... My only beef with the bass is you can't play a D bar chord off the A string at the 17th fret.
I am but the irritant from which the pearl doth form... ;)
I don't give a damn whether it's period-correct, faithful or whatever, it looketh nothing less than great! (Of course it's not a "Custom Shop" model, Music Zoo cocked that up.)
I wonder how the edges are finished on the non-bound black one.
If you look close...Gibson used spray adhesive on them and glues surplus Tascan 1/2-inch recording tape over the seams. Blends right in on the black finish!
I hear Henry is thinking about the same trick to make fingerboards look like ebony! ;D
Not convinced about the ebony sans binding though.Yep. Never liked the look of unbound hollowbodies, like the Lakland hollowbody or Höfner Verithin.
Yep. Never liked the look of unbound hollowbodies, like the Lakland hollowbody or Höfner Verithin.
I don't give a damn whether it's period-correct, faithful or whatever, it looketh nothing less than great! (Of course it's not a "Custom Shop" model, Music Zoo cocked that up.)
Custom eh? That's cool. Wonder why they didn't use any mahogany in this one.
Dang... I want one in cherry. Way more than I can spend though. Not saying it's not worth it. Looks like a killer bass.
Cool!
And the Verythin Bass sure has bindings!
http://www.beatlebassdealer.com/Hofner-Basses-2011/hofner-verythin-bass.png
Sounds like a keeper Bill!
I spoke to the head of the Nashville Gibson CS. This is their first bass. It looks very cool in real life and there was a sunburst on the Messe. Maybe it's already discussed here, but it has guitar humbuckers:) He said an EB2 follows in '14.
It is the Memphis CS. Made a mistake.
Bill stopped by with his 335 today and all I can say is wow! certainly the best offering of this new spate of Gibsons in the past few years. A great sounding and playing bass and what a beauty! My only gripe is upper register access. thanks for stopping by Bill!
Yes, we've been waiting decades for them to bring back the 335 bass! :rolleyes:
Sounds good. I wish some of these demo guys would dig in a little harder, but whatever.
I wish some of these demo guys would dig in a little harder, but whatever.I wish some of these demo guys were good bass players. I'm sorry, but too many times it sounds and looks like guitar players doing bass demos, and it bugs me.
I'm sorry, but too many times it sounds and looks like guitar players doing bass demos, and it bugs me.
At least he's not slapping and popping the hell out of it.
L&M has em you say. ... just another reason to stay away, don't need the gas.
So you're Canadian Blackbird? Where abouts?
...
So you're Canadian Blackbird? Where abouts?
Shouldn't that be where aboot, eh?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/davepix/humor/canadian-csi.jpg)
See the chrome
Feel the chrome
Touch the chrome
Heal the chrome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubBw3dE8Wc
I was looking for a comparison of the 335 and the Midtown and found these videos. If I had the scratch I'd spring for one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXprNv-EkjU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOsnS49ei1M
Yup - as do the Midtown basses. Everybody likes bound necks on semis, except that little punk Canuck. :popcorn:
Do any Thunderbirds have bound necks...? Just thinking that re mine having it...
Anyway, we should defineHoser'sCanadians... ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZvAVcBIrQ
....
I don't like most rap or hip-hop either, but I think it is a valid cultural form of music. No, it's mostly not melodic, but it is rhythmic, macho, disillusioned, violent, sexist, provocative, urban and black. Sort of what the MC5 might have been to white Detroit youths in the late sixties.
But I think it has nothing to do with the retreat of rock music. In fact it has had some influence, some of the jagged rhythms of today's harder rock music owe perhaps more to Grandmaster Flash & Furious Five than to, say, Foghat. Just like the much derided Disco influenced rock to turn up the drums in volume and have the kick drum become more simplistic, hypnotic and accessible.
I've only recently bought CDs by KC & The sunshine Band, O'Jays, George McCrae and The Three Degrees. I'm a rocker, but if your butt doesn't move when you hear Love Train, then you're probably dead.
Yeah...I still have mine in a folder too. had to drive a couple hours in a blizzard, from rochester to Buffalo, to take the test. I HAD to have one because I "combo'd" on my midnight to 6 a.m. shift, meaning there was no separate engineer who ran the turntables or pressed the buttons while I spoke. A lot of radio stations used to have separate engineers and separate voice DJs. The FCC required a radio station to always have an licensed engineer on duty, so if you combo'd, you had to have the FCC license because you were required to do hourly transmitter readings. In my case, at certain times during the night, I also had to change the transmitter power and broadcast direction. I would imagine all that sort of stuff is automated now but back then it was done manually in a roomful of huge rack electronics that looked like a SCi-fi movie from the '50s.
Yup - as do the Midtown basses. Everybody likes bound necks on semis, except that little punk Canuck. :popcorn:
I NEVER thought I would be defending Canadians, after years on the radio along the New York/CANADIAN border and having Canadians always call to request bands from their country.
It was such fun taunting them over the airwaves :)
BUT.....Canada HAS actually had the last laugh on America. At this point, Canadian radio is SOOOOO much better than its U.S. counterpart. you can hear amazing music up in Canada, especially classic rock and obscure-to-Americans tracks.
IMO, it is because Canada lacks the Black and Hispanic demographics, due to the cold, that have taken over the U.S. music industry and ruined it. Rock is pretty much dead. If it wasn't on American Idol or some othe TV "make a star" show, or rap/HipHop or in Spanish.....there is NO NEW ROCK MUSIC being aired. A good argument for another ice age, no?
And American "music television" is even worse. MTV and the others have decided to ram either "global/world music" or rap/HipHop down our throats. I ised to laugh at how bad "Euro Pop" was when I was over there a lot in the 90s...horrid pop or dance pop. Now MTV's idiotic vision has forced the U.S. To "catch up" to the rest of the world's music.
AMERICA STARTED ROCK 'N' ROLL, JAZZ...HELL, EVEN RAP AND HIP HOP.
WHY....would we want to become the "rest of the world" in music?
That is as stupid as if Hollywood deciding to imitate Euro or Baliwood/Indian filmmaking.
But Pandora's Box has been opened. it cannot be reversed. Just like the Internet completely changing what had been the record industry. Now no one wants to pay for music. Crazy that all musicians should become buskers with disposable wares, like video games that are thrown away every six months.
I'm in talk-radio mode at the present mo... everything else (radio) here is not worth discussing...
Disco, rap, reggae, hop-hip... never did click any of it...
Rather oddly, just stumbled on a Finnish singer called Maija Vilkkumaa, all in Finnish language, and it's quite enjoyable... certainly not mass appeal... I could listen to her material in considerably more comfort than any of that other stuff... absolutely no idea what she's singing about...
Did you see Skynyrd with RVZ...?
Well....I think one thing we can all agree on, no matter what the genre of music, it all eventually ends up in a horrid watered down version forced upon us in elevators.
Rather clever, IMO.....horrid versions of music forced upon a trapped audience, like a lab rat experiment.
I wonder what elevator versions of rap songs will sound like?
I'm sure Jay-Z must already the company that will produce RAP MUZAK.
Holy cow. Of their 10 least obscure hit songs, by title I only know two. I'm sure I've heard some of the others, but I can only be sure of two. Dang.
In the list of least obscure adjusted for time, I know all 10.
I have managed to steer clear of Spotify so I didn't listen to any of the music linked at the bottom.
The American public is already a trapped audience in a kind of lab rat experiment, but just doesn't know it. Of course, this is my opinion, and I'm mostly speaking of what music is promoted to target audiences, etc. Something like this has always gone on, but not like this. Generational changes in music have always gone on, but in the past it has been more of a logically progressing flow through time.
The public increasingly avoids radio and uses streaming and individualized services. I think commercial radio has brought this on itself.
I NEVER thought I would be defending Canadians, after years on the radio along the New York/CANADIAN border and having Canadians always call to request bands from their country.
It was such fun taunting them over the airwaves :)
BUT.....Canada HAS actually had the last laugh on America. At this point, Canadian radio is SOOOOO much better than its U.S. counterpart. you can hear amazing music up in Canada, especially classic rock and obscure-to-Americans tracks.
Am I the only one who had a smirking case of schadenfreude for Sony Pictures and its hacking problems?
Is the American public supposed to start clamoring for Kim Jong Il's head because Sony had its dirty laundry aired publicly? Is ISIS not enough of an evil to keep the American public quaking in terror and sending its children off to die attacking the boogeymen who feed the US Inc.? I'll just be over here adjusting my tinfoil hat. :o
Nice post PBG... nice post...! ;)