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Android doesn't even make sense. The old Stickist website went down and I couldn't retreive my old moniker, Martroid, which is what my old guitarist called me - Martroid the Android. So I went with Android and all of a sudden it's a cellphone...I coulda changed it again but What The Fuss call me Marty Stick or Marty Taco everyone else does...

There's 280 pgs. so sorry if this has been mentioned but I heard about this guy and band from a Youtube Rick Beato interview - Plini - Handmade Cities. I listened to "Electric Sunrise" and listened to the whole album

A lot of harumphing and a couple of optimists in this lot. Thanks Dank & Smalls for not piddling on everything out there. I'm 62, most music bores me (especially Stickists, but I can't say that on tapping websites, they'd hunt me down or call me a troll) and my best listening is done in the car, tuned to college radio. I like music that suprises me and makes me laugh (CLT DRP) or is just novel and pleasant and not the same I-IV-V. (not ALL blues is boring. Well, after 57 verses...) So I miss the days of getting stoned and hanging w/ my tribe listening to a new ALBUM that might be a little different but I'm still listenin'...Something that I checked out the other day from a recommendation by Rick Beato (YouTube) was Plini. I LISTENED TO THE WHOLE ALBUM. Unrelated, I have one question to you Brits I gotta ask...Do you actually say "whilst" in conversation? And thanks I got Radio6 bookmarked to check out

I dig the lamp. And that's one of my basses.

Yeah I saw you. I'm AnDroiD over there. Marty. Damn glad to meet you

I was in a band with a 5 piece horn section and we did Chicago, BS&T, Zappa, Stanley Clarke, other stuff w/ horns, and originals. Someone kept asking for Stairway To Heaven. I kept telling him we don't do that. Next set he's screaming Stairway To Heaven!!! so our guitarist starts Stairway, and we go into "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama". He gave us the finger I couldn't stop laughing. I now play the Chapman Stick...be prepared for LOTS of questions. But when someone asks "How do you tune it?" I like to say "With these little thingys up here..."

There are quite a few Stickists in the UK go on Stickist.com and say you're interested in the Stick give yer location and see who bites. You might find one or two for sale or at least someone to invite you over and check it out...we are an extremely friendly (and talkative) bunch and passionate and not secretive at all. We want the community to GROW. And there are a lot of us coming from bass. Strings...Newtone is a good source. SE from California is prohibitive in $$$. And you can ask me anything. I play a 12-string Grand tuned Dual Bass Reciprocal de-tuned a half-step, with the Melody a half-step lower, which really makes it matched. In that the fret markers match. It's weird if you check out Stick.com (the Stick website) the explanation is Melody being a 5 or 6 string bass and the Bass in 5ths "sharing" the common low B string. But for me my tuning makes more sense. Greg Howard experiments with DBR and even shows how to "convert" to DBR from other higher Melody tunings, but does it with a Stick that has no markers and he puts tape "off-set" on the Melody...Like I said weird, or complicated, depending on how you "think" (I'm a bassist, I don't "think" like other people) Anyway, I encourage anyone that likes to play crazy stuff or likes to write but doesn't get on with a guitar or keyboard and wants to march to the beat of a different drummer to check it out...

Thanks guys I'll be putting D'Addarios rounds on soon

I should add the Grand is Dual Bass Reciprocal and it's the only one I play daily...

I had to check to make sure I didn't reply yet. Hope I'm not incorrect. This is what's left, or what's been aquired, in order... Ibanez 8-string, de-fretted with a claw hammer DanElectro Longhorn Re-issue. The cheap, real re-issue, not the one with "better" hardware ESP LTD Hartke Bass P/J w/ burned-out P, defretted w/ a soldering iron (I talked to my luthier this time) Ibanez Acoustic AEB5E-BK 3U-01 (it's a cheap one that was given to me, it's fun to hash around on) And then there are my two Chapman Sticks, one mid-80's Ironwood, and my '08 Bamboo Grand

I keep hearing about Newtones from the "other than USA" Stick community. Stick strings cost a lot of $$$ to ship outside the US.

Why thank you, itu, you have put my soul at ease...

A Helix, an Axe FX, Greenboy speaker cabinets 2 F-110's & 2 F112's, (there's a licensed builder in Bucks County Pennsylvania, right across the Delaware River from Central New Jersey, USA, where I live), some kind of power amps (maybe QSC), and as far as a bass, since that is part of this fantasy requirement, a NS EUB (5-string). But really the first purchase would be a sequestered house w/ barn so my girlfriend and I could get out of our apartments, set up studio for music and painting (she sings & paints). PRIORITIES

On YouTube, Candyrat Records, Yasmin Williams (found her on WNYC Studios / podcasts), Yvette Young (Covet) Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders) and, suprising (to me) Nirvana. I watched one of Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great?" and realized if I hadn't been heavy in my alcoholism, I would have liked these guys. The rest listed are doing interesting/incredible stuff with fingers on strings.( I DO play the Chapman Stick)

D'Addario nickels last forever and have always rocked out for me on any kind of p.u., fretted or fretless (I used fretless in a punk-jazz band and it was FEROCIOUS) and they are reasonabley priced (don't know UK prices, I'm New Jersey USA). Ernie Balls 2nd choice. Again, personally don't dig s.s. and I'm not playing metal (unless I am and then I still like nickel round) and FYI that's also what's on my Chapman Sticks (manufactured specially) and guitars

Hey I got an orphan Ibanez acoustic/electric bass and I'm wondering why not D'Addario nickel round wound, like I have on every other bass, guitar, and Chapman Stick (the string supplier) that I own? What's with the bronze strings? It's not like I'm gonna go to an open mike and play in front of an OPEN MIKE. Anyone give me a reason to put bronze strings on, as opposed to what I'm used to? Am I missing something?

In 1972 I was not into this type of music, and then I heard it EVERYWHERE, but yeah, I hafta admit this tune is deep. Don Mclean, frikkin' poet...

You're answers are the reason most of us don't have jobs

In the early days of my playing I tried different brands, and compositions, for strings, and then I settled into a gauge set by D'Addario and have used them ever since. Funny, I have a DanElectro Longhorn bass, short scale, and when I went to change the strings couldn't find D'Addario so I got GHS Boomers. I couldn't stand them! I think thy are wound in the opposite direction of D'Addario. I found a short set VERY quickly and the Boomers are still in the gig bag. And then, when I got my Chapman Stick, found out Emmett uses D'Addario. They are specially wound for the lower tension. they're nickel also. And my guitars are strung with them. After the initial brightness wears off (all new strings sound like a grand piano) they settle in with a consistency that lasts and lasts...

I've found Tide removes even the toughest stains and leaves my basses smelling fresh. And no need to iron!

All my selections are stuff I adore. I have to add one other album & cut. My second Frank Zappa album (when I was 11) was Weasles Ripped My Flesh. (first was Chungas Revenge) Both bought because of the titles. I liked W.R.M.F. alot better. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque turned me on to E.D. (my favourite horn player). I figured if he deserved a BBQ he must be IMPORTANT. And the title cut, man I wanted to be in a band that had the balls to end a show like that...

Funny. Some thoughts...When I first heard Chariots of Fire by The Bad Plus I was driving in my car and I had to pull over. I never heard a song so eloquently disassembled before (and what bass!). When I had dance parties at The Animal House I could clear the floor with The Mothers "Billy The Mountain". The Art Bears clears rooms faster than Lysol. This Heat. My mother called Steve Hillage "Rainbow Dome Music" "torture music". Music for 18 Musicians can either be life-changing for people, or make them scream. I practice with headphones as to not offend my roomies. I swear I never know what my girlfriend will like or dislike. She seems to enjoy anything I play on thought. And she really likes bass players

Not logged on for a week, and there's NINE PAGES OF SLAP. Haha. And I had to read it all so my opinion would be INFORMED. Notice how I CAPITALIZE to EMPHASIZE. And being a chef (bass playing didn't pay the bills) I appreciate scalpy & the vinegar analogy and R.Jinman "watching popcorn in a microwave". But, THAT'S IT! It's the FIRST kernel that POPS and the waiting the 3 seconds for the LAST kernel to POP that gets me going. My culinary analogy is it's like black pepper. A little wakes it up, too early in the recipe (and too much) and it's acrid. I learned it (70's) I used it, I don't any more (more of a refined tapping/pinging of the strings when harmonic or percussive emphasis is desired)...but I play the Stick more often. So when I pick up a bass, weird techniques pop out. And when I DO a pop. Or a slap. Everyone smiles. I don't know it's like balloon animals

My first bass was a '73 Jazz, off the rack, sunburst (not painted under the pickgard, like Jaco's) maple neck w/ the big black markers. CBS. I sold it after I started playing a P bass frettless. I HAVE NEVER PLAYED ANOTHER BASS THAT PLAYED LIKE THAT ONE but I didn't realize it at the time how precious that m.f. was. That one just fell off the production line into a vat of fairy juice.

Rick Beato is great. His "What makes this song Great?" is great. Jaco was "other-worldly". He didn't take a "bass" solo. Some of his lines were stuff a sax player would be hard-pressed to pull off. At his best no one is better. At his worst - showboat.