From the mouths of babes...
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:04 pm
Well, my son, also a bass player, has a gig at a battle of the bands tonight. Get this...
He's plonking around on my 4001 the other day, and asks if he can "use the Rick for his gig". I'm thinking the 4001 that he's holding.
He's a good kid...straight A student, been playing long enough that I know it's not a passing fancy. So I say, "sure, you can use the 4001"
"No, I meant the new one" My brand new 4004 Laredo Fireglo...which I haven't even used in a full rehearsal myself yet. I had to laugh it off...
In 3 months of driving this kid has smashed his friends car, dropped my bass cabinet on his back bumper (busting the bumper up pretty bad), has willfully disobeyed his mother and spent a Friday night at a friends after he was told to come home. On "probabtion" for that event, and just about in our good graces, this past Friday he takes a friend home without asking permission, takes a corner too fast and pops his tire off the rim, and gets involved in a shouting match with a yahoo from that neighborhood. Now, he didn't cause the argument (apparently), but he *should* have asked if he could take the other kid home. He was late for a Dr's appointment because of that jazz.
I'm pretty sure I don't have to spell out my decision.
Love ya kid, but you're not getting to play my new bass at a gig before I do!
He's plonking around on my 4001 the other day, and asks if he can "use the Rick for his gig". I'm thinking the 4001 that he's holding.
He's a good kid...straight A student, been playing long enough that I know it's not a passing fancy. So I say, "sure, you can use the 4001"
"No, I meant the new one" My brand new 4004 Laredo Fireglo...which I haven't even used in a full rehearsal myself yet. I had to laugh it off...
In 3 months of driving this kid has smashed his friends car, dropped my bass cabinet on his back bumper (busting the bumper up pretty bad), has willfully disobeyed his mother and spent a Friday night at a friends after he was told to come home. On "probabtion" for that event, and just about in our good graces, this past Friday he takes a friend home without asking permission, takes a corner too fast and pops his tire off the rim, and gets involved in a shouting match with a yahoo from that neighborhood. Now, he didn't cause the argument (apparently), but he *should* have asked if he could take the other kid home. He was late for a Dr's appointment because of that jazz.
I'm pretty sure I don't have to spell out my decision.
Love ya kid, but you're not getting to play my new bass at a gig before I do!