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Post by ninworks on Jan 2, 2020 7:36:22 GMT -5
Just sayin. For all of the 4 and 5 string fat bottomed instruments who may feel their 6 and 12 string cousins get all the attention. Daddy loves you too.
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matryx81
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Post by matryx81 on Jan 2, 2020 9:11:24 GMT -5
I have an 8 string fretless that guitarists don't seem to love.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 2, 2020 11:13:09 GMT -5
In concert with our feral friends beatin' the skins, we lock in the groove: without us, there is nuthin'.
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Post by Laker on Jan 2, 2020 12:00:53 GMT -5
Those six and twelve stringed cousins can quit playin' during a song and the dancers/audience doesn't really notice it, but if that bass stops playin'...
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Post by hushnel on Jan 2, 2020 12:01:26 GMT -5
Back when I first started playing, 1964ish, playing bass was in crazy demand. We moved every three years and other than Pittsburgh it was like every new state, country or town was just waiting for me to show up. There was no band without a bass player. The band either sucked or not, depending on the bass player. Sure we let the guitar players and singers think their is no band without them, but soon they discovered how easily they are replaced. Back in those days, often the bassist was the guitar players little brother. The kid wanted to play guitar but his brother or brothers needed the bass. Not me, after playing violin for a couple of years and a couple weeks on the cello I was put on the bass, it was a revelation. Even Victor Wooten was that kid, the youngest of 5 and they needed a bass player, they started him at the age of 2. Likely the only brother of Victor that some may recall, played with him in the Flecktones. “o) It’s the foundation, no structure exists without a solid foundation. We may be the last or even the consolation prize when it comes to attention and groupies but your girly haired skinny singer ain’t got nothin’ compared to us pillars of the song. “o) I can’t say I was born to be a bassist, but it is in my blood. 1965 Wiesbaden Germany
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Post by BluzLvr on Jan 2, 2020 12:41:44 GMT -5
Howdy Folks!
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Post by themaestro on Jan 2, 2020 12:56:23 GMT -5
Amen, Hushnel. Some people are born to be bass players. As a kid, I started on accordion. I was always wishing the bass buttons were louder. Our console stereo always had the bass knob turned all the way up. In high school, I messed with guitar a bit, but it didn't really interest me that much. I never progressed past my beginner acoustic. When I hit college, in 1970, I was playing trombone in the stage band. The music dept had a Danelectro bass and a Fender Bassman head and 2-12 cab that someone had donated. That was it! I was still playing trombone in the stage band because they already had a good bass player, but I became the #2 guy (small school, LOL) for other little bands and small groups.
When I listen to music, I'm mostly listening to the bass and drum groove. All the other instruments and lyrics are incidental.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 2, 2020 13:11:26 GMT -5
"Wow, SRV played 13s?!! How did he do it?!!"
*eye roll*
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Post by hushnel on Jan 2, 2020 14:13:08 GMT -5
Hey Rob, glad to see ya make it over.
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matryx81
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Post by matryx81 on Jan 2, 2020 14:16:23 GMT -5
Back when I first started playing, 1964ish, playing bass was in crazy demand. We moved every three years and other than Pittsburgh it was like every new state, country or town was just waiting for me to show up. There was no band without a bass player. The band either sucked or not, depending on the bass player. Sure we let the guitar players and singers think their is no band without them, but soon they discovered how easily they are replaced. Back in those days, often the bassist was the guitar players little brother. The kid wanted to play guitar but his brother or brothers needed the bass. Not me, after playing violin for a couple of years and a couple weeks on the cello I was put on the bass, it was a revelation. Even Victor Wooten was that kid, the youngest of 5 and they needed a bass player, they started him at the age of 2. Likely the only brother of Victor that some may recall, played with him in the Flecktones. “o) It’s the foundation, no structure exists without a solid foundation. We may be the last or even the consolation prize when it comes to attention and groupies but your girly haired skinny singer ain’t got nothin’ compared to us pillars of the song. “o) I can’t say I was born to be a bassist, but it is in my blood. 1965 Wiesbaden Germany View AttachmentFrank Zappa had a funny take on this topic that isn't too far removed from your post.
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Post by bassjack on Jan 2, 2020 16:48:52 GMT -5
Here's to us bottom dwellers...always looking up!
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Post by Laker on Jan 2, 2020 18:06:19 GMT -5
Hey Rob, glad to see ya make it over. I’ve always been lurking in the background....
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Post by windmill on Jan 2, 2020 21:43:16 GMT -5
Wont get rid of me that easily
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Post by LTB on Jan 2, 2020 22:04:50 GMT -5
"Wow, SRV played 13s?!! How did he do it?!!" Wondered that myself. Just playing them for any length of time wears me out but for him to play them with not only good tone and technic but lightning speed too was incredible!
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 2, 2020 22:31:18 GMT -5
That was actually intended as facetious comment, given the bridge cables we contend with. Yeah, I know guitar technique vs. bass technique is pretty much apples-n-oranges...but still: hand your bass to a non-bass playing guitar player, sit back and wait for them to start complaining about the string size.
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Post by Tom(2) on Jan 3, 2020 2:56:38 GMT -5
Wont get rid of me that easily whoa nice. How does the PJ combination differ soundwise from the JJ? I have the upper modell, but in red, and I really like what's coming out of it. the 'active' and 'in series' engaged is almost too heavy for anything, tho Did you upgrade the bridge on the black one?
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Post by LTB on Jan 3, 2020 13:08:13 GMT -5
That was actually intended as facetious comment, given the bridge cables we contend with. Yeah, I know guitar technique vs. bass technique is pretty much apples-n-oranges...but still: hand your bass to a non-bass playing guitar player, sit back and wait for them to start complaining about the string size. Yes sorry lol, with a set of 13’s on a guitar it is the higher tension 1’st, 2nd and 3rd strings that bother my fingers and thus where my mindset was. .125’s on my 5’r is the largest I can deal with. As I get older .100’s are my go to string size
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Post by MacDoof on Jan 3, 2020 13:54:14 GMT -5
Some of us String both ways...I have played bass almost as long as Ive played guitar. Plenty of bass love here. 105's are my fave guage.
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Post by BobbyMac on Jan 3, 2020 15:09:24 GMT -5
I am a firm believer that THEE most important components in a band are the bass player and the drummer.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 3, 2020 15:35:49 GMT -5
"As I get older .100’s are my go to string size"
Same here: I put 45-65-80-100 D'Addario Chromes on everything. Switched from guitar to bass (pretty much exclusively) about 6 years due to arthritis issues. Guitar strings feel tiny and too close together to me now.
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Post by rwb on Jan 3, 2020 17:18:00 GMT -5
Hello everyone, glad to see this rising from the ashes of the late great FDP....
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Post by MacDoof on Jan 3, 2020 18:43:06 GMT -5
"As I get older .100’s are my go to string size" Same here: I put 45-65-80-100 D'Addario Chromes on everything. Switched from guitar to bass (pretty much exclusively) about 6 years due to arthritis issues. Guitar strings feel tiny and too close together to me now. You should try jumping over to mandolin after playing a Jazz Bass Lol!
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 3, 2020 19:07:10 GMT -5
Yipes!
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Post by LTB on Jan 4, 2020 5:26:42 GMT -5
"As I get older .100’s are my go to string size" Same here: I put 45-65-80-100 D'Addario Chromes on everything. Switched from guitar to bass (pretty much exclusively) about 6 years due to arthritis issues. Guitar strings feel tiny and too close together to me now. You should try jumping over to mandolin after playing a Jazz Bass Lol! Lol 😂 Now your talking some seriously tiny. I tried a Mandolin last year and handed it back after 3 strums 😳😉
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Post by hushnel on Jan 4, 2020 10:35:39 GMT -5
You get used to it, I go from the 34" scale to the ukulele's 12" scale from one tune to the next.
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Post by garyweimer on Jan 4, 2020 11:12:53 GMT -5
I had to give up playing about 5 years back. My car accident in '81 has finally caught up to me, and I can only hold a bass for about 5-10 minutes before I lose all the feeling in my left arm. I still have a couple basses, including this one that I sort of designed. Mahogany body Novax fanfret neck Lollar pickup Hipshot Ultralite tuners w/drop D
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Post by hushnel on Jan 4, 2020 14:58:25 GMT -5
Is it the angle of the elbow, the wrist or standing with the strap and weight of the instrument? It sucks,
I’ve had my share too, a fused radial head and 50% paralysis of the right arm and shattered my left hand in a motorcycle accident back in 2012. Doc told me flat out I’d never play again. Much to his surprise within 4 moths of the accident I was sitting in with my old buddy Albert Castiglia at the High Dive in Gainesville, sent the Doc a link to the YouTube video that some guy put up catching this jam.
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Post by garyweimer on Jan 4, 2020 16:34:45 GMT -5
Is it the angle of the elbow, the wrist or standing with the strap and weight of the instrument? It sucks, I’ve had my share too, a fused radial head and 50% paralysis of the right arm and shattered my left hand in a motorcycle accident back in 2012. Doc told me flat out I’d never play again. Much to his surprise within 4 moths of the accident I was sitting in with my old buddy Albert Castiglia at the High Dive in Gainesville, sent the Doc a link to the YouTube video that some guy put up catching this jam. Well, my arm was snapped out of the socket in my accident, basically breaking part of the parts that hold the shoulder in place. I have only had about 80% use of my arm since. There is a nerve getting pinched somewhere. It also happens as I sleep, and go about my day. I had just regained use of my arm only about 1-2 years before the photo in my avatar.
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Post by hushnel on Jan 4, 2020 16:41:48 GMT -5
Have your tried anything like an arm sling to take the weight off the shoulder? When I’m playing in my living room I rest my fretting arm on the arm of my chair, it takes a lot of weight off mt shoulder.
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Post by hushnel on Jan 4, 2020 16:46:00 GMT -5
This is almost embarrassing, after the instruments were all put away I noticed I forgot an Ibanez.
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