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This was from a gig we played on Halloween. As you can see, my bass player costume was quite frightening!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Potentially stupid question: is the 5th string higher or lower? 7 string guitars have one lower string but I have no idea how it works for the bass. Can it be either/or?
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Typically the 5th string is tuned to "B" below the "E" to give a B E A D G tuning. Some people tune the low string to "E" and tune the high string to "C" (All fourths tuning unlike guitar where the 5th string is tuned to a third). On six string basses there is the low and high string and the fifths tuning produces B E A D G - C. Conklin makes a 7 string and it's tuned Low B, E, A, D, G, C and High F (all fourths)
arcane1
(38,613 posts)4 huge strings is more than enough
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)My fingers are too short for it to be practical. One of the things I like about the G&L I play is that it has a 1.8" nut width so the neck isn't overly wide. I have a Fender P-Bass 5 string that has a nut width just over two inches and it's a little uncomfortable higher up on the scale where the strings spread out. The G&L is just right though!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Though I do also have a Peavey bass with a really thin nut, and I can love playing the heck out of that too
Aristus
(66,467 posts)in 2011 at the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
I'm just getting ready to cast the flower petals from my lei onto the waters over the sunken ship. It's considered a way of showing respect for the dead.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)That's a special place. Was there back in the early eighties shortly after I served.
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)In keeping with the OP's Halloween theme, this is future me and current me taken just before Halloween
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I don't post much so you're all more familiar to me than I am to you, but I've been here a long time
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Nice to meet you! Glad you joined in, and I love the photo. Note to future self: A bit more carbs and protein couldn't hurt!
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)And if I remember correctly, hello to a fellow Bay Area native
Even my future self loves hearing the words "more carbs".
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)Please note we are almost the same color as well (my entire summer was devoted to not tanning).
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Did you make the parade? I had to work and couldn't go, but my brother did and although he got pretty soaked he had a fun time. What a series!
yuiyoshida
(41,864 posts)did see the parade via the video I posted: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017224151
I had to work as well. Luckily I never missed a playoffs game or the world series. Always home in time to watch the game. I probably got to go to 40 games this year, so the Giants got my support. (Plus all those venders, caps, hot dogs, sodas, a few beers, popcorn, and pizza slices.)
I can't wait for next year, I may get season tickets if I can afford it, for weekends. Would love to sneak off to Arizona and watch some pre season games, that way you can snag many more autographs. Hang out with McCovey Cove Dave and talk about his boat!!
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Nice personalized shirt, too.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)Here I am, from almost a year ago! I haven't felt much like taking selfies this year, but this really is how I look these days...It was my birthday!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Love that smile in this photo. Very happy!
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)simultaneously if I did that so I'll spare everyone the repair bills.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)vanlassie
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bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Beautiful photo!
vanlassie
(5,690 posts)But I did just spend a month with her
hunter
(38,328 posts)And I can't quickly find any recent pictures that wouldn't embarrass my family or frighten clients.
So here's a picture of me as a weird skinny kid in the early 'sixties:
One of my awesome elementary school teachers didn't think it was strange that my favorite book was Alfred Powell Morgan's The boys' second book of radio and electronics and she let me take it home from her classroom library and I didn't have to return it until the last day of school.
Your Bass Player costume is awesome.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Cool pic hunter!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...and I want Chocolate.
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)I could never pull that look off, even when I was thin, thin, thin! You however, nailed it.
Sanity Claws
(21,854 posts)You are a handsome devil.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Great pic of you getting in the spirit of things! Mint julep in your hand?
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Although I know it wasn't a Julep; that's not a NO drink. Sazerac, Vieux Carre, assorted beers and daiquiris, those godawful Hurricanes, Green Fairies (absinthe martini)...you get the idea. And yes, Halloween in NO is fabulous. Always.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Have you shared any of your finished work here in the Lounge? Love to see some of your work if you'd care to share it.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,751 posts)bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)My favorite self-portrait from back in the day. I was somewhere in my early 30s.
Ackptfffh!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Going to have to search the net for a Bill the Cat t-shirt now!
Cool pic!
sir pball
(4,761 posts)My wedding on Columbus Day, sharing a glass of 2002 Cristal Brut Rosé with Chef Rebecca Wilcomb at Herbsaint in New Orleans..
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Lovely photo of a beautiful couple on your special day. Congrats!
Jamaal510
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bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Used to get that same look from my dad and I couldn't lie to him either! Great pic.
cry baby
(6,682 posts)Sorry about the fuzzy photo.
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bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Looks like you were in the middle of a very interesting conversation when that was taken.
cry baby
(6,682 posts)perceptive.
Glad you liked the photo. Yours is wonderful!!
Beautiful...
cry baby
(6,682 posts)You are sweet to say so.
DFW
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bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Great pic DFW!
DFW
(54,445 posts)I am a teetotaler (don't tell anyone, though, I'd hate to see it posted on some blog somewhere).
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)Amazing Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico
kwassa
(23,340 posts)a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)are one of my teaching areas. I'm a professor of Latin American history, specializing in Mexican indigenous peoples. And yep, I'm standing atop Structure I in Calakmul. Super high, totally amazing!
Next summer, I'll take my first trip to southwestern Mexico, to see ruins in Oaxaca and Chiapas. I can't wait.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)though I have no expertise in the area. I have visited Chichen Itza, which I thought was spectacular. And Tulum.
I am an art teacher, and am very interested in culture, and I approach it from that angle. Oaxaca also has a great folk art carving tradition, too.
Bombero1956
(3,539 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)On the pitching mound in high school at the annual game between the school newspaper staff and Student Council (1966).