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U do know RS is marketed at 12 year olds.? Kind of obvious. I can name a good handful of schooled American drummers that can smoke that entire list. Off the top of my head Gregg Bisonnette...He can play and sound like any other drummer and has played with everyone... but hes oldish and RS have probably never heard of him.

Could never get Chics Everybody Dance.. Rythmn Stick no probs, but EB Dance....nope. It was never often Id have a band leader constantly looking in my direction...

Agree with the OP. You had to be there as a teen to understand what an original entity he and his music was. Unlike today his image and sound was utterly original and in some way futuristic almost. Its also important to know too that it was all put together by the Chinny Chap guys, the tunes, the sound even the image, everything...But as for Gadd as a person without the Glitter outfit? ....evil beyond words.

Just saying I got a dirty grt red warning for a heck of a lot less than Im reading above...just sayin. Anyway. Which ever way you swing...Sitting down ain't R&R cause R&R is the domain of the young and beautiful who look great jumping about wide legged and pouty. When I'm on stage Im just a craggy old bloke playing what ever pops up on the pad....totally different thing so sat, or stood, it probably matters not a jot either way.

65 thru 76. Recorder @ Primary school, Fiddle in Middle School orchestra.. (first chair no less... haha) then relentless study @ High School cause apparently I... "had something"...but my old pensioner tutor was dusty, fussy and hard work, no wonder I went off the rails..

I'll leave the hate for the politicians but Ive never been drawn to any other bass other than P basses and Rays, tried Jazzes once...nope.....A bass has to hang comfortably on the strap and sit well, and they do..plu they both sound solid.

Thats it then, I'm sunk without trace. CV 70's P bass wearing 20 yr old 'Dodo' dead chromes.....said nobody in 43 yrs of playing...haha. There's way too much over thinking here of something that at the end of the day is not an issue to anyone really.

Lets keep this thread tasteful, and decent, I find it neither when Jaco is brought into the yadda yadda. I mean to all of the above....who are you all?.. more famous and relevant then JP?..I doubt it very much. He came up with a style on "four strings", cause he couldnt get his hands on five, that everyone today is influenced by....even the ones who say they're not.

Sure is. I spent my playing life entertaining people in clubs, shows, TV etc. There's plenty for all.

S'funny these threads always end up going one way don't they... A sense that if u play five you are superior in some way to us lowly operators stuck in four banger land. It matters not a jot to me but its really noticeable.... not sure what to make of it really.

Five, four, one, 37, none of it matters. All that actually matters is.. whatever you play does it make people wanna party? Thats it. Personaly? Four strings have never let me down....

A good mid heavy tone will naturally sound grindy. Never used pedals pre amps or anything, always cut thru.

Def in the early years but as a 15 yr old, timing was terrible. Just about to do grade 6 or 7 on the fiddle and some bloke called J Rotten and his merry bunch came into view. That was it, bye bye vioilin and hello Fender P bass and me thinking " I wanna be like them", and its taken me 40 odd years to get back into the classical thing. No point with regrets, Punk was the sunny uplands Id been looking for and it was a revelation and it enabled me to have a great life as a semi free time bassist. Im now 64 , did my last dep five yrs ago and started Cello two years ago.....another revelation and having a ball... flippin hard work tho. Bet yeas Its important that I acknowledge the chance I was given at school.. and of course back then it was all free.

Haha takes me back. A hotel season on the IOW. Three Penguins and a female singer in a gold larmay jacket...Sure we looked the part.. but what part exactly? A bunch of 1920's gangsters I bet. Still got the set list...all those early 80's Disco stompers....happy days.

A tall music stool is actually pretty cool. Remember that early 70's ToTP's TV icon?..However I'd be most miffed if I'd payed to c the Pistols only to find them sat on their whatsists, shudder the thght.