EssentialTension

For anyone who hasn't seen it ...

I corrected it for you.

Didn't Dino Danelli become the fake Paul after McCartney's death? It would explain why the drumming is so good on the first McCartney solo album.

Sometimes it's a McCartney thing, but if not Macca then it's Ringo usually.

Solves a problem that didn't and doesn't exist.

The B:assmaster is fantastic but not cheap ... then again it's much cheaper.

Looks ok to me.

A good drummer is familiar with the use of brushes and beaters as well as sticks.

Open string notes are four notes (or more) that are available in all positions. I don't understand why one would never use them.

Some material of possible interest here: Fender stock bass strings in the 50s/early 60s

... it seems neither did anyone else.

Bridget Kearney previously played with Joy Kills Sorrow ....

Good idea.

Tension (at a particular pitch and scale length) is dependent not on gauge as such but on mass per unit length of string ... and mass per unit length of string depends on nature of construction, not merely on gauge. Hence, the same gauge but different construction can lead to a different tension. Gauge is not a measure of tension.

Dying words: when musicians turn their last albums into self-eulogies

I regularly played through a MAG300 and two 1x15" cabs between 2004 and 2009. They sounded good to me and never broke down but some people don't like them. You'll have to decide for yourself.

And in the 1070s, Alan Tarney was bassist with The Shadows following John Rostill's death.

Oops, double post.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1503847215' post='3361157'] Thanks Dave, will check those links out this evening. [/quote] By the way, parental advisory on some of the lyrics ...

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1503484261' post='3358561'] They should familiarise themselves with: Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass Puretone - Addicted to Bass Theme from "Seinfeld" Because when they tell people they are a bass player, the first question nearly every faft ducker will ask is, "ooh, are you [i]all about that bass[/i]?" A smaller subset of people may instead ask, "so are you [i]addicted to bass[/i], wha-oh-wha-oooh?" In either case, they will probably grin inanely in the assumption that they are the first person to have ever asked a bass player that question. And when people see them carrying their bass guitar, a large number of them, having got past the two obvious questions above, will then ask, "ooh, can you play the thing from 'Seinfeld'?" Possibly while doing air-slap-bass in a manner not unlike Alan Partridge. [/quote] I'm unfamiliar with those three pieces and I have never been asked questions about them in 45 years - perhaps I need to get out more.