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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:48 pm
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. . . It's just funny how the brand just seemed to have disappeared in the background, compared to 10 or 20 years ago, or os that just my imagination?
There’s a lot of music stores in this world and I found one site in Germany without looking for others that carries the evasive amps and cabs.

But, just in case I’ll leave you with this Paul:


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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 8:49 pm
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I have a few Canadian quarters and a dime that I got stuck with from getting change back, and not noticing until later. I wonder what I could buy for that if I went over there? Probably a pack of gum, not even. :P

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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 9:05 pm
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I have a few Canadian quarters and a dime that I got stuck with from getting change back, and not noticing until later. I wonder what I could buy for that if I went over there? Probably a pack of gum, not even. :P
If they’re 1966 or earlier you’ll have 80% silver so those quarters and a dime could get you more than a bus ride. If not, I’m sorry to say you’ll have to walk until our next election. :lol:
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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 7:21 am
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I'm to the point of making a dazed and confused decision, when I'm going to play one the two basses now. I do like it being only a choice between the two these days.

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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 6:51 pm
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Between my usual bass selection, I've been also messing around with guitars. There's one guitar that hasn't been touched in a couple of years that I've been playing a lot lately. It's my girlfriend's Daisy Rock Rock Candy Special, which is sort of like a Les Paul/PRS kind of deal with two humbuckers, set neck, Tune-o-matic bridge, etc. Believe it or not, It's a really nice guitar that sounds really good. She bought it because of the small neck on it, which plays really nice, even though I have larger hands, and it's pretty light weight, too. I'm wondering if it's chambered or not, or it uses lighter wood? Either way, I like it as much as I do my Tele, so it's a nice addition to the arsenal. In online pictures it sort of looks like it's Pepto-Bismol pink, but in person, it has a darker reddish tint to it. I think Schecter makes them, or had something to do with them originally. It does have a Schecter headstock on it.

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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:33 am
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That Daisy Rock Rock Candy Special sounds pretty skookum, Paul. It’s not uncommon for an axe of another colour to be used in recording as opposed to the one seen at a performance. The reverse is also the case. Maybe, that pink Special will turn out to be special. :wink:
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 7:38 am
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I do believe if I ever messed with a 6 stringer again, it would be either a Gibson SG JR, or a Fender Tele. There probably isn't much of a chance of that happening, since I had problems with my fingers doing chords when I was younger. The old fingers are just that now. OLD FINGERS!

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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:12 am
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I do believe if I ever messed with a 6 stringer again, it would be either a Gibson SG JR, or a Fender Tele. There probably isn't much of a chance of that happening, since I had problems with my fingers doing chords when I was younger. The old fingers are just that now. OLD FINGERS!

Boy! Do I understand that. I need to get barre chording down, and if I don’t learn the other 2000 chords soon I’ll be stuck with 3 chord songs in slow motion, hunting for single stroke solos, or I will go back to playing Dylan on the harmonica . . . that’s if I can catch my breath. The only thing shredding are my callouses. Good thing though. I can’t flip my hair back. :lol:
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:16 am
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Mr. Nylon wrote:
I do believe if I ever messed with a 6 stringer again, it would be either a Gibson SG JR, or a Fender Tele. There probably isn't much of a chance of that happening, since I had problems with my fingers doing chords when I was younger. The old fingers are just that now. OLD FINGERS!

Boy! Do I understand that. I need to get barre chording down, and if I don’t learn the other 2000 chords soon I’ll be stuck with 3 chord songs in slow motion, hunting for single stroke solos, or I will go back to playing Dylan on the harmonica . . . that’s if I can catch my breath. The only thing shredding are my callouses. Good thing though. I can’t flip my hair back. :lol:
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 3:38 pm
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Mr. Nylon wrote:
I do believe if I ever messed with a 6 stringer again, it would be either a Gibson SG JR, or a Fender Tele. There probably isn't much of a chance of that happening, since I had problems with my fingers doing chords when I was younger. The old fingers are just that now. OLD FINGERS!

Boy! Do I understand that. I need to get barre chording down, and if I don’t learn the other 2000 chords soon I’ll be stuck with 3 chord songs in slow motion, hunting for single stroke solos, or I will go back to playing Dylan on the harmonica . . . that’s if I can catch my breath. The only thing shredding are my callouses. Good thing though. I can’t flip my hair back. :lol:
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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 2:34 am
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Technically, I've been playing guitar as long as I've been playing bass, it has been something that I'd never took a serious interest to, since I'd concentrated on playing bass. I started off with some no name nylon string acoustic that one of my sisters gave me, and for years the biggest accomplishment I did was pretty much be able to play an open G chord. :P

Well, then I eventually picked up a few more chords down the road, and eventually traded my '77 Jazz Bass for a Yamaha 335 copy (which was a really nice guitar,) and started to put a little more effort into that. I wound up trading that for a Kramer Ferrington acoustic bass guitar, so I didn't have an electric guitar for a couple more years, until I got a package deal with a Peavey Tele copy and amp, and also around that time I got a 4-track recorder and drum machine.

That's when I seriously got into writing my own songs and demo ideas, so I really started practicing on it. It's still an instrument I'm not 100% comfortable with, in comparison to my bass playing, but I'm a lot better about it than I used to be. I've even played it live, at some club in NYC, over 5 years ago, on a couple of songs we did, besides bass.

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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 7:28 am
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It’s great that you can play both, Paul. Whether it’s a little or alot, it gives you a feeling, ideas, and a better understanding for composition and how it all fits with respect for the whole package, and that never hurts.

Aside from a childhood ukulele, I’ve never picked up a 4 stringer, but I play some keyboard, electric, and acoustic (having had both six and twelve string as well as my first parlour guitar being nylon), and I do play a mean bass with my drum kit. :P
I’m really good at harmonizing, and as a little kid I sang in a 90 piece choir with a large pipe organ that could drown me out. My vocals are passable having once been recruited to sing for a whole town solo in front of a mid size jazz horn band. I wouldn’t have sat in the audience though nobody got up and left so it must have been okay unless they were deaf. Then I sang in a folk society. There was a sweet smell amongst the plumes of smoke and many glazed eyes. :shock: I suspect that was the reason for the gracious acceptance and appreciative snapping of fingers. :lol:
Folk singing helps me to play and sing the Animals’ Burdon vibe with House of the Rising Sun. Today I use help from a TCH vocal pedal and/or Lexicon unless I’m into a DAW. I still sound like that kid I knew, but the voice is bigger, and I can now get help after recalling I had it out with a choir teacher that said, even with my green genes, I could not be an Irish tenor, and would have to settle for being an alto. :x Obviously, he never heard of electronic simulation. :wink:
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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 10:20 pm
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Funny thing is originally I wasn't even going to play bass, but had some crazy notion of playing drums. A friend that I had in high school got into playing guitar, so after awhile, he had this idea that we should put together some sort of 60's type rock band, and I was going to play drums, even though all I had was some tambourine that I think one of my older sisters had, that I'd beat on with a stick. :P

We had another friend who did play bass, which was why the idea I was to play drums, but he wound up playing in some other band, the drum thing wasn't working out, so eventually it was decided I should try taking up the bass, so here we are almost 30 years later.

I had no musical inclination what so ever, but I was always artistic in some form or other. Music just became the best medium to express that.

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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 11:43 pm
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I think back to the 60s and my heroes we’re for the most part percussionists from all genres. I soon learned that drums and techniques were only part of the whole. Drummers could come from the back and lead a band. Rich, Dave Clark, Cozy Cole, Mongo Santamaria, Sandy Nelson, and later Fleetwood, Collins, Grohl, and others. I was hooked as drummers came to be accepted as equal players in the band.

Still I liked the Everly Brothers whom I admired with their style, Scotty Moore, George Benson, Larry Coryell, Wes Montgomery, Al Caiola, Carlos Montoya, The Shadows, The Ventures, The Fendermen, everything surf or psychedelic, and a lot more.

I know that good bass players, and even more, great ones are hard to find. I would have had no issue taking up the bass or electric guitar instead of drums in those early days. I had some guitar background, but also played drums in brass bands and with pianists, etc. At first I thought that most if not all my preferred genres were accessible with my drum playing, and maybe not so much with guitar unless you had a lot of proficiency or savoir faire. So drums won out.

Had I foresight, I could have spent less money with those early guitars as opposed to the cost of drum gear, I would have likely gotten a cool return for my investment.

Today, I enjoy the Strat immensely, but there are other instruments I wouldn’t mind having. (I’m thinking of renting a bass in the future to lay some tracks). That comes from the good fortune of having had a variety of classic house instruments in various studios that I had the opportunity to dabble with.

To summarize I can say that I have great respect for musicians at all levels regardless of their choice of instrument or genre. It’s all good . . . but some is better. :D
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Post subject: Re: Anyone Have A Bass, or Guitar You Keep Going Back To?
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2017 8:57 am
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I had quite a bit of diversity with music throughout my life, like you guys. My family was music oriented, so from a young age, I was into playing.

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