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The Outpost Cafe / Re: How come no one mentioned this?
« on: February 08, 2008, 11:31:40 AM »
"I didn't mention it because of its political nature."

Oh please, let's not get carried away. ::)

George W. Bush has a dog and Bill Clinton had a cat. Both were probably very nice to their respective pets. That in itself is not a political statement and cannot be construed as such.

Except by dog lovers and cat haters and the other way around!  ;D

I have no idea about Herr Huckabee's political agenda except that he's from the Grand Ole Party, but it's nice that he plays bass. Should be mandatory for all Presidents.

He grooves nice enough on Mustang Sally here:



It's amazing how you can play bass and yet remain unpolitical about it.  :o :o ;D ;D ;D

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Rotating the minibucker on your SG RI/Supreme
« on: February 08, 2008, 11:20:09 AM »
My satin maple top SG Supreme's strings were dead so I decided to put on D'Addario Halfrounds I had lying around. And while I was at it I unscrewed the frame of the minibucker, turned it 180 degrees (the lead is ample long enough for that) and rescrewed it so that the pole screws at the side of the mini are now facing towards the neck and not the bridge (I could have also unscrewed the pup within the frame and rotated that but fidgeting with the springs seemed too much work!). The mini in this new position loses presence, but gains quite a bit of mid attack and some more bass: Playing it by itself now or together with the neck TB Plus mockbucker has the bass sound even a bit more vintage than it already does with a honky mid emphasis that is not unreminiscent of g(l)ory EB-3 days.

And it's a totally non-invasive and at anytime quickly reversible mod even an attorney can do!

I'm really proud of myself thinking of that one!  ;)

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Gibson Basses / Re: Gibson revamps site (and GoW turns into GoM)
« on: February 08, 2008, 08:06:36 AM »
I thought the inherent sonically superior qualities of the TB Plus were undisputed even among the most fervent chromie-halflings and that you kids were just obsessed about the look?

I guess they could bring out a chrome (or nickel) hardware TB now just to do something different after 21 years of black hardware on them, but the way they have now scaled down their bass program to just two models, each one of them available in one fin only, I wouldn't hold my breath! We'll probably see a lot of ltd. run alternative fin TBs this year, I can't believe they will just stick to sunburst.

Wonder whether at least one of those 12 GoM will be a bass? Doubtful.

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Gibson Basses / Re: eb4l revived
« on: February 08, 2008, 07:31:22 AM »
Only (St.) John can effortlessly combine sodomy, religion and general climate issues in one innocent and innuendo-less text.

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Gibson Basses / Re: eb4l revived
« on: February 08, 2008, 05:40:00 AM »
"I like that a lot !"

What? Anal sex?  :o ::) And it's supposed to "look really cool"?  :-X

I find the more and more confessional nature of this forum a little demanding sometimes.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: I've seen some odd things but ...
« on: February 08, 2008, 05:36:06 AM »
Do people play lap steel basses?

Jeff Healey could at least provide a worthy attempt doing it!

But why anybody would need a 10 string and an 8 string bass side by side is beyond me. Doesn't the ten string bass encapsulate the eight string already?  ???

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Two Ricky 4005s in Germany.
« on: February 08, 2008, 05:32:14 AM »
I'm happy to have mine and won't sell it, but frankly these basses are overrated. They have little mid punch and hardly any acoustic note to them (that top is massive in its thickness). All credit to the seller for not waffling about how great that bass sounds, because it doesn't. It has a nice, not very assertive tone, but nothing you couldn't get even better at a fraction of the price.

That wreck with "the frozen truss rods" is wildly overpriced, I hate that seller, he always offers crap at vastly inflated prices, never something at least decent.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: How come no one mentioned this?
« on: February 08, 2008, 04:51:36 AM »
That's even a Tobias, isnt it? So he's halfway there.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: What Are Ya Listening To?
« on: February 08, 2008, 04:45:00 AM »
In my car stereo? New Sheryl Crow, Herr Dasson's überlauter Thunderbird on the Johnny Smoke CD, a Jean Luc Ponty anthology, a Cult anthology and Benedictum's*** new (second) CD.

Last week it was UFO's three new remasters of Phenomenon, Force it (a pun on faucet, hence the cover of a couple making out in a bathroom, I only grasped that now  :-[) and No Heavy Petting plus their mid-nineties (aborted) reunion album Walk on Water. Not to forget: A compilation of Ober-Womble Mike Batt singing the songs he's written for mostly other people like Art Garfunkel (Bright Eyes) and Katie Melua (Closest thing to crazy).

I'm a musical whore!


***Benedictum?

A Westcoast multiracial heavy metal four-piece

http://www.benedictum.net/

with a singer with a voice to match her ... I think voluptuous is the word ... exterior.




She sounds like a mix of Dio, Halford  and Ann Wilson ...



... and does rather credible Ronnie James Dio impressions, except that she is probably twice as tall as he is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQv81cQgVfo&feature=related




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Gibson Basses / Gibson revamps site (and GoW turns into GoM)
« on: February 08, 2008, 04:04:43 AM »
http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/divisions/gibson%20usa/products/bass/


http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Gibson%20USA%20Introduces%20the%202008/

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Gibson Basses / Re: Flying V Turns 50
« on: February 07, 2008, 12:28:59 PM »
Still sounds pretty twangy for a Gibson, IMHO. Not bad, just surprisingly twangy.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: What happened to the turtles
« on: February 07, 2008, 10:02:41 AM »
Legal advice is like contraceptives: Best used before the act.

And there is another similarity: If not applied initially, both sides tend to blame each other for the consequences.

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Gibson Basses / Re: Flying V Turns 50
« on: February 07, 2008, 07:40:42 AM »
Quote from: Blazer on February 06, 2008, 05:55:38 PM
What? All this flying V talk and nobody mentions the guy who was the very first Flying V master?

Bow to the King!

Albert King could smoke all of those guys with his amp on stand by.

And to show you guys that he could back up that thing I just said...



Nice brittle tone with a bit of a Tele twang to it. I've read from V players again and again that they prefer it over a Les Paul because an LP sounds just too phat and clutters everything, especially rhythm work and where there are two guitars playing constantly.

Why did no one ever teach Gary Moore that he could use his pinky too? He does fret  a note with it once in a while, but more as an afterthought. Speaking of guitar heroes, I think the all fingers fret technique of, say, Messrs Blackmore and Schenker looks so much more elegant.

Uwe

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Gibson Basses / Re: Flying V Turns 50
« on: February 07, 2008, 07:34:09 AM »
Good point, Gibson got back at Dean and swiped their headstock!

But do you really think the, errrm, "legwork" of the female Dean PR employees was the design inspiration behind all this?

John Fertig, you truly have a one track mind.  :-\

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Gibson Basses / Re: Great score on a reissue SG Bass
« on: February 07, 2008, 07:32:16 AM »
No worries there, there is plenty of room. If you screwed the 3 point all the way down on an SG RI, the strings would be dangling on the fretboard. They adjusted fretboard height and bridge height just right, something that has not been true for all three point equipped basses in the past, both my Blackbird and my LP Sig were misaligned in that sense.

Uwe

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