Recent content by wpatton11

Time to get a new car - - trading up from my Fit (smallest best car that fits my bass, thanks, TB!) to maybe a Honda HR-V or CR-V - - are both roomy enough for my 3/4 Upton? Thanks, y'all~

This one! I think that's Tal Farlow on guitar . . .

I led a band in high school on guitar. Our bassist was a good friend who never played any instrument. I showed him what I thought the bass should do. Off to college, where I started jamming with folks. A guitarist said "do you play bass?" A little, I sez. He says " I'm a better guitarist than...

Hey! That's MY bass!

Doctor's wife to husband ~ How was your day? Doctor ~ Pretty good. Did a heart operation, got $5000, then took out an appendix. It only paid $50 but I got free beer.

Here 'tis - - with a few friends resonating sympathetically. The folks at Upton build a fine instrument.

In spite of Groucho's warning against joining a club that would possibly admit you, I'd like to join! Tomorrow I head to Mystic to pick up my Standard Hybrid - - almost a year in the process. I've been playing a series of lesser basses for too long so this is a big step up for me. Last 15 yrs...

I grew up in the 60s so I know the pop tunes, Beatles, Stones, and all those taking up room in my RAM like Dave Clark 5, etc. in the 70s I played jazz with older cats who never used books so I assimilated 100s of standards and bebop. But knowing them on bass is different than getting the melody...

Caro, I play those intervals the same way. I think the technique that evolved in my playing is some sort of hybrid between BG technique and the more generally accepted double bass style. As such it's not too difficult to adjust to the Simandl technique as I go through the book. Just kind of...

Folks, OP here . . . perhaps I should have mentioned that I played fretless BG since '72 so I'm used to intonation considerations and adjustments. Also that bass gigs were what put food on the table and kids through school, so it was definitively full time. I did a few recordings on mandolin...

14 years old and just starting my lifetime musical obsession. And THIS came out of the AM (!) radio. I'm thinking " You're allowed to do that?"

Hey Hunter, sorry but I've sold this. Being new at the TB classifieds I'm not sure how to mark it as sold. wp

I've been playing through the Simandl exercises every day and am beginning to see the point, I think. The crux will come when I'm back on a gig and the changes are coming fast. But the more I get my muscle memory dialed in, the more facile this method will become. A hidden benefit of the...

wise advice, grasshopper!

I bought this BSX in the 80s new, played it often. It developed electrical problems and I sent it back to Dino at BSX who fixed it and installed another pickup in the bridge. The last time I played it (5 years ago?) it again cut out at times and I stopped trusting it. So it needs wiring work...