Jimmy "Flim" Johnson

[JimmyJ]

Not sure I know what you mean about the pot.  Same Series electronics package means that master volume kinda doesn't even come into play with regards to the overall tone. It's more like something physical with that bass.  Like the strings are fighting with the wood.  Could be as random as the wood grain going in a different direction in one part of the build, I don't really know.  But it's all ok, I have what I need.  Just kinda ridiculous to have a 5-string Series II that I only use for practicing.    

Jimmy J

[FC Bass]

Awesome look in your musical kitchen, thanx!
Fwiw: All practice I did since last year was only on a 5 string Series II :-)

[jazzyvee]

I wonder why?🤔👍🏾

[eddievig]

Jimmy,

Thinking of you and yours in LA, and hoping that you are all safe from the fires that are raging. Y'all take care and stay safe.

Ed V

[JimmyJ]

Thanks Ed. 

It has been a crazy couple of days in SoCal with many friends displaced and a few who lost homes.  Things got a bit too close last night so we packed the cars and went to a friend's house to spend the night.  Interesting exercise to whittle down what you NEED in about 30 minutes.  (3 of my 5 basses...)  But things have settled down in our neighborhood - and so have the winds - so we'll head home soon.

The media will always show the absolute worst and scariest video they can find often in a loop.  So while that is, or was, really the case for several individual neighborhoods, 90% of the town is still ok. 

Best to everybody,
Jimmy J

[David Houck]

Glad to hear you're safe! Hope it ends soon for everyone.

[DistillaMatto]

Good to hear you are okay.

[keith_h]

Happy to hear you are safe. All you folks down that way are in my thoughts.

[cozmik_cowboy]

The media will always show the absolute worst and scariest video they can find often in a loop.  So while that is, or was, really the case for several individual neighborhoods, 90% of the town is still ok. 

Best to everybody,
Jimmy J

Glad you're OK, and thanks for that perspective.

Peter

[lbpesq]

The media will always show the absolute worst and scariest video they can find often in a loop.  So while that is, or was, really the case for several individual neighborhoods, 90% of the town is still ok. 

Ain’t that the truth.  After the ‘89 Bay Area quake, the media showed endless loops of the downed Bay Bridge, the collapsed Cypress Structure freeway, and the devastated Marina district in S.F.   My friends and family back East were convinced California was destroyed!

Bill, tgo

[eddievig]

Jimmy,
So sorry to hear the news of Mike Miller's passing. What a great talent...
Sending good thoughts to the family and his friends and bandmates.
Ed V.

[JimmyJ]

Thanks Ed,

Another big loss.  Mike had a strong and unique voice on the guitar, was a great guy, a good dad, and had a wicked funny sense of humor.  We were lucky to have been able to make a bunch of music with him over the years and we're gonna miss him terribly.

Jimmy J

[fmm]

I saw Mike with Chick Corea at the Maintenance Shop in Ames, IA.
I was sitting next to the stage, right in front of him for both shows.
We were staying at the same hotel.
At the beginning of the second show, I handed him his messages, he handed me mine (Mike Miller vs. F Michael Miller)

[edwardofhuncote]

That's hilarious! I think that's happened to Jimmy J a bunch too.

You wouldn't think with a name as unusual as mine anything like that would ever happen, but it's happened twice now. About the middle of last Summer I started getting emails from Mike Johnson Toyota in Hickory, North Carolina telling me service was complete on my 2019 Tundra... thanks for this or that, and so on. It was funny for a while. Then I got invoiced for like $1200. So I looked up the place. Sure enough it was a legitimate business. So I called and asked for the service manager and introduced myself, and explained that I didn't have anything against Toyotas, but I didn't have one. I highly suspected his customer had my name, a 2019 Tundra, and an email address very similar to mine. It took a couple more phone calls to get confirmation and get it sorted out, but sure enough, that's exactly what it was. Not only that, but it was a distant cousin. (we're all from that part of Carolina) The last time it happened, it was a camera shop in the Pacific Northwest... go figure on that one!

On a serious note, man it's tough letting go of fellow musos... even more so if untimely. We're dealing with that hard reality within our circle now. Too many, too soon.

[jazzyvee]

Just spotted this on line. Sadly too far for me to get to.
No year on the listing so hope it's this year. :-)