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In Reply to: RE: Cool... posted by musetap on October 15, 2011 at 08:39:55
Music City, we must be Bay Area neighbors. Did you catch any of the Greek theater shows?
Back in the day before I purchased the acoustic there really wasn't any truly loud Bass gear and I rarely had access to a PA channel so the back line was it. I was using one or two DIY JBL 4530 Scoops, Marantz 8B's, and a Fender Twin Reverb as the preamp. Great sounding system but a real pain to move and setup. As big as the trunks were they were a breeze to work with compared the the DIY system (think 1961 Plymouth station wagon).
This was strictly a nostalgia purchase but my Son's band has already used it at an outdoor job. It's way loud.
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Yeah, I'm in SF.
Saw WR (my favorite band at the time) at the UC Jazz Fest/Greek in ...'80?
Sonny Rollins and Pat Metheny on the same bill.
Started on the hilltop and worked our way down to row 20 or so by the time WR hit. It was like being IN a speaker!
Saw them at the Warfield a couple years later. Jaco was on FIRE!
Saw-post Jaco WR a few times too (always loved most any version of WR and wish I'd seen some AJ WR) and Jaco
with his WOM band and in a trio setting with Brian Melvin at Bajones.
Poor Jaco was a mess by then, but was nice and could still play like nobodies business.
He signed an LP for me.
Sounds like you've been using some very serious gear for a long time!
I stopped playing bass about 15 years ago, though sometimes get the hankering to start again.
"I stopped playing bass about 15 years ago, though sometimes get the hankering to start again. "
DO IT!!!!
Back in the day, I was a pretty decent trumpet player. Then, I let my audio and computer careers get in the way, and the next thing I knew, I hadn't played in 20 years. Huge mistake! Now I've been playing since 2005, and loving almost every minute of it, although I only get about 30-45 minutes of practicing in each day, so I'm nowhere near where I was when I was playing 3-5 hours a day. Still, it's great be in a band and playing again!
Haul that axe out!
Hey Vic D, I was in your area (Berkeley) about ten days ago! Do you ever go hear Scooter (Scott Englebright) play? I haven't seen you around on the Maynard Ferguson forum in a while. Not much going on there these days. I only check in about once a week now.
Another fine bass player, Brian Mulholland, who was MF's last bassist, lives here in the Dallas. He and Stockton Helbing play together pretty regularly. Cool.
:)
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