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Other Bass Brands / Re: the Alembic live
« on: March 16, 2024, 10:31:11 PM »
Excellent!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Eric Carmen ...
« on: March 13, 2024, 04:08:10 PM »With one difference being that Rick Springfield was quite a chick magnet. He didn't just have the pop singer image, but also the soap opera thing going on. I think it was just too much for a lot of women to resist. I can remember being around women several times talking about him. They wanted to rip his clothes off as well as their own. I'm sure Eric Carmen must have had a positive reaction, too. I just don't know very much about him.
Rick also had the benefit of Neil Giraldo working with him.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 12, 2024, 09:36:50 AM »
Slash talks about Brian's voice for this recording here.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: T.M. Stevens
« on: March 11, 2024, 08:25:46 AM »
Dementia. That's terrible.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Mod collection restock update
« on: March 08, 2024, 09:37:30 PM »That was bound to come.
Something I don't do due to the lack of left-handed basses available. Wait, what?
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Gibson Basses / Re: Mod collection restock update
« on: March 08, 2024, 07:30:25 PM »
It's otherwise a cool bass, I like the re=issue pickups a lot, and in a short scale like this I bet they sound really good - That color though, why? They make all these cool guitars and just do this $#!* for bass players.
And a tiny fraction of that for left-handed bass players!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 08, 2024, 11:47:09 AM »25
The Outpost Cafe / Re: Sam Ash on the decline
« on: March 08, 2024, 08:09:10 AM »Covid-related lockdown was probably the last time there will ever be a surge in guitar sales for these big, generic retailers with physical stores. Guitar 'culture' seems increasingly irrelevant and at odds with the direction popular music is taking. Coverage of NAMM from thus year looked especially desolate, with several major manufactures notable in their absence. Increasingly, guitar culture is becoming akin to baseball card collecting, with a smaller pool of hobbyists with deep pockets determining the discourse. $600 boutique overdrive pedals that never leave the 'man cave', etc.Totally agree with the baseball card collecting reference. I see so much of it in the TalkBass Thunderbird group. WHY?
Not sure about guitar culture becoming irrelevant, though. I see a lot of really good younger players, and with the writeups about Taylor Swift influencing tons of young women to pick up a guitar.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 04, 2024, 02:20:27 PM »
They have asses, too.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 04, 2024, 11:31:15 AM »
Context!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: March 04, 2024, 11:09:23 AM »
Fiona Apple's cover of The Waterboys' The Whole of the Moon still gives me goosebumps.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: This is disconcerting.
« on: March 01, 2024, 07:10:53 AM »
People ruin everything.