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And Michael McDonald and Ray Charles.

THAT guy can SING. Saw him a season ago or so ago on Masked Singer and you know what? He's STILL got it. He's lost nothing vocally to the years. He's aging as are we all but man he can still seriously sing a song!!! I was amazed. I've always been a fan of his.

There are many others but my top 3 are: Jaco Rocco Marcus I will also mention a couple of maybe lesser known cats at least to some: Nate Phillips John Mazzocco

In addition to my other post, if you get a slot at an event or a blues jam or charity thing or something besides an actual hired club or concert gig, and they say: "play for a half hour" or "you've got 45 minutes" or whatever it is, that's also "a set". If you do good and people dig it they'll...

A set back in my day (been awhile back now) in the club scene used to be an hour. Play an hour or so. Break 20 to 30 minutes. Play another solid hour or so. Break 30 minutes. Play till they told you to stop. Go home. It varied/was somewhat fluctuating depending on whatever but that was the...

Tort. That's what I always say because that's what I almost always like. BUT, as an alternative, there's was this other thread here today that I can't locate now where this person posted a cool greenish PG. With the red bass and natural fretboard, the addition of a greenish pickguard would be...

Really nice. Screaming to be torted. Nice bass.

Tempting but I can't stand painted headstocks.

Absolutely loved it when Natalie Cole dueted with her father Nat King Cole on a big screen behind her in concert. Sadly, she too is deceased now. Loved them both. Still do of course. Thank goodness for recordings.

Tort. No question.

Per the above post...........I saw Emily once many years ago in a Pittsburgh jazz club. I don't recall there being a cover or anything to get in even. She was great.

I keep going back to page one/post one to drool over that bass. Agreed........turquoise and tort are a fire combo. Now I have GAS for one. The list of things tort does not look great on is a rather short one but that turquoise with tort is just brilliant. Like make that image my new screensaver...

Gak it's too hard without a miles long list developing. If forced to keep it shorter the first several that come to mind? Robben Ford Chris Cain Larry Carlton Billy Gibbons Sean Costello George Benson Freddy King Stevie Ray Vaughan Jeff Beck Al McKay Bruce Conte Lee Ritenour Norman Brown Nick...

It's so funny you said that. My first thought was: 21K and no tort? I would slap tort on that first thing. They can't even install the proper pickguard for 21K???

Jaco was just amazing when he wasn't trying to do weird solos. OK some of that was good too but when he just played and grooved, man, killer. Groove monster.