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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.

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

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.

Can anyone figure out where I've heard this synth line before? Not being "is this new?" snarky it's just bugging me. BTW I like this tune not so much the rest. And the lyrics! (now I'm being snarky)

I am now 65. That said, I had more "chops" in my 20's. I also drank way too much. Which put the love (addiction) of alcohol before music for a long time. Got sober when I was 52. Music came back. I think I have better "ears" (not "hearing") now than my younger years. Musicians hear me and exclaim, "You get it!" I enjoy playing, and I have to PRACTICE to play things I "hear" in my head, and then translate to fingers and strings. But it's freaking wonderful. I'm trying to get "good" every day. If you love it, that's what matters.

Random list of bassists, my influences Chris Squire Alphonso Johnson Paul Jackson Scott LaFaro Percy Jones John Wetton Buster Williams Sara Lee Jah Wobble Tony Levin

What Dan Dare sez. (both posts) I had a J then added a fretless P to my arsenal. I wound up using the P more and more, even for the slapping/popping, that I sold the J (BIG MISTAKE in life under the "general" category). Straight-up tone (or full-out, same thing), roundwounds, fingers. Solid state amp and 12" speakers. I did put a Dimarrzio pu in, but that was 'cause I had changed EVERY PIECE (I wore out the neck) on it except the body, and I figured, "Why not?" and it was cream-colored, so it looked cooler. But the original pu did my best John Wetton, and Stanley Clarke impersonations...

I have a ESP LTD I picked up for $200 US. (I made the store owner throw in a set of strings) It was a STUDENT BASS in the high school. Binged up banged up, neck true, active EMGs. I bought a Hartke bass PJ with paint chipping away with your fingernail, NO STRAP BUTTONS, a tag "$30, as-is". Both pu's worked when I tried it, when I got it home the P shorted out. Neck was dead-straight, pulled the frets out, had me a frettless. (all Jaco, all-the-time). Still haven't gotten around to putting something into the P-hole. Might cut it out a bit a shove 3 Strat pu's in side-ways. Paid $15 for them. Too bad his shop just closed, township wanted to double his rent. Oh, and a Morley Wah for $30.

BTW the crowd noise on Bennie and the Jets is from Jimi Hendrix performance at Isle of Wight.

I don't remember what I was using in my old band to cut thru, but our guitarist called it the "make our ears bleed" sound. Seriously, I think when I wanted to cut through, I would turn on the Morley Wah and "tune" it to a frequency that cut through. It had a "boost", so the wah was a little louder.

Zappa always mixed it up. Sometimes to his bands bewilderment. He went thru a phase where he was calling all the songs in reggae. (You can make any song reggae.) Frank considered what he did "entertainment". You pay to be entertained. I want novelty when I go see a group. I can listen to a studio performance at home. Maybe the exception is Pink Floyd.

Due to a move I am constrained to one Chapman Stick. With twelve strings, I can play as many wrong notes as I need.

"How did you do that?' Haha, it's a secret. Whatever it takes to make music The Chapman Stick has a damper between the X-fret and fret 1, because with all those strings all sorts of stuff would be reverberating. It's tapped with both hands, so you don't have a hand to dampen overtones. But Bob Culbertson (google him) uses a capo sometimes, so I said "why not?" As to questions about what will fit, put yer bass in the boot and go to a music store and try a few out.

I just made myself sick by going back and figuring out what this bass cost new. $250.00 US total w/ hardshell case. It was a Christmas present from mum&dad. With trade of my Fender Mustang guitar orange w/ red racing stripe. I eventually sold it to a friend for $200. Then I looked at what people are asking for in the used/vintage market. Seriously I would like to have one, but it wouldn't be worth more than $500 to me. I know how it played and what it sounded like. I can get that out of my $200 ESP LTD. Nostalgia is weird.

Every player on BassChat no matter what type of music you play. Go right now and check out Gentile Giant. Ray and the band are some of the most articulate and happy music ever played. Brain melting indeed.