New Baby!
 

Things are happening with my band again. Our new drummer seems to be working out. He's having some personal problems, but aren't we all?

Our lead guitarist had a processor die on him, so he replaced it only to find out his 25-year-old amp was going as well. So the other guitar player/singer and his wife pitched in and now they have matching Marshalls.

And me? I just got me a brand-new (well, actually it's six years old, but it looks like it's hardly been played at all) Ibanez SR-505 Bartolini-pickuped active EQed 5-string. Not only is the thing a dream to play, but the sound is amazing! There are so many possible tonal variations that it's almost like having a built-in effects processor! It may be months before I figure out what sounds I want to use on what songs.

And she looks good too! Just ignore that ugly guy she's with. Some girls have no taste.

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

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...uff/steve2.jpg

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Great instrument you snagged there. Good to hear you're enjoying playing with the band too. May the new stuff serve you well at gigs :)

oooh, very nice :up:

I always did like to see the grain of the wood in a guitar, a natural finish is both pleasing to the eye and finger-tips.
Mine's an old westone 4 string, fretless with split mid and an extra bridge pickup (a seymore-something or other). It's a passive doodad, so sometimes the brightness is difficult to bring out (especially with flatwound strings), but it has a lovely warm tone to it.
It was second hand when I bought it but it's a lovely solid instrument.

I should really play it more often.

She's a beauty Steve..... nice long neck and slender body with lovely curves. Used to own an Ibanez myself, albeit the 6 string variety, and I had loads of great years with that guitar.
What sort of tunes are you banging out then?

Nice one Steve :yeah:

HunterICX

She looks really cool Steve :rock:

Of course, anything would when being compared to you :O::sunny:

That's a nice looking bass. :)

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Nice Bass there Steve ! I'm sure you will get many hours of enjoyment out of it.

They make 5-string basses?

And here I thought bass players could only count to four. (Or is that drummers?) :O:

J/k, she's a beaut. I guess. I don't know from basses.

Nice axe! :up:

:yeah: Now we need the picture of you playing it while surrounded by your groupies.

I was a bass player once....
I had a red epiphone 4 string with gold hardware, it was like a ferrari.

but I moved on to guitars, and I have a dean flying v (custom painted by myself to look like Eddie Van Halen's Frankencaster)
an Ibanez RG model, amber, with a locking termolo, in case I need to do dive bombs
and I recently nabbed a blue squier strat, since I enjoy surf rock so much.

But that's a really pretty bass!

Good news, I understand some of them are already lining up for tickets to the next gig:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/12...e1af26b7a7.jpg

play it untill your fingers bleed.... and then some more :rock: