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velmas-guitar-shop · 1 year

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New fretless bass plans...

So I had a fretless that was long scale, and I didn't get on with it as well as I liked, so I'm doing a short-scale.

I managed to nab this 2002 History KBJ short-scale J bass in candy apple red via Buyee, the site for shopping Japanese auction sites, for a very modest sum.

I'm swapping out all the stock hardware and electronics, and I'll have my local luthier convert the neck to fretless, and give the fretboard edges a rolled feel at the same time.

The pickups are both neck width; I'm replacing them with Delano JC4/HE-M2 dual coil humbuckers.

The stock bridge is being swapped for a Kahler 2440, which lets me get tighter string spacing than standard.

Tuners are being replaced with Hipshot Ultralites plus a new three-string Hipshot string retainer.

Pots are going to be a blend / vol / tone setup, with a CTS 250k blend pot with center detent, and Jim Dunlop 250k Super Pots for volume and tone. Not sure what tone capacitor value I will use, but I might go for something higher rated than usual.

I'm swapping the stock chrome dome knobs for three Sadowsky-style black aluminum knobs with white line indicators.

Restringing it with GHS Balanced Nickels Short Scale - many people at TalkBass recommended these.

I also picked up this really nice Aguilar Octamizer octave pedal, which I can't wait to try out with it.

#new bass day #history bass #history kbj #short scale bass #jazz bass

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tygerland · 5 months

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Saul Bass: 10 iconic movie posters.

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pazzesco · 2 months

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Bass Reeves (1838 –1910) was a runaway slave, gunfighter, farmer, scout, tracker, and deputy U.S. Marshal. He spoke several languages including Cherokee and Creek. Bass was one of the first African-American deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River mostly working in the rough Indian Territory. The region was saturated with horse thieves, cattle rustlers, gunslingers, bandits, swindlers, and murderers. Bass made more than 3,000 arrests in his lifetime, only killing fourteen men in the line of duty.

Bass was born into slavery in Crawford County, Arkansas. His family were slaves belonging to Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves. During the American Civil War, his owners fought for the Confederacy. At some point, Bass escaped and fled to Indian country where he learned American Indian languages, customs, and tracking skills. He eventually became a farmer. By 1875, Bass was hired as a deputy U.S. Marshal along with 200 other individuals. He was 37 years old. Bass was well acquainted with the Indian territory and served on their land for over 32 years as a peace officer covering over 75,000 square miles, presently known as Oklahoma.

Reeves (left) with a group of Marshals in 1907

Bass encountered some of the most ruthless outlaws of his day. His weapons of choice were the Winchester Models 1873 and 1892. They were guns that conveniently fit dual-purpose handgun/rifle cartridges. He also briefly used the Colt 45 peacemaker. He tracked and killed notorious outlaw Jim Webb. Webb murdered over eleven people. Another notorious desperado Bass encountered was murderer and horse thief Wiley Bear. Bass rounded him up along with his gang which included John Simmons and Sam Lasly. Bass was also in a gunfight with the Creek desperado Frank Buck whom he shot and killed.

Bass was immortalized in the popular media including TV shows, films, novels, poems, and books. He was also inducted into the Texas Trail of Fame. A bronze statue of Reeves was erected in Pendergraft Park in Fort Smith, Arkansas and the Bass Reeves Memorial Bridge in Oklahoma, was named after the legendary lawman.

Bass Reeves is held by many to be the original Lone Ranger. He worked for 32 years as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory, and became one of Judge Parker's most valued deputies. Reeves brought in some of the most dangerous criminals of the time, but was never wounded, despite having his hat and belt shot off on separate occasions.

Statue dedicated to Bass Reeves in Fort Smith, Arkansas

Bass Reeves - "Double Fist" by Gabe Leonard

#bass reeves #Marshal #legendary lawmen #former slaves #black history #cliff clavin #gabe leonard #Arkansas #lone ranger #Double Fist #reeves

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violadagoomba · 9 months

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Put your [Guidonian] hands in the air!

#planet of the bass #dj crazy times #all of the dream #gregorian chant #music history #music major #guidonian hand #violadagoomba

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blueiight · 8 months

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claudia in 1x04 of amc iwtv // lsbw in the harlem renaissance (~1925)

#yn.#claudia #bailey bass #iwtv #she had swag fuck them extras #fashion #history #iwtv costuming

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mimi-0007 · 2 months

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November 14,1906.

#bass reeves #black tumblr #black history #black literature #black excellence #black community #black history is american history #oklahoma #us marshals #fort smith

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vintagecamping · 14 days

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A young fella holding returns to camp holding his father's record-setting small mouth bass. Adirondacks, New York

1950

#vintage camping #campfire light #new york #camping #history #adirondacks #fishing #outdoors #small mouth bass #travel #1950s

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todayinhiphophistory · 9 months

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Today in Hip Hop History:

2 Live Crew released their debut album The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are July 25, 1986

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acrosscenturiesandgenerations · 1 year

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▪︎ Bass Cittern.

Culture: Germany (?)

Date: 1580-1596

#16th century art #history of art #decorative arts #history #art #16th century #music history #musical instrument #bass cittern #germany #1580 #1596

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chaoticdesertdweller · 3 months

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#black history #black history month #music #history #truth #blues #jazz #rock n roll #funk #soul #hip hop #dubstep #disco #house music #techno #jungle #garage #grime #percussion #drum and bass

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poolboyatthegiovannimansion · 10 months

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I may be biased in saying this but the MCR fanbase is one of the most extraordinary there is

I can only name like 3 other bandoms that give a shit about the bass player

#mcr #mcr shitpost #my chemical romance #mikey way #bass player #you cannot convince me that you'd know who Queen's bassist is without looking it up #what a coincidence that 2 out of the 7 famous bass players in all of history had a fling during Warped Tour

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velmas-guitar-shop · 1 year

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The bass is back!

Looks gorgeous, feels silky. The new black knobs just look classy. It’s got a set of GHS Balanced short-scale nickel roundwounds on it.

A few things noted:

The Hipshot Ultralite keys just clear the headstock. Technically not an issue, but aesthetically I’ll have to see if they have buttons with longer stems.

The Hipshot triple string retainer doesn’t really work on smaller instruments like this, so they left the stock D & G string retainer in place.

Weirdly, the baseplate on the Kahler 2440 bridge seems narrower than the same one I had on my other bass; not a lot of room to adjust string spacing. I’ll have to measure and compare.

The stock screws that come with the Delano pickups don’t let you raise them very much, if you want to have them closer to the strings, so you might need to find replacements that are 1/8”-1/4” longer.

#history bass #history kbj #short scale bass #fretless

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tygerland · 7 months

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George Clinton, 2018, by Andres Serrano.

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diioonysus · 1 year

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black cowboys

john ware (1845-1905)

bass reeves (1838-1910)

bose ikard (1843-1929)

nat love (1854-1921)

bill pickett (1870-1932)

mary fields (1832-1914)

#there's some more but no pictures #history #cowboys #photography #vintage #vintage photography #historic photography #john ware #bass reeves #bose ikard #nat love #bill pickett #mary fields

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scotianostra · 2 months

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On 6th March 756, St Baldred, or Balfred, the hermit monk of the Bass Rock, died.

His name has many different spellings, also the year of his death differs somewhat around the net, anything from 608 AD to 756, his feast date however is always quoted as March 6th.

Baldred seems to have come from Lindisfarne in Northumbria to spread Christianity to the Lothians. He founded a Monastery at Tyninghame and choose a life of seclusion.

He lived in a cell on the Bass Rock antis said died there and legend has it three communities vied for the right to bury him, Auldhame, Tyninghame and Prestonkirk. The story goes that after a night of prayer, three identical bodies were found, each wrapped in its winding sheet ready for burial. This was probably a later invention intended to explain why three local churches established shrines to Saint Baldred.

There are several tributes to St Baldred in the area, including St Baldred’s Cave at Seacliff Beach, which is said to be where he slept after coming ashore.

#scotland #scottish #history #east lothian #religious figure #religion #hermit #bass rock

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opera-ghosts · 13 days

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A performance of Gounod Opera „Faust“ at The Metropolitan Opera 1893.

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