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If you're into this sort of thing, I watched this documentary on Charles Mingus the other day (9 youtube vids)

I once saw a band - The Flametrick Subs - a psychobilly band, and their bass player was ripping these super fast rockabilly slap grooves on a DB. It wasn't til halfway through their set that I realized that his fretting "hand" was a stump. That guy just outright owned! I also talked to him...

Thanks guys- I recently started learning the bass. I'm going through the lessons at studybass.com. I've got up to the part about roots, fifths, and octaves. Hearing things like makes me think that I might just get the hang of this thing yet Who knows, one day I may even join a band.:bassist:

I remember seeing The Melvins/Babes in Toyland way back in the mid nineties. It was a fairly small venue (club) and the sound was killer. The Melvins could make your skull shake and make you like it. :) The funny thing is, I later bought the albulm "Prick" and one of my friends that had gone...