Hello From Southern California

[Circle_of_Fifths]

64+ y/o - played a lot of Surf and Pre-Beatles and in the past couple of years have decided to come back to bass playing.

Retired on a pension and SS, I have lots of time and know how to use a keyboard. If you ask me the time, I'll tell you how to build a clock.

I live up and over the California desert city of Palm Springs where we look down on it from our mountain house at 4,200 feet altitude. We (my wife and I) moved here to get out of the smog and bad air of the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley and all the crime.

Up until a week or so ago - I was on a bass-buying splurge to get back into shape and purchase several basses - all with 'different voices' if you will. But you know how that is for bass player. More gear!

Not going pro again - nor will I be hitting the road. I play a few private BBQs and lawn parties and have a gig going on at a few fire stations in the upper valley here.

I tend to gravitate toward Fender gear - but also have a couple of Ibanez basses - one acoustic (AEB10E-BK) and an SR500.

My Fenders (even a Fender Squier clone) start with my very favorite Affinity P-bass which is no longer stock although it looks deceptively so. Better p'ups and a neck to die for. Oh - and a secret switch to take it into the basement for tone.

My Next Squier is a Vintage Modified J-Bass in natural maple and blonde everywhere you can see except for the PG and the neck blocks.

Then I have a Deluxe MiM J-Active Fender that is a Cadillac to me - since my SR500 is my Stradivarius! They both have killer tone and qualities that fortunately don't overlap each other. That's why I need them both. Would anyone like to explain that to my wife please?

I play a mean trombone, harmonicas and keyboard and can hum a decent kazoo too. Just don't ask me to sing and play bass at the same time.

Since this is a UK-site, I would like to tell you that I have an olde friend on Geraldine Road in Wandsworth SW18 - but somehow have lost contact over the years. Let me know if you see her go by, OK?

Currently I have ordered one of the new VM Squier Jaguar basses from my favorite Guitar Center. Hopefully it gets there soon.

That should be all I need to be happy. Well - that and a bag of $20.00 USD bills in non-sequential numbers and unmarked. A medium bag of twenties would be sufficient - I'm not greedy.

I've looked in here a few times and noticed a lot of topics that I need to study and understand since my sabbatical from music for over 40 years. Like: [i]Who's that Geddy-guy?[/i] I dunnow him.

Edited August 16, 2010 by Circle_of_Fifths

[Telebass]

Welcome! You'll find out most things in here, no doubt about it!

[Marcus Müller]

[quote name='Circle_of_Fifths' post='926082' date='Aug 16 2010, 06:47 AM']64+ y/o - played a lot of Surf and Pre-Beatles and in the past couple of years have decided to come back to bass playing.

Retired on a pension and SS, I have lots of time and know how to use a keyboard. If you ask me the time, I'll tell you how to build a clock.

I live up and over the California desert city of Palm Springs where we look down on it from our mountain house at 4,200 feet altitude. We (my wife and I) moved here to get out of the smog and bad air of the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley and all the crime.

Up until a week or so ago - I was on a bass-buying splurge to get back into shape and purchase several basses - all with 'different voices' if you will. But you know how that is for bass player. More gear!

Not going pro again - nor will I be hitting the road. I play a few private BBQs and lawn parties and have a gig going on at a few fire stations in the upper valley here.

I tend two gravitate toward Fender gear - but also have a couple of Ibanez basses - one acoustic (AEB10E-BK) and an SR500.

My Fenders (even Fender Squier clone) start with my very favorite Affinity P-bass which is no longer stock although it looks deceptively so. Better p'ups and a neck to die for. Oh - and a secret switch to take it into the basement for tone.

My Next Squier is a Vintage Modified J-Bass in natural and blonde everywhere you can see except for the PG and the neck blocks.

Then I have a Deluxe MiM J-Active Fender that is a Cadillac to me - since my SR500 is my Stradivarius! They both have killer tone and qualities that fortunately don't overlap each other. That's why I need them both. Would anyone like to explain that to my wife please?

I play a mean trombone, harmonicas and keyboard and can hum a decent kazoo too. Just don't ask me to sing and play bass at the same time.

Since this is a UK-site, I would like to tell you that I have an olde friend on Geraldine Road in Wandsworth SW18 - but somehow have lost contact over the years. Let me know if you see her go by, OK?

Currently I have ordered one of the new VM Squier Jaguar basses from my favorite Guitar Center. Hopefully it gets there soon.

That should be all I need to be happy. Well - that and a bag of $20.00 USD bills in non-sequential numbers and unmarked. A medium bag of twenties would be sufficient - I'm not greedy.

I've looked in here a few times and noticed a lot of topics that I need to study and understand since my sabbatical from music for over 40 years. Like: [i]Who's that Geddy-guy?[/i] I dunnow him.[/quote]
yoos back in the smog on te web site...

[yorick]

Welcome..

[Marcus Müller]

dem 5ths 'll av yu goin rund unt rund - make yu dissy
B karfull

[Cat Burrito]

Welcome to Basschat. I had the good fortune to drive through rural California a few months ago & it was one of the most beautiful places in the world.

[Circle_of_Fifths]

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='926216' date='Aug 16 2010, 02:20 AM']Welcome to Basschat. I had the good fortune to drive through rural California a few months ago & it was one of the most beautiful places in the world.[/quote]

I can post pixs of the area if you'd like to see SoCal - but from a view that most tourists don't see very often.

In the meantime and until I find all the posting sites for OT stuff, here's a [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anza,_California"][b]LINK[/b][/url] to where I live on The Wiki.

It'll get to almost 45ºC today and MAYBE a chance of thunderstorms and heavy rain ([i]yeah - sure![/i]) - a prognostication by the weather guessers.

MY apples and pears are all coming along nicely and we will have a large harvest this year.

This is some of the area immediately around us. I go off-road a lot to see the abandoned silver and gold mines and have even worked some of the tailings for some nice gold traces and flakes.


Anyway - like I said - I'll post some of those pixs if anyone wants to see them in an OT area if I can find it.

Edited August 16, 2010 by Circle_of_Fifths

[Cat Burrito]

That'd be cool, cheers. We went out to the Joshua Tree & did a Gram Parsons pilgrimmage. Very cool.

[Circle_of_Fifths]

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='926778' date='Aug 16 2010, 11:12 AM']That'd be cool, cheers. We went out to the Joshua Tree & did a Gram Parsons pilgrimmage. Very cool.[/quote]

Did you get to any of the Cowboy Bar/Clubs out there? I played in one a few times when it was still CW and not what it later turned into: Writer/Performer Experimental Wretched Showcase.

Good clubs and open-mic facilities are getting to be fewer and fewer now.

[tino]

[quote name='Circle_of_Fifths' post='928037' date='Aug 17 2010, 09:19 PM']Did you get to any of the Cowboy Bar/Clubs out there? I played in one a few times when it was still CW and not what it later turned into: Writer/Performer Experimental Wretched Showcase.

Good clubs and open-mic facilities are getting to be fewer and fewer now.[/quote]

Welcome Joe
Is the Circle Casino still going???? it had a longer name but it was commonly known to us as the circle

Im back in the US next week but Chicago this time.....Sun & rain...just like here Im told???
seen a 58 Epi at a sensible price hoping its still there while I am,I think I will get it through customs but my wife will be another matter...

Take it easy...god bless YA

[Machines]

Would love to see some pics of the view down the mountain.. here would be fine as it's basically your thread to do as you wish .

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='Circle_of_Fifths' post='926673' date='Aug 16 2010, 05:02 PM'][/quote]

Got to love the US 4x4s... Got a bit of a soft spot for the Bronco myself

[Jigster]

not on the school run tho eh?

[alanbass1]

Welcome aboard and enjoy the site