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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 10, 2011, 04:24:43 PM »
Jim is testy tonight ... Once again measured retaliation is forced upon us ...
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Gibson Basses / Re: NAMM 2011: Return of the TB front jack? (And other things, but no chrome!!!)
« on: March 10, 2011, 01:34:29 PM »
Weren't fiendish experiments against creation and nature an Axis speciality? You Amerikaner always learn ze wrong zingsss from uzz ...
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Peter Frampton, Leamington Spa. Grrrrreat!!
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:58:17 AM »
Guess where I am going tonight?!!!
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Gibson Basses / Re: New Schaller bridge option for shortscales
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:45:33 AM »
Nice bridge.
Did anybody say "two-point"? Or "German engineering superiority"? Nein? Wirklich?
Vorsprung durch Technik.
http://www.thomann.de/de/media_bdbviewer_AR_261227.html?image=1
Nothing that makes this short or long scale though, it's just a bridge. I like the look, modern, but not fancy-pantsy.
Did anybody say "two-point"? Or "German engineering superiority"? Nein? Wirklich?
Vorsprung durch Technik.
http://www.thomann.de/de/media_bdbviewer_AR_261227.html?image=1
Nothing that makes this short or long scale though, it's just a bridge. I like the look, modern, but not fancy-pantsy.
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Gibson Basses / Re: For men of wealth and taste: Admittedly nice EB-2 ...
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:42:29 AM »
You might be on to something here, Ilan, I wouldn't rule it out. Cherry EB-2s can end up looking like this:
But the tone of the specimen in this thread seems to be something else still.
But the tone of the specimen in this thread seems to be something else still.
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Gibson Basses / Re: For men of wealth and taste: Admittedly nice EB-2 ...
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:22:24 AM »
"But I always looked at them as what you saw on the back of pretty much any sunburst EB-2 - all brown."
Sigh. Such nuanced appreciation of color. Say, do women often ask for your color tone advice when shopping?
Sigh. Such nuanced appreciation of color. Say, do women often ask for your color tone advice when shopping?
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Gibson Basses / Re: For men of wealth and taste: Admittedly nice EB-2 ...
« on: March 10, 2011, 10:02:04 AM »
Ssssssssssssssssssscientific evidenccccccccccccccccce!!! We owe it to thissssssssssssssssssssssssssss forum.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Re-Re-discovering Joe Osborn
« on: March 10, 2011, 09:30:34 AM »
I always liked the bass on the Carpenters recordings. It was the one thing with a little more freedom.
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The Bass Zone / Re: R.I.P. Mike Starr of Alice in Chains
« on: March 10, 2011, 09:14:03 AM »
Hair metal was well behind its "best used before"-date as early as 1987 - that Whitesnake vid of Still of the Night was pretty much the nadir of hard rock as an "honest", down to earth music form. Five guys made up to look like their girlfriends, miming like the Chippendales to music none of them had recorded or written (Coverdale excepted) and with Adrian Vandenberg pretending to play synth lines with a violin bow. Ouch. Come back Jimmy Page, all was forgiven and forgotten at that moment.
And I'm not talking about the song as such which you might or might not like for all its vocal histrionics, hamfisted lyrics and rehashed Zep riffage. That vid was the triumph of form over content.
And I'm not talking about the song as such which you might or might not like for all its vocal histrionics, hamfisted lyrics and rehashed Zep riffage. That vid was the triumph of form over content.
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Gibson Basses / Re: For men of wealth and taste: Admittedly nice EB-2 ...
« on: March 10, 2011, 08:12:15 AM »
"Custom Order" is a flexible term. Is "could you make me a walnut EB-2 while you're at it?" a "Custom Order"? Not to me, but other people might think different. I saw that part as sales blurb in any case. Custom Order is to me something like my 8 string LP they made at the request of TM Stevens, i.e. a variation of an existing model whose changes are more than skin-deep.
It's still one hell of a purdy EB-2. That walnut gives the fin a depth other, more solid color variations lack. And they sure picked a nice piece of maple.
It's still one hell of a purdy EB-2. That walnut gives the fin a depth other, more solid color variations lack. And they sure picked a nice piece of maple.
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Gibson Basses / Re: For men of wealth and taste: Admittedly nice EB-2 ...
« on: March 10, 2011, 07:51:59 AM »
They are rare, admit it! And look nice and this one seems to be in very good shape.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lovin' the classics
« on: March 10, 2011, 07:16:08 AM »
I'm glad someone asked!!! 
Sounded like a discarded White Stripes backing track to me.
Sounded like a discarded White Stripes backing track to me.
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Gibson Basses / Re: bridge bar
« on: March 10, 2011, 07:14:04 AM »
"and to my ears that very same silk muffles the string's high end"
Scientific evidence?!!!
When you scrape it off, does it sound brighter? 
There is hardly any movement left in the string so close to the bridge, I doubt that there is anything audible.
But to the discerning eye it might look messy, true.
Scientific evidence?!!!
When you scrape it off, does it sound brighter? There is hardly any movement left in the string so close to the bridge, I doubt that there is anything audible.But to the discerning eye it might look messy, true.
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Gibson Basses / Re: For men of wealth and taste: Admittedly nice EB-2 ...
« on: March 10, 2011, 07:08:52 AM »
I don't think that is walnut wood, just maple or ash (?) dyed to look like it. Still nice. Not that type of wood would make an audible difference on an EB-2 of all basses whose quality of being able to provide a vastly different array of sounds has somehow escaped the annals of time. 
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Gibson Basses / Re: New 2009 Grabber II and, yes, even the Ripper!
« on: March 10, 2011, 05:48:01 AM »
Well ... 
how do you like it, Mark? Let those sheep go for once and tell us!
how do you like it, Mark? Let those sheep go for once and tell us!