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I got the two on the left, son got the big guy on the right (and a bike to fit his quick-stretchin' frame)
Got some Velvet Garbos for the double bass too - 2x fat, 2x volume, 2x tone, 1/2 tension. I'm a happy bastard


Did a gig today @ a major hotel. Xmas cheese - but grandmas and small children filled the floor, and things were jivin

You know what I'm sayin' JV, Gaz , Nestor, astro, all you peeps here

Respect, Rock On Regardless

W

Our Universal Bond is the Music......Merry XMas.
The Bass Looks awesome from that angle, love it.
Also that's a serious VIntage Piano with new keys, unless my eyes are decieving me.
I usually can tell the age and use by the Benches wear and tear, and those Pearly Whites look like Dentures to me.....


Ankyu

$500 special from my tuning/removin/ playin friends

It's got a light touch on it Jim, keeps a ham-fisted wookie like me honest.

Honky tonk vibe on the hammers too - been thrashing Monk on it still

- And the G string is as fat as my old E

ankyu

Right On Brotha' Man Wayne...

Glad 2 C U Poppin' In.

Vibes From Vegas..

Very cool... I recognise a good double-bass feel when I see its fingerboard, and yours looks really plesant to play. If it sounds as it looks, it must be great!

Enjoy these great gifts my friend!

yes! yes! yes!!!!

that's some serious strings to pluck, wow
(recently 'upgraded' one of my Precisions to LaBella 760FM 110 Flats, physics does matter)
and it's cool to see the Brandenburg Gate as a xmas present down under - in memory of a gig ?

merry xmas and happy holidays, Tom

Yeah, some story behind it?
Bass looks awesome.
Still have to visit today's Brandenburg Gate tho

- no story, just wife & son thought I'd like them. Lego for grown-ups

Although there could be a subtle message from the young 'un to play my Bach more Gangnam style

40C here til new year, then it'll drop back to a balmy 34C . Phew.

And for any bass folks out there - garbos kick it - just done a few 3-hour test drives.

Mingus & Charlie Haden vibe.

Especially if you're 6'5", 100kg and like to maul a bass

Also, one has to file out the bridge so the strings aren't pinched.

Took me two trips to the hardware store to restring this bass - firstly bought an eye hook attachment for the cordless drill, softened it's grooves with some gaff (nashua). Best, cheapest string winder.

2nd trip for the micro file set when i realised how fat these bastards are - (read the instructions first).

Coloured in the new notches with a 2B graphite pencil


Thing is, this brings this beautiful '20s double bass into the fantastically playable league, all the tone of a master carved bass is there.

Left to me by a departed brother who played Firebird on it with Stravinsky conducting in Sydney, 1961.

Good times