The Last Bass Outpost

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Here's the reason: SMF clearly warns that allowing embedding is a possible security risk. I know some other places allow it, but I'm new at this and learning as I go. When I have enough info to assess the risk and make an informed decision, I may enable it. Or not.

Thanks for the explanation. Being able to embed videos is fun and looks cool, but isn't really necessary in the end.

I found a couple of dog pictures. These are from an Alembic gathering in the San Francisco Bay Area last year. No actual basses in the pictures, but I'm wearing my Alembic t-shirt!


The dog's name is Thor. He did a great job of guarding the tens of thousands of dollars worth of Alembics gathered at the place:

and by the end was just plumb tuckered out:

I've got an early-'70s Tele bass that the previous owner added a P-pickup to:


(sorry for the bad pic)

Right now, the bass is wired mono. The humbucker is MUCH higher output than the P-pickup, but when you have both pups on 10, the volume is more like the P-pup, and the sound is round and deep, kind of like a Jazz Bass. I still think about having it rewired in stereo, with separate outputs for each pickup - I'm pretty sure that's how Billy Sheehan's was wired as well. That way you can get the booming lows from the humbucker through one amp and the mids and highs from the others. Just something to think about...

I used to lust after those basses! I remember looking at the ads in Guitar Player - one in particular with Scott Thunes, Frank Zappa's bassist at the time. Now I'm feeling all nostalgic...

I never watched "Sanford & Son" as a kid, but my band played the theme (also known as "The Streetbeater") around 1990 when I was in college. Lately I've been watching the reruns, and the bass playing by Chuck Rainey is great! In an interview here he says the wrong note at the very end was an accident, but Quincy Jones wanted to keep it in.

The thing that bugs me about reruns these days though is that they play commercials for other shows during the closing credits.