harrybgoode

no need to apologizy... Italian is such a hard language...!

Ciao discreet! BenvenutA with the "a" at the end is for a female person BenvenutO with "o" stands for a male... I think I am on that side of the river . Thanks for the warm welcome, as for the gender misinterpretation... I take that as a compliment! p.s. posted pictures of my jvs in the jv porn thread and a very interesting video of my master playin' one of those check that out!

by the way Luke your p is outstanding. Best P ever seen.

Having been invited to post some pictures of my JV1 Jazz Bass by LukeFRC, here are some cool pictures made by my personal tech to my JV and to the '83 JV Jazz Bass of a beloved student of mine... In those "double" pictures you can see both my bass (without scratchplate, naked look ... I've taken the lingo "porn" to the letter) and my student's. Amazing instruments. Looking forward to buy gareth's fiesta red one and defret mine. Talkin' about fiesta red squier jv's jazz basses... here's a clip of my teacher, the great Gianluigi Goglia, one of Italy's finest jazz bassists, tearin' donna lee apart on a fiesta red squier jv jazz bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YSSsgbNzoo

oh man, I'm going crazy in the bass market! I'm finding dream basses at amazing prices!!! Would love to buy something here from you basschatters I'm always looking for squier jvs and japanese instruments! GAS!

Thanks a lot for the warm welcome

Kudos from Italy, Geoff you're a most gifted instructor, and I really enjoyed the lesson on right hand technique! Thanks a lot!!!

Hello everyone I'm Enrico Buono (my surname means "Good" in italian so I've been nicknamed by fellow musicians Goodman and, since Enrico stands for Henry, Harry B. Goode), electric and upright bass player hailin' from Naples, in Italy (we have a very strong soccer team and we're going against Arsenal this year at the Champions League, so you gunners stay on your toes ). I apologize from now for my very poor english. I don't think you could care less for my full curriculum vitae or biography: I could define myself a professional musician (but I pretty much hate the definition), I'm 24 years old, began playing at a very late age (18) and had been lucky enough to start workin' on the national television (RAI) at age 20 and never stopped working steadily since. I study upright bass with one of the greatest classical musicians in Europe, in the oldest conservatory in the world: the Naples conservatory of San Pietro a Majella. My dream is to become a good jazz upright bassist: I'd like to even give up on the electric but I love it way too much and it is my main source of income and gigs. I teach a lot in the Naples area, and play with various formations, from national pop acts to afrocuban and mainstream jazz bands. I love jazz but my roots are deep in the motown, funk, r'n'b, soul and rockblues tradition. I really don't have a favorite bass player or source of inspiration but I pretty much love Jeff Berlin for his amazing bop phrasing and pedagogical ideas, and modern funk players like Reggie Washington and Marcus Miller. Hope to steal as much as possible from anyone. My gear: an old beat-up Markbass combo (1st series, yellow head, 1x12 cab) and a likely beat-up 1982 first series Squier JV Jazz Bass (JV1) that plays like a dream, a pair of upright basses, an old plywood fat bottomed black girl called Betty and a romanian beauty for arco playing. I had a Sadowsky Metro MS5 but I had to sell it to pay for my degree in law. (in Italy not even professional musicians can afford to live by playing music only, sigh) Hope to be helpful to anyone here and find some good basses to buy . Big love and thanks for the kind attention! Goodman Forza Napoli