Recent content by Doctor DC

This reminded of this.

Mention Ginger Baker, if that man can use his jazz background to be a great rock drummer, well then there should be no problem!

We played (or rather, auditioned) at a bar this past Monday night with a fill-in for our drummer and the manager liked us enough to offer us a chance again to play another time soon. I tell the guitard that I won't be able to play this week due to the fact that I have a church retreat to attend...

Hahaha it's okay, I figured as much! I thought it was too good to be true. When I sent a question asking to hear a demo of the bass, the guy responded, "this is local pickup. why don't u come play it. thanks!" Sketchyyyy

I want to get into double bass, however since I'm coming from electric I figured I would start out with something simple. I did a little bit of research of double bass in general while at the same time looking through ebay. I found one that is very cheap ($430 US) and is only a few hours away...

First off, I would like to say hello to everyone as this is my first post! I wasn't sure where to put this, so I posted this here in the General forum. Anyway, I would like to know how to get a Jazz tone out of my Jazz Bass (and amp). What's a "standard" jazz tone? What are the different...