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Title: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OVERDRIVEN66 on January 27, 2009, 07:01:34 PM
   Thought I'd start a thread to see who my bros are! On stage, off stage, whatever. What does a German lawyer look like?  It's time we put the faces to the text we all enjoy here!  Let 'er rip guys!  NO photoshop touchups allowed!!!  Gray hairs welcomed!  Let's see it!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: drbassman on January 27, 2009, 08:05:42 PM
   Thought I'd start a thread to see who my bros are! On stage, off stage, whatever. What does a German lawyer look like?  It's time we put the faces to the text we all enjoy here!  Let 'er rip guys!  NO photoshop touchups allowed!!!  Gray hairs welcomed!  Let's see it!

You first Tony! :D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on January 27, 2009, 08:10:06 PM
My avatar should give an idea of me from a couple years back.  Here's a close-up...

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/gweimer/Kelp/gary_weimer.jpg)

And the more recent broken down old man I've become...

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/gweimer/Generation%203/G3_22.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OVERDRIVEN66 on January 27, 2009, 08:22:47 PM
   I'll dig up some pix to post, I promise!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: rockinrayduke on January 27, 2009, 09:19:45 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/rockinrayduke/RayWithTheBaseUP-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on January 27, 2009, 10:06:43 PM
Here's a little one from last Summer. The kid's a chip off the ol' block...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/gcarlston/J2andDaddy.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on January 27, 2009, 10:35:23 PM


George, that's a great pic of you and your son!



I think you've all come to expect this sort of thing from me......................... ;)

Cheers!

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/Pic130.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on January 28, 2009, 12:51:00 AM


Old

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t253/Freuds_cat/Mixed%20pics/bret-bass.jpg)

Newer

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t253/Freuds_cat/Mixed%20pics/cargill.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on January 28, 2009, 01:57:03 AM
(http://www.stoneflymusic.com/images/013_06.jpg)

This was shot in december 2008
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Chris P. on January 28, 2009, 03:53:15 AM
Just some random pics.

Me and Che at ze Eagles Nest:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/l_87b8d4083367816c5037c463da39c698.jpg)

Me at Paradiso. One of Holland's most famous venues:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/l_b8822147165fcedd3eead04a4a45ba4e.jpg)

EP Release party:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/l_56edb1d06083c127c378cbfc3b1b68d2.jpg)

My real passion: Playing the trumpet:

(http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k165/chrispdekker/l_c0dfb9bcb53f7dbf43fe8d3adec9a163.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Chris P. on January 28, 2009, 03:54:12 AM
Here's a little one from last Summer. The kid's a chip off the ol' block...

My cats were born with facial hair too! :D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: n!k on January 28, 2009, 04:47:30 AM
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/3148099182_8ab82c498e.jpg?v=0)

The most grandiose and mellow use of a Thunderbird, perhaps ever. Taken a month or so ago.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: drbassman on January 28, 2009, 06:29:45 AM
Here you go.  Gibson glory!

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/drbassman/meandblackTB.jpg)

Here's one I let go but I got a Midnight Blue to replace it!

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y16/drbassman/studiobill.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on January 28, 2009, 06:33:15 AM
From summer '08 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/IMG_4323.jpg)  Another outdoor gig summer '08 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/img_0718.jpg)  Nov26 '08 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/bassfacescott.jpg)  A few years ago with my trusty NR (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/gartonscot2a_5.jpg) I can't believe i am going to be 50 in June  :o My daughters friends always comment, Char your dad isn't like the other dads LMFAO
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OVERDRIVEN66 on January 28, 2009, 08:57:13 AM
   Scott, is that a Hiwatt I see in your backline?  Yours or your guitar players? Some of the best Entwhistle tone, IMHO, was Hiwatts. I had a DR103 with two 4x12's and it sounded fabulous. The DR103 would HURT PEOPLE through an SVT cabinet!  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on January 28, 2009, 09:01:24 AM
 The Marshalls Hiwatt and SC are all mine, I can't tell you how many sound guys ask "so when is the other guitar player showing up" LMAO It is a 80's Hiwatt built by Fane. I love it it does kick ass. They are kind of looked down upon by Hiwatt collectors but I like it. I have a 1975 Hiwatt DR201 coming over from the UK should be here next week ! My rig as it stands now the DR201 will replace the Sound City. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/img_0712.jpg)  I need some Hiwatt cabs !
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ramone57 on January 28, 2009, 09:01:33 AM
70's
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b342/rsteiner/umdgig2.jpg)

80's
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b342/rsteiner/80shalloween.jpg)(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b342/rsteiner/heckramone_2.jpg)

last summer
(http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b342/rsteiner/bluesbandpic.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Barklessdog on January 28, 2009, 09:23:54 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Fenderbird/Musicians/tbirdn.jpg)

Taken when I just got my Non Reverse from Capsule Music
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on January 28, 2009, 10:17:42 AM
Rock

and

Roll!

(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3274/t4idolszz8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 28, 2009, 10:41:40 AM
Picture of the artist as a young man:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/ZAIRE_UWE.jpg)

Many decades later playing a Victory:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DSC00104.jpg)

Or a Custom Shop Explorer

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG_5058.jpg)

One day I'll find that darn fretless note:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/_ZEN6020.jpg)

In this forum, I'm mostly known for my immaculate taste in refins:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/DCP_2344.jpg)

With a Les Paul Sig:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG_8625.jpg)

How ironic, playing something as arch-American as a TBird (the legendary George Carlston model to boot) before the flag of the former limey oppressors:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/024.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: dzordz on January 28, 2009, 12:45:17 PM
epi on stage
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/5/l_b12481a412e34245a145ff136f1fffda.jpg)
day of thunder
(http://a331.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/54/l_6a4ccae52731a754f0ba4ec9e4ddfdf2.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: EvilLordJuju on January 28, 2009, 04:17:33 PM
My daughters first bass lesson
(before she learnt to say "daddy, don't play your guitar")

(http://www.flyguitars.com/graphics/firstBassLesson2006.jpg)

Live at the twelve bar (in Londons famous Denmark Street)

(http://www.flyguitars.com/graphics/twelveBar2008.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on January 28, 2009, 07:58:50 PM
Noodling around on the '63 P in my (then) extremely messy practice room.

(I presume that non-Gibby pix are allowed....) Uwe: With P Basses as gorgeous as this one we make exceptions!
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/Al-.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OVERDRIVEN66 on January 28, 2009, 08:29:46 PM
Here ya go!  The Bass setup is a Carvin 8x10 SVT style cabinet powered by a Hartke 5000 run in mono. The six stringer gear is a '68 Marshall straight front in purple/cane restored by yours truly. The heads are '72 Marshall 50 watters (screamers) in purple.  The 'Bird is the '67 clone I built using my own bridge and pickups in Frost Blue, and the LP Jr. is a '56 I restored in all gold. The NR Firebird is a one off creation I put together with a set neck and LP style headstock just to be different. Inverness Green. Beard is gray, circa 1953. LOL
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OVERDRIVEN66 on January 28, 2009, 09:25:45 PM
Scott, that DR201 is absolutely going to blow you away. Those things are tube powerhouses!  That's what JE used in Live at Leeds.  BIG tone, BIG power! Your basses will just HONK through that amp. Congrats on finding a 70's 201.  My DR103 was a crusher. Your DR201 will topple buildings I assure you!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on January 29, 2009, 04:08:42 AM
 There are two reasons I love Hiwatt, The Who and Slade ! The Hiwatt I have coming is out of Slade's backline, comes with a letter from Dave Hill (Jimmy Lea would be better) and letters from the road crew. I am super excited. Mine is the one on top (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/DSC03212.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 29, 2009, 05:06:39 AM
Looking at the many pics of mild-mannered middle-aged men, I begin to wonder whether we don't need some new blood?  :mrgreen: Perhaps start a Bass Outpost Boy Scouts group? Mark would look splendid with his pig-tails in a boy scout uniform and engender parental trust.

Uwe
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Barklessdog on January 29, 2009, 05:10:10 AM
George is working on that.

My son went to Rics.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 29, 2009, 05:20:14 AM
Haven't you told him that that is a sort of very rigid/ricid career devoted to just one bass model they renamed over the decades by changing a "1" to a "3"? And you'll have to break it to him softly: The horseshoe will never ever come back!

Uwe
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Barklessdog on January 29, 2009, 05:28:29 AM
I have to tell you he is happy with his mint 4003 Ric which he bought used for $850 about 6 years ago, now worth about $1200- $1600 .

He still loves his bass as well
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: drbassman on January 29, 2009, 06:02:44 AM
Hey, if they weren't alive during the 60's or now play the old stuff we do, I don't know why they'd want to hang here!  Let's face it, we are what we are and I doubt we'll get too many youngsters interested in what we typically talk about!   :bored:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Barklessdog on January 29, 2009, 06:05:30 AM
We have young Darrol who, I guess, is not so young anymore?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on January 29, 2009, 06:37:59 AM
I'm 29, too old to rawk'n'rawl, too young to die I guess.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on January 29, 2009, 06:44:27 AM
29 to old to R&R oh come on, I'm almost 50 and still pull on the leather pants. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/godofthunder59/IMG_4323.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on January 29, 2009, 09:00:08 AM
I have to tell you he is happy with his mint 4003 Ric which he bought used for $850 about 6 years ago, now worth about $1200- $1600 .

He still loves his bass as well

 ;D ;D ;D

Uwe's edit: Is there some word play in John's original post escaping me? What's so funny?  
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on January 29, 2009, 09:22:41 AM
Yeah, not too old to rock.  Maybe too broken down, though.  The shots of me with the Holy Crap bass were taken when I was 52.  There was one guy on the indie circuit in Cincinnati that was older than me.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on January 29, 2009, 09:36:40 AM
 My body keeps hinting to me about the fact that it is 50 years old............My brain on the other  hand.........behaves like I'm 26, funny thing is I love doing this just that much more now  ;)



(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/Veronica.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 29, 2009, 10:38:28 AM
Bring on the Boy Scouts!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OVERDRIVEN66 on January 29, 2009, 10:53:13 AM
   It cracks me up in the summer time when I got the stereo crankin' in my car and roll up to a stop light and watch peoples reaction to the music I'm listening to. I may have Halford Live Insurrection cranked, some Priest, some Satriani, or maybe even Live at Leeds. The younger kids especially freak out to see this 50-ish bald guy jammin' on some metal or hard rock stuff. They were probably expecting to hear Bobby Vinton or something....NOT!!!!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on January 29, 2009, 11:02:21 AM
 I ain't going out dignified................................... I'm going out kicking and screaming.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: drbassman on January 29, 2009, 11:06:47 AM
I'm 29, too old to rawk'n'rawl, too young to die I guess.

29!!!   :o  I've got a closet full of clothes older than you!  I'm glad you're here though.  Just hope we don't bore you to an early death!   ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on January 29, 2009, 11:51:23 AM
I ain't going out dignified................................... I'm going out kicking and screaming.

Neil Young was right - better to burn out than fade away
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on January 29, 2009, 12:36:24 PM
I ain't going out dignified................................... I'm going out kicking and screaming.

[insert joke here]

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my Grandpa did... not screaming in terror like the other 5 passengers in his car.

 ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 29, 2009, 04:47:38 PM
 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: n!k on January 29, 2009, 05:24:54 PM
I'm 23!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: rockinrayduke on January 29, 2009, 05:59:01 PM
I'm going to steal that one, Dave! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: hollowbody on January 29, 2009, 06:19:25 PM
A repost from the rig pics:

(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c170/whereisgooge/bowlbrad.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Blazer on January 29, 2009, 06:40:05 PM
(http://www.barrock.nl/client/uploads/web37553.jpg)
Here I am rocking my skull bandana and my Red explorer.

(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/22/l_962bca36458aa1b9b36a40cd13f51c8f.jpg)
Let me play that solo for you.

(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/Ikmetgitaar.jpg)
Here I am playing the "intoom" punk and metal festival with the band "The Worst" in 2004.

Before any of you starts complaining about me only playing guitar, here I am playing bass with the band Format brain somewhere in 2000, the guy standing next to me is Jack T Ripper, who again joined musical forces with me in my current band Slavantas.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/CCI16122008_00003.jpg)

And finally one from the vault, 1991 my second gig ever.
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e22/guitarman91/NPKoptreden1991.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Lightyear on January 29, 2009, 07:16:33 PM
..........

My son went to Rics.

Oh, um, we'll everybody has a family secret ;D ;D

The lad might well yet come to his senses ;)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on January 29, 2009, 10:32:09 PM
Looking at the many pics of mild-mannered middle-aged men, I begin to wonder whether we don't need some new blood?  :mrgreen: Perhaps start a Bass Outpost Boy Scouts group? Mark would look splendid with his pig-tails in a boy scout uniform and engender parental trust.

Uwe

Hey, I was a Boy Scout!  never worked at it hard enough to progress past Life, but I enjoyed the company and camping the most. 

And thanks for the "Uwe exemption" for the Fender shot....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Iome on January 30, 2009, 12:45:16 AM
Le moì, sorry it's a 7ender..
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on January 30, 2009, 12:57:35 AM
29 to old to R&R oh come on, I'm almost 50 and still pull on the leather pants.

Ok, I admit it, that was a joke. Here is one pic of me from a rehearsal.

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k286/kwstas79/002.jpg?t=1233302040)

And one more in the greek country riding a Kreidler Florett, a brilliant piece of german engineering.
Uwe, that's for you.

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k286/kwstas79/kwstasfloreta.jpg?t=1233302021)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Muzikman7 on January 30, 2009, 10:44:14 AM
(http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff133/muzikman7/Tonyplays782.jpg) Here's me
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on January 30, 2009, 12:20:03 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/Ronn_at_Bayfest_2008-1.jpg)
With my son
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/jazzkeith004.jpg)
My family w/Santa
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/DSC_5561.jpg)
At last year's Austin Music Awards
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/nigelawards2.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: pamlicojack on January 30, 2009, 01:06:29 PM
From the avatar...

(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/13/l_eab6b2ac37bb4d478370e89dd0424711.jpg)

From last summer...

(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/19/l_1b6d610a5127e39076d800ed716a797c.jpg)

And because it's a Gibson thread...

(http://a513.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/5/l_18c5f15c9614bac0538a2a8deede53f8.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: doombass on January 30, 2009, 02:55:19 PM
From 1992 with my first own bass, a Grabber:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Egobas/Grabpic2.jpg)

'95. Fender bug hit me, sold the Grabber and bought a Precision Special. I had to learn playing with the right hand fingers for this gig after a motorcycle accident (military service):

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Egobas/gips.jpg)

'05. Back to Gibsons:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Egobas/Orange_gig.jpg)

'08. Are'nt those rhythm guitarists annoying?  ;D

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Egobas/Backstage_08_10.jpg)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: PWV on January 30, 2009, 10:25:40 PM
Here's me at my "day job" conducting my high school choir in the round:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/AmpegKat/A%20Cappella%20Choir%20Finale%202008/allieschoir608022.jpg)

Me with one my musical heroes, John Doe from last week:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/AmpegKat/DSCN0770-2.jpg)

Oh yeah, and me playing something called a bass (working on getting a Gibson pic):

[img width= height= alt=In the TV Studio with KAB...]http://hotlink.myspacecdn.com/images01/10/79bbff888e0fcbc43d04691d44983bf9/m.jpg[/img] (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=97238061&albumID=1279411&imageID=13883507)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on January 31, 2009, 06:34:18 AM
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll127/ilanlukatch/IMG_0467.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on January 31, 2009, 10:00:38 AM
Here's one! My New Haevy band,  DREAM MACHINE minus our guitarist Quinn Moore (Supermercdo). Brandt Maze on Drums and Matthew Robert on Vocals (newrisingson.com). My "Meathead" haircut is gone but not the Bass!!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on January 31, 2009, 10:01:17 AM
I look more like this with the band.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on January 31, 2009, 10:09:05 AM
Here's my Power Pop band, the Treeshakers.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: dzordz on January 31, 2009, 10:25:43 AM
some old pics:
(http://b0.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00144/02/99/144839920_l.jpg)
(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/58/l_5e04d784f11379207be4e076687ffe6c.jpg)
(http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00844/39/77/844967793_l.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Barklessdog on February 02, 2009, 05:17:16 AM
The T -40 picture with Wolverine looks cool. How do you like the T-40?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 02, 2009, 10:39:35 AM
Here's my Power Pop band, the Treeshakers.

Hey Baz, let's not forget this look. (Bio-Joe far right):
 ;D

(http://b9.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00119/90/63/119783609_l.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 02, 2009, 12:32:45 PM

 Baz?!

 Still own those boots?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Saf on February 02, 2009, 02:31:07 PM
not so lang active o nthe forum so a stranger to most of you I think. But anyway.

I'm Saf realname: Sef from the netherlands and blying the bass in an irish folkband called boys from the county hell.

www.myspace.com/theboysfromthecountyhell

Some pics of me. the long hair isn't there anymore

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/373083836_5_zwXQ.jpg)

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/373087602_5_XoZl.jpg)

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/373084612_5_58to.jpg)

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/aaaa.jpg)

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/aaaaaa.jpg)

I collect odd basguitars, you can find them by clicking on the following link:

 http://s224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/bassen/
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on February 02, 2009, 05:52:30 PM
That is a great collection of basses you have there Sef. I particularly like the Elite.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 03, 2009, 03:57:45 AM
Left-handism is overtaking us!!! They must have all been hiding under some stone before ...

Willkommen!

Uwe
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on February 03, 2009, 04:19:18 AM
Left-handism is overtaking us!!! They must have all been hiding under some stone before ...

Willkommen!

Uwe

Her we go, problem solved  ;D

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t253/Freuds_cat/External-pics/saf.jpg)

Ever wondered what you would look like as a right hander Saf?



Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 03, 2009, 06:54:06 AM
See, that didn't hurt at all. Left-handism can be cured!!!

 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 03, 2009, 07:11:56 AM
Welcome Saf, I love your oddball collection ! Especialy the SD Curlee and the Fender Musicmater with the EBO pickup !
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on February 03, 2009, 07:53:16 AM
I've started converting all my home movies from VHS to DVD.  I came across an old band tape, and threw a song up on YouTube for fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzYyHuHjL0U
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 03, 2009, 09:37:48 AM

 Hey Gary, that's pretty cool  :thumbsup:

 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on February 03, 2009, 02:33:06 PM
Tom!!! I couldn't find that Picture of Daisy Chain!!! Thanks!!! circa 1990!!! I played a Natural 76 and a black '76 thunderbird as well as Fender P basses and Jazz Basses but I was mainly the t bird guy!!! And Mark, as far as the boots...I UNFORTUNATELY...Sold them!!! I paid $65.00 for those in '89. Spotted them in the window of a vintage clothing store in Boys Town, took a train down to my Mom's work to borrow $65.00 to buy them (yes, I truly was a starving artist-that sucked) after I was replaced a month before the Mercury deal for $750,000.00, I had to sell the boots to pay rent!!! Got $125.00 for them. Got some money a few weeks later, tried to buy them back and the owner refused. I offered him 3-4 times as much. He said that they were owned by a  celebrity and that he was keeping them. I said "Are you outta yer mind??? I'm not famous???" Saw them again a few years later on a mannequinn in his window display. still wouldn't sell them to me. His store is gone and so are the boots.... Oh well....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on February 03, 2009, 03:28:32 PM
Cool vid, Gary

Baz- I like that 8-string NR bird!  Who built that?  Have you posted pics of it before?  Don't recall seeing that one


Here's my mug, flanked by brown guitars

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/0chromium0/forums/live/me-with-ampeg-small.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on February 03, 2009, 04:36:17 PM
Nice basses.  I'm hoping to have my Scroll bass by the end of the month.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: the mojo hobo on February 03, 2009, 06:46:13 PM
Hello. My name is John, and I am left-handed.

A few years ago with the Model 1 NR Bird:

(http://www.sleezer-rocks.com/Jam%202004_files/sleezer-phil.jpg)

And this past weekend, give a camera to a random person and the results might not be the best:

(http://www.mojohobo.com/images/mcblue0209.jpg)

And as a teenager (1969-70) playing my SG-Jr. that had already had the headstock broke. (Yea, that is a Vox Ac-100 behind me. It later suffered a violent allergic reaction to cold beer.)

(http://www.mojohobo.com/images/1969me.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 04, 2009, 04:13:50 AM
"Hello. My name is John, and I am left-handed."



Lefty, but you play righty or just a joke?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on February 04, 2009, 04:52:58 AM
"Hello. My name is John, and I am left-handed."



Lefty, but you play righty or just a joke?

I'm lefty, but I play right-handed. Kind of a southpaw traitor.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on February 04, 2009, 04:52:59 AM
Nice basses.  I'm hoping to have my Scroll bass by the end of the month.

Tell us more! I won't see mine for anuzza year or 3!!!

Here's some shots of yours truly:


(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LightSnake/l_fc01641d6107a60773b6bbf678f40c5c.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LightSnake/l_bbfe55e673db845ac7774c9164735b68.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LightSnake/l_43b5c85ec787935c1da1a38c2b3d2dff.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LightSnake/l_42cd04256f0a5b15ad45ce4bd2ff4e65.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LightSnake/l_f7aeb6c30741e1cf52f14195d9de9b8e.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/LightSnake/l_aa91608970134b04870804d1115b5596.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: the mojo hobo on February 04, 2009, 07:17:01 AM
"Hello. My name is John, and I am left-handed."

Left-handism is overtaking us!!! They must have all been hiding under some stone before ...

Lefty, but you play righty or just a joke?

I am left handed. When I started playing bass, I started lefty. When went to buy a bass I found lefty basses hard to find and expensive, so I switched to righty.

When I was a teen I had a set of lefty golf clubs, after years of not golfing I got invited to a golf outing. Had to rent clubs, they were righty of course. I didn't embarass myself too badly that day.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 04, 2009, 07:17:10 AM
Terry, be truthful with us now: Looking at drum kit size

 :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot:



and facial hair, how much of an influence was Carmine Appice now really?   :popcorn:

You look like his skinny kid brother.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 04, 2009, 07:22:23 AM
I am left handed. When I started playing bass, I started lefty. When went to buy a bass I found lefty basses hard to find and expensive, so I switched to righty.

When I was a teen I had a set of lefty golf clubs, after years of not golfing I got invited to a golf outing. Had to rent clubs, they were righty of course. I didn't embarass myself too badly that day.



I find that impressive, I'm already uncoordinated with one hand, let alone two!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on February 04, 2009, 09:17:19 AM
I am left handed. When I started playing bass, I started lefty. When went to buy a bass I found lefty basses hard to find and expensive, so I switched to righty.

Me too!  I liked exiled's term - "southpaw traitor"  ;D

I switched after I noticed everyone else playing "the other way" (I was around 10), and just got used to it.  Can't play left handed now to save my life.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 04, 2009, 09:23:48 AM

See!

 I'm not the only one that goes both ways............... ;)
 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 04, 2009, 09:35:47 AM
Tom!!! I couldn't find that Picture of Daisy Chain!!! Thanks!!! circa 1990!!!

One word - Google!

Here's another of me. I look much better with a pretty girl by my side.

(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/10/l_229fa797b20942748376e1f711f2b827.gif)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 04, 2009, 09:38:50 AM
Terry, be truthful with us now: Looking at drum kit size

 :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot: :rimshot:



and facial hair, how much of an influence was Carmine Appice now really?   :popcorn:

You look like his skinny kid brother.

I thought I saw him in the Type O Negative thread???  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 04, 2009, 09:42:00 AM
Peter Steele! Yup, another relative.  ;D

Or Antonio Banderas in "Interview with a Vampire" ...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Saf on February 04, 2009, 12:50:08 PM
@godofthunder  - the pick up in the musicmaster bass isn't a EB-0 pickup but an telecaster bass pick-up I removed it because I didn't like the sound of it. It now has an GFS lipstick humbuckers, variotone, coil split, fase in out, serial/parallel, and a bypass switch for the variotone.

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/bassen/FenderMusicmasterBass19752008001.jpg)

And I don't like to be cured off my leftyness, leave me that way.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 04, 2009, 01:45:50 PM
All that chrome I presumed it was a mudbucker ! Still a cool bass !
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on February 04, 2009, 04:02:39 PM
See!

 I'm not the only one that goes both ways............... ;)
 

Thats true. I work in an office with 3 , shall we say...."alternating personalities" 

Like the title of the 1976 Skyhooks album says, "I'm just a straight in a Gay Gay world"

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MPEP63JPL._SS500_.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on February 04, 2009, 04:25:48 PM
@godofthunder  - the pick up in the musicmaster bass isn't a EB-0 pickup but an telecaster bass pick-up I removed it because I didn't like the sound of it. It now has an GFS lipstick humbuckers, variotone, coil split, fase in out, serial/parallel, and a bypass switch for the variotone.

(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd144/snarenkunst/bassen/FenderMusicmasterBass19752008001.jpg)

And I don't like to be cured off my leftyness, leave me that way.

Hey, cool bass! How does that lipstick humbucker sound on a bass? I have a pair of em in my Epi lp and they sound (kinda fenderish but) great!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on February 04, 2009, 04:57:01 PM
I designed and built that 8 string non reverse thunderbird bass myself-minus attaching the set neck-and didn't have access to a spray booth at the time so I paid someone to do it. The color is Tahiti Coral which I saw one day on a 50's Chevy or Buick with white trim!!! Gibson wouldn't build one for me, even though i had a record deal!!! So....that's what i did!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: EvilLordJuju on February 04, 2009, 10:29:11 PM
So....that's what i did!!!

Wow, thats pretty special. Looks great. Is this a build from scratch or a conversion? Did you make the neck wider?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on February 05, 2009, 03:33:11 AM
Totally built from scratch. The neck is about the same measurements as a P bass (Former Warmoth 8 string paddle head bolt on neck converted to  set neck like Gibson). Body is Honduras Mahogany, tuners and bridge are...Hamer, Pickups are Orville Thunderbirds.  think the neck is a bit heavy, though. I would LOVE to try a Rickenbacker 8 string and one of these days, I'm going to call Tom (Gearhed) and hook up with him.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 05, 2009, 03:55:54 AM
"I would LOVE to try a Rickenbacker 8 string ...".

Don't. We shouldn't have harsh reality interfere with our romantic afflictions. I've been there.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 05, 2009, 08:34:35 AM
"I would LOVE to try a Rickenbacker 8 string ...".

Don't. We shouldn't have harsh reality interfere with our romantic afflictions. I've been there.

My Ric 8 string is one of the most amazing instruments I've ever owned. Stays in tune unbelievably, even in Chicago! I'm giggin with it practically every weekend. Come on out!

(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/33/l_be34f02154eb466b92a31d7144e3c1f9.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Saf on February 05, 2009, 09:38:41 AM
@exiledarchangel the lipstickhumbucker sounds very well in the bass. It's goes low but van sound very twangy. I like it a lot. The variotone switch is not a great succes on a bassguitar I think the differences are to small to be really usefull. It looks colls so I let it stay on.

A rickenbacker 8 string bass, I didn't even know they were ever made. Great. I have an The Asama 8 string bass but I haven't used it once on stage. I currently playing irish folkmusic so that's not de right type of music to play a 8 string in, I guess.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on February 05, 2009, 10:30:53 AM
Uwe's Ric 8 string has a rubber neck, and nothing has been able to help it.

Most of them aren't that way. You probably won't convince him of that, though.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 05, 2009, 10:45:49 AM
To be honest, Uwe's is not the only Ric 8 I've heard of with issues. I've seen at least two where the body wings were actually de-laminating from stress. I took a chance and got lucky. Mines a gem. It doesn't even have the usual stress cracks in the finish where the body meets the neck. Also, it's got the thickest fingerboard I've ever seen - maybe 5/16'' (or do you prefer 7.938 mm?)

Sorry about the off topic... I'm done!  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 05, 2009, 12:08:09 PM
Mine is at the luthier again, sigh, second set of truss rods were at the end of how far they can go. I'll probably have the fretboard stripped and the neck supported by graphite inlays. "Vee haff ze vvvays to stöp your böw, Fräulein Rickenbacker!" And while we're at it probably reverse the string/octave string sequence.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on February 05, 2009, 05:18:22 PM
Uwe, Just have them put one beefy truss rod in it and it should be fine. From what I know of Ric's after owning a few...Some are good...but a lot of them have that crappy folded trussrod system and I have seem many people remove the fretboard, fill it with wood and reroute for a Normal truss rod. In any case..I still love the dot neck Ric's. A sound of their own. But Not even close to a 60's Thunderbird. Tom, one of these days, when I can drive again, I'll have to swing by with my 8 string. I'd even love to swap for a run in the studio. Mercado is going to remaster one of our first songs so we will be definitely recording with him in the future. Would LOVE to try it for a song or 2. I fantasize about what they must sound like!!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: rockinrayduke on February 05, 2009, 08:46:03 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/rockinrayduke/_DSC7152.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y47/rockinrayduke/_DSC7296.jpg)
These are from 2 weeks ago at Tolbert's Chili Parlor in Grapevine, TX. Bad hair day. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on February 05, 2009, 09:20:55 PM
Hell, Ray.  Your bad hair days are better than my good ones...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 05, 2009, 09:23:32 PM

Nice Ray,

 Good to see you playing a Bird! I seem to recall you needing a tattoo tho.......How's that coming along  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on February 05, 2009, 10:47:31 PM
One word - Google!

Here's another of me. I look much better with a pretty girl by my side.

(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/10/l_229fa797b20942748376e1f711f2b827.gif)

That is SO cool how you've got many pics in one!!!!!!!!
I gotta learn how to do that. Chick is HOT too!

Cool to be compared to Carmine Appice (Great to meet him finally at NAMM last year) & Peter Steele & Banderas!!!
I get told I look like a wide range of well known guys...from Charlie Manson or Lemmy on bad days to Vai, Tommy Lee, Eric Sardinas or Jesus on good days. haha
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Chris P. on February 06, 2009, 01:08:27 AM
"Here's another of me. I look much better with a pretty girl by my side."

Sorry, but I didn't notice you;)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: rockinrayduke on February 06, 2009, 06:18:59 AM
Quote
I seem to recall you needing a tattoo tho.......How's that coming along 

Still on my list, Mark. Tats are like the potato chip....betcha can't get just one. ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: luve2fli on February 06, 2009, 09:51:48 AM
Here's a few ..... sorry, no Gibson content.

(http://usera.imagecave.com/luve2fli/rattlers1.jpg)
(http://usera.ImageCave.com/luve2fli/sean1.jpg)
(http://usera.ImageCave.com/luve2fli/tremblant.jpg)
(http://usera.ImageCave.com/luve2fli/james.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 06, 2009, 10:34:02 AM
"Here's another of me. I look much better with a pretty girl by my side."

Sorry, but I didn't notice you;)



That's the general idea!

RnB - here's the site I found to make those GIF images:

http://picasion.com/
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Rhythm N. Bliss on February 07, 2009, 05:14:09 AM
Thanks, man! So cooool  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: GonzoBass on February 07, 2009, 11:08:29 AM
At play-

(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/23/l_603bc432d707421894cab1f328679042.jpg)
Fishing in Kona

A few at work-

(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/63/l_9a38c889f2144905a3849c532198bd3c.jpg)
Standards with "JazzX2"

(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/23/l_3213583819234da8a27587602df85da0.jpg)
R&B/Funk with "Rhythm X"

(http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/63/l_70beb9f316f64392b951c42ae9ddf48c.jpg)
Eclectic with "The Wendell Ing band"

(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/62/l_e34bba9ff6424db3ad8030aec959dc82.jpg)
Wedding music with Quack Moore's band

(http://a404.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/7/l_fde83d20e0e2eac3e5686fe8bdad97d3.jpg)
"Jesus Christ Superstar"

(http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w61/GonzoBass/1163.jpg)
(http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/23/l_a769823f3924430c8eece072a0772843.jpg)
The Kamehameha Orchestra


Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on February 07, 2009, 01:09:33 PM
Gonzo, good to see you! Have I ever told you how jealous I am of you? You get to play all those gigs and you live in paradise to boot! You did something right along the way, my friend!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: rockinrayduke on February 07, 2009, 02:25:45 PM
Hey Gonz!! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: luve2fli on February 09, 2009, 07:59:19 AM
Gonzo! Good to see you mate!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on February 09, 2009, 09:17:27 AM
Gonzo always looks so unhappy in his pics. Must be that awful Hawaiian weather.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: GonzoBass on February 10, 2009, 01:33:24 PM
It doesn't suck...
 ;D

(http://b3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01158/35/94/1158114953_l.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on February 11, 2009, 10:51:37 PM
Still on my list, Mark. Tats are like the potato chip....betcha can't get just one. ;)

I got one.  The Cougar fans will understand....here's the inside of my left wrist.

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/CougarTattoo1-08.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: GonzoBass on February 12, 2009, 03:23:00 AM
(http://usera.ImageCave.com/luve2fli/tremblant.jpg)

Nice rig Sean!
 ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: dzordz on February 14, 2009, 02:12:33 AM
soulburners on stage:
(http://jtfoto2.blox.pl/resource/Soulburners_01.jpg)
redards!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on February 15, 2009, 06:11:56 AM
throtling my eb4l in the band rotunda at island bay wellington nz on saturday.first outing for my ampeg preamp/holden wasp 200w valve amp rig...nasty!

What's that 4x10" cab? Behringer with alu drivers?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: rockinrayduke on February 15, 2009, 10:02:47 AM
Hartke, isn't it?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: clankenstein on February 15, 2009, 12:23:55 PM
yes its a hartke transporter 4x10,the 15 inch cab under it is not hooked up its just holding the 4x10 up.i had a post amp di to the p.a. which helped but im building a cab for my e145 because although the low end from my eb4l is terrifying inside, outside on that stage it dissapeared a bit.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: clankenstein on February 15, 2009, 12:34:38 PM
.im playing my eb2 at party in otaki, a beach town north of wellington.trace elliot v4 200watt tube amp and 2 4x10 cabs-sufficient.(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff246/tonypbass/otakiparty.jpg)](http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff246/tonypbass/liveislandbay.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on February 15, 2009, 08:14:50 PM
Hey Tubehead, is that a Seymour Duncan Biamp8000 on its side there?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: clankenstein on February 15, 2009, 10:13:02 PM
sure is .it was on standby in case i melted the  trace elliot.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on February 15, 2009, 10:37:34 PM
I picked one of them up very cheap a few weeks ago.  Great little standby amp.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on February 10, 2011, 09:57:51 AM
There doesn't seem to be a specific place to say hello here, so I thought I'd do a thread resurrection :)

I'm Matt, from Scotland.  At the moment my Gibson family consists of a 1978 G-3, a 1981 Victory Artist and an Epiphone Les Paul Standard (EMG-ified)

This thread's for pics:

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/pe_live20100409.jpg)

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/mattlive1.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Nocturnal on February 10, 2011, 10:33:08 AM
Welcome to the Outpost!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 10, 2011, 10:41:43 AM
 Matt, Welcome aboard!  Excellent another Gibson player !
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: sniper on February 10, 2011, 10:46:44 AM
(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/2006-05-23-1149-49.jpg)

a few years ago

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/fishfearmeladiesloveme.gif)

the other fun thing i do

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/greatgreatgrandfather.jpg)

my great great grandfather during THE war stationed in Wallace Idaho as THE war was basically a white mans war and gramps was all Cherokee and us indins guarded the forts while the white boys fought

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/ChristinandMe.jpg)

me and one fifth of my favorite daughters (actually one fifth and two thirds as Christin is 6 months pregers here) and i had breakfast with 14 lesbians that night, really!

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/lukeiamyourfather.jpg)

i call this one "Luke, I am your father". i removed most of the moles so i would stop scaring the hell out of little children.



Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 10, 2011, 11:23:40 AM
Ein Schotte!!! Willkommen, you direct descendant of Mary Stuart!

(http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/Stuart,Mary(tomb).jpg)

Do you tend to write longish, stream of consciousness posts? Or short ones that are still difficult to understand? Some of your countrymen do, but I'm not giving away names, that I kennot do.  :-X :-X :-X

It's a pleasure to have someone here who - unlike most of us, see the pictorial evidence in the above post -has not served in the American Civil War and/or breathes like Darth Vader.

No pic of the Vic, Matt, how come? G-3 is a good choice, a very snappy member of the family with quite some versatility. And what didn't you like about the original Epi pups in your Epi LP?

Uwe
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Droombolus on February 10, 2011, 11:50:28 AM
Rehearsing the bass lines for Moby Grape's Mr.Blues in the ol' home studio last summer ........ Recording tracks for the Grape's 7th ( I believe ) fan tribute .....

 (http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5971/artisteatwork005c.jpg)

And for some Gibbie content ......... somewhere June 2009 .....

(http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1848/dsc00521ck.jpg) (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/dsc00521ck.jpg/)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 10, 2011, 11:57:34 AM
Incidentally, still wearing those Terrycloth tops today, huh?

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/2006-05-23-1149-49.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on February 10, 2011, 12:12:09 PM
Ein Schotte!!! Willkommen, you direct descendant of Mary Stuart!

(http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/Stuart,Mary(tomb).jpg)

Do you tend to write longish, stream of consciousness posts? Or short ones that are still difficult to understand? Some of your countrymen do, but I'm not giving away names, that I kennot do.  :-X :-X :-X

It's a pleasure to have someone here who - unlike most of us, see the pictorial evidence in the above post -has not served in the American Civil War and/or breathes like Darth Vader.

No pic of the Vic, Matt, how come? G-3 is a good choice, a very snappy member of the family with quite some versatility. And what didn't you like about the original Epi pups in your Epi LP?

Uwe


Hi Uwe (and thanks folks for the other welcome messages)

I've got no "action" pics of the Victory yet as I've only had it (back) for a couple of weeks!  It has been an ongoing restoration project since last year, but the weather got in the way of refinishing.  The full story can be seen here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732644 but here is a quick pic of Excalibur:

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/victory/restore/20110120/02_all_800.jpg)

As for the Epi, I bought it purely on looks but I found the sound rather thick and ill-defined, a bit mushy and uninspiring.  I decided to make a thoroughly modern sounding bass in a classic body.  So I fitted EMG-HB active pickups (like in a Steinberger) and fed that through an EMG-BQC 3-band EQ system.  I also fitted a pickup selector switch, because I found fiddling with volumes to manipulate pickups rather annoying.  The Epi had routing in the body up to the switch position, but no switch!  Long story short, I have now a Les Paul bass which I believe is superior to the "grown up" Gibson variety in terms of both looks (love that flowerpot headstock) and functionality (22 frets).  This is it as it is now (live pic had no selector switch)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5089/5233839441_99f3cf99e9_b.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5244/5234431026_bf2bc56fef_b.jpg)

Good to be here.  I am always on the lookout for interesting Gibson basses, I love their quirkiness, and frankly I love the fact that they're not Fenders ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 10, 2011, 12:55:44 PM


Ahhh Ha!

You're the restorer of the beautiful Victory!
That really is a wonderful job, I love it!
Welcome here, we are a silly bunch, please stay and fun...........Just beware, threads often go places you may not expect  ;)   
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: sniper on February 10, 2011, 01:05:02 PM
Incidentally, still wearing those Terrycloth tops today, huh?

if i only knew then what i know now

(http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/cathousemouse/me/DarthHornunginhisretirementyears-1.jpg)

welcome Matt
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on February 10, 2011, 01:45:24 PM
Welcome, Matt!  Nice job bringing that Victory back to top form  :toast:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Big_Stu on February 10, 2011, 02:48:33 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/Maddogcole/Plaything-1.jpg)
Just me and my baby(ies)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 10, 2011, 02:49:43 PM
 And what babies they are! How ya doing Stu?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Big_Stu on February 10, 2011, 02:52:54 PM
All good here Scott, hope you are too? As one member of the "Jimmy Lea bass with ex-Slade Hiwatt" club to THE other!
Pretty exclusive huh!?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 10, 2011, 02:59:00 PM
A small but fanatical group! All is well over here, I lead a charmed life!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 01:52:10 AM
Okay, posting here for the first time (I was at the pit for a long time and the bottomline before that - good to see many of the same names here including Tony who started this thread - also cool after my hiatus to see that the BaCHbirds came to be a reality as I remember the early discussions at the pit).

Anyway, some pics:
with my '64 opening for Deep Purple - Olympic Stadium, Wroclaw, Poland - "Breslau" for Uwe ;), 1 May, 2009:
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh80/dpdp/4158_92116593944_519248944_1685770_6124677_n.jpg)

Can see the bass better here - and that's what we all care about....
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh80/dpdp/IMG_1364.jpg)

Not a Gibson but my other main axe - 1930s Pfretzschner aluminum:
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh80/dpdp/IMG_5584.jpg)

Anyway, late to the party but glad to see things didn't die after the pit.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 11, 2011, 07:29:28 AM
"Breslau" for Uwe


 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Welcome back!


As for Matt's LP: Nice and I had no idea that the Epis have 22 frets. That is indeed an advantage, nothing like a high E on a bass to be obnoxious with!  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: vates on February 11, 2011, 07:37:03 AM
Some Gibson love:
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/156851_1780846000259_1212704614_2144827_7494743_n.jpg)
mid 2008


Some Bongo love:
(http://s03.radikal.ru/i176/1012/cb/f4d5ffeb07a1.jpg)
fall 2010

cajun and pb pics attached
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: vates on February 11, 2011, 07:50:17 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/_ZEN6020.jpg)

now what's THAT???
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: jumbodbassman on February 11, 2011, 08:30:12 AM
scan of a old polaroid.....1975 doing my best tony orlando....if you look hard you can see my V4 on top of SVT cab all under the keyboard players Plush or Kustom head  -  the nerve of him  :mrgreen:
(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/me.jpg)

1981 poster picture for first gig at CBGB's
(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/SATYR.jpg)

90's with fodera's

(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/bttfwholebandwords-1.jpg)

(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/BTTF4.jpg)

2000 4th of July concert in Sayreville NJ followed by an orchestra and fireworks.  4 of us in the back row played together in mid 80's backing rock an roll revival acts and got to play such venues as MSG, Nassau Coli, Beacon..oopsforgot - very moldy Alembic...

(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/raybands.jpg)

some recent shots

fodera again

(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/wm2.jpg)


2010 Green Hornet car at the auto aftermarket convention in Vegas.  One of my all time favorite shows as a kid but....  Movie wasn't bad for what it is

(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/greenhornetcar.jpg)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on February 11, 2011, 09:03:20 AM
Good shot of the Paul...

(https://s-hphotos-snc6.fbcdn.net/165381_10150333696895464_515730463_15808816_1620631_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 11, 2011, 10:36:22 AM
now what's THAT???

A Gibson Custom Shop Acoustic Bass in Super 400 shape, fretless, medium scale and with a passive piezo. Built in 1999 by then Gibson master luthier Phil Jones. Spruce top, EXTREMELY resonant, no sustain block, feedbacks immediately at higher volumes (not good for unplugged sessions with drummers), but sounds like a dream in the studio. A one off model possibly for a NAMM show. A magnetic pup model in L5 shape was also built around that time, but I've never seen pics of it (Phil has confirmed to me though that he built it, but has no clue of the whereabouts).

Nice natural satin Money you have there, I defretted mine because it had a great fretless "sleeping" in it:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/CIMG1891.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 10:46:29 AM
"Breslau" for Uwe


 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Welcome back!

Vielen Dank! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 11, 2011, 11:44:13 AM


 @999,

Beautiful, stunning in fact, Thunderbird.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 11:49:08 AM

 @999,

Beautiful, stunning in fact, Thunderbird.

Thanks! As is your collection. Always strikes me as odd with such a radical design to stick to conservative colors. Don't get me wrong, I like them in burst, too - I just like them _more_ in green, blue, orange and purple  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 11, 2011, 12:33:54 PM


 Thunderbirds were made to be Purple!

Anybody else got a feather boa for their mikestand  ;)

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/SaturdayNight22of78.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 12:36:46 PM

 Thunderbirds were made to be Purple!


See? That just looks right! Would not be the same in a tobacco burst IMO...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on February 11, 2011, 12:46:17 PM
Wow, what a mega bump for a two year old thread  :o
Welcome to all the new faces.

Here's a promo-pic from the Stonefly days.

(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/84/l_f7107a1abfc24a9ea14eb1f351de6f66.jpg)


I really should dig up some old pics too...

This is about the oldest I can find on the web. It's from the Bittermoon days. At a festival in Schierling near Regensburg in 1999.

(http://www.fotoni.de/Schierling/Bittermoon/pics/99806005.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 12:53:52 PM
Welcome to all the new faces.

Thanks!

Here's a promo-pic from the Stonefly days.

Nicely done.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: tore00 on February 11, 2011, 02:48:14 PM
My mudbuckers
(http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/tore00/mudbucker/Image2.jpg)
(http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy5/tore00/mudbucker/SANY0045-Copy.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: tore00 on February 11, 2011, 02:52:01 PM
"Breslau" for Uwe


 
Currently working close to Breslau. Not playing bass there unfortunately!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 02:55:12 PM
Currently working close to Breslau. Not playing bass there unfortunately!

Really?  :o Where?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: tore00 on February 11, 2011, 03:10:03 PM
Wierzchowice, very close to Milicz. Project manager of a Gas Storage plant.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 11, 2011, 03:28:55 PM
Wow. That's wild. Send me an email if you make it into Wroclaw or Legnica.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on February 11, 2011, 05:22:48 PM
Some oldies and some new pics

(http://deayton.com/guitars/greco2.jpg)
(http://deayton.com/guitars/lp1.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Summer%20Fever%20-%20Grease%20Saturday%20Night%20Fever%20show/markhome.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Rolling%20Stoned%20-%20The%20Oz%20Rolling%20Stones%20Show/bill1.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Hornisse on February 12, 2011, 12:35:36 AM
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2a4nuxj.jpg)

1978 with my G-3, Senior in High School, Balboa, Canal Zone, Republic Of Panama

(http://i52.tinypic.com/9zmud.jpg)

About 1 year ago at Cedar Street, Austin, TX
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Droombolus on February 12, 2011, 02:47:59 AM
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2a4nuxj.jpg)

Cool ! Don't you just love those ol' ( once ) B/W pics !!

From the archives:

(http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/7141/rippercapri.jpg) (http://img525.imageshack.us/i/rippercapri.jpg/)

The Ripper - 1976

(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3895/kramercisco.jpg) (http://img143.imageshack.us/i/kramercisco.jpg/)

Kramer 350-B -1979

(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8392/p72slim.jpg) (http://img151.imageshack.us/i/p72slim.jpg/)

The ol' P - 1984

(http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1930/eb3sugar.jpg) (http://img16.imageshack.us/i/eb3sugar.jpg/)

EB-3 - 1988

(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/9950/tbirdq.jpg) (http://img827.imageshack.us/i/tbirdq.jpg/)

T-Bird - 1990

(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5619/p51smokin.jpg) (http://img696.imageshack.us/i/p51smokin.jpg/)

The much lamented 40th Anniversary CS P-51 - 2002

(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1209/eastwood.jpg) (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/eastwood.jpg/)

Eastwood Hi-Flyer ( 1st series long-scale ) - 2006

The Hi-Flyer pic is very special to me as it was taken by Nico, our roadie, who made every gig into a party. Sadly he died three months later, our lives have never been the same again .........


Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 12, 2011, 07:14:44 AM
Welcome newbies...

... with an EB2 copy in '76
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/US/771stBass.jpg)

... oldest pic of the RD, intact and original condition in '80
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/US/1980JammingwithMickColin.jpg)

... with the Hiwatt and a pair of Sound City's in the early '80s
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/DR103%20SWITCH/1983KenNormanRickKazik.jpg)

... doing unspeakable things to a Peter Cook in '84
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/1984irespray.jpg)

... with a TARDIS in '88
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/random%20stuff/19880804Tardis.jpg)

... last gig before "retirement" in '88 (no, there wasn't a speaker in the cab)
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Front%20Page/theend.jpg)

... listening to the sound balance before a gig in '09
(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Hohner%20Jack/20090307054.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on February 12, 2011, 11:04:47 AM
1979... I'm 17 in this pic, with a Prima J copy (and bangs).

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll127/ilanlukatch/prima/120920101193.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassvirtuoso on February 13, 2011, 08:44:07 PM
Showing my lovely Scandinavian/German complexion:

(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/bassvirtuoso/Me/DaveBass6.jpg)

and Me rocking out to Stone in Love:

(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/bassvirtuoso/Me/DaveBass7.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: vates on February 13, 2011, 11:04:56 PM
A Gibson Custom Shop Acoustic Bass in Super 400 shape, fretless, medium scale and with a passive piezo. Built in 1999 by then Gibson master luthier Phil Jones. Spruce top, EXTREMELY resonant, no sustain block, feedbacks immediately at higher volumes (not good for unplugged sessions with drummers), but sounds like a dream in the studio. A one off model possibly for a NAMM show. A magnetic pup model in L5 shape was also built around that time, but I've never seen pics of it (Phil has confirmed to me though that he built it, but has no clue of the whereabouts).

Thanks! It's incredible!

I wonder how it plays and sounds
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: JZumbro on February 13, 2011, 11:11:29 PM
Various pictures through the years, in no particular order.

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-5/735419/325661.jpg)

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-5/735419/bayfest01-L2000.jpg)

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-5/735419/fronk11b.JPG)

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-5/735419/Kunsan.jpg)

(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-5/735419/xcursion01.jpg)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassballs on February 14, 2011, 04:10:58 AM
Hi Folks!

My name is Anders and I am new to this great forum, no need to say I love Gibson basses so it was a relief to find this forum.  :mrgreen:

here is some pix of me:

first up in my "young" days playing a Music Man Cutlass 1 this pix is from 1984
(http://web.me.com/bassballs/web.jpg)

this is from around 2006 with my Gibson EB 2
(http://web.me.com/bassballs/web-1.jpg)

and last from 2010 playing my Gibson SG Standard Bass
(http://web.me.com/bassballs/P1030586.jpg)


Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on February 14, 2011, 11:30:09 AM
Anders/bassballs, welcome to the Outpost! It's great to have you here. Great pics and taste in basses. ;) I hope you enjoy the place. We're always glad to have new bass brothers. You'll find we sometimes even talk about basses...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on February 14, 2011, 11:32:16 AM
I guess I need to track down some pictures. Here's the only one I could find at the moment:

(http://mysite.verizon.net/zyzzz/Audrey/Images/AudreyParty.JPG)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 14, 2011, 01:01:04 PM


 We all have our pre show rituals.......................  ;)






(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/NastyHabitsBarN9ne11of117.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on February 14, 2011, 03:31:34 PM
Here's a pic from Sunday ...

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Richard%20Madden%20band/concordwide.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Muzoid on February 14, 2011, 09:11:26 PM
My mug.
(http://murphynorth.ca/rob0001.jpg)
(http://murphynorth.ca/rob001.jpg)
(http://murphynorth.ca/blacklake1.jpg)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on February 15, 2011, 09:59:44 AM
Here's the band - Vintage Winds:

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Vintage%20Winds/16024_00353.jpg)

Here's myownself with my Gretsch 5123:

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Vintage%20Winds/16024_00366.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 15, 2011, 10:08:14 AM

Love that Gretsch Al!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Stjofön Big on February 15, 2011, 10:12:44 AM
Beautiful bass! As I saw the faces of the folks in your band, I decided this could be worth checking up. Is that you guys on U-tube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5wdnLt7iQI
Must admit I like the style! Yes, sir! Do you do Perfidia?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: luve2fli on February 15, 2011, 10:22:09 AM
999 - Love that aluminum upright, that's just simply stunning.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 15, 2011, 10:38:35 AM
Love that name - you BOFs!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on February 15, 2011, 11:03:17 AM
Beautiful bass! As I saw the faces of the folks in your band, I decided this could be worth checking up. Is that you guys on U-tube?
Must admit I like the style! Yes, sir! Do you do Perfidia?

Yup, that's us. We plan to add Perfidia - we've discussed it but due to turnover in band members, we haven't been stable enough to add it.

Here's a more recent cut - Pipeline/Baja - shot with a late night shaky-cam.  (Pipeline is actually a GREAT lead-in to Lee Hazlewood's Baja) I was playing the gold top Casady in this one. The drummer missed the ending and we added a chorus...you will notice some laughing at the end of the cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqlSjuGKZgw

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Stjofön Big on February 15, 2011, 12:33:07 PM
Man, I just couldn't help myself when I heard Pipeline with you guys. Driven by nothing but my spine, I strechted my right arm and grabbed the nearest bass, an Epiphone Embassy, and fell into the bass line in the mighty E-minor. Duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh... Wowie! And Zowie! I would love to hang in a bar where you guys are playing! I would fill in with vocals for Perfidia if necessary!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: dadagoboi on February 15, 2011, 02:28:36 PM

1973
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/Chrome%20Soapbar/CHROMED/BASSBOY-1.jpg)

1976
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/Chrome%20Soapbar/CHROMED/SnarlSlantTom1.jpg)

1977
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/2010%20Fenderbird/MasqueBest-1.jpg)

2011
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/ME/P1020443.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on February 15, 2011, 02:51:25 PM
Man, I just couldn't help myself when I heard Pipeline with you guys. Driven by nothing but my spine, I strechted my right arm and grabbed the nearest bass, an Epiphone Embassy, and fell into the bass line in the mighty E-minor. Duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh... Wowie! And Zowie! I would love to hang in a bar where you guys are playing! I would fill in with vocals for Perfidia if necessary!

I wish the sound were better in that one....but y'know, when you've played surf music it never leave you, does it?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 15, 2011, 02:52:36 PM
999 - Love that aluminum upright, that's just simply stunning.

Thanks very much!
It was a huge amount of work; I got it in pieces and just polishing it out was weeks. Sounds really good and is a sensation on stage - and looks great with the colored lights!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 16, 2011, 05:47:32 AM
1973
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/Chrome%20Soapbar/CHROMED/BASSBOY-1.jpg)

1976
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/Chrome%20Soapbar/CHROMED/SnarlSlantTom1.jpg)

1977
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/2010%20Fenderbird/MasqueBest-1.jpg)

2011
(http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/ae241/cata1d0/ME/P1020443.jpg)
Carlo is that Tom Petty? Sure looks like it to me!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on February 16, 2011, 05:51:18 AM
Carlo is that Tom Petty? Sure looks like it to me!

I thought the same thing...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: dadagoboi on February 16, 2011, 06:20:05 AM

Carlo is that Tom Petty? Sure looks like it to me!

Yes, before he got his teeth fixed ;D  Also Stan Lynch.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: jumbodbassman on February 16, 2011, 08:13:07 AM
Love that Gretsch Al!

me too....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on February 16, 2011, 10:57:33 PM
Here's an old one...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/gcarlston/dudepit/eagle82.jpg)

Ah, high school...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 17, 2011, 05:13:23 AM
The artist as a young man and before his "ooops, how did I wake up in this girls' dress and my face all made up?"-phase OR his "darn, all I wanted to do was photograph that pup and now I have this strange reflection of my manhood"-phase.

I'm happy you apparently had innocent days too, George.  :-X
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 17, 2011, 09:25:16 AM


 I was innocent........ ;)








Then I discovered my Mom's closet and my "special purpose" almost simultainiously  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 17, 2011, 03:02:37 PM
"Mark" and "Innocent" on the same thread - now that's a definition for oxymoron if I've ever read one...

:popcorn:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 17, 2011, 03:30:26 PM



 "I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing"........................


Sorry Alice!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 17, 2011, 03:41:10 PM
Mark's been thrown out of the social circle...? :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basshappi on February 17, 2011, 07:40:13 PM
This Pic is about 2 years ago:
(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj260/Basshappi/MeBass.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on February 17, 2011, 07:56:27 PM


 "I used to be such a sweet, sweet thing"........................


 ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on February 17, 2011, 09:01:49 PM
 NMMNG my theme song!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on February 19, 2011, 07:58:42 AM
You asked for it....

Glam in all its glory
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/gweimer/StarTrooper_3.jpg)

Early '80s
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/gweimer/Gary_5.jpg)

More recently
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/gweimer/GaryScrollBass2.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 19, 2011, 09:16:10 AM


 I love the Acoustic Cab Gary!

And of course onstage make up gets a big  :thumbsup:   from me.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 21, 2011, 05:02:36 AM
I didn't know Gary was Zal Cleminson!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNwLxwZHMOw&feature=related
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on February 21, 2011, 08:15:50 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/182262_197591550269762_100000567553418_669539_689898_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 21, 2011, 08:17:31 AM
Ah, a Prince tribute band!!!  :mrgreen:

I do miss Vanity and/or Apollonia though ...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 21, 2011, 12:18:22 PM
Behave...!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 21, 2011, 12:25:09 PM
All I do is give the backing artists (hidden from sight in the original pic) some deserved musical credit!


(http://static.skynetblogs.be/media/159798/dyn005_original_400_400_pjpeg_2598557_8d7d392a135a595cf677457ee34d0bd6.jpg)


(http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/artist-news/purple-rain/apollonia-6-corbis-530-85.jpg)



I find it disappointing how even the purest of my intentions are misconstrued in this cesspool of innuendo you guys wallow in.  :-\
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 21, 2011, 12:38:41 PM
I think you have too much time on your hands at present... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Hornisse on February 21, 2011, 12:56:50 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLZfyphg0M
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Freuds_Cat on February 22, 2011, 03:34:02 AM
(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t253/Freuds_cat/Crocs/Bacchus%2003-09/Crocs4.jpg)

(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t253/Freuds_cat/EPI-Allen-Woody/Kapunda%20Feb%202010/Bret-woody-bass-kapunda.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on February 22, 2011, 09:20:07 PM
I didn't know Gary was Zal Cleminson!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNwLxwZHMOw&feature=related

LOL!  Yeah, guess who LOVED the SAHB?  And, if you look again, you'll find who also dug Dennis Dunaway a lot.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on May 03, 2013, 02:46:54 AM
Time for another thread resurrection!

Quality RD bass face:

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/bass_face.jpg)

The lesser spotted SG-Z:

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/slains_with_d.jpg)

Me in G&L land with a Tribute L-2000

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/20130406-lemon-tree.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 03, 2013, 05:25:10 AM
This was my facebook profile pic when I was single. I know, what was I thinking? A Stingray!?
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/doofus_zpsd9740423.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Joan/doofus_zpsd9740423.jpg.html)
Here's me an the ole lady.
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/MaggieandI_zps79941f61.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Joan/MaggieandI_zps79941f61.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on May 03, 2013, 05:48:30 AM
Here's a pic of me when I was still single   :mrgreen:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/545974_3934731851773_276447086_n.jpg)


As you can see I've been into flared pants and four strings for decades... ;)



Here's two from last week.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/923414_10201105948235878_1168497737_n.jpg)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/919321_573990495974781_78192315_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 03, 2013, 03:00:34 PM
What's with the facials, Rob...?

I thought I had the beard market cornered... ;D

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Front%20Page/20090307001.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Hörnisse on May 03, 2013, 06:36:40 PM
(http://i44.tinypic.com/m94qqb.jpg)

Sometime in 1978.  Playing a H.S. dance. 

(http://i39.tinypic.com/hurek8.jpg)

Cedar Street Courtyard 2012
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: hieronymous on May 03, 2013, 07:06:58 PM
Quality RD bass face:

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/bass_face.jpg)


This pic is awesome - what kind of music were you playing?! ??? :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on May 03, 2013, 11:55:10 PM
So I browsed the pics again, and Uwe's one-off Super 400 is still the best looking bass in the universe.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/_ZEN6020.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: vates on May 04, 2013, 11:18:49 AM
I'll second to that :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: copacetic on May 04, 2013, 12:06:36 PM
In terms of acoustics/semi acoustics hands down. Now about the sound Uwe will definitely have some comments. I know he likes the Martin acoustics sound.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on May 04, 2013, 01:26:57 PM
What's with the facials, Rob...?

I guess me being too lazy to shave got out of hand.
Usually the itching wins and I get rid of the stubble.
But this time I was sedated by paracetamol and anti-biotics. So I got through the itching  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: doombass on May 04, 2013, 02:06:00 PM
A couple of months old pics:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Hova130309_3_zpsb390f467.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Egobas/Hova130309_1_zps8c4c3c8d.jpg)

The LP Standard bass has been my favorite bass ever since I bought it four years ago.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 04, 2013, 02:25:09 PM
Mine usually get's it's marching orders once it gets to decent "pirate" status, then it gets a 0/1 crop and starts again... :rolleyes:

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Front%20Page/l_31b4f0c883e5425ab1c85d1bfba045bd1.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on May 05, 2013, 12:17:23 PM
This one's from last year.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll127/ilanlukatch/Guns%20n%20Roses%20tribute/ilan2.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on May 05, 2013, 01:09:29 PM
This pic is awesome - what kind of music were you playing?! ??? :mrgreen:

Sorta mad R&B/rock thing.  If my memory serves me correctly it was a song called "The Fisherman Sings".

Here's me playing it with the old band (singer hadn't discovered the megaphone yet) but not pulling faces this time (and with a Gibson IV this time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9kRzDIolo
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on May 05, 2013, 01:37:00 PM
This one's from last year.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll127/ilanlukatch/Guns%20n%20Roses%20tribute/ilan2.jpg)



 Great shot!


I'm an out of the closet Rickenbacker lover  ;)

 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 05, 2013, 03:17:23 PM
Just how far out of the closet can one get...?

... and what is it with the Dutch and LP's...? ;D

... and as for Ilan, I just had a flashback to early Geddy...  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on May 05, 2013, 05:16:53 PM
Just how far out of the closet can one get...?

... and what is it with the Dutch and LP's...? ;D

... and as for Ilan, I just had a flashback to early Geddy...  ;)

I would have said Cliff Burton.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on May 06, 2013, 04:20:07 AM
Just how far out of the closet can one get...?

... and what is it with the Dutch and LP's...? ;D

... and as for Ilan, I just had a flashback to early Geddy...  ;)

Great pic of Ilan!



and errm pssst Herbie.... Daniel is from Sweden  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on May 06, 2013, 05:47:22 AM
Great shot!
Thanks... Ken Collins (http://65.23.158.135/userphotos/index.html?recid=74611) took it when he visited Israel. (you really want to click that link)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 06, 2013, 06:24:15 AM
59' Explorer bass???
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on May 06, 2013, 06:30:02 AM
Yes, the one that was in Lonnie Mack's band.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 06, 2013, 10:36:03 AM
This one's from last year.

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll127/ilanlukatch/Guns%20n%20Roses%20tribute/ilan2.jpg)

Looks like it's from the 70s (and I mean that in a good way)

A thing I made when I was cleaning out the desk and came accross all my old IDs:
(http://grannygremlin.com/images/me/MugshotsEvo-sm.jpg)

Me visiting the Kollection (you know, just passing through Frankfurt):

(http://grannygremlin.com/images/nonwebpics/UwesOffice.jpg)

First gig on bass (recovering drummer):

(http://grannygremlin.com/images/me/Suave.jpg)

And some more action shots:

(http://grannygremlin.com/WeLove/images/Jake/JakeTeranga.jpg)

(http://grannygremlin.com/images/PTV/Shauna'sBDay/JDrum.jpg)

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8171/7885458742_30e837878d_z.jpg)

I never got good pics of me with either the RD or the EB3.  I knew Paula was used to being in front of a camera, but whodathunk Gertrude above would be more photogenic than either Betty or Lucy.  Not me.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on May 06, 2013, 11:11:01 AM

 I've always liked this shot, it's from a Halloween show in front of about 2000 peeps, looking at it I realized that I was very fortunate to get do this...........When I take it all in, and realize that my bandmates and I made this happen, it a pretty cool feeling :)

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/1345428813.jpg) (http://s222.photobucket.com/user/veronicasteed/media/1345428813.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 06, 2013, 11:46:55 AM
... and errm pssst Herbie.... Daniel is from Sweden  :rolleyes:

It's only ................................... this far ................................... on my map... ;D (sorry Daniel)

What is it with these coastal Europeans and LP's...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: doombass on May 06, 2013, 01:55:58 PM
It's only ................................... this far ................................... on my map... ;D (sorry Daniel)

What is it with these coastal Europeans and LP's...?

That's ok. I'm just happy that the standby switch for my Hiwatt you sent did'nt end up at Rob's place. ;D
Don't know about the LP's. I love my Triumph as well.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 06, 2013, 02:08:37 PM
How frail memory truly is, Daniel; anyway, they all look the same to me... ;)

Oh yeah Ilan, very nice link... is Uwe organising the Fourth Reich as we speak and preparing to expatriate that particular item...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Barklessdog on May 08, 2013, 03:18:46 AM
A couple of months old pics:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Hova130309_3_zpsb390f467.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/doombass/Egobas/Hova130309_1_zps8c4c3c8d.jpg)

The LP Standard bass has been my favorite bass ever since I bought it four years ago.




Nice to see someone else see the beauty of these basses .
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on May 08, 2013, 04:25:09 PM
So I browsed the pics again, and Uwe's one-off Super 400 is still the best looking bass in the universe.


What honor, Ilan, but nothing beats long hair and a Ric!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on May 09, 2013, 12:22:31 AM

(http://grannygremlin.com/images/nonwebpics/UwesOffice.jpg)


Herr Uwe, sie schauen so böse auf diesem Foto... :P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: planetgaffnet on May 09, 2013, 06:40:32 AM
From a couple of nights ago.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/464076_10151909233844428_1500686307_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 09, 2013, 10:53:15 PM
Herr Uwe, sie schauen so böse auf diesem Foto... :P

Quite so indeed, not a decent shot of even one of Ze Kollection...

I've always liked this shot, it's from a Halloween show ...

Just noticed the tats on the back of your leg...?

From a couple of nights ago.

I can see that NR lurking in the background...

A thing I made when I was cleaning out the desk and came accross all my old IDs:

Wow... some changes... mind you, if I did that... long hair to chrome-dome...  ;D

I would have said Cliff Burton.

Odd that but logical... for me they were a "new" band and I was following Motorhead and Lemmy, Rush and Geddy, through that era and before so Cliff had gone before he entered my psyche... my first Mettalica was S&M, so I never knew what I had missed until I learnt it retrospectively...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on May 10, 2013, 04:24:17 AM
Herr Uwe, sie schauen so böse auf diesem Foto... :P

That's pretty smiley for me! Whenever I listen to music, for instance, and really enjoy it, people say I have this really dark, sullen look.

My parents should have looked more after their middle child and not left me to brood so much!!!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: planetgaffnet on May 10, 2013, 05:04:07 AM

I can see that NR lurking in the background...


Yes...relegated to the stand after three songs.  The saddle on the A string went loose and bottomed out - the hex/saddle adjustment screws aren't that tight.  Hipshot are sending me four new saddles.  Luckily I had the white one (I nearly left it at home).
P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pekka on May 11, 2013, 12:09:23 AM
1989
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4322198/p.jpg)
2003
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4322198/8iso.jpg)
2009
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4322198/p3.jpg)
2013
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4322198/101.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on May 11, 2013, 12:20:46 PM
1989
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4322198/p.jpg)

\m/ GRIM \m/
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pekka on May 12, 2013, 03:40:55 AM
\m/ GRIM \m/

 :mrgreen:

Devil signs were an accident, I think we just tried to take cool shapes with our fretting hands. Certainly didn't play metal at that time (or since, despite my never changing hairstyle...). I was 13 or 14 at that picture and the bass was my first, an Aria Pro II XRB. Long gone.:)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on May 12, 2013, 07:39:08 AM
You look like you were playing in a true blackmetal band in this photo, the pose, the "smile", the black 'n' white pic, the whole package, everything! :D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: clankenstein on May 13, 2013, 12:32:43 AM
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff246/tonypbass/Tony_059.jpg) (http://s236.photobucket.com/user/tonypbass/media/Tony_059.jpg.html)live on friday 10 05 2013 at the angus inn lower hutt wellington new zealand.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pekka on May 13, 2013, 01:01:11 AM
You look like you were playing in a true blackmetal band in this photo, the pose, the "smile", the black 'n' white pic, the whole package, everything! :D

Not to mention my Roger Powell specs...or maybe they were Venom specs after all. :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: amptech on May 15, 2013, 11:50:07 AM
I usually end up givin´them the finger when rocking my grabber, can´t help it!
A couple of shots of my ac/dc cover band in 2008. The grabber is perfect for hard rock!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: planetgaffnet on May 16, 2013, 10:11:09 AM
The NR before I had to change it - three songs in - for the whitie.  It is a lovely bass.
P

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/263206_10201130061675599_590523409_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on May 16, 2013, 11:54:34 AM
Not to mention my Roger Powell specs...or maybe they were Venom specs after all. :mrgreen:

Nordic Metal that is!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on June 01, 2013, 12:55:08 AM
From a couple weeks ago.

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/963825_565698273452874_1583964316_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on June 01, 2013, 05:24:34 AM
Very cool Tom!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on June 02, 2013, 04:53:16 PM
Here's a couple from Saturday.

4.00pm. Blues gig.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202013/965089_10151462576168660_1990996265_o_zpsae67e222.jpg)


10.30pm. Rock gig.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202013/270094_10151735455360087_913210488_n_zps2bb2d2db.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on June 03, 2013, 05:14:45 AM
From a couple weeks ago.

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/963825_565698273452874_1583964316_o.jpg)

Wrong forum though.  :popcorn:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 03, 2013, 07:48:13 AM
Nice Ric though (you know, as far as Rics go  :P )

Recording session 2 weekends ago:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/fb1a91fea1de847c7a31e8488c8544c0/tumblr_mnfwt4KeeJ1qb6z4ro3_1280.jpg)

some more here:

http://nomoremicrophones.tumblr.com/
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on June 04, 2013, 05:00:41 AM
Here's one from last sunday.
One of the smallest stages we've ever been on. In a tiny little pub.
Advantage is I did get to cuddle with Floor while playing  :mrgreen:

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/946602_537257549648737_166401698_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on June 04, 2013, 09:11:09 AM
This is not a fringe benefit to be disparaged!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on June 04, 2013, 04:40:59 PM
This is not a fringe benefit to be disparaged!

+1
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on June 04, 2013, 11:14:48 PM
... as long as someone else does not get in on the act... ;D

(beard's coming along nicely now...) ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Blackbird on September 26, 2013, 08:26:54 AM
Playing a "Trailer Park Boys" wrap up party

(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o108/thunderbird33/AA4G8621-1000_zps5b82d932.jpg)[/URL][/img]
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 26, 2013, 12:41:12 PM
Satisfied with that new Non Rev then?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Blackbird on September 26, 2013, 01:16:46 PM
Satisfied with that new Non Rev then?

Absolutely love it - more so then Rev.  It's just the right feel and sound all around.  With my new Markbass 410HF, SA450 and sansAmp, it absolutely kills.  The guys were quite surprised the tone I have with a rather simple plug-n-play setup.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on November 10, 2013, 07:39:51 PM
On Saturday night with the Stones tribute band ....

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202013/RollingStonedlivepromo_zps862e924c.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on November 11, 2013, 11:06:25 AM


 Mark, that really looks like a fun gig - too cool!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on November 19, 2013, 08:40:24 AM
Gettin' it done with the EB1. Jam at the Village Trestle in Goffstown NH. You know it's in the pocket when the drummer makes a face like this.

(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin_zps63e14091.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin_zps63e14091.jpg.html)
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin2_zps116ed0b2.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin2_zps116ed0b2.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on November 19, 2013, 11:31:57 AM

 I need another Thunderbird!  ;D

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/H20139_zps371d693f.jpeg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on November 19, 2013, 12:12:05 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/eggs_zps079dc726.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/eggs_zps079dc726.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on November 19, 2013, 12:30:48 PM
Burrpp!

(https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/944137_10201765004591320_197006558_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on November 19, 2013, 01:48:27 PM
Watching for a cue while playing an outdoor gig in midsummer.  (Epi Jack Casady now for sale, with case...)

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/IMG_1127.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on November 19, 2013, 01:50:58 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/Ronn_zpsa529becc.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/Ronn_zpsa529becc.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: westen44 on November 19, 2013, 02:04:32 PM
Gettin' it done with the EB1. Jam at the Village Trestle in Goffstown NH. You know it's in the pocket when the drummer makes a face like this.

(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin_zps63e14091.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin_zps63e14091.jpg.html)
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin2_zps116ed0b2.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Joan/Brigitte/EB1-snow/jammin2_zps116ed0b2.jpg.html)

I'm sure I could be accused of being too old school.  But it's hard to beat the coolness factor of an EB-1. 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on November 19, 2013, 07:11:43 PM
I want one of those basses!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on November 19, 2013, 09:13:59 PM
Good luck finding an unmodified one Baz. My 44 year old output jack finally had to be replaced but it's all original other than maybe a cap and the mod bar I put on the bridge. No breaks either. There's no faking when you play one. When you lock in with it, every note sings with musical authority in a gloriously rich, warm and indulgently bassy timbre. It gives my brain sensations no other bass can!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on November 20, 2013, 08:35:20 AM
36 years of playing, and I don't think I've ever seen an EB-1 in person. Cool, unique looking bass!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on November 20, 2013, 09:43:56 AM
I saw and played Grog's EB-1 before he bought it. Great bass. His is the circa-1970 reissue.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Grog on November 20, 2013, 03:45:12 PM
I've been lucky to have had two of them, the first one I believe only cost me $470.00. They've gone up a tad in the last twenty years...............
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on November 20, 2013, 10:54:31 PM
I've been lucky to have had two of them, the first one I believe only cost me $470.00. They've gone up a tad in the last twenty years...............

Refresh my memory, did you trade the first one in at Willie's? If so, I played that one too.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Grog on November 21, 2013, 05:12:18 AM
Refresh my memory, did you trade the first one in at Willie's? If so, I played that one too.

Yes, I bought the first one at Willie's when he was in his first space, just to the right of where he is now. Then traded it in to him towards the one I have now..........
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on November 21, 2013, 01:26:06 PM
Looking good with the beard Rob!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: hollowbody on November 21, 2013, 11:09:29 PM
Tonight
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Bionic-Joe on November 22, 2013, 03:59:23 AM
I owned one back in say...2007 or 2006...1 1968 EB-1...Great bass...but I could not get a good cut through tone...it was an oompa bass....probably great for playing polka..I had played on a few years before and it was Cranking, cut through ass kicking....at least for a mudbucker bass...Still would love to get another one..
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Grog on November 22, 2013, 10:30:30 AM
I've had quite a few basses with Mudbuckers on them, I don't think any two basses sounded exactly alike. My '67 EB-2 has the smoothest pickup, many of the other sound a bit raspy.............
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on November 22, 2013, 12:29:17 PM
I try to get the Felix sound from mine and it's not hard through my walkabout. I was playing through a carvin rig at the open mic but with the right eq it still sounded good. You're not going to play like Jaco or Flea on one but for meat and potatoes rock, it rules.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohy4JoyThis
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on November 22, 2013, 12:31:41 PM
Who wants to play like Jaco or Flea? Not I.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gweimer on November 22, 2013, 01:37:50 PM
Who wants to play like Jaco or Flea? Not I.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I didn't have a Gibson, but I did this little Epi project once.  Mind you, this is BEFORE the Cream reunion, and the pickup was a custom one-off from Jason Lollar.  It's one of those basses I'd buy back, if I were doing that.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b170/gweimer/basses/EB1_3.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/gweimer/media/basses/EB1_3.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2013, 02:56:34 PM
Nothing wrong with these basses at all, I'm very happy with mine. The sound has little to do with an original EB or Reissue EB-1, but it has a voice of its own, especially fretless. E string is a bit weakish, but that is the price you pay with medium scale, where funnily enough I find the E string suffering more in the overall sound than on a good short scale.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2013, 03:00:04 PM
Why doesn't this go any higher?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG_8625.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on November 22, 2013, 04:10:26 PM
It does! You got three more frets to go
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 22, 2013, 04:28:09 PM
I saw the end approaching - with dread!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on November 22, 2013, 05:09:37 PM
Why doesn't this go any higher?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG_8625.jpg)


 If you're doing that, who the hell is playing bass  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on November 23, 2013, 07:29:44 AM
Silly Uwe, if you want to cup yer balls you haver a perfectly good Victory (or a few actually) for that.

(http://grannygremlin.com/images/me/Suave.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 23, 2013, 08:41:22 AM

 If you're doing that, who the hell is playing bass  ;)

Those guitar halflings do have a low E-string you know, you just have to teach'em right where their place is ....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on November 24, 2013, 05:37:34 PM
Those guitar halflings do have a low E-string you know, you just have to teach'em right where their place is ....


 BTW you're almost as gray as I am  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Blackbird on November 24, 2013, 05:44:09 PM
Why doesn't this go any higher?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/uwehornung/IMG_8625.jpg)

Is MarkBass your amp of choice too?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 25, 2013, 10:40:17 AM

 BTW you're almost as gray as I am  ;D

I'm a lot greyer now, but the crew-cut kind of hides it.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on November 26, 2013, 12:30:07 PM
It's cold in Georgia today so I drug out a summer picture.  Too bad the midtown and I barely made it into the shot >:(

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/551336_10151426442532075_1354351851_n_zps00963c69.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/551336_10151426442532075_1354351851_n_zps00963c69.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on November 26, 2013, 12:36:32 PM
I'm a lot greyer now, but the crew-cut kind of hides it.


 I have the USMC approved high n tight..........Salt and Pepper. My late father would finally approve!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 26, 2013, 12:47:29 PM
Is MarkBass your amp of choice too?

"Choice" is overstating things, I'm not hung up over what amp I play as long as it works and is loud enough. People tell me that I sound the same over anything. The MarkBass stuff is more variable than most, not that I really change sounds during a set once I've found one I like.  :-[

Amps and cabs with me never transcend the "tool" status. I play Ampeg SVT, Orange Little Terror, Roland Modeling combos, MarkBass and an Ashdown JAE master-/pre-amp, none of them bugs me enough that I wouldn't take it on stage, but I'd be hard-pressed to name a favorite. This sounds terribly uncool, but it might even be the Roland Modeling combos for sheer variety with a single turn of a knob.  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

These days I tend to take the amp/cab with the best weight to loudness ratio with me to an audition or gig (or ask the opening act if I can use their bassist's rig)!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on November 26, 2013, 02:25:33 PM
"Choice" is overstating things, I'm not hung up over what amp I play as long as it works and is loud enough. People tell me that I sound the same over anything.

[snip]

These days I tend to take the amp/cab with the best weight to loudness ratio with me to an audition or gig (or ask the opening act if I can use their bassist's rig)!

Seldom have I read comments I agreed with more! I don't think I have ever played through an amp I didn't like.  I can always get a sound that "sounds like me".  That with enough volume and low weight are all I need.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on November 26, 2013, 02:48:12 PM
Speaking as a man who has used many an opening (or headlining for that matter) band's rig, this has sometimes turned out very badly.  I've met plenty an amp I didn't like (solid state SVTs; lower-end Acoustic... though in retrospect it could have been the cabs as much as, or moreso than, the amps).
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 26, 2013, 04:54:26 PM
Functionality and headroom are the two key ingredients for me. I tell opening acts they can use my rig, but that I wouldn't mind playing over theirs either, and if they prefer playing over their stuff I just ask "no drop-outs?" and "is it loud enough"? I then tend to have the MarkBass with me in case all fails, but if the other guy's rig is ok, the MarkBass stay comfortably in the car.

Really, all that "I need (i) this amp over (ii) those speakers with (iii) my effects board or it just ain't me" is for whining guitarists. Always embarrasses me if I witness that and if a guitarist wants to lose my respect really quick all he needs to do is say "I can't play over this thing". Pansies.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Blackbird on November 28, 2013, 05:53:32 AM
"Choice" is overstating things, I'm not hung up over what amp I play as long as it works and is loud enough. People tell me that I sound the same over anything. The MarkBass stuff is more variable than most, not that I really change sounds during a set once I've found one I like.  :-[

Amps and cabs with me never transcend the "tool" status. I play Ampeg SVT, Orange Little Terror, Roland Modeling combos, MarkBass and an Ashdown JAE master-/pre-amp, none of them bugs me enough that I wouldn't take it on stage, but I'd be hard-pressed to name a favorite. This sounds terribly uncool, but it might even be the Roland Modeling combos for sheer variety with a single turn of a knob.  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

These days I tend to take the amp/cab with the best weight to loudness ratio with me to an audition or gig (or ask the opening act if I can use their bassist's rig)!

Yah, I found Markbass was the perfect match for loudness to weight ratio.  I have 500W, which seems to be plenty in a six piece rock outfit, but I know if there's a need the cabinet has 300w more of handling and MB has some nice stuff out there.  I think my whole rig comes under 70lbs, which is nice.  I can pretty much sound like me whatever I play thru, but my setup right now has such a cutting/grinding tone I don't want to mess with it and leave it home.  The guys still mention it, so that can't be a bad thing!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on November 28, 2013, 06:47:42 AM
Functionality and headroom are the two key ingredients for me. I tell opening acts they can use my rig, but that I wouldn't mind playing over theirs either, and if they prefer playing over their stuff I just ask "no drop-outs?" and "is it loud enough"? I then tend to have the MarkBass with me in case all fails, but if the other guy's rig is ok, the MarkBass stay comfortably in the car.

Really, all that "I need (i) this amp over (ii) those speakers with (iii) my effects board or it just ain't me" is for whining guitarists. Always embarrasses me if I witness that and if a guitarist wants to lose my respect really quick all he needs to do is say "I can't play over this thing". Pansies.

This may be all fine and good when you're playing shows with people of your social-economic demographic vs broke-ass student hipsters.  The amps tend to really take a nose dive in both quality and level of maintenance.  You see a lot of really bad cabs, speakers that needed a recone last year and amps that haven't seen a tech in a decade.

I do like playing other people's rigs (because I wouldn't ever get to experience some cool stuff otherwise) but sometimes it can be a real crapshoot.  I was really keen to try this dude's Acoustic at my last out of town show but it turned out that it was distorted and farty at 2 on the gain knob.  Dude was in a punk band and liked it that way, but it just wasn't something that was useful to me.  I made the best of it without comment or complaint, as I did with the solid state SVTs in the rehearsal space we've been using lately, but it makes my day when we get the Markbass room (not that I am a MB fanboy, my top 5 choices would be different amps altogether). ... that may be due to being newer actually; you never know about the gear in sleazy rehearsal spaces.

The flip side of this coin is the otherwise destitute musician who has an immaculate vintage rig and won't let anyone else touch it because it's the only thing of value he owns.  I understand that (I've had gear damaged when sharing; usually drums), but it's still funny/annoying; flip it for a brick shithouse Peavey and buy a new pair of shoes and some dinner, dude.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Hörnisse on November 28, 2013, 10:29:25 AM
Give me a good in ear mix and I'm fine. 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on November 28, 2013, 11:16:53 AM
I haven't progressed to that yet and feel guilty!  :-[
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Blackbird on December 06, 2013, 06:27:42 AM
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o108/thunderbird33/Peavey%20RJ%20IV/Challenger/me_zps6e91e95f.jpg) (http://s118.photobucket.com/user/thunderbird33/media/Peavey%20RJ%20IV/Challenger/me_zps6e91e95f.jpg.html)

NOTE TO ME:  When given the option to being your rig, or use what is provided, always being your own.  I played the last 8 songs of the 10 song set with no stage bass as the cabinet was being an ass, no time to see why.  Luckily the  Peavey head was DI's as the cab was miked.  I heard nothing cuz they couldn't seem to get me anything in the monitors....but it was recorded and me and the drums were locked in!

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 06, 2013, 06:51:30 AM
Good pic!  Love the lighting and the creepy eyes.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on December 06, 2013, 10:00:10 AM
Good pic!  Love the lighting and the creepy eyes.



Indeed!  That's an excellent photo!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on February 23, 2014, 04:46:58 PM
Stones tribute show on Saturday night ....

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/1623724_635748526474301_1587143960_n_zps0509826a.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/1795629_635748433140977_1543891903_n_zpsb7780139.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on February 24, 2014, 02:00:41 AM
Did you have the wig on backwards?  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 24, 2014, 11:04:36 AM
I miss the matching shirts.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 24, 2014, 11:29:19 AM


 We did matching skirt once..........We were all Catholic School Girls.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on February 24, 2014, 01:23:48 PM

 We did matching skirt once..........We were all Catholic School Girls.

Naughty!!   ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 24, 2014, 01:33:15 PM
Naughty!!   ;)


 It was out in Pt. Angeles, after the show this logger comes up to me and says " I've been out murdering trees all day, just got out of the Pen(itentury), can I buy you a drink?.............Uhhhhhh, no!

 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on February 24, 2014, 03:28:25 PM
"New in town, logger?"   ??? :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 24, 2014, 05:00:31 PM
The late Quentin Crisp... "Some roughs are really queer; some queers are really rough..."

There was a hunting quote I also remember... "Some days you get the bear; some days the bear gets you..."

Stunning monochrome, Blackbird... simply stunning shot...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on February 25, 2014, 06:05:04 AM

 It was out in Pt. Angeles, after the show this logger comes up to me and says " I've been out murdering trees all day, just got out of the Pen(itentury), can I buy you a drink?.............Uhhhhhh, no!

 

This story starts - and regarding a bountiful of aspects too, I hasten to add - very interestingly, can we have all the sequels pleeeeze?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on February 25, 2014, 10:04:11 AM
This story starts - and regarding a bountiful of aspects too, I hasten to add - very interestingly, can we have all the sequels pleeeeze?


 No, a girl has to keep some things a secret - Plus, contrary to popular belief I do posess a modicum of decorum......

Now, where did I leave those black panties?  ???
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 25, 2014, 03:34:56 PM
Ankles...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Lightyear on February 25, 2014, 07:50:59 PM
Ankles...?

 :rimshot:  Try the veal folks!  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on April 03, 2014, 09:41:54 AM
Last weekend had a friend taking pictures in the crowd.  The keyboard looks like it cut my right hand off :-\

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/Smiths_zpsae2eacbe.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/Smiths_zpsae2eacbe.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ack1961 on April 03, 2014, 10:24:48 AM
Here's the only shot of me on stage anywhere.  Doing a sound check with my son's band:
(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/ack1961/Music/STB0222_PRP5085-3098149582-W.jpg) (http://s814.photobucket.com/user/ack1961/media/Music/STB0222_PRP5085-3098149582-W.jpg.html)
Steve
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on April 04, 2014, 07:52:28 AM
Cool. Is that a Rudy Sarzo Peavey?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: LoEndMaestro on April 04, 2014, 08:46:35 AM
Something old:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/LoEndMaestro/cjazz.jpg) (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/LoEndMaestro/media/cjazz.jpg.html)

Something new:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/LoEndMaestro/KABHRC12.jpg) (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/LoEndMaestro/media/KABHRC12.jpg.html)

Sold (not borrowed):
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/LoEndMaestro/DSC00523.jpg) (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/LoEndMaestro/media/DSC00523.jpg.html)

Silver, not blue.
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/LoEndMaestro/SIlverP2.jpg) (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/LoEndMaestro/media/SIlverP2.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 04, 2014, 08:13:58 PM

 'Bout time you posted a few!  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ack1961 on April 04, 2014, 11:40:08 PM
Cool. Is that a Rudy Sarzo Peavey?

Yes, 1991 Sarzo. Good eye.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on April 05, 2014, 06:23:26 AM
With the BaCH SAB-2L in the studio.

(https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1012887_487034061425037_1467583243_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: LoEndMaestro on April 05, 2014, 06:38:37 AM
Here's a more Gibby friendly shot for you TBird1958. But I must say, Thunderbirds look much prettier on you.... ;)
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/LoEndMaestro/chris_leanback.jpg) (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/LoEndMaestro/media/chris_leanback.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Hörnisse on April 05, 2014, 02:02:22 PM
Great looking beard too!  I've always wanted to grow one like that.


With the BaCH SAB-2L in the studio.

(https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/1012887_487034061425037_1467583243_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on April 05, 2014, 02:49:16 PM
Haha thanx. It's not an achievement or anything. Just don't shave. But hey, you knew that already.  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 05, 2014, 02:50:05 PM
Here's a more Gibby friendly shot for you TBird1958. But I must say, Thunderbirds look much prettier on you.... ;)
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g129/LoEndMaestro/chris_leanback.jpg) (http://s55.photobucket.com/user/LoEndMaestro/media/chris_leanback.jpg.html)


 I think they sex up anybody that plays one!  :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 05, 2014, 03:02:44 PM
Ah ... maybe we should all start playing V's  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 05, 2014, 03:06:54 PM
Ah ... maybe we should all start playing V's  :mrgreen:


 No sexin' you up - Mr married man!  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 05, 2014, 03:10:47 PM
25 years, near the end of next month ...

... and my Thunderbird's got a V head, sort of ... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 05, 2014, 03:49:54 PM
Comin' up 30 years this November, and taking my wonderful lady to Hawaii to celebrate.  :toast:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 05, 2014, 04:01:32 PM
[eternal shame] I'm on call ... [/eternal shame] :rolleyes:

In all seriousness, I'm banking on the move north as our anni treat, all being well ...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 05, 2014, 04:02:18 PM

 North to where Kenny?

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 05, 2014, 04:09:46 PM
Potentially some independent country, dependant on attitudes, next September ... nothing too drastic ...

Men commonly wear skirts there too...  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 06, 2014, 11:17:50 AM

 Canada? are you joining the Canadian Navy?


Ok, just kidding, 'cause if you're moving to Scotland I'm just insanely jealous..........
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 06, 2014, 11:25:14 AM
No worries Mark ... at least I'll be able to source some interesting malts, should you be looking for something special to dose the liver...  ;)

Mind you, I note that you're not that far from all those Canadian Sailors ... :mrgreen:

If it all comes together, I'm sure to post a wee note or two ...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 09, 2014, 11:38:19 AM
I have no worries as long as border control there doesn't take aviation recognition tests from immigrants.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on April 09, 2014, 12:41:02 PM
Isn't Scotland trying to secede from the UK these days? Better get there quick Kenny before you have to apply for citizenship.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 09, 2014, 01:46:34 PM
Wouldn't then a more accurate description of the UK be "Welshiedom" or "Eales"?

I see the ghost of my Catholic sister Mary Stuart rising to finally take her rightful place and oust that illicit offspring conceived under the most disgraceful circumstances ...

It's what we always wanted. Of course we would have given Scotland full independence after beating down English imperialism, Operation Seelöwe was a thrust for Scottish freedom. Divide and rule.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 09, 2014, 03:09:47 PM
I'd have automatic right of entry to Alba, Ari, by parental rights, but independence would not take place until at least 2017, and our hope is relocation in 2015, so we'll already be living there ...

I was discussing this with someone in the Glasgae area earlier this afternoon who was the "minority view" in his office re staying within the UK and not voting for independence, and we both agreed what the problem Westminster has, and why they are "running scared" of the outcome ...

Simple math ...

The majority of the population is disaffected by politics so are somewhat ambivalent to politicians in general, so no longer bother to vote, believing "it will make no difference" ... they may cost the UK the bit north of Hadrian's Wall because of this ambivalence, but Westminster will only have itself to blame for it ...

But ... those that do want to take a risk and go-for-it, think like this ... I Can Make A Difference...! ... They will vote, and that is what scares Westminster most ...

Soap box away and a return to normal service ... Ah yes, and I guess as I've nailed my colours to the mast, I'm out of the closet now ...

(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/464936192/h4D566B31/)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 09, 2014, 03:13:14 PM
I have no worries as long as border control there doesn't take aviation recognition tests from immigrants.


  ;D       Damm Hellcats!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on April 09, 2014, 03:27:48 PM
I'd have automatic right of entry to Alba, Ari, by parental rights

Automatic entry into Alba by parental right!? Sounds good to me but those are some strange laws. I wonder how Jessica feels about this?
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/jessica-alba-73831_zpsd2e1104f.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/jessica-alba-73831_zpsd2e1104f.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 09, 2014, 03:41:54 PM
That is the nicest brother pic we've had in a long time in this particular thread if I may say so as the GlobMod!!!

I somehow like the wool fabric of her turtle neck, very expressive, yet skin-flattering. Scottish quality no doubt, as it tends to be windy and chilly there so that only the most erect, bone-hardened men can withstand the furious climate.

Not to mention those cute wool providers nippling all the grass there.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 09, 2014, 03:44:50 PM
A few wildcats up there ... no Hellcats as far as I know ... maybe a couple of Ford Corsairs ... ;)

Jessica ... ABB instrumental ... yes ... ?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on April 09, 2014, 03:50:38 PM
It's all fun until someone loses an eye.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 09, 2014, 03:52:48 PM
Or a part of their country! Secessions are all the rage currently.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 09, 2014, 04:12:45 PM
Are you inferring the impending dissolution of the GDR ... ?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 09, 2014, 05:37:43 PM
Ken, you change monikers more often than Elizabeth Taylor changed husbands ...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 09, 2014, 05:46:21 PM
Ken, you change monikers more often than Elizabeth Taylor changed husbands,


 Or some people change underwear.....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on April 09, 2014, 05:59:59 PM
There's only one way to get this thread back on track - BASS FACE.

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/bass_face2.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on April 09, 2014, 08:42:39 PM
Neepheid is that a Money bass? I want one!

Somehow I don't think I've posted in this thread yet.
Here's me recording about 5 years ago with my Greco:
(http://slinkp.com/bass/paul_recording_bass_for_giggle_the_ozone_gist_20090312.jpg)

... and here's a live one of about the same vintage playing the LPB-1.
(http://slinkp.com/~wrp/union_hall_bklyn_april_2009/IMG_0958.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on April 10, 2014, 02:24:59 AM
Neepheid is that a Money bass? I want one!

Not exactly, it's a Les Paul Double Cut, but it does have the mahogany/walnut/maple sandwich body that was also used in the Money bass.  Apart from the lack of $ on the truss rod cover and finish, it's pretty much the same as far as I know.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 10, 2014, 06:11:32 AM
I didn't know that there were Doublecuts that had the walnut "tone plate" too. They started out just Maho plus maple top. Then again, once Gibson had production for the Money running, why differentiate for the Doublecut? Actually the only series produced Gibson Bass with three woods, come to think of it.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on April 10, 2014, 06:26:27 AM
I didn't know that there were Doublecuts that had the walnut "tone plate" too. They started out just Maho plus maple top. Then again, once Gibson had production for the Money running, why differentiate for the Doublecut? Actually the only series produced Gibson Bass with three woods, come to think of it.

We've discussed this before... http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=8480.msg139619

It's hard to tell what's a Money bass and what isn't, given the amount of variance in hardware colour and knobs across all models, but I'm going with if it ain't got a $ on the TRC, and it isn't Manhattan Midnight or Natural, then it isn't a Money bass.

My DC with tone plate (yes I did end up buying the one I was talking about :) ):

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/LP%20double%20cut/10_side.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 10, 2014, 08:25:21 AM


 We've been on a hiatus since Halloween (our guitarist of the past ten years retired) and after a bit of
searching found a great newie to take her place, we're off to the wilds of Pt Angeles in mid May for our first shows - pretty excited!

Meantime....
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/7CedarsHalloween201375of143_zps9283e67e.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 10, 2014, 08:27:04 AM
Break a (shapely, fishnet stockinged) leg!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on April 10, 2014, 09:52:46 AM
Slinkp! Heads up for a blue $ bass in the classifieds of the other big forum. Seller says it's going on e bay soon but he's only asking 700 now.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 10, 2014, 09:01:34 PM


ah, yeah.......

 Been meaning to leave this here for Uwe, just having a little fun with his bass.....

That's a nice pic he left on my computer screen  ;)

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/trainsIV/DSCN1705_zpsf338fd52.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 10, 2014, 10:53:35 PM
Right turn Clyde ...

(your roots are showing) ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 11, 2014, 09:05:25 AM
We've discussed this before... http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=8480.msg139619

It's hard to tell what's a Money bass and what isn't, given the amount of variance in hardware colour and knobs across all models, but I'm going with if it ain't got a $ on the TRC, and it isn't Manhattan Midnight or Natural, then it isn't a Money bass.

My DC with tone plate (yes I did end up buying the one I was talking about :) ):

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/LP%20double%20cut/10_side.jpg)

Recollection strikes! Walnut tone plate alright!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 11, 2014, 09:15:47 AM

ah, yeah.......

 Been meaning to leave this here for Uwe, just having a little fun with his bass.....

That's a nice pic he left on my computer screen  ;)

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/trainsIV/DSCN1705_zpsf338fd52.jpg)

Mark, I told you not to lend that bass to some other man!!! Who is this guy? Looks like some creepy train collector ...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 11, 2014, 10:13:49 AM
(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/7/20/16/enhanced-buzz-9740-1279657200-27.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 11, 2014, 10:28:11 AM
The Märklind boggles ...  :o :o :o :o :o :o Is he in Mark's "other forum" too? Crab meat and model trains anyone?

Ken, you will absolutely not use "jo on rails" as one of your future handles!!! We've seen enough decorum slippage here, but there must be boundaries!!! I'm adamant about this.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on April 11, 2014, 11:06:16 AM
Man that is just really disturbing and wron...

Wait- free crab meat?  [...runs off to search 'casual encounters' section]
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 11, 2014, 11:06:35 AM
(http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal01/2010/7/20/16/enhanced-buzz-9740-1279657200-27.jpg)



  :o

OMG! I'm SO NORMAL!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 11, 2014, 11:16:31 AM

  :o

OMG! I'm SO NORMAL!!!!!!!!!

Sure!   ;)  Hey, we always knew your heart was in the right place!   8)

I was going to opine that anyone who plays with trains must be OK, but that theory is shot down now....

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 11, 2014, 11:21:36 AM
Boringly normal, Mark, face it.

Imitation crab meat that is. The difference is important as I suspect it to contain sexual innuendo. People like that do nothing innocent - ever.

IMHO "crab meat" is - thinly veiled - jargon for a meeting of pubic lice

(http://skincarebylouisa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pubic_louse2.jpg)

from at least two different carriers.

The Last Bass Outpost - where the intrepid quest for scientific exploration leaves no stone unturned!

PS: Does all this have ANYTHING to do with Deep Purple? Good that you asked:

(http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/94/4b/wellSuppliesFirst_AidLiceAllA200_Lice_Killing_Shampoo-resized200.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdNbBL4PnU4
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 11, 2014, 02:30:45 PM


 Crabs on your organ........  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 11, 2014, 03:44:09 PM

 Crabs on your organ........  :rolleyes:

Is that to the tune of "Smoke on the Water?"   :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 11, 2014, 04:38:46 PM
... there must be boundaries!!! I'm adamant about this.

Freud, yet again ... :rolleyes: :mrgreen:

[Cylon] By your command [/Cylon]

None of you have sussed the Highlander link and the avatar, and it's not to do with relocation, though it's apt ...

Okay, that stone is a clan grave marker, and I'm descended from those that got away after the failed Jacobite Rebellion, with a price on their heads, but have none of those with English/Scottish history knowledge clicked to the significance of the vote for independence being in this year ... ?

The English are dreading another defeat ... my lot were there too, reputedly ... ;)

(Crab meat again, don't know where don't know when, but I know you'll serve up crab meat once again...) with apologies to Dame Vera
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 11, 2014, 04:56:22 PM
Is that to the tune of "Smoke on the Water?"   :o

"Craaaaaaaaabs ...on your oooooooooooorrr-gan

A fiery itch will not subside ...."

Ian Gillan could have come up with that!

Jon Lord played mostly with a synth on A 200 though, not just with his organ.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 11, 2014, 04:58:20 PM
Synth-etic crabs ... ?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 11, 2014, 05:22:31 PM
Freud, yet again ... :rolleyes: :mrgreen:

[Cylon] By your command [/Cylon]

None of you have sussed the Highlander link and the avatar, and it's not to do with relocation, though it's apt ...

Okay, that stone is a clan grave marker, and I'm descended from those that got away after the failed Jacobite Rebellion, with a price on their heads, but have none of those with English/Scottish history knowledge clicked to the significance of the vote for independence being in this year ... ?

The English are dreading another defeat ... my lot were there too, reputedly ... ;)

(Crab meat again, don't know where don't know when, but I know you'll serve up crab meat once again...) with apologies to Dame Vera

So you are a raging renegade secessionist, McKenny? Didn't Stallone yell "HADRIAN!!!" all the time too?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 11, 2014, 05:28:13 PM
Yes indeed, but wasn't Stallone always calling out Butt-Kiss too ...?

Anyway, Uwe, you should know your history ... divide and conquer ...

Give it a few more decades; maybe the 800th anniversary, and all that will be left of them will be their language ... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on April 11, 2014, 06:33:35 PM

ah, yeah.......

 Been meaning to leave this here for Uwe, just having a little fun with his bass.....

That's a nice pic he left on my computer screen  ;)

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/trainsIV/DSCN1705_zpsf338fd52.jpg)

That bass is a wonderful match with your silver fox looks. You should get one for yourself. Grey levis couldn't hurt either. Some nice straight fits would offer a nice balance to all that cross dressing.
http://us.levi.com/product/index.jsp?productId=29667846&&cp=3146842.3146854.3691994
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 12, 2014, 01:50:57 AM
You're getting all mixed up with his sister, Veronica ... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 12, 2014, 04:39:54 AM
Mark looks very Westcoastish on that pic. Vegan, liberal, second marriage to a yoga instructor, but immensely rich due to Apple stock. For the autumn of his life he could now get a real job with the Grateful Dead or offer breathing classes for bassists.

It's one of the benefits of being a guy that you don't have to dye your grey hair and chicks even dig it that you don't.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on April 12, 2014, 04:53:55 AM
Mark looks very Westcoastish on that pic. Vegan, liberal, second marriage to a yoga instructor, but immensely rich due to Apple stock. For the autumn of his life he could now get a real job with the Grateful Dead or offer breathing classes for bassists.

It's one of the benefits of being a guy that you don't have to dye your grey hair and chicks even dig it that you don't.

I am working slowly on it.  My dad has been a "silver fox" for years now, so at least there's some genetic encouragement :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 12, 2014, 06:52:02 AM
It's one of the benefits of being a guy that you don't have to dye your grey hair and chicks even dig it that you don't.

We had this completely silver-haired French teacher in the days before the term MILF existed.  .... anyway, that works both ways is my point. 

So far it's mostly my beard that's going grey, the top is just shedding.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 12, 2014, 09:47:45 AM
Mark DOES look west-coastish, with good reason.  If he traveled much farther west, he'd be in salt water.

A distinguished looking fellow, fer sure.

This sounds familiar to me...my daughter once had a job at a trendy chain clothing store called "The Buckle", and the manager (a chubby nightmare stuffed into pink sweaters too small) once said her style didn't match the store, telling her she was "west coast casual".  This - from a lady who dressed like a fuzzy pink sausage...to my slender daughter who was 5'8", weighed about 135 pounds, and has always had a nice sense of dress.

We have been laughing about this and trying to figure out what it meant for years.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 12, 2014, 10:17:10 AM
Mark looks very Westcoastish on that pic. Vegan, liberal, second marriage to a yoga instructor, but immensely rich due to Apple stock. For the autumn of his life he could now get a real job with the Grateful Dead or offer breathing classes for bassists.

It's one of the benefits of being a guy that you don't have to dye your grey hair and chicks even dig it that you don't.

 I AM very West Coast, vegan.....not so much, tho I did the vegetarian thing for 3-4 years. No yoga, no second wife ( Miss Peacock co habits with me that's plenty!)  Seattle Lighting isn't the most generous employer, but it'll do. Thing about the hair is, that after a lot of years dying it, I finally just let it go last year, that and cutting it off into a USMC "High n Tight" = nothing but compliments from the ladyfolk ever since! Who knew?
 Makes wearing a wig lots easier too  8)


 "Craaaaaaaaabs ...on your oooooooooooorrr-gan

A fiery itch will not subside ...."



Priceless! Whoever said Germans have no sense of humor never met you, Uwe
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Lightyear on April 12, 2014, 12:01:48 PM
Uwe forgot - excellent posture and good teeth!  :P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 12, 2014, 02:19:24 PM
... you don't have to dye your grey hair and chicks even dig it that you don't.

... and unlike me, the only chrome polish he needs is for the herd... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 14, 2014, 08:12:24 AM
Uwe forgot - excellent posture and good teeth!  :P

I second, I second, absolutely true! But then in this day and age you can do a lot with photoshop - let's see how the real thing looks upon closer inspection in September/October.

Frau Kidman has just been turned from 46 to 16 in the new Jimmy Choo campaign, so much that even the fashion magazines splutter about it:

(http://cdn03.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/kidman-choo/nicole-kidman-jimmy-choo-campaign-02.jpg)

Or maybe it is her daughter.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on July 07, 2014, 05:00:25 PM
Greco birding ....

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/greco1_zpse961652c.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/greco3_zpsee030fe4.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on July 08, 2014, 08:16:45 AM
Shirtwise you have adopted a rather somber look, Mark!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on July 08, 2014, 01:23:18 PM

 From Seattle's Pride weekend, Friday night was cold, I wore a coat onstage and played my cheapie, it dealt with the cold on/off rain very well

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/pride201414_zps72e36caa.jpg)

 Saturday we played  out in the street (on Broadway, closed off) I used the Jackson as the weather had cleared up - there's a little video too.
It's not easy to make Seattle folks dance so I consider this an accomplishment!
 
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/pride201412_zps470010bf.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0CZu8kEE9Y

Sunday at Seattle Center ('62 World's Fair!) at the Mural Amphitheater, biggest stage and PA I've ever gotten to play thru. The supplied backline amp was an Eden World Tour 800 and matching 4x10 cab - it was meh.............

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/pride201413_zpsa6d83b2e.jpg)


Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on July 08, 2014, 01:29:49 PM
Supplied backline "shudder"  :P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on July 08, 2014, 02:09:45 PM

At that point in the weekend I was definitely glad it was there Scott, the load in for the show was easy because it was before 30,000 peeps showed up, I drove my car to the side of the stage and pulled out a bass and clothes bag! I couldn't leave my car nearby and would have had to move my amp about 4 blocks  post show thru the crowd.........Nope!
I didn't care for the WT800, but I figured by the time the sound came out that big PA it probably didn't matter as much as I thought. Several friends showed up including a couple fellow bassists - I asked them about how I sounded and they all thought it was good so......Still, I'm with ya, I prefer my own rig, if we play the event next year I may bring it.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on July 08, 2014, 04:08:09 PM
Shirtwise you have adopted a rather somber look, Mark!

Horses for courses - sometimes something somber fits the gig. On those occasions, I can accessorise with a sexy looking bass instead.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on July 10, 2014, 03:47:36 PM
White plays off very well against a black background... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on July 11, 2014, 07:15:37 AM
Here's a cool B&W with the bass in color that someone did.

(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/10325372_10202900775338911_3050866259939609491_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: SKATE RAT on July 12, 2014, 01:43:26 PM
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x120/yrofrat/1012723_10200837425070324_353858996_n.jpg) (http://s184.photobucket.com/user/yrofrat/media/1012723_10200837425070324_353858996_n.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on July 12, 2014, 03:34:24 PM
2012 shot...when Vintage Winds was still a surf band...rockin' the Gretsch 5213B.

(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Vintage%20Winds/16024_00366.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on July 12, 2014, 04:10:31 PM


 Nice Al!


I played one of those Gretsch(s) at Seattle GTG once, very cool bass!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on July 12, 2014, 04:12:13 PM
Unfortunately at our gig a couple of weeks ago, everybody thought that everyone else would take photos...we got bupkis for photos at that event.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: maxschrek on July 12, 2014, 07:02:12 PM
Nice B&W my buddy took at a recent Sir Army Suit gig. I'm using my 2003 LP in tobacco burst.

(http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w4/maxschrek/10306562_10202322977295641_6129997002904347223_n_zps5d8a213c.jpg) (http://s172.photobucket.com/user/maxschrek/media/10306562_10202322977295641_6129997002904347223_n_zps5d8a213c.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on July 12, 2014, 09:52:50 PM
Cool pics and basses!  Love that Les Paul.

Here's a pic from a recent gig with the Hamer...

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/0chromium0/forums/live/chase_96c.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: maxschrek on July 13, 2014, 07:41:36 AM
Chromium, there is nothing cooler than a single truss B8s!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on July 13, 2014, 01:39:20 PM
Chromium, there is nothing cooler than a single truss B8s!

I love that bass.  Had to sacrifice an old Leslie and Precision Bass to afford it.. but I'm thankful I took the plunge.  I've really gelled with that one.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on July 13, 2014, 02:49:59 PM
Sk8te... you just gotta ease up on the chillies in those burritos... :mrgreen:

As for all of the pictures...  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Houdini on July 15, 2014, 02:39:36 AM
Playing my Studio T-Bird at a recent gig near a small town in Bavaria.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on July 15, 2014, 11:05:20 AM


 Nice Studio!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on July 15, 2014, 02:08:23 PM
My guitard has that same Vox amp.  he loves it; I'm pretty m'eh about it.

Skate Rat, you sure can channel some Dee Dee.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: SKATE RAT on July 15, 2014, 04:01:10 PM
why thank you  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 02, 2014, 08:45:09 AM
Yesterday at the videoshoot with Definition Of Madmen

(https://scontent-a-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/q71/s720x720/10522750_601678899951319_6374532942780361930_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Nocturnal on August 02, 2014, 09:04:42 AM
Nice to see the 20/20 getting some action!! Looking forward to the new music Rob!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 02, 2014, 11:44:49 AM
Yeah it looks so brutal I just had to use it for the video. And as it happens I used it for the studio recordings too because it sounds the part!

The album release is due October 5th.
About two weeks prior the video will be online.
I'll keep you posted.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 02, 2014, 12:48:09 PM


 Great pic Rob!

Keep playing it - start a trend!  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 02, 2014, 01:16:02 PM
Haha yeah a trend that catches on 27 years too late! Better late than never  :mrgreen:

Here's another pic fron yesterday's shoot

(https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-0/10533263_601952793257263_1663596967943576587_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 02, 2014, 02:52:17 PM

 Everybody'll want one soon - time for an inaccurate Gibson reissue featuring a 3 point and TB Plus pups!


Great shot!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 02, 2014, 03:49:13 PM
Through-neck, of course...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: the mojo hobo on August 02, 2014, 04:11:23 PM
Haha yeah a trend that catches on 27 years too late! Better late than never  :mrgreen:

Here's another pic fron yesterday's shoot

(https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-0/10533263_601952793257263_1663596967943576587_n.jpg)

No drummer love here: Mr. Cymbal Head ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on August 02, 2014, 05:36:34 PM
Everybody'll want one soon - time for an inaccurate Gibson reissue featuring a 3 point and TB Plus pups!


Great shot!

LOL!

And a mahogany body with a roasted maple board dyed to look like ebony.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 02, 2014, 06:33:55 PM
 :toast:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: amptech on August 03, 2014, 03:08:33 AM

Here's another pic fron yesterday's shoot


You look great, it's nice to see proper jeans - I have had to bid on vintage jeans since the 516 model went out of production.

The Gibson 20/20 and the Levi's 516 are both excellent designs that sadly was unwanted in these modern times....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on August 03, 2014, 09:07:39 AM
You look great, it's nice to see proper jeans - I have had to bid on vintage jeans since the 516 model went out of production.

The Gibson 20/20 and the Levi's 516 are both excellent designs that sadly was unwanted in these modern times....

I solve that with an occasional pair of 501's.  I just have to find them on one heckuva sale, as I won't pay retail for jeans.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 03, 2014, 11:13:20 AM

 Levi's 511's rule!  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on August 03, 2014, 12:10:53 PM
At least I know the answer to "Do these jeans make by ass look fat?"

The answer.... "No, your ass makes your ass look fat."
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 03, 2014, 12:58:33 PM


 Wish I could gain a little weight in my ass - Girl clothes would look better  :-*
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Grog on August 03, 2014, 02:12:10 PM
Haha yeah a trend that catches on 27 years too late! Better late than never  :mrgreen:

Here's another pic fron yesterday's shoot

(https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-0/10533263_601952793257263_1663596967943576587_n.jpg)

Now that's the "Future of Awesome"! Move over Flying "V", there's a new old kid in town!  :toast:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on August 03, 2014, 05:07:22 PM
Everybody'll want one soon - time for an inaccurate Gibson reissue featuring a 3 point and TB Plus pups!

Or they might just use the Jazz bass pups from the RD reissue.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 04, 2014, 08:07:31 AM
Levi's 517 for me.

Rob, that bass actually looks good on you!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 04, 2014, 09:01:25 AM

 I have some skinny leg hipster ones too, I think they're 510's, kinda girlie  :P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 05, 2014, 09:51:26 AM
From hobbit-wielder to paddle-man, a transformation that has to be seen to be believed!  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 05, 2014, 10:33:54 AM
I used both for the recording of upcoming album.
Both have that natural compression of two humbuckers going on that i happen to like so much.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 06, 2014, 09:06:29 AM
It looks ultra-cool on you: Postmodern!

Sartorial elegance and a cool axe, why you must be this generation's Dave Hill!  :rimshot:

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/5141445/Slade_My_Friend_Stan
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on August 06, 2014, 11:10:46 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/463fb65a-90e0-4910-b039-cc124cae00dc_zps8d3c3778.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/463fb65a-90e0-4910-b039-cc124cae00dc_zps8d3c3778.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on August 06, 2014, 11:17:41 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/10171677_796602193686055_2193556886879157275_n_zps7b96dcd2.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/10171677_796602193686055_2193556886879157275_n_zps7b96dcd2.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/10154517_796602230352718_8665687304142785994_n1_zpsa61413e5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/10154517_796602230352718_8665687304142785994_n1_zpsa61413e5.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: planetgaffnet on August 06, 2014, 11:55:08 AM
Me a couple of weeks ago.  Yes, my midlife crisis arrived and I've bought a Rickenbacker.
P

(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10505409_10204200806882310_3796347238255307245_n.jpg?oh=4bd6591e6998f6082464b5d94d304d09&oe=545062BA)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on August 06, 2014, 02:10:00 PM
For midlife crises, Ricks are cheaper than Harleys - and safer.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 06, 2014, 03:01:19 PM
I'm planning to buy a coach for mine... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 06, 2014, 05:08:17 PM
Me a couple of weeks ago.  Yes, my midlife crisis arrived and I've bought a Rickenbacker.
P

(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10505409_10204200806882310_3796347238255307245_n.jpg?oh=4bd6591e6998f6082464b5d94d304d09&oe=545062BA)

 No midlife crisis there........Just much coolness!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 07, 2014, 01:07:04 AM
Agreed! Much coolness
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on August 07, 2014, 06:46:45 AM
Wonder what I'll do for my mid-life crisis, bought my first Ric at 20.  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 07, 2014, 10:20:47 AM
Wonder what I'll do for my mid-life crisis, bought my first Ric at 20.  ;)

Sell it?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: planetgaffnet on August 07, 2014, 10:37:59 AM
Cheers Mark/Bas.  I'm amazed how nice it is.  I'll probably use it intensely over the next few weeks then go back to my Thunderbird(s).
P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 07, 2014, 01:28:08 PM
And a proper sounding E-string!!!  :P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on August 07, 2014, 08:04:50 PM
Wonder what I'll do for my mid-life crisis, bought my first Ric at 20.  ;)
Sell it?

...and buy a BC Rich?

I, errm... know a guy who did this  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 08, 2014, 07:51:34 AM


...and buy a BC Rich?

I, errm... know a guy who did this  :mrgreen:

I know a guy who sold his first Ric to buy an alumi-Kramer. It's all good though. The Kramer is a fantastic fretless bass now and "he" has 3 other Rics that are all better than the first.  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 08, 2014, 09:40:23 AM
No knocking Lumi-Kramers here! Even though their E string isn't quite up there with a long scale either.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on August 12, 2014, 08:42:35 AM
Levi's 511's rule!  ;D

Yup.

Lookin good there Rob; canoe paddle on the beach - I see what you did there.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 14, 2014, 03:18:59 PM
No knocking Lumi-Kramers here! Even though their E string isn't quite up there with a long scale either.

Mine is "close enough" to long scale at 33-3/4''. The 20 fret necks were long, the 24 fret necks were short, though I don't know the exact measurement on those. I had an 8 string shorty for a while.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 15, 2014, 06:21:51 AM
The Ric or the Kramer?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 15, 2014, 07:37:44 AM
Kramer.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on August 15, 2014, 09:50:08 AM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/photo4_zps576d9186.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/photo4_zps576d9186.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/photo232_zps27df9e0f.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/photo232_zps27df9e0f.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/photo1_zpsc55a18b7.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/photo1_zpsc55a18b7.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/photo5_zps3b4c6f3e.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/photo5_zps3b4c6f3e.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 16, 2014, 08:03:46 AM
All those pics are the wrong way round, aren't they?  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 16, 2014, 05:30:40 PM
You lost a bit more, Ronn...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on August 17, 2014, 05:07:57 PM
You lost a bit more, Ronn...?

Yes, he lost the ironing board :-)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 18, 2014, 03:49:28 PM
Mark steamed in with a pressing engagement... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Rob on August 18, 2014, 04:37:40 PM
Mark steamed in with a pressing engagement... :mrgreen:

Kenny that was double good! 8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 19, 2014, 02:45:53 PM
I have moments...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 16, 2014, 06:34:47 PM
Here are a few shots of me in our vintage country band, 3 Chord Rodeo, with my '78 Guild B-301 and beloved Les Paul bass.  I bought the Guild from the original owner in California who is a guitarist that rarely used it, as it's pristine condition attests.  All I had to do was polish it up a bit and switch out the dorky original knobs with much cooler (and also correct) G shield ones.  It's all mahogany with a set neck, plays like a dream and sounds killer! --Greg 

(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/hp_zps09c4a1bc.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/hp_zps09c4a1bc.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/hp2_zpseee8b046.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/hp2_zpseee8b046.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/lp_zpseac4a614.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/lp_zpseac4a614.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/1_zpsb4c7fb57.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/1_zpsb4c7fb57.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/2_zps190e0fdf.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/2_zps190e0fdf.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/3_zps7265f5ea.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/3_zps7265f5ea.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/4_zps79528210.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/4_zps79528210.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/GShield_zps75ecce92.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/GShield_zps75ecce92.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on September 16, 2014, 07:03:48 PM
Both of them are VERY nice!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 16, 2014, 07:46:28 PM
Thanks, Pilgrim!  The LP is a little thicker sounding with slightly higher output while the Guild has that deep Gibson tone plus the midrange sparkle of a Jazz Bass.  With only one pickup I thought it would have more of a honky P-bass tone; thank goodness it doesn't--that's not my deal.  Both basses are strung with DR flats and honestly sound pretty darn similar live with a little EQ-ing.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 17, 2014, 06:03:55 AM
Those Guilds B-301s look cool, always have, always will.

Those oversize LPs are fine basses, but I'm not sure whether I prefer them to the regular LP size. Let's face it, a Les Paul belongs in the groin when played in erect mode!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 17, 2014, 06:41:34 AM
Ooooo, I can't wait to see Mark's response to THAT!   :popcorn:  I'm torn also, Uwe--I sure like the visual presence of the big LP body (thank goodness for weight relief), but there's no denying that the proportions of the regular version look better.  The pickups in particular look a little out of scale on the big boy.  I'd love to see a fully-bound Les Paul Custom version of this bass with all that sweet MOP inlay!  Maybe someday when I'm rich and famous I'll commission one...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 17, 2014, 07:56:56 AM
I have a big-butted Goldie just like yours!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJEa6xTu8
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 17, 2014, 08:39:01 AM
Wow, those were the days!  And those Laugh-In bikini dance clips are still hot I think. 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 17, 2014, 09:13:20 AM


 Very cool basses!

I've always thought B301s looked like a bass Gibson would have made - I mean that in a good way  :)

Les Paul oversized fits a big gurl best  ;)  I need to get one, but it'll probably mean selling a Bird. 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 17, 2014, 09:20:59 AM
I need to get one, but it'll probably mean selling a Bird.

Too bad you don't have one to spare! ;D  I'm sure deciding which one to let go of would be an agonizing decision--they're all special in some way.  Have you ever played an LP bass before, Mark? 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 17, 2014, 12:14:22 PM

 Long ago, the one designed for recording - that's what I was doing with it too. My Rick was a bit noisy for the studio engineer's taste.     
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 17, 2014, 01:43:14 PM
A different beast in every way.  The latest (and now discontinued) versions have a tone that's even more in-your-face than a T-Bird and aren't as much of a handful as you might think.  The only problem is that your fans might not recognize you without a T-Bird :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 17, 2014, 03:15:29 PM
That would be a drag...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on September 17, 2014, 03:28:29 PM
The only problem is that your fans might not recognize you without a T-Bird :mrgreen:

Of the many options relative to T-Birds, I think the Guild 301 and the Explorer are the two basses that would best visually complement Ms. Veronica!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 17, 2014, 06:18:30 PM
OR how 'bout the love child of those two basses: the seldom-seen Guild X-702, in black holoflake no less!!  It's basically a B-302 that got lost in space.  The scary thing is that I desperately want one!
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/tprrq7x3jj2dsglph0at_zps3d4465ed.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/tprrq7x3jj2dsglph0at_zps3d4465ed.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/o7sbulj9n3xjqgz2vd6u_zpse5837852.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/o7sbulj9n3xjqgz2vd6u_zpse5837852.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/pvecy3bya7dagynpufst_zps1d179b3d.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/pvecy3bya7dagynpufst_zps1d179b3d.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/lhdnokmqlcptgat9z6xs_zpsb94ac126.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/lhdnokmqlcptgat9z6xs_zpsb94ac126.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/gbencinxi9bzlf1d1kgh_zps15f78872.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/gbencinxi9bzlf1d1kgh_zps15f78872.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/IMG_2851_zps3d377798.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/IMG_2851_zps3d377798.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 17, 2014, 09:52:33 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Whoa! That's cool.

 It's proof Thunderbirds are like drag queens -  ................


Fill in the blank!  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 18, 2014, 03:49:33 AM
they'll mahog-any stage they're on? :rimshot:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 18, 2014, 06:37:18 AM
or, even with an asymmetrical body and a big beak, with the right G string you can still be fabulous?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 18, 2014, 06:53:17 AM
Those Guilds B-301s look cool, always have, always will.

+1.  Big regret I never got one of those way back when you could hardly give them away. 

OR how 'bout the love child of those two basses: the seldom-seen Guild X-702, in black holoflake no less!! 

How about nope?  :P  The black holoflake is ok though.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 18, 2014, 10:02:12 AM
OR how 'bout the love child of those two basses: the seldom-seen Guild X-702, in black holoflake no less!!  It's basically a B-302 that got lost in space.  The scary thing is that I desperately want one!
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/tprrq7x3jj2dsglph0at_zps3d4465ed.jpg)



Oh my, now you've started something, that doth look gorgeous. I do collect for shapes you know? On my bucket list now and you're to blame!!!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 18, 2014, 10:27:55 AM
The holoflake example above is for sale right now at Empire Guitars: http://empireguitarsri.com/shop/1983-guild-x-702-bass-black-sparkle

And there are two black ones on ebay right now that are a little rough, but just THINK of the refin possibilities! 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1981-Guild-X702-Bass-Guitar-w-Original-Hard-Case-/371128522123?pt=Guitar&hash=item5668fbd58b
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Guild-X702-1980s-Bass-/261382134972?pt=Guitar&hash=item3cdb96dcbc
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: OldManC on September 18, 2014, 10:37:42 AM
I'm surprised that holoflake model isn't already being packed for Germany as we speak.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on September 18, 2014, 11:42:21 AM
Wow, those sure have gone up in price. For years the X702s were going even cheaper than the B301/302.

Too weird for my taste.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 18, 2014, 12:32:21 PM
Yeah, as much as I love the outrageousness of them, I can't see myself getting on stage with one--especially in a classic country band.  Maybe a younger guy (or a leggy drag queen) could pull it off, but on me it would be the equivalent of a mullet and leather pants!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 18, 2014, 12:44:56 PM


 I think that's an effffffing cool bass, and would totally rock it!  People and their opinions about what "might" look good onstage are so much B.S., play what you please, life is too short  :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on September 19, 2014, 07:58:27 AM
Yeah, I've considered a 702. One in white would be nice. Looking at that shot of the back, a REVERSE 702 might be cool.  8) Or not...

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 19, 2014, 12:03:10 PM
I'm the "Online Sales Manager" at Strait Music here in Austin and last year I sold a bunch of Guilds from the '70s and '80s for a retired Guild sales rep.  Among them was this amazing X-79 that was handpainted(!) with mind-blowing black and yellow graphics, Stryper style.  Apparently the factory did a handful of these in a few different color combos to gauge dealer interest.  If it had been a bass it would be MINE!  The X-79's shape is the reverse of the X-702 so you can get an idea of what that might look like.  Oh yeah, and it was new old stock with the original hang tags!!  Went to a guy in Germany.

(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/042_zpsa640ac6a.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/042_zpsa640ac6a.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/2_zps0e30964e.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/2_zps0e30964e.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/4_zpse35d0b50.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/4_zpse35d0b50.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/6_zps6cd07407.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/6_zps6cd07407.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/7_zpsffd57d02.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/7_zpsffd57d02.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/8_zpsf3cf4d3e.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/8_zpsf3cf4d3e.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/10_zps52109659.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/10_zps52109659.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on September 19, 2014, 01:56:33 PM
Obviously it didn't stir enough interest among Guild dealers. There were plenty of wild things on the market back then, but I guess that's not what Guild dealers or buyers were looking for.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 19, 2014, 02:34:44 PM
Yep, that's about as un-traditional as it gets!  Plus it couldn't have been cost effective to mask and paint all those stripes by hand on the production model.  My photos don't do it justice--believe it or not, as wild looking as it was, it was beautiful in person.
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/1518848_10202918409065090_1250236886_o_zps08fced61.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/1518848_10202918409065090_1250236886_o_zps08fced61.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/1501110_10202918456786283_511724495_o_zpsf7a20173.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/1501110_10202918456786283_511724495_o_zpsf7a20173.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: finlover on September 19, 2014, 02:49:23 PM
Check THIS one out!  It's kind of "Dr. Suess meets Poison".  Suddenly the black and yellow seems pretty subdued. 
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/IMG_0002_zps7904a649.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/IMG_0002_zps7904a649.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/IMG_0001_zpsa7ecfbe7.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/IMG_0001_zpsa7ecfbe7.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/IMG_0003_zpsac89e03d.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/IMG_0003_zpsac89e03d.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/IMG_0023_zps41aa58b0.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/IMG_0023_zps41aa58b0.jpg.html)
(http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/pp40/finlover59/IMG_0012_zpsccac1426.jpg) (http://s395.photobucket.com/user/finlover59/media/IMG_0012_zpsccac1426.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 19, 2014, 03:48:57 PM
My eyes...! My eyes...!!! :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 19, 2014, 04:26:44 PM


 Those are cool, I had no idea they'd ever made anything like them!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: chromium on September 19, 2014, 09:50:58 PM
I remember the guy from Twisted Sister playing those X-79s

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/0chromium0/forums/ScreenShot2014-09-19at94058PM.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: mc2NY on September 21, 2014, 03:29:24 PM
Haha yeah a trend that catches on 27 years too late! Better late than never  :mrgreen:

Here's another pic fron yesterday's shoot

(https://fbcdn-photos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-0/10533263_601952793257263_1663596967943576587_n.jpg)

Cool pic!.....especially the Spinal Tap-ish cymbal placement over the drummer's face :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on September 21, 2014, 05:08:26 PM
I had a bit of acreage on stage on Saturday night for our Stones show.  Nice big club auditorium, over 500 tickets sold.  We had enough room to break out the fake Ampeg head and cab shells LOL

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/10661921_10152728826625763_7733856752498089648_o_zpsb8fe6d2d.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/10669214_10152728850865763_6845048102097196834_o_zps886c7edf.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202014/wentystage_zps98e464f7.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 24, 2014, 09:14:27 AM

 Cool shots Mark - I really like your trib band  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on September 24, 2014, 09:26:54 AM
Cool pic!.....especially the Spinal Tap-ish cymbal placement over the drummer's face :)

Haha, just before he spontaneously combusted
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on January 19, 2015, 09:47:07 AM
No-one been playing this game for a while, so here's an update:

17th October 2014 - Aberdeen Oxjam Takeover, The Tunnels, Aberdeen

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/20141017-tunnels-oxjam.jpg)

28th November 2014 - Cafe Drummond, Aberdeen

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/matt_live/20141128-drummonds.jpg)

Just getting in the mood for our first gig of 2015 on the 30th :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on January 19, 2015, 03:39:56 PM
No one but us will understand this but I remember twiddling with your knob, once upon a time... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on January 19, 2015, 04:24:27 PM
No one but us will understand this but I remember twiddling with your knob, once upon a time... ;)


  Little late in life to come out of the closet Kenny  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on January 20, 2015, 05:21:22 AM
No one but us will understand this but I remember twiddling with your knob, once upon a time... ;)

Heh, these go up (and down) to ... 5.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on January 21, 2015, 08:20:42 AM
I have an 8-ball to fit to the single pot on mine, once resurrected... courtesy of our swamp (swamp music) based cousin...

Little late in life to come out of the closet Kenny  ;)

... and there'd be Hell (miaow!) to pay for that... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on February 07, 2015, 01:59:03 AM
Me sporting my first series BaCHbird.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/10482271_796919093715892_7872038644680119567_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: amptech on February 07, 2015, 02:05:23 AM
Good pic! Gotta get myself a white marshall someday....
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: steveonbass on February 07, 2015, 06:16:09 AM
Your guitar player has a Daniel Lanois thing going on.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on March 02, 2015, 08:21:18 AM
For once this winter there wasn't a crushing blizzard on a Sunday night. So here I am at an open mic with my Casady and a ladies bathroom sign goatee  :o
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/Group%20Bass%20Photo/photo_zpsdhdjowth.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/Group%20Bass%20Photo/photo_zpsdhdjowth.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on March 02, 2015, 03:19:15 PM
Old farts trying to rock out.  A night without wigs for us, playing our originals ( www.thevolts.com.au )

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202015/10376920_846395852091450_2899864851028725381_n_zpsem95mfel.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Droombolus on March 07, 2015, 02:31:00 AM
Blues-rocking at the National Old Timer Day ( what's in a name  ;D ) last june.......

(http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Foto-PKCXSNLR-D.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on March 07, 2015, 06:52:00 AM
Nice burst on that SG reissue, Martin!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Droombolus on March 07, 2015, 09:42:59 AM
Yup. Uwe's fave colors  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on March 08, 2015, 05:17:22 PM
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202015/bridge%20hotel%20full%20band_zpsa7a4ifjd.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202015/bridge%20hotel%20Tim_zpsccelsled.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on March 09, 2015, 06:23:35 AM
Here's one with Johnny Rivers:

(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh80/dpdp/jr_zpsaxvgp86e.png)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on March 09, 2015, 09:10:09 AM


 Great shot David, that's such a beautiful Thunderbird!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on March 09, 2015, 09:12:05 AM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on March 10, 2015, 11:10:58 AM
Yup. Uwe's fave colors  ;D

Scharz-Rot-Gold!

Even the horizon has it at dawn:

(https://deutscherfreigeist.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/schwarz-rot-gold-sonnenaufgang.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on April 04, 2015, 04:57:24 PM
My sincerest apologies for complete lack of Gibson content here.

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/500SFK_zpsnph2zipe.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/500SFK_zpsnph2zipe.jpg.html)

Every year we play an event called 500 Songs For Kids, a great organization and we love being asked to participate.  500 different bands over multiple weekends perform one song each.  Songs are selected for each band a month before the show and this year we were assigned Buddy Holly by Weezer and decided to dress the part.  Aside from being stuck playing a rented jazz bass it was a pretty good night!  ;D

https://www.songsforkidsfoundation.org/
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on January 04, 2016, 01:14:43 PM
This has gone awfully quiet, hasn't it?  New year, more pics please!

Here we are at my birthday bash, I'm playing my Epi Les Paul (Not so) Standard and we're all grinning like idiots ;)

(http://www.ifb.co.uk/~matthew/pics/teaspoons/20160102%20Tunnels/smiley_spoons.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on January 04, 2016, 02:49:32 PM
We're recording new songs with Definition Of Madmen.

Here's a pic from last week during pre-production
(http://moonmusic.eu/sites/default/files/foto_2.JPG)


And these two were taken today in between recording sessions for drums and bass.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtf1/v/t1.0-9/12507382_10208121388377497_714413350830966187_n.jpg?oh=b31275d9a9c60ecd1deaeb18b9936961&oe=570F7609&__gda__=1460333729_5a71f6d63dc7803c06deb71cde1bb6f5)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10644464_10208121388457499_8813320739741737598_n.jpg?oh=96e68f0d0724708004c0a7ab4ab5ed66&oe=571AE94E&__gda__=1459892011_622864aaa0ab281ddce73a920f4d38e2)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on January 04, 2016, 04:06:35 PM
Rob... playing a Thunderbird...? :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on January 04, 2016, 05:04:05 PM

 Pretty sure it's a Greco - Nice bass!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on January 04, 2016, 11:47:05 PM
Indeed it's my trusted Greco.
I've been using this bass (along with the Gibson Les Paul Bass) on several studio recordings with Superfloor and Definition Of Madmen.
It has a great growly tone.
For the recordings we did yesterday, I strung her up with 70 - 135 for drop C tuning. Heavy!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Alanko on January 05, 2016, 03:52:39 AM
Nice to see a Mellotron in that studio!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 05, 2016, 05:06:19 AM
My sincerest apologies for complete lack of Gibson content here.

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/500SFK_zpsnph2zipe.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/500SFK_zpsnph2zipe.jpg.html)

Every year we play an event called 500 Songs For Kids, a great organization and we love being asked to participate.  500 different bands over multiple weekends perform one song each.  Songs are selected for each band a month before the show and this year we were assigned Buddy Holly by Weezer and decided to dress the part.  Aside from being stuck playing a rented jazz bass it was a pretty good night!  ;D

https://www.songsforkidsfoundation.org/

Gibson or not, the matching cardigans make more than up for it.  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on January 06, 2016, 02:04:26 PM
I forget if I've posted this before... but if you're going to fight off a ceiling-mounted shark at the club, you need a bass with some heft to it.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Eqamulp6MOX5MU_hrjOFIyddp4j40rK59MYEu_S03IodqiyPqKS1-8iaQqY-Xldbp3ML3JxSjcHaLXg9C6NscZArXvAcjT5rCLBTtyD_9cIY0SEDZzZPqoC2l9V65XTXcSY-d44PUq5ksun-3CWrTzdNZFjzO9CbG0ys6HiQb4WmyBx6nPWJis_jaaOx_uaTGTp5kjLexpPxShkQID2ymNPBI4Vf1aiuDpH-hCi1zc_X8cFuobrOPdFcSvgRO1fBx22uoP9l46lU7q2AmDo7gXsK8Dz0aW0XA7woG28bbrg0fLaKwfurVC0qJAsT0e7QFEYOTbmGdLSaZ4H8KVO7flgK0L1xO7kWpVFz8rSvD8pk5yOEckPwypXja_SEVfogJzD98JqPH8Qyp6UD2ydWbmfTsy6AJWdc28ufo9Y4IGwUN5fcbR_7LE2RuxTcqNGMGvRG8aeuHD5NJVMhsX-ghTQ6teY7kYQkKg9u3ptqTw_oVjDI5aF-HTBMsAO62gLPRpfJi0n92-cWnov4Q8eafhC9h3hRkNAICam1CHFoYyb-bO_6LvwhT48Qg0z5QWWd9LmM=w986-h739-no)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on January 15, 2016, 07:41:33 AM
Last night.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/FullSizeRender%201_zps7wiitp8u.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/FullSizeRender%201_zps7wiitp8u.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 15, 2016, 08:44:37 AM
That's a nice bass; whatsit?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on January 15, 2016, 08:47:42 AM
That's a nice bass; whatsit?

Schecter Baron -H
The base model for Dug Pinnick's new sig bass.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/7172e8c0-9555-43c5-91c6-7631c03186d8_zps6q7xlm2o.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/7172e8c0-9555-43c5-91c6-7631c03186d8_zps6q7xlm2o.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 15, 2016, 11:00:22 AM
Nice/thx.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 15, 2016, 12:41:53 PM
A king's axe so to say.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: planetgaffnet on January 17, 2016, 05:25:30 AM
Me on 9th January.  Sporting some apres-Christmas poundage @Readipop Live, Reading, Berkshire, UK.  Thunderbird Gothic.
P

(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/12507459_10208271132517907_8535528606242864538_n.jpg?oh=563a7b64a10826744d850235cfe25f3c&oe=574083B0)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: nofi on January 17, 2016, 08:42:42 AM
just think of your gut as a bass cozy. ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 18, 2016, 05:52:32 AM
I only see muscle.

And apart from that: Who says you can't rock with a nice gut?

(http://www.deanguitars.com/molly_hatchet/molly_hatchet_group.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on January 22, 2016, 02:57:48 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/c11995fe-d25a-4dd3-a92e-d636a68a75bb_zpso1spvarh.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/c11995fe-d25a-4dd3-a92e-d636a68a75bb_zpso1spvarh.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on January 23, 2016, 10:01:50 AM
A Beatles formation dance at a senior home garden party, way cool!!!   ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLy1xWJQ4ic
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: veebass on January 25, 2016, 12:10:23 PM
Here's a couple with the band. My son is on guitar.
Apologies for lack of Gibson bass content, but my son is playing his mirror Explorer.

(http://i64.tinypic.com/19o4y.jpg)

(http://i63.tinypic.com/2iue54p.jpg)

(http://i67.tinypic.com/15fhaj8.jpg)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on January 25, 2016, 12:30:40 PM
I've posted before with my Thunderbird but here's one with the fretless Embassy:
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh80/dpdp/epi/11208648_10153330190463945_570614053113411936_n_zps8vqdjwc4.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 25, 2016, 01:13:13 PM
That is a beautiful bass.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on January 25, 2016, 01:20:49 PM
Thanks. I'm pretty partial to it. I actually like the look much more in black/white than the transparent red myself (subjective, I know - I had another before that was unaltered). Also sounds GREAT as a fretless. I've considered fretting it but can't bring myself to do it.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 25, 2016, 01:28:21 PM
It's what I ask every bassist in any Cash cover band I come across - why u no got Embassy?

Anyway, I think they look hot - classic and understated - in any colour I've seen them in.  The black is a refreshing departure from the usual cherry though.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 999 on January 25, 2016, 01:54:20 PM
I saw one years ago in San Francisco that was in the Epi yellow (Sunset Yellow?) - pretty much Gibson TV yellow IIRC - beautiful looking bass. Pity the neck was twisted on it though.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on January 25, 2016, 03:47:54 PM
Fretless... fascinating... 8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on February 13, 2016, 04:11:32 PM
(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/P2100550_zpsomdcy8sw.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/P2100550_zpsomdcy8sw.jpg.html)

Clearly Im busy reading the setlist taped taped to the floor.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 13, 2016, 04:33:27 PM
I hope all that mojo's original 'cos it looks ver' cool...

Me and the PC at a recent rehearsal... now presently dormant due to offshore commitments from the drummer, who took the pic...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Hörnisse on February 13, 2016, 04:36:51 PM
Here is one circa 1978.  8) 

(http://i67.tinypic.com/j14vlz.jpg)

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on February 14, 2016, 03:14:31 PM
Nothing but 50 years of honest player wear including a re-attached headstock. The original owner had a heavey handed pick technique that caused most of the damage, the rest is just the bumps and bruises of life.  It may not be as pretty as some but its a great player and I dont have to feel guilty taking it out on the road   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on February 15, 2016, 03:01:51 PM
 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: leftybass on March 18, 2016, 01:10:18 PM
This week:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/787c2eb1-881b-4170-be50-55e5ea2ff2b3_zpsmbmfk3tx.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/787c2eb1-881b-4170-be50-55e5ea2ff2b3_zpsmbmfk3tx.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on April 06, 2016, 11:42:59 PM
Last night - photo and video session for our new side project - 60's R&B, soul, Motown, girl bands etc.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202016/Vinyl%20Beats%20band%20bw%20large_zpsond3aikh.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 07, 2016, 08:17:14 AM
Lookin slick Mark!

(just glad it's not the bad acid trip mismatched plaid/paisley suits again ;P)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 07, 2016, 09:06:47 AM
Looking very nice, indeed!

The suit and sunglasses look has something really classic about it.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 07, 2016, 02:54:00 PM
Totally threw me there... thought the guitarist to the right was a young Jeff Beck, and didn't spot you with that P at all... 8)

(he's from your Stones tirb, yes...?)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on April 07, 2016, 03:49:53 PM
Totally threw me there... thought the guitarist to the right was a young Jeff Beck, and didn't spot you with that P at all... 8)

(he's from your Stones tirb, yes...?)

Yep - other than the girl it is our Stones tribute core personnel.  "Mick Jagger" with the Strat, "Ronnie Wood" with the Casino.  They're brothers, and that's "Ronnie Wood's" girlfriend on vocals.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 07, 2016, 04:58:31 PM


 Looks like a lot of fun Mark - Everyone in the band looks sharp, no flip flops and cargo pants  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on April 18, 2016, 04:17:24 PM
Alternative look at the same session we took the photo earlier on this page ....

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/The%20Vinyl%20Beats/boys%20bw%20ampeg2_zpsfhxlckgi.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 18, 2016, 04:48:31 PM
Love that bass; been a while since we've seen it.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Rob on April 18, 2016, 06:32:22 PM
Love that bass; been a while since we've seen it.
Yeah it has. . . are you using it on this project as a primary Mark?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on April 18, 2016, 08:36:14 PM
Yeah it has. . . are you using it on this project as a primary Mark?

Yes - it will share time with the surf green Nash in the earlier photo.  Because of the horrendously honky nasal tone when the tone knob is opened up at all on AEB-1's, they have one usable sound only - fat, warm, thump ... so it's perfect for this sixties stuff.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 18, 2016, 11:49:05 PM
You need a nice paisley, and I don't mean a bass... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 19, 2016, 04:51:30 AM
Don't encourage him; he's finally tastefully dressed on stage.  As if Scots are ones to give advise about combining busy patterns in one's wardrobe anyhow.   I heard that's what happenned to Noddy Holder - he took a Scotsman's fashion advice.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 19, 2016, 01:48:51 PM
(http://www.shropshirestar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/15820605.jpg)  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 20, 2016, 04:57:02 AM
A heartwarming sight, our Uncle Noddy.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: nofi on April 20, 2016, 05:20:14 AM
grandma noddy!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 20, 2016, 11:51:22 AM
True!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 20, 2016, 12:43:21 PM
I thought it was a Dickensian thing he was going for - like a jolly anti-Scrooge.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: nofi on April 20, 2016, 02:35:43 PM
at last, from the archives. granny gremlin!

http://www.freakingnews.com/Napoleon-Playing-the-Electric-Guitar-Pictures-96955.asp
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on April 20, 2016, 03:26:53 PM
at last, from the archives. granny gremlin!

http://www.freakingnews.com/Napoleon-Playing-the-Electric-Guitar-Pictures-96955.asp


Crikey! It's a Tele.....ugh!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 20, 2016, 03:29:03 PM
Not tonight, Veronica... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on April 20, 2016, 04:38:44 PM
That's Noddy Holder? I thought it was Professor Irwin Corey!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 21, 2016, 09:37:55 AM
That's Noddy Holder? I thought it was Professor Irwin Corey!

That would be his other brother, Non-Darrell.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 21, 2016, 03:26:17 PM
Noddy hasn't changed much, no one would ever mistake him with handsome, these days he doesn't look as unsettling anymore.

(http://opinioncenter.li/static/b80451970ccdc929bc4a707688ce4ce6.jpg)

(https://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/11/15/1384540748784/Noddy-Holder-in-tartan-wa-010.jpg)

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/45/8e/5e/458e5edc92ea7a8b9e711a3fbd14624c.jpg)

He was probably the most unlikely teen idol since Gene Vincent.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on April 21, 2016, 03:54:04 PM
He was probably the most unlikely teen idol since Gene Vincent.

More unlikely than Jimmy Saville?

(http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00529/9edea19c-9e57-11e3-_529036b.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zYaBIvZAqKs/VOTwpD6upNI/AAAAAAAACA4/Kk19tgVTmGA/s1600/vlcsnap-2015-02-18-19h59m50s30.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 21, 2016, 06:17:04 PM
Jimmy, a great friend of youth of all ages, didn't sing.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Alanko on April 22, 2016, 04:22:33 AM
Noddy has turned into Germaine Greer...

(http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2014/05/15/18/Germaine-Greer.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 22, 2016, 05:21:52 AM
Jimmy, a great friend of youth of all ages, didn't sing.

And here, gentlmen, we have an exquisite example of dark German humour.  Obviously designed to create a furher furor.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 22, 2016, 05:42:43 AM
More of a sour smirk than a furor really.

What Saville did was wrong on too many accounts, but erasing him out of history (not showing the 70ies clips where he appeared etc) is wrong. If you did that to everyone within rock'n'roll/pop of the last half-century, I have a hunch we'd be severely thinning out the ranks (let's not even begin to talk about artists in centuries before). It's like Dave Holland, drummer of formerly Trapeze and Judas Priest, who is written out of rock history (his drum tracks even being erased on a Tony Iommi solo album) because he did time for drum pupil molesting (the drum pupil being both a minor and mentally challenged). If he was breaking the law at one point in his life (pun semi-intended), then fine, send him to prison, but don't act like he never existed because he has this black cloud (this pun fully intended) hovering over him.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 22, 2016, 06:17:23 AM
The joke wouldn't have workled as well that way.

Of course, I was not implying that we attempt any such erasure... rather I'd  suggest that we take every opportunity, i.e. whenever he comes up, to remind everyone of what a horrible human being he was, and even more importantly, that he was repeatedly enabled by the institutions he was a part of - because those places and people still exist/are alive and are still a problem.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on April 22, 2016, 10:55:06 AM
And here, gentlmen, we have an exquisite example of dark German humour.  Obviously designed to create a furher furor.

I see what you did there.

And I APPROVE!!

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/66/3a/72/663a72b6ddff05e2e93bb762e9cebd84.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on April 22, 2016, 12:17:44 PM
And here, gentlmen, we have an exquisite example of dark German humour.  Obviously designed to create a furher furor.

Himmel, now I get it, you meant to say führer or fuhrer (not furher), now that is funny!  :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

(https://media4.giphy.com/media/FqDGtw4vOaJCE/200.gif)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Alanko on April 22, 2016, 12:49:11 PM
This is how I feel most of the time on gear forums:

(http://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/69526-Angry-Baby.jpg)

The hair is about right!  :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 22, 2016, 02:45:22 PM
More than me... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on April 22, 2016, 03:59:50 PM
Himmel, now I get it, you meant to say führer or fuhrer (not furher), now that is funny!  :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Dammit, I didn't even notice my typo for the strikethrough.

... anywho, we had the same guitars and similar enough amp in the jam space already; one thing led to another and:
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/19cc9e55b2429a92737a760ddedd792c/tumblr_o62940dbEj1unxz8do1_1280.jpg) (https://40.media.tumblr.com/081f306873f3e28a3bd18462c19cde34/tumblr_o62940dbEj1unxz8do3_400.jpg)

(https://40.media.tumblr.com/88f37357a3b0473ef4a9225cdf24ba7b/tumblr_o62940dbEj1unxz8do2_540.jpg)
(https://41.media.tumblr.com/ead11654cdc05984b09f98a086938893/tumblr_o62940dbEj1unxz8do5_400.jpg) (https://40.media.tumblr.com/6514c934efe24104b8468518d0b02a0b/tumblr_o62940dbEj1unxz8do4_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: drbassman on April 23, 2016, 10:16:29 AM
I hope all that mojo's original 'cos it looks ver' cool...

Me and the PC at a recent rehearsal... now presently dormant due to offshore commitments from the drummer, who took the pic...

Just saw this Kenny, very nice looking in action!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on April 23, 2016, 03:00:03 PM
Presently dormant again... drummer joined another project due to guitarist with far too many other commitments... :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on May 28, 2016, 05:32:30 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/13316797_10209266971579641_5479051209527212046_o.jpg)

Matthijs and me having a conversation 8)
First gig in over six months.
We had a blast.
(the cap is my son's)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 29, 2016, 04:49:17 AM
Ah yes, the first signs of Cap'n Greybeard arriving... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on May 29, 2016, 05:22:55 AM
Yep.
Bald. Grey. And Fat.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on May 29, 2016, 03:22:01 PM
Oi...! Stop talking about me...! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on May 29, 2016, 05:53:50 PM
You know you're old when your sons start turning gray.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Droombolus on May 30, 2016, 07:03:34 AM
Tell me about it ! Oh wait ................ you just did !  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on June 19, 2016, 12:05:50 PM
Yesterday at the reunion gig with Superfloor.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xat1/t31.0-8/13475136_1011076102301418_1630562979954239558_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on June 19, 2016, 09:13:53 PM
Great pic, Rob.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on June 20, 2016, 07:48:43 AM
One photogenic beardo
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on June 20, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
Haha thanx Jake.
Not my happiest looking pic.
We had a horrible sound crew on stage. With floor wedges that went totally out of control over at my side. Hence the tormented look...  :-[
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on June 20, 2016, 10:14:27 AM
I just thought you were concentrating.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on June 20, 2016, 10:31:09 AM
Yep, trying hard to focus on my part, while all I could hear was LEAD VOCAL blaring out of my floor monitors, way over the pain limit  :mrgreen:

Nevertheless, I'm happy to finally have a pic of me on stage with the fake Gibson.  :toast:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on June 20, 2016, 03:16:12 PM
This you back working with Mrs Basvarken or is she still touring with the trib act...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on June 20, 2016, 05:14:27 PM
It's so refreshing to see a hipster beard that isn't combined with 3/4 length chinos and boat shoes (although the photo isn't full length, so maybe I'm wrong! LOL)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on June 20, 2016, 11:00:32 PM
This you back working with Mrs Basvarken or is she still touring with the trib act...?

This was a one off band reunion gig.  ;)

It's so refreshing to see a hipster beard that isn't combined with 3/4 length chinos and boat shoes (although the photo isn't full length, so maybe I'm wrong! LOL)
Haha, just jeans and plain sneakers. Is that hipster enough?  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on August 01, 2016, 11:09:17 AM
We headed in to the studio this past Saturday to start tracking for our next project.  We used our drummers home studio this time around with a little help from an engineer friend.   I'll have to post some audio clips once we get it closer to complete.

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/20160730_113759_resized_zpsgd6tiezs.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/20160730_113759_resized_zpsgd6tiezs.jpg.html)

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/13901545_10153858964472075_6226883876804747547_n_zpsodi1dnux.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/13901545_10153858964472075_6226883876804747547_n_zpsodi1dnux.jpg.html)

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/13914157_10153858964312075_8688444844539619921_o_zpskufjlzj1.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/13914157_10153858964312075_8688444844539619921_o_zpskufjlzj1.jpg.html)

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/20160730_111226_resized_zpseajeh5ll.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/20160730_111226_resized_zpseajeh5ll.jpg.html)

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/20160730_082958_resized_zpsrgqq8nud.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/20160730_082958_resized_zpsrgqq8nud.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 01, 2016, 11:48:27 AM


 I certainly approve of your excellent taste in bass guitars!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 01, 2016, 12:39:11 PM
+1

Simply the two best bass guitars in the world. (as far as I am concerned ;) )
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 02, 2016, 02:57:50 PM
Nice... 8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Aussie Mark on August 02, 2016, 05:51:56 PM
Playing our Brian Jones era Stones tribute at The 27 Club last week

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202016/13912779_261254354260219_391669754342138866_n_zpsmp2mb2fn.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on August 03, 2016, 09:59:37 AM

 Great shot Mark! That looks like a really fun show.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on August 05, 2016, 09:31:16 AM
Yesterday at the reunion gig with Superfloor.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xat1/t31.0-8/13475136_1011076102301418_1630562979954239558_o.jpg)

What is Charles Bradley's pic doing in the background?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltR3PVPV8Do

There it is again, that SB 300.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 05, 2016, 10:43:16 PM
That also looks like Rob in the bottom left of that pic... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Droombolus on August 06, 2016, 07:12:14 AM
Rob's the new Jerry Garcia ......... people see him everywhere ........  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 06, 2016, 07:51:32 AM
What is Charles Bradley's pic doing in the background?


That puzzled me too. Somehow the organisation of that festival thought it was a good idea to have posters in the background with Charles Barkley, Van Morrison, Jan Akkerman and Mick Jagger. A rather eclectic selection if you ask me (And awkward even, because Jan Akkerman was on the bill too).

A few days beforehand they asked us if we had pictures that we would like to have projected as a background. So we sent them a picture of the backdrop we used to hang up at gigs. Thinking it would be projected all across the background of the stage. Little did we know it was just some sort of tv screen hanging behind our drummer.
In my opinion that makes the chaos in the background with all the posters even worse.  :o
It was indicative for entire vibe of the festival. All done with the best of intentions, but rather amateuristic altogether.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 07, 2016, 09:59:36 AM
What's the Dutch for c'est la vie or so ist das leben...? ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on August 07, 2016, 11:59:37 AM
Zoë is ut leave!
(Waat kan ut geave)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 09, 2016, 02:03:25 PM
Bedankt :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on September 16, 2016, 06:00:00 AM
Soundcheck, I never know what to play when the soundman says "now some bass"

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/14317502_10100347919280742_3032919787962429197_n_zpsuk4alsc0.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/14317502_10100347919280742_3032919787962429197_n_zpsuk4alsc0.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 16, 2016, 06:21:18 AM
Soundcheck, I never know what to play when the soundman says "now some bass"

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/14317502_10100347919280742_3032919787962429197_n_zpsuk4alsc0.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/14317502_10100347919280742_3032919787962429197_n_zpsuk4alsc0.jpg.html)

 :thumbsup: 

Love that bass!

 I have the same problem at soundcheck, somehow, recently all I can launch into is Nirvana's "Come as you are", where that's coming from, I don't know  :P 

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: godofthunder on September 16, 2016, 07:20:49 AM
  I make it easy and just do eighth notes on the E till he says ok and tells me to stop. I'll give 'em more if they ask.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on September 16, 2016, 07:51:05 AM
I play the chorus from Calling Dr. Love a lot. Lately been doing Lucy in the Sky.  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 20, 2016, 09:16:05 AM
I play Daddy Cool until someone laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebdc4Px5cDo
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 20, 2016, 01:02:07 PM
Suppose they don't laugh...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 20, 2016, 01:17:21 PM
That's actually a surprisingly non-disco bassline.  Coulda been a post-punk song.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 20, 2016, 01:21:05 PM
... but I'm pre-punk... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: ilan on September 21, 2016, 03:29:17 AM
I do some jazz blues walking bass line, in either G or F. I don't know why, that is what usually comes out of me when they say 'play some bass'. Man, I'm boring. How did that happen?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 21, 2016, 09:22:36 AM
That's actually a surprisingly non-disco bassline.  Coulda been a post-punk song.

When punk and disco had a baby, they called it new wave dance pop.

When I'm asked to soundcheck a backing voc mic and play bass, this is what I start with ... always has people smiling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN9mjccJ8z4


Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 21, 2016, 09:44:31 AM
When punk and disco had a baby, they called it new wave dance pop.


Nein, my friend.  Punk was officially a subgenre of New Wave (it was only later that New Wave came to represent synth pop to the exclusion of Punk or anything sans keyboards; as someone who claims to have been an avid NME reader back then you should remember that).  When Punk and Disco had a baby, obviously it involved a lot of drugs.... it was a fugly damn baby.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on September 21, 2016, 12:28:28 PM
I always thought the term "punk" predated the term "new wave", but turns out it's not so.  The history is rather muddled... as usual, etymology is fluid and depends on who you ask. The Wikipedia page is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_wave_music

And of course this all reminds me of this, from "The Decline of Western Civilization" (the first one):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn-ggwkLZO8
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: exiledarchangel on September 21, 2016, 02:37:52 PM
IMHO this is what happens 9 months after a drunk punk stick it to a disco chick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ia3baO8qHQ
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on September 22, 2016, 07:54:20 AM
I didn't hear the term New Wave until well after I heard of punk in the summer of '77. I was reading Creem, Hit Parader, and eventually Circus. Maybe they weren't hip to the terminology?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on September 22, 2016, 09:58:23 AM
I didn't hear the term New Wave until well after I heard of punk in the summer of '77. I was reading Creem, Hit Parader, and eventually Circus. Maybe they weren't hip to the terminology?

Same here. I don't care what Wikipedia says.

Creem writers knew all the terminology and in some cases originated it.  Dave Marsh was first to use the term "punk rock music" -- referring to ? and the Mysterians -- and in the same issue, Mike Saunders was first to use the term "heavy metal music" referring to Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 22, 2016, 10:50:08 AM
It was more of a British vs an American thing from what I have gatherred.  The scene self-referenced that way at least some of the time, and the commentators definitely referred it that way.  I wager Kickboy in that vid up there is mostly right however.

There was a pic of cool chart of Brit punk band membership from the late 70s in the liner notes of RamoneswMania (for some weird reason).  It was by some major Punk historianand the title was something like Diagram of the New Wave.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: wellREDman on September 22, 2016, 11:38:42 AM
as I knew it and used it back then New Wave was definitely after punk,

it  was the term they/we used to distance themselves from the increasingly thuggy thing that punk became.

 before the new wave moniker stuck they had tried post-punk and positive punk both of which were too much of a mouthful

 I always understood it as new wave (of punk)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on September 22, 2016, 02:25:52 PM
Kim Wilde didn't warn us that a new wave was coming until 1982. Especially if you were in "East California"  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 22, 2016, 05:38:01 PM
as I knew it and used it back then New Wave was definitely after punk,

With all due respect wellREDman, you're even younger than me (and supposedly, well red, as opposed to well read which is something entirely more repectable ;P ... wait, I wonder if that means the same thing over there) and the term was coined before both our births (which in your case was itself "definitely after punk," n'est pas? so you could not have heard it earlier); inarguably the meaning drifted a bit over time.

There was a pic of cool chart of Brit punk band membership from the late 70s in the liner notes of RamoneswMania (for some weird reason).  It was by some major Punk historianand the title was something like Diagram of the New Wave.

So I remembered wrong - it was in the liner notes of Generation X - Perfect Hits (Billy Idol was actually really good at one point) not Ramonesmania (which makes so much more sense, but the error is excusable as both feature a colage of band paraphernalia on a yellow background).

It's by Pete Frame (writer for Sounds, NME, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone; founder/editor of Zig Zag; A&R man for  B&C Charisma Records), dated 1977.  Also the title is cut off (I have seen the full thing somewhere but I can't seem to find it with a quick google just now) but he does refer to the first wave of London Punk as "New Wave" music mutliple times in the sidebars that are visible around the tree diagram.


See the first sentences in both the  bottom middle and left side paragraphs:

(http://grannygremlin.com/NewWaveChart/INewWaveChart2.jpg)

(http://grannygremlin.com/NewWaveChart/INewWaveChart1.jpg)

(http://grannygremlin.com/NewWaveChart/INewWaveChart3.jpg)


Also, I just remembered that there is the line from I'm so Bored of the USA from the Clash's first record (predates any form of synth pop, but not electronic music generally) that goes "I'll salute the new wave, and hope nobody escapes," which seems to be somewhat in line with Kickboy's feelings on the matter.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 23, 2016, 05:19:02 AM
I read the NME and Melody Maker (Sounds was more difficult to get in Germany for some reason) religiously from 1976 on to up about 1979: The term punk came first (in their use), but it pretty quickly became reserved for bands with spiky hair (Ramones were a honorary exemption), safety pins and buzzsaw guitar playing. Anything else that wasn't old school (or BOF for boring old farts = 90% of what was visibly and audibly inspired by the early 70ies music scene) became to be lumped in with "New Wave" (which then spawned the New Romantics movement, bands like Japan, Visage, Ultravox and early Duran Duran), i.e. acts as diverse as Blondie, Talking Heads, Suicide, Tom Robinson Band, Television, Lena Lovich, Joe Jackson, Thomas Dolby, Elvis Costello, Toyah (now the wife of that proto-punk Robert Fripp), Stranglers (initially referred to as punk, but true punks hated them), The Jam (initially qualified as punk too, but they didn't fit the mold either), The Police (bottled off at a German festival opening for Dire Straits and Barclay James Harvest as being "punks"), yes, even Kim Wilde or The Cars and The Knack, The Romantics or The Tourists (pre-Eurythmics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTIuNikq4w

or bands with a Frank Zappa background and a prog rock (UK, the band) pedigree like these guys (and gals) here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV6lfplh0HM

Basically the differentiation was: If you didn't wear flares and didn't have long hair, you were New Wave. And a certain way to move about or dance (the way Annie Lennox did in the Tourist vid, neither Linda Ronstadt nor Suzi Quatro would have moved and looked that way).

Speaking of the Tom Robinson Band, a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGrnEc_3mYo

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 23, 2016, 06:48:08 AM
The term punk came first (in their use), but it pretty quicky became reserved for bands with spiky hair (Ramones were a honorary exemption) and buzzsaw guitar playing. Anything else that wasn't old school (or BOF for boring old farts = 90% of what was visibly and audibly inspired by the early 70ies music scene) became to be lumped in with "New Wave"

I wouldn't doubt this.  Obviously the Punk movement, being a diverse movement rather than a genre (something defined by aesthetic rules), presented certain problems for journalists.  It was easier to relegate the term Punk to something easily defined, and lump everything else into some other random catagory.  However, I still think Kickboy up there has a very good point.  Some journalists and other users of the term undertood all this and did use them somewhat interchangeably, at least until the second wave of American Punk (i.e. Hardcore and it's immediate predecessors, which is still what most people think of when the word Punk is thrown around today, but despite this modern usage, it can hardly be considered accurate, and indeed it is not unanimous, and I have seen it being walked back quite a bit in the last 5-10 years).

Also, major LOL at that Tourists vid.  Of course I remember hearing that song on the radio, and despite that vid having been recorded off of Canadian TV (Rage was an alt-rock show on MuchMusic - Canadian (english) MTV) I had never seen it and didn't realise this was a proto Eurythmics (Dave Stewart sure was shy back then; came out of his shell later).  So thanks for that little bit of trivia.

Basically the differentiation was: If you didn't wear flares and have long hair, you were New Wave. And a certain way to move about or dance (the way Annie Lennox did in the Tourist vid, neither Linda Ronstadt nor Suzi Quatro would have moved and looked that way).

You would have been a great NME writer, Uwe!  Yoiu have a knack for simplifying things, but it is a bit of an Obi Wan (true.... from a certain point of view) .  I believe the phrase you are looking for to define the dance/way the New Wave acts moved is "Jitterbug" (later on in the 90s, it got charicaturised as "The Carleton").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A

PS: added pics to my previous post - it's a cool chart if you're into that scene.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 23, 2016, 08:43:00 AM
Have I ever admitted here that I like Wham! and George Michael?  :gay: :gay: :gay:

And thanks for posting the Peter Frame stuff, I used to study that religiously too. Heartwarming to see that again.  :)

Thank you, the knack for simplifying things is actually a professional disease of mine. It's my job as a litigator to boil the most complex cases down to a simple story and a few quips. It drives Edith mad the way I sometimes summarize an incident that took, say, half an hour or more, in three sentences and then answer to her question of "What else happened?": "Nothing, that's all that's relevant."  :mrgreen:

When punk came along, the NME (which was pivotal in giving Punk a forum) thought it was the pinnacle of music journalism and acted that way. But if truth be told: Their articles were on a different level to either Sounds or Melody Maker (US music mags were even harder to get in Germany than Brit ones, so I rarely got my hands on a Rolling Stone, Creem or Hit Parader). I had never before read people - Charles Shaar Murray, Tony Parsons, Julie Burchill, Caroline Coon, Bob Edmands, Tony Stewart to name a few - writing about music like they did in the NME back then and really devoured it. If I'm honest, a lot of my posting style here in this forum owes a huge debt to what I read in the NME from 76-79.

The humor really got me, they would refer to Deep Purple as "Shallow Sepia", lambast Judas Priest as "an act studded with macho insignia, yet totally devoid of true male virility" and their cover single Diamonds & Rust as "ample revenge for all the terrible things her nibs (= Joan Baez) has done to Dylan songs over the years", painstakingly analyse Ayn Rand over Rush interviews ("hopefully you didn't go see them with your dole money, that wouldn't be in line with their philosophy at all" and excel at being damning with faint praise like "Alex Lifeson is a competent guitarist of the genre. I've been to too many Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Jeff Beck concerts to say more." or "Francis Rossi has a fine croon, but the guy who "sings" alongside him - Alan Lancaster - would have a hard time getting a job with Bachman Turner Overdrive".

All these quotes have stuck with me for nearly 40 years now! And there are a whole bunch of then (1976/77) in Germany totally obscure bands I got to know (and still like) via the NME: Strapps, Judas Priest, Dictators, Ramones, Starz, Moxy, Rush, Mahogany Rush, Doctors of Madness, Clash, Sex Pistols, Damned, Television, The Jam ...
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Post by: Highlander on September 23, 2016, 01:50:38 PM
Uwe... Pete Frame Tree books... (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pete+frame+family+trees) ;)
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Post by: uwe on September 23, 2016, 04:28:22 PM
I had the first edition but even beforen then I knew how the Eagles and Deep Purple were "related". Via the James Gang of course.

It probably helped to set me on the track of following musician's career through various bands. I'm probably the only person on earth that owns all Silverhead, Detective and Chequered Past CDs and files them all with the solo albums of Michael des Barres (plus a Power Station sampler that features one live track with him when he stepped in for Robert Palmer who hated touring). I'm unashamedly weird.
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Post by: Highlander on September 24, 2016, 07:59:27 AM
We read the same rags at similar times... used to keep a lot of them... like linking DP and Hendrix, via Spirit...  :mrgreen:
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Post by: wellREDman on September 24, 2016, 12:25:19 PM
With all due respect wellREDman, you're even younger than me (and supposedly, well red, as opposed to well read which is something entirely more repectable ;P ... wait, I wonder if that means the same thing over there) and the term was coined before both our births (which in your case was itself "definitely after punk," n'est pas? so you could not have heard it earlier); inarguably the meaning drifted a bit over time.
I was a teenager (and punk) in the mid 80's when punk was  not quite dead, but definitely on it's back and twitching.

    As it was used in the punk/alternative scene in the south of England  back then, New Wave was anything that to a straight would seem like punk, but to a "true" punk would seem like pop. but this was a time when all labels and subculture affiliation was an intense  discussion point. there was a running joke amongst us that the only way to tell a true goth was someone who would declare"I am not a Goth! " when described as such.

 the WellREDman moniker was my VJ name from a period in the late 90's when in the rave scene it was de rigeur to perform under a pseudonym, and was a play on the fact that I both read a lot and had (then) scarlet hair

 Like Uwe I was an avid devourer of the NME, if a little later then him, so the Pet Frame charts are a nice trip down memory lane for me too 

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Post by: Highlander on September 24, 2016, 04:34:03 PM
I had the good fortune to live round the corner from NME's house photog Pennie Smith so managed to get a number of snaps and snapping tips from her... she still lives there (at least did when I moved north a year ago) and still has a second-hand book shop in the same place too...
Never understood why she never went into the print market though...
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Post by: lowend1 on September 25, 2016, 08:37:09 AM
This is where I got introduced to what ultimately became punk, without actually hearing any of it. I went out and bought the first Ramones album because Rock Scene loved them. The first time I played it, I thought it was some kind of cruel joke. Not much has changed.
http://www.rockscenester.com
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Post by: exiledarchangel on September 25, 2016, 08:59:27 AM
This is where I got introduced to what ultimately became punk, without actually hearing any of it. I went out and bought the first Ramones album because Rock Scene loved them. The first time I played it, I thought it was some kind of cruel joke. Not much has changed.
http://www.rockscenester.com

My exact feelings when I got Pink Floyd's "The Wall". When I first listened to it after I have bought it I thought "way to go stupid, you throw your money for this boring thing". Since then I have changed my mind, but still its not my no1 from them. This place belongs to "Animals", their "punk" album as I like to say.
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Post by: Dave W on September 25, 2016, 09:23:05 PM
More often than not, I've been disappointed whenever I've bought an album based on a review. Today you can almost always hear samples first.
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Post by: Highlander on September 25, 2016, 11:28:08 PM
I've struggled to find something "new" I'd like to buy in recent years... back-catalogue top-ups from time to time but not much else to be honest...
Re The Wall... Comfortably Numb is about the only thing I rate of that... nice to see a rack of Hiwatts on a stage... prob DR103s's... ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBUTbHHH3I8
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Post by: uwe on September 26, 2016, 04:53:18 AM
I really liked the first Ramones album, I was surprised, yet pleased how melodic and poppy (rather than hard and dark) it was (mainly thanks to Joey's smooth pop voice + all their songs being based on major rather than minor keys), I associated it with the early Beach Boys in fact - "all of the songs sound the same, but they have an immediately recognizable sound, and if you like one song, you like them all".  :mrgreen: That, of course, isn't a bad thing in my book or I wouldn't here be waving the Status Quo flag now and then.

To this day I find "The Wall" bloated - Pink Floyd goes Meat Loaf  :) -, I was a "Wish you were here" (the album) guy (the krautrock tranquility of it), but in the last ten years or so, "Animals" has really climbed up the ladder with me. I'm actually seeing Gilmour this week at the RAH and we have good seats too. I am blighted with a wife who thinks that David Gilmour is the best-singing, best guitar-playing, most handsome man on earth.  :-\
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Post by: exiledarchangel on September 26, 2016, 05:45:13 AM
I am blighted with a wife who thinks that David Gilmour is the best-singing, best guitar-playing, most handsome man on earth.  :-\

I know the feeling, my wife thinks the same. But at least its Gilmour and not some crap "artist" from the top10.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 26, 2016, 08:12:33 AM
Heh @ wives with Gilmour crushes (areound here, it might be another Gilmour the former captain of our hockey team).  For mine it was Bowie, which I can hardly argue with.

Also super thanks for that link Lowend1.  Thats a great resource and I love the interface.
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Post by: Highlander on September 26, 2016, 01:46:42 PM
Gilmour...? Nah... Jackie might trade me in for Alan Jackson though... :mrgreen:
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Post by: 66Atlas on November 19, 2016, 04:13:07 PM
Argh...I'll fix this post when my photobucket decides to cooperate..
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Post by: Highlander on December 11, 2016, 07:19:44 AM
First time out for a full set since '09... not the greatest pics as lifted from FB...
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Post by: clankenstein on December 11, 2016, 02:14:36 PM
Good one . Its nice to see your fretless R.D. roaming in the wild .
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Post by: Aussie Mark on December 11, 2016, 03:07:32 PM
We played a rare original gig on Saturday night, along with 3 other bands, and during each 45 minute set an artist painted each band.  Here's us ....

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202016/15403723_10154153153585509_5151689336498281294_o_zpszkeywoun.jpg)

and some photos ....

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202016/15418530_1910860029138004_3099281323977682975_o_zps8maow37i.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202016/15326159_1910859892471351_5684128914660580354_o_zpsglif5z6o.jpg)
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a57/mdeayton/Gig%20photos%202016/15493241_1910859825804691_8345671165408559219_o_zpsf3fozakc.jpg)
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Post by: Basvarken on December 11, 2016, 03:10:29 PM
Greco Tbird?
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Post by: Aussie Mark on December 11, 2016, 03:34:59 PM
Greco Tbird?

Of course :-)
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Post by: OldManC on December 11, 2016, 03:40:43 PM
Love it! Will there be a fight in the band over who gets the original?
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Post by: Highlander on December 11, 2016, 04:55:03 PM
Good one . Its nice to see your fretless R.D. roaming in the wild .

Cheers Tony... :mrgreen:
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Post by: Aussie Mark on December 11, 2016, 05:38:18 PM
Love it! Will there be a fight in the band over who gets the original?

The two guitarists (brothers) are the songwriters, and I'm only a relatively recent addition to the lineup (for 5 years compared to their 10 years LOL) so I'm happy for them to decide who gets the original.
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Post by: OldManC on December 11, 2016, 06:26:03 PM
I hope you get a good print/photo/scan then. That's a really cool piece.
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Post by: RedVee on December 12, 2016, 02:52:41 AM
The two guitarists (brothers) are the songwriters, and I'm only a relatively recent addition to the lineup (for 5 years compared to their 10 years LOL) so I'm happy for them to decide who gets the original.

Hi Mark, of course you chose the T'Bird that night knowing it would be immortalised in oils?
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Post by: Rob on December 12, 2016, 05:54:46 PM
I hope you get a good print/photo/scan then. That's a really cool piece.

Artist did a good job
Nice gig!
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on December 13, 2016, 11:17:31 AM
That's pretty cool.  Nice bird too.

After catching a few shows down under when I was there, from bar bands, to Dinosaur Jr with local supporting acts, to sitting in the park across the Perth soccer stadium with everyone else who couldn't get tickets for the ACDC home town show, I really would like to play there one day.  Just amazing vibe.
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Post by: leftybass on January 04, 2017, 01:53:51 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/ddd_zpsv6h6vo5d.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/ddd_zpsv6h6vo5d.jpg.html)
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Post by: veebass on January 05, 2017, 10:35:22 AM
NYE Gig.

(https://images.talkbass.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi64.tinypic.com%2Fvnp7w3.jpg&hash=86cf7dea1f1f424c4a0f20421561e203)
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Post by: uwe on January 05, 2017, 03:41:44 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/iamthebassman/ddd_zpsv6h6vo5d.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/iamthebassman/media/ddd_zpsv6h6vo5d.jpg.html)

But you're wearing a carpet!  :mrgreen:
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Post by: Highlander on January 05, 2017, 04:51:00 PM
Magical Mystery Carpet...
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Post by: uwe on January 06, 2017, 07:15:56 AM
Is he in a Steppenwolf tribute now?  :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPE9a_epmWw

Who is that totally drugged out pretty-boy-blond bassist in his mom's night gown with an EB-3 btw?
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 06, 2017, 11:50:52 AM
Rushton Moreve, one of 2 Yankee hired guns in an otherwise Canadian band.
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Post by: uwe on January 06, 2017, 01:39:43 PM
With a kraut frontman I hasten to add! But what can you do if you were born  in East Prussia in 1944 and your real name is, alas!, not Kay, but Kraudelat.

I always liked his voice. And also what his band buddy (and other Yank hired gun) Michael Monarch (below far right) did with this outfit of inquisitive nature (and great sartorial elegance) here:

(http://listeningroom.lohudblogs.com/files/2010/01/detective.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvD9sFzXf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca2LDPS98VE

"Exactly the type of band" you would of course say, Jake, "that made the advent of PUNK mandatory!"  :mrgreen:
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Post by: uwe on January 06, 2017, 01:54:33 PM
PS: As usual, if you ask punks anything about early 70ies rock, the answers are shaky to unreliable, any amount of long hair and flares (or nightgowns!) confuses them deeply. The blond bassist in the Steppenwolf vid is not a Yank and he's not Rushton Moreve

(http://i1.wp.com/rockandrollparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Rushton-Moreve-e1480520697217.png)

but rather - yuck! - another Canuckraut, namely Herr Klaus Karl Kassbaum, born 1943 in Hamburg, aka Nick St. Nicholas:

(https://img.discogs.com/y-3JoJrvsOn30dC6IMy8-c8rhbI=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-288391-1154742410.jpeg.jpg)

And here is a picture of Sid Vicious playing with The Clash!  :mrgreen:

(http://www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Glenn-Matlock.jpg)
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 06, 2017, 02:58:10 PM
That vid must have been done just after Rushton left; Rushton actually wrote Magic Carpet Ride.

Yeah, yeah; shall I add that one to my sig then?  I'm doing OK for a dude who wasn't even a twinckle in my dad's eye at the time.
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Post by: Highlander on January 06, 2017, 05:37:55 PM
You have no idea what it was like to have lived in London with long hair thru that ere... :o

Anywat Herr Hornung, I presume the Glen Vicious pic with the Ricky was part of your usual sartorial elegance... :mrgreen:
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Post by: uwe on January 10, 2017, 07:33:09 AM
Herr Hornung always preferred Matlock over Sid, not just for his bass playing capabilities (the difference was so glaring let's not even discuss), but for his look. There was something quintessentially Brit, yet authentic about Matlock, you could have envisaged him playing in The Faces or with Ian Hunter, he looked cool in an understated way. Sid Vicious, of course, conquered the T-shirt market worldwide. He looked carefully fabricated to me already back then, a punk the way The Daily Mail or The Sun would envisage one.
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Post by: gearHed289 on January 10, 2017, 07:59:55 AM
He looked carefully fabricated to me already back then, a punk the way The Daily Mail or The Sun would envisage one.

The Johnny Bravo of bass (apologies to those who didn't grow up watching the Brady Bunch).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBMWd49rtu8
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Post by: 66Atlas on January 15, 2017, 08:22:23 PM
Played to a mostly empty room last night thanks to the Atlanta Falcons having a playoff game. Wish we had predicted that 3 mo ago when the gig was booked but it was still fun. 

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/120_zps4cvqrzsh.jpg) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/120_zps4cvqrzsh.jpg.html)
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Post by: Basvarken on January 16, 2017, 07:29:30 AM
Nice!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 16, 2017, 08:02:28 AM
Empty gigs are the time to practice yer bass face; nice bird.

Our last gig was almost a wash due to a blizzard and the venue's heat being broken.  On the positive side nobody forgot where they put their coat, and for once the drummers didn't get all sweaty.
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Post by: clankenstein on January 24, 2017, 02:23:21 AM
[imghttp://(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff246/tonypbass/IMG_6820-1.jpg) (http://s236.photobucket.com/user/tonypbass/media/IMG_6820-1.jpg.html)][/img]   Wrestling the Crocodile (what our singer helpfully describes grappling with my eb4l as) Live at St.Peters Hall Paekakariki on saturday night.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 24, 2017, 12:55:07 PM
Oh man, you guys are gonna have a field day when when my guitarists drops our band's new video (the one I drum in unfortunately, not the one I play bass in).
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Post by: amptech on January 30, 2017, 08:08:17 AM
Gigged my beloved fuzztone this weekend. Of course, I got comments like:

'It looks so small, but it feels huge!'

Oh, well..

(http://i977.photobucket.com/albums/ae259/sjokoladen/28.01.17%20OT_zps1lhppngt.jpg)
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on January 31, 2017, 12:07:21 PM
Oh man, you guys are gonna have a field day when when my guitarists drops our band's new video (the one I drum in unfortunately, not the one I play bass in).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOFPELUuS4

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Post by: 66Atlas on January 31, 2017, 04:02:18 PM
A sex symbol is born!  ;D  I see a VMA in your future.
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Post by: gearHed289 on February 01, 2017, 08:54:25 AM
You're a brave man! That was entertainingly disturbing.  :mrgreen:
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 01, 2017, 09:09:31 AM
No one else in the band (aside from the front dude, who was already playing Beastman) would do it.  Had to take it for the team.  I saw the first cut and I was like: really, the back hair shot?


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Post by: Dave W on February 01, 2017, 12:19:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNuPajn_ezg
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Post by: Highlander on February 01, 2017, 12:29:09 PM
 :o :mrgreen:
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Post by: gearHed289 on February 02, 2017, 08:18:52 AM
I saw the first cut and I was like: really, the back hair shot?

Maybe that will be the new hipster trend - back hair!
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 02, 2017, 09:20:18 AM
I dunno, I mean, it's already a bit of a meme:

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uhEvozjk3Q/S0Vd5BsbqFI/AAAAAAAAAIc/2XT7tHBs0uw/s400/hairy_beach_dude_for_jesus.jpg)

But I don't see it quite catching on in the proper sense (despite Vice's 'Big Fat Jew (https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/fat-jew)' )
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Post by: uwe on February 03, 2017, 05:28:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfOFPELUuS4

This is a piece or revelatory art even I cannot find anything to fault with. It rings all the right bells: sex, animals, violence, dominance & submission, male hairy backs, a great drummer, melodic bass playing. What's not to like?

Dave, I herewith request remonikering of this holiest of holy forums into:

The Last Beastman Outpost.

These guys here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7a5xzB6Puw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHm4ro_l8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlcY_enzwmI


have all just been toppled from my personal taste pedestal of "Ultimate Canuck Bands" and replaced by that daring talent collective of OHMNO! Way to go, Jake!
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 03, 2017, 08:03:52 PM
Whoa; I'm blushing.
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 10, 2017, 11:59:45 AM
And actually on bass.  This was last night; the joint is being closed down in a few months so glad I got to play it one last time.  Another legend gone.

(https://68.media.tumblr.com/f8cc547dd11ce457e2f8a51bc22637b5/tumblr_ol6892RWH01u8xufso1_1280.jpg)
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Post by: 66Atlas on February 10, 2017, 04:43:08 PM
Nice bass :mrgreen:
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 11, 2017, 06:19:30 AM
She's nice for slummin it with me.
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Post by: uwe on February 13, 2017, 09:49:13 AM
That's the urine stain one right?
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Post by: TBird1958 on February 13, 2017, 10:18:25 AM
That's the urine stain one right?


 Only here!  ;D
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 13, 2017, 11:08:53 AM
Look, as a germain German, you'd think you'd be less judgemental about those who may enjoy watersports and agree that what happens in the privacy of one's own domocile, as long as everybody is consenting, is nobody else's business.  She comes from an abusive previous relationship though, that's for sure.
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Post by: uwe on February 13, 2017, 12:29:16 PM
But Wolfman Jake, it's your bass, you can do with/to it what you like! What ever taking-possession and initiation rites flow from and thru you in the solitude of those dense Canadian woods!!!

(http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/387089/large/Z9320192-Grey_wolf_urinating-SPL.jpg)

No doubt a consenting short-scale too!
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Post by: Granny Gremlin on February 13, 2017, 01:34:18 PM
I've not 'marked' it personally myself.  If anything, in her time with me, she has become whiter as I rub the surface layers off (especially the neck).  It's not just yellowing nitro; quite sure there's a significant contribution to the colour by the smokiness of Montreal clubs (they now have banned smoking in bars like just about everywhere else on the continent, but , they're French so they were the last to do so - at the time of acquisition, they still had not).  Never seen a yellowing so dark (and we've seen quite a few of these white hobbits since I got mine).
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Post by: uwe on February 13, 2017, 02:38:33 PM
In dubio pro reo ...
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Post by: Highlander on March 19, 2017, 02:36:45 AM
A pic taken by the singers daughter from our support gig in Inverness last Friday...
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Post by: westen44 on March 19, 2017, 11:20:19 AM
Very nice pic. 
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Post by: Highlander on March 19, 2017, 11:42:14 AM
... and another...
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Post by: Hörnisse on March 19, 2017, 01:38:37 PM
 :toast:
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Post by: 66Atlas on March 19, 2017, 01:42:08 PM
Digging that RD! :thumbsup:
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Post by: TBird1958 on March 19, 2017, 01:51:32 PM

 Nice pic Kenny!
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Post by: Dave W on March 19, 2017, 09:31:44 PM
Somebody stole all your frets!  :vader:
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Post by: 66Atlas on March 20, 2017, 04:37:42 AM
Our last gig from a couple a weeks ago.  I decided it would be fun to bring out the EB3, I love how light that thing is.

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/image_zps46e154rb.png) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/image_zps46e154rb.png.html)
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Post by: TBird1958 on March 20, 2017, 09:34:19 AM
Our last gig from a couple a weeks ago.  I decided it would be fun to bring out the EB3, I love how light that thing is.

(http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n614/tlkroon/image_zps46e154rb.png) (http://s1142.photobucket.com/user/tlkroon/media/image_zps46e154rb.png.html)

 It's so small on you! Cool bass all the same  :)
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Post by: Highlander on March 20, 2017, 04:53:52 PM
+1  :mrgreen:

Somebody stole all your frets!  :vader:

That troublesome Mr Cook 's to blame for that...  ;)

And cheers for the comments Frauleins and Gents... she took some nice pics... We go into the studio on 1st/2nd April for the the start of 4 sessions to hopefully record 12 or 13 tracks for a release later this year... really weird saying that after all this time...
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: neepheid on March 21, 2017, 03:18:51 AM
A pic taken by the singers daughter from our support gig in Inverness last Friday...

Cool pics, cool place, I played in Mad Hatters once, it was 2012.  I had to look that up, but I never forget a bass - it was my Victory Artist that night.  It was also the time of the curfew so I stepped outside after the gig to phone my wife and promptly got locked out.  Took some serious bouncer persuasion to let me back in so I could get my gear, he thought I was at it ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on March 21, 2017, 04:44:40 PM
We were support to some band called North Atlas, so sloped as soon as finished... 830 setup for a 1930 start... 1/2 audience was supporters of the singer so almost (only almost) felt guilty of rats deserting a sinking ship when we left... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on May 03, 2017, 11:17:53 AM

 It's been awhile.........

This is from the Talkbass Seattle area GTG, which was held at a local brewery - Had a great time.

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/Mobile%20Uploads/1493602664_zpskvsuzigv.jpg)

 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on May 03, 2017, 11:20:16 AM
Alcohol, chicks and the devil's music - y'all burn in hell!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on May 03, 2017, 12:54:40 PM
Alcohol, chicks and the devil's music - y'all burn in hell!

We can wave at each other as we paddle our aluminum canoes around on a lake of fire  ;D
 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on May 03, 2017, 01:41:16 PM
Your eyes say there's mischief afoot!  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassilisk on May 04, 2017, 04:04:00 AM
Since I am relatively new I thought I'd display one of my Gibson moments:
(https://1-t.imgbox.com/tACXVE6a.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on May 04, 2017, 06:55:13 AM
Your eyes say there's mischief afoot!  ;)

 Just having fun, the room was full of very talented players including a couple of young women - of course way too much slapping etc. but you kind of expect it. Tony Puleo  (GK endorser) played a bit and discussed tone and getting your self heard in a band mix, nice guy! great player. A totally self indulgent day  :-*   
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on May 04, 2017, 06:56:19 AM
Since I am relatively new I thought I'd display one of my Gibson moments:
(https://1-t.imgbox.com/tACXVE6a.jpg)

I remember this shot! Face-to- name completed.  :) 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on May 04, 2017, 07:25:20 AM
Since I am relatively new I thought I'd display one of my Gibson moments:
(https://1-t.imgbox.com/tACXVE6a.jpg)

Full credit for the attractively coordinated bass and shirt!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on May 04, 2017, 08:11:07 AM
That shirt certainly belongs to a fearless, intrepid man!  8)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassilisk on May 04, 2017, 08:50:11 AM
You all are a rip! :mrgreen:

I have a full collection of colorful shirts meticulously acquired over the years with an accumulation of basses to match - I believe in accessorizing
whenever I can. Talking and playing loud is easy - as long as you walk the walk! ;)

(https://i.imgbox.com/T0wwPlPU.jpg)
(https://i.imgbox.com/vn4fZz5S.jpg)
(https://i.imgbox.com/qT5gb8EI.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 04, 2017, 08:56:09 AM
Are you related to Aussie Mark?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassilisk on May 04, 2017, 09:52:48 AM
Clearly in spirit at least...

Now that Hawaiian shirts seem to have gone the way of mullets and pointy headstocks I enjoy bringing them out
for that very reason!!!

And I never ever have to worry about someone wearing one that's just like mine!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 04, 2017, 11:04:01 AM
I have no prob with the shirts. Great bunch of basses too, especially the Precision with what looks like some good old fashioned nitro tort if I'm not mistaken. On the other hand, wearing a thunderbird above the belt buckle should be a fineable offense   :-\
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 04, 2017, 03:21:34 PM
Okay, I take it back. It occurred to me John Entwistle wore his pretty high too. Rock on with your bad self basilisk.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassilisk on May 05, 2017, 04:00:16 AM
I have no prob with the shirts. Great bunch of basses too, especially the Precision with what looks like some good old fashioned nitro tort if I'm not mistaken. On the other hand, wearing a thunderbird above the belt buckle should be a fineable offense   :-\

You're right about the TBird, but my T-Rex arms won't allow for it. The only way I could play it effectively was to bring it up.

The Precision is a 1988 AVRI '62. What a wonderful bass that is/was. Laser straight neck and the pickup was the bomb. Literally
a brand new 62 P. I loved everything about it except the 1.75" nut. It just killed me in first position - made my hand hurt after a gig.
It was with a heavy heart that I had to flip it.

However, that put me on the path to creating another one more suitable. Last year I got hold of an AVRI 63 P body, dropped in a Warmoth slim profile Jazz neck and loaded it with an Aguilar 4P-60 pickup. I am a very happy camper now - all those same great attributes the 62 had with a neck I can manage. I have to say the Aguilar pickup is outstanding.
(https://i.imgbox.com/zhLv3cOv.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 05, 2017, 06:40:38 AM
Nice fiesta red Precision! Perfect pic for Cinco de Mayo.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: bassilisk on May 05, 2017, 07:56:00 AM
Nice fiesta red Precision! Perfect pic for Cinco de Mayo.

Thanks for that! This bass came together very well indeed. These AVRI 63's are touted as (nitro) Seminole Red,
though for the life of me I cannot tell the difference between the color gradients. Fiesta works for me just as well... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 05, 2017, 12:07:14 PM
Seminole red makes sense. The Fiesta shade usually has more of an orange tomato soup or pinkish hue. I believe much of the color's variation depended on the nitro clear coat or lack thereof. For obvious reasons, there aren't many festive Native American holidays that involve copious alcohol consumption. Regardless, I'll still raise a glass to your very beautiful Seminole red Precision  :toast:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on May 08, 2017, 12:12:11 PM
Band pic of the metal group I'm in, Mucklers Circle. Playing my first gig with them Saturday. We will also be playing at the Rise Above fest in Maine in July. We should also get a crack at playing a newly renovated venue in Portland Maine called Aura.
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/02/17/asylum-nightclub-will-be-renamed-aura-as-part-of-9-million-expansion/
I'm not a fan of tattoos or piercings so I went with a Horse shoe mustache to look like I have some metal street cred.
(http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/mucklers_zps4tbwu6ml.jpg) (http://s1151.photobucket.com/user/4stringer77/media/mucklers_zps4tbwu6ml.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: veebass on July 07, 2017, 07:08:57 PM
Not sure if I posted this- here's me and the current band.

(http://i67.tinypic.com/2d7sktd.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on July 11, 2017, 03:49:58 PM
I see a woman!!!  :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on July 11, 2017, 03:51:48 PM
I see a woman!!!  :o

Don't say that like it's an unusual experience!  :-X
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: veebass on July 12, 2017, 02:19:58 AM
I see a woman!!!  :o

In Australia we are all brothers. She plays a Telecaster but likes TBirds. I am trying to convince her she needs a Firebird A white one like Lizzy Hale's would be good.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on July 12, 2017, 06:35:03 AM
Of course, in my clichéed, compartmentlized world, I assumed she was the singer.  :-[ :-[ :-[

Firebirds are lovely, but Teles look good on wimmin too.

I thought Lizzy plays Explorers mostly?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: veebass on July 12, 2017, 04:04:43 PM
Of course, in my clichéed, compartmentlized world, I assumed she was the singer.  :-[ :-[ :-[

Firebirds are lovely, but Teles look good on wimmin too.

I thought Lizzy plays Explorers mostly?

She sings and plays geetar.
Lizzy with the Firebird I was referring to in this clip- certainly plenty more pics around of her with Explorers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK2siEQsADk
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on July 12, 2017, 04:36:06 PM
Thanks soooooo much for posting this!  :-* :-* :-* :-*

I'm a sucker for that song, lyrics, story, melody and all. I know it's Mutt Lange penned drawing board confectionery and that Ann Wilson hates the lyrics and message (I don't have issues with it, this has happened a million times all over the world in the past and now) plus thinks it should have been a Shania Twain song, not a Heart one.

And Lizzy is hot plus I like Halestorm as a band.

Oh, Ann seems to have had a change of - no pun intended - heart about the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc97E9AnhRU

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: veebass on July 12, 2017, 04:57:58 PM
Thanks soooooo much for posting this!  :-* :-* :-* :-*

I'm a sucker for that song, lyrics, story, melody and all. I know it's Mutt Lange penned drawing board confectionery and that Ann Wilson hates the lyrics and message (I don't have issues with it, this has happened a million times all over the world in the past and now) plus thinks it should have been a Shania Twain song, not a Heart one.

And Lizzy is hot plus I like Halestorm as a band.

Oh, Ann seems to have had a change of - no pun intended - heart about the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc97E9AnhRU

Yes, I like that Halestorm version- we do a similar version- lot's of fun!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Alanko on July 29, 2017, 07:40:50 AM
Here is me:

(http://i.imgur.com/tNzr8wch.jpg)

Playing my Thunderbird-powered Jazz bass with Jim Dunlop flatwounds. Blasphemy 'n' all that, but this is yet another gig where I turn up with my Tech21 VT:DI, tell the sound guy it runs on phantom power, and he's the happiest guy in the building. I had some sort of TC Electronic amp up there blasting into the back of my legs.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on July 29, 2017, 03:16:45 PM
Nice moody shot... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Alanko on July 30, 2017, 12:05:16 PM
Yeah I look like some sort of viking thug here, but we're not a moody band at all!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on August 15, 2017, 07:10:16 AM
Switched to imgur after the photobucket implosion.  See if this works...

(http://i.imgur.com/QeCSVsR.jpg) (http://imgur.com/QeCSVsR)


I have no idea what I'm doing with my foot.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 16, 2017, 01:31:08 PM
I'd offer about to stomp a poor innocent white pedal to death...? :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on August 17, 2017, 07:50:23 AM
Either that or stomping an escaping cockroach  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: gearHed289 on August 23, 2017, 09:05:52 AM
A perfectly balanced FenderBird!

(https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/20988871_10209627761559001_6273265172649375143_o.jpg?oh=fa26833264eec43b8ffe3fdc86405804&oe=5A192F4D)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on August 23, 2017, 02:35:53 PM
 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 04, 2017, 03:35:00 PM
Hi, all.  Long time listener, first time caller. I'm active in the TalkBass Thunderbird group.  Rocked a house party on July 4. 2013 left-handed Thunderbird.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 05, 2017, 09:28:00 AM

 Finally popped your cherry here Ken  ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 05, 2017, 09:32:11 AM
Finally popped your cherry here Ken  ;)
And with a pic, no less!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 05, 2017, 11:14:47 AM
He's got more hair than me, and yes, most folks do... :P
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on September 05, 2017, 02:28:34 PM
More birds in Brooklyn!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 05, 2017, 02:51:00 PM
Welcome Ken.

More boids in Brooklyn!

Fixed that fer ya.

Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on September 05, 2017, 04:00:42 PM
A sad tangent: My wife's parents, both born and raised in Brooklyn during the Depression, both raised by Yiddish-speaking Eastern European immigrant jews, have the most pronounced Brooklyn accents among my acquaintances -- my father-in-law says "idear" for idea, for example -- But even they don't say "boid" for bird, or "toity-toid" for thirty-third.  Those regional accents are dying out :(

Me, I'm a Long Island (or Lawn Guyland) kid, raised by California transplants; I've been told I sound more California than LI.

But yeah. I like Thundaboids!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 05, 2017, 06:12:47 PM
A sad tangent: My wife's parents, both born and raised in Brooklyn during the Depression, both raised by Yiddish-speaking Eastern European immigrant jews, have the most pronounced Brooklyn accents among my acquaintances -- my father-in-law says "idear" for idea, for example -- But even they don't say "boid" for bird, or "toity-toid" for thirty-third.  Those regional accents are dying out :(

Me, I'm a Long Island (or Lawn Guyland) kid, raised by California transplants; I've been told I sound more California than LI.

But yeah. I like Thundaboids!
Yup, same heritage and story, but mostly the Bronx.  My favorite was my great aunt pronouncing 'beautiful' as 'beauty-ful'.  I grew up in Rockland County.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 06, 2017, 12:17:53 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60OOtpnyTI
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on September 06, 2017, 01:26:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60OOtpnyTI

Feygelahs?

No, just close forum friends...... ;)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 09, 2017, 06:31:04 AM
https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21462302_10155682358603934_2648224584195355519_n.jpg?oh=a7a484008e979e717b38d907f490f047&oe=5A4E71A7
Up on the stage at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom with the $ bass. Mutoid man was great to watch and it was good to see Corrosion of Conformity with their original singer again. Danzig hogged all the sound check time so we had to make do with a quick line check. Was a great experience.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 09, 2017, 10:12:36 AM
https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21462302_10155682358603934_2648224584195355519_n.jpg?oh=a7a484008e979e717b38d907f490f047&oe=5A4E71A7
Up on the stage at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom with the $ bass. Mutoid man was great to watch and it was good to see Corrosion of Conformity with their original singer again. Danzig hogged all the sound check time so we had to make do with a quick line check. Was a great experience.
Would
Very cool! I used to live in Salem, MA, so I’d go up there sometimes.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 09, 2017, 11:26:54 AM
Mutoid Man recorded their last album at God City Studio in Salem MA. If you've ever been to St. Vitus bar in Brooklyn you may have crossed paths with the bass player who ran the front of the house sound there. Nick Cageao played an Aria explorer bass and they're supposed to be making his own signature model of it coming soon. Marty Friedman, formerly of Megadeth dug them so much he guested a solo on the title track of their new album War Moans. Totally worth checking out.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 09, 2017, 11:40:19 AM
Mutoid Man recorded their last album at God City Studio in Salem MA. If you've ever been to St. Vitus bar in Brooklyn you may have crossed paths with the bass player who ran the front of the house sound there. Nick Cageao played an Aria explorer bass and they're supposed to be making his own signature model of it coming soon. Marty Friedman, formerly of Megadeth dug them so much he guested a solo on the title track of their new album War Moans. Totally worth checking out.
Cool. I haven’t yet made it to St. Vitus. Not sure that studio existed when I was in Salem. I moved back to NY in 2000.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 09, 2017, 11:54:18 AM
If you're a fan of Diamond Head, they'll be a Saint Vitus Monday night.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 09, 2017, 12:01:20 PM
Never heard of them.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 09, 2017, 12:50:39 PM
They were a big influence on Metallica. You might recognize "Am I Evil?" or "Helpless"
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 09, 2017, 12:54:39 PM
They were a big influence on Metallica. You might recognize "Am I Evil?" , "Helpless" or "Blitzkrieg"
Thanks. I’ll look into them. Sad when the bands who influenced bands that play in arenas play small clubs.

By the way, where in Salem is God City? There’s no address on their web site.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 09, 2017, 01:23:13 PM
Not sure where God City is exactly. I just knew about them from the album credits. I wouldn't feel too bad for King Diamond, they've been brought up on stage with Metallica a few times and also played Ozzfest. Btw they didn't write Blitzkrieg, my mistake.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 09, 2017, 02:04:16 PM
Wait, are you talking about King Diamond?  You said Diamond Head above.  I definitely know who King Diamond is!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 09, 2017, 02:44:14 PM
Yes King Diamond, I got my diamonds mixed up  :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 09, 2017, 03:18:52 PM
Yes King Diamond, I got my diamonds mixed up  :o
Hah, cool.  Glad to know I'm not THAT out of touch, then.  Holy crap, surprising King Diamond is playing in such a small place, then!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 13, 2017, 04:10:27 PM
"Yes King Diamond, I got my diamonds mixed up ..."

But judging from his "voice", King Diamond never had any in the first place. Diamonds I mean.

Eunuch of this, I made my point and had a ball.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 13, 2017, 10:05:40 PM
"Yes King Diamond, I got my diamonds mixed up ..."

But judging from his "voice", King Diamond never had any in the first place. Diamonds I mean.

Eunuch of this, I made my point and had a ball.
Ouch. :)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Basvarken on September 13, 2017, 10:56:52 PM
Haha. When I first heard him I thought he was a joke (still do)
He sounds like a schizophrenic who keeps switching between Mickey Mouse and Scooby Doo.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 14, 2017, 04:18:38 AM
I take it back, I was indeed talking about diamond head. That's the band who's tunes Metallica covered. King diamond is the guy who looks like a reject from Kiss.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 14, 2017, 07:21:13 AM
I have the Abigail album - as a point of reference. One King Diamond/Mercyful Fate CD is quite eunuch for most collections I believe.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 14, 2017, 07:26:30 AM
King Diamond/Diamond Head  :mrgreen: - we haven't had a mix-up as priceless as this since ... ah, I don't really remember ... sometimes things just look way too close to tell apart.

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2003/Sampler/HellcatAndCorsair.jpg)
Two random, but very similar-looking aircraft to illustrate my point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GlJMKkkjZo
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 14, 2017, 01:29:35 PM
Do I resemble some of those remarks, perchance...? Anyway, most of the pieces are pretty similar... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 14, 2017, 02:20:32 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GlJMKkkjZo

That is everything that's bad about Meatloaf.  It's a shame he had to drag down Cher with him. 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 14, 2017, 03:06:22 PM
More like Cher was dragging down Meatloaf. She sounded better with this Diamond and the late great Glen Campbell RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTshCYc8LMQ
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 14, 2017, 03:37:05 PM
Gee, I bet Cher would have fit right in with Deep Purple too!  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcLER89gLhc
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 14, 2017, 04:35:32 PM
No issues with Cher at all, I love the old girl! Thanks for posting the vid, I always drool over that squaw look, brings out the General Custer in me, cocked and loaded!  :mrgreen: A lot of women singers sound similar, Cher sounds like Cher, no matter what she sings. Not much of a range, but an immediately recognizable tone. And it's her tone.

Same thing with old Neil, great songwriter. I've seen him twice in recent years.

Yeah, and I know that Deep Purple Mk 1 was cheesy, frilly shirts and buffed hairdos and all, but Kentucky Woman features a cracker of a guitar solo and some lovely bubbling bass lines by Nick Simper - especially in the middle eight.

And silly as it is (and most things about Meatloaf are real silly, let's face it), I always dug that Dead Ringer vid, it's one of those nonsense songs that always puts me in a good mood. And for the same reason, I love the Village People's YMCA too. And Tony Orlando's and Dawn's Tie A Yellow Ribbon. Plus Olivia Newton John's Physical and Xanadu or this here ... :gay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzq3dAEgIs

Dave will probably hasten to add/insist that it is not really country at all, but closer to truly detestable stadium rock.  :rimshot:

(https://media1.giphy.com/media/LSTOR3MSjbE3e/200.gif#1-grid1)

Maxine Nightingale's Right Back Where We Started From is another favorite. I'm hopeless. Guilty pleasures galore.

We should start a "Most shameful song liked"-thread. Only really embarrassing stuff qualifies.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: westen44 on September 14, 2017, 09:51:23 PM
Olivia Newton-John was incredibly cute in both "Xanadu" and the "Physical" video. 

Now, though, she is battling cancer for the second time.  All the best to her.  Australia still considers her their sweetheart.  But she is the world's sweetheart as far as I'm concerned. 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 14, 2017, 09:58:57 PM
Wow, I didn't know about the second round of cancer.  Best to her.  I'm incredibly sad about Grant Hart.  I'm a huge Husker Du fan and didn't even know he had cancer until waking up to a message from a friend this morning telling me he'd died.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Dave W on September 14, 2017, 10:30:23 PM
I'm sad about Grant too. Humble, approachable guy. He had looked unwell for several years but it wasn't until his July 1st solo gig turned into a surprise tribute (https://blog.thecurrent.org/2017/07/grant-hart-joined-by-greg-norton-dave-pirner-lori-barbero-at-emotional-hook-and-ladder-show/) that word got around about his terminal condition.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 14, 2017, 10:53:29 PM
Damn.  Last time I saw him live was in 2014, on my birthday.  Not sure if he was sick yet, but he didn't seem well.  I thought maybe it was that he just wasn't aging well, since it wasn't often I got to see him.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 15, 2017, 07:03:49 AM
Not sure how Joey Spampinato is doing with his Cancer fight. He played bass in NRBQ and also the band in the Chuck Berry movie Hail! Hail! rock n roll.   
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 15, 2017, 09:39:42 AM
King Diamond/Diamond Head  :mrgreen: - we haven't had a mix-up as priceless as this since ... ah, I don't really remember ... sometimes things just look way too close to tell apart.

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2003/Sampler/HellcatAndCorsair.jpg)
Two random, but very similar-looking aircraft to illustrate my point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GlJMKkkjZo




 
 Hey, they're both Blue!






 It's like Spits and Hurri's right?   
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 15, 2017, 03:07:42 PM
Once they burned, they were kinda samey to us ...  :mrgreen:


(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6RzPYLbcHaI/hqdefault.jpg)

(http://263i3m2dw9nnf6zqv39ktpr1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GuineaPig_8.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 15, 2017, 07:47:30 PM
Once they burned, they were kinda samey to us ...  :mrgreen:

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6RzPYLbcHaI/hqdefault.jpg)

(http://263i3m2dw9nnf6zqv39ktpr1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/GuineaPig_8.jpg)



 


 Speaking of Airplanes, it looks like I'll be on one to Frankfurt in late April of next year - Prepare thyself, Good sir!

 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 15, 2017, 08:03:17 PM
Speaking of Airplanes, it looks like I'll be on one to Frankfurt in late April of next year - Prepare thyself, Good sir!

Wot?!!! But we just got done rebuilding the city!

(http://c8.alamy.com/comp/CPG952/postwar-period-germany-destroyed-frankfurt-on-the-main-1945-aerial-CPG952.jpg)

(http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert/blick-ueber-den-huehnermarkt-fassaden-fast-fertig-der-platz-wird-jetzt-gepflastert-200472048-52743590/3,w=993,q=high,c=0.bild.jpg)

Not too mention that only recently retrieved and defused Limey blockbuster bomb ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/03/europe/germany-frankfurt-bomb-evacuation/index.html

Anyway, if choice of transport is a B-17 again, we'll be prepared!

(http://www.scharch.org/Dick_Baer/German%20Enemy/10.5cm%20Battery%20-400px.jpg)

But in any case looking forward to it!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 15, 2017, 08:58:54 PM

 That bomb even made the news here in Seattle, I'll be on a Boeing for the Flight, I think Luftansa still flies 747s and I'd like to ride one one before they're all gone.
 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 16, 2017, 02:09:38 AM
The 747's I worked on mostly only had 3 windows per side upstairs in the lounge...

... and as for the blue, they also had a three-bladed prop, a wing on each side, a tail, a nice clean sweep back from the cockpit, those funny little wing things on each side at the back, tail-sitters with nice round rubber wheels... (tumbleweed rolls past)
There will still be mutterings when I've been placed on my blazing Viking longboat, I guess...
Let it be a lesson to all... don't screw up your recognition skills when you play with the big buoys or it may result in "friendly-fire" incidents... :mrgreen:

Room at the Inn if the return flight has to make a detour to Inverness due to excessive intake of Schnapps during stay in Frank N Furter and certain passengers being thrown off...  ;) Do the Seattle-Eu flights take the Polar route...?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: wellREDman on September 16, 2017, 03:10:31 AM

(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/YankeeAirMuseum2003/Sampler/HellcatAndCorsair.jpg)


The great recognition scandal was before my time, but you guys keep referring to it....

what actually happened?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 17, 2017, 02:25:50 PM
When is a Corsair not a Corsair...? When it's a Hellcat... and vice-versa... and I'll never live it down... :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on September 18, 2017, 08:00:28 PM
When in Frankfurt, stay away from the plate weights in the gym!  :o
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 19, 2017, 08:48:35 AM
And the H chord!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Granny Gremlin on September 19, 2017, 09:53:20 AM
Just stay away; the airport has become the biggest piece of shit since LAX (I used to actually like it, but somehow they managed to screw it up).

(sorry Uwe, for the above and also not trying to meet up last July but it was only like an hour between flights and I spent the entire time in ridiculopus lineups; thank god for kids getting you through the shorter family /disabled line because otherwise I woulda missed me connecting flight)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 19, 2017, 03:25:16 PM
"The great recognition scandal ..."

 :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Ken invented both the Hellsair and the Corcat as Pacific Theater warbirds.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Highlander on September 19, 2017, 03:40:51 PM
Corcat...? Corky the Cat... :mrgreen:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hxf4DVLpn3I/Up-sB6tTQvI/AAAAAAAAPAI/J2_5H6L4nEY/s1600/dandy_special_1968.jpg)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on September 21, 2017, 05:29:44 PM
I love playing at the local mexican restaurant.  We get free tacos.

(http://i.imgur.com/I8Dv7XS.jpg) (https://imgur.com/I8Dv7XS)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 21, 2017, 07:40:41 PM
Good deal. Is the NR a sixties?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on September 22, 2017, 08:33:58 AM
Yep, that's my '67 IV.  I posted pics with it before but I think they've been lost in the great photobucket implosion.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 22, 2017, 09:43:22 AM
An American tragedy only comparable in scope with the near-extinction of the buffalo.  :-\

(http://hico-tx.com/objects/Buffalo_bones_edit.jpg)

Photobucket are mass murderers.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: TBird1958 on September 22, 2017, 09:55:38 AM

 I have to say, it's really a gigantic pain in my delicate ass to get into PB and try to retrieve my stuff, mere words fail in expressing my hatred of that outfit!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Grog on September 22, 2017, 10:01:37 AM
The stuff I've retieved from PB is only thumbnail size if I try to repost it using Imgur.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on September 22, 2017, 10:34:01 AM
I hear you, sister.  Free services are great in that they're free, but you also don't have much leverage.  For important things, I like to pay for them.  I use FastMail for email, for example.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Pilgrim on September 22, 2017, 03:34:05 PM
I have to say, it's really a gigantic pain in my delicate ass to get into PB and try to retrieve my stuff, mere words fail in expressing my hatred of that outfit!

Ay - absolutely - men.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 27, 2017, 06:17:02 AM
Some better pics from the last show. Money bass is looking money.
http://www.newenglandconcertphotographers.com/Concert-Photography-2017/Mucklers-Circle-at-The-Casino-Ballroom-NH/i-RkRSvDf/A
http://www.newenglandconcertphotographers.com/Concert-Photography-2017/Mucklers-Circle-at-The-Casino-Ballroom-NH/i-87rsh7k/A
http://www.newenglandconcertphotographers.com/Concert-Photography-2017/Mucklers-Circle-at-The-Casino-Ballroom-NH/i-GNr8fTN/A
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: uwe on September 27, 2017, 09:48:46 AM
Looks good on you! And I'm not even startin' on that awesomely epic 'tache!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 4stringer77 on September 27, 2017, 10:22:29 AM
Ich danke Ihnen! It's a good thing the stache and bass looked good because I need some work. However, having a great girlfriend that loves to cook for you isn't the worst problem.  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on October 07, 2017, 06:00:31 PM
Tonight was an "Oktoberfest" gig in North GA. No Devil's Wheel though so Im not sure it can really count as an Oktoberfest...

(http://i.imgur.com/cmUv8mO.jpg) (https://imgur.com/cmUv8mO)
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on October 07, 2017, 06:36:07 PM
Nice!  What's your signal path there?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on October 08, 2017, 10:02:09 AM
Nice!  What's your signal path there?

Not much of a path really, just the '64 Bird into a little ampeg PF 500 and no effects.  I picked up the amp a few years ago because i was tired of lugging a 400w tube amp around for smaller gigs. In this case I knew I likely wouldn't be able to pull close enough to the stage to unload so I just rolled this little guy a few blocks to the stage.  It lacks some of the fullness of a big tube rig but gets close enough for me to be happy and my back prefers it!
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on October 08, 2017, 11:55:46 AM
Ah. I saw the other amp mic’d, so I wasn’t sure if you were simply pushing air.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on October 08, 2017, 01:12:15 PM
Ah, everything for FOH was dictated by the production company that supplied the portable stage and PA.  He ran those E609s on both guitars.  I had a REDDI but he didnt want to use it and just DI from the head.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on October 08, 2017, 01:13:57 PM
Oh, so you did go through DI and used your cab as a monitor?
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: 66Atlas on October 08, 2017, 02:06:53 PM
Yup. With that little amp I always DI either with the head or the REDDI.  Its good enough for the drunken Oktoberfest patrons  ;D
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on October 16, 2017, 11:10:09 PM
Three video excerpts from our latest gig, this past Saturday.  That's three so far this year! We're in the big leagues! ...
It was one of our most fun ever.  My 8-year-old daughter even came!  Her first time at dada's show.  Wish she was visible in any of these, she is way cuter than us.

Hope these are viewable. Facebook sucks as a video sharing platform, but it's the only way I have these currently ... they were all taken by friends of the band.
And they all start mid-song unfortunately.

First up - "I Want to Get Drunk and Watch TV"
https://www.facebook.com/80291266305/videos/10155808444506306/

Next - "Walk Away"
https://www.facebook.com/80291266305/videos/10155808447011306/
starts mid-solo. It's too bad they didn't get any of the verses, I love this song.

Looney guitarist Parker on the left broke a string mid-set and borrowed this Les Paul from the other band - normally he plays a single-P90 SG special.
But I'm kind of liking this triple-les-paul assault!

Last ... we closed with this cover ...
https://www.facebook.com/80291266305/videos/10155808440936306/

...  spirited if overzealous tempo... Parker blew out his voice during the song before it and had to make do with little but attitude left. At some point during this he improvised lyrics like "This song is a fifth-floor walk-up and my voice is stuck on the first floor" ...

I'm surprised that audio captured by iphone is not completely terrible!
What you hear is all coming straight from our own amps and un-amplified drums. Only vocals went through the PA.  Though the venue had said (in writing, no less) that they would provide a sound person, he/she was nowhere to be seen, so we relied on the other band to tell us who was too loud or quiet during the first song, and left it at that.

As usual I'm beyond happy with the same rig I've been rocking for about 8 years now... LPB through a Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 with the input gain at about 9:00, into an EA CXL110 and EA CXL112.  Coincidentally these three are all songs I play with a pick.  It's weird for me to watch myself, I had no idea I used downstrokes so much!

The only bummer was that the venue had promised (also in writing) that the bands would get 100% of the door if over 31 people showed up... I'm used to playing for free, so that would've been nice... we were way over that number and nobody has yet seen a dime... and they did NOT warn us that each band member would be forced to pay $20 out of pocket upon entry as some kind of insurance policy in case nobody showed up. Or something like that. It was very unclear.  I think we've been ripped off, a new low in NYC venue scumbaggery.
 
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on October 17, 2017, 05:55:37 AM
That sounds great!  What venue, so I know what to avoid?  Looked nice aesthetically.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: slinkp on October 17, 2017, 06:24:50 AM
Lovecraft, on Ave B.
Title: Re: Need pix of the brothers!
Post by: Ken on October 17, 2017, 06:43:28 AM
Duly noted.