Vintage and Nature

Shaftesbury shortscale bass, rough copy of a Fender

guitarz.blogspot.com:

"Ahhhh... now this one brings back some memories. It's a shortscale Shaftesbury bass, roughly modelled on the original slab-bodied Fender Precision/Fender Telecaster bass, and I guess it's from the mid 1970s.

I remember back in the early 1980s when I was first getting into starting bands with my mates and doing a spot of home recording on the then-new Fostex X15 multitrack cassette recorder; one day a couple of my friends came round wanting to record a demo.

They brought a couple of cheap guitars with them. I don't remember what the six string was, but the bass was one of these. It was bad. I remember thinking it how dreadful it was.

It was boomy, as you'd expect from a short-scale bass but I've played many that were streets ahead of this. I don't think the flat wound strings helped (I've never liked them and never will). I can't explain exactly what was wrong with it, just that it felt bad and it played bad. It was a cheap and nasty bass and performed accordingly."

Now I have done some new songs and found many enjoying moments with it. It is a semi acoustic instrument so it has an empty body. This means it has a slow attack more like a cello. If you treat it right it gives you a new world.

The musicians in those days:

http://vintageman.webs.com/musicians-in-those-days

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Upon a glade of sun-sculpted

Pine forest, rooted in stone,

Layers of my bark peel away,

Inviting a softer surface to emerge.

I climb

Far into the sky, following an eagle’s current

To the sun–

I melt into my sculptor...

Nestled by Her vision, I hear a new call:

"Go back to seed, and I will bring you Home."

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Original CD

For listening with the old CD-players, burn a CD-R. Two files needed:

1. http://goo.gl/w2QJio cue

2. http://goo.gl/XwpyYV bin

This CD is the album "Vintage and Nature".

When burning use lower rates (16X 24X)

and CD-R (not a CD-RW).

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Original CD

1. http://goo.gl/2e1p1D cue

2. http://goo.gl/KMyKSf bin

This CD contains the albums "Dark Gallery" and "Pearl".

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