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jcadmus

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About jcadmus

  • Birthday 11/30/1999

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    www.howmanyfingers.blogspot.com
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    Communications Manager
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    Music, books, movies
  • Location
    Connecticut
  1. Regarding which bass to take, I would ask the instructor what they recommend. If they have no preference, I would take the one I was most comfortable with.
  2. In the summer of 1975 when I first started playing bass, I bought two records: "Toys In The Attic" by Aerosmith and "Fandango" by ZZ Top. I pretty much wore that vinyl out trying to figure out what Tom Hamilton and Dusty Hill were doing. Those albums were my musical Rosetta Stone. So I was stunned at the news of Dusty's passing last week. Rarely name-checked as one of the great bass players, but truly one of the greats. Adios, amigo. Vaya con Dios.
  3. Other Little Thick Strings.
  4. I actually tried one of these at my favorite local music store recently. Played it acoustic and plugged into a small combo amp. To be perfectly honest, it didn't really do anything for me. But I tend to be a bit of a purist on this stuff -- I didn't even get into the recent "short scale" fad. I mean, it did what it was supposed to do the way it was supposed to do it. It just wasn't for me.
  5. Sell any of your old gear ... that's adorable. I had two LB75s with the stacked humbucker H50N pickups. They were super quiet and sounded good.
  6. Hmm, I have a birthday coming up ... *checks Reverb*
  7. Yeah, I added a Peavey 210TXF cab, and good golly Miss Molly. And I was mostly using that rig for church. I eventually traded the Combo 115 for a TMax head and a 115 BW cab -- that with the 2x10 was my setup for quite awhile. Then I heard a friend's Eden rig and I was ruined for life.
  8. The guy at the music store tried really hard to get me to buy a T40, but I had my heart set on the '76 Jazz Bass (which I still have). I liked the T40, but good golly what a boat anchor. A friend of mine eventually got one, and it was a great bass. Speaking of boat anchors, probably my favorite Peavey amp was my Combo 115. Black Widow speaker, 200-watt amp (300, with an extension cab), graphic eq and an onboard compressor that was actually usable. But boy, at 90+ pounds it was a pig to move around -- and it only came one with strap handle, on the top. Who did they think was gonna tote this thing around -- Kareem Abdul Jabbar? I put side handles on it and built a dolly for it.
  9. Clearly. On my last Peavey rig, I removed the logos from the grills on the cabs -- I just thought it looked cleaner. People would compliment me on my sound and ask what I was using. When I told them I was running a Peavey amp and cabs, they were stunned.
  10. I'm a bit of a gear snob -- I admit it. That being said, I've never looked down my nose at the Peavey stuff. I used their amps and cabs for years, and the few basses I played were well made, played well and sounded good.
  11. That's a juicy barn find.
  12. If only he'd said that. I would have said, "Dude, I'll call your mother. Give me the number."
  13. Well, that's not a dark interpretation at all. Where I saw blithe insouciance, you saw doom, dysfunction and despair.
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