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The SBL Podcast

175 - New Bass Day

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Whether it’s your very first bass, or another one to add to your collection, buying a new axe should always be an exciting time. Regardless of whether you got a new bass yesterday or 50 years ago. Today, Ian and Scott come together to celebrate a ‘New Bass Day’ for Ian, and discuss some of their newly found bass heroes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You dare.

0:07.0

Don't you dare put that thing down.

0:10.0

Don't you dare to put that thing down?

0:12.0

I show up today and Scott's like, and I'm playing this ridiculous.

0:16.0

I mean, if anybody's watching this podcast, look at this thing.

0:19.0

I mean, this is just, my wife joked that it's a coffee table that you could put other bases on to take pictures of.

0:27.2

Like, it's big enough.

0:28.7

It's like an aircraft carrier or something.

0:32.9

Yeah.

0:33.8

It's just crazy.

0:36.6

If you're not watching the podcast, this is a Ken Smith, BT6.

0:42.3

How heavy is it?

0:43.5

It's heavy.

0:44.4

I mean, it's not, it doesn't feel like ridiculous, but it's probably 11 pounds maybe.

0:52.6

But for the amount of lumber.

0:55.3

It is.

0:56.5

And man, I mean, I played a six-string bass as a kid

1:00.3

because I went from four to six

1:02.0

and just thought that that was what, you know,

1:04.3

like, that more was better.

1:06.8

And then, of course, like, I had that for a while,

1:09.5

and then I ended up selling it and going through a real renaissance when I started to play in the studio from, you know, probably, I don't know, late 20s, I guess, to now 43 when I finally come back around.

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