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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...

Just got done with a half-hour of "hunting down the bad wire in the studio". I was ready to plug-n-play now I'm stressed & my back hurts. The Muse has left the building. Time for Basschat to "Make Me Smile..."

Rush Never Sleeps - Two Bands from Canada

All except the famous and rich part. And George Martin wasn't in the studio. But, yeah, isn't that how it usually goes for musicians doing original material? I'm not much for the Beatles, their songwriting didn't influence me, and just to give you a heads-up that I'm not a damn Yankee that isn't into the British Invasion. I really, really cannot stand Elvis Presley, either. At least I can listen to the Beatles without screaming "Turn that off!'

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All I want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones

Adele can sing. No silly stuff doing silly stuff. I don't care what she puts out the music is real.

Good Times. And... Inna Gadda Da Vidda.

A chair makes more music than most of the "bassists".

Yeah when I write something it just comes. No work involved. I think it's beautiful but a million other people don't. There is no accounting for taste and I find most of the Beatles catalog boring. I appreciate what they did in the studio but George Martin should have been credited with music as much as producer. I have worked in bands where someone relentlessly drums a song until everyone acquiesces and a "song" emerges. The Beatles had that..."privilege". So what? How many replies have said 7 hours of Get Back was boring? "Get" Off my "Back".

I think it depends on what bass guitar strings you use. And I am not trying to be a smarty pants.

I could tell you which one I liked better in about 30 seconds and that is all that really matters. To me.