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Old 12-05-2012, 06:35 AM
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How NOT to treat your Doublebass...

Methinks Sting can afford a new one though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkLiFuRivzY#t=8m15s

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Old 12-05-2012, 10:07 AM
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Wow! There's a commercial for putting your DB on the floor with the bridge to the wall.

Looks like it will a new set of strings and maybe a nut...
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Old 12-05-2012, 10:48 AM
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OUCH!!! But he kept on singing and playing... Show must go on!!!
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Old 12-18-2012, 10:26 PM
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That's what happens when a double bass is just a prop to add gravitas to your little movie.
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Old 12-19-2012, 09:23 AM
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Sting plays (played?) that DB on other songs on another video, and well. I don't recollect where I saw it - or why?

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Old 12-19-2012, 10:19 AM
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He played a Z Bass in the video for "Every Breath You Take".
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Old 12-19-2012, 08:45 PM
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Crazy hybrid DB/EB technique but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKixtJEjP8w
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Old 12-23-2012, 01:57 PM
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He played a Z Bass in the video for "Every Breath You Take".
He's actually paying a double bass in that video. He played his Z Bass for his MTV unplugged performance. I think it sounds pretty good.

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Old 12-23-2012, 03:22 PM
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Go back to about the 7 minute mark. The DB is there, then it's not there, then it's there... I'm wondering if it wasn't scripted all along.
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Crazy hybrid DB/EB technique but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKixtJEjP8w
"Crazy" as in he has no clue what he is doing with it..
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Old 01-27-2013, 12:49 PM
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Go back to about the 7 minute mark. The DB is there, then it's not there, then it's there... I'm wondering if it wasn't scripted all along.
I noticed the same thing, and asked myself the same question.

Then I realized I've been oblivious/indifferent to Sting for decades; why start caring now?
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