I bought a hat today! :D
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7198/img1363o.jpg

Nice hat, but it doesn't help.
:rotfl2:

Oh you, I'm a real beauty! You're just jealous:O::D:haha:

Ah, how well they know me. I gotta get out more! :cry:

Ain't I adorable...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22.../Photo2248.jpg

And one from the great pipe shortage of 2008
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...shortage-1.jpg

this is me me as a kid (on starboard) and a random funny
 

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And a random funny
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Me with my new baby.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...uff/steve1.jpg

Is that a bass with too many strings, or a guitar with not enough? :O:

After all the jokes you've made about bass players, how could you even ask?

Now, really. I've never in my life made a joke about bass players.

I have, however, repeated quite a few of them. :O:

Seriously, though, as I said in the GT thread - I didn't know they made basses with more than four strings. At first glance I thought it was a guitar just missing a string, then I was like, wait, it's not, there's only supposed to be five... thus the head-scratching.

The five-string has an extra string below the usual four, which allows for some lower tones. We also do some songs with extra guitars tuned down a half-step. The new bass lets me play in E-flat without retuning.

The six-string bass also has an extra higher string. It's popular with jazz players.

There is also an eight-string bass, but it's actually like a 12-string guitar - four strings but doubled, with the extras being an octave higher, so it plays like a regular 4-string but it has a cool sound. Not really necessary these days, as a digital effects processor can do that electronically.

If you think that's too many strings on a bass-range instrument, you must be unfamiliar with the Warr Guitar (and other touch instruments in the same vein, like the Chapman Stick):

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...b2006/warr.jpg

In the right hands, incredible instruments (not just gimmicks, trust me) :|\\

Looks like an electric sitar. Cool stuff.

Of course in the right hands (such as those of Stanley Jordan) a standard guitar becomes an incredible instrument.

^
or that of Gary Moore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGoYmRoBF4Q

HunterICX

Not forgetting Jimmy Page/Jeff Beck/Eric Clapton:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKlEVtA_TGQ