Michael Manring at Bass Player LIVE! 2013

I just saw one of the most amazing things ever. so wish I could have seen this live. most people would not think playing bass amazing, but wen your a musician like I am, and who just happens to play bass as his most primary instrument then yeah its pritty dam amazing. this guy is one of my musical influences and hes pritty much the reason why I picked up the bass in the first place. see, I started playing bass for a club I was in atschool because my fingers were and still are to big for the acoustic guitar, so I picked up bass. well I ended up putting the bass down for about 2 maybe 3 years, I had already knew who michael manring was a little bit, but one day something popped up on my computer screen or something, I really don't know but anyway, I watched a michael manring video and I picked up the bass it was that simple. I left america I think is what did it. I also had a few friends who played instruments and they did not have a bass player, but that never interested me until I saw michael menring on youtube, now I am all over the bass and ive been playing for a good 7  years now. michael does it again, ive been given new ideas from watching this.

 I thought this was incredible so I had to post hear.


 michael , if you ever read this, first of all thank you for beeing who you are and thanks for playing like you do, and second of all, this video I felt personally was just amazing. this coming from someone who listenes to a wide asortment of music, mainly metal and country. dude you rock.
 for everyone elts whos going to read this, even if your from another planet I hope you enjoy this music. let me know what you thought.
peace and regards
 --- James


 Michael Manring at Bass Player LIVE! 2013 - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaK2GU9pgos

happy thanks giving.

So everyone in the US knows the story of thanksgiving, for those that don't, hears the lowdown in the shortest amount of time. basically people left their home because of persecution of their christian Faith, they spent some time in holland and they felt that even though the country treated them well, they needed to move on because god told them to.
 so they moved out some time in the 1600s and after death all around them including some members on the ships they foundded plimith-rock in what is known now as america. it became an official halladay to give thanks, most people tend to only give thanks this time of year, thats the same as christmas, people only give peace and love on and around christmas.


 so thats why we have it as a halladay. now, I want to say, happy thanksgiving, lets just remember the history behind it and all that. yall take care and becareful.

 regards.


---- James

JFK happenings.

there was a live protest on the radio and it was sad, because the cops let the protesters in, and they were peaceful, then the next half an hour, they started punching the protesters, so the cops said yeah you can go in, then the feds in texas said nope, how dair you let them in, and then they started punching the protesters.
 come on, I personally agree with those protesters, this is sad, it shows that our country really is not ran buy the people anymore. its ran buy the thugs.
 remember folks, fight the good fight, don't work with the goverment. go with the real americans, the protesters are in the rite. I needed to get this off my chest, the mair of dallas was standing on the grave on JFK gees, he said they were doing everything in the name of JFK, if you go look at his speaches, you will see that he did not preach sencery, instead he said about beeing public, now what a shame, we arnt public with the people any more.
 JFK wanted the military and the goverment to be public with the people, he did not want them to make backroom deals. now how sad is that, the goverment now makes backroom deals now. how sad.


 allrite, I needed to say that. yall take care, and remember, JFK and the protesters were in the rite, also the story of JFKs killing is a different matter. haha. he was an inside job buy the goverment.

 allrite yall take care. peace.

---- James

lucky my face is not cut wide open.

so today after getting my bass action fixed up, I had to retune the instrument, because wen you change the action for those of you that don't know, it knocks your strings out of tune because your raising them or lowering them. so anyway back to the point, I got it fixed to where it plays real nice and the strings are off the neck and this is a cheepo SX bass buy the way, so anyway wen I was retuning, I was tuning to standard as you do, well ouch, the G-string broke. now ive heard stories of people breaking strings and the strings cutting them. my question is how did that not happen to me, I mean it did not fly up and wild or whatever, it just snapped at the neck, that beeing said, I did have a string hit me in the face one time, but it was again not hard ennuff to cut me. oh no, ive seen what bass strings can do, they will cut you open, but how in the heck do I always manage to avoid beeing cut buy things like that, but yet, if theres a bea out and I am bairfoot i'll get stung, or if someone drops a thumtack and they did not know where it went, i'll find it. ouch. thats another story for another time.
 but yeah, things like that happen but yet thankfully ive not been cut buy bass strings. LOL.
 so yeah now I need a new pair of strings. I am thinking if wallmart does not ahve any strings then i'll go for some tapewound. wanna try those, ive tryed knickle strings, steal strings, cobalt strings and now I wanna try tapewound strings. then I can say Ive tryed every kind of string there is to try. now that beeing said, there all made differently and there for sounds differently. fender makes their tapewound strings for example differently than ernieball. ok, I don't know if ernieball really makes tapewounds, they do make a great cobalt string, highly praised hear buy the way.thats what I was usng tonight wen I broke that string.


 allrite guys and girls, just thought ide let yall in on that experience today.


 know idea how ive managed somethin like 5 blogs and people are reading these things.
 know idea how I am finding content to rite about in the first place but yeah. take care guys and girls and we will talk later. peace

headphones are dieing. a science discovery.

so I was sitting their today and started to hear a cracking sound in my headphones, I looked down and everything looked normal, until I remembered the frayed wires from years of being ran over buy chairs buy mistake, and pressure from the wire always being in one place caused the cheep plastic holders to come apart, so it looks like i'll need to buy a new pear of headphones in the next year. the good thing though is that I got something like 2 years or more out of these phones.

They were well worth 50 bucks for these studio headphones. I can pick up these same headphones, or get new ones from a different brand, not sure what i'll do yet. also figured out what was causing a hi pitched sound around say 20 hertz or a slight bit lower from my preamp. my computers internet router believe it or not is electronically interfering with the pre I use to power my mic. interestingly it's the same sound I hear in my radio wen I am tuning. so my thought is the router could be putting out high frequency noise and interfering with all the electronics either on this floor, or on the hole house. I figured that out buy moving my pre around earlyer today, the closer it got to the router, the more louder the noises became.
now how interesting is that blog readers? 

 you all take care and regards.

fresh hot coffee.

so let me just say, I did not sleep well last night, yeah like anyone cares, but ohwell, I am composing this blog for my own uses. it helps me vent. but anyway. hot coffee is the best thing to get your day started. a shot of george jones and classic country will do it every day. 

 if I ever get invited to a party, you can bet, I won't stick around for this new music junk. that new rap and stuff like that, that don't agree with my ear. the old rap and stuff like that now, I like that. but this new rap, no. I do like some of the new pop music, taylor swift is allrite, pink has some good tunes, but be that as it may, i'll always be a country fan.

 like I said in my first blog, country music is the best style of music out there. coffee is the best drink in the world, and the electric bass is the most underrated instrument in the world. I play bass, listen to country and drink coffee.

 yep, I am pritty lucky to have what I have.

 allrite, to my friends and family and to those who may stumble to this blog on a mistaken drunken night, you all take care and peace be with you all.

--- James

blindness.

I heard a song ive not heard in such a long time. the song is called I am nobuddies child. its about a blind child who gets passed over at the adoption home all the time. he wants to die and see christ, it just makes me thankful that people are more open to blindness now and not close minded like they were back then. I am glad Ive got a loving family and music to listen to. 

 that song really reminded me of where I as a blind person would have been in like 1920 or something. even the story of the seeing eye in nashville makes me thankful. the seeing eye school was set up buy a blind man who was caryed in a ship and was not allowed to come out of his cabin to do anything, its incredible just in 70 years how fast things can change. i see it now, I remember wen I use to go walking around in my grand parents house, and my grand dad was always nurvice all the time, he would always put his hand on my sholder and go, becareful I don't want you running into anything, he would follow me around sometimes and wen he thought I was going to run into something he would step in frunt of me. I of corse had to explain to him that I knew what ever it was, was there, and that I was not going to run into what ever it was. even after I explained it to him, that ole ww2 vet would still get nurvice and check on me a lot.

 man I miss pap, he was an incredible man, master sargent in the US army, was in japan in the phillapeans. RIP.

 anyway I am getting off topic aint I. woops? but anyway my point was that even though he had grandkids that were blind, he would still help other blind folks and even people with sight, but he always felt that blind people were so special, I remember I brought a book to their house, and he could not get over the braille and how I was able to read it with my fingers.

 I am so thankful that we as blind people can do what we can do now. theres things we cant do as of now, like driving. but theres a lot more that we can do over what we cant do.

 so thank you. know idea who I am thanking but still. my mac reads to me and I am typing on a normal computer and all that  

 so any questions from anyone i'll be glad to answer.

 twitter.com/jamesclark13

 or facebook.com/jamestheradioguy

 peace yall.

musings.

Hello, my name is James, I am a bass player, a video gamer, a radio nut and an audio geek.

 fave music style of listening is country, the traditional stuff. now, my fave stuff to play is experiemental music. 

 allrite, well I don't know what to compose hear. LOL maybe that I am a musician wen I die, I will decompose. LOL. peace yall.