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Rick Bass

2005-10-22, 5:21 pm

Thanks guys, for all the great assistance. I'm on my way to building,
just got the plans from the Arch. and he include ideas for the studio.

Will keep in touch and let you guys know how this are progressing.
After the studio is in (I'm guessing 10 to 12 months) We can all hook
up and jam/record. If you don't play an instrument, you can drink
homemade brew, and If you don't drink, you can smoke some herb and if
you don't smoke, thats ok too.

Rick
Bass players Drink Bass and Hopme Brew

Cato

2005-10-22, 7:21 pm

Rick Bass wrote:
> Thanks guys, for all the great assistance. I'm on my way to building,
> just got the plans from the Arch. and he include ideas for the studio.
>
> Will keep in touch and let you guys know how this are progressing.
> After the studio is in (I'm guessing 10 to 12 months) We can all hook
> up and jam/record. If you don't play an instrument, you can drink
> homemade brew, and If you don't drink, you can smoke some herb and if
> you don't smoke, thats ok too.
>
> Rick
> Bass players Drink Bass and Hopme Brew

I look forward to hearing about it. As far as jammin goes, I'm for it.

One thing though, I'm currently in a Haircut 100 Tribute band, so my
knowledge of songs is a bit limited, so you'll have to take it easy
with all that jazz, blues and rock stuff. LOL

Still trying to figure out why we aren't getting any gigs. Ideas
anyone?

Don

2005-10-22, 7:21 pm

"Cato"> wrote
> Still trying to figure out why we aren't getting any gigs. Ideas
> anyone?

You're not living the right lifestyle and you have a full time job and a
family.
For the past 8 years me and a few friends played twice a year at Scarecrow
farms but this year I decided to get out of it.
We used to play in mid-June and then in late Sept.
To be successful at this stuff, or to at least do it alot, you have to be in
and or around those folks all the time and frankly I don't have the time for
all of that.
So my playing these days is limited to my own stuff and getting together
every couple months with my cousin.
Within the next year I'm going to get involved with a *drum machine* and all
of the stuff that goes with it.
If I could create/access some decent drum lines I could then drop my guitar
stuff on top of it and see what happens.
I also want to spend more time understanding the bass.

Rick Bass

2005-10-23, 4:21 pm

I was in a JMH/SRV tribute (kinda', all we did were those two cats'
stuff) for 5 years and of course we would get requests and not do them
because "we don't take request", but we told people we would do them at
the end of the set, if it so happened.
.. We, as a group (power trio) decided it was too much work to lineup
the gigs, play and break down for free. Here in LA you play for free
or pay to play, unless your, ahem, famous? (what ever that means). We
had a talent agent but he took us to the cleaners for about 2 years,
told us lies and absconed with any money we would have made.

Ruff life as a musician, and you have to do it 24/7.

Now I jam in a small studio (reason for a new one) with a drum set,
guitar and bass, keys, percussion stuff, for free, but get a lot more
out of it.

Rick
Bass players Drink Bass and Homebrew

Cato

2005-10-24, 1:21 pm

Don wrote:
> "Cato"> wrote
>
> You're not living the right lifestyle and you have a full time job and a
> family.
> For the past 8 years me and a few friends played twice a year at Scarecrow
> farms but this year I decided to get out of it.
> We used to play in mid-June and then in late Sept.
> To be successful at this stuff, or to at least do it alot, you have to be in
> and or around those folks all the time and frankly I don't have the time for
> all of that.
> So my playing these days is limited to my own stuff and getting together
> every couple months with my cousin.
> Within the next year I'm going to get involved with a *drum machine* and all
> of the stuff that goes with it.
> If I could create/access some decent drum lines I could then drop my guitar
> stuff on top of it and see what happens.

Quite a few years ago, when I was pretty much just playing by my
lonesome, I used a drum machine and a digital sampler. Get a beat
going, put a rythm track down with the sampler, and then just noodle
along. Sounded like a nice little three piece, and not that hard to
sync up once you figured out the gear.

(snip)

I guess you didn't get the Haircut 100 Tribute band part. Very tongue
in cheek. That would be one of the shortest set lists around. Two
songs and a cloud of dust. ;-)

Actually I have been playing with some guys regularly in a band for
about 4 years that started out just a fun little hobby, and has grown
to many paying gigs. We are even playing a wedding (gasp!) in a couple
of weeks. I NEVER wanted to do a wedding, but it's for a good friend
of mine, so we're doing him a favor. We mostly do cover stuff, with a
few originals when people get drunk enough to stand them.

I've also been jamming with this group of older guys (much older than
me) who play very different stuff from what I'm used to. They will
play some old rock n roll, but they will also break out some country
and bluegrass. Even got a harmonica and a fiddle player. Very fun
stuff for me, since I didn't really grow up playing much of this.
Keeps me challenged.

The funnest gigging I've done, although it's been awhile, is with a DJ
who does House music with a little latin, bossa nova, and world music
swing to it. He brings in a percussionist and bass player/keyboard
guy, and I sit in sometimes with my acoustic. Very fun stuff, get to
pretty much freestyle and act like I know what I'm doing. ;-) Very
fun, laidback kinda loungy stuff to play. I even get paid/free drinks
for it.

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