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Tapped that Madison Avenue bassline. Gonna explore it when I get off BassChat. Listening to Ozric Tentacles Space for the Earth right now...

Dolbys Aliens Ate My Buick is the Most Killer Album ever and Terry Jackson is The Hammer of The Gods.

It makes you feel alright exactly because tutti frutti oh rootie. Wop bop a loo bop a lop. Ba ba.

Scott LaFaro. Tragically short life. First time I heard the Bill Evans Trio and his playing I forgot to breathe and almost died.

Stick Enterprises. Difficult w/ email, but when you call them they are great. Now, if you don't live in the US you might hafta call in the middle of the night, etc., but bizniz hrs., done, done, and done. Jeff answers the phone these days. It used to be Yuta Chapman or Grace Chapman (!) Last time I ordered strings, the FIRST TIME since 1985 (!) there was a wrong string & Jeff promptly sent it on it's way. It was a custom gauge set, but the wrong string was not the "custom" part of the set. Also if some sort of hardware breaks (the belthook can break if put under duress) it's off in the mail NC. VERY small company. Emmett (now Grace) builds them in the garage in Laurel Canyon CA.

Dirty Blue Gene - Beefheart

Thank you for turning me on to Ozric Tentacles. Cool Gong-ish band. As for female bass players, and being a bassist (yes, I play the Chapman Stick but think it like a bassist even while playing the thin strings), I find them just SEXY. And intimidating when they play whup-*ss shenanigans.

Morley.

I'm American & they don't bugger me. Then again I play Chapman Stick so they don't know what to make of me.

Nice mug!

Red Clay!

I always liked Frank Zappa meets The Mothers Of Prevention.

Rahsaan Roland Irk - also put out a 3-sided LP.

I listen to bands/artists for totally different reasons than you do. Just as I'm into the band that I am playing/performing with at the moment, I'm into the newest music and the rawness (and mistakes that go along with it). That's what music is all about for me. I can listen to an album - finished product. I would have given a nut (well, maybe not) to have heard Pink Floyd touring Dark Side Of The Moon before they produced the album. While The Music was still being gestated. Then listen to "The Album". I saw Yes right after Tales From Topographic Oceans was released - before they started dropping whole sides of the album. It was still new and fresh. I don't think Rick Wakeman was ordering curry yet. They opened with the entire Close To The Edge album. What an Epic concert. I know this has gone WAY off the original topic but I just had to comment. And I'm not interested in seeing Yes these days. But I would, in a heartbeat, go see an old favorite absolutely KNOWING they were gonna play music I have never heard before. A True Legend would still be creating.

25 Or 6 To 4. And I still love the song.

Q: ? A: Never. I know this is a isolated incident, but at 95 with Alzheimer's Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. He just lit up and nailed it - words, inflections, etc. He may not remember his performance, And I'm Not Making a Joke. But everyone there will remember it, and the healing properties, and Magic, of the Brain and Music. I mean, I watched it on the telly. And remembering right now STILL brings tears to my eyes.

I'm surprised, guys... Jac more jazz... Mile Herbie Hadcock Rank Sinatra The Car The Tubs Tarship Crazy Hose Ream The Rickets Gog And... Id Vicious

Little girl on the bass: "Oh, what to plug into?"

Does it beg for treats too?

I couldn't find it here in America. Then I found it on CBS - The David Grohl Show.

Where do you get left-handed keyboards? That was really good!

I can't deal with the nasally voice-thingy-thing. I just can't. Stops me dead. I can't listen to good music with one part broken. I can't even listen long enough to find out if it's good music. I'm 64 but I may be of this generation in that if you don't pull me in in 15secs. and I jump a minute in, and YOU STILL BE DOING THAT, I'm gone. Of course I can listen to Rainbow Dome Music all night. DOMi is great just the "other" stuff.

You can play a fretless bass in Metal. And Punk. And WETF you like. Just juice up the amp. And. Oh. Harmonics. Slide 'em up. slide 'em down....

I have a sax friend who survived. Dude has played with Blood Sweat & Tears (and survived D.C.T.) and musical director for Gloria Estefan. Would do those gigs again in a heartbeat. But would NEVER go on a cruise ship again. I don't know. Since I don't drink anymore I doubt I could carry enough pharmaceuticals AND an extra set of strings.

Someone would have to teach me how to do this. And I think the next time I put that cassette in the H2 will be runnin'. The Capt. complains about the lights (after he complains he can't hear himself...because he screams...) and calls them "urine-colored".