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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone for 2024
« on: February 29, 2024, 11:06:21 AM »
I wouldn't trust any geometries to be faithfully reproduced on an image that potentially came from a smartphone or similar small device.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: It’s official … 4005
« on: February 28, 2024, 03:54:49 PM »What's the difference between these with the rounded horns and the ones with the horns that come to a point?
The pointy beast, 4005XC, was shortscale and not based on a historic instrument. Oddly, Shaftesbury had a bass like the 4005XC in the late '60s, so it's a copy of a copy.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone for 2024
« on: February 28, 2024, 10:19:09 AM »
Alan has a perm too then?
Ich wohne Mittelschottland, nicht Mittelerde.
Have Ich keine Haare.
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Gibson Basses / Re: 1966 EBSF-1250 Double neck with Fuzz
« on: February 27, 2024, 11:50:02 AM »"Wow! $50,000 with a non functioning FuzzTone circuit!"
Those things are hell to repair, really tricky and you don't get the electronic parts anymore.
Damn. I assumed it would be six components and a battery. Presumably some obsolete transistors are involved?
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Gibson Basses / Re: Epiphone for 2024
« on: February 27, 2024, 11:48:11 AM »I've never seen anything that shade of green in Inverness. Things are a bit more dark and mooted up there.
Maybe 'Culloden green' is next on the agenda.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Rics
« on: February 26, 2024, 02:44:26 PM »"Exstabdaed"?
Never heard that term, what is it supposed to mean string for string?
My iPhone tried to turn 'E Standard' into something more exciting.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Dating American vs. European Women
« on: February 24, 2024, 10:47:52 AM »
This seems to play into the whole QAnon 'where are all the trad wives?' narrative that seeks to rob American women of their agency based on a wishful notion that European women are more traditional: stunning to look at, loyal, strong but subservient, modest but not prudish. Keen to cook, clean and pop out your children. Virginal but somehow utter filth in the bedroom. A Billy Graham outlook on woman mangled by an unceasing addiction to streaming pornography services.
Perhaps to whoever made the video made the reductivist assumption that Europe is just one big country? Paris is in one corner and Athens in the other, with Copenhagen on the top and Rome at the bottom.
Perhaps to whoever made the video made the reductivist assumption that Europe is just one big country? Paris is in one corner and Athens in the other, with Copenhagen on the top and Rome at the bottom.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Rics
« on: February 24, 2024, 10:39:16 AM »
I like Chris' playing here. There's enough hairiness to it that it sounds human, but it is still quite technical and has an ethos of jazz at its core.
I really can't get behind that school of thought that the pinnacle of bass playing is playing rigidly through transcribed Ornette Coleman solos on a six string Ken Smith bass with a bit of chorus, using only the bridge pickup. With jazz, I would rather hear complex through-composed passages on their original instruments rather than bass. Wind instruments will always be more expressive that a clean bass tone.
I really can't get behind that school of thought that the pinnacle of bass playing is playing rigidly through transcribed Ornette Coleman solos on a six string Ken Smith bass with a bit of chorus, using only the bridge pickup. With jazz, I would rather hear complex through-composed passages on their original instruments rather than bass. Wind instruments will always be more expressive that a clean bass tone.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds
« on: February 24, 2024, 06:23:42 AM »
Second 'shower thought'... did Ace Frehley borrow a bit of stagecraft from Ariel Bender? Minus the spaceman makeup there is a similar schtick going on.
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Gibson Basses / Re: 1966 EBSF-1250 Double neck with Fuzz
« on: February 24, 2024, 06:22:20 AM »
I wish Gibson had shipped that behemoth to Jimmy Page.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Rics
« on: February 23, 2024, 12:49:17 PM »
Geezer never really got the best out that Rick throughout that gig. It's a dull rumble. They played that gig in Exstabdaed tuning, so all the sludgy C# stuff got hiked up to E as well.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds
« on: February 23, 2024, 12:44:33 PM »
The unflinching lyric "Some spade said rock 'n' rollers, you're all the same" as well. An English rock band casually throwing out 1920s racial slurs. And what are oreoles?
I quite like the raw attack of Ariel Bender's playing. I gather Mott were a huge underground bar band that struggled to get a commercial foothold. That wild lead guitar playing was probably totally captivating in small clubs at high volume.
I quite like the raw attack of Ariel Bender's playing. I gather Mott were a huge underground bar band that struggled to get a commercial foothold. That wild lead guitar playing was probably totally captivating in small clubs at high volume.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Neodymium EB-0 Pickup.........
« on: February 21, 2024, 08:47:06 AM »
I think the pickups themselves are passive as they appear to have three hookup wires. Judging by the post on this forum, the wires correspond with the start and end of the coils, plus a chassis ground, grounding the poles. No requirement for power to the pickup:https://forum.seymourduncan.com/forum/the-pickup-lounge/335857-ernie-ball-stingray-special-18v-neodymium-wiring-in-series-help-swap-smb-4d
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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds
« on: February 21, 2024, 05:30:01 AM »
Live Mott the Hoople, with a TB II providing all the low end rumble.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: New acoustic/electric from Sire
« on: February 20, 2024, 02:45:48 AM »
I wouldn't be too surprised if the Sire basses and import Sadowsky Metro Express basses are coming from the same factories.
My second Sire bass was a P5R. A basic P Bass copy. The one weird thing was the roasted maple neck. It was dark brown, like it had been hit with walnut wood stain. Far darker than any torrified maple I've seen elsewhere. Even the budget brands like Harley Benton are using this supposedly roasted maple, but it is suspiciously dark.
My second Sire bass was a P5R. A basic P Bass copy. The one weird thing was the roasted maple neck. It was dark brown, like it had been hit with walnut wood stain. Far darker than any torrified maple I've seen elsewhere. Even the budget brands like Harley Benton are using this supposedly roasted maple, but it is suspiciously dark.