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Sorry, jumped ahead, missed the center section. Someone should film this.

I'm glad the fish batter was mentioned. Fried food always affects the mix. And as mentioned in the age post, I'm a musician, but I cook for living so I know what I'm talking about.

Of course!

Uh, can you tell me why a "true luthier and genius" would design a bass where the bridge doesn't fit on the bass?

Van der Graaf Generator - Vital Along with Oil On Canvas, could not stop listening to. Also, two of the best bass sounds EVER.

Other than two-handed bass, the other reason I got a Chapman Stick was to be able to play bass & rhythm @ the same time. Because all the guitarists I knew wanted to play "lead" guitar. But didn't know or didn't understand the "concept" of rhythm guitar. "Riddly,riddly,ree" - F.Z.

I dropped a line to a guitarist I hadn't heard from since Covidiffication, someone that could actually play and write songs with. He replied he was living with a girl and had a 10 mo. old child. I asked, "So that means you sold all your guitars for a crib and bassinet?" Haven't heard back so the answer is probably... What is with these people that think there is life without music? "Band Forming Hassles" would be a great name for band.

Saw a movie last night with "The Wizard of Oz" on a tv in the background and it was the part where Dorothy & Co. go prancing into the Poppy Fields and get an opium buzz. It's Munchkin-like singing and watched the credits - the song is called "Optimistic Voices". Can't get it out of my head.

Oh yeah. Also, I have 2 Sticks the second one is the Dual Bass Reciprocal 12-string. So when I got that I traded in my Pedulla 5-string fretless for a powered loudspeaker & had no basses. I missed fretless, so had the frets removed from the Ironwood Stick...and found out that wasn't the solution... Found a Hartke Bass guitar in "as is condition" for $30US w/ a straight neck so pulled the frets out of it. Blah,blah,blah fretless is fun.

A bit of random observation: and NOT a music theorist! Even though I played double bass and trombone in high school band, my first electric bass was fretted, and when I got a hold of a frettless Precision my first rock band rehearsal (w/ horn section) was HORRIBLE...until about the second set, when my ears started to "tune in" (and started to not look at the fretboard, which only had side dots and no fret-lines anyway, but was STILL throwing me off). The Chapman Stick is a beach to play w/ others sometimes because with 10 or 12 strings ranging 5 1/2 octaves even when I get it "in tune" for the majority of the fretboard, if the guitarist is out-of-tune even slightly (no guitarist jokes), the Stick will sound "out", or low notes will be hard to discern. Dave Fiucznski of Screaming Headless Torsos is the reason I had my Ironwood Stick's frets removed. Big mistake in hindsight - not because of the difficulty of playing double-stops and triads in tune (don't get me wrong, it's ridiculous) but because tapping an unwound string is hard to hear because it doesn't have a fret to articulate the attack. But it is a cool modification just the same. Many beginner Stick players have "learning curve" for playing in tune because the string are lower tension, the frets are high, and you may "tap and hold" too hard, or not tap right behind the fret. All the previous observations about a sharp note sharper and a flat note flatter, especially in the blues... A harmonic plucked and slid up or down is one of the coolest sounds ever heard!

And he once killed 3 men in a bar...WITH A PENCIL.

A child might be attracted to the sound and fall into the strings.

I think if jazz wants to be taken seriously, a soloist should be able to get his point across/be limited to 2 (two) choruses.

I think it's great. But I was putting a Big Muff Pi on bowed cymbals in the 80's. (and everything else)

Same here. When I first got the PODX3 Live I was trying all kinds of amps then stumbled upon the desk preamps. The words of the engineer at my first studio session rang in my head: Your bass is going direct in the board. I still use some sims but for tube sounds etc.

Some of you Basschatters are saying these basses are heavy. I concur. I knew as soon as I had to... Hold the Mayo. You all waited too long.

The battery compartment acts as a resonating chamber and is enhanced if the battery can rattle around. If you think I'm just being facetious it would occasionaly happen on my Ibanez 8-string and it was really fun/bizarre. Of course I also attached alligator clips, bits of metal, and tuned the thing as felt needed by the music being created at the time. The Kitchen NYC early 80's playing along side the likes of Material/Massacre. Bill Laswell happened to have the same bass and was doing the same thing to his basses. I had already removed the frets from mine, though. With a claw hammer. He thought that intriguing (fretless 8-string) and humorous (the claw hammer).

Man you blokes are tough it probably plays and sounds great. Where's your sense of adventure? It's no good 'cause it doesn't have $1000 price tag? I have a bass that I paid $30 US "as is", no strap buttons, one pu dead. Straight neck, took the frets out, sings. Buy it!

Daisy Chainsaw. Wow. The bass. The video. The toilet bowl brush...

I thought everyone played a 5. My Stick goes down to A.

I would have bought time in a rehab and got into A.A. before my alcohol addiction took 20 years away from me. A lot of things would be different. But I cannot regret the past nor shut the door on it. I am who I am today and I enjoy what I play/create. OK everybody go, "Whoa." "If pigs had wings..." I think my amps were tolerable, my basses were playable, and my sound was decent. The guitarist in our band, on a gig that got recorded, (we did that as much as possible, carting around a Nakamichi cassette deck), said, "Make our ears bleed, Marty." So I guess I was doing something right.

Oh you sorry donkey Jaco bashers it is about the the spirit.

You can take out the tone control (and volume whilst you're at it) and replace it w/ the exact replacement or you can listen to the next several replies and add 100's of lb.s to the purchase price of your bargain.

How old do those strings sound? My god I wouldn't record with that sound if you held a gun to my head. (well, maybe). But really The Doors needed a bassist. And BTW - MONSTER BASS LINE

Should be in "What Are you Listening To Right Now?" but it's "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" Joe Cocker and anyone never heard this should be "Doin' some homework". Please.