I didn't get a Joe thing and I prolly won't for awhile. Let me start with the background first.

When I was 8 or so, I started playing piano. Played classical stuff till I was about 15. Deciding that piano wasn't considered 'cool', I talked my parents into moving to

BASS. Everyone else was picking up on guitar, I chose bass to be not only different but the fact that with guys starting up bands, there were no bass players. My first bass was a Fender Squire. Bought a (CRAPPY) lil 15 watt amp to go with it. (YOu can find the same bass for about $150 or in package deals (amp, cord, case, picks, bass) usually available at any music store Which really means, my bass isn't worth crap! lol) I got the hang of it pretty quickly, played with the guys at school... But a 15w POS wouldn't work and the drummer who had a ton of gear; I used his. And it never gave a bass sound. Only a distorted sound the whole time.

Eventually, we made the dive and I got a Fender M80 which apparently a LOT of people have never heard of. It was an 80w 1-12" that was good but it couldn't keep up with the guitarist's 200w Crate Full Stack (which incidentally, is a POS. Therefore, Crate is pretty low on my list of companies).

I went thru a few more basses but I never quite liked anything else. My 1st bass was great. Stickers all over, chips in the neck, slight repainting here and there... Sometime in 2000, I sold the amp...

But wait, it's more confusing than that. After getting the bass in 10th grade, I got a classical guitar in 11th. THen a few random free electrics throughout college. Back to the story at hand, I was going thru electric guitars after college, trying to find what I liked. A buddy turned me onto the Line6 (digital) amps and I got a Spyder112.

9 years later... The classical sits in storage. I still play the electric (took years and a lot of dough to find the right guitar).

A couple weeks ago, me and my neighbor went down south to a music store just out of boredom on a weekend. I fiddled around with guitars as did he. Eric wanted to hear my play bass since he knew I had one around and I hooked one up.

OOPS.

The amp I played thru was awesome. A 30w bass amp that sounds good? I had already been scarred that a 15w sounds shallow. Surely a 30w couldn't be MUCH better but dizzzzzzzaaaaaaaam. That 30w sounded as good as my old M80! Now that I got my financial aid check, not only could I get gas and a few groceries, we went down today to pick up the Marshall MB30. I'm rather rusty on my bass playing, but it's coming back.

So if you want, check out what I picked up. It's a very good deal for this type of amp. Bought some more guitar strings as well as a metronome (since mine broke). Now I can bug my neighbor downstairs with my Primus covers and Maiden-oriented riffs and and and... I am on youtube. Find me as Sonneilon6. ;)

http://www.marshallamps.com/product...roductCode=MB30

I'm new here at Joe Dios but here is what I have scored since I got to FT Benning for Jumpmaster:
1 Wal-Mart Gung-Ho Copper head set, and a Arctic Threat Storm Shadow
At TRU a little wile ago I scored a True Heroes Blackhawk and Chinook (it was buy one get the other 50% off) as well as SGT Stone, Paris Pursuit Arctic Assault and Ninja mercenary Storm Shadow, and a Arctic Assault and Ninja Commando Snake eyes. At AAFES I scored an Agent Helix and a Cover Girl. While I'm here I have a few ideas for some of the training areas around here to in-cooperate for dio backgrounds so I'm going to take some pics and when I get back to Bragg I'll see what happens.
[IMG][/IMG]






I also scored this on the eBay the other day:
eBay Score

Welcome jasf316! Nice catches.

This weekend was very good to me Joe-wise.

Did a run to TRU and got my hands on Bench-Press, Night Adder, the Cobra Senior Officers 3-pack, and the GIJoe Senior Officers 3-pack.

I didn't go hunting this weekend as there really is'nt much left for me to find. Earlier this week I picked up the Cobra Senior Officers 3-pack from TRU and the Target rescue mission set and that about does it for me for now!

Nothing for me in joes but found Darth Kyrat and WWE Roddy Piper, The Rock, and Kane finally (after an apparent restock at WM of series 2).

my new stuff comprises of
ROC tele-viper loose.
City Strike SE.
another S.N.A.K.E armour. bringing me to 11 in total including 1 red and 1 blue one.
Thunder clap.vehicle.
Reso Roadblock.a strange ROC breaker(uses duke head with a beard)
Leather neck plus atv
Dusty plus rockslide
Lava-pod and volcano-viper
ROC beach-head from snarler
red/white ROC SS .one from a exclusive I belive
also got
5 new 12" joes
Bat v3
Overkill
Ripper
Viper(looks like a trooper)
Crimson guard(Kb exclusive not 09 con)
so quite happy .

ROC tele-viper? Cool! Didn't know these were coming out.

I turned 35 the other week and Carlito hooked me up with a BenchPress! Such a great guy. Love to talking to him. Anyway, THANKS CARLOS THE RAMBO!!!