StickyDBRmf

Whatever. Whatever. Whatever? Whatever.

Fwap. Bip. Bip bleh. Blahp. Fwieep...

I would not rent that space without me being there the entire time. Too much Nice Stuff and Nice Carpet and Nice Furniture and..

No. Just No.

2 hours ago, How1 said:

Brilliant, it worked! You’re obviously some kind of wizard 😁

 

But seriously, thanks. I would never have known that. I just assumed putting the red wire in the wrong place resulted in flames haha.

That's me with my electronics knowledge. Boom!

I'll make some up for anyone who needs one.

Obvious Knots

Ketchum Snakes

Bewildered Antlers

Oddly enough I just pulled my fretless Stick out of the storage unit. Will attempt (again) making sense out of, in hindsight, a senseless act. (the de-fretting that is)

Have fun with your new bass!

Interesting.

Even the amp is futuristic.

You guys like it? I bought it for the battery function. Chorus is cool but@ 5 watts...Anyone want one? No idea what it would cost to toss it over the pond. Perfect condition, mebe I should wait...until "collectors" get crazy w/ offers.

The back of the Stick is where you really see it! (I knew you were going to say, "Photos!")

Highway Star - OK back to Deep Purple. But that Star Treckkin' thing was great.

My Stick is bamboo. Glued together with a lot of patience I would imagine. And little knots here and there. It's...lumps of grass.

I'm partial to #16

C'mon mates. Show some love. It's been "reliced" for you. 
 

There's too many pages (and controversy) to peruse so I'm gonna say when a manufacturer says it's a "fast neck", the bass is promiscuous?

Just now, Beedster said:

That is no joke, had an awful gig on fretted before Xmas with a guitarist constantly going out of tune and so wished I’d picked up the fretless 🤔

Try being a Stick player. I can tune twelve strings, both sides in tune with each other, and then the guitarist plays a chord.

I have a ten-string Ironwood Stick that had the frets removed. Mistake #1: Unwound strings "tapped" are really difficult to balance with the wound, "bass" tapped notes. Mistake #2: the luthier put fret lines in it. (see previous post)

Listening to Stick players. Mostly boring Stick players.

I really gotta get some music out.

Cool thing you can do on a fretless: hit a harmonic, fret it, then pull it up, or down. Instant Percy Jones. 

Lines throw me off. If I'm looking. I don't know why. I play by ear. 

Also: You can actually be in tune with the guitarist.

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".