Fishing
Caught myself a bass on Saturday. I am now the 20938752th person to have used that joke.
Our story begins when we decided to go to Long and McQuade in Scarborough. Being armed with information that was two weeks old, we went and asked for a Squier Bass Pack. They didn’t have any. They did mention that there were some at their location at Steeles and Keele. We decided that after we went to Oriole Park, we’d be on our way there.
I swear Keele on the 401 was much much closer than it was then. I thought it was right after Leslie. Guess I’m wrong. Steeles was pretty far up there too. On our way, we passed by York University and I promptly decided that it’d be much more of a hassle to go to York than some other university simply because it is situated much like L’Amoreaux Collegiate: in the middle of nowhere, next to a bunch of power lines.
Once we reached the Long and McQuade that received quite a lot of business for being in the middle of nowhere, we immediately saw the bass packs. Of course, being parents, they saw the Strat packs beside it were what we were looking for. After a minute of convincing them that I knew what I was looking for, a salesperson opened up a black one and plugged it into the amp for me to pluck at. After a few minutes of that not really knowing what to do with it, we put it back in the box and pushed it over to the cashier.
We went outside with the bass pack, and there still wasn’t anything in the area, so we drove a long way back to Scarborough.
I’ve learned a few things in the past few days, but I predict that I will continue to suck and will require external forces to guide me in the way of the bass. I’ve managed to figure out how to read some stuff, but my mortal fingers are holding me back from sounding good so far.
wow… how much did you pay for that?
It was just under $500 with tax for the pack, which includes the bass, an amp, cable, strap, headphones, instructional video, and gig bag.
yay! congrats Tim!
++haha i love the Apple Think Different and something something yum poster :) didn’t knew you kept propaganda tidbits around… but that rox :D Apple lol (i so wanna get one and change it to a pear rofl.. pricey pretty lil things tho $$) but yah — you’ll do fine Tim :) i mean with your uber skills/interest in music (which i am utterly jealous of :p.. yes you might think you have next to none… i at none still admire you so much for it :p), hehe :) *cheers*
That’s an iMac poster. Like, the first iMacs. Anyway, if you replace it with a pear, you can be kinda like Izzy from Digimon, with his pineapple laptop.
oh goodness tim! you got yourself a bass?! you should start playing for hosanna worship or sunday worship! seriously! and then you gotta teach me how to play the bass =) haha.
Wow, they’ve upped the amp to them new Fenders! Shweet find – enjoy =D ….Maybe I’ll set u up to come by church during worship practice to learn! The Bass Pack shudda came with a free Instructional Video–watch it! If u don’t got, I can lend u mine;)
excellent! now go learn “All Day” or “Salvation Is Here”! those oughta keep you busy. i myself have yet to learn “salvation Is Here” mainly because it’s really fast… and the solo is quite the awesome, so have fun! and…
keep rocking in the free world!
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nice bass :) and pretty good price for it (grr i want a bass too)