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I'm writing these days but when I "paint myself into a corner" I use Todd Rundgren as a pry-bar. Don't actually "write" like him, but as a "OMG! THAT CHORUS! THOSE CHORD CHANGES!", I steal from him-just a way-around-things-that make-me-grin kinda' thing. So I'm writing/learning Martys Mental Hygiene Music. And believe me, it's easier to hear this music than play it.

Ok I have no idea why I like 3rd Secret. Maybe it's a good tune and interesting vocal harmonies. I may be drunk though. Maybe not. Not like I liked any of the bands the first time around.

I should have mentioned one of the Stick teachers with published manifestos calls it Frickin'BEADGooC. Get it? FBEADGC and you ad yer #/b's where you need to as you go round in circles.

We Stick players who are coming from either 4-string or "what's that funny thing you do?" with the standard guitar tuning thingy, the 4ths/5ths is our bible. babble. bubble. THE THING IS. 4ths/5ths. Up the same way coming down. Only in the other direction. Or for that matter, the scales work out the the same way in the other direction.

I had to watch the video to see Sara Lee in the bathtub. I mean, to see what kind of bass she was playing.

Frenetic. Great name.

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.

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.

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.