| Author | Message | ||
     Prof_stack |
Q: What is perfect pitch? A: Landing your banjo in the dumpster from 50 yards! | ||
| Phillyblast |
How do you save a trombonist from drowning? Take your foot off their head. and for Tripp: How many trumpeters does it take to change a lightbulb? 4: One to screw it in, three to say how much better they could have done it. | ||
| Whodom |
How do you make a lead guitarist turn down? Put a piece of sheet music in front of him.  | ||
| Tripp |
sooo true philly! trumpet players are an arrogant lot! i enjoy playing acoustic guitar as well. i have a takemine with pickups and a cut out it's a beauty, my wife bought it for me for christmas the year before last, i also have a 1967 takemine 12 string but i can only play 1 song on it "wish u were here" so it hardly ever leaves its case. | ||
| Tripp |
some of the best guitarists i've ever met can't read a lick of music, it amazes me! | ||
| Court |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I hate are the ones who can. Here's son #1 who reads and shifts from traveling with the Patsy Kline Review one day and studio work with Kerry Livgren in Berryton, KS the next day. The "good news" (other than saving a bundle on my car insurance" is that he'll be a NYC resident as of the end of this month. The rest of you had to BUY studios...I get use of one as "rent". Sound like a set up deal?   | ||
| Uwgriz |
I just clicked on this thread. Add me to the list of guitar/bass playing, Buell riding engineers. Okay, I'm not really a guitar player but like every other bass player I've met, I try and can play some basic stuff. Obligatory drummer jokes: Q: Why do bands have bass players? A: To translate for the drummer. Q: How is a drum solo like a sneeze? A: You know when it's coming but you can't do anything about it. | ||
| Lgpch |
OK, guys, enough with the drummer jokes. Good bass players usually look bored, Keyboardists are techno geeks, guitarists believe they have higher levels of intelligence, and singers think that they shouldn't have to carry more than a mike stand. Horn players will stand you up for the church gigs, and soundmen are just pissed cuz they couldn't get the gig playin' guitar. You guys can dress up the tune all you want and if it sounds good then you got a drummer that can keep it locked in the pocket with taste and no one is the wiser. We get the freaky chicks because they see us as primitive as do you. This is coming from a drummer who has the rattiest tux for one reason only. I CAN COP THE INK!!! I have also been playing guitar since I was a little kid and I want all of you to admit that there are those among you who are hiding your mistakes behind a distortion peddle. If you can't find it, step on the "Boss" and hit the wammy bar till the bass player gives you the nod that we are back to the beginning of the phrase (in E probably) | ||
| Blublak |
Lg? I'm a bass player.. I almost never use distortion.. and since I keep time with my body, I was never really a 'bored' looking player.. But hey, perhaps it's the kind of music you've been playing? Hmmmm.. That phrase could start in A you know.. heheheheheh.. Later, | ||
| Court |
I have only one thing to say | ||
| Whodom |
Court- Victor rules! Saw him with Bela Fleck about a year ago. Most eclectic music I ever heard but it was cool, and he was BETTER than all the hype I'd read about him. Me, I'm a "don't get too far from the root note" bass player. It must be cool to be able to do all that solo stuff. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Ok Norm, Since you brought up the topic of "perfect pitch" I'm going to post this stuff here. Actually the definition of perfect pitch is the banjo landing in a dumpster on an accordion. Ok, here goes... For 4 of the last 5 years, I have MC'ed at an annual charity event to raise money for a local Animal Humane Society. How do we raise the money? We throw guitars in a dumpster!! A buck a throw, 2 bucks for a virgin guitar... The participants (the guilty parties?).......  The Ammo  The Action.....  The Aftermath....  Oh the horrors!!! Flame on!!! Brad | ||
| Prof_stack |
Wow, I hope all that wood is laminated. I'd hate to lose a fine-grained spruce soundboard! Looks like a fun event, though. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Most were old lam tops, some were cedar, some spruce. All were junk. Most necks looked like a propeller or a semi recurve bow. A couple needed guitar tech work before they could be tossed (read duct tape...)  We had everyone from a Grandma (about 70 years old) to a 5 year old toss. The young kids get to toss from a bit closer than the big kids. If you land one in the dumpster you win a prize. We had t-shirts, CD's, caps, all music related. All donated from vendors. The grand prize drawings were for acouple of amps, a couple of guitars (one of them a G&L!) and a couple of other really decent music related prizes. BTW, the store that sponsors it every year is called My Music Store. Neat place. | ||
| Lgpch |
So we have bass fans here. Yeah I would say that Victor and anything Bela is excellent and special music. But in regards to Bass players, can someone please give me an amen for a fella' named DAVE LaRUE!!! | ||
| Whodom |
Lgpch- LaRue is cool; never seen him but I've heard him on Dixie Dregs stuff. My personal favorite is probably Tommy Shannon (Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Arc Angels, Storyville). Nothing flashy, but the man can GROOVE, which is what bass players are supposed to do. | ||
| Tripp |
i've always been partial to the singer/bassists; paul mccartney, getty lee, sting. it seems cool to sing and bust a nice rolling bass line at the same time! | ||
| Uwgriz |
Singing and playing bass is no easy task, much more difficult than guitar/vocals IMHO. Anybody know of Michael Manring? Solo bassist, does some really cool stuff. Solo bass is not isn't for everyone's listening though. I was starting to wonder if I'm the only one who knew who the Dregs were. Maybe just where I live. (Message edited by uwgriz on August 11, 2004) | ||
| Bomber |
bootsie collins | ||
| Impulse_101 |
I saw LaRue with the Dregs and with John Petrucci last years. That dude just rips. He's sick! If you love 70's era stadium rock and progressive I suggest checking out Spock's Beard. (Their bassist Dave Meros is PHENOMINAL and an amazingly nice guy!!) They are my favorite band right now and among the best live bands I've ever seen. Court, if your son works with Kerry L. then ask him if he knows Neal Morse. JT | ||
| Whodom |
OK, do we have any other LEFT-HANDED Buell-riding, bass-playing engineers here?  (Message edited by whodom on August 11, 2004) | ||
| Mikej |
So that is what's considered "left handed". I have a few guitars and plan to learn to play them in the Spring. Picking them up (one at a time) I didn't know which way was right or left handed, now I know. But being a little ambidextrous I still don't know which way I'll end up playing them. Maybe I'll just go back to the trumpet and see how much I remember from grade school music lessons. | ||
| Uwgriz |
I'm out on the lefthanded thing. | ||
| Uwgriz |
JT, was that show at the Rave? I was at that one. Awesome. But if your going to mention Petrucci, you have to mention John Myung. I watch him, and just think "Dude, I suck." | ||
| Impulse_101 |
The Dregs was at The Eagles Club Ballroom. The petrucci show as at The Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on the G3 tour. Nothing like a night of guitar with Satch, Via and Petrucci to make a guitarist feel like his hands are made of lead. I got the last Satch double DVD for fathers day and I'm stealing every lick I can. I love his stuff and he's a really cool guy. JT | ||
| Uwgriz |
When I saw the Dregs they were there (Eagles Club - I just call the whole building the Rave.) with Dream Theater (Petrucci, Myung and co.). I missed the G3 show and was bummed. I have the CD when the third G was Eric Johnson. What bummed me about that was that Adrian Legg opened for a bunch of those original G3 shows but never made the CD. I saw Legg in Madison with a crowd of about 100 people. The guy is an amazing acoustic player. I sat about 5 feet from him and spent the next three hours laughing at his stories and sitting with my mouth hanging open while he played I have the Satch DVD as well and love watching him play, but I enjoy watching Stu Hamm play on it probably just as much. (Message edited by uwgriz on August 11, 2004) | ||
| Impulse_101 |
I have that CD too. Cool #9 is awesome on that. I'll have to tell you the story of how I got to sit in their limo/van after a show in Anchorage back in 90. Joe, Stu and Jon Mover are all killer people as well as musicians. JT | ||
| Whodom |
MikeJ- if you hold your axe like that, that's left-handed. If you can hold it the other way (right-handed) without it feeling supremely weird, I recommend you learn that way. You'll have access to 99% more instruments when you go to a friend's house or a music store. Impulse or Uwgriz: Do either of you know much Dregs history? I saw them live back in 1977 or 1978 when I was in college. Don't know who the bassist was then but it wasn't LaRue. I just remember he had a HELL of an amplification rig- a couple of big Phase Linear power amps and similar hi-fi equipment. I didn't play bass at the time but I was highly impressed. | ||
| Uwgriz |
Steve Morse (guitar) and Andy West (bass) played together back in high school and when Steve went to school in Miami he met a violin player and drummer Rod Morgenstein. He convinced Andy to move to Miami where they formed the band. The first Dregs album was actually done as a class project. The group went there seperate ways after a couple of albums and later reformed with LaRue in West's place. All of the guys continue working on different projects and treat the Dregs as a perpetual side project that they do for fun. You can hear it in the music and definately see it live - those guys are having fun. Music in its purest sense. Way cool. | ||
| Uwgriz |
BTW, the name came from Steve and Andy who had an earlier band called Dixie Grit and after the band split Steve and Andy considered themselves dregs being the only two guys left. |
