The Last Bass Outpost

I had to slowly warm up to a Tele guitar body with bass appointments. Now I can say that I like them quite a bit.

Though I think that a Tele with a more rounded butt... like a Les Paul would be way cool too.

Anyway, it looks great so far.

Mark, you always look great even especially if you are sweating like a barnyard animal...

Since we all wear flight suits it gets hot and sticky pretty fast at Hawk Attack shows, I think the lights are the worst bit, but no AC sucks.

How’s the new drummer?

I have spent a lot of time on his website, been to his two of his shops a bunch of times met his wife (she is really nice) and chatted with Mr. Roman a number of times and even bought a guitar from him once.

He is brash,opinionated, curt and even insensitive, especially if you like anything with Gibson on it.

Having said that I like him and he has some really good ideas about building a guitar, I have stolen many of them for my own projects.

Have y'all seen Zachary Guitars, I love Alex's stuff, here is his take on a Firebird.

http://http://www.zacharyguitars.com/230407pics.htm

He is another guy that most people love to hate... he is just out there enough for me.

I hear ya, you are only as good as your drummer.

Ours has his moments but he still has a hard time with the notion that he needs to keep time  , he doesn't wear the flight suit either.

We have been playing out quite a bit recently. Between the band and the wife I have been the proverbial "one legged man at a butt kickin' contest".

Our show Saturday night was much better than the one last Friday even though our warm up group canceled 3 hours before the show. (That should tell you just how crappy the previous show was) Couldn't be helped and they are good guys, we will play with them again.

Anyway, I drug out the Les Paul bass for the first time in a long time and it sounded great through my SVT and two 15's.

Someone bought us all shots of Frangelico after I announced over the microphone I wanted a shot of "that Mrs. Butterworth".   

Later

Hell, that would look good in my yard!

Oh yeah, I can't wait to see what happens with that T-Bird body.

Oh no, the sound is great, though I have been getting some strange buzzing recently.

Mine has the T-bird pickups and the Bart pre-amp and it pretty much kicks out the jams.

Maybe one day I'll figure out what the knobs actually do.