Originally Posted by
Jes
Wow, sounds cool about those endpins and such. It's amazing what you can do on one of those standups with some choice wood and a few skills, eh? I have a lot of respect for upright players, and if I'd taken the bass a lot more seriously a lot earlier, I might have been able to make the same decision you did. Of course, the kind of joints my band plays in are less than condusive to something that big, but still...
Wow, ivory? If I tried to import ivory into Canada, I'd have my wrist slapped hard. I think mammoth ivory's okay, as is walrus, though... I'd have to check on that. I'd kind of like a mammoth ivory nut on my Lakland.
I play mostly fingerstyle. there are a few covers we play that kind of call for a pick, but I'm generally less comfortable on the plectrum than with my fingers. I play two slap notes on a good night... or maybe that's a bad night: I'm a crappy slappist. Heh...
For the amp, I have an older, UK-built Ashdown EVO II 500 running into a 210 cab (a matching UK-built Ashdown). The series now been moved to a Chinese factory, so my old British EVO has a *little* bit of caché these days. I'd really like to find another, matching 210 cab one day, but most of my gigs these days involve going into the board and out to the house, so I don't get to use it as much as I'd like-- and can't really justify buying another cab.