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.......on a Lake in N.E. Alabama (Weiss Lake). One of the people in attendance was the former bass player in a band one of my guitar players was in. He is a devoted Fenderphile. I let him play my 4003. Afterward he told me that was the best playing bass he had ever played. Easy to play and great sound and sustain. Now he wants one. The night before we had played another outdoor gig in Tennessee. We got 3 encores there. All in all, a good weekend.

Sound like a good week end Greg. I haven't done an outdoor gig for quite a while now.

During summer festivals, playing in the afternoons, it always meant retuning the bass at the end of every number!

No tuning problems here. My 4003 played quite well, and held tune great. I don't mean to sound as if I'm bragging but I'm quite happy with the way things turned out all around.

I'll be playing this Saturday at an outdoor show, the Open Air Market at the West Side Market in Cleveland. Rare Blend does a lot of outdoor festivals during the summer months here.

I got another outdoor show on Saturday. Not real sure how thats gonna go as one of our guitar players is going to be on vacation this week. We've played without him before but I don't much like to. It usually sounds to me like something's missing. My band, Vintage, plays outdoors fairly frequently during spring and summer months and tries to play the bars and clubs during fall and winter. We stay fairly busy but we all have day jobs, too.

I like to play outdoors ... it gives our 6000 watt subwoofers a chance to pump ...

6000 watts to pump-you-up!

Hans and Franz ... Don't be a girly man ... use a big crown amp and some big 18" subs ...

but don't forget Tarzan, Tonto, and Frankenstein ...

"but don't forget Tarzan, Tonto, and Frankenstein ..."
Those were great.