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Well. I play the Stick. Not well. But it keeps me off the streets. I'm comfortable with the whole tapping/holding thing so I can play my little tunes/compositions/noodlings and it is quite second nature to me. So I could learn a song or a part if someone were to require one. It has also improved my reach and facility in my left hand. So when I do pick up a bass I play better than I ever did and with more expression. BUT. I have no calluses to speak of. None really required on Stick. So my fingers are raw pretty quick on bass. I would need a little bass wood-shedding to do a bass gig. But it would be doable. When the gigs come back. I would probably be hired for my Stick first, bass when material requires THAT sound. So 2. (Whew). G'night, Chaps!

You lie...and yo breath stank - Infectious Grooves

That bass has an incredible sound.

Funny thing is on the "NO BASS" track I can't un-hear the bass. AND...I've been doing this on Stick for a long time 'cause it was one of the first cool things I could play bass & funky rhythm guitar on. But hearing the isolated bass I'm WAY overplaying...

Aha! I see it. Thanks for the reply before I do something stoopid. You should see the alternatives we Stickists come up with.

Of course he does...

Do you hang your bass off the horn only? I have never seen that before. Please tell me why in detail!

I did get back to the original topic. this isn't a semiquaver/sixteenth note thing, izit?

Sorry you Brits but semiquaver is the stupidest name. Sounds like bowing up for The William Tell Overture.

My main Stick is bamboo - many layers glued together, stays in tune forever, one of the more popular Stick choices. The hardwoods all look cool for all the reasons one would select them, but the substantial debate concerning effect on tone, including Emmett Chapman's, is that the material has none - it's the pickup choice. And that has a HUGE effect. I have to add for anyone unfamiliar w/ the Stick, it's one long neck, no body, all electronics are in the pickup housing. I also have a Danelectro Longhorn bass (Masonite), and you know what they sound like...

As far as threads progress I'm wearing cotton for so long they're wearing out. I guess from washing?

If I pick one, I may fret about it later with my fingers. Anyhow, I'm not slow. I'm not fast. I'm half-fast...

John Miles! I've never heard that! Woo Hoo!

You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Albert Hague composer, Thurl Ravenscroft vocs.

I listened to the studio version the other day then went down the Blake Mills wormhole...Not watching the filmed version, interesting to see how abrupt the conversation veers to equipment (except the hands thing). And then the paronomasia sets in...

Anything James Brown or Sly & The Family Stone. I mean, Make It Funky!

Let's see that new bass! No five strings here, (when I had one it was specificly ordered "high C"), and I would drop to D on the E string. I tune my basses any way I want, I like looser strings, since my main axe is a Chapman Stick, and that goes to A. I have four basses, and I can't tell you if ANY of them are tuned EADG right now...Personally I can't see the point in playing bass and not experimenting. (Uh, oh, someone's typing...)

Sorry for the tragedy but quite enjoying the cat jokes

Aynsley Dunbar!

Poem 58 on Chicago Transit Authority. There's a riff then Terry Kath burns the studio down. At 4:48 a whole different song...and they give Terry another solo!

A silly love song. And it's brilliant. I could kill him

When 5-string basses suddenly become carcinogenic.

Okay I am enjoying Kubix!

Basses on the floor? Seriously?

So I'm a Yank and I can go 5 miles to an open Guitar Center. Sucks, doesn't it? I can go try out an amp They also short-changed me for a trade on a Pedulla 5-string for a JBLEON 515 that I hate to this day. I now have two EONS because I thought it would sound good w/ the Stick. But. etc.,etc.,etc., . Just being a jerk...wah wah wah ignore me please