Hello from Russia! (Page 1 of 2)

Hi Egor. I totally agree about "When She Dances"..very powerful! Thanks for signing in and keep rockin Russia!! Have fun here.    Cathy

Oh my old shaking knees!

How wonderful is this? Welcome from the far east Egor - especially when you come out with this most moving and beautiful of Joe's songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp1HG5k4yhI

I don't know how long you've been lurking, but I advise that you take the elevator down to the basement 'Other artists' department, where you can discover incredible amounts of great music you never heard before!

Welcome Egor!
It's a pleasure for you to meet me. 
The Red Elvises toured through Florida last year.
What kind of bass do you play?  That's darn near the far East.

thump thump
Big Jeff

yeah most of the time

Thanks again for your welcome - I've never had such a warm greeting at any of Russian forums. So, now I'll try to answer your questions:
1) ken,
Yes, definetely. Amur State University is my alma mater. I study at philological faculty, my specialization is written translation from English into Russian and vice versa. My second languages are English and Chinese. Amur State University is a comparatively small one (we have about 10,000 students) but, nevertheless, we have one of the highest scolarships in Russia - it's even higher that in Moscow State University:). Each year we have two festivals at our University - "Junior Show" in November and "Students' Spring" in April. These shows give a nice chance to all of our musicians, dancers and singers to feel what the stage is. We used to play at both of these festivals - at "Junior Show" we played the instrumental edit of our own song and at "Students' Spring" we presented the cover version of "YYZ" by Canadian fathers of progressive rock "Rush".
I can't say that living on the Chinese boarder is something especial. We have no specific restrictions so it's just like living anywhere else in Russia. Of course, there are a lot of  Chinese people in our town and it's really interesting to communicate with people of other culture. A real advantage of the on-border position of my town is that it's quite cheap to travel to Chinese tropical resorts because we don't have to pay much money for the road itself. And, of course, we have hundreds Chinese cafes.
2) bigjeffjones,
Yeah, a real pleasure:) My main instrument is a 4-string copy of Music Man Stingray by OLP (it's a Chinese company that makes the licensed budget copies of Music Man guitars and basses - the abbreviation OLP means Oficially Licensed Product). It was bought for less than 200 USD but it sonds surprisingly well. I tryed a couple of Soundgears by Ibanez which were five times more expensive but their sound compared to my OLP seemed to me flat and boring. I also have a 6-string active bass by Jews (it's a Korean company) but now I'm thinking about selling it in order to by a second-hand amp and cabinet.
My gear is a simple Digitech B50 effects processor (all effects I use during ordinary playing are compression, amp modeller, chorus and reverberation, sometimes I also need flanger) and Behringer Tube Ultragain Mic200 preamp, which provides my bass with a trully vintage sound of 1970s.
And what are your instruments and gear?
3) Tripsy,
I do believe that music, as well as love, is the most powerful thing on the Earth! And this forum can clearly prove it!
By the way: Amsterhammer, thanks for your link!
I hope I haven't forgotten any of your questions.

Why pudding, whatever do you mean?

y'all keep em strate over thar.

muchlove
bigjeff

Thanks Big Jeff. I particularly wondered about the toilet roll???? Any significance?? Probably best not go there eh? Keeping it clean!

Significance?  Not a whit!  Basketballs, either...

mystudio
kidsgarage

I have not played the Getty Lee model, so I'm not qualified to give an opinion.  I kinda come from a different genre of music.  Even though all the motown monsters from my day played Precisions, John Paul Jones played a Jazz... as did SEVERAL other Blues bassists from back in the day.

I don't know if it's safe to assume that because I've heard of OLP many other Americans have.  I tend to be a bit off, sometimes.

Peace and some Heat!