Recent content by GlenParks

I think the laughing in this video is completely appropriate. I see it as a lot of fun.

This is it. Thanks Sean.

A while back I saw a video on here of a gentleman playing a thinline upright bass and inserting sticks between his strings... Who? The video? Thanks TB for your help in advance.

I want to second the idea of playing upper and lower octave roots. I'll move from one to the other between A and B parts within a fiddle tune with some passing notes. Length of the note held is an important piece to the puzzle. Learning to work around 'crooked' tunes where there isn't a...

Where in MN?

'Raise action, pull harder, play in tune" Playing outdoors with 5-9 other instruments. These recommendations from TB have served well. Not always true, like anything else here. But fairly sound advice. That said, I wouldn't know how to translate decibel information to practical use in a...

To be honest, it's pretty hard to get me to put on shoes and I have the vericose veins of an aging alcoholic. So I expect it of no one else. No. I don't hide drinks these days. ;) Somehow that would have only made sense to me given the circumstances.

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You know, I didn't see this before posting the other day... But today... Oh Brother, Quantum Entanglement is really something.

So, I've been seeing this thread popping up again and want to chime in. After: EP Weichs EP Slaps Eurosonic Black Eurosonic White Spiro Mittels I've had a Spiro Mittel E 4/4, and Spiro Weich ADG 4/4 on for over a year. Couldn't be happier on a Shen SB88. Not going anywhere.

Sell them and don't look back.

I had the leather ones on from Gollihur a couple years. Recently had them replaced with similar if not same from my bass shop during a check up. Two of them, lower bout, compressed and stayed compressed not putting them past the edge any longer.

1.) Music before it got called Art was incredibly repetitive AND incredibly free, to my knowledge some still is. Because it was used for community purposes and to bring people into a different state, together. 2.) Maybe we shouldn't have ever recorded music... But here we are. IMFO To the...

@Notaluthier Alex Webster on the p bass. love it.