Recent content by Bebopalamabama

Loads of great advice, thanks for all the ideas and insights. I put on the Mittel from the Spirocore set and it made quite a bit of difference straight away and has improved further since then. I love the organic nature of an instrument like this and they way it matures over time like a good...

I'm gassing for one of the V7 Vintage Swamp Ash-5 or the non-vintage one. If anyone has played both I'm wondering what the difference is? Aesthetically I prefer the look of the non-vintage one and its a bit cheaper. I'm assuming the only real difference is pick up placement so a slight...

"In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines" "Beyond the Palace hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard" "The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive" and the rest of it!

Yes but, the A string dropped to E sounds better than the E itself, so I think more is possible

I'll put the old one back on and see if that gives an indication

I'm completely new to the DB. I bought a Strunal bass from Thomann recently. It arrived with a set of strings that most people think are only 'so good'. However it sounded pretty much OK, and I also ordered a set of Spirocore Weich at the same time as I thought having done research on this...

I interpreted ‘new’ as meaning new to the OP, and the album concerned and others by the band which include a lot of rock covers, hence rock-ish. The Bad Plus were new to me when I heard them 10 years ago, so yes, not new. I may have misinterpreted the OP in my reading between the lines. A...

Started guitar at 12 then bass as an old timer at 15 I think. I was stacking shelves in Tesco at the time and it was another Saturday boy who said I should get a bass and join his band. I had 14 year old groupies and it was legal. My band at 12 was funny, three of us with plywood guitars from...

Reid Anderson and the Bad Plus, love this album with Wendy Lewis

Thanks, I think I'll take it to the luthier next week to get it looked over and get a bow. So far I've tuned it and it does have a really nice sustain.

An exciting day, my first double bass. Apparently made by Strunal, I think it's a thing of beauty. I'm a fretless bass guitarist so I have little idea of how to set up and make it sound good or play this darn thing (other than my research on this forum) but it looks incredibly nice. Let's hope...

The new base iPad is very fast and the benefit is that a lot of music creation apps are available that cannot be easily developed on Android ( I’ve tried :-) ) Although cumbersome I like the big iPad Pro for reading music, I only have the cheapest one but it’s still great even though 2 years old.

Missed opportunity, when I was 17 and getting into punk and jazz my band mates were down the line rockers, which is what we played. One day they asked if I wanted to see Spirit. I didn’t know much about them so I passed. :-( After the gig they told me that the support act was a punk band but...

I almost hate to weigh in here as I'm a newbie at an early stage of learning jazz but the Wikipedia entry on slash chords sums up most of the points on here in a compact way. Slash chord - Wikipedia This thread is great for elaborating on this and the played samples/vids helped my understanding.

Not in my view, I find it to be a bit boring and lacking in character but it has a strong brand so its available everywhere. De gustibus non disputandum est.