New guy introducing self!

[stretch80]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie who has posed a few questions over the last few months (since I've become a Stingray convert) -- but never properly introduced myself. So just wanted to say hello.

I'm a longtime player/sideman -- more groove-song-oriented than anything, playing whatever I get asked to, which has included punk and ska (when I was younger!) to soul, funk, rock, pop, and jazz. Best thing about bass is that it works in so many kinds of music.

My trans-gold-rosewood-tortoise SR5 is my new main bass. I also play a 5-string fretless acoustic alot (Epi El Capitan), a 76 maple neck P-bass, and a much-modded Rick 4000 I bought when I was 16~! The "stretch" is cause I'm way too tall. But long fingers are good.

Bert

 

[Mobay45]

Welcome and I hate you. (Just kidding about the hate part. I'm just jealous.) I love the Trans Gold with Rosewood fret board and Tort p/g! (drool) You have to post pics asap!

 

[dlloyd]

Hi all,

I'm a newbie who has posed a few questions over the last few months (since I've become a Stingray convert) -- but never properly introduced myself. So just wanted to say hello.

I'm a longtime player/sideman -- more groove-song-oriented than anything, playing whatever I get asked to, which has included punk and ska (when I was younger!) to soul, funk, rock, pop, and jazz. Best thing about bass is that it works in so many kinds of music.

My trans-gold-rosewood-tortoise SR5 is my new main bass. I also play a 5-string fretless acoustic alot (Epi El Capitan), a 76 maple neck P-bass, and a much-modded Rick 4000 I bought when I was 16~! The "stretch" is cause I'm way too tall. But long fingers are good.

Bert

Welcome, Bert Trans Gold is where it's at

 

[TSanders]

Welcome. Enjoy your stay at Camp MM.

 

[bass thumper]

Welcome to our little world, Bert. You will find a wealth of information on this forum as I also have found. You will see the serious side and also the not so serious side. Be blessed.

Jim

 

[stretch80]

the trans-gold-tort IS pretty - esp for a more trad-type look. I'll take a pic and get it up. But it was the SOUND that totally hooked me. Now I've got to sell my former #1 bass, a Peavey Cirrus 5. Ah well.

thanks for the welcome.

 

[bass thumper]

The "stretch" is cause I'm way too tall. But long fingers are good.


How tall are you?

 

[stretch80]

6 foot 8 inches. back in the day, I'd run from hoop practice to band practice, and the jocks thought I was a deadbeat musican, and the musicians thought i was too much of a jock. The music was much more my true calling. Tho I had a pretty good sky hook!

 

[Moondog]

6 foot 8 inches. back in the day, I'd run from hoop practice to band practice, and the jocks thought I was a deadbeat musican, and the musicians thought i was too much of a jock. The music was much more my true calling. Tho I had a pretty good sky hook!

Wow, I'm 6'3" and always towered over bandmates

 

[skabassist13]

me too moondog. cept the last time i checked i was 6'2". but i could be 6'3" by now.

 

[jongitarz]

Welcome!

 

[rowyco]

Hooray for tall bassists (I’m 6’4"-6’5")

 

[oddjob]

Hey now, I'm lucky if I'm 5'8" (and the shortest guy in my band)

 

[kilgore777]

6 foot 8 inches. back in the day, I'd run from hoop practice to band practice, and the jocks thought I was a deadbeat musican, and the musicians thought i was too much of a jock. The music was much more my true calling. Tho I had a pretty good sky hook!

Holy hell, I'm a midget here at 5' 9"! Welcome to the forum!

 

[Dees]

Welcome, and if you have the abillity: post a picture

And I'm the talles from my band, 1,84m (I think)

 

[stretch80]

I'll try to find a band shot to post. tho if its an old one (ie: I'm not playing the SR5) that might be blasphemous. I do sometimes feel like 'the beanpole in the back' and I knew I'd never get a job playing for Prince. But in the end, height doesn't have a lot to do with who we really are, and it's one of those things that we have zero control over. For us all, sense of TIME is what really matters!

 

[spectorbassguy]

Welcome Stretch! Very envious of your long fingers! Ain't SR's great basses?

 

[tkarter]

Welcome. Looking forward to the pics.

tk

 

[stretch80]

Welcome Stretch! Very envious of your long fingers! Ain't SR's great basses?

My SR is great. I had no intention of buying a bass the day I got it..! But I was won over. I haven't played the 4s, but I have a friend up in Maine who loves his Sterling. I'd always thought of MMs as "slap basses" and I am not a slapper. BUT... has great fingerstyle tone.