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The Outpost Cafe / Re: And where the hell are they here?
« on: April 15, 2024, 10:08:08 AM »
My 15 year old daughter started taking lessons recently! (Not from me, I'm no teacher, but we enjoy jamming together on the songs she's learning and it gives me an excuse to work on my rhythm guitar skills, such as they are.)

I'm not sure what inspired it exactly. She says she always wanted to learn an instrument but most of them seem too difficult to start. I think it also helped that she went to a Mitski concert and found out that Mitski plays bass. No virtuoso instrumentalist (lots of one-finger right hand parts) but a talented singer/songwriter for sure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9r6xHLph14 

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Other Bass Brands / Re: The bass equivalent to Prince's Tele
« on: April 14, 2024, 07:33:17 PM »
Yeah I don't get it. If you wanted a nicely made 70s japanese J copy, a quick search shows there's a couple of 1970s Greco jazz on reverb right now for $600 to $900 US. I don't suspect this one is much better or different than those. If you wanted the "prince" look, there's even a blond one with maple neck and black inlays that you could drop a custom pickguard on for a fraction of the price.



Or heck, just buy a brand new Squier classic vibe 70s for even less!


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: The Eclipse
« on: April 11, 2024, 01:55:16 PM »
I got to see it from here in NYC (non-total but still pretty great).

I can't help remembering this Ozzy clip of a brilliantly timed concert gimmick...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3kF2EexDo

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Gibson Basses / Re: Mod collection restock update
« on: March 12, 2024, 12:11:12 PM »
I don't hate that LP, but I did more or less the same thing to a $200 bass with about $10 worth of acrylic paint.



(It's been this way since about 1997, and I have both sentimental fondness for this paint job and am quite tired of it)

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 12, 2024, 11:55:35 AM »
Quote from: Basvarken on March 12, 2024, 08:08:09 AM
Nice to hear Brian sing with his normal voice instead of the evil witch on helium shriek that he's been using since 1980...  :mrgreen:

Mind blown. I had no idea he could sing any other way than "the AC/DC voice". He's really good at this style. I would never in a thousand years have guessed it was Brian Johnson.

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The Bass Zone / Re: Most influential basses
« on: February 27, 2024, 11:51:24 AM »
Great article! Thanks for sharing!

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The Bass Zone / Re: Most influential basses
« on: February 23, 2024, 02:56:12 PM »
I stumbled onto this old thread and was curious, did the article ever get published?

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: We're back!
« on: February 17, 2024, 08:09:28 AM »
Thanks Dave !!

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The Bass Zone / Re: Never heard it like that ...
« on: February 13, 2024, 08:03:13 AM »
Neither, he's using this wacky gizmo:
https://store.gizmotron.com/Bass-Gizmotron-20_p_13.html

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Gibson Basses / Re: thunderdisaster
« on: January 26, 2024, 08:38:55 AM »
For what it's worth, those look exactly like the tuners from my LPB1 of similar age. Per Rob's bass book they are "Gibson-branded Schaller".
I think Gearhed is right and they are Schaller M4.
Unfortunately, based on a little searching, I've seen brand new tuners called "Schaller M4" as well as vintage ones going back at least to the 70s, and the current ones look very different.  It's also confusing because there are various suffixes meaning I don't know what, but the M4S is completely different.

This one from about 1990 looks right to me, but chrome:
https://reverb.com/item/78037879-schaller-bass-tuner-m-4l-in-line-1990-chrome

This one purportedly from the 1970s looks similar, but the post is a little different. https://reverb.com/item/70648599-bass-side-schaller-m4-bass-tuner-1970-s-gold-m4g-original-vintage


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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: Let's see your rig!
« on: January 24, 2024, 11:58:44 AM »
Quote from: soulman on January 23, 2024, 12:43:53 AM
New to me and more recently harder than hell to get is a Genzler Magellan 350 Series 2 Combo.  It's sitting on top of my Epifani UL2 212 cab which I'm selling to replace with a Genzler BA2-112-3 Cab.

Nice, and welcome!
How do you like the Genzler gear compared to Genz-Benz, did you ever play those?

I have stopped even thinking about buying new amps since I completed my current rig around 2008:
Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 head with one or both of EA CXL110 and EA CXL112.  If the Shuttle ever dies I would love to try a Genzler.

But, as I get older (currently 53 and not in the best shape I've been)... I start wondering if I should replace the 45-pound 112 with one of the modern ultralight cabs. The low end flatness of that cab is just amazing though.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)
« on: January 13, 2024, 11:54:27 AM »
Scorpions were a darn good band, but yeah, those lyrics ...  Many years ago a bunch of friends sat around a bonfire discussing "what is the worst song ever?" and while a lot of the usual suspects came up, I believe there was consensus that "Winds of Change" was pretty awful, largely because of the cheesy whistling and the word salad lyrics.

(Personally I still think there are much much worse songs ... "We didn't start the fire" comes to mind)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...
« on: December 29, 2023, 09:53:32 PM »
Am I nuts, or is there no A string on that EB3?

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Noddy doing well ...
« on: December 11, 2023, 01:27:33 PM »
Quote
Even bands with just a single guitarist did it via double-tracking in the studio to get that sound.

The earliest "rock twin lead" example that jumps to my mind is this from 1966, well before any of the bands in this thread existed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g2eU9YGwWQ

And of course, there was Les Paul well before that, who as usual was years ahead of everyone, but that's not really "rock".

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: 70s Telecaster Bass body
« on: December 07, 2023, 11:55:46 AM »
Oh yeah... like this Mike Watt beast:
http://hootpage.com/watt-1956-pbass-181210.jpg

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