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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLwnn9ZmMTY

(complete with villainous mastermind smiling creepily at 1:17ish)

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Gibson Basses / EB minibucker ring - legit vintage or reissue?
« on: April 01, 2014, 09:33:36 AM »
I been vaguely looking for one of these for as long as any of you have known me (hard to find one without a pup attached, not too urgent as I have one, but it's cracked and missing one side so eventually...), but this one, though listed as vintage, really looks like an Epi reissue to me (shiney new, tooling marks on the inside and really angular; I seem to recall the edges being slightly more rounded over on the 60s ones but I'm not at home right now to check - and yes I do realise that the seller says his is 70s, and there may be a difference there; that's why I am asking).

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-1970s-Original-Gibson-EB-3-EB-2-Bass-Treble-Pickup-Ring-EB3-EB2-314PR1-/151254391548?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item233776dafc

What say youze?

The Epi reissues are metric vs SAE so the vintage pups don't fit ... but I don't know about the Gibson reissues (e.g. SG bass, all the new hollowbody models etc - anything with a mini on it); anybody know if those will fit a vintage pup?



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The Outpost Cafe / Post Punk
« on: March 31, 2014, 08:13:04 AM »
So we've got the classic rock represented, here's a spot for the the stuff that really turned me/the younger members among us on as we developed musically.  Very loose defenition of postpunk.  The only rule is that nobody, under any circumstances, post Love Will Tear Us Apart, or Synthpop generally.

I'll start it off with some German stuff Uwe is ashamed to have turned me on to accidentally, and then a few other things to get the ball rolling. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmpPV-AX_qU&feature=kp

Obviously, we need some Hooky in here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihCbVT637aM

Severin (and as a drummer, Budgie; for his work with The Banshees as well as with the Slits):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZgNlWRWtp0

Speaking of the Slits, Tessa Polit totally took the torch of women holding it down while the guitard wanks off and vocalists spread their ass feathers from Kaye and Quatro.  Uwe, I expect a translation of that (I am just making an educated guess here) gibberish at the beginning.  RIP Ari.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D8LmUHW48s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGblps64M


Can't leave out Gallup:

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

Mani:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRswxxT3HQ8

The song that made me think that fretless might be cool after all (session guy in studio, obviously; these dudes usually had synth bass parts):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhunWV1HfL0

... And cap it off with one of my favorite contemporary local groups.  The only way to experience these guys was getting tossed around in front bumping into the vocalist and getting hip checks from the bass player.  I dunno why they always recorded their stuff so oddly dryly; but most live vids sound hilariously bad even by iphone standards - an absolute shame you can rarely hear the bass at all - or I would have chosen a different song (I'm in the vid at 6:04, holding a beer next to the dude who didn't have the foresight, as I did, to remove his glasses... which was obviously after the show pictured at 6:39, where I have my glasses on and learned my damn lesson.... lol at 7:05 and the Toronto FD at 7:58; who the fugg made this vid? Those were good times):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQdjJkKwV5Y

OK I lied, I'll post these local dudes too (recently signed to Geffen, I think) just because an old band of mine used to play a lot of shows with them and the dude rocks the snot out of a Gibson RD Artist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6C6xGYKz4



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Bass Amps & Effects / Possible poor man's MM 115RH?
« on: January 22, 2014, 02:30:22 PM »
Just saw this on ebay: Traynor TS-115.  Not familair with this model and I'm not gonna go for this specimen due to location, but it does look appealing to me - they were made here so I should be able to track one down locally somewhat easily.  Despite it obviously not being a "reflex horn" like the MM, it looks otherwise similarly sized (down to the port area being similar to the throat mouth area of the MM). Been looking to get a second 115RH eventually, but they never come up locally (I might have the only one in town... that or people just hold on to them).  Maybe I could settle on this.  I would assume that I'd have to upgrade the driver for my liking like I did with the MM.  ... the irony here (and possibly sign from the gods) is that when I got my MM, it had a Traynor badge on it (and was way underpriced at $100, tax in; probably due to the farty stock Eminence driver and some significant wear n tear on the comically undersized rubber feet and tolex on the bottom of the thing).

Anybody use one; thoughts? .. though if I can find one locally for the same price as that ebay one, I'm sure I'd be willing to take the risk and mod til I like it.

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The Bass Zone / Jam experiments and revalations
« on: December 30, 2013, 07:38:26 AM »
A thread for things we've played around with or discovered at practice or casual jams, I'll start.

...So I had to close my studio/venue (new kid coming, lease was up, not enough time to run it with the day job) a while back and so the band has been jamming at an hourly place until I/we find a new spot to call home.  This place stocks each room with modern solid state heads (GK, Ampeg, and at least one Markbass) and 4x10s (occasional 8x10).  This is the antithesis of what I typically use (I have an 8x10, but don't use it often due to huge/overkill for practice) which is a medium wattage tube (PA/Vocal) head  and a Musicman 115RH.

I have learned a few things jamming at the hourly with their rigs:

1) I am just not a fan of solid state Ampeg stuff (actually haven't used the tube stuff), or 4x10s (at least modernish ones).  I dig the Markbass, and I already knew that GKs were alright too.

2)  After a few jams of not liking my tone, or just taking too long to dial it in (diff amp/cab in every room) it occurred to me that the exact things about the amp/cab combos in there that weren't working for the Triumph (hyped midrange mostly) would probably work really really well with a mudbucker (in addition to solid state preamps generally being more robust when it comes to handling that 30K output).  So I took the EB3 to jam yesterday and, sure enough, that was a much better match (full mud; choked was not so great, I prefer that setting into tube amps).  Even though the EB3 was not ideal for every song, I was surprised at the number it really worked well on.  I did have to dispense with the fx a lot though (exacerbated speaker cab resonances).  I think I still would have preferred a 1x15 to the W ported GK 4x10, but the GK head was a good match.








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Gibson Basses / LP Triumph in local shop
« on: October 19, 2013, 05:13:14 PM »
Took Jr to the market today for something to do and stopped into one of me old gear shop haunts which had a natural finish Triumph in the window... with a CAN$899 price sticker on it no less.  

So what's wrong with it, you ask?  The original electronics are gone.  The pickups are there (all 8 leads each), but the contents of the control route are all gone/replaced. Still I think it's a good price.  A few dings, but the neck is wonderful.  later 3 point bridge.  You don't have to refin it, but if you did you wouldn't feel guilty.  I left without specifically checking, but the frets seemed good.

In the Words of the bard(s) "We already got one" (and I certainly can't justify a second), so I thought I'd pass on the potential deal.  They ship internationally, so you can deal with them directly, or I can help you out (I know the proprietor, but he wasn't in today), or go check it out more closely if needed.

Wasn't expecting this so only had my cellphone cam:

















The shop: http://paulsboutique.ca/index.php?id=20130910095443

Jr spent most of the time 'playing' (he's 3) an intersting fold out portable Yamaha piano in the back.

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The Bass Zone / Never mind your Bongo, here's the toilet seat guitar
« on: September 06, 2013, 11:07:05 AM »


Full vid (S American Head & Shoulders commercial):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWYVeLipIlw#t=40

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Guitars Etc. / White Falcon / LP Jumbo hybrid project
« on: April 30, 2013, 08:14:16 AM »
Posting this miostly becauseone of you (or at least someone from the old Pit), and I now can't recall exactly who, gave me the pup I'm using in this project (and just asked to see what came of it).  Thanks for that.

Anyway, after dragging my feet on this for a few years (had a kid, built a studio, effed it up a few times and had to start over etc) here is Maude:









That's a low impedance Les Paul humbucker (gold version from the L5S guitar) wired straight to the jack.  I still have to build the external passive pedal preamp circuit with volume, bass, treble and varitone/decade controls  as well as an impedance transformer (so pretty much the same as the original LP Jumbo/Recording curcuit, with some minor mods).  As it is now it will only work well plugged into a mic input; luckily I have an old Bogen amp with 1/4" unbalanced lo-Z inputs; sounds glorious.

Strung her up with Pyramid Flats (still gotta intonate; round core strings so gotta wait until they stretch and settle in to trim the ends or they can slip) and might have to shim the nut.  Happy to find the tension of these strings isn't bowing the neck out at all really (no TR adjustment).  I love how she is so hifi and dreadnaught acoustic like when plugged in (way bassier actually; I need that passive bass control), but a dirty. midrange-aggressive blues box when unplugged.

The body is a 60s Harmony that I found at the closing sale of a local shop and had already been refinished in a much too thick white Polyurethane - looked hot but absolutely no bass response; completely stiffled the body resonance (so it had to go).  That alone took me an entire summer, including the better part of a cottage weekend.




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Bass Amps & Effects / Nothing Special
« on: April 02, 2013, 07:29:54 AM »
My RH115 had a driver with a square ceramic magnet, which I assumed to be Eminence because they did that for a while, but I didn't check the manufacturer code because I didn't care that much.  No MM logo sticker or removed/disintigrated (cab was not in the best shape), so that could have been stock, thanks.

Those 65 watt alnicos are worth some serious coin ... not that magnet material makes any difference to tone or that they deserve to be necessarily - there's no stopping the alnico mythology now and you don't find too many higher powered vintage alnico drivers around.... I do have my personal fave (for guitar use), a sleeper which I can still find cheap (just got another one locally the other month for $40) -  I just like the lower weight  and the cones tend to be more to my liking... generally I found that the later ceramic mag drivers by this same company had a major quality slippage 5-10 years after switching from alnico, like mid-late 70s; I've seen some drivers where the magnet just fell off... so I lopped the mag off a few more and made myself some passive radiators for use in a pair of upgraded/modernised 4x12 PA columns that are front of house at my studio/venue (2 active + 2 passive each; used a black widow and an EV per side as the actives; separate Sunn hi Freq horns on top - I love how it blows old dudes who used to tour in the 60/70s with the exact same setup, minus mods, away to see me using these and sounding good doing it; they kick some serious ass).

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Guitars Etc. / I never liked gold hardware anyway
« on: March 22, 2013, 12:41:53 PM »
Always loved the White Falcon sound and look despite the gold hardware (the only time gold hardware didn't irk me a little; always been more of a nickel/silver man - even the wedding ring which is a "mokume game" of white gold and silver), but just noticed this Billy Duffy sig and OMG WANT!



http://www.gretschguitars.com/features/billy-duffy

Ironically I have been working on a project guitar which is somewhat of a hybrid of a Les Paul Jumbo and a White Falcon.  The irony is that it'll have gold hardware (to match the gold Gibson LoZ pups I have to use in it).  Also it's gonna be (semi-trans) ebony vs solid white.

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The Outpost Cafe / Noel Gallager assaulted by audience member
« on: September 08, 2008, 07:44:30 AM »
Every time I start thinking TO is boring, something like this happens - we've had a bunch of audience/performer fights lately (mostly smaller touring acts so far - see Jay Reatard, there's a vid of that one on Youtube as well), I think it's becoming a 'thing.'

Toronto seems to have a love/hate relationship Oasis in particular - recall the penny throwing incident on one of their last tours (they stopped playing and canecled the show after the crowd wouldn't stop throwing pennies and other things). 

I love how Liam looses his shit and tries to beat down the audience member who shoved his bro while 3 bodyguards are already holding him down and dragging him away.  What a peice of shit - anger is fine and  defending your brother is too be expected, but if you wait to throw a punch until the dude already has 3 bouncers on him, then sorry, you're a pussy bitch and it should have been you that got shoved (look at hime stand back until the bouncers rush in).

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5JBsKih0c

(check out the rev TBird leaning on the Marshall Bass stacks after the incident).

another angle:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PlN7pCOQZ58




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The Outpost Cafe / Looking for advice from Bay-area folks
« on: August 11, 2008, 10:15:39 AM »
I'll be in San Fran for my honeymoon next month and am looking for advice on what to get up to.

We've already spoken to people about some things to check out and some cool restaurants (more suggestions welcome), but I'm wondering if some of you fine folks could give me the lowdown on good local (used) gear shops (guitar/bass/drums/recording).  Also, I wonder if there's any live music (or other shows I guess) worth checking out, specifically on the nights of Sept 15-18 and the 26th.

edit: dates corrected

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The Outpost Cafe / PING Uwe
« on: February 15, 2008, 11:50:23 AM »

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