BassHappy
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Hello dbsfgyd1
Yep, the 11th instrument Paul ever made, a full 8 years before the PRS factory opened in 1985.
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Hello dbsfgyd1
Yep, the 11th instrument Paul ever made, a full 8 years before the PRS factory opened in 1985.
We’re you with a group back in the 70s called Happy the Man by chance? Is so, either you or your guitar player gave me a PRS brochure that I still have some where around here. What stuck me about them at the time was that in the manufacturing process, they tested the the resonance of the bodies with xylophone mallets..
BassHappy
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Hey dbsfgyd1
Where did you come up with that wild and crazy TB name anyways? LOL....
Yep that would be me, and you got the PRS Brochere back in the day from guitarist Stan, I am sure. Yes, Paul ran test after test back in the day on the Honduras mahogany he procured - using a host of various marimba mallets - glass, wood, rubber and plastic. If the neck and body wood didn't ring for at least 10 seconds and resonate at one of his favorite frequencies, it went in the scrap bin.
Not many know about this, thanks for mentioning.
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I met you guys in Frostburg, MD. at the armory. Your drummer had just about everything he could drag on stage including the kitchen sink... and if my memory serves me well, he played on all of it too.
That was a fun time back then, my wife and I had just got married and moved there maybe a couple of weeks before your concert. I was playing in a local band, having been recruited by a guitarist I worked with in Pennsylvania, the late Rocky Ruckman.
Anyway, you all made quite an impression on me. Take care....Oh, my ID...
Just my initials and a company identifyer from a firm I worked with 20 some years ago.
That was a fun time back then, my wife and I had just got married and moved there maybe a couple of weeks before your concert. I was playing in a local band, having been recruited by a guitarist I worked with in Pennsylvania, the late Rocky Ruckman.
Anyway, you all made quite an impression on me. Take care....Oh, my ID...
Just my initials and a company identifyer from a firm I worked with 20 some years ago.
48 years ago last month I bought this 1970 Gibson EB-0, my first "real" bass (the previous three years were spent learning on a no-name cheapie).
Kinda like McG - January of '71, my folks bought me a new Gibson EBO and an Ampeg B15N. Still have them both.
Tim
Ok, had to dig out the EBO. SN 882xxx (found another one too, SN 55766x; think it was my little brother’s). Plugged it in, half-step flat, warm up a Reeves and a BF SuperTwin and it still sounds like a mudrucker pickup. Neck is not very flat, frets out up the neck some. I sent it back to Gibson with neck issues in about 1973. They kept it a year or so, sent it back unrepaired. So much for “lifetime warranty”. Haven’t played it since then, just moved it from place to place for 40+ years. Nostalgic.
Went down to the workshop and found the sawdust covered B-15N. Lightning knocked it out a couple of decades back.
Tim
Ok, had to dig out the EBO. SN 882xxx (found another one too, SN 55766x; think it was my little brother’s). Plugged it in, half-step flat, warm up a Reeves and a BF SuperTwin and it still sounds like a mudrucker pickup. Neck is not very flat, frets out up the neck some. I sent it back to Gibson with neck issues in about 1973. They kept it a year or so, sent it back unrepaired. So much for “lifetime warranty”. Haven’t played it since then, just moved it from place to place for 40+ years. Nostalgic.
Went down to the workshop and found the sawdust covered B-15N. Lightning knocked it out a couple of decades back.
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A 1984 Fender MIJ Jazz Bass Special (yes, Duff McKagan) and an American Fender Jazz Bass 5 string that I still own and play to this day.
1999 Fender Standard Jazz Bass in Arctic White. So 18 years now. I would never sell it out of sentimentality, but everything else is swapped out. It’s almost a bass of Theseus, but not quite.
First bass was purchased in May 2013 at GC Lancaster brand new. Still have it. Dean Exotica Quilt Ash EABC w/Aphex plus 44 other basses bought afterwards both new and used.....
btw, I'm sure I had my TMB 100 for a year, year and a half or maybe 2 years but I don't know either date, of purchase or selling so had to go with the Yamaha.
BassHappy
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Hey db
Wow, don't mean to hijack the thread or anything - but I guess you know we hooked up with Rocky in our rock band "Vision" a few years later. It was quite a departure from Happy the Man. There are a bunch of tunes posted online if you are interested, but only if you have a computer that has flash. Even the tracks we did with Eddie (Hendrix/Zeppelin) Kramer are up. Man, that boy Rocky could sing. I remember being back stage - as you may recall - Rocky's band opened for us at the Frostburg show. They opened with Hocus Pocus by Focus and we were so impressed hearing Rocky doing the yodeling thing - but when he followed it up by hitting all of those ascending high notes full voice, no falsetto, we ran out to watch him. Quite a spectacle and what a voice! We were blown away!
So anyways, thanks for the kind words and yes, that was the rule. If we were going to ask the crew to carry all that friggin' percussion around, Mike had to use everything he brought. Over 200 separate instruments altogether counting the drums.
You still playing out and stuff?
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No worries. This is kinda cool. Always good to reunite with good people/players, and have a good time. Too much drama on this site, sometimes. Have fun, Y'all!!
BassHappy
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Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
Hanging on the wall somewhere for a while? Nice!
It's about seven years for me now. I played a 2010 Road Worn P and it came home with me in about 2011 as I recall. It might have been 2010, but that's long enough ago that it's a bit of a blur.
