Mo speaks
16/02/07 19:30
Dear music addicts!
How I've missed gigging! How I've missed my rocking Big Road buddies!
You see I had to go in the Mayday Hospital garage for some recon work and have subsequently been waiting for parts, but will be back for the next gig, subject to a favourable engineer's report.
The Burns Bison Bass that Steve mentions in a previous blog is great fun, fabulous looking (see gig photos), has great pick ups (and on the 'wilddog' setting sounds like a blown silencer on a jet, which is good!) but has an extraordinarily long neck (3 extra frets). Add that length to the large wedge of wood left unremoved at the other end behind the bridge and you've got a problem, unless you have twizzle arms and are 7 ' tall. Bass players will know that the nut end is where you want to be for our material and that the playing position with this particular instrument requires the left arm to be stretched straight for virtually the whole gig. An osteopathic issue! So I will return to the Precision and Rickenbecker for the immediate future....no wait....this Burns Marquee Bass I've just acquired seems pretty good....
Mo.
How I've missed gigging! How I've missed my rocking Big Road buddies!
You see I had to go in the Mayday Hospital garage for some recon work and have subsequently been waiting for parts, but will be back for the next gig, subject to a favourable engineer's report.
The Burns Bison Bass that Steve mentions in a previous blog is great fun, fabulous looking (see gig photos), has great pick ups (and on the 'wilddog' setting sounds like a blown silencer on a jet, which is good!) but has an extraordinarily long neck (3 extra frets). Add that length to the large wedge of wood left unremoved at the other end behind the bridge and you've got a problem, unless you have twizzle arms and are 7 ' tall. Bass players will know that the nut end is where you want to be for our material and that the playing position with this particular instrument requires the left arm to be stretched straight for virtually the whole gig. An osteopathic issue! So I will return to the Precision and Rickenbecker for the immediate future....no wait....this Burns Marquee Bass I've just acquired seems pretty good....
Mo.
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