Posted on 10/30/2018 8:54:05 AM PDT by Rebelbase
It’s the percussive slap in funk. Cows don’t have a lot of funk... you don’t hear, “Get the Mooos out!” Funky people like super-fly and burning down the house. Cows don’t like flies of any sort and having their barns burnt down. And they don’t like Flea as a bass player cause the tattoos makes them think of branding and the name Flea bring back memories of nests of fleas in their ear. So that about explains it. The pop and slap are annoying too but I won’t explain just yet.
Good Bluegrass stand up bass on this one (Blackberry Blossom) - a long haired hippy playing it, sorry bout that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37PqXsUcGFE
I wonder how the herd would have reacted if the bassist were Charles Mingus and the amp was a Polytone or one of those AMPEG Porta-Flex Flip-Flops with the 15”. I know I would have stuck around.
That wasn’t a singing fish!
For crying out loud, that guys not even really playing! That’s what I really hated about “the last waltz”.
That was pretty funny, though. :)
What a shtick.
I’ve got a ‘67 Ampeg B15N. Bought it used in ‘74, I’m the second owner. Thinking about selling it. They are getting hard to find so should bring a good price. I’ve retired my ‘65 Fiesta Red Fender Jazz Bass, might sell it too.
see my post #23
OK, so here is a question to assembled guitar-violin-cello-fiddle enthusiasts.
The world is getting very, very slightly warmer since the 1970’s (in September the global average temperature was 0.14 degrees C higher than it was in 1975, but 2 degree warmer than the very cold Little Ice Age of the 1625-1700 when the Thames river routinely iced over each winter.)
More important than temperature though, we have added more CO2 to the air, which IS increasing the rate of growth of ALL plants worldwide by 12% to 27% faster, thicker, greener with more leaves and thicker trunks. More fruit, more grain, more spinach and more algae and trees.
Pine, for example, is now growing so fast that the structural wood engineers have to “de-rate” its strength from the 1970-1980 wood that was growing more slowly.
So, if 2x4’s are weaker because the grain structure is “looser” (tree rings are further apart with larger cells), what happens to the tone and resonance and frequencies of the notes coming from guitars and violins made from “looser” wood?
Dogs love to howl along with a harmonica :)
If I was decades younger, I’d love to have that amp. And the bass. There were two uprights in our house in my childhood but I never bonded with them. My father had an electric bass but I never really picked it up and he had no bass amp. I tried it once in his tweed Fender Deluxe but the sound was bad. So I stuck with the electric guitars. I’m down to a couple electrics and a few small pawnshop amps.
Well temperature and humidity can cause a string instrument to go out of tune, for sure, but most everyone is tuning those instruments to electronic tuners nowadays so the actual notes they are playing are going to be the same as always. Can’t say what it might do to the resonances or tone of the instrument though.
Tone is really only affected in “acoustic” type instruments. This includes anything that gets its done from hollow areas in the instrument body.
A solid body bass or guitar depend more on strings, pickups and playing style. There are actually a lot of youtube videos demonstrating this with A/B comparisons.
Pine isn’t used much in instruments but this may be an issue in other woods. Luthiers use what works best. In the cheap instruments it’s pretty irrelevant, though.
National Lapoon: Mr. Roberts Neighborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Zr7Z3zr-I
We’re gonna talk to a musician today, a man who plays the bass
One of my all time favorites! I have that on vinyl.
I’m in.
The smoker you drink, the player you get...
Some of the most sought after Telecasters from the early ‘50’s have pine bodies. Since the bridge and sometimes the pickups are mounted to the wood guitar body, the wood does affect the tone. If played unamplified, you might not hear it. Play it through a decent amp and you’ll hear it. Crank it up and get the tubes sweating and you’ll really hear it.
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