Recent content by billy ayers

darn! well, that's ok. it looks like a killer bass, and must surely sound great. i'm just very used to my fodera's 21mm beastly anthony J spacing, so my brice (at 19mm) is a good backup. 17's a bit tight. but, good luck with the sale! somebody should jump on it.

still available? i'm interested. pm, at your convenience. i have a neck-through brice 6, the zebra, a year old that i set up w/ an allparts bridge for 19mm spacing. could always use another. 1) what model is this one- i haven't seen it on the rondo site. 2) spacing? (19mm as is, is crucial) 3)...

also- jeff berlin is a great player... but i think his opinion about jaco not cutting changes was shaped by a jam they did, that occurred a short while before jaco's passing. jaco was in very rough shape all around. had that exchange occurred in, say, '76, i think ol' jeff would be thinking a...

belated thanks for your excellent research!!!!!

if nobody's mentioned it, a huge part of phil's approach is rhythmic.. he offsets the "one" more often than not... bobby does the same, and that has helped build the dead's unique architecture to a large extent.

Havona. indeed.

great eccentric-looking board! and a truly great, boundary-pushing player.

my 2 pesos- tats are as old as the human species- mine are for personal, time-honoring reasons- chances are, so are yours- they look great on some of us, dumb and trend-whore on others of us- tat artists vary INSANELY in terms of work quality and actual draftsmanship ability- don't get...

this is definitely one of the most intriguing and well-thought threads in a while. all comments about hadrien's and etienne's game-changing chops and polar-opposite ensemble roles have been articulated in smart, humane fashion. it seems to me that hadrien's playing is often so ferocious, so...

'The Following Morning' album is remarkable. i got it when it came out, and it's still on my monthly playlist... there's a very cool long semi-silence at the top, with the players rustling in the cavernous ECM aural environment, then the 1st track arrives with an awesome initial sustained chord...

yeah man.. all of '76 is liquid gold, jaco in his total prime. chicago mike's trio suggestion is fantastic (called TRILOGUE), as it has jaco in a very sparse setting (T-bonist playing multiphonics, bass, drums), at berlin jazztage festival, playing really interesting, "free but direction'd"...

zoom h2, hands down. $141 on B&H site. we record all our stuff, from solos to large-scale including industrial high-volume experiments, and it's all brilliantly rendered live recordings that are post and compilation-worthy. it has mono, stereo, and quad (2 front 2 back channel) recording...

meth lab is our theater space!! "methodology laboratories"! not the drug. i shoulda made it clear(er). but thanks to both of you for genuine concern. appreciated.

there's a brice custom-made z6 that's 34" AND 19mm that's in the basses for sale area- scrolll back a few pages... this is a cool inexpensive instrument with rare specs at a great price. i have to wait until our meth lab profits kick in after the initial outlay, otherwise i'd a' bought it 2-3...

colcifer!!!! my hero!!! man o man, thanks a bunch for those pics.. just when ya think there's not enough real Doom in the world.. ... and, truth be told, they never matched that post-Wall power, no matter how much Healy & Cutler optimized the later specs.. a DOOM-Y ERA, indeed...