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It's the preposterous bass line that makes it so great. Bill probably couldn't play it w/out smirking or laughing. (I've had those)

Kinda one reason I got a Chapman Stick. Bass AND rhythm because no guitarist seems to get what a good rhythm guitarist IS. (they all wanna go "widdly widdly widdly WEE.)

Rolling Stones "Miss You" Bill Wymans octave bass line sounds like "Aw, Bill, ya gotta get w/ the times, here!" Probably put in his resignation right after.

Ah! I knew I'd been doing it wrong all along!

Scared me for a moment. Didn't let "electric" sink in...thought you might be switching to ukulele. Or banjo. As a previous upright player, I can identify. Played only upright in college. Love how it resonates thru my body.

Martin Mull had an album "with his fabulous furniture". And of course Robert Fripp sat down and stood up again (playing the guitar...)

I currently have my Chapman Stick on a stand connected to the belthook and I can hear it resonate. So I guess it's a tone-cymbal stand.

I'm just glad the strings I use have not been discontinued or "New And Improved" in, what, 45 years? And they sound good on all my basses and guitars and, as it happens, my Sticks.

I think it all depends on what type of tonewood the bass is made of. I hope this hasn't been mentioned before.

Tony cheats. He de-tunes the upper string on the bass side of the Stick. When Adrian ate my chili @ Roxy & Dukes I told him I played Stick and said if we ever got together I promise not to play E.T.

All the above and: King Crimson - Red.

Early Chicago, while Terry Kath was alive. I played a lot of Pete Cetera basslines in a rock/horn band I was in. (Sorry Pete, it's true)

And there's no one on BassChat that plays a contrabass with a F# string? Because I'm a Stick player and my low string is either A or Bb and I'm not crazy about it either. D'Addarios roundwound and I've thought of going a little thinner...

Because you can't use them on the Stick. Trust me.

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. There were no lyrics but the dancing created quite a stir when first performed. So I guess the music wasn't offensive. But the orchestra was being pelted with assorted produce yet kept playing.

Budapest By Blimp - Thomas Dolby

It keeps my strings clean.

I bought an Affinity Strat for $60US in a pawn shop it's red, rosewood (or whatever) fingerboard. There wasn't a scratch on it 'till I added two more springs in the back and the screwdriver slipped. I hear the bodies are thinner is that the same as the Affinity Jazz? Everything works on it and it stays in tune as much as a Strat w/ a whammy bar can. I tune it to Joni Tunings so I'm changing it all the time. Like 5 times on a good day. Why would I want to change anything? It cost me sixty bucks.

A key ingredient in 12-Step recovery from alcohol & drugs is forgiving those that wronged you. Or you can buy into $$$ sucking treatment center (Crossroads Antigua) that will stroke your EGO as long as you contribute. EGO stands for Easing God Out. I did like some of the Cream stuff but that was 3 on-fire musicians butting heads musically. Always a catalyst.

I love Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi. I get your drift.

I have a '70's Japanese guitar - Cameo - that someone GAVE to me. The only thing wrong with it was...that bolt-on neck angle. Put a shim in and it's a cool guitar. Showed it to a local luthier, we looked it up, they sold for around $450US back in the day. Good deal for a set of strings, a clean-up, and a piece of wood.

I would loved to have seen them at Earl's Court in 75, when they were at their peak.

I kinda like Mr. Bungle.

"Do they have to be alive?"

I would think Utopia would have been utopia for me. I was already in thru the out door with Zep and rock-in -general and listening to jazz, jazz-rock, fusion, and Todd from Nazz (my sister turned me on to them in '69) on. I was in Boston@ Berserklee College of Money '78/'79 and they were telling me "you can't swing unless it's 4/4 or 3/4 so Frank Zappa and The Don Ellis Orchestra were OUT as far as THEY were concerned. I left Berserklee and got a job as a dishwasher, put a band together that did originals and covers of Zappa, Beefheart, The Tubes, and BeBop Deluxe. Never got return engagements...