StickyDBRmf

Wow. I used D'Addario nickel rounds on all my fretless basses. Same as any other bass I ever had. One string, work from there. I can't imagine using different strings on different basses. When I bought a shortscale bass, I couldn't get my D'Addarios, had to put something else on, and HATED it. Couldn't play it. Had to wait for the D'Addarios to come in. Different strings-it's like different underwear.

I really like the "VIDEO UNAVAILABLE" post. I just keep going back to it...

Blindside Blues Band.

My tunes. They might bore the cotton outa you, but they amuse me for days and days.

I thought this was going to be serious. Then I realized I was on BassChat.

My first ever bass was a Jazz. (It was a random pick) And I was never satisfied (or so I thought) because I couldn't get "that" sound. Although it did cut thru. EVERYTHING.

A band alumni came by the high school and was selling a fretless P bass w/ maple neck. So I had two basses, until I came back from college, and sold the J.

I played all sorts of music on the P. Aggressive. Round wound nickels. Wore two necks out.

Bought a Pedulla PentaBuzz w/ Bartoloni P/Js. Hated that combo. (the bass played like a dream.)

I get misty-eyed thinking about that J., but those f*ckers are noisy.

So I guess it IS a choice between a fart and a belch.

Oh yeah. I'm being me. These days I about manage "practice".

Status Back Baby!

A pound for the brown on the bus -FZ-

Just to let you know, I read the whole thing. I need a nap.

1 hour ago, toneknob said:

I went to my local guitar shop, said "Can I have a long stand please"

He said "sure no problem" and went to the stock room

I was waiting for ages

 

This needs to go in the Bad Jokes...

Always likes me some NINs. Cleans my innards out.

DBR. DBR. What's wrong with me?

Ok now I gotta ask, being a Yank. Is DBM an acronym I don't know about?

BM. Oh. 

What about the "D"?

I actually have a hard time spelling restaurant. I occasionally spell it reastraunt or restaraunt.

21 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

StickyDBRmf is a curious name for a returant...

 

My name is Marty and the restaurant was called Martys Marvelous Mexican Chow. 

My nom de plume here @ BassChat comes from I'm a "Stick" player who tunes Dual Bass Reciprocal and the little "mf" is, just because. 

I'm known by many names...

(female patron) Hey, you guys were really great! Here's $100 for each of you because I had the best time! (to bassist): What are you doing after the gig? Would you like to come to my place?

Rare Earth - I Know I'm Losing You. Wonderful wahwah guitar.

Charlie Parker wrote that tune over "changes" of an older tune (I have no idea) to "scare away" the "amateurs" from getting on the bandstand. It was a whole "thing" called Be-bop. Cab Calloway, a band-leader of the time, called it "Chinese music". It was an intellectual masturbation process that jazz went thru. So these many many many (many) years later, it's still a "standard" to show your chops. Wowie Zowie. 

But I listened to it. I wish the camera was on her for the whole "head" of the tune, it is one acrobatic romp. I am of a certain age where that guy with the de-fretted Fender was rouging around & I was at Berklee and I had a Real Book. I tried. My chops were never THAT good. The tune has interesting chord changes and turn-arounds. It's a good study. 

At that precise time I was venturing into "other musics", and having a hard time with the educators @ Berklee so I left, formed a band with other Berklee Outcasts (now that would be a good name for a band), and got a job as a dishwasher, which eventually brought me to food preparation skills of the caliber to run a successful restaurant with my name on it. 

But never any $$$$$ doing the music I love.

So it was cool to listen to. Once. Made me think, Maybe I should check one of those Kala basses out. It's nice and small and my back might not hurt when I play it sitting down and it's a lot smaller than the Stick...

Then I picked the Stick up. Mumbled along on Donna Lee, and said, "Hey this stick is pretty cool. F*ck the pain..."

Easy to pull frets out of a neck. Neck has to be VERY true to do fretless, but I have done it on two basses. Nippers and soldering iron to heat the frets and they pop right out. Plenty of videos on this.

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe something we could do @ a friends large studio. We have discussed "live" video-casts. Sounds of cassette playing poptones.

That is superb

3 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

The bit at the beginning is that annoying Xmas thing by CacMartney.... 😂

That's not the one. Thank you for a treacly earworm. I bet AI could figure it out if I knew who this AI was. Maybe google "what does this sound like?"

I missed it. I'll light a candle and chew on some carriage bolts.

Playing an any instrument improves brain function. Any doctor worth a hoot will tell you as you age, any activity that involves brain function will benefit your mental and physical health. And the brain literally "lights up" when listening or playing an instrument. Stay positive and you "get good". Pick a heavy bass and an SVT and you won't have to go to the gym either.

She was great. She did an uncredited (at the time) appearance on Zappas Over-Nite Sensation on Montana-the hard part, (I'm plucking the old dental floss...) just read it down. And Ike made sure she was paid. I mean, that part is seriously difficult. 

She was soul, she was rock, she was woman.

Talent and Grace like that don't come around too often.