So what Bass lists would you recommend?
My stepdad's brother got into building stand-ups some years ago (and I hear
they're pretty good) but I haven't been able to justify the expense....
someday.

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lincoln" <magikvw@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Gardening

> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> 86'
> 85' GL (sidelined and donating organs to the 86')