a shrinking bassist. . .

[Rees Chapman]

Uh. . . hi!

I'm a psychologist by trade; my bass-playing is amateur (albeit often inspired) and spans three clumsy decades in folk, bluegrass, rock, R&B, quasi-punk, simple jazz. Suddenly, I'm the primary bassist in an eclectic bluegrass band, and I figure its time for me to learn something useful (like instrument care, bowing) and address some bad habits.

I play a functional but beat-nearly-to-death 1941 Kay O-100 string bass (which I'm hoping to repair and restore, which is why I Googled to this site) and a fretless Gibson RD Artist. I'm more guitarist than bassist, the owner of a new Alvarez acoustic. My daughter is just starting to learn electric bass (giving up the fiddle with the approach of adolescence), and I bought her a Squier, of which she takes much better care than her dad does his own instruments. She's learning Weezer's Beverly Hills and Machine Gun by Hendrix.

Making some online friends would be of interest, too. But I probably won't be a frequent vistor to this forum, so anyone who wants to email me can try winwinsit at hot mail.

Rees