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Good book. Different. Try drinking water if you have a headache.

Strange. Brought up as Catholic so Latin Mass was a first musical sensory imbed. Then switched to English and my Dad was in the choir and I got to sit up in the balcony (with the organ also). We would go home after church and listen to Happy Bernie's Polka Party (he was the band@ my sister's wedding reception years later) and Hungarian Melody Hour. (Mum-Polish. Dad-Hungarian). But in the 60's in the US a lot of TV was Variety Shows. So a lot of...variety. Sis is 7yrs. older than me so heard a lot of Top 40. Four Seasons Beatles (not a fan) Beach Boys (wrong coast, but dug it). THINGS stuck in my head that I didn't understand but blew me away. WHAT IS THAT? Pet Sounds. West Side Story. Handel's Messiah. Wichita Lineman. The King and I. Mary Poppins. The Monkees. Mammas& Pappas (The Wrecking Crew!)

Fast forward to me taking acoustic guitar lessons at age 11 (1969) and my sister coming home from The Jersey Shore with a bunch of 8-track tapes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Best of Cream, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda, Nazz (Todd Rundgren), Sly and the Family Stone - Stand!, and CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY (thank you Pete Cetera) and I PLEADED for an electric guitar - couldn't afford a Strat, got a Fender Mustang! With the Racing Stripe! Orange/Red! And I didn't sound like Hendrix, so traded it in for a Jazz Bass...

Believe me all that still shows up in one way or another. 

Oh, and another thing. Dad bought a Roberts Reel-to-Reel tape recorder with sound-on-sound that had built-in speakers and 3-watt tube amps that became became my first amplifier. And we had a grandfather clock with Westminster chimes that I recorded and slowed down so they sounded like THE WESTMINSTER CHIMES.

That theme became the basis for a song I wrote years later called Space Fusion Jokebook.

And my sister had a boyfriend in Vietnam (he came back) that sent her a reel-to-reel tape of the "White Album" (the only Beatles album I liked) that I listened to w/ headphones. Over. And. Over.

I could run one of the inputs of the Roberts out to the other input for THE BEST FUZZTONE EVER. 

Not an autograph. And maybe I should start a post, "best pick-up line".

We opened for Joan Jett ('81) in a club in NYC, and after our set, I was just sitting at a table, soaked and exhausted, and a girl came up to me and said, "I loved the way you blew the sweat off your nose when you came up to the microphone to sing." And I said, "I didn't want to electrocute myself." And she sat down and bought me a Becks. 

After J.J.'s set, we were able to pack out (from the front) and she was hanging out, smiling away at me. We finished packing the truck, and I remembered a dozen roses had been given to Joan, and they were in the green room. I ran back to the room, grabbed a rose, held it between my teeth, ran out to the girl on the street, and gave her the rose, kissing here at the same time.

She asked me back to her place.

I told the band I would find my own way home...

I've got nuthin' but I had to stay on the page to listen to the residents...

Our band had a competition where whoever made it to the end of the song first, wins.

12 hours ago, DTB said:

I feel your pain. My body is completely flipped due to arthritis which means I can’t play guitar anymore and play bass (which always was my main instrument) and piano when my pain allows. I have quite a few guitars just sitting around the studio and house waiting for my son to grow up and hopefully start playing them. 
I’m also now incontinent due to nerve problems in my back. I’m 53. So all you youngsters out there play as much as you can whilst you can coz you never know how long you’ve got. 
Sorry if that’s too much information, but I’m having a particularly bad and painful day today amd needed to rant!!!!!

I feel your pain also. Back pain, nerve pain, lucky I can "strap on" the Stick and sit, but even that gets too much after a short while - much sooner than getting into "the zone". It's frustrating. But. Small rewards.

Lenor! We use that on Stick strings! Keeps them light and fluffy and no static cling!

I have an Ibanez Studio 8. Yes it's a beast. It sounds like a tractor trailor rolling down the street on all settings and eats all other tones produced by all other instruments. I used to down-tune the higher strings by a fourth and d.t. the E strings to C's and it produced a hybrid super-guitar-bass sound. Removed the frets (and most of the body). I have a photo somewhere I posted it in "Ugly basses".

I had a Yamaha John Patitucci model it was pretty cool. No radius, like a classical guitar. Strange and wide...and pretty cool. My other basses at the time were a Padulla 5-string fretless (high C) and a Danelectro Longhorn. I could switch between them effortlessly. I also had a 10-string Stick, an original Ironwood Classic tuning.

I now play a 12-string Dual Bass Reciprocal Stick. 12 Strings! SnobbySnobbySnobby.

I still have the Longhorn. It hurts my fingers pretty quickly 'cause I ain't got no calluses from playing Stick all the time...

Chef and Musician. Been there and done that. Had a gig the next night and used oxycodone and Becks Dark.

I like Tony Levin's super-compressed sound on Stick. Like on Discipline. Other than that I tend to use a studio-type insert on my PODX3 to "even-out" the many strings of my Stick. There are compressors that deal with different frequencies to allow a more even attack, but I have neither the $$$ nor the proclivities to venture down that avenue.

I have to agree w/ NancyJohnson the stuff that floats my boat is jangly guitar preferably played/sung by wimmen.

OK I'll be 65 in a few days. Do you chaps have I guess you would call it, "University Radio Stations"? We call it "college radio". Small radio stations dj'd by students. That's where I hear stuff that's...refreshing. I only listen in the car. Otherwise I can't sit still.  

I mean...using phaser these days is suprisingly retro. If. You. Were. To.

I'm 100% satisfied with my Chapman Stick. Emmett did a beautiful job, and I am proud to own one he had his hands on.

Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to get my hands on a Railboard...

I used to fashion kicky bracelets and necklaces from the old string sets for my more adventurous paramours. 

Phaser. Not used enough these days. Suprisingly retro. 

On 21/01/2023 at 07:20, wateroftyne said:

fter seeing the recent ‘Too Shy’ video, I had this discussion with some pals.

 

Loads of stuff was dismissed my my peers and I back in the day for being ‘too poppy’.

 

Imagine if pop music was as good as that today?

Oh yeah that pop music in the '80's. What was that dude doing in that group "Japan"?

On 20/01/2023 at 10:18, fleabag said:

Beggs is an awesome basser - i know someone that lives in the same town, and occiaionally bumps into him here and there and always manages a friendly chat.

 

My pal said he was an absolutely lovely human being. He also he was a bit of a joker at times.

 

He has his own YT channel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If anyone wonders why I play Stick...

Nick is great...

I'm not allowed in most of the places they take me back to.

Thought you meant Jimi's version...

12 hours ago, jazzyvee said:

There's too much sploosh on the neck. Otherwise...

OP: No. And Pet Sounds is WAY better than Sgt. Pepper.

Sony MDR-7506 Pro Studio Monitors. I use them for playing Chapman Stick (full-range instrument) and listenin' to music & vids.