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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...

5 hours ago, Bassassin said:

 

Never fully understood why Tony didn't call these Sticky Fingers.

 

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.

6 hours ago, Marvin said:

 

I've not read his biography,  I did, however,  watch the documentary about him shown on BBC4 (?) a while back. His birth mum seemed thoroughly unpleasant and his almost non-existent relationship with her seemed to account for some of his own unpleasantness.  He even admitted to not being nice, but then used drug and alcohol abuse to hide behind. You'd hope that someone who knew they'd be an awful person would change their ways...in Clapton's case it seems not.

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.

57 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

There's never been a good Christmas song. Unless you count Angel of Death by Slayer

I love Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi. 

20 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Elvis was overrated. Danzig was much better

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

19 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

Wow.. your personal experiences are so similar to those of The Beatles it’s unreal.

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!'

Sorry no way to delete.

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".