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To the OP (The-Ox) - if you're still a BassChatter-follower: Chris Squire. Major influence in my musical education. Although I played a Jazz Bass strung w/ Ernie Balls Roundwounds with my fingers and I WANTED to sound like Chris, I wound up sounding like Me. (still do). It was the ATTITUDE of his note choices, phrasing, conviction. The ensemble benefited by all this, yet a distinctive voice nontheless.

A lawnmower cleaning the floor of a screw factory.

Because I play the Chapman Stick, I tend to mess with standard sets of strings on my basses as low as (low-to-high) C# F# B E. Still a sharp key, fret markers don't make me insane, and I like the looser tension - as the Stick is lower tension (although special design strings). But if I were playing with mates, who knows. My guitars have mediums & I never tune to Standard they are always Joni Tunings or some such pertubation. The Stick is a keyless instrument (no open strings and fret markers are five frets apart which makes sense in 4ths & 5ths tunings) so my brain has kinda exploded...I currently do not own 5-string, but when I did, it was EADGC and I would detune to D when needed. Of course I do also have a 8-string fretless that sounds bonkers when the E's are tuned to C and the other octaves strings are tuned down a 4th...

Fender Sandblaster! That's a model they should put out!

Those are pretty neat speakers. This may be a dumb question but wouldn't a couch do?

I'm not going to have the shop owner or salesman take it down from the wall if I'm not attracted to it. It's like a car or a woman. If I'm not attracted to it I'm not even gonna take it out for a test drive. Not being glib here. It's a whim until it gets in your hands - then it's a commitment. But... My Pedulla was a special order (after I had played one). And the 12-string Chapman Stick was ordered from photos on website - dark bamboo. Mail-Order Brides?

I used to worry about what my bass looked like. Like, keeping those stupid chrome thingys on my Jazz bass.

"Don't let the bass player count in." Personal experience I did the "cat-skinning" solo then played the first 8 bars and it kept getting faster & faster and I got reprimanded by the drummer 'cause it was too damn fast.

I always thought Carly Simon should get some kind of Award for "No Secrets" for, you know, those "no secrets" of hers. THEY are Rock and Roll.

"Like RHCPs doing Green Day." Haha. I shut it off when I saw the Zappa mustache. Someone should tie him down and shave him. The Zappa Family Trust would sue him. If it wasn't so bad.

I bought a Hartke bass for $30US and tore the frets out. Then the P pu went out so it only has the J. (Wadda ya want fer $30?) I blacked out the H and ke with a Sharpie so now itsa "art" bass...problem solved...

I recognised "Budapest By Blimp" by Thomas Dolby from "Aliens Ate My Buick" in one note (chord) in a record store after not hearing it in 30 years and bought it used immediately. I could of recognised any song on that album we were listening to it non-stop in '88 while I was trying to open a restaurant.

I wont say Hartke out loud.

OP: With your ears? I mean, I'm 64. I was in band. "Mr. Sandberg, the pitch." (It was trumpet). Whether I was playing trombone, or upright bass, I tuned up. (There is no "open Bb" on upright bass) Grow a pair.

I say it was Zappa's instrumental music that was the most humorous. Examples - Holiday in Berlin Pts. 1&2 from Burnt Weenie Sandwich, and The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue from Weasels Ripped My Flesh. That one had me racing out to find out who Eric Dolphy was...Out To Lunch being my first purchase. Side-splitting music...

Ah. My misteak.

What Monkey Steve said. Get a boost for it before changing pickups and preamps and whatnot. All my instruments have different outputs and with my Chapman Stick, I have an EMG active pickup block, and a Villex passive block. The Villex MELTS the EMG's. I have to gain them differently. (Emmett Chapman said the Villex's were the hottest pu's he's ever tried). Just because the pickups are active doesn't mean they're hot.

I had to look it up. Why would you keep any instrument in a place where you grow vegetables or flowers? Seriously people are you that stupid would you keep your violin (or upright bass) in a room with direct sunlight or extreme temperature changes...My instruments never leave my bedroom and they need tuning (and the Stick needs truss-tweaking) all the time and I live in New Jersey (strangest whethether on the planet). What. Are. You. Thinking. Put your basses in the trunk (bonnett) of your auto between playing. I mean, jeez........

The Bad Plus. Oh, check out Chariots Of Fire (I had to pull the car over) or Smells Like Team Spirit.

Oh and yeah I picked out the Danelectro and the Chapman Stick because of their color. I'm serious. The D. was in the local guitar . .shop and the Stick I ordered talking to Yuta Chapman (Emmetts wife) and deciding on light or dark bamboo. Even thought the most important decision about what it sounded like was the pickup. I should have ordered torqoiuse linear inlays and a Stickup. I ordered black and the PASV4. The pickup is a bolt-IN so I can put W/e/T/F/I/W in there. Bolt Me In.

Some days I can figure out how to post a photo some days I can't Emmett Chapman has all the frets available before the pickup shows up. And I got a Danelectro Longhorn w/ 24 fret neck access bolt on for about a dollar fifty. Bolt on. Oh, and those lipstick pickups.

I was gonna say Good Times is the best groove ever and then u guys put up Tony Williams and Cool and I just wanna go home and play my E...

I want to try out combo amps (for the Stick) but am afraid to walk in with my Stick. But I could walk in and play any old bass any day and have a riot of a time.

I own an almost $4K(US) Chapman Stick and I suck but it's going down with me... Of course there isn't a Squire version. And Warr guitars are WAY more. And there's a Whore and Trumpet here in NJ. (at least I dated one)

I had a PentaBuzz ordered w/out lines or finish on the ebony. Absolutely singing bass - but I hated the Bartolini P/J active pu's. HATED. It's one of the "Wish I Never Sold It!" basses. I needed an amp for The Stick at the time and traded it @ Guitar Center I don't think it ever made it on the wall every manager in the place had played before I left...