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Location: Tennessee | "Is that a Magnum" ...
... or are you just glad to see me.
Sorry. Someone had to say it. :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | "Is that a "Magnum" ...
No, it's some OTHER dopey P.I. in a Hawaiian shirt . . . |
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Location: Tennessee | Hehehe. What's your phone number Cliff? We'll call you from Dopey's annual NAMM drinkfest this evening. ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Have one for me guys. Someone should call G8R's place Saturday night when the Fla G8Rbowl is in full swing. Or give a number, we'll call you. |
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Location: NJ | You guys have my number(s) . . . |
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Location: Jet City | Bobbo, you at NAMM? If you like cool old guitars and dig on country pickers like Travis and Maphis, Surf, or Rockabilly, head over the The Jolly Roger Hotel Ballroom on Saturday. Corner of Katella and Harbor.
It's Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geek Festival. I really wanted to go, but the funds were lacking due to some recent guitar purchases. There's several folks that play the weird doublenecks like mine there.
Guitar Geek Festival
There will even be some Guitorgan playing (anyone know what that is?)
Katella and Harbor, a block from NAMM. |
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Location: SoCal | Dopey's Annual Drink Fest????? Jeez Bobbo, hope nobody sits on your EF75..... |
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Location: Tennessee | Always looking for a cheap thrill, eh Moody?
Damon, I am a surf guitar nut. I'll do what I can to catch the event. I know exactly where the Jolly Roger is. (He'd be the one sitting on my Tak). |
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Location: Jet City | Bobbo, check this out. A clip from last year...
Deke Dickerson and Crazy Joe - Bumblebee Twist
Deke will be here in Seattle next month. I'll be attending the show. |
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Location: NJ | H@lySh!t!!
Went to RadShck & got a can of cleaner(s'not CarbonTet anymore, it's Tetraflouroethane).
I had always assumed that in proportion to all that other Bill k'MAN-sized hardware on this thing, that the sliders were these wall-dimmer sized pots that offered a respectable degree of "heft" when slid . . .
. . . once I douched those things out, and they "broke free of the bottom", those things were "slicker'n OwlSh!t". (nice!)
I know we discussed the whole thing with the six sliders "tied" into three pairs, and that the 2nd slider in each pair did something to "compensate"(ShutUp,Witko!), but if you take the "tabs" off and use that 2nd slider to help "fine tune", you can get some REALLY nice bass voicings outta' this . . .
If y'just keep the two in close-proximity to each other, and then just adjust that 2nd slider (just a touch) to "sweeten" the tone . .
This thing was out-Ric'ing a Ric!!!
Miles/Temp - give it a try sometime |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Preaching to the choir Cliff. I love Magnums. You wanna check out a monster bass, I have a Magnum I Fretless!!!!! If you ever see one, jump on it. Un-freaking-believable-tone. |
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Location: big island | ventured to eBay and typed in "magnum bass". saw only one that someone converted to fretless, however, what i saw tons of were "magnum bass" (as in fish) fishing lures. :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | Miles;
There's a MagI in my town that I'm patiently waiting for the guy to "come down" on . . .
If/When that ever DOES happen and I grab it, I'm gonna have the IV made fretless (just a smooth, "open" fingerboard . . none of those GirlyMan, inlaid, TrainingWheel "frets"!!!)
I was in GC last night picking up strings, and picked up a maple fretless made by Ocean(??).
Notta bad little unit. ShortScale/NiceNeck.
Made me "Jones" for a fretless, tho . . .
I figured the combo of the IV's pre-amp/eq and a fretless factor'd make it "killah!" . . .
Anybody have a line on a company that carries little rubber/plastic "tips" that'll pop onto little toggle switches and the like??
I'm looking for some little tips (TIPS,Witko!) to pop onto the ends of the eq sliders.
I had a sample-bag here from prospective vendor YEARS ago the I kept . . and damned if I could find it now. Anyone?? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Third drawer, behind the summer socks. |
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Location: NJ | Socks?? . . . in the SUMMER???
Whaddayou think this IS? . . Canada??? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | SUMMer socks. Summer not....
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The drawer where you put things in but never take them out.
(BTW, something lives and eats in there.) |
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Location: NJ | You must mean the drawer where the ex-wife lives, and all my money goes . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Maybe, I could ehh, be of some assistance to you... Y'know whudImean?
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Cable TV has given me the impression that is the local solution for everything in Jersey. Which can't be doing much for the tourist trade...... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I'm not sure that "tourist trade" and Jersey go together in the first place. |
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Location: NJ | A while back, we were putting together a more aggressive office Recycling Program . . .
This one girl in our office (who was kind of "spear-heading" a particular part of it) asked me if she should contact "WasteManagement" and see if they could possibly help us with a particular logistical challenge.
Sarcastically, I said:
". . GoAhead! . . call WasteManagement . .
. . . ask for Paulie Walnuts!!! . . ."
Sure 'nuff, the girl (who's never SEEN "The Sopranos"), CALLS WasteManagement . . .
". . Hello! . . can I speak to Paulie Walnuts, please?? . . ."
The receptionist didn't find it a bit funny . . . . |
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Location: Upper Left USA | So Amanda Huggenholdt would be out of the question? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You're just too subtle, Cliff. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Take a look at pages 1617 - 1619 of the Mouser catalog.
http://www.mouser.com/catalog/632/1617.pdf |
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Location: Jet City | Question answered, it is indeed a Magnum on Pearl Jam's stage...
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam Story
"Jeff has 12 basses onstage: three vintage Fender Precisions (including a sunburst ’59 once owned by Canned Heat’s Larry Taylor), two ’90s Modulus Vintage J’s, a 2000 Modulus custom Silvertone replica, two fretless ’90s Wal Basses, Hamer 8- and 12-strings, a ’70s Ovation Magnum, and an Azola Acoustic Baby Bass electric upright" |
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Is that a Magnum?
