The Last Bass Outpost

Yes, there are two on Ebay - same seller.  If he doesn't get back to me I'll just go after the ones he has at auction.

Plus one on that Dave, I work at a Fender/Squier dealer ( as the tech, I refuse to use the term luthier seems a bit pretentious ) and the number of banana-necked unadjustable guitars and basses I see.............................

Really??

Is that true even on the VM series?

That blue 50's Squier is dangerous for me to look at...

Definitely a mixed bag of reports.

The interesting thing is that since I bought the 4500 amp, I've followed threads about it - and it seems to be one piece of Behringer gear that people like.  Maybe they hit a good design with this one?

But every now and then I do get a hankering to A/B it with some other amp - like one of the new Acoustic 200's or something else that gets a lot of positive press.  I'd kind of like to see if there's something I'm missing.  I don't HEAR anything missing - and I'm happy with the sound - but it makes me wonder.

I'll be darned. I just checked the link in the EB0 Junior thread and the gent who sold the Eastwood P-90 pickups in that auction has some new ones up:

Link fixed: http://cgi.ebay.com/Eastwood-P-90-Bass-Pickup-Mosrite-NEW-IN-BOX!!!_W0QQitemZ260271355611QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0808061443r37094


What do you think??  The price is sure right.  Pickups in the $30 range would be pretty cool.

I've heard a few of those blood-curdling screams in the middle of the night.  First time I heard it I thought something was getting killed - slowly! 

Either we have some wild animal mating rituals going on, or my neighbors are getting MUCH too kinky.  On second thought - perhaps the distinction is pretty moot.

That's understandable. My family has a strong aversion to scarlet & gray!

Careful, now. My alma mater, Washington State (see avatar) is CRIMSON and gray.  Clearly not scarlet, oh indeedy not.

And yes, the intellectual/cultural aspect of College Station was a significant part of the reason for my change of scenery - although truth to tell, it was mostly cultural.  College Station has a lot of bright, capable people, but culturally this child of the fairly informal Pacific Northwest didn't fit in very well.  I asked too many questions and tried to change the status quo.  Mea culpa.

AND - I'm having another brainstorm: Gibson Gold-Top would look GREAT on that Hi-Flyer body, and ReRanch has it in rattle cans. This photo was taken from ReRanch's website at: http://reranchstore.stores.yahoo.net/goldtopgold.html



Question is, would I paint just the top this color, the whole thing?  That route around the top on the Hi-flyer makes it a bit problematic to declare where the top ends.  It might also be a trick to get the demarcation line right between top and back if I didn't just paint the whole thing gold - ala Dick Dale - which is a possibility.

I just get by with my good old 1999 Blazer.  Gets 20-22 MPG hiway, has 130K miles on it and I've never even had to change the spark plugs yet.

Boring, I know.  But it holds the gear and runs like a watch.