Recent content by bass62

I had an Alembic that was absolutely beautiful but played awful, I sold it but I miss it. I even called the guy who bought it and asked about it (he sold it). It’s like an old girlfriend that completely wrongs you (Did it ask about me?)

I’ve got two basses right now that I KNOW I’ll never play again but they’re unique and I’ll never get what they’re worth in my mind. I always need something different so I have moments of weakness. So here I float… Thanks for the therapy session

That would have changed things. I like Moraz a lot but Vangelis is completely different

I was a Bruford guy, both sound and approach, so when Alan came along I didn’t wanna hear him. He disappeared in “Topograghic Oceans”(not his fault) but when “Relayer” came out I went “Woh! This is great drumming, he found “his groove”. The highest degree of respect for a great musician. That...

I too used to think “but I need a 4 for slap” until one the best slappers I ever heard always played 6. You will have to woodshed for awhile…

The last 30 years it’s been only 5’s and most of the advice here is valid. After being with both I think: Learn the taste that comes along with being a 5er and no one will ever groan when you walk onto the gig.

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After spending over ten years perfecting a sound and approach to performance my group was a Covid casualty. It’s expensive to live in the islands and when places shut down with tourists not allowed to come it got ugly quick. My co-lead vocalist and guitarist moved away to someplace cheaper to...

I partially disappeared from our local music scene for awhile as I took care of my kids. Slowly I began to work myself back into the scene, one advantage that I didn’t see was that it gave me some time to rethink what I wanted musically. More stress free in ways you can’t imagine, and happier...

If anything Verdine is underrated. He gets dismissed cause it sounds easy (a good thing for grooving). Here’s a lesson for you: sit and learn a complete song of EW&F (you pick) note for note. There’s great approach notes and very sneaky subtle key changes that blew my mind. Great arrangers

He will be missed, a great musician who could do anything. IMO the best at phrasing a synth to great guitar solos. Check him out, long career at so many styles

5strings keep that to an extreme minimum, “Oh no I can’t do a 5 string.” Oh well

I don’t want to run on about this but...do any musical project when you start out, even if it seems dumb. Know your job, be professional. I did a college kids demo once that paid me nothing, but the engineer on the project remembered me and called me in to do some jingle work, which led to a few...

To me the greatest loss is writing music for an iPod world. You will never develop as an artist trying to write the best single ever NOW! Gone are the days where you needed 10 songs and hoped 2 might get you noticed, and you worked on your overall concept as a group.

This is a great topic. As an “older musician” now I look back to my early twenties when I played with a drummer whose cymbals were right at my left ear and many times my ear would be ringing after a gig (that ain’t good), so I know I’ve got some loss in that ear. Over recent years I never play...