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12-17-2007, 03:53 AM
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I was Reading that James Jamerson did this. Please tell me what does this accomplish?? |
12-17-2007, 03:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | they taste better. |
12-17-2007, 04:01 AM
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12-17-2007, 04:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Philly Stress  I was Reading that James Jamerson did this. Please tell me what does this accomplish?? | It makes your strings sound dead. Really dead. |
12-17-2007, 04:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | Not sure why Jamerson would need to do this. He had La Bella heavy flats on his bass, and an hour or two of playing would get them as dead as they are going to get.
I have read of a studio player (Tommy Cogbill?) putting Vaseline on his fingers so he could play faster. Maybe this is where the story comes from? |
12-17-2007, 04:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Watertown, NY | | | Jaco would eat greasy KFC chicken before playing.
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12-17-2007, 04:13 AM
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Originally Posted by L.A. Moore Jaco would eat greasy KFC chicken before playing. | that is a lie. |
12-17-2007, 04:29 AM
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12-17-2007, 05:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | | I like KFC chicken. |
12-17-2007, 11:05 AM
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12-17-2007, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Rochester, NY | | I soak my strings in melted cheese. Nacho cheese.  |
12-17-2007, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In the clouds | | | Jaco did not eat chicken b4 playing,i have the jaco modern electric bass dvd, he is asked about this and said he just made a joke. DO NOT SOAK STRINGS IN BUTTER, or grease. nothing good can come from it, you want slick strings get ghs fastfret
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12-17-2007, 01:39 PM
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12-17-2007, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Philly Stress I was Reading that James Jamerson did this. Please tell me what does this accomplish?? | It will "accomplish" getting your strings gunked up in a hurry, so that they will rapidly attract all manner of dirt and grime that will then lodge between the windings - thus causing the strings to fail to resonate properly, fail to intonate properly - and ultimately, fail to function properly at all.
Is that what you were looking for? 
MM
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12-17-2007, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by zac2944 I soak my strings in melted cheese. Nacho cheese. |
This guy has the cheesiest bass lines in town!
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12-17-2007, 02:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Maryland, USA | | I don't like butter on my strings. I'm a margarine man.  Quote:
Originally Posted by Philly Stress I was Reading that James Jamerson did this. Please tell me what does this accomplish?? | |
12-17-2007, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by lug This guy has the cheesiest bass lines in town! | Ha!!!
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12-17-2007, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticMichael Is that what you were looking for? | The question is: Is that what Jamerson was looking for?
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12-17-2007, 03:54 PM
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eh id say its pretty sweet
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12-17-2007, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jasper383 I have read of a studio player (Tommy Cogbill?) putting Vaseline on his fingers so he could play faster. Maybe this is where the story comes from? | that would screw with the tone and possibly the finish of the bass. there are better ways to play fast.
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