I got an extra 90 minutes of sleep this morning, which sounds like a good thing. what it really means is that I was 45 minutes late to work! For some reason the alarm did not go off, and my body wanted/needed the extra sleep. The good news is, my boss is on vacation this week, and his fill in said he didn't even notice I wasn't here. Also things ( Read more... )

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, next your going to tell me that Micheal Jacks... wait, what? oh... damn....Bad week to be an American Icon.

About a month ago Heidi,the manager of the Carnation farmers market sent out an email saying she was looking for more musicians for the market. I sent her a link to my musical myspace page. She said she'd love to have me, but I never heard back. Today I went to the market to hear the lovely Angela Reed, Read more... )

First we got an e-mail from the VP of R&D yesterday requesting that we all take some time off before the end of the quarter. Actually it says you will take 80 hours of PTO between May 1st and July 17th. Ok, twist my arm! For some people that might be a hardship, not everyone keeps lots of time on the books the way I do. Some were planning vacation ( Read more... )

I work with a guy who is putting together the music for the Redmond farmers market this year. I gave him a list of names of musicians I thought would be a good fit (yes Sue I included Steve on the list but the pay might not be enough to be worth is while). He also asked me if I'd like a slot, I will be playing there on Saturday Aug 22nd. I'm not ( Read more... )

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The bass that I bought on ebay arrived at my door on Tuesday. The first thing I noticed when I got it out of the shipping box was that the neck was bowed, very bowed, Robin Hood could have shot arrows with it. When I plugged it in the pots were all very noisy. So I got out some tools and went to work. It took several turns on the truss rod but I ( Read more... )

So if you read my last post, you know I was thinking of getting another fender bass so I can keep my valued antique locked up at home. I just got a nice red P bass special on Ebay for $300. A new one a the store is more than twice that much. Now I can go back to bed it's not right to be up at this hour!

I got my bass back today. For the price of the refit and other work I had them do I could have bought a brand new American made P bass. But my 45 year old P bass is so much nicer than one of those would be. I never knew a bass could have such low action, this is amazing. Da3n? They did a great job. I couldn't be happier with the outcome. It feels, ( Read more... )

I just dropped off my old fender bass with Mike Lull. I bought the bass in 1974, it was ten years old then. To say the frets were worn out is an extreme understatement. He is going to completely re-fret and straighten the neck. Many years ago I replaced the pickup with an after market demarzio dual sound. He's going to put the originals back in ( ( Read more... )