Recent content by Romanytony

Having recently gone through Chemo, I find I'm getting hand cramp when I'm playing, don't know if the two are related. So does anyone know if certain double bass strings are less stressful than others? At the moment I have tape wound steel strings that require some effort to play, are gut or...

Your story is much like mine, except I'm a bit older than you. Started playing a couple of years ago due to the bass player leaving the band I was doing the sound for, got in by the back door so to speak. We're based in West Wales but have a few national gigs lined up this year. What kind of...

Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and a novice player with a bit of a problem, hope someone can help. I'm an aged bassist with a bluegrass band that has a gig this weekend and I'm singing Chuck Berry's 'You Never Can Tell'. Despite the fact there are only two chords in it I'm having trouble...