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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Rock and comic strips
« on: December 28, 2008, 09:29:38 PM »
The funny thing about Crumb is that he hates rock music in general. He's an old-time acoustic music nut... delta blues and so forth.
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Fender Basses / Re: Fender Telecaster Bass transformation
« on: December 21, 2008, 10:09:13 PM »When I found a used set of Alembic Activators for $275 (they usually go for close to a grand!)
they WHAT??? (slinkp looks at his battered mojo activator-equipped ibanez blazer with a little more appreciation)
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The Bass Zone / Re: Which one of your basses has the most Mojo and why?
« on: December 14, 2008, 10:55:26 PM »That was the rare 3 in a row knob with the tobacco teardrop burst that also featured the ice cream cup headstock?
Yes, that's the LPB-1. A pic of mine is here:
http://slinkp.com/bass/gear
I mentioned it because Skate Rat posted a picture of his red one, which looks pretty similar other than the color.
Hey, Skate Rat, we're neighbors! I'm in Brooklyn too (Prospect Heights).
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The Bass Zone / Re: Which one of your basses has the most Mojo and why?
« on: December 10, 2008, 11:08:40 PM »
I dig my LPB-1. Acoustically, the combination of mahogany body, mahogany neck, and ebony fretboard is just magic. Weighs a freakin' ton though.
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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: December 10, 2008, 09:23:54 PM »
I'm telling you man, lightweight tuners will make your left hand happy.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Which one of your basses has the most Mojo and why?
« on: December 09, 2008, 02:57:17 PM »For those of you won don't know, Pullman WA is an unusual town
Coincidentally, I spent a couple weeks one summer (1986?) in nearby Albion, WA, population 500 or so at the time.
I was a teen back then, visiting my best friend whose dad had moved from suburban NY to suburban Redmond, WA, but he opted to instead move in with his artsy lesbian mom in Albion. There were like two punk rockers in Albion that summer and he was one of them. Me, I was just a dork whose saving grace was playing bass. His mom's girlfriend loaned me a Peavey of some sort to plunk around on while I was there. We had a fairly good time in a really boring town... I don't remember much about Pullman though except that we went there for a movie one night.
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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: December 05, 2008, 06:48:28 PM »
That sounds birdlike for sure. At least a member of the right species. Nice.
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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: December 05, 2008, 12:30:58 PM »
It's also partly that Gibson, in most of their designs, liked to put a couple inches wood behind the bridge, which shifts the center of gravity in that direction. I dunno why they designed that way... purely visual aesthetics I'd guess.
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The Bass Zone / For sale: Schroeder 1212 (original) excellent condition - $470 - NYC
« on: December 05, 2008, 08:51:22 AM »
Gotta make room (and cash) for baby stuff! I'd like to sell my Schroeder 1212 cab.
Description: Two Eminence twelves rated at 500w each, one firing front, one at an angle inside the cab. This is the original model with regular (not neodymium) speakers. Tweeter - over the years these cabs have been sold with a few different tweeters - this has the original "100 Watts titanium tweeter horn", which informally can be recognized by its elongated rectangular shape (more recent cabs come with a more square or rounded tweeter). Carpet finish. I bought the cab new via direct shipping in January 2005. Serial no. 1212/135II (or something like that, it's hand-written).
Condition: Very clean. It has been to only 4 gigs since I bought it new in January '05. Other than that, it has sat, rarely played, in my (no-smoking, no-pets) apartment.
Sound: I would describe it as having very powerful lows and midbass that projects well even outdoors, with a little bit of upper treble snap from the tweeter, and subdued upper-mids. I like a lot more upper-mid bite, so I can't really use this cab standalone. Personally I quite like it paired with a brighter cab, but at that point I've been realizing I'd just as soon leave it home since my EA CXL-112L is a bit more portable and usually loud enough for me. It's reputedly very similar to the 1210 model that unleashed absurd amounts of Talkbass hype and backlash... the 1212 is reputedly just a little darker-sounding than the 1210. I have not done a direct comparison.
Size: 23.5"x16"x16". Weight: claimed to be 54 lbs, but my bathroom scale says 58 lbs, give or take.
It's at bottom right here:
... no I am not selling the EA cabs, those are the ones I'm keeping :-)
If anyone's interested, I can take more / better pictures on request, and maybe even attempt a recording if I can get my damn software working again.
I would really prefer a local pickup, but for you guys, I could ship :-)
New, current models go for $739 plus shipping; I recently saw one go on ebay for $470 plus shipping, so I'm using that as my starting price.
Description: Two Eminence twelves rated at 500w each, one firing front, one at an angle inside the cab. This is the original model with regular (not neodymium) speakers. Tweeter - over the years these cabs have been sold with a few different tweeters - this has the original "100 Watts titanium tweeter horn", which informally can be recognized by its elongated rectangular shape (more recent cabs come with a more square or rounded tweeter). Carpet finish. I bought the cab new via direct shipping in January 2005. Serial no. 1212/135II (or something like that, it's hand-written).
Condition: Very clean. It has been to only 4 gigs since I bought it new in January '05. Other than that, it has sat, rarely played, in my (no-smoking, no-pets) apartment.
Sound: I would describe it as having very powerful lows and midbass that projects well even outdoors, with a little bit of upper treble snap from the tweeter, and subdued upper-mids. I like a lot more upper-mid bite, so I can't really use this cab standalone. Personally I quite like it paired with a brighter cab, but at that point I've been realizing I'd just as soon leave it home since my EA CXL-112L is a bit more portable and usually loud enough for me. It's reputedly very similar to the 1210 model that unleashed absurd amounts of Talkbass hype and backlash... the 1212 is reputedly just a little darker-sounding than the 1210. I have not done a direct comparison.
Size: 23.5"x16"x16". Weight: claimed to be 54 lbs, but my bathroom scale says 58 lbs, give or take.
It's at bottom right here:
... no I am not selling the EA cabs, those are the ones I'm keeping :-)
If anyone's interested, I can take more / better pictures on request, and maybe even attempt a recording if I can get my damn software working again.
I would really prefer a local pickup, but for you guys, I could ship :-)
New, current models go for $739 plus shipping; I recently saw one go on ebay for $470 plus shipping, so I'm using that as my starting price.
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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: December 05, 2008, 07:46:47 AM »
My gosh that is pretty.
I haven't really followed this saga very closely. What is the pickup?
Also, I don't know what tuners it came with, but a set of Hiphot Ultralights cured my Greco's neck-diving tendencies:
I haven't really followed this saga very closely. What is the pickup?
Also, I don't know what tuners it came with, but a set of Hiphot Ultralights cured my Greco's neck-diving tendencies:
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The Bass Zone / Re: Which one of your basses has the most Mojo and why?
« on: December 03, 2008, 11:11:43 AM »Ha, here's my Post Punk Puke Paintjob:
Love it!
Chromium, I like that Aria as well. I've occasionally thought of stripping mine but eh, seems a lot of bother and would only uncover the horrors I've done to the wood.
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The Bass Zone / Re: The worst Bass sound ever put on record.
« on: December 03, 2008, 09:04:05 AM »
I'm a big Talking Heads fan.
As for "Sugar on my Tongue", I believe that was a no-budget direct-to-2-track recording before Jerry Harrison even joined the band. Tina had probably been playing bass for less than a year. Not surprisingly, it sounds like crap.
There's some much better live recordings from the early years... here's a random one from '78 when they were still a four-piece.
As for "Sugar on my Tongue", I believe that was a no-budget direct-to-2-track recording before Jerry Harrison even joined the band. Tina had probably been playing bass for less than a year. Not surprisingly, it sounds like crap.
There's some much better live recordings from the early years... here's a random one from '78 when they were still a four-piece.
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The Bass Zone / Where to buy and sell now?
« on: December 03, 2008, 08:57:46 AM »
One of the things I miss about the old Pit is the sense that I could trust people there... I bought and sold a fair amount of my gear there.
But I kind of lost interest after the various site moves and drama explosions.
Where do you guys go now? I'd kinda like to not resort to Ebay or Craigslist.
But I kind of lost interest after the various site moves and drama explosions.
Where do you guys go now? I'd kinda like to not resort to Ebay or Craigslist.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Which one of your basses has the most Mojo and why?
« on: December 03, 2008, 08:53:17 AM »
Some pretty nice basses in here. Mine is not so nice 
Ibanez Blazer circa 1981-1982, all maple I believe. Bought it for $200 new during a closeout sale before the Blazers went out and the Roadstar IIs came in. Stock pickup replaced with Alembic Activator. Alembic J pickup added later at the bridge... did the routing myself, rather sloppily. Pickguard sawed down by hand to just the control area... rather sloppily. Note additional chunk of badly-hand-cut black pickguard added later for the pickup blend control. Dunlop straplocks countersunk into the body using a big drill bit. 20th and 21st frets missing - around 1985 or so I briefly felt inspired to switch to fretless - an inspiration which vanished after only two frets. Thank god I started at that end of the neck :-)
Puke paint job done in my nineties postpunk era when I got tired of the stock Candy Apple.
I haven't played it much lately but it was my only bass for about 18 years. This thing sounded pretty darn good.
Here's a clip from one of the albums I played it on...
Ibanez Blazer circa 1981-1982, all maple I believe. Bought it for $200 new during a closeout sale before the Blazers went out and the Roadstar IIs came in. Stock pickup replaced with Alembic Activator. Alembic J pickup added later at the bridge... did the routing myself, rather sloppily. Pickguard sawed down by hand to just the control area... rather sloppily. Note additional chunk of badly-hand-cut black pickguard added later for the pickup blend control. Dunlop straplocks countersunk into the body using a big drill bit. 20th and 21st frets missing - around 1985 or so I briefly felt inspired to switch to fretless - an inspiration which vanished after only two frets. Thank god I started at that end of the neck :-)
Puke paint job done in my nineties postpunk era when I got tired of the stock Candy Apple.
I haven't played it much lately but it was my only bass for about 18 years. This thing sounded pretty darn good.
Here's a clip from one of the albums I played it on...
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Gibson Basses / Re: The Gibson Bass video Demo thread
« on: December 03, 2008, 08:37:48 AM »I always liked this RD clip
Cool! That guy is doing the Entwistle right-hand technique! (One of them, anyway.) I don't see too many people besides me trying that.
Speaking of which... I haven't turned up any live Who vids from the brief Thunderbird period (roughly 1972 I think) but here's a nice Fenderbird bit... with Quadrophenia backing tapes galore... and Keith on vocals :-]
Some of the least trebly live Entwistle tone I've heard.
I like those Jack C basses too.