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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: 70's Hiwatt DR201 from Slades Back Line !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« on: April 09, 2009, 03:37:28 PM »
He still plays the same Jazz Basses from the Cooper days. The green Gibson (Frog Bass) is in the R&R HOF, as I recall.

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Other Bass Brands / Re: Cheap Japanese Basses
« on: April 08, 2009, 01:54:07 PM »
Quote from: Rocker949 on March 08, 2009, 09:24:58 AM
I am very puzzled about how some cheap Japanese basses such as Teiscos are sometimes being sold for so much now.  Unless this is some kind of nostalgia craze, I don't understand how something like a Teisco is sometimes being sold for as much as $2,500.  There is one on gbase for that right now.  At GuitarCenter in the vintage section there is a Teisco being sold for $2.000.  ??????

I just picked this up today. You mean I'm sitting on a gold mine???? ;D
Will the Metallica, Slayer and swastika engravings on the pickguard add or subtract value?




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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Help with Spanish
« on: April 06, 2009, 04:18:00 AM »
Quote from: Rocker949 on April 05, 2009, 11:13:35 AM
I believe what Dave gave me was correct.  My problem is I have a huge oak tree in the front yard.  Maybe it is because the economy is so bad, but people are always coming by wanting to trim it.  The part close to the street has already been trimmed and it doesn't pose any danger to anyone.  It may need trimming some more, but frankly I don't care; I have other things to do.  One guy actually asked $400 to trim it.  It has reached the point that for the first time in my life I have completely stopped answering the door. 

Send them all to Mark's house - he was lamenting in another thread about having to trim his own bush.  ;D

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Warning signs the band you're about to see will suck
« on: April 05, 2009, 04:27:35 PM »
Quote from: Rhythm N. Bliss on April 05, 2009, 04:06:44 PM
Haha Mine too!!

Back in the 80s I went to a little music expo over at the NY Coliseum - kind of a mini NAMM. The Steinberger booth had no amps - just a slew of Rockman/headphone stations. The sight of all these pseudo guitar heroes wailing away on those, those things without producing any sound was positively hysterical. Fretboard tapping, dive bombing sweep picking - all dead silent.  My friend and I laugh about it to this day.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Warning signs the band you're about to see will suck
« on: April 05, 2009, 04:21:51 PM »
Quote from: godofthunder on April 05, 2009, 07:50:15 AM
Yeah I guess I have pretty thin skin.
Guy with big bald spot here...
Nah, it's not the skin that's thin... ;D

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Warning signs the band you're about to see will suck
« on: April 05, 2009, 04:44:07 AM »
Quote from: Rhythm N. Bliss on April 04, 2009, 09:36:02 PM
There are many other great ROCK bands with fantastic Double Bass Drummers.
Ginger Baker was just the first, the innovator, the genius who started it all!!
DreamTheater with Mike Portnoy & Liquid Tension Experiment with Mike Portnoy are AMAZING!!
METALLICA with Lars Ulrich, Planet X with Virgil Donati, MEGADETH with Nick Menza, etc.

I saw The WHO with Keith MOON on Double Basses in '73 & that was really SPECTACULAR!!

In rock? Mmmmm... I dunno - Weren't Carmine and Moonie using two kicks around the same time as, if not before Ginger? Carmine had 'em in 1968 with The Vanilla Fudge. At any rate, I'm pretty sure that jazzer Louie Bellson came up with the concept.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Warning signs the band you're about to see will suck
« on: April 04, 2009, 05:19:07 PM »
Quote from: Rhythm N. Bliss on April 04, 2009, 04:15:51 PM
Deep Purple opened that first show I ever saw in '68 & tho HUSH was AWESOME DP was very weak in comparison to CREAM at that time, & Paice wasn't all that spectacular on songs like Shakin' All Over & Kentucky Woman. haha haaa
They didn't have Gillan or Glover yet!!
As great as Paice was with Coverdale singing in DP & WS, Cozy took WS to a whole nother level!!
Yes, I'm on a CP crusade this week...

Like I said, Cozy was one 2kicker that kept it in the pocket and played for the song. Keep in mind also that when he joined Whitesnake, they were on the cusp of writing material that was more commercial, but had not yet become a guitar twirling, bass licking, Botox injecting mess.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Warning signs the band you're about to see will suck
« on: April 04, 2009, 05:56:02 AM »
Quote from: Rhythm N. Bliss on April 04, 2009, 03:27:39 AM
To the contrary, the BEST shows I've seen are the bands with Double Bass Drummers!!
From my very first concert at age 15 in 1968 hallucinating on CREAM & thinking Ginger Baker was the Greatest Thing I Had Ever Seen!!
And there ya go!
Seriously, there are very few double kick drummers who can resist the urge to overplay. Cozy was undoubtedly one of them. Tommy Aldridge was great with the "classic" Pat Travers lineup  and Ozzy (never liked the Whitesnake years). Simon Phillips bears mentioning, as does Carmine Appice - maybe Mick Tucker from Sweet and Les Binks... Dave Holland had two kicks with Priest, but he rarely played them the way he did in Trapeze.
Personally I never understood the appeal of Ginger Baker. It always sounded to me like he just grabbed a handful of sticks and threw them in the general vicinity of the drumkit at semi-regular intervals. I'm just sayin'...

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Yes, you can!
« on: April 04, 2009, 05:41:58 AM »
I'm SURE it's made in America - it's one of the 2-3 million new "green" jobs! :rolleyes:

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Gibson Basses / Re: BaCHbird
« on: April 03, 2009, 07:44:53 PM »
Quote from: T' BaRD '59 on March 27, 2009, 07:37:31 PM
I am trying to remember which guitar mag had a "Top 100 guitar solos you wished you played" and a Carpenters song came in top, one place above "Hotel California" - can anyone guess the song, and I can fully understand why it got the vote...



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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Warning signs the band you're about to see will suck
« on: April 03, 2009, 04:34:58 PM »
Quote from: GonzoBass on April 03, 2009, 12:27:30 PM
7.) The band's name appears to be an acronym
or has more than two umlauts and is completely unpronounceable.

8.) Full Marshall guitar stacks on both sides of the stage in a small club.

9.) The singer has a music stand.

10.) A reunion tour with only one of the original members

11.) The singer is wearing a T shirt with the bands name on it.

12.) Pedal boards of a size that would make NASA flinch.

13.) More than two guitars in stands on either side of the stage.

14.) The overpowering stench of patchouli in a crowd of 40+ year olds wearing tie dye.

15.) One word: Spandex.

Gonzo FTW!
...but you forgot a couple:

16) A keytar

17) A headless bass

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Bass Amps & Effects / Re: New Orange
« on: April 03, 2009, 06:53:08 AM »
Quote from: Dave W on January 20, 2009, 02:16:06 PM
I like the international symbols.  ;)  It will be a big help for all those bassists who keep trying to plug their cables into the gain knob.

My '74 OR120 has the old style "pix only" faceplate, where the presence control is simply labeled with a clenched fist.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: We gotcha Monsta Cablez right hyeah...!
« on: March 28, 2009, 08:44:28 AM »
I always look at it this way:
If you lust after vintage tone (and have "period correct" gear), you're probably best served with a standard cable - there were no Monster Cables when "vintage" wasn't.
OTOH, if you're playing an active bass and/or your rig looks like Pink Floyd's father, then the high end cable will assist in your quest for a high-fidelity bass sound.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Casting call to reform Stooges
« on: March 28, 2009, 06:41:15 AM »
There was a theater here in Northern NJ where we used to go on Friday nights to watch uncut Stooges and Little Rascals shorts back in the late 70s / early 80s.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Casting call to reform Stooges
« on: March 28, 2009, 06:29:34 AM »
Nobody did Larry Fine's voice better than Billy West. They even made him up like Larry on the old Howard Stern TV show in the early 90s. Of course, he doesn't have the scary acting talent of Sean Penn, whose most memorable role is STILL that of Jeff Spicoli. ;D



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