Sounds familiar to me too, almost
too familiar, Rob...
First thing I saw on colour TV was
THUNDERBIRDS (
are go... 1969 we were
well behind the US of A -
predictable...? how dare you...) hence the Peter Cook T'bird being so
colourful, or was that being taken to the cinema in '68 to see the
HAL 9000 on the big screen... still blown away by the "
through the monolith" section,
maaaan... probably explains the loose screws..., oh yeah Martin Turner, Phil Mogg... Mr Entwistle -
ohh, those fingers could dance...
Dennis Dunnaway and Jim Lea and Jack Bruce and Andy Fraser- my wanting to play bass and after an EB3L (
so what, I settled for an SG, she was cheap at the time...) which I will probably get one day...
Felix Pappalardi - a sad obsession with EB1's - a truly
MOUNTAINous sound... poor deranged Gail Collins, living with that...
Berry Oakley and Dennis Dunnaway - tried a Jazz for a while (loan), just felt like a piece of wood...
sorry Fender Dept... but
loved the sound they got with them, never tried a
Pre CBS as I like that neck profile (ref to PC'bird) ...
Roger Glover and Gary "Geddy" Lee - In London, at the time I bought my RD, Ric's were
even MORE expensive...
but what a sound... both have,
mostly, moved away...
John Gustafson - standing behind the speaker stack at the Marquee taking photos of the
jazzy Ian Gillan Band and this man
GLARING at me making these thunderous sounds... great night... great band... too expensive an instrument...
Jaco and Paladino for fretless, but Im really quite normal,
honest...
oops... strayed again...Well, some of it Rob (and Scott, and Mark) ...
How did I end up with an RD...? oh yeah...
The
Ruthlessly
Desecrated had the same Badass as yours, Scott (
I think), at least for a while, and was on the PC until the rebuild this year... languishing on the bench in the shed at the moment - might be tricky to fit to a headless, which is the only one of the trio left it's not been on, and a bit bulky to use as a thumb rest...
oh yeah... as people are being generous to me and if on a tight budget...
anyone want a Badass...? gratis...Saddles are quite "
altered" (wide neck on the PC compared to the RD) can post pic...
If not it'll stay in the shed for now...
That "
Pay It Forward" moment...
I don't own a "
stock" instrument, but in
due deference to the the moderators, it is probably best that
none of you
ever see my
Ibanez 12 string, nor my
Hohner Jack...
Rob, to me, selling an instrument would be like
cutting off a piece of my own flesh, same goes for my Hiwatt and my Marshall, but I do understand where you are coming from... your in the NBPC - loan her to Chris and see if he'll loan something to you, just to try out... oh yeah, and bass players can "
hit the note" too - you can have a dog of an instrument as a looker, as long as it works... my simple philosophy...
My Dell laptop (where I do my
primary writing) which is getting long in the tooth ('03), which has lost connectivity with our SOHO... as the "fault" is confirmed (working on both as I sit here) will have to be reformatted as soon as I've backed up my back ups of my back ups onto my backup HP and my primary Dell (which is where I'm at) -
30 gig via USB1 - that is what I mean by
PC HELL...