Play Electric Bass with the Ventures

[timtoomany]

I nearly made it out of the record shop without spending any money ... until I saw this:

[url="http://img847.imageshack.us/i/playelectricbasscover.jpg"]Play Electric Bass (cover)[/url]

[url="http://img543.imageshack.us/i/playelectricbassbooklet.jpg"]Play Electric Bass (booklet)[/url]

The 'Guitar Phonics system' looks like a precursor to tab but is counter-intuitive and nearly incomprehensible. Pretty good fun, never the less.

Edited March 12, 2011 by timtoomany

[Circle_of_Fifths]

OK - I never actually played WITH the Ventures - not in the strictest sense.

But I DID play my bass as they were on stage and I was in the wings. Not on an amp - but unplugged.

I had a Mosrite and they were just switching to Fender as Mosrite was going off-shore and I had one of their bass models for myself that later on burned up in a car accident.

Sad to lose that iconic bass - but I also lost a good friend and my dog (the friend borrowed my car and the dog went with my car [u]everywhere[/u] no matter who was driving) - so they all died in the fire of the accident.

Those days The Ventures, Eddie & The Showmen, The Beach Boys and Dick Dale were all part of my last years in high school in Huntington Beach, California, Class of '64.

[timtoomany]

Err, ... kudos.

Some story. Sorry to hear about your friend, dog, bass and car. I posted this LP because I thought the kooky 60s way of teaching bass might raise a chuckle, not because I thought anyone really had played bass with The Ventures. Glad to know what the guitars they used were though--they have a unique look--did Mosrite make them as customs? I've been hearing all about the woody thump of 60s basses on another post; on this recording pretty much anything played on the E string sounds like a deep percussive ghost note without any hint of a tone.