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Post by B13 on May 8, 2003 11:01:22 GMT -5
Just in case there's any doubt AT ALL that I am a Nerd in Disguise, this Saturday I'm off to the London Guitar Show at Wembley... I'll be the squealing blonde woman that security are trying to drag away from the Fender exhibition stand...
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Post by FILTERED on May 11, 2003 2:36:57 GMT -5
Here is the ALMOST done Filtercaster 1: Just waiting for the neck pickup and I still need to finish soldering the last of the electronics. (Don't mind the poor fit of the control plate, it's not screwed in right now...)
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Post by FILTERED on May 11, 2003 2:39:46 GMT -5
Might as well post the rest of the new family. Below is a picture of my babys. The blue Filtercaster 1 next to Gibby. Right now Gibby has a 500T in the bridge, but I'm getting the Tremonti PRS bridge pickup later this week. Gibby is a 1999 USA Gibson Les Paul Studio in Emerald Green....fond memories of rockin out with gibby...
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Post by FILTERED on May 11, 2003 2:49:26 GMT -5
Here is the whole family from left to right starting at the top: TOP: Candy Apple Red 2001 Mexican Fender Jazz Bass Deluxe 5-String; Blue FILTERCASTER 1 (mexican neck, the rest is american); Emerald Green 1999 Gibson Les Paul Studio (490R-500T); Blue/Green Oscar Schmidt acoustic/electric BOTTOM: Wine Red 2000 Mexican Fender Strat Standard; Red Burst Flamed Maple 1991 Fender American Series Strat Ultra body (the rest is in the mail); Black 2002 Epiphone AJ18S solid spruce top acoustic I have a baby blue 1995 MIM strat on the way too. And of course, all of my straps are Filter approved Dimarzio Black Cliplocks (see Phenomenology). Ok, enough showing off for the night, must go to bed. -FILTERED
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Post by admin on May 11, 2003 12:56:39 GMT -5
I know nobody who plays the bass and listens to Filter... Not that it's a terribly uncanny combination, but there just aren't enough me's out there. ANd you mean to say that you'd build the bass? Or do you suggest that one buys their own? i am definatly a bassist and i definatly listen to filter....... i wouldn't buy a fender, even if it looked like franks old ones.....well auctually i would play on a '67 P-Bass, but that'd be about it... later, -wark-
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Post by Lexie Chica on May 11, 2003 17:48:25 GMT -5
haha some nice lookin progeny . . . which of those are up for adoption, if any? and agreed, that was a wacky comment about no bass players listening to Filter . . . just like someone else who said that no girls are Filter fans! argh, the unknowing masses lex
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Post by Hubka on May 11, 2003 19:51:22 GMT -5
dude i play the bass and i listen to filter, i play the bass and i run their official website! bass is a very good instrument while we're posting photos here i might as well put this one of me rockin the fender jazz bass (deluxe) with my filter shirt on!
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Post by Cerberust on May 11, 2003 21:08:15 GMT -5
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Post by admin on May 12, 2003 1:35:24 GMT -5
as in the words of Nashiville recording sessions bass player Dave Pomeroy said "Bass players are slowly taking over the world. It's just that all the singers and guitarists are too full of their own ego's to even notice."
if any bassist gets the chance, check out the Bass Day videos, those are fuckin quality! meh, double vision...fingers can't type...need cigarette....
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Post by B13 on May 12, 2003 2:09:11 GMT -5
*goes gooey at the sight of a Fender Jazz bass
I LOVE Fender Jazz's! I would have bought one but...
I bought the Fender Precision Lyte because it has a Jazz neck and is therefore a damn sight easier to play if you're a girlie (smaller hands, y'see!)
And it's MUCH lighter in weight, the body is 3/4 scale with a full scale neck so it doesn't weight a TON! 8 years ago when I was buying my first "proper bass" I tried out a Fender Jazz and a Precision Lyte both on the basis that they have thinner necks - the Pre Lyte won because I could actually PLAY the damn thing standing up without my back crapping out!
(However, I recently got to play on a really OLD Fender Jazz and was as happy as a pig in poo for AGES!!!)
AND the Pre Lyte is an active pickup bass, which is WAY cool!
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I am SO easily pleased!!! ;D
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Post by miclumayag on May 13, 2003 4:03:08 GMT -5
My guitar ode to Filter includes a Fender Custom Shop Strat with a Gunmetal Grey Finish, Pearloid Pickguard, Seymour Duncan Distortion Neck PU, and the Standard Maple/ Rosewood neck. I would've installed a mirror pickguard but the dang lights raflected on it too much when I tried it on. Brian Liesegang's guitar was very cool but the pickguard blinding my ass was a bit too overkill:)
Other guitars that I currently play are a Custom ESP Viper, '74 Gibson SG, Guild S-100 and Fender Deluxe PBass.
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Post by FILTERED on May 13, 2003 21:22:39 GMT -5
Yay, i'm almost finished. I would finish wiring the rest of the guitar if I didn't have a damned Art History Midterm tomorrow.
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SANdoZ
Butt Pirate
so the FDG wont let me be or let me be me so let me see
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Post by SANdoZ on May 13, 2003 21:39:46 GMT -5
i play drums, and while i'll admit to looking over at the bass player occasionally, on the whole the bass and drums work together to hold the whole band together.. what im saying is bass is cool, but i hate the bumper sticker that says "like most musicians, you are now following the bass player"
i think i just hate all bumper stickers, hmm, except the silver filter sticker on my rear car window
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Post by admin on May 14, 2003 0:21:58 GMT -5
very true bro....vocals and guitars are just the parsley on the plate.....while the drums and bass are the steak....i had a teacher once who told me that. but don't get me wrong, i love all instruments....but my pick are bass, drums and synths....those are by far the most fun to play.
later,
-wark-
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Post by RichFactWebmistress on May 14, 2003 0:31:24 GMT -5
Very interesting idea on the music. I guess for writing it'd have to be the flowery language that is the garnish and the grammar, logic the meat.
And it is true, without the bass and drums to keep time by, singers and guitar players would lose time.
RFW
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