Wow!!! Nice life story Grim!
I had already lived a lifetime by the time I'd bought that first Kay bass ! I used to say to people back then "I'm 18 but I feel like I'm 40 in my head". I'd forgotten about that phrase till I saw your quote.
Here is a video of me playing the vintage flamenco/classical guitar. I was mostly focusing on camera work, as it was for my Mass. Comm. major, so the sound is only HR quality.
I like that. That was nice playing. Some of your fingering would go down really nicely on bass.
Whenever I look at other guitarists or bassists fingers playing, they always seem to have such an ease and lightness and look so symmetrical and artistic. Mine never do ! They look tight and indisciplined, like a spider with three legs cut off being given a serious amount of electrical voltage !
By the way, that classical that you forgot the name of looks pretty familiar. I had one just like it. It was a Manuel Ramirez.
It was a shitty little thing.
The name doesn't ring a bell but to be honest, it wouldn't. To me, it was just a guitar, my first. I bought a little chord book and a pitch pipe and I was just thrilled to be learning one after all those years. That's the kind of owner I was, didn't even know who made the guitar ! I was a bit like that with my piano, my two synths, the clarinet I had, the first double bass I had........In fact, I bought a double bass last month and I couldn't tell you who made it. I had to look at my acoustic fretless bass guitar {it's a real cheap number that I bought a few years back on ebay and when I went to pick it up as I recognized the address, it was in a bed shop !} this morning to see that it was a Swift {never heard of them}.
Going back to that guitar, my first attempts on it were horrorful. Even I used to wince. But once I learned five chords, I was writing songs. I got so used to the wide neck that when it broke and I searched for a replacement, I searched high and low for a steel string with an equally wide neck. I thought my clunky fingers would never make chords on a thin neck. After a couple of weeks, it began to dawn on me that finding a wide neck steel string was not going to happen so I capitulated. Then I got so used to
that that when I got the 12 string, I found it initially hard to adjust to a wide neck !
Can't say I'm a guitar owner but I have plenty of basses.
A bass
is a guitar. It's a bass guitar.
About 18 years ago, I read an interview with this guy I'd never heard of called Anthony Jackson. Apparently, he was some kind of 6 string bass master. In his interview, he stressed that the bass wasn't just a bass instrument a la stand up bass, but a
bass guitar. I was intrigued at his emphasis and in the ensuing years, it's been quite helpful to me. I've come to see that the bass guitar is possibly the most versatile of instruments. I've often used it as a bass guitar rather than just 'the bass which is part of the rhythm section', if that makes any sense.
