Nbgd!

[Brian Krashpad]

I really don't need a 6th bass. BUT a seller on cl was selling a '70 Aria 1720 for next to nothing, w/typical period chipboard case. Too good to pass up.

MIJ Mosrite copy!

Seller's pix:

Matsumoku BAYBEE!

 

[Hampus]

Congratulations! You'll have fun with that one I'm sure.

/Hampus

 

[FrankenFretter]

Nice! I've been gassing for the DM-380, the 6-string version of that. I love that Mosrite body style. Congrats!

 

[Brian Krashpad]

Thanks, being a Ramones fan I've always wanted something in the Mosrite family, since Johnny played a Mosrite guitar. I didn't expect to ever buy a Mosrite-y bass, but that's the cool thing about craigslist, ya never know what's going to pop up.

 

[Spudman]

When I started playing in clubs (at 15), the guys in the band I'd sit in with had a Mosrite guitar that shape and color. I really liked that guitar. Your bass brings back a lot of memories. Congrats on the find.

 

[t_ross33]

Looks like a fun axe! Enjoy

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice! Looks like fun for the Ramones vibe! ancake

 

[mapka]

awesome bass!

 

[Tig]

Sure, it can play Ramones, but can it get down with some Beatles funk?

:rollover

 

[Brian Krashpad]

Haha Tig that's a hoot.

Thanks guys, finally got round to taking a pic myself:

 

[Katastrophe]

The magical floor spawns another guitar!


Congrats! That is one cool bass.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

The magical floor spawns another guitar!


Congrats! That is one cool bass.

D'OH! It's the floor!

:thwap

Ta, Kat!

 

[Tig]

D'OH! It's the floor!

:thwap

Ta, Kat!

You floor is made from magic tone woods? Sweet!

 

[Brian Krashpad]

You floor is made from magic tone woods? Sweet!

Tone laminates!

:AOK

 

[progrmr]

VERY cool bass - nice find. Those MIJ from 70's/80's are great builds with a real vintage vibe.

 

[Brian Krashpad]

VERY cool bass - nice find. Those MIJ from 70's/80's are great builds with a real vintage vibe.

Thanks. By coincidence the church band has an "outside gig" at another church in a few weeks, and our bassiste will be unavailable for it. So I talked my daughter into sitting in, and she's excited to get to play the Aria, since it's a short scale (30.5") bass for a change.

This is us playing last year in one of my side bands, Pedagogy. She's playing her USA Peavey Foundation through my bass rig in this pic:

 

[kidsmoke]

2 VERY cool things....that Aria....and that you've raised your daughter to thrown down with Pops.

Clearly you're doing things right. :rockya

 

[Brian Krashpad]

2 VERY cool things....that Aria....and that you've raised your daughter to thrown down with Pops.

Clearly you're doing things right. :rockya

Thanks! As luck would have it, the day after my daughter agreed to do the outside gig with the praise band (she used to play with me in that band too), our regular bassiste announced that her vacay date had got moved, so now I hafta tell shorty no-go.

 

[NWBasser]

Cool.

Happy New Bass Day Brian!

How does she sound?

 

[Brian Krashpad]

Cool.

Happy New Bass Day Brian!

How does she sound?

Thanks! Honestly, I don't really know how she sounds, haha. Obviously I tested her out at the seller's place, but that was through the seller's amp. I was just making sure both pickups worked, and the tone/vol pots and pup selector switch worked. (They do, although everything needs to be "magic-sprayed.")

All my bass gear is here at the office, and I'm kinda buried in work right now (am going in to Mrs. K's school tomorrow morning to meet her students for a half-day, and Wed. morning I have yet another PET/CT scan). It'll probably be quite awhile before I get a good sense of what she can and can't do.

Sigh.