The Classifieds - used or new musical instruments of interest

[Jim C]

In my town, all of the live bands at local clubs are my age.
I played my first paying gig at 17 with a fake ID. Bands were made of 20-30 year old's.
Now it's my geezer friends age 50-70 playing gigs like they used to when they were 20 something's.

Is it just MD or do kids no longer want to be in bands?

 

[soulman]

Damn, that would be two strikes against me.

On that basis alone I've already struck out enough to end an inning. The only solution I can see is either gather as many over 50 contacts as you can or resign yourself to playing in a country or a blues band where age isn't a barrier especially if you can sing.

 

[soulman]

The youtube gen, further complicated an already biased crowd. Back in the day, it still mattered. Metal bands and punk bands, especially demanded an image... and now the web has simply bolstered it.

In 1982, you'd have taken a guitar player who was 10 years older, or younger, regardless of how he looked, because you'd have been desperate for talent. But now, no ones desperate for anything, except for us "actual" musicians, who are trying to get work.

If I was the worlds greatest guitar player, and I was trying to get a gig in LA, right now, I'd likey get 1/100th of the attention that a random college girl, with a wardrobe malfunction would get.

It's the end of days.

Kinda sad but true that much of what I grew up playing only sells in niches and more often than not as a private gig band. What I hear in most bars is either original indie stuff or metal of some genre or another. The pay is also subterranean. Tom's band did a show with another band last month. They got $100 and the headliners got $200 yet there was a $10 cover and throughout the time I was their at least 200 people came and went. Somebody is making bank these days and it ain't musicians.

One reason I want to work up a duo or trio deal is it's the only way to slide into gigs in local brew pubs and eateries who want lower volume entertainment usually earlier in the evening to hold over a happy hour crowd. That's where we can play '60s and '70s rock and acoustic based material and get paid to do it. The only other options for higher pay are tribute bands of popular '70s artists like The Dead, Creedence, The Eagles, Allman Bros Band, etc. or the private part circuit with a larger band.

 

[ficelles]

I'm in two lineups at the moment, one is country in which I play guitar, the other is rock'n'roll in which I play bass (that lineup also has a folkey spinoff trio in which I play mandolin). In both, the main singer / acoustic guitarist is in their late 70s. I have given up trying with bands under 50, and in these two bands I'm one of the younger members We don't care about getting paid, but actually did get 50 each in the folkey trio the other week.

 

[soulman]

Part of me sometimes thinks that music just doesn't matter the way it used to. Or maybe it does, but to a much smaller portion of people. Another part of me wonders if that's possible. But the world is changing so much all the time...

A huge part of it around here is their a far fewer dance clubs that were once supported by a "Boomer" crowd that no longer goes out to dance and party each weekend. We're no longer just parents. We're grandparents. When I peruse the entertainment section of local independent papers like Westword most of the bands are playing some form of metal and more often than not original material hoping to record or get booked on a tour. It's not dance music ergo no more dance clubs.

From the '80s through the early 2000s we could pack a dance club with 150-200 people on a good night than all of a sudden it stopped. What was left for good paying club gigs were the casinos on Blackhawk and Central City where you were competing with that sound of Cha Ching sounding machines and gaming tables. You weren't a dance band you were mostly background music to draw people to the bar and the video poker games there and near there. That's when I stepped away.

 

[soulman]

I'm in two lineups at the moment, one is country in which I play guitar, the other is rock'n'roll in which I play bass (that lineup also has a folkey spinoff trio in which I play mandolin). In both, the main singer / acoustic guitarist is in their late 70s. I have given up trying with bands under 50, and in these two bands I'm one of the younger members We don't care about getting paid, but actually did get 50 each in the folkey trio the other week.

Around here except for the mountains we lack the kind of small pubs you have in England or Ireland where live entertainment is a big part of the social hour. Ft Collins being a smaller college town is blessed with more of those than Denver but it's probably not quite the same. I'd love to work up an unplugged trio like I played with 20-25 years ago who could also go full bore amplified when needed but finding the right players to accomplish it any longer is always gonna be a challenge.

 

[soulman]

Someone please buy my Magellan 350. I have plenty of THC but I'm nearly broke and running low on M&Ms and Double Stuffed Oreos!!!!

 

[soulman]

Gonna restate my offer of either of my two Genzler MG350 bass heads. One pic oughta suffice for both. List price is $650.

1) This is the one I got from Jack last fall and have used very little since. Nothing other than around my place. $420 shipped. KEPT

2) The other is the brand new one I got with the MG350 Combo. It's unused still under full warranty. $520 shipped. SOLD

 

[4strings]

Wanna buy a Fender Custom Shop '55 Precision bass?

I bought this recently and found that the tone of one of my other basses is so close to this that it's redundant. This one is way prettier and worth a lot more. I put a set of TI Jazz Flats on it. It's got a Seymour Duncan Antiquities pick up, and I also have the original (needs a rewind). I've got over $3200 into it. Would like to sell for $2900 plus shipping.

 

[armyadarkness]

I looked at the Sting model, many years ago.

 

[mktrat]

Wanna buy a Fender Custom Shop '55 Precision bass?

I bought this recently and found that the tone of one of my other basses is so close to this that it's redundant. This one is way prettier and worth a lot more. I put a set of TI Jazz Flats on it. It's got a Seymour Duncan Antiquities pick up, and I also have the original (needs a rewind). I've got over $3200 into it. Would like to sell for $2900 plus shipping.

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Thankfully, it is NOT an amp. So, I don't "have" to buy it. Traditions are important.

It is damn gorgeous though.

 

[4strings]

You should probably buy it. It plays, sounds, and looks the business. I had the opportunity to play a '54 original, and this CS bass nails the details.

 

[mktrat]

You should probably buy it. It plays, sounds, and looks the business. I had the opportunity to play a '54 original, and this CS bass nails the details.

I mean….

 

[4strings]

I mean….

If you like well made basses that sound real nice, and like old skool kool Fenders, well...

 

[Andyman]

GO GO GO GO GO

You almost have the hook set.

 

[4strings]

It's not very heavy. The wood is beautiful under the see through finish. It has the COA and case candy. Sure is purty.

 

[4strings]

Lol

 

[semioldfart]

I hear they are awesome but no way I'm even considering adjusting effects with a phone...

Yup. I'm not opposed to modelers, quite the obvious. But Lance Keltners Retrowreck was an awesome concept. Give me a 2204 with VTMBMP for a Katana price and I don't care if you out fake LED's in acrylic tubes in the back.

Some day I keep hoping humanity will figure out that just because its a computer inside doesn't mean you want to drive your space ship with a touch screen.

 

[semioldfart]

This da one - discontinued now I think.

 

[fcleff69]

Thankfully, it is NOT an amp. So, I don't "have" to buy it. Traditions are important.

It is damn gorgeous though.

You know, my Skjold has MUCH more tonal variation and can also sound exactly like Q’s bass. It’s also chambered so it’s super light, making it playable for 7hours straight, easy.