ChWillie

2017 AmPro Precision 2019 AmPro righty neck / 2017 AmPro body--My favorite of the 3 2012 AmStd Jazz--converted to fretless and really wonderful And yes, I'm a book nerd--was an English professor for 30 years.

I played lefty from the beginning and like many, I flipped the bass and played it with lefty-ing the strings. Same with guitar. Got somewhat proficient and then flipped the strings too. I can play either way, though I prefer, by far, playing with that thick E string staring at me.

Yes, of course. That's one of the attractions to The Beatles. Quite a few songs are meant to be silly and funny, and some of the stuff is just plain naughty--"four of fish and finger pie". Some of it is dark--Maxwell and Bungalow Bill. Even I am the Walrus is comical. And I do love Zappa--The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life is one of the greatest albums of the rock era--the lonesome cowboy Burt stuff is hilarious to those of us who saw that donkey Swaggart get his own. Most listeners now probably don't get the references, but even without, the lyrics are funny. I love humor in music. What I don't like is those who take themselves and stupid macho-ism seriously. It ruins a band like Foreigner for me.