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The SBL Podcast

192 - Are Cruise Ship Gigs A BIG MISTAKE?!

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

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Playing bass on a cruise ship is a great chance to hone your chops, save up some money and see the world. Sounds like an amazing gig, right? Cruise ship life can also be intense with long working hours and no days off for months. Ever wondered if gigging on ships is really worth it? In today’s episode, Scott and Ian talk through the pros and cons of gigging at sea!

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0:00.0

Yeah, man.

0:10.8

That sounds so nice, isn't it?

0:15.2

Is that the one that you got on Craigslist?

0:17.5

This is one, I bought this on eBay.

0:20.1

When no one gave a shit about Mustangs and it was

0:25.4

$1,300 or whatever. When did it change? When did the sort of everybody wanted one? I don't

0:31.6

know. I mean, maybe with JMJ talking about them a bunch or there was just sort of this like

0:36.5

short scale renaissance right

0:38.6

where like everybody wanted short scales and for me I wasn't in that I was just like oh I want to

0:44.9

find a cool example like one good example of all the classic fenders that's how it started for me

0:49.6

yeah that guy like the guy that was it Jake that used to do the Reaver bass videos that you met over in Chicago?

0:56.3

Like, yeah.

0:56.7

He did a, right in the midst of the short scale thing, he did a video and it was, I think the title of it was, our short scale basis having a thing.

1:06.0

It was something like that.

1:07.2

And I can remember seeing that video and be like yeah they are absolutely having a thing

1:13.4

for sure yeah definitely yeah like have you could you go like i couldn't i just could you go like

1:20.5

only short scale because some people play them kind of like exclusively don't they i will say that

1:26.3

that voren saku that saku built for me in Finland, I love that base.

1:30.6

I could almost, there have been times where I thought like, man, I could probably just

1:33.9

do this thing.

1:35.5

Really?

1:36.2

This is vain.

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