Author Topic: Proper storage, long and short term (Read 1556 times)

tbrannon · « **Reply #30 on:** September 11, 2009, 06:14:04 AM »

Hey!!!........

Joey's back!!

bracheen · « **Reply #31 on:** September 11, 2009, 07:30:18 AM »

Joey how the heck are you?

bigredbass · « **Reply #32 on:** September 11, 2009, 09:52:42 PM »

Well, I'm actually my-T-fine, all things considered. Glad to be back on the world-wide-Wilson !

alemberic · « **Reply #33 on:** September 12, 2009, 02:16:14 AM »

Hey, Joey, it's been a while! Great to see you back on the forum.

Eric

jazzyvee · « **Reply #34 on:** December 04, 2009, 11:31:50 AM »

Well it seems the cruise gig is now confirmed as we had a band meeting last night. I've been given the Entertainers manual with all the rules and regulations, dress code which should be a good read. Get this..... informal dress for men........after 18:00, Jacket and tie, or smart shirt that does not require a tie and can be worn with a linen jacket or blazer style jacket....
Fortunately we are classed as a guest band rather than staff band so we get more freedom on the ship and can access the passenger areas and are allowed off shore on the Caribbean islands which is great as I have family over there in the islands.

I've got a couple of weeks to learn the set list which at the moment is 21 tracks. We have one rehearsal next week Thursday then we are off before Christmas. We are playing 4 or 5, half hour sets per day which should keep my fingers well exercised as I have a gig playing my bands Grover Washington Jr tribute set when I get back in January.

Jazzyvee

tbrannon · « **Reply #35 on:** December 04, 2009, 11:39:50 AM »

Jazzy- which Islands will be on the itinerary?

jazzyvee · « **Reply #36 on:** December 05, 2009, 10:12:14 AM »

Antigua, St Vincent, St Lucia, Barbados, Tortola, St Kitts and Spain.

Here is the link to the cruise itenerary.
http://www.pocruises.com/Cruises/J922/Itinerary.axd

Jazzyvee

tbrannon · « **Reply #37 on:** December 05, 2009, 10:25:48 AM »

Nice- I've been to Antigua, St. Lucia and Barbados.

I loved St. Lucia. My wife's parents were both from there, so she's able to understand the local patois there, which made it a lot easier to get around. It is an incredibly beautiful Island. Steep mountains and lush vegetation.

crobbins · « **Reply #38 on:** December 05, 2009, 11:28:39 AM »

I put rattlesnake skins in all my guitar cases, they chase away all evil spirits...

jazzyvee · « **Reply #39 on:** December 28, 2009, 07:14:16 PM »

Hi, guys i'm already 11 days into the tour/ cruise. Weve been playing every day since we got on board for between 4 and 6 sets per day depending on the requirements of the entertainments officer.
I took the Europa 5 bass, left England on 10th in the freezing cold and to date we have been to Madeira, Antigua, and Tortola today was 80 degrees. Currently we are on the way to St Kitts. There has been some movement in the neck causing the action to change, but this has caused less than a semitone of pitch change so I've not adjusted anything other than to re-tune. The ship provided either an ashdown combo or a roland keyboard combo. I chose the Roland and it sounds great I have to say.
All is good.

oh by the way for anyone looking to get some silica gel crystals for nothing, do what I did and go to your local shoe shop. I was packing some shoes into my case and noticed a couple of silica packs in the box...... bingo....... I zipped up to the local shoe shop and the gave me handfulls of the little silica gel packs. So I stuffed some into my bass case and gave some to the Steel pan players in the band for their cases.

Jazzyvee

jazzyvee · « **Reply #40 on:** December 28, 2009, 07:19:20 PM »

Hi, guys i'm already 11 days into the tour/ cruise. Weve been playing every day since we got on board for between 4 and 6 sets per day depending on the requirements of the entertainments officer.
I took the Europa 5 bass, left England on 10th in the freezing cold and to date we have been to Madeira, Antigua, and Tortola today was 80 degrees. Currently we are on the way to St Kitts. There has been some movement in the neck causing the action to change, but this has caused less than a semitone of pitch change so I've not adjusted anything other than to re-tune. The ship provided either an ashdown combo or a roland keyboard combo. I chose the Roland and it sounds great I have to say.
All is good.

oh by the way for anyone looking to get some silica gel crystals for nothing, do what I did and go to your local shoe shop. I was packing some shoes into my case and noticed a couple of silica packs in the box...... bingo....... I zipped up to the local shoe shop and the gave me handfulls of the little silica gel packs. So I stuffed some into my bass case and gave some to the Steel pan players in the band for their cases.

Jazzyvee

sonicus · « **Reply #41 on:** December 28, 2009, 07:57:12 PM »

I am glad those silica gel crystals are working for you guys !

Happy New Year ________

jazzyvee · « **Reply #42 on:** January 11, 2010, 11:02:05 AM »

I'm back on solid ground, the Europa was fine, some neck movement caused the notes on the first 5 frets on the G-string to buzz a little when fretted but not enough to lose the fundamental note. As most of my tone was bass heavy for calypso and reggae no brightness needed, I decided not to adjust the neck and it was fine. On the way back it flexed back again so by the last gig which was in Vigo Spain everything was back to normal.

I did let one of the other bass players on the ship have a go on my bass after I'd finished one gig last week and he loved it. He'd never played one before and was very impressed with everything about it.
All in all it was a good experience. No problems with the bass at all really.

Jazzyvee

JuancarlinBass · « **Reply #43 on:** January 11, 2010, 04:29:45 PM »

Coincidence.. I played in Ponteareas (Vigo,Spain) last August, and had not my Alembic with me... did the show on an Aluminum neck Kramer Duke (Headless), for airplane ease and to enlighten my worries about neck warping...
I am currently looking for a nice flight case in my area (can't buy abroad right now... and shipping would also be prohibitively expensive) so maybe on our next tour I'll bring my Epic... Bass-Envy all over the world!

glocke · « **Reply #44 on:** January 11, 2010, 05:36:33 PM »

Id like to offer my house up for free storage for any you who have alembics that need long term storage!