The Last Bass Outpost

Quote from: Grog on April 01, 2025, 07:31:54 AMI agree! I question the need for a selector switch if you have two separate output jacks. I'm guessing it was added or moved seeing it is mounted in the pickguard. I tried to find it again last night, I was going to try to contact the owner, I never ran into it again. I wish we had more pics of it, possibly back photo.

I do think the selector switch has a valid function. It helps to keep the other output quiet when the other is in use. If you play a double neck you get all sorts of unwanted sympathetic resonance if you don't switch that off.
And if you do want to play them together at the same time you just set the switch in the middle position.

It does make sense to have two outputs though. One to a guitar amp and the other to a bass amp.
It certainly wouldn't work for me if it had only one.

It's all Coverdales fault.
He just wants at least one Les Paul wielding tall blonde guy in his band.
Guess he never got over the mistake of throwing John Sykes out...

Well, in the true meaning of pickup selector it is exactly that. Except it's the choice between the upper or lower instead of neck (rhythm) or bridge (treble) pickup

Wow. That's the first one I've seen with the bass below, indeed.

Quote from: uwe on March 31, 2025, 07:52:40 AMI actually meant Hoekstra! Besides his last name, he looks totally Dutch to me. We saw him together in Utrecht at the WS gig, remember?

Yeah I know you meant Hoekstra ;-)
You thought he was from Denmark or Norway when we saw him in Utrecht. And I told you it's a typical Dutch surname.

Quote from: uwe on March 30, 2025, 01:48:06 PMA Dutchman playing with Michael ...

You mean Barend Courbois? He is from Arnhem.
His dad is a well known jazz drummer who (supposedly) invented the double bass pedal.



In the early nineties Barend played in a trio with the brothers Whistler, who are also from Arnhem.
Instrumental rock in the vein of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani.





And while from Chicago Joel Hoekstra must be from Dutch descent, since Hoekstra is a typical Dutch (Frisian to be exact) surname.

Mark was so kind to buy a few of the vintage ones for me.
I used them on a the Brooks Nachtkrapp and the Brooks EB-TB-IV.

The bridge and neck pickup on the EB-TB-IV were identical since Gibson just did not offer different impedances. And I did notice the bridge could have been a bit hotter, since it was a little bit drowned out by the neck pickup.
But nothing dramatical.

Quote from: uwe on March 25, 2025, 10:43:02 AMMy favorite two-step bass song ever, courtesy of Randy Meisner:

Not real country of course, except in the more rural parts of Germany where the feathered ones were miscast as "country rock" in the misinformed 70s.

That bass line is way more intricate than that dumbed down two-note bass part in Nick Lowe's live version that Dave posted.

I associate it with the music that I detest the most: Nederlandstalige volksmuziek.

Obtuse songs by dito artists:





Haha, it took me some time to find these examples. Waaaaaaaayyy out of my comfort zone.
Now I gotta wash my ears and eyes with soap.

I hate what that bass player does on "half a boy...". Turns it into a hoompa two note bass part. While Nicks original certainly wasn't.

Here's the link to the entire concert. The first song (Bread) starts with a great bass riff too!

Yeah making a living as a musician in a (Blues) Rock band is not easy.
If you see what a super talented dude like Jon Amor has to do to keep his head above the water is incredible.
Performing in small clubs and bars that even amateur bands would turn down.

I spoke to keyboard player Bob Fridzema last year and asked him why he left Kind King. He said he thought Alan Nimmo made some "not so wise" business decisions, which led him to leave the band.

Drummer/producer Wayne Proctor later produced the Scottish band King King of Alan Nimmo.
And he also was behind the drumkit of the band for a while.
Also in the band was Dutch keyboard player Bob Fridzema (who now tours with Glenn Hughes).


Alan Nimmo is a great guitar player, but also an excellent singer. His voice reminds me (a lot) of Paul Rodgers

Schenker has always mentioned Leslie West as an influence