The Last Bass Outpost

Ok then, can anybody find a version sung by this guy then?



This forum caters to everone's desires and aims to please.

In the meantime and given your Goth leanings, Mark, this will do nicely, nein?

This sounds a bit like if those old geezers had shot the kids "the kids would have only had themselves to blame".  

Big no. The resident attorney speaks. Using the toy car was a joke of candid camera ilk. You might not like the joke or think its funny. But it didn't do any permanent or material harm. The old geezers could have laughed it off, wagged their fingers at the kids and yelled "now have that toy car shove the ball back to its original position or we'll spank you and speak to your parents". And the kids would have probably done so. You know what, the old men could have acted as sports not as vicious idiots. The appropriate reaction would have been to pick up the car and holler good-naturedly at the bush: "Does that mean we get to keep this now or do you want it back?"

Smashing the toy car was ill temper and bad style by the bearded guy. But it gets worse: Attacking the kid with the club by the unbearded one was armed assault, nothing else. I would have indicted him for it, the f***ing idiot. What would have happened if the kid had stumbled, would it have been ok for the old, idiotic badger to hit him? Just a little, until he starts to bleed or completely dead? He did disturb their game you know.

An eye for an eye, a smashed head for a dislocated golf ball? You guys can't be serious about this. We're writing 2011 not 1811 where it was ok to hang someone for stealing horses. Or maybe it wasn't even ok to do that back then.

This has nothing to do with golf, college pranks, old or young. It has to do with reasoned, balanced reaction. You're expected to have that as an adult, more so as a pensioner. I find how the sour-faced unbearded guy/armed assaulter acted absolutely intolerable. Too bad he didn't have a heart attack while running. Or maybe he did. There is still hope.

I've done worse things as a kid or youth. No one ever attacked me with a golf club for it nor would I have thought back then or today that he would have had a right to.

Look and behold: Dave has started a political discussion.  

As if I didn't know Rosetta Stone!!!  Yup, Woody was on rhythm guitar before they did a McCartney with him (this is where parallels between BCR and that other band with a "B" end though!).
 


Alan Longmuir, the original bass player was my favorite Roller, and unlike his brother (Derek, on drums) he kept his hands off children too.

LOL, Nofi, it's not like you have any deeper penchant for da blooze, is it?

My Lp bass has a plate under the bridge, but I thought it to be a flat surface to withstand the height adjustment tension?

Naw, it's a chunk of metal as thick as the upper part.

The more sustain the less snap and attack perhaps. And wood tone. I hear less alder or ash (or whatever non-descript plant remnants these folks from California use ...  ) in a P or J with a heavy duty bridge (think Geddy Lee Signature) than on those with the flimsy original bridge. And those are snappier, livelier too, the only drawback is that high notes die pretty quickly and don't really sing. They are more percussive though.

Why would you want more sustain on a bass? You certainly don't need it for the deep tones, but when playing upper register notes that you want to let "stand" rather than quick percussive runs, then the sustain of a TBird or Ric is just sweeter (and beefier) than of a bolt-on bass no matter what the bridge.

What I like about the three point is that it doesn't have this massive plate obstructing the surface of the bass' top, yet isn't flimsy either with those three large studs. I'm not aware of any other bridge like that. It doesn't look utalitarian yet is. In comparison, both the Badass and the Supertone have put purpose over visual design which is sensible and generally good designing - form follows function -, but having both once in a while is nice too.

But this bass' prototype status warrants that its original look be reinstated. I have the Supertone on my Blackbird and it looks nicely industrial ON THAT TYPE OF TBird, gives a little more sustain (but just like a Ric a TBird is inherently already a sustain-rich bass so there is nothing really gained that way) than the three point and lets you lower the action a little more evenly, but the effects are not startling. I have not felt compelled to repeat the exercise with any other bass. Then again if that bass should play like a dream with it, I might keep it on there.

I might reinstall the three point for historical accuracy AND because it is a sensible bridge. But let's hear first what Herr Carlston thinks of the Supertone.