I Wanna Rock

whew! i am actually still full from dinner last night. for me, that’s not usually a good thing. to take my mind off of it, let’s talk about music.

Mark has a bunch of songs he has been working on and i am hoping that he finds a need for some tambourine. or some cowbell. i got a tambourine for my birthday and i’m just waiting for the opportunity to shake my ass whilst banging it against my hip. currently, it’s just being used to torture the dogs and even that isn’t working out so well. instead of tortured, they appear truly inconvenienced. anyway, i wrote the bass line for one of the tracks and we need to practice a bit more before recording. i also need to work on some lyrics. the song i just wrote is not really suited to the music. it’s very dark. i can’t help it though, everything that pours out of my pen happens to be dark.

we also spent a day last weekend guitar shop trolling. we hit Guitar Center, which i generally dislike. i really need a new bass. i have Mark’s old one (a very old Kramer with a chubby sound) but after playing that for several years, i am longing for one i picked out just for me. we also have a Squier Jazz P-Bass Mark had bought just to have but i swear it feels like the neck is eight feet long. my short little arms just don’t like it. i like to practice with Mark’s Fender American Telecaster, but that’s his guitar and i really do like the bass better. everything at Guitar Center seemed to be Fender (sprinkled with Ibanez and BC Rich). i had played a Rickenbacker awhile back and really loved the way it felt and played. alas, it had been fretless and there’s just no way!

so on to American Music in Fremont, which had a surprisingly small selection and a sales guy that followed us around. last stop The Trading Musician in the U-district. they had a wall of used pedals that hypnotized Mark and i tried out the mapleglo Rickenbacker 4003 (this one was $1000 and looked to be in good condition). i need to spend some more time trying out others, but really, i love this bass. wrong color though and if i’m spending $1000, then everything about it has to be exactly what i’m looking for. i guess i will keep on trolling Craig’s List (if you’ve never heard of it, chances are there’s one for your city too). i had been browsing on eBay just for fun. i’m not so sure about buying a bass that way though. Mark S pointed out that i may receive my bass and find out it’s actually a Wickenbacker. good point.

the quest continues.