Recent content by mcgarry

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzwXQGvXgc http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lN4CrJ9lyzE just came across these. don't know if they have been put up on here before, i did a search but couldn't see them. they're great

take a human being ,a bass, place them in a musical vacuum,wait thirty years, what would you find when you returned, probably a partially eaten fingerboard, and a suit with f-hole lapels and a rather snazzy string tie

beethoven was influenced by mozart and studied with haydn,personally to be able to tap into the source of incredible creativity is invaluable,we are so lucky to have records of genius,by score or on cd or youtube,i just don't see how to purposefully not assimilate great musical ideas would be a...

the first comment on youtube "you have got to be shi....g me" .i love that turn of phrase, so expressive, wish i could use it, i've been practising, don't think it works in anything but an american accent, i just stumbled upon really great one i'd never heard "yowsa! when did you sprout them...

wow! dissonant and visually stunning

hi, my last post was abit of a line,so apologies for that,anyways..i feel its not about a simplistic approach versus a lots of technique approach, some people like to make music and some people like to have a masturbatory relationship with their instrument,music is always great and pure and...

i once stroked my ego so hard the damn thing came clean off..Id hurt

Nice of you to take the time to aid a distraught fellow.

Thanks chaps!!

yes matthew, i feel honor bound to go down with my ship

Hi Ehochberg, thanks for your reply, yes i considered the top sinking, i was hoping the strings stretched,i think i'm in denial a bit, i bought the bass eight years ago with all the cracks and splits, taped them up and everything has been good up till now, lucky, i live in a pretty remote area...

Hi, wondering if anyone can help, during the summer i noticed a very gradual lowering of the string height, in the last three weeks the problem has accelerated, now the strings are maybe three or four millimeters above the end of the fingerboard, my bass is old carved, lots of cracks and...