Pernax Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 I'm now officially fretless-less. Sold both my fretless basses in a matter of two weeks, and still waiting for my 6-stringed Ibanez BTB to find a new owner. The reason? One could say that I've become somewhat of a Status Graphite convert, so I'm going to get a 6-stringed Status S2 Classic, and swap a fretless Status neck for a custom built P/J bass I own. Maybe. Or maybe I'll see if I can unload my Custom built 5-stringer and find/order a fretless 5-stringed S2 too. I'm looking at various bass forums for a used S2, but if there's no progress in an undisclosed amount of time, I'll just have to order a new one. Poor me. If anyone reading this spots a used 6-stringed fretted Status anywhere around the net, shoot me a PM please! -P Quote (up to 200 characters) You may use UBBCode in your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/tumblr_lotqy0lr4m1qbfg5so1_500.gif Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizzo9247 Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Haha... Speaking of movies, why is 'a few good men' always on tv (and I always seem to watch it to the end). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 OK, so the cat who bought my car sent me an e-mail today. It appears he needs to raise $6400 ASAP and is putting the Stealth and his bike and his other car and whatever on craigslist. No biggie for me, 'cause the check has already cleared--me no dummy. But cripey. Dude bought a toy car that he knew needed big money repair without having a dime in the bank. That's cutting it pretty close to the bone. So I got a great line on a Stealth TT. Motivated seller. PM me for details. Kidding. Unless you're a car guy who wants a stealth...... Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Ha! The wife and I hosted a party last night. A good friend brought over his jack russell terrier. The dog evidently has a fondness for licking toads. She got all foamy mouth and weird. Glad we found out early 'cause we're dog sitting for her in a couple weeks. That just saved us a bundle on an unnecessary trip to the vet.... Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cthulhu Fhtagn Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 ... and they thought we were weird when we did that in college. Quote Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Was in the studio last night. I plugged into the big Mackie self powered PA, Avalon preamp. Fretless ax, flats, EMG P/J config. It was the tone of God. It was exactly what I picture in my mind. We ended up just doing headphones, bass direct. I'm not in the market to buy one of those Mackie self powered PA's 'cause lemme tell you, it's heavy as sin; a young man's cabinet. But the sound was exactly what I want. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Well at least now you have a point of reference. Aside from the Mackie, the other items won't bust your back so you can start there and maybe find something to use in it's place. I've heard nice things about the Avalon. Some people will never get that tone satisfaction, consider yourself lucky. Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web04/2011/8/23/19/lemmys-glamour-shot-26563-1314142423-7.jpg Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pernax Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 That's hot! Quote (up to 200 characters) You may use UBBCode in your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groove Mama Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 That's hot! That's not! Quote Queen of the Quarter Note "Think like a drummer, not like a singer, and play much less." -- Michele C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Ahhhhhg! My eyes! That's more than a little creepy. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Wife and i saw Rockky Horror Show at our local theater. It was a pretty hip production. Dr. Scott (who also played Eddie) was great. Riff-Raff was great also. Frank could have been a little more Fabulous, but he played violin at the end. Really. And played it well. His mother must be so proud. "I told you those violin lessons would pay off some day....". And yes, we were in the back row. That was the coolest part. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 License plate on the car in front of me today: "CV 1DER" Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 This about made me spit my coffee out my nose. http://www.slate.com/id/2303531/ Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 So. I bought a computer for the living room so we can try to cut off cable TV and just do internet TV. I returned the Google TV unit 'cause it wouldn't play Hulu and Daily Show. I shopped hard for a small unit that had an HDMI, Toslink, and speaker output 'cause I move the juice all over the house. The computer is a slick little unit that also does blue ray, but only one of the audio outputs can be active at one time. This sucks; I wasn't looking to also have to buy a USB outboard soundcard thingy. I may just have to turn the speakers up louder instead.... We're looking into the Ooma VOIP thing. Anybody have any experience with it? One way or another, the Time Warner bill will be trimmed.... Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Fender opens its doors to the public. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/22/entertainment/la-et-fender-factory-20110922 Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 And you you thought you played on a small stage. Pretty cool. [video:youtube] Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 And the damn kid doesn't even need no charts. Sigh. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 And the damn kid doesn't even need no charts. Sigh. Could you imagine if they put that effort into music? Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 And the damn kid doesn't even need no charts. Sigh. Could you imagine if they put that effort into music? I'll bet you don't like Christmas either. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 And the damn kid doesn't even need no charts. Sigh. Could you imagine if they put that effort into music? I'll bet you don't like Christmas either. I'm not a fan of many of the aspects, why? Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted October 11, 2011 Share Posted October 11, 2011 why? C'mon. Great intonation, good groove, great big tone on the chorus. Bonus points for style. And the kid is cuter than a puppy when she runs out of gas and gasps for breath. And I don't even like little kids; damn germ factories, they are. Point is you're a scrooge. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Scrooge! SCROOGE!! Well yea kinda. I remember years ago a few stores (do you remember the Crazy Eddie commercials) would have Christmas in August sales? Now the bulk of them can't do that because they put the decorations up the day after Labor Day. Yes, excessive exposure to some Christmas music makes me want to pull the wings off a sugar plumb fairy but I can deal with short bursts of some of the old kiddie songs and I love the ones sung by Ronnie Spector. I even had Donde Esta Santa Clause running in a continuous loop in my head for over a year. I love to see the magic in a kids eyes on that special day but I can't stand what it does to people, the greed, the frustration the nasty attitudes for a month. I wish that whole Festivus thing caught on. Scrooge? Yea, you got a problem with that? Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Crazy Eddie was the greatest. Ha! And what a crazy fraud scheme he worked out before his IPO. Totally brilliant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvqfvvQIoIM I'm OK with anyone not liking X-mas; Thanksgiving is such a superior holiday even without Barry Sanders on the telly. Eat big, go home. But little kids who groove? You don't like those either? Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Talk about a tough venue... http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/daily-morning-awesomeness-161.jpg Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butcherNburn Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 I hope most of these are wrong. 12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Music Quote If you think my playing is bad, you should hear me sing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_browser/2011/10/siri_iphone_4s_the_crazy_things_people_say_to_the_iphone_s_new_a.html Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul K Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Alright. I know. But here's the scoop. Before I knew about the Evils Of Behringer, I bought an Ultrafex Pro. My semi-acoustic guitar sound so so so friggin' good through it that I'm going to have to start bringing it along to gigs. I mean, it really sounds bigger, fuller, more articulate, bigger sound stage. It's like night and day. Wow! So if I knew, I'd have bought the real thing instead of the Behringer. But I didn't know. So: too late; I'm using this one. Quote Things are just the way they are, and they're only going to get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowfinger Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 It's been about a week since I used MS Windows on my laptop. It's now running a Puppy Linux (Slacko 5.29.5) - with Google Chrome, Audacious (MP3 etc player), tuxguitar (PowerTab and GuitarPro player), AbiWord and Gnumeric it does just about everything I need from a PC. Very pleased with myself. The linux loads from a cd (or usb) but saves onto the HDD, boots in half the time of XP and sets itself up quite easily (for a linux). Quote Epi EB-3 G-K Backline 600 2 x Eden EX112 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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