EssentialTension

... and correct me if I am wrong but aren't some of them in prison?

What do you notice about the original bassist?

I'm reminded of my son, then aged ten, giving a guitar and voice solo performance in primary school of David Bowie's 'All the Madmen'. Now he's twenty-five and running a music and arts venue.

24KitchenStreet is a music and arts venue in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle which is threatened with closure as a result of developments next door. Any donations to help the fight are much appreciated (or merely sign the petition). I declare a personal interest in that one of the organisers is my son. https://www.facebook.com/24kitchenstreet https://www.gofundme.com/f/save24kitchenstreet

I can beat that ... four streets away. 😖

Let's hope so.

My great-niece wanted to learn guitar. She's left-handed and left-footed at everything. I told my niece to get her a lefty guitar. Left-handed guitar arrives. Great-niece insists on playing it right-handed. 😞

... and a 21-fret Fender Coronado neck, a Guild harp bridge, and Seymour Duncan lipstick Stratocaster pickups. And the colour was Ocean Turquoise Metallic

Lane's Zemaitis bass ...

... and Balboa Park 1967 ...

This is a Jazz bass with flats and a pick ... check out form 2:19 onwards ...

Like roundwounds, flatwound strings differ a lot depending on manufacturer. There may be even more variation than between those roundwounds. There'll also be the differing subjective experience of the player and differences emanating from one bass or another. Some examples: a Rotosound Jazz flatwound will never feel like a TI Jazz flat; the La Bella 1954 set is hardly like GHS Precision flats; Ernie Ball Cobalt flats really do not sound like Pyramid Gold flats. But, I'd say, whichever flatwounds you decide to try, you'll always need to give them a little time to settle in, to find out how they will actually feel, how they will actually sound. A couple of months should suffice. 😏

Jack Bruce too appeared often to be using mainly one finger.

Wes Montgomery too ..

If he doesn't like how you play he should never have given you the job in the first place. I commonly use just index finger ( and a second finger only if I really need to). Otherwise I'd reserve 'two fingers' for the guitarist.

Jet Harris, then Paul McCartney, then the Stax guy and the Motown guy, whose names I didn't know.

If those are both 34" scale instruments then the frets are identical distances apart. 17" from nut to centre of 12th fret. You need a tape measure not a photo taken at an angle. If they aren't identical then you've been sold a pup.

This might interest some of you ...

I suspect I may have owned (and worn) the purple pair in 1968.

But do you have the trousers?

With the Osmonds it ain't just the bass player ...