Recent content by Marcus Johnson

Dibs on Carol Channing.

"What kind of horse and buggy will a double bass fit in?"

What strings would be good for the "inept"?

Most of the curves that have inspired me have not usually been anywhere near a church.

Wow. She's purty.

Super nice guy, too.

I've never heard of anyone oiling wound strings of any kind until now.

I'm bowing with white hair at the moment. I just usually try whatever my bow girl has in her shop at any given time. Last time was a salt n' pepper set, which was really nice.

Here's the thread; http://www.talkbass.com/forum/thread848274.html

I was a duck to water when it came to guts. To be fair, I'd played a gig here and there on gut-strung rental basses on the road. And part of the deal with playing contracted basses is, after awhile, you get so you can make friends with individual setups pretty quickly. Sometimes, just a few...

But that never happens, because we have no frets on our fretless fretboards.

New Standard La Scala... love it.

How 'bout John Wiitala? Is he still there? Great player.

In Irish mode, due to St Paddy's, I suppose. Just finished "A Monk Swimming" by Malachy McCourt... very funny. And I just started "'Round Ireland With A Fridge", by Tony Hawks.

Is Nuno still involved with Velvet? I thought he was no longer with them..but I might be wrong....