Recent content by peekster

Hello, friends! - I apologize if this in the wrong forum. I almost forgot a date of personal significance tnat I thought might interest you. Forty years ago, as measured by these past months in December, January and February, I was performing with the Stere Morse Band [version 1.1], touring as...

My friends - I realized just now that I need to correct a previous statement. From my initial response above, I meant to say this: "I recorded most of the "Introduction" parts in a Tampa, Florida studio whose name escapes me [actually the studio was called "Morrisound" - very competent and...

Wow!! - I find myself responding here in the future!! - well, compared to where we were, at least... To poster toowrongfoo just above, and all of you here, I must address something about this: the bass on which I recorded the entire 'Cruise Missile' track is long gone - it mysteriously...

BillMason-- you're catching on.

Ah yes, once again the P-bass cult rears its head. I've commented before. "Is there anything the Precision bass can't do?" Yep--can't give me 80% of the sounds that I would want heard by an audience. But again, I encourage all other players to spend all your disposable income on those...

Sorry I took so long to respond. Several things were involved, really-- First, the simple and inescapable physics relationship of pitch, scale, and string tension: longer pitch means higher tension to achieve the same pitch. Directly to your question: this is always a culprit, whether or not...

Your last question [reassuring wife about groupies] is easy: invite her to gigs. The J-bass idea is probably the right track--hard to go wrong with a decent one. What I think is most striking nowadays is the amazingly good values in basses available. It's like heaven for people like us [I'm...

Local schedules may vary, but Bob Edwards is interviewing Victor Wooten right now [12:13PM Sunday] on PBS station WABE in Atlanta. Edwards's show is always interesting--I listen every week

...stunning. Thanks for sharing that.

Lone dissenter here, I guess. OP: you shoulda stayed with 34". I made the 35" mistake with a Modulus 6, struggled for years to lose the 'twang', and finally learned my lesson. Result: I'm back to the fat sound--no complaints about my low notes, live or in studio. Even more important, it's...

Old school: Weather Report's [pre-Jaco!] album 'Mysterious Traveler'; song is 'Cucumber Slumber'--which every one of you should listen to anyway for its killer sliding groove lick in E, plus the super-funky stuff in C#, which goes to wah pedal maybe halfway thru the tune. Don't even think...

Good intontation! I'm impressed. --on the other hand: this tune is all about Dorian mode, and I didn't hear a convincing grasp of that. And the tempo jumped noticeably after the intro chorus. Try running the whole tune with metronome or drum machine playing only 2 and 4. B minus.

'Handarbeit"--hand work, hand made "aus Mittenwald"--from the Central Forest, or something similar "Bayern"--Bavaria [southern Germany; beer & mountain country] Sounds like you've got the real thing there.

"Cons A) Technical ability falls short of finger style B) Lose all roundness of sound C) Technical speed of playing (not blast bpm) D) Comfort E) Playing without a soft touch" <sigh> Wrong on all counts.

I have a life, so I didn't wade thru all the posts, so I don't know if this is redundant. Geeky? Uncool? --P-bass! Drink the Kool-Aid! Now! Hurry!... :smug: