my hands right now listening to Tom Petty RIP channel on SiriusXM, River Deep Mountain High is playing right now, now Sam & Dave, I play along with the cool tunes he played on the show. I actually tune around SiriusXM quite bit though, have about 20 favorite channels right in front of me and I know what tune they're playing.
I'm right in the middle of change of season neck adjustment on it, we are just starting to go into Fall out here or at least the climate has changed enough that the neck got a bit too straight. It doesn't officially start until March 20th.

Great tune from Petty's channel:

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Loved the James Gang when their first two LP's were new. :bassist:
 
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JJR58 said:
What an awesome series, very well done.
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I hadn't watched much TV besides news for years, then the pandemic came and I got HBO and Netflix. I started with Curb Your Enthusiasm, then the Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, then Schitt's Creek, Better Call Saul, now watching Arrested Development. I can't believe how good TV has gotten.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
Yup, he seemed like a really nice guy, I was sad and disappointed when he died just as much because of what a nice guy as his music although I did like a lot of his music, he was actually a very good bass player too.
He had exquisite taste in music (that means he liked the same stuff I do :laugh:) and had a nice relaxed Southern way of presenting the music on his show.
I sat in for the house bassist at a jam I used to go to (next day) when Petty died and the guitarist knew someone from the hospital where he was taken and I knew he OD'ed that day. I knew he had had problems in the past but was kind of disappointed he had relapsed but that was my own problem not his.
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I was really hoping he would come to town. Such a rare and great song writer. The wife and I would have loved to go. As an aside, Mike Campbell is an amazing guitarist. He know how to play some odd stuff that just fits, and no one would have thought of but him. He's not flashy, he's just crazy good.

Yeah, I hated to hear that. My Doc and I were talking about him. I think a lot of those guys have had "pharmacies" available their whole adult life and when there's a normal health issue, they know they can get about anything to help with the pain. I know when I read what all he had taken I thought, holy cow! Who would take all that and expect to live. I used to do and sell some things that were not exactly run through Right-Aid, and even I knew taking those things together would likely cause you to stop breathing, among other things. But some people have lived around crazy amounts of things and lived that it likely just seemed normal.
 
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dagrev said:
I was really hoping he would come to town. Such a rare and great song writer. The wife and I would have loved to go. As an aside, Mike Campbell is an amazing guitarist. He know how to play some odd stuff that just fits, and no one would have thought of but him. He's not flashy, he's just crazy good.

Yeah, I hated to hear that. My Doc and I were talking about him. I think a lot of those guys have had "pharmacies" available their whole adult life and when there's a normal health issue, they know they can get about anything to help with the pain. I know when I read what all he had taken I thought, holy cow! Who would take all that and expect to live. I used to do and sell some things that were not exactly run through Right-Aid, and even I knew taking those things together would likely cause you to stop breathing, among other things. But some people have lived around crazy amounts of things and lived that it likely just seemed normal.
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Jeff Tweedy talks about his struggles of the past in his autobiography. He started using for back pain. He could have lost It all, family, friends and the music. I am glad he got through it. And at that point, he was broke so he had to go through the Illinois state health system for rehab. I understand he has given back in a number of ways now that he’s in recovery.
 
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MCF said:
Jeff Tweedy talks about his struggles of the past in his autobiography. He started using for back pain. He could have lost It all, family, friends and the music. I am glad he got through it. And at that point, he was broke so he had to go through the Illinois state health system for rehab. I understand he has given back in a number of ways now that he’s in recovery.
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Didn't know that. Likely in the book (depending on when it was written), but he did some nice work with Mavis Staples several years ago.
 
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BklynKen said:
A couple of Gibson SG basses. I wonder what's up with the E string on the red one and also others, according to him.

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Interesting video. I have two SG Supreme basses, neither of which suffer from a rubber band E string problem. But that is possibly influenced by the woods used on the Supreme model, which both have thick maple caps on the mahogany body.

He didn’t show a close up of the bridge on the red SG but with the Babicz bridge design it’s quite easy to lower your action to the point where you have almost no break angle on the E string saddle. That could easily make the E string floppy or lifeless compared to the other strings.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Interesting video. I have two SG Supreme basses, neither of which suffer suffer from a rubber band E string problem. But that is possibly influenced by the woods used on the Supreme model, which both have thick maple caps on the mahogany body.

He didn’t show a close up of the bridge on the red SG but with the Babicz bridge design it’s quite easy to lower your action to the point where you have almost no break angle on the E string saddle. That could easily make the E string floppy or lifeless compared to the other strings.
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You’re right about the Babicz. If the shim is installed under it the first thing to do is remove it. He could have the same action, but raise the break angle, so long as the neck angle will accommodate it.
 
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MCF said:
You’re right about the Babicz. If the shim is installed under it the first thing to do is remove it. He could have the same action, but raise the break angle, so long as the neck angle will accommodate it.
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Yep. I ran into the break angle issue on my 2015 bird with the Babicz bridge. And as you said, the simple solution is to remove the shim. Would have been interesting to see a closeup of his bridge setup.
 
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dagrev said:
I was really hoping he would come to town. Such a rare and great song writer. The wife and I would have loved to go. As an aside, Mike Campbell is an amazing guitarist. He know how to play some odd stuff that just fits, and no one would have thought of but him. He's not flashy, he's just crazy good.

Yeah, I hated to hear that. My Doc and I were talking about him. I think a lot of those guys have had "pharmacies" available their whole adult life and when there's a normal health issue, they know they can get about anything to help with the pain. I know when I read what all he had taken I thought, holy cow! Who would take all that and expect to live. I used to do and sell some things that were not exactly run through Right-Aid, and even I knew taking those things together would likely cause you to stop breathing, among other things. But some people have lived around crazy amounts of things and lived that it likely just seemed normal.
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Let's just say there's a reason I call a certain portion of my life "my hippie daze". I'd take (or drink) just about anything you handed me, with little to no regard to what I'd already taken or drunk. While this did make for some fun and interesting times, it also made for a number of times where I recall nothing, and have no idea how I got from where I (physically) started to where I ended up. Yet here I am, alive and well. I'm quite thankful, since not everyone is alive and well (although Johnny Winter made a good run despite doing a lot more than I did for a lot longer).
 
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