Author Topic: 96MJ10026 (Read 716 times)

pappy · « **on:** January 13, 2004, 06:41:45 AM »

1996 4 string Mark King standard
flame walnut top & back
maple accents
mahogany body
maple/purpleheart neck
plastic oval inalys
side leds
hollow construction

bracheen · « **Reply #1 on:** January 13, 2004, 06:53:38 AM »

Good morning Bill, welcome to the family. Beautiful bass you have! I am a big fan of the MK bass and like the flamed walnut more everytime I see it.
Congratulations.

Sam

palembic · « **Reply #2 on:** January 13, 2004, 07:27:34 AM »

Pappy loop toch niet sjo sjnel .... pappy loop toch niet sjo sjn?

-?l !!!!

Sorry for this outburst in dutch but 9/10 the whole dutch membership is cranking himself up with laughter! It has NOTHING to do WITH YOU ...only ...the nam pappy IMMEDIATELY turns on a switch to start singing the song written above which is an ENORMOUS tearjerker!!!!
Sorry again!

Oh ...huh ...AND WELCOME by the way.

Pauls leave your bottles full and heave them to a toast on this nice new brother. There is no banging to do (although ...I think that word banging has several meanings rather dark ...well ...oh ...huh .... for us no-native writers) ... I maen no banging on the table (oh ..huh ...I'm making this worse I think) WITH YOUR EMPTY BOTTLES.

H?-h?!!

If you going on like that you will be in no time the replacement of our all belloved moder Val. I think he will not bother, than he can go on with his masochistic testing of outgoing basses LOL!!!

Paul the bad one

pappy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 13, 2004, 08:46:38 AM »

palembic...I wish I understood your inside humor, but my Dutch ancestry is to many times diluted for me to understand. I am however comfortable and familiar with the clank of bottles.

I am from Texas, and us Texans spoil our children. I bought this beautiful instrument for my then 16 year old son...I know what you may think...for a kid??? but you should have heard him play!! I have raised him to respect beauty and he has treated this bass with the reverence it deserves.

bracheen · « **Reply #4 on:** January 13, 2004, 09:11:44 AM »

So when my wife accuses me of spoiling my daughter I can say It's ok Baby, I'm a Texan, it's in my genes. Cool, I like that.

The longer you know Paul TBO the more you'll be scratching your head. That's why so many of us have thinning hair. There's a bunch more Pauls around here. When they all get together it really gets interesting.

Sam

jet_powers · « **Reply #5 on:** January 13, 2004, 10:20:37 AM »

Welcome to the club Pappy! That's a pretty bass.

I've never considered being adopted before but if I were to, I would want to be adopted by you!

I raise my FULL bottle and toast to your good taste and generosity.

John Paul aka Paul the John one

palembic · « **Reply #6 on:** January 13, 2004, 11:48:07 AM »

Pappy...
may I be your next son please???
You know ...I have this wish list .... between
***(()()(-^77%4#***all those stockings.

No ...that is a tasteless joke.
Pappy ...be good for your son.
Son be good for your pappy!
You all out there ...listen to teach your children of CSN&Y ...it's a lifetime in a song.

Paul the bad one

pappy · « **Reply #7 on:** January 13, 2004, 12:37:51 PM »

palembic & jet_powers,
You should never get a Texan talking about his kids, he will brag your arm off.
The son job is not open...just being redefined. He is 20 and living away from home now. The MK was bought when he played that way. Many of our Saturdays & Sundays were spent taking him at 13 & 14 around to the different Guitar Centers and Mars Music stores in the Dallas area and letting him wear their strings out. I don't know how many times there would be a couple or three adult aged Funk Players that would peep around the stack of bass amps to see who that was with those Stanley-Like chops only to see a 13 year old white boy. THAT did my old heart good.
We have gathered a pretty good collection of bass and lead guitars in the past 8 years but there comes a time when you gotta move on. The son has moved on to playing lead guitar and front man for a punk band, so I don't get to hear School Days anymore. I am eventually going to have to move on myself and probably sell this MK...I guess sell is really the wrong term...find a good home for it may be the way to describe it. It needs to be appreciated.

palembic · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2004, 01:20:42 PM »

Brother Pappy,

well ...I didn't mean to offend.
I hear a sad story goin'on.
Well ...sad is not the right word in english. I'm sorry to don't know the right word.
I has to do with people/family/children to move on. People with whom one was very close.

Indeed ...you don't sell those instruments. You have to find a good home for it.
Now good ...what's that???
The one who's gonna play on it and definitely going to add some scratches, or the one that bids you the most money and put it in a ...uh ...closet (I really don't know the word) wherfe everybody can admire a special specimen of bass-building???

Paul the bad one

pappy · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2004, 02:32:43 PM »

No offense taken Paul.
I didn't mean to sound sad...on the contrary I am quite happy with my son taking his own path instead of one chosen by another.
You are exactly right about finding a good home. This bass needs to be played and enjoyed and sitting for two years in my closet has been a waste of the artisan's work. They could have used that beautiful wood to build a bible stand if it was intended just to sit and look pretty.

palembic · « **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2004, 03:16:10 PM »

Brother Pappy,

I suggest you take it to the Swap and shop department.
You never know!!!

Paul the bad one

bracheen · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2004, 03:35:55 PM »

Bill, seems we have something else in common besides coming from the Republic of Texas. My 19yr old daughter married a punk guitarist. Fortunatly he had the good sense to switch to bass after the wedding. That's two good moves he made.

Sam

pappy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2004, 11:34:07 AM »

Wonderfull cycle we are in this thing with life and kids. We only have the one son and since he has left the nest I have spent many evenings in the garage/studio refreshing memories by cleaning the different instruments I can trace my son's musical history through.
How can all those memories can be held by those funny shaped pieces of wood.

bassman10096 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2004, 09:22:38 PM »

Wow. My son is 16, still at home, plays his Telecaster (that my wife couldn't believe the cost of - but now never questions its value) a few hours a day. I'm really proud of him and all he does (musician, 1st in his class), but I'm sure gonna miss him when life takes him farther away. My dad and I shared music too (a piano-player he was). It was always something special we had to do together.
(Thanks for listening)
Bill

811952 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 16, 2004, 06:11:33 AM »

It seems like my whole family plays bass. 3 of the 6 of us kids at least. At one point I took pictures of every family member posed with different basses, since everybody thought we ALL played (Mom with the 8-string, Dad with the Steinberger, sister Margaret with the fretless Jazz, etc.). My kids are mostly interested in it too, even though I've got them setup with a cello, violin and guitar, which my six year old son calls a guitar bass. Last night he was asking me about a six-string bass I made several years ago (neck-through, hand-wound pickups and hand-built actives, now in pieces), and told me that he wanted me to teach him how to build another, and that we would have to make the tuners out of wood because that's what we always build things from. ;-) My 10 year old daughter gives the upright a few good thumps every night before bed, no matter how late it is. I guess this is the circle of life. I'm not alone, and you guys understand totally...
PtJoII