Just wanted to share my latest acquisition. It's a Fender USA Custom Classic Jazz V bass in Bing Cherry Translucent. It's right out of their Custom Shop and it's the finest in quality. The detail and finish is amazing! (I rotated the photo sideways.)

This isn't my only instrument, just the latest to get all the attention...

Very nice!

I started playing guitar many years ago but stopped after losing my lift index finger tip in a sheetmetal brake.

After over 20 years away, a couple of years ago I joined a local adult band and have been playing with them almost every Wednesday evening since then. I play baritone horn.

Sometimes it is a challenge for me also - I have a short left pinky finger. I jammed it when I was a baby and no one noticed it until I started playing guitar at the age of 14! I had an x-ray of that hand (for a minor cyst) and sure enough, you can see where that pinky finger is "defective"!:lol: It is about 1/2" shorter than it should be!!! :mad: There is no knuckle on the top of my hand also...just an indent of where it should be.

Ah yes--the difference between you and me is that you seem to have met the challenge while I just use my fingie as a copout. :tg: Good for you!

I was always better at the horn than guitar anyway.

It's easier to play the bass vs. the standard electric guitar! I also have a Tenor Sax - but I haven't picked it up in a year...terrible.

Nice looking Axe. I have been playing drums for 20-some years. I thought manufacturring was going to be a temporary day job until my talents were discovered. :lol:

I play the classical guitar...5 years ago...i play along with the "real" guitarist of our choir in church. since i had my work afr away from home, I just picked it up occasionally. My fingers became too soft to endure the pressure of the strings and the frets became too wide gor me to reach. :(

I have always dreamed to play like Antonio Banderas in the movie Desperado:rar: ...I can see his fingers fly:jawdrop: between the frets playing the guitar. D@mn he was good! :agree1: Unfortunately after all that years playing with the thing I've been stuck to the classical A,B,C,D,E,F,G chords.:mad:

I was a killer Kazoo player back when I was a Narc. many was the time I went on stage with a live band and played my heart out to prove that I wasn't no stinkin' cop. (Cop's didn't play Kazoo's, they just sat in the corner and looked tough)

I can't claim to play anything other than the cd changer:lmao: However, here's a picture of one of my multi-talented sons with his band "Silverland" now called "Turning Autumn". Both play(ed) piano, violin and now drums, guitar (electric lead, elect. bass and acoustic), keyboards and vocals! I guess the talent thing jumped a generation with me:notme:

Andy

I am probably going to regret revealing this one......5 string banjo.....don't ask!!

I am probably going to regret revealing this one......5 string banjo.....don't ask!!

Well, you are out of the closet now. :lol:

I am probably going to regret revealing this one......5 string banjo.....don't ask!!

You won't hear me knocking it.
My latest diversion is a mountain dulcimer. Fun and very easy to play. Of course I've tinkered with guitar for close to 30 years. Never have been very good.
Anyway I have a Fender Acoustic 12 string that is at least 30 years old. Sounds like a dream.

James

I've been playing the drums for about 30 years,
played locally with bands for about 20 years.
I have just recently been thinking about playing out again,
for now. I'm having fun in my basement studio with my daughter on keyboards.
Ed

:rar: OK, I'll fess up...

Alvarez Yari guitar, 4-String Banjo, Bass and most recently a Mandolin that I'm trying to learn how to play...

I've been playing with a Penn State "Institution" that has been around since 1968 called "The Phyrst Phamly". Local "Irish Pub" Sing-along band. I was in the band as an undergrad, and when I came back to town as a "real person" they recruited me back into the band. Every Saturday night! It's fun - and the most fun I have is seeing old college friends come back to the bar that I wouldn't normally have run into! We even have the President of the University sit in with us from time to time - He plays the Washboard :cool:

Nice.....each post gets better than the last! :lol:

I don't know about the instument relationship, but I was also accomplished in Hawaiian Nose Humming.

Additionally, there are times that my damaged probiscous will sound much like a Tin Whistle

While not exactly a "musician" I used to sing, dance and act in community theater for about 15 years. My signature song was "If I were a rich man" from "Fiddler on the Roof".

I don't know about the instument relationship, but I was also accomplished in Hawaiian Nose Humming.

Additionally, there are times that my damaged probiscous will sound much like a Tin Whistle

Thanks Randy. I now have coffee all over my desk and computer screen! :lmao:

I played horn in a drum and bugle corps for a few years, and played low brass for several after that. Started college as a music major. When I got my braces taken off, the chops were toast, so I eventually dropped the horn and just ran the sound board for a couple of bands off and on for a few years. Later sang in several locally-produced musicals, and have been learning the guitar for about a year now, but that has been slow going. Not yet ready for public consumption.

Another bass player here. The current instruments of choice are a matched pair of Lakland Deluxe 55-94 5 string basses, one fretted and one fretless. I've been playing for over 45 years and have relied on music for a living a couple of times in my life. The present band is an 8 piece group doing stuff in the Chicago and Tower of Power style.

Another bass player here. The current instruments of choice are a matched pair of Lakland Deluxe 55-94 5 string basses, one fretted and one fretless. I've been playing for over 45 years and have relied on music for a living a couple of times in my life. The present band is an 8 piece group doing stuff in the Chicago and Tower of Power style.

I too have a Lakland... USA JO 4-string. All natural, maple fret, black pg. Plays like a dream. They really did a "quality" job on mine. I've been a bassist for a couple of years. Still learning - I like the Motown (James Jamerson) sound the best. :cool:

Must be alot of QUALITY music out there........:notme:

FYI - A friend turned me on to a magazine called "Musicians Friend", I have never found better deals on name brand stuff in my life.
They carry everything from picks to PA systems.
Ed

You won't hear me knocking it.
My latest diversion is a mountain dulcimer. Fun and very easy to play. Of course I've tinkered with guitar for close to 30 years. Never have been very good.
Anyway I have a Fender Acoustic 12 string that is at least 30 years old. Sounds like a dream.

James


Mountain dulcimer - I love it! My Dad plays one - swears you cant hit a bad note - which is probably why thats what he has my 9 year old daughter playing HA HA

Well another bassist here. I own a Sunburst Fender Mustang short scale. It's OK but you really need the full scale to get a real bass sound. Played in several bands in my younger days, weddings and bars mostly - lots of wild stories related to that - could be a thread all in itself!!

RIP Leo Fender, who you may or may not know is the undisputed inventor of the electric bass - despite not knowing how to play guitar himself!

Larry

I think that Craig and I established a long while back that we probably competed in drum and bugle corps....but I was in the rifle squad then...back to topic...

I've dabbled in drums, piano, guitar, autoharp never great at any of them. I played (don't laugh) accordian for years and years, used to get some professional gigs at high school reunions for the old folks. a one anda two...

I think that Craig and I established a long while back that we probably competed in drum and bugle corps....but I was in the rifle squad then...back to topic...

I've dabbled in drums, piano, guitar, autoharp never great at any of them. I played (don't laugh) accordian for years and years, used to get some professional gigs at high school reunions for the old folks. a one anda two...


Well, who'd a thought. I'd like to see that, got any pictures?:rolleyes:
It's amazing.. all the hidden talent here.

Must be alot of QUALITY music out there........:notme:

FYI - A friend turned me on to a magazine called "Musicians Friend", I have never found better deals on name brand stuff in my life.
They carry everything from picks to PA systems.
Ed

They have yet to disappoint me.

I played (don't laugh) accordian for years and years, used to get some professional gigs at high school reunions for the old folks. a one anda two...


:topic:
If you Google my name you'll find there is a guy in Wisconsin that seems to be a world-class polka accordionist and with whom I share my moniker.
My only real Google hits are for the Cove, though.

My parents have some pictures of me in the corps, but Steel and I didn't know each other then, although I am fairly certain we were at some of the same shows. Love those rifle girls!

I played trombone through college, and wrote the half-time shows my senior year for the Virginia Tech Highty-Tighties. Wrote to many a fine Sousa march. Yes, the band really exists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highty-Tighties)

After Randy's one post, I'm probably setting myself up, but here goes - I've always played woodwinds - flute in grade and high school, picked up the recorder sometime in the middle of high school and picked up the tin or penny whistle in college. I've never played professionally, but have played for local bands that play for English Country Dancing and also for Morris Dancing - from a playing viewpoint, my moment of fame came years ago during one of the early Smokey City Folk Festivals (Pittsburgh, PA) when I was the musician playing for one of the dances we did. Of course, we then switched out and I was back dancing while someone else played.

Not much time currently for playing, but I'll try now and again at a historical reenactment. Trying to find time currently to pickup the "Low D" whistle and not embarass myself, but not having much luck.

RIP Leo Fender, who you may or may not know is the undisputed inventor of the electric bass - despite not knowing how to play guitar himself!


Audiovox, in the person of Paul Turmarc, produced and marketed an electric bass in 1937, some 15 years before Leo Fender's P-Bass. You can read about it here (http://www.vintageguitar.com/brands/details.asp?ID=46).

:topic:
If you Google my name you'll find there is a guy in Wisconsin that seems to be a world-class polka accordionist and with whom I share my moniker.
My only real Google hits are for the Cove, though.

My parents have some pictures of me in the corps, but Steel and I didn't know each other then, although I am fairly certain we were at some of the same shows. Love those rifle girls!

Yeah, it takes a special kinda girl to hurl an M16 into the air to complete 3 revolutions (or 5), catch it one handed and transition to a slap-jack!;)

Musician's Friend is awesome. A coworker told me about it when I was hunting for a guitar for #1 son. Great prices, especially if you find what you want on one of their sales.

Also great deals: :agree1:
www.music123.com or www.wwbw.com <=== Same place / different names. www.sweetwater.com also is another good one but tends to be a couple dollars higher.

Here I am a few years ago on stage (on the left there, guys!) Also......in 1966! :mg:
(Edit: :o 1966 photo removed!)

A band I was in "Magoon" made it into the October 1994 issue of Billboard Magazine.
We were in the "Continental Drift", a section about up and coming original artists.

Guess who the group under us in the article was...... the Dixie Chicks.

Here I am.... nobody cares when I bad mouth the Pres.:mad:

First year violin student. Amazing instrument, it can possess you.:o

First year violin student. Amazing instrument, it can possess you.:o

1st Year violin... I thought there were only fiddles in Tennessee :notme: ;) :lol:

Here I am a few years ago on stage (on the left...there guys!) Also......in 1966! :mg:I guess the grandpa in me is taking over. When I saw the 1966 picture, all I could think and say was:

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

I guess the grandpa in me is taking over. When I saw the 1966 picture, all I could think and say was:

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"

Gee thanks. :rolleyes:

SamJ.....I know you're lurking. The photos stay here!

Well another bassist here. I own a Sunburst Fender Mustang short scale. It's OK but you really need the full scale to get a real bass sound. Played in several bands in my younger days, weddings and bars mostly - lots of wild stories related to that - could be a thread all in itself!!



Larry


Amen to the wild stories...I could write a book.

I've played your neck of the woods a couple of times at Summerfest, Statefair and the Alehouse are some places that come to mind.

Audiovox, in the person of Paul Turmarc, produced and marketed an electric bass in 1937, some 15 years before Leo Fender's P-Bass. You can read about it here (http://www.vintageguitar.com/brands/details.asp?ID=46).

Alright Technically you're correct, :o so let me modify my earlier statement:
RIP Leo Fender who made the electric bass what it is today!.

That is a correct statement since Turmac's version was a comercial failure.

I still say we could have another tread to tell our goofy muscian stories!

Larry

I bought a Bass in the Philippines back in July 2005 for $85 (Canadian). Something happened to it that I could not get any sound once connected to my amp after playing for 6 months .. :mad:. I also have my Ovation acoustic that I play almost every week at Our church..

Tried the Nose Humming (I think pressing down on one of the nostril and brushing the other nostril with your finger while humming) correct me if I'm wrong. Played "Pearly shells" this was my closet masterpiece :lol: .

Anywho, have a great weekend everyone!

There was a time when i was a lyricist/vocalist of an amateur rock band, i recall getting a 1st place trophy in a local talent competition.

I've been around guitarist and drummers for quite some time, hoping it would rub on me, i did buy a squier 'n zoom amp, and occassionally fiddle around with it, just for fun

some of the stuff i'd love to play one day would be:

Ironmaiden: hallowed be thy name, Deep Purple: Soldier of Fortune, Pearl Jam: Nothing Man, LedZepplin: Stairway to Heaven, Megadeth: Secret Place, The theme for Requiem for a Dream, Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King, ACDC: TNT, and others i can't think of now