Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i couldn't find the bassist that i wanted in a band, so i borrowed a Dan Armstrong Bass from a pal and never gave it back. Eventually, i made major changes to it by using spare parts given to me by other pals.
The neck is a Crestwood Bass neck that i pried all the frets out and filled the spaces with wood putty. The only pickup is from a destroyed Silvertone bass, and the machine heads are from 2 different basses from 2 different friends... the volume pot is from a Telecaster guitar (no-tone pot) i had to re-drill holes into the body to attach this neck to it and shimmed it with peices of cardboard.
i PAID about 50 bucks for a custom bridge 10 years ago so that i can set-up the harmonics to near perfection.
I made this bass as an experiment after reading an interview of Jaco Pastorius in BASS WORLD MAGAZINE. I had no money to buy a P Bass neck and Jazz Bass body.
I have aquired a P Bass and a Rickenbacker 3001 bass and an acoustic Applause Fretless bass, but i rarely play anything but my frankenstein-experiment.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/9/2005
Band Website: geocities.com/washtubbass
Band Members:
Influences: Bazooka Jones, Casimer Pascal, Leo Fender, Les Paul, Charles Mingus, Helen of Troy, Victoria Derhen, Aphrodites, Mother Earth, Cherri Poptart, RuPaul, Oscar Meyer, Frederick of Fredericks, Liza, Frank, and of course Sammy!!!!, Tony Spumoni, Arlen Viecelli, All Things Zappa, Steely Dan, Angus Younge and his brother whatshisname... damm i wish Jaco was alive today.
Sounds Like: box bass info at www.BogdonMusic.com
Record Label: chris badynee / detroit
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Bogdon Musicology, the mysterious lost H note of yore...

In the earliest days of the piano, the keys were not named after alphabet letters but rather were numbered systematically from 1 to 24. An octave of a particular note was originally perceived as a t...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:03:00 PST

I met Sonny Landreth and his bassist has my Box Bass

The bassist for Sonny Landreth Band www.sonnylandreth.com named "Dave Ranson" saw the Bogdon Box Bass on the web, went to www.BogdonMusic.com and then phoned me asking to buy a 3-string box bass. He...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:17:00 PST

Jug Bands needed

my vision is to host a Jug Band Extraviganza, possibly outdoors but definately an all ages venue... show times 6pm to 11pm... 30min sets please contact Bogdon Vasquaf at [email protected]...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:30:00 PST

Detroit Fashion Magazine

FINALLY FINALLY finally... the proper magazine does the proper interview... Detroit Fashion puts me right smack dab in the middle of where I'm supposed to be, in the Fashion Pages of course! Me rehear...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST

Bass Player Magazine writes about me 2008

Less than a year ago, I emailed Bass Player Magazine editor Greg Olwell. He returned my email and politley told me that he's seen my box bass video. I returned his email with my box bass sales nu...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:13:00 PST

unpasteurized milk...

I need to gig real bad but it's impossible to rehearse in my domain, and almost equally impossible to escape the constant events of daily life.... THAT's the main reason that i manufac...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:47:00 PST

Bass Therapy lesson 5...

Bass Therapy Lesson 8-28-2007 " 'tis the ability to think and display evidence of thought that is what separates us from the non-artists. Therefore, it is our life's duty as musicians to...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:40:00 PST

another bogdon box bass adventure

Saturday was the perfect day. It was sunny with no humidity, warm fresh air, no breeze. I went to Plymouth MI to be seen with my Bogdon Box Bass. I circled Kellogg Park once and decided to park right ...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:03:00 PST

The Rik Emmett Incident...

The Rik Emmett Incident We were talking about our private indulgences.After careful inner contemplation, drawing mental lines under the pro's and cons between what I actually desire compared to what ...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:31:00 PST

the nighmare of opening for The Ramones...

The Night I Almost Met The Ramones My band, Cadillac Kidz were hired as a support act for "The Ramones End Of The Century Tour" (1980) at a bar in Detroit called Uncle Sams on Telegraph Road. A few d...
Posted by Bogdon Vasquaf - Detroit on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:07:00 PST