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As a bass player 1st., someone who wishes to play cool rhythm because none of the guitarists I knew, knew how to play rhythm, and someone who wishes to compose without sitting w/ a bass on my lap and reaching over to fart around on a keyboard, plus totally digging the SOUND of a Stick, is why I blindly put down $$$ on an instrument I had no idea how, or if, I could play. You have to be driven, hearing the march of a different drummer, playing on the opposite side of town, in the rain...People do buy the damn things thinking they'll get on with it, only to find it's NOTHING like they expected. These show up for sale from time to time. Unfortunately (for the buyer) the re-sale value is HIGH. YOU HAVE TO BE DRIVEN.

I swear - I have said this before - the guitarist I played with called it the "Make our ears bleed" sound - a Morley Wah AFTER a Big Muff. With a Morley you can effectively "cut" thru a mix by tuning in the frequency. Guaranteed to make tipsy females throw-up (I've seen it) and one girl told me after the set she almost lost her bowels. Edited: I had pedals backwards

Ah. thank you sir that was quick (what time is it over there?) So, I was curious because I use (STOP LAUGHING) a dbx 231. I got it used, cheap, and I use it to "un-bonky" my JBL EON 515's thru a Mackie mixer and I run it balanced after the mixer - the only way it's quiet. The JBL's were bought thinking they would handle the full-range of the Stick. The only way they WOULD sound good is if I added a 70lb. 18" subwoofer...IEM's were what Tony Levin was using the last time I saw Stickmen, and they were LOUD

What is the stereo eq yr using?

Folded Horns...anyone using them?

Yeah, but what about, yeah, but what about, yeah, but what about....

I know this isn't "plectrum vs. fingers" post but when I started out, and I wanted to sound like Chris Squire, and I played Jazz Bass, I used all sorts of picks and they kept FLYING OUT OF MY HANDS. So I gave up and used fingers ever since. And then I found an upright in High School, and then I bought a Chapman Stick. I have a set of metal finger, and thumb, picks, that I explore new techniques with on Stick, never amounts to much. Try everything out there, chaps, nothing is best until it's best for YOU.

My guitarist at the time walked in w/ "Snakecharmer" and said yeah, you sound like Jah Wooble.

Android doesn't even make sense. The old Stickist website went down and I couldn't retreive my old moniker, Martroid, which is what my old guitarist called me - Martroid the Android. So I went with Android and all of a sudden it's a cellphone...I coulda changed it again but What The Fuss call me Marty Stick or Marty Taco everyone else does...

There's 280 pgs. so sorry if this has been mentioned but I heard about this guy and band from a Youtube Rick Beato interview - Plini - Handmade Cities. I listened to "Electric Sunrise" and listened to the whole album

A lot of harumphing and a couple of optimists in this lot. Thanks Dank & Smalls for not piddling on everything out there. I'm 62, most music bores me (especially Stickists, but I can't say that on tapping websites, they'd hunt me down or call me a troll) and my best listening is done in the car, tuned to college radio. I like music that suprises me and makes me laugh (CLT DRP) or is just novel and pleasant and not the same I-IV-V. (not ALL blues is boring. Well, after 57 verses...) So I miss the days of getting stoned and hanging w/ my tribe listening to a new ALBUM that might be a little different but I'm still listenin'...Something that I checked out the other day from a recommendation by Rick Beato (YouTube) was Plini. I LISTENED TO THE WHOLE ALBUM. Unrelated, I have one question to you Brits I gotta ask...Do you actually say "whilst" in conversation? And thanks I got Radio6 bookmarked to check out

I dig the lamp. And that's one of my basses.

Yeah I saw you. I'm AnDroiD over there. Marty. Damn glad to meet you

I was in a band with a 5 piece horn section and we did Chicago, BS&T, Zappa, Stanley Clarke, other stuff w/ horns, and originals. Someone kept asking for Stairway To Heaven. I kept telling him we don't do that. Next set he's screaming Stairway To Heaven!!! so our guitarist starts Stairway, and we go into "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama". He gave us the finger I couldn't stop laughing. I now play the Chapman Stick...be prepared for LOTS of questions. But when someone asks "How do you tune it?" I like to say "With these little thingys up here..."

There are quite a few Stickists in the UK go on Stickist.com and say you're interested in the Stick give yer location and see who bites. You might find one or two for sale or at least someone to invite you over and check it out...we are an extremely friendly (and talkative) bunch and passionate and not secretive at all. We want the community to GROW. And there are a lot of us coming from bass. Strings...Newtone is a good source. SE from California is prohibitive in $$$. And you can ask me anything. I play a 12-string Grand tuned Dual Bass Reciprocal de-tuned a half-step, with the Melody a half-step lower, which really makes it matched. In that the fret markers match. It's weird if you check out Stick.com (the Stick website) the explanation is Melody being a 5 or 6 string bass and the Bass in 5ths "sharing" the common low B string. But for me my tuning makes more sense. Greg Howard experiments with DBR and even shows how to "convert" to DBR from other higher Melody tunings, but does it with a Stick that has no markers and he puts tape "off-set" on the Melody...Like I said weird, or complicated, depending on how you "think" (I'm a bassist, I don't "think" like other people) Anyway, I encourage anyone that likes to play crazy stuff or likes to write but doesn't get on with a guitar or keyboard and wants to march to the beat of a different drummer to check it out...

Thanks guys I'll be putting D'Addarios rounds on soon

I should add the Grand is Dual Bass Reciprocal and it's the only one I play daily...

I had to check to make sure I didn't reply yet. Hope I'm not incorrect. This is what's left, or what's been aquired, in order... Ibanez 8-string, de-fretted with a claw hammer DanElectro Longhorn Re-issue. The cheap, real re-issue, not the one with "better" hardware ESP LTD Hartke Bass P/J w/ burned-out P, defretted w/ a soldering iron (I talked to my luthier this time) Ibanez Acoustic AEB5E-BK 3U-01 (it's a cheap one that was given to me, it's fun to hash around on) And then there are my two Chapman Sticks, one mid-80's Ironwood, and my '08 Bamboo Grand

I keep hearing about Newtones from the "other than USA" Stick community. Stick strings cost a lot of $$$ to ship outside the US.

Why thank you, itu, you have put my soul at ease...

A Helix, an Axe FX, Greenboy speaker cabinets 2 F-110's & 2 F112's, (there's a licensed builder in Bucks County Pennsylvania, right across the Delaware River from Central New Jersey, USA, where I live), some kind of power amps (maybe QSC), and as far as a bass, since that is part of this fantasy requirement, a NS EUB (5-string). But really the first purchase would be a sequestered house w/ barn so my girlfriend and I could get out of our apartments, set up studio for music and painting (she sings & paints). PRIORITIES

On YouTube, Candyrat Records, Yasmin Williams (found her on WNYC Studios / podcasts), Yvette Young (Covet) Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders) and, suprising (to me) Nirvana. I watched one of Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great?" and realized if I hadn't been heavy in my alcoholism, I would have liked these guys. The rest listed are doing interesting/incredible stuff with fingers on strings.( I DO play the Chapman Stick)

D'Addario nickels last forever and have always rocked out for me on any kind of p.u., fretted or fretless (I used fretless in a punk-jazz band and it was FEROCIOUS) and they are reasonabley priced (don't know UK prices, I'm New Jersey USA). Ernie Balls 2nd choice. Again, personally don't dig s.s. and I'm not playing metal (unless I am and then I still like nickel round) and FYI that's also what's on my Chapman Sticks (manufactured specially) and guitars