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Brian Krashpad
June 2nd, 2012, 11:21 AM
I really don't need a 6th bass. BUT a seller on cl was selling a '70 Aria 1720 for next to nothing, w/typical period chipboard case. Too good to pass up.

MIJ Mosrite copy!

Seller's pix:

http://images.craigslist.org/5Le5He5Jb3M13F93N9c61de9ca8ac270219c7.jpg

http://images.craigslist.org/5Nc5If5Fd3nf3Ec3G3c61089f134b129110d5.jpg

http://images.craigslist.org/5L55F35J43F53Jc3N3c61b09596941d4b1522.jpg

http://images.craigslist.org/5N25H85M63Md3Jf3Ncc61d60139ffad49132a.jpg

Matsumoku BAYBEE!

Hampus
June 2nd, 2012, 11:52 AM
Congratulations! You'll have fun with that one I'm sure.

/Hampus

FrankenFretter
June 2nd, 2012, 12:01 PM
Nice! I've been gassing for the DM-380, the 6-string version of that. I love that Mosrite body style. Congrats!

Brian Krashpad
June 2nd, 2012, 12:57 PM
Thanks, being a Ramones fan I've always wanted something in the Mosrite family, since Johnny played a Mosrite guitar. I didn't expect to ever buy a Mosrite-y bass, but that's the cool thing about craigslist, ya never know what's going to pop up.

Spudman
June 2nd, 2012, 01:26 PM
When I started playing in clubs (at 15), the guys in the band I'd sit in with had a Mosrite guitar that shape and color. I really liked that guitar. Your bass brings back a lot of memories. Congrats on the find.

t_ross33
June 2nd, 2012, 02:09 PM
Looks like a fun axe! Enjoy :)

sunvalleylaw
June 2nd, 2012, 02:22 PM
Nice! Looks like fun for the Ramones vibe! :pancake

mapka
June 2nd, 2012, 02:58 PM
awesome bass!

Tig
June 2nd, 2012, 06:13 PM
Sure, it can play Ramones, but can it get down with some Beatles funk?
http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff397/jdm64/GIFs/abbeyroad.gif
:rollover

Brian Krashpad
June 2nd, 2012, 11:19 PM
Haha Tig that's a hoot.

Thanks guys, finally got round to taking a pic myself:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/401809_10150944155413879_512618878_10021507_126525 2797_n.jpg

Katastrophe
June 3rd, 2012, 01:23 PM
The magical floor spawns another guitar!


Congrats! That is one cool bass.

Brian Krashpad
June 3rd, 2012, 05:08 PM
The magical floor spawns another guitar!


Congrats! That is one cool bass.

D'OH! It's the floor!

:thwap

Ta, Kat!

Tig
June 3rd, 2012, 05:31 PM
D'OH! It's the floor!

:thwap

Ta, Kat!

You floor is made from magic tone woods? Sweet!

Brian Krashpad
June 3rd, 2012, 07:14 PM
You floor is made from magic tone woods? Sweet!

Tone laminates!

:AOK

progrmr
June 4th, 2012, 06:21 AM
VERY cool bass - nice find. Those MIJ from 70's/80's are great builds with a real vintage vibe.

Brian Krashpad
June 4th, 2012, 06:36 AM
VERY cool bass - nice find. Those MIJ from 70's/80's are great builds with a real vintage vibe.

Thanks. By coincidence the church band has an "outside gig" at another church in a few weeks, and our bassiste will be unavailable for it. So I talked my daughter into sitting in, and she's excited to get to play the Aria, since it's a short scale (30.5") bass for a change.

This is us playing last year in one of my side bands, Pedagogy. She's playing her USA Peavey Foundation through my bass rig in this pic:

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/200104_10150133054948879_3596868_n.jpg

kidsmoke
June 4th, 2012, 08:51 AM
2 VERY cool things....that Aria....and that you've raised your daughter to thrown down with Pops.

Clearly you're doing things right. :rockya

Brian Krashpad
June 4th, 2012, 10:09 AM
2 VERY cool things....that Aria....and that you've raised your daughter to thrown down with Pops.

Clearly you're doing things right. :rockya

Thanks! As luck would have it, the day after my daughter agreed to do the outside gig with the praise band (she used to play with me in that band too), our regular bassiste announced that her vacay date had got moved, so now I hafta tell shorty no-go. :(

NWBasser
June 4th, 2012, 02:15 PM
Cool.

Happy New Bass Day Brian!

How does she sound?

Brian Krashpad
June 4th, 2012, 02:32 PM
Cool.

Happy New Bass Day Brian!

How does she sound?

Thanks! Honestly, I don't really know how she sounds, haha. Obviously I tested her out at the seller's place, but that was through the seller's amp. I was just making sure both pickups worked, and the tone/vol pots and pup selector switch worked. (They do, although everything needs to be "magic-sprayed.")

All my bass gear is here at the office, and I'm kinda buried in work right now (am going in to Mrs. K's school tomorrow morning to meet her students for a half-day, and Wed. morning I have yet another PET/CT scan). It'll probably be quite awhile before I get a good sense of what she can and can't do.

Sigh.