Recent content by BassmanSBK

This problem is easily solved, the way upright players solve it--place your own side dots, based on the specific intonation of the set up (i.e., use a tuner or your ear). I find the white-out is perfect. It's easily removable (just use a pencil eraser), and you can place the dot exactly where...

Bingo. SRV and Clapton are genuine blues, but both catered to a rock crowd. SRV covers in particular are way overdone, and usually played with a square rock beat, instead of the swinging blues beat that SRV actually played. In my band we have a name for rock-heavy blues bands who lean on...

I would take my business elsewhere. A rehearsal space has no right to tell you what music gear you can and cannot use during your time. They have every right to tell you what you can and cannot do to their gear, but not yours.

Abso-freaking-lutly. One of them is a singer, the other a poser. Go with the musician.

Yes. I've actually gigged with one. The Kala U-Bass is a much better implementation of the same basic idea. Better tone, better form factor, better wow factor.

Basically, this. You and the drummer need to be in sync, which is often easier said than done. Just make sure to pay special attention to the drummer, and keep ready eye contact.

Kala U-Bass. I'm not kidding. I use it on blues gigs when it is not practical to bring an upright.

Not to mention the original Telecaster Bass . . .

No one? Not even one?

Just be straight with him. "I noticed that audiences are getting antsy between songs. too much down time. I think that you could get even better reactions if you played 2 or three in succession, then talked with the audience of a bit. then back to quick-fire numbers, etc." Make it about...

Yup. Also--do you have any instruction in technique? In particular, do you understand how to leverage your finger pressure, rather than squeezing with your fretting hand? (Elbow back, lever the bass against your body, light pressure from the thumb.) You just can't grab the neck like you...

Any TBers going this year (besides me)?

Yes, but do you know any writers--great or not--who don't know the alphabet?

Some yes, some no. The problem is not so much the body or neck length, but the tuners. I went several different baritone uke hard cases before I found one that was wide enough around the headstock to accomodate the tuners.

Denny Croy. He manages Mccabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Teaches both upright and electric.