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Post subject: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:30 pm
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Needed to get some practice in today and after awhile I decided to pull out the ole '75 P-bass. I hate to admit it, but I haven't played it in 2 months or better.
At first I kept reaching for that fifth string and it wasn't there! Didn't take as long as I thought to get use to just the 4 strings. Played it for almost an hour. It still sounds and plays great. Really enjoyed it.
This was my main bass for about 10 years starting in 1978. It was nice to play with an old friend again.
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Post subject: Re: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 8:35 pm
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I would like to see some pics of your "old friends".

If any of you have kept an old guitar or bass. Pull it out and play it some. Then take a pic and post it. :D

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Post subject: Re: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:55 am
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You can told the Custom Shop to make a five-string version of your old P-Bass if you get trouble reaching the low B! :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:29 pm
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Here ya go: in 2007 I bought this fiesta red Classic '50s, installed a Quarter Pound and TI Jazz Flats, and gigged it heavily thereafter in a Top 40 Country band. In 2009 I had a little money, so I "upgraded" to an AV '57 in sunburst, and put Red back in her (vintage Fender tweed) case. Recently I started up a little group with a guitarist/singer, a percussionist and a couple of backup singers. We do standards from the '20s and '30s (Ain't Misbehavin', Is It True What They Say About Dixie, etc) and dress up in black outfits as shown in the pic. The fiesta red jumps out at you a lot more than the sunburst, so it's back in the saddle again.

Love that bass!

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Post subject: Re: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 3:14 pm
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Very nice looking bass. Thanks for sharing the pic. I can tell it sounds great just by looking at it! :mrgreen:

When I retired the P-bass I had picked up a Jazz Power Special somewhere around '88 or '89. Great playing and sounding bass. I wish I had kept it. I only played it a few years and then in '92 I picked up a Jazz Plus V. Also a great playing and sounding bass. I played that bass (which includes a few years "off") until last December when I bought my FCS Custom Classic Special.

All 3 production basses where totally different, but each one was a very good bass. But, I have to admit that they don't match up with my current bass.

Love the direction your going with your new group. Wish we could do something like that.
We play top 40 country, classic country, southern rock, 50's rock, a little motown and a few hip hop. That's about as far as you can go with it in rual eastern Oklahoma and still get gigs.
Actually we mix it up more than any other band in our area. Some very popular bands around here play nothing but country. I guess that helps us out because we're alittle different. We try our best NOT to sound like a country band playing motown, rock, etc.... 4 of us sing and we all have different styles and backgrounds. Our lead guitar player is a he!! of a rocker. Our drummer is a very good pop/mainstream type singer, our front man is good at top 40 and I'm the country singer in the group. I love playing the variety that we do.

Alright. Time for some of you other guys and gals to show your pics and share your stories. :D

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Post subject: Re: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:43 pm
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grho50 wrote:
Very nice looking bass. Thanks for sharing the pic. I can tell it sounds great just by looking at it! :mrgreen:

Love the direction your going with your new group. Wish we could do something like that.
We play top 40 country, classic country, southern rock, 50's rock, a little Motown and a few hip hop. That's about as far as you can go with it in rural eastern Oklahoma and still get gigs.
Actually we mix it up more than any other band in our area. Some very popular bands around here play nothing but country. I guess that helps us out because we're a little different. We try our best NOT to sound like a country band playing Motown, rock, etc.... 4 of us sing and we all have different styles and backgrounds. Our lead guitar player is a he!! of a rocker. Our drummer is a very good pop/mainstream type singer, our front man is good at top 40 and I'm the country singer in the group. I love playing the variety that we do.

Alright. Time for some of you other guys and gals to show your pics and share your stories. :D


Once I got tired of gigging full time (I turned 70 a month or so back) I decided to explore some new material, and hooked up with an oldies band ('50s, '60s, and occasionally '70s rock) so I could take a break from C&W, Brown Eyed Girl, He Stopped Loving Her Today, and probably a lot of the same material you are doing a few hundred miles North of us. Then an old (in both senses of the word) friend asked if I would like to work up some material. He's 11 years older than I am, and plays viola, violin, upright bass, banjo, and no doubt, 8 or 10 more. But rock and roll passed him completely by. He has a huge songbook full of great sounding but very challenging material -- and, he often transposes to suit his current vocal range. Top 40 country paid some bills, and greatly improved my bass playing generally, but this deal is making me think, as well.

By the way, I transferred a bunch of 1972 cassettes for a friend onto CD for a friend of mine, which he distributed to family and friends after his father's death as a memorial to the old man, who was the guitarist in a popular local band. Ignore the tape hiss and the dated "hits," and it could be you and me on the bandstand. :mrgreen:

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Post subject: Re: Playing with an old friend.
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 6:55 pm
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[quote="lpdeluxe] Ignore the tape hiss and the dated "hits," and it could be you and me on the bandstand. [:mrgreen:[/quote]

No need to ingnore the hiss, I still have some of those cassette recordings. :lol:

P.S. Brown Eyed Girl is still on our set list! :shock:

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