birthday

My 30th is birthday is coming up this year. Great excuse to enable my GAS. Instead of buying a new bass, I have decided to upgrade a couple of my current basses. Here’s the challenge: With a $750 total budget, upgrade these two player series basses. Where should the money go? - New...

So I just turned 50 on Sunday, & look what my precious bride made me! What a cake topper! All handmade/hand drawn. You wouldn't believe the lengths she went to to duplicate all this. An exact replica of my main bass & my gigging rig!! Extra points if you can guess what everything is. One...

Fleetwood Mac's anchorman is 78 years old today. I have admired John's playing for as long as I can remember, and tried to incorporate a lot of his approach into my gigs, as much as that's been possible. I guess these 2017 recordings with Lindsey and Mick were among the last done before...

I’ve always wanted one of these gorgeous 4” Moody straps but could never justify the money for one (turns out it’s really nice). So the wifey comes through with the killer birthday gift! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

So I was just hangin' out with Jeannie in The Bottle last night, on the eve of her 2,084th Birthday... wondering to myself, what do you get for the imaginary girlfriend who already has everything you can imagine. Fade in... "After 2,000 years in here, I reckon this isolation thing is kinda'...

I lucked into a short scale bass a while back, and I suppose that planted the seed. As luck would also have it, somebody moving overseas dumped off a lot of interesting gear at my local shop, which doesn't generally have much selection outside the budget category. Among the new instruments, this...

This NYC Satin will be inspected and shipped next week:

Today is paul chambers birthday. List your favorite paul chambers story and or recording.

I don't know, every time I buy a gift for my friend's birthday they act surprised like I did something weird. I just gave my buddy a $20 Walmart bought Armor All gift bucket of car wax and other accessories and he acted like it was weird, I've known this friend for 25 years. Other friends are...

Sorry so late on this, started a new job and was waiting on other people's pictures (which never appeared) On April 22nd Duh Jokers played a Birthday Party of Sorts for a friend Toddy O. Todd was a heavy gigging musician in the Cincinnati area but was taken out of the action by a stroke and...

...would have been today, April 4. He only made it to 24, but the depth and power of his playing on The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East and Eat a Peach earned him a place among the greats. Rock on, B. O.!

If you told me that i was going to be walking out of GC Pasadena with a brand new lightweight ash L2k with the kmod this morning I would have thought you were insane. This was a great birthday courtesy of the GC clearance section.

New Bass Day!! Early Birthday present from my wife. (She's Awesome) SBMM Ray 34 Natural. I'e been playing a Squier affinity PJ for a while and have been wanting to upgrade. My wife apparently pays attention.

TLDR- Scroll past my vomit of text. So as I stated in the opener..Bday is coming. I want a new bass. Problem is, im not rich nor do I know any people that are...otherwise there would be no need for this post and I would have already bought a 5 string MM. I have around a 800$ budget. Give or...

A mate of mine went off to a tool show today to get me 1 plane... And came home with 3 for me, plus 3 gouges! Stanley #7 and #4 1/2, Falcon (Aussie made) #5. He also got me some gouges. All up it's set me back $180. Very stoked. I've got some sharpening to do, but I'm really looking forward...

Hello everyone, Me and the ANB had a fun time playing a birthday party for the family of clients who come to see us at The Ranch. Arnie has known them for a couple of years and it was very nice of them to invite us to play for a special 60th birthday. The evening started about 4:45pm with me...

Have a good one.

Hard to believe! Thanks to the incredible community of bass players that have made TalkBass what it is, we turned 20 years old this year. It doesn't feel like 20 years since I started this thing up in my dorm room :jawdrop:. Probably because it's just a joy to run this site. 21 million posts...

Love the fact that you rocked a Peavey Foundation at one time in the same color with matching headstock that I own & love & that you let Ritchie Blackmore use it also

Fleetwood-Mac's anchorman turns 72 today, and gearing up for another World Tour in Summer 2018, or so says the rumo(u)r mill... Rock on, Johnny-Mac! :bassist:

Hey y'all! Last Saturday I played a fun casual with a real pickup band. I haven't played a pickup band gig in many years. Craig celebrated his 70th birthday party. A drummer buddy of mine, Tom, with whom I worked in the early 80's, is a very good friend of Craig's. When he found out Craig was...

I give thanks to the One that Bootsy beamed down from outer-space to teach us to party on this day! May the road rise to meet you and make your Funk over-floweth!

Hi, I'm making a playlist for a friend's birthday, because she's really into music. My idea was to have all the songs have her name in it, not necessarily in the name but in the lyrics. So I need some more suggestions. Doesn't have to be exactly "Victor", it can be 'victory' or 'victoria' or...

I have a birthday coming up, and my lady got us tickets to see PRIMUS!!! I'm super pumped...never seen Primus live (or any Claypool project, for that matter), and it's in a smallish venue where we have balcony seats--which is what I'd choose anyhow since I'm only 5'6" and I hate looking at the...

Sorry in advance for a long post ... I'm currently running a few-years old desktop, but plan on upgrading to a laptop in the next week or so, as a birthday present to myself. My current setup isn't terrible, but it does take quite a while to load vst-intensive projects (~3-5 minutes to load a...

and thanks again for your amazing work. (Now you know who I am!) I'm really enjoying just looking at the quality of the construction in the five-string single-coil P Bass pickup you made for me-- I'd been looking for such a beast for near ten years before I spoke with you. Seymour Duncan Custom...

... and you went home with the best present? The guy that hired the band had this V4-B rig in his garage, and was hoping one of us would give it a good home. I just about crapped myself when he pulled the tarp off of it in his garage. I didn't use the whole rig, but in our last set I...

Hey Guys, Listening to this live performance and just blown away by what the bass guy is doing. Wondering if anyone knows/can figure out what the notes are in these runs and groove in the youtube video at: 2:41 - 2:43 3:38 - 3:41 2:00 - 2:04 Thanks Cougar

So I've been strategically playing John Mayer Trio tracks when the girlfriend is around for the past few months...She's found herself loving the music and on a bit of a kick. Then, engage looking up tour dates together (where there just happens to be a stop in town right near her birthday) and...

Had a great show last night. Three sets of rock on the patio with a great crowd of friends and fans. It was also my 50th birthday! My wife Cindy decorated the place in honor of my big day. Everybody had a blast! Can't wait for next week. Hopefully some pictures...

This may be a bit long winded so apologies in advance, but today has been an interesting day. I looked on eBay UK this afternoon (don't know why) but my first pro" bass was a Peavey T-40, which my Dad bought for me for my 21st birthday back in 1988.That bass was stolen in the early 90's so I...

I'm not sure how old Prince would be today but I must say the world isn't as funky without him in it.... I'm very grateful for the influence of my older sister who was a Prince FANATIC in the early 80's and exposed me to his music at an early age. Purple Rain was the first movie I saw in the...

My wife just order me from Sweetwater music a Lakland Skyline. Its a 3 color semi hollow bass with CHI sonic pickups. But I have to wait another couple of weeks, cause they had to order it. I am excited time is going slow, has anyone got one or played one. The one I order looks like this picture.

Hope you have a good day.

These two virtuoso bassists share a birthday: &

(Edit: just changed the title to reflect post gig) Dunno if this is a no-no to post here, but I'm going for it ... I encourage all my bass brethren to GTG at the Hummingbird Saloon in the Columbia City sect of Seattle tomorrow nite for a FREE show to help celebrate my 48th circle around the...

I hinted to hubby what I wanted for our 24th wedding anniversary and my ummmm ...28th birthday gift. It shows up this Friday... a Fender Bronco 40 Digital amp :) Ok. Maybe not 28th. Add a couple of decades...

I feel like he'd be okay with me calling him Bill. May he live another 86 years.