Jake - I was a member of that Bass Guitar list a few years back - I agree
with you. It was terrible. I'm not sure I looked in on the Double Bass list
but I don't play Stand up so I'm not sure I would be a good fit (although
I've always wanted to play and own a Stand up).

On 9/7/06, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are a couple of guitar lists that work well, but the best is the
> Double Bass Forum on TalkBass.com.  I think its the personalities involved
> really, passionate AND informed being the requisite traits.
> On the other hand, the Bass Guitar side of TalkBass is full of the very
> worst of the internet; uninformed opinion and name-calling.
>
> There are good people on this list, and damn good gardeners too, Geza!
> :-)
>
> Seeya, Jake
>
> On 9/7/06, Geza Polony <gezapolony@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > I've wondered about this for a long time. Why are there such good lists
> > for
> > cars and so few for other subjects?
> >
> > The excellent car lists are based on two factors. First, all the cars in
> > question are almost exactly the same, with tiny variations. That makes
> it
> > so
> > a list member in Alaska can read a post on an idle stabiliser problem,
> go
> > out to his or her van, and find exactly the same device located at
> exactly
> > the same location  on his engime compartment wall. We
> automatically  have
> > something in common. Second, there are large numbers of these cars
> > produced,
> > which helps garner a large number of listees. A list dealing with
> antique
> > Wedgewood stove, for example, would satisfy the first requirement, but
> > therre are too few in existence to attract a wide following.
> >
> > Compare this to "gardening," where the variables are almost infinite,
> and
> > a
> > list member in Alaska will have nothing in common with one in Arizona.
> > It's
> > hard to relate to a cactus with pumpkin rot when you're in the Yukon.
> The
> > element of commonality is too general in a "gardening" list.
> >
> > A list equivalent in specificity to Vanagon.com would be some something
> > like, "The ferms in low elevation southern Oregon" group.
> >
> > I did find a pretty good site on rhododendrons a few years back, but my
> > soil
> > didn't correspond to theirs...
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> www.crescentbeachguitar.com
>

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Thanks,

Jeff
86'
85' GL (sidelined and donating organs to the 86')