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TonetotheBone
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Newbury Park, CA (USA)

TonetotheBone

Male, from Newbury Park, CA (USA)

We're jammin', jammin', / and I hope ya like jammin', too. Jul 4, 2022

TonetotheBone was last seen:
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    1. TonetotheBone
      TonetotheBone
      We're jammin', jammin', / and I hope ya like jammin', too.
      Jul 4, 2022
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  • About

    Gender:
    Male
    Birthday:
    November 22
    Location:
    Newbury Park, CA (USA)
    Current Setup:
    • BASSES: ’70s ash / maple Fender Jazz Bass & ’60s alder / pao ferro fretless Jazz Bass, both w/ Fralin Splits, TI Flats, CTS pots (linear vols. + no-load tone), Hipshot D-Tuner, Atelier-Z pickup fence, Performance Music Co Precision-Machined Brass Bass Bridge, Strat knobs (the numbers help when “saving & restoring” the same pickup blends), etc., et al. — I call them my “hot rodded” Jazzes.
    • AMP: Ashdown CTM-30 head + 112T-250 cab (20th Ann. Ltd. Ed. in Tweed)
    • PEDALBOARD: Matching tweed pedalboard and hard case, by West Coast Pedal Board
    • PEDALS:
    < Underside >
    1. (a) POWER: Strymon Zuma; (b) Strymon Ojai
    < / Underside >
    2. SPLITTER: Sonicake Sonic ABY Box (Both basses can be plugged in at once, for hot swapping.)
    3. TUNER: Peterson StroboStomp HD Tuner
    4. COMP: Empress Effects Bass Compressor
    5. OCTAVE: Boss OC-5 Polyphonic Octave Pedal
    6. BOOST / DRIVE / SYNTH: Fuzzrocious Playing Mantis
    7. FUZZ: Fuzzrocious Grey Stache (w/ Clean Blend, Tone Bypass, Diode Selector & Killswitch mods)
    8. FILTER: MXR M82 Bass Envelope Filter
    9. MODULATION: Keeley Seafoam+ Vibrato-Chorus
    < Underside >
    10. BUFFER / HPF: SFX Micro-Thumpinator
    < / Underside >
    < FX Loop >
    11. VOLUME: Dunlop DVP3 Volume (X) Pedal
    12. (a) DELAY / REVERB: Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine; (b) M-Audio EX-P Universal Expression Controller Pedal
    < / FX loop >
    (The tuner & delay are both buffered; everything else is true bypass.)
    • INTERFACE: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Gen.)
    • MIC: Electro-Voice RE20
    • CABLES: Mogami Gold 2524 (instr.) & 2549 (stereo) w/ Neutrik & Amphenol connectors
    • ACCESSORIES:
    1. SkinTone Leather Pick
    2. Nordstrand NordyMute
    3. Black Mountain Slide Ring
    4. EBow Plus
    Favorite Genres:
    Boogie; Disco; Funk; Fusion; R&B; Reggae; Smooth jazz; Soul — in short, any genre where the bass is louder than the guitar. ;-) Also groove rock / stoner rock, I guess you’d call it, where it’s a medley of one riff after another, and the bass and rhythm guitar parts are essentially the same — so I can play them both, thanks to the clean blend on my fuzz, and the way my amp only ODs when I dig in. :-D
    Gigs and Ensembles:
    Did the church gig back in the day, at a couple different churches, but they never let me play enough notes. (They wanted to imitate pop music, for some reason, whereas I sought to do what Bach did.) ;-) Now I mostly play by myself. All the parts — support, lead, percussion, ambience, you name it. Layered tracks, featuring different pickup blends, effects, techniques, etc. to differentiate the parts, so it never gets muddy. (Seriously: with a good Jazz Bass, who needs any other instrument? And why depend on other folks, if you can just do it yourself?)

    That said, I hope to start a band someday. One of those rare jobs where art comes first and popularity doesn’t matter. I just need to find the right accompanists. . . .
    Influences and Teachers:
    Fretted: Anyone who ever played with Miles Davis, especially Michael Henderson and Darryl Jones; Alphonso Johnson (Weather Report’s bassist before Jaco); William “Bootsy” Collins of Parliament; Steve Scipio of Cymande; Laura Lee of Khruangbin.

    Fretless: Jaco Pastorius, of course; and John Coltrane’s bassist, Jimmy Garrison (Look on YouTube for a live vid of “Impressions,” that bass solo is an acid trip); also Jimmy Haslip of the Yellowjackets; and even Yo-Yo Ma. Yeah, I know, he plays cello, but my fretless Jazz sounds a lot like a cello, and my favorite thing to play is improvisations on Bach’s sonatas, what I call “baroque fusion.” :-)
    Hobbies and Interests:
    Cooking; drawing & painting; graphic design & typography; reading & writing; recording, mixing & sequencing music & narration.
    Some like it hot. I like it even hotter. . . .

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    “I’ll play it, and tell you what it is later.” — Miles Davis
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