Need pix of the brothers!

[gweimer]

Who wants to play like Jaco or Flea? Not I.

 

I didn't have a Gibson, but I did this little Epi project once.  Mind you, this is BEFORE the Cream reunion, and the pickup was a custom one-off from Jason Lollar.  It's one of those basses I'd buy back, if I were doing that.

[uwe]

Nothing wrong with these basses at all, I'm very happy with mine. The sound has little to do with an original EB or Reissue EB-1, but it has a voice of its own, especially fretless. E string is a bit weakish, but that is the price you pay with medium scale, where funnily enough I find the E string suffering more in the overall sound than on a good short scale.

[uwe]

Why doesn't this go any higher?

[Basvarken]

It does! You got three more frets to go

[uwe]

I saw the end approaching - with dread!

[TBird1958]

Why doesn't this go any higher?

 If you're doing that, who the hell is playing bass 

[Granny Gremlin]

Silly Uwe, if you want to cup yer balls you haver a perfectly good Victory (or a few actually) for that.

[uwe]

 If you're doing that, who the hell is playing bass 

Those guitar halflings do have a low E-string you know, you just have to teach'em right where their place is ....

[TBird1958]

Those guitar halflings do have a low E-string you know, you just have to teach'em right where their place is ....

 BTW you're almost as gray as I am 

[Blackbird]

Why doesn't this go any higher?

Is MarkBass your amp of choice too?

[uwe]

 BTW you're almost as gray as I am 

I'm a lot greyer now, but the crew-cut kind of hides it.

[66Atlas]

It's cold in Georgia today so I drug out a summer picture.  Too bad the midtown and I barely made it into the shot

[TBird1958]

I'm a lot greyer now, but the crew-cut kind of hides it.

 I have the USMC approved high n tight..........Salt and Pepper. My late father would finally approve!

[uwe]

Is MarkBass your amp of choice too?

"Choice" is overstating things, I'm not hung up over what amp I play as long as it works and is loud enough. People tell me that I sound the same over anything. The MarkBass stuff is more variable than most, not that I really change sounds during a set once I've found one I like.  

Amps and cabs with me never transcend the "tool" status. I play Ampeg SVT, Orange Little Terror, Roland Modeling combos, MarkBass and an Ashdown JAE master-/pre-amp, none of them bugs me enough that I wouldn't take it on stage, but I'd be hard-pressed to name a favorite. This sounds terribly uncool, but it might even be the Roland Modeling combos for sheer variety with a single turn of a knob.  

These days I tend to take the amp/cab with the best weight to loudness ratio with me to an audition or gig (or ask the opening act if I can use their bassist's rig)!

[Pilgrim]

"Choice" is overstating things, I'm not hung up over what amp I play as long as it works and is loud enough. People tell me that I sound the same over anything.

[snip]

These days I tend to take the amp/cab with the best weight to loudness ratio with me to an audition or gig (or ask the opening act if I can use their bassist's rig)!

Seldom have I read comments I agreed with more! I don't think I have ever played through an amp I didn't like.  I can always get a sound that "sounds like me".  That with enough volume and low weight are all I need.