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  • #354
    Miguel Mendiola
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    Hi, Lucas Vigor here. A friend suggested I join this forum. Looks good! My favorite subjects are being discussed (upright bass!)!!. I am mostly a fingerstyle player in one band I am in, and a slap player in another band. Been playing bass for about 30 years altogether.

    #356
    Patrik Backlund
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    Howdy! 🙂

    #357
    Mattias Isaksen
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    Hello and welcome!

    /Inferno

    #360
    Miguel Mendiola
    Participant

    Thanks guys! Glad to be here!

    #362
    mike sirman
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    Welcome

    #365
    bourrousse
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    Hi, I’m Julien BOURROUSSE,from France.N. Dubouchet, a friend of mine ,told me about this forum, & i’m glad to see how it works.
    I also play in different bands, old style blues and neo-rockabillly,
    all the best for every bass players anywhere !!

    #395
    Dan Enriquez
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    Hey Lucas! What kind of bass do you have?

    #405
    Miguel Mendiola
    Participant

    I have a 3/4 Czech Strunal with spirocore weichs, and a 3/4 King Doublebass “slapking” with all wackers.

    http://www.myspace.com/thehulagirlsband

    #430
    Kevin Stewart
    Participant

    Word up Lucas!

    Glad you came on here…lots and lots of great slappers here!

    How did the San O’ show with Smokin’ Menehunes go? I was really bummed I couldn’t make it. Family likes to visit on the worst weekends sometimes…

    #432
    Simon Farrell
    Participant

    Hello Lucas, welcome along.

    #433
    Simon Farrell
    Participant

    [b]bourroussewillis wrote:[/b]
    [quote]Hi, I’m Julien BOURROUSSE,from France.N. Dubouchet, a friend of mine ,told me about this forum, & i’m glad to see how it works.
    I also play in different bands, old style blues and neo-rockabillly,
    all the best for every bass players anywhere !![/quote]

    Hello Julien.

    #441
    Miguel Mendiola
    Participant

    [b]Kevin Stewart wrote:[/b]
    [quote]Word up Lucas!

    Glad you came on here…lots and lots of great slappers here!

    How did the San O’ show with Smokin’ Menehunes go? I was really bummed I couldn’t make it. Family likes to visit on the worst weekends sometimes…[/quote]

    As it turns out, it was all work and none of us were allowed to surf! Heck, he (Pat) would not even allow us to wear shorts!

    (There we were, in our dress shoes, white dress pants, aloha shirts and farmer hats…the only ones on the entire beach dressed for church!)

    But, I guess I can’t complain. Got paid, and we really only played about an hour anyway.

    The night before was way better. Private party, and I did the whole thing un-amplified on my jazz bass! I was amazed at how punchy and deep it was. It was a cement courtyard, with cement walls….I guess the sound was kind of focused?

    Anyway, looks like we are back at Buster’s around the end of August!

    #446
    Dan Enriquez
    Participant

    Slapking with wackers? How’s that working?

    #460
    Miguel Mendiola
    Participant

    Honestly, I would rather have guts, but after these things have been on long enough, the tone difference between guts and wackers is negligible. I love guts, but the maintenence problems plus the cost made me switch. I was playing in the desert one day, and by the beach (with all the fog) the next. It just was not working for me. The wackers are very stable, all the time. Same type of short decay, same overall feel, same width, and the tone is very similar. Nothing beats guts, really…but these are a close second.

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