Tag: Music

For Sale 1

Music

For the past four days I’ve tried to play my bass guitar — trying to push through the agony of Olde Phartte joint pain, hoping that with regular practice I could fall into playing it for fun again.

No such luck.  In fact, Day 4 (yesterday) was so bad that I quit after an hour.

I give up.  So:

4 Sale —

Epiphone EB-3 (copy of Gibson) 4-string bass, hard case, spare set of Ernie Ball strings, strap, headphones and cords:

The only mod I made was replacing the utterly useless rotary pickup selector switch with a three-way (bridge, neck and bridge&neck), because the POS rotary broke after a month or so’s gentle (i.e. home) use.  Otherwise in as-new condition.

Price:  Sweetwater has them at $400;  I’m asking $250 plus whatever shipping is required.  (N.Texas residents will get it dropped off at a place of their choice.)

Roland Cube 30 Bass amp (30w, 10″ speaker):

For reasons best known to themselves, Roland discontinued this little sweetie.  I just wish I’d had it as a gig amp instead of the monster I used to slip discs putting into the van.  Everything works as advertised.

Price:   as it’s been discontinued, the closest equivalent I can find is this Ampeg, which is also solid state and 40w, with a 10″ speaker, but with no COSM features.  Guitar Center sells it for $150;  I’ll take $100 for the Roland, plus shipping.  (Same deal for N. Texans.)

So:  $350 for a bass/amp gig setup which quite frankly would have served me well in my misspent yoot.

Let me know by email (kim@) if you’re interested.  I’d prefer to sell them as a package, but that’s not set in concrete.  (BTW:  I don’t haggle, unless we’re talking about an exchange for a .22 rifle or pistol of similar value which is taking up needed space in your safe.)

Update:  I found a good home for the gear:  a young lady heading for a college music school.

Grab-A-Granny

Music

Seems as though some oldies still have something to offer us:

POP icon Toyah Willcox has become an unlikely hit on PORN sites thanks to her raunchy home music videos.
The 63-year-old singer has been donning risqué outfits while belting out cover versions on her YouTube channel with rocker husband Robert Fripp, 75.

Here’s an example… ZZ Top fans can wince all they want, but it’s funny as hell.

I always loved Toyah’s work, because she just never seemed to give a flaming fuck what anyone thought of her (yeah, I know).

And her music wasn’t bad back then, either.  (We won’t even talk about her husband’s band, King Crimson.)

Brilliant stuff.