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Gibson Basses / Re: Need pix of the brothers!
« on: January 28, 2009, 10:17:42 AM »
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Gibson Basses / Re: For Sale: Leon Wilkeson's Freebird Thunderbird
« on: January 26, 2009, 12:54:31 PM »
Leon is pictured on the inside of the gatefold sleeve playing a Ric 4000. So I guess it was a Ric that he didn't play on Freebird. 
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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Mighty Mite necks
« on: January 26, 2009, 12:39:19 PM »
I have a MM neck on my Fenderbird and I like it. (Jazz style, maple board, dots) The frets tend to stick out the ends of the fingerboard during the winter, but overall, good and cheap. Made in Korea.
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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: January 21, 2009, 11:42:29 AM »
I just got the same e-mail from Roman that chromium got, and I'm not even in the top 50 of the list. Sounds like they're pulling it together.
Still wondering if anyone has tried a "real" non-rev pickguard on one of these.
Still wondering if anyone has tried a "real" non-rev pickguard on one of these.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Songs & Music That Make You Happy
« on: January 21, 2009, 10:11:13 AM »
Sly and the Family Stone. If that music doesn't make you happy, you need a bullet!
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The Bass Zone / Re: Songs you turn up to ten to relax.
« on: January 21, 2009, 10:09:40 AM »Deep Purple - Rat Bat Blue
Awesome!
My pick is anything off Dark Side of the Moon.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: White double neck!
« on: January 20, 2009, 01:00:19 PM »
There's a GORGEOUS fireglo 4080 that didn't get a single bid at $6800. This guy is high.
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The Bass Zone / Re: Who's afraid of Fusion?
« on: January 13, 2009, 12:28:39 PM »
I was a huge fusion and prog guy when I was younger. I learned a lot, and advanced my technique by leaps and bounds trying to cop lines by Stanley, Percy Jones, Jeff Berlin, Ralphe Armstrong and others. Brand X, Bruford, Return to Forever, solo SC, solo DiMeola, Jean Luc Ponty, Jeff Beck (Wired is a virtual bass lesson put to disc) were my favs. The genre pretty much died around 1980 as far as I'm concerned. I rarely listen to any of it now (but I'm still a prog geek), and I rarely use much of what's left of the technique I had developed. I've found more joy in serving a good song than being the "look at me!" guy.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Now here's a rare BC Rich bass.
« on: January 12, 2009, 09:17:15 AM »
That one was up a while ago. Probably been sitting on it for a long time at that price. I bought a '73 Guild JSII from Brian a few years back. Good seller.
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The Bass Zone / Re: The best Synth basslines
« on: January 09, 2009, 09:00:10 AM »What?
No one posted this? The Metro! I love this song, dance to it almost every Thursday night. We play it as well, makes me feel like a robot!
I saw Berlin about 10 years ago at HOB in Chicago. Terri Nunn was SO friggin hot in a red dress and long gloves. Freshly divorced too. Yum...
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Gibson Basses / Re: Thunderbirds by Mike Lull
« on: January 08, 2009, 03:40:04 PM »
Nice of him to add one more unreachable fret.
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The Bass Zone / Re: The best Synth basslines
« on: January 08, 2009, 12:33:28 PM »
Lots of good stuff guys! I was way into synth bass back in the 80s. In fact, I still run into people from back then who thought I was a keyboardist rather than a bass player.
Surprised nobody mentioned Stevie Wonder yet. And there was a guy named Cameron Hawkins in Canadian prog band FM that did killer synth bass lines (he played bass guitar and Taurus pedals as well).
Surprised nobody mentioned Stevie Wonder yet. And there was a guy named Cameron Hawkins in Canadian prog band FM that did killer synth bass lines (he played bass guitar and Taurus pedals as well).
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: New (?) Aussie invention
« on: January 06, 2009, 09:45:51 AM »These might work better in some venues:
...despite the increased potential for marring and/or chafing
This is more like it.
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Gibson Basses / Re: The development of the Gibson Victory bass
« on: December 31, 2008, 12:25:51 PM »
Very cool stuff! Nice article. So was the RD named in honor of their new research and development department? I'd like to know what Entwistle's involvement was, if any. He says it was originally planned as the "John Entwistle Model" but ended up not liking it.
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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: December 30, 2008, 12:55:50 PM »Just checking to see if anyone here in the States has gotten a reply from BaCH? I think I'm in a race to see which comes first - the BaCHbird or my Scroll bass. The Scroll bass was paid for and ordered about 1 1/2 years ago.
Hey, at least you didn't order a Rickenbacker.