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Gong! Although the new line-up is approoved by all PHP's...

I, for one, am a proponent for malarkey and whatnot! Cheers!

You guys had me going. 1976.

I like to play the "below E" ONLY when it makes everyone in the band, and hopefully in the audience, go "OHHH" (with a big smile on their face) AND...I owned a Yamaha 6-string Patitucci Model. And LOVED it. Especially because of the zero radius (it was like my Stick). But I NEVER. Called it a "Yammy".

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers Band

I'll tell you the moments that made me want to sell the Fender Mustang and trade for the Fender Jazz. In my sister's '69 Mercury Cougar convertable listening on 8-track. Sly and the Family Stone - Stand! - Sex Machine. (I want to play that for 13 mins) And Iron Butterfly - Inna Gadda Da Vida. (I want to play that for 17 mins) Larry da Man...All others eat hay

Welcome! All my open mics are odd too!

I would put TWO pickups in...

George Duke - Feel. Oh yeah

Feel - George Duke

So is Marching Band!

The chorus starts off with: "Oh, it's so sad to be mistaken for a Coward..."

Here we go offtrack already...but I love early GONG - Daevid Allen/Steve Hillage Glissandoz Guitar. And what happy trippy hippy music! Now back on track. Some get the bass, some get the mug. Last year my gf got me TWO sets of Stick strings. I know, you're thinking...but when you're on disability and foodstamps, and Stick strings for 12 string DBR go for $68US, it'sa BIG DEAL. And - well, Stick strings last a lot longer that guitar/bass 'cause of lower tension and tapping vs. plucking, but this set is just going NOW. So I'll be changing strings for the New Year. And she's contributed to the re=fret project on the other one!

An Amish saying, found on a doorstop: "We get too soon old and too late smart"

If you can't take full pleasure in the present you may already be imagining being nostalgic for the future!

Actually I'll be taking my mid-80's Chapman Stick to the luthier to have the frets I had removed re-fretted, (fretless was an unwise decision for it, hence "worst" bass decision)). With the $ from the Stimulus Check, from April, haven't touched it. The Sticks have stainless steel fret"rails" these days, mine had jumbo nickel bass wire, what Emmett used from first production till he started playing with s.s. fabrications. My '08 has s.s. "rails". I'll talk w/ the luthier about it. He's well-known in this . neck of the woods and runs a school of guitar repair. I also may check out a Peavey Bass Combo - the relatively "new" Max series...like the 2x10 (or 2x8). I have 2 JBL-EON 515s that I thought would be a great idea for stereo Stick reproduction. It does work, if you're a Stick player that plays kinda "normal"...solo two-handed arrangements of Bach fugues (not that there's anything wrong with that). But for two-handed low-end altercations they just don't cut it. Not competing w/ a drummer and/or guitarist. When the day comes thru to get in a room and throw down, the JBL's won't satisfy. You can certainly HEAR them, but they'r not bass drivers (hence "worst gear" post...even tho it's been years). The only thing that would work w/ the JBLs would be an 18" sub and this 63yr old back ain't doin' THAT. Over-kill anyway. These days backline & line-out. There I've written it down now I'm committed...

He might of caught me poking a box, though...

Quit raggin' on him guys! When you've been playing music, you're in another mental place, you don't remember that the only low ceiling you've ever encountered happens to be your practice room. The double sock, tho not elegant, sounds good. The pipe cover might not stay in place w/out securing but it might stay in place inside a sock. I use "pool noodles" for all kinds of bumper things in my studio (really cheap pipe covers) Are you worried your wife/gf/kids are gonna make fun of your bass? (mine just make fun of my playing). The little hat is the cutest thing, probably get a cheaper one at the pet store. Maybe even with your name on it...talk about ridicule

You lucky devil. And for me this is not something that has developed as I've gotten older (or the result of drinking and drugs, which were in play). And I did well in school in tests. Like, I could "cram" the night before, or, usually, the study period before the test. Ahhh

Aw but it's so purty! (I'm really digging this...how much$$$?

4000 - Fretted. Fretless. The bass range of Stick in 4ths/5ths. And I play harder on the acoustic bass guitar than any other instrument. That was the latest addition to the arsenal. Yeah I sound different on different instruments. To a degree. Then there's cassette tapes of my '80's band in rehearsal space where visiting musicians, or our very accomplished guitarist, would pick up any of my basses - fretless, fretted, 8-string - thru my rig and you knew it wasn't ME.

Robert Fripp being the anal-retentive kept and keeps meticulous journals to this day. To the point of who he's shagged when and where. I think that part was because of his early competitions with Greg Lake. And then Tony Levin likes to take photos so you got one heckuva diary of Crimson '81on.

King for a Day - XTC

So at 12:27 he sucks all the oxygen out of the room and the fire sparks and almost goes out...

Take my word for it Leslie West is unheralded in the US also. And the band. They were a cohesive unit. Only guitarists will cite Leslie, and then, the band. The songs, the performances, studio and live, I mean, c'mon. West Bruce & Lang were decent - look at the particulars - but Mountain? With Felix Pappalardi they ROCKED. Leslie West really played tasty from first note and chords to last. A force to reckoned with, a sound immediately identifiable. THAT'S the definition of greatness. First rock band I was in, as a teenager, we did a lot of their tunes. It took two guitarists to re-create his parts! And we did Mountain's tunes because we loved the band, not because they were popular. (we did a lot of Joe Walsh/James Gang too!)