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" it's do or die time " i remember a few years back hearing an interview with robert smith, the all star running back for the minnesota vikings, about why he retired. he said as part of the minnesota viking public relations package, they had this program called public day ( or something...

Baseball: "Walk-off" is played-out. I've even heard "walk-off" referenced to defensive plays. this is the one that gets me

i've not played this one specifically, but i have played the american made g&l jb and thought it was one of the best " Jazz " basses i've ever played. that being said. i have played some of the other g&l tribute basses and found them to be great players, sound and feel wise and worth the money...

i don't think your odd at all. i jam with a bunch of friends, either here at my place or at one of their places. i find it satisfying enough to enjoy what i am doing and share with some of my musical friends. we are able to play whatever we want to play in an atmosphere that encourages creativity.

another bump for a nice little bass

bump for a nice bass

one of the few regrets i have had is getting rid of my axstar back in the 80's. i had a white five string and i have big hands so i had a hard time getting used to the narrow string spacing ( i should've tried harder ) but it was a well balanced, great sounding little bass. bump for a nice bass.

caveat emptor i saw an ad a while back for a EBMM SUB 4 string for 1900 dollars. i showed the ad to a non musician friend and said something like " what an idiot, that is way more than the bass cost new and this is used, i guess the guy doesn't want to sell it " and my friend reminded...

hey there is a place in toronto ( right downtown ) called richmond's trading post. it is a pawn shop that deals exclusively in musical instruments. though i haven't been there for a while i can remember seeing some very interesting stuff in there...

no you're right. the best thing to do is practice. the more you practice, the stronger your left hand will get, you'll find that your control will improve and the coordination between both hands will develop. you can add some compression. that will even out the difference between loud and...

one of the first songs i learned as a neophyte back in the eighties was carry on wayward son. i love the bass line and play it to this day, usually by myself, solo, just 'cause i like it so much. for that matter, i taught myself to fingerpick acoustic guitar after learning kerry livgren's dust...

yeah i've been listening to him for 12 years or so. he's great. I have his live in st louis dvd and centre stage which is a double live acoustic set. he is a complete performer, charming, witty, and one of the best on the instrument. i have a friend who used to go down for the chet atkins...

i have more than 30 cds, either jaco's cd's or cd's that he is on including all of the live in new york club stuff. i would have to agree with the people that said his debut from 1976, weather report heavy weather ( i think my all time favorite album/cd ), joni mitchell shadow's and light (...

me too i thought these excerpts from allmusic's description of the cd " Icon " put it is a very concise way. The most impressive aspect of this recording, however, is not Hellborg's technique, or that of his long-term collaborator, guitarist Shawn Lane, but the integration of the two...

oh you can find interviews and him discussing his products on youtube. i think that he is pushing this line harder than ever before as a result of the amount of involvement he had in the crafting and decision making behind the products. this is a whole bass performance kit from guitar...

when first i saw the warwick, i noticed that as well - i love the shape of both basses. i don't know if you've seen any of the video or read any of the interviews connected with the design of the warwick bass/bass amplification system, but hellborg was involved right down to the circuit board...

i agree i wish he would release more peformance video. i love the youtube stuff and don't get me wrong, but the quality and the piecemeal nature of watching a lot of little clips doesn't do the man or the music any justice at all.

i would be surprised to find out that many people had been influenced by him. i'm sure that he is more popular in europe, india, and other places that he plays and travels through but in north america, even among bass players, he's not that well known ( comparatively speaking ). part of this is...

elegant punk, that is one of the few that i don't have. i have 16 albums/cds plus a few miscellaneous things that he is on. as far as i know, he played the waechter more back in the nineties. i think he has been searching for " the " bass for a while and he gets one he likes and he likes it...

there isn't much recorded by hellborg that i don't have. i think my recorded highlight would be " good people in times of evil ". your posted video of leal souvenir is from the DVD paris. that DVD is the first show of the 2001 tour at the new morning jazz club in paris. it is basically...

there is a new hellborg project on the horizon it is called jazz raj and features his new trio, hellborg bass, guitarist IA Eklundh and drummer Ranjit Barot Invalid Link Removed [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] a mp3 soundfile of the new music [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

i would have to say a tacoma thunderchief. they're a bit fragile, but i think that it is the light construction that allows the body to resonate so well. the sound just jumped out of the bass, and it was nice to take to the porch and play acoustically with out having to kill your hands to get a...

beautiful bass, really nice the way the light and dark wood show and blend - i went and looked at the web page as well and there are some really nice basses there - i liked the akme last two fretless basses and the all black 6 string

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i think it has to do with the drive to succeed. it is similar to some of these businessmen who lead corporations. a lot of these guys are wealthy beyond reason and yet they show up to work everyday, often long past the time when regular people retire. i think that whatever has driven them to...

good article on Jonas Hellborg in the latest issue of bass musician magazine http://www.bass-musician-magazine.com/ finally he gets a cover. more than bassplayer.rag could ever do. sounds like there is some new material being worked on, i can't wait.

well said,

i presume you mean using a digit to make a mini barre across two strings. i use this technique both up and down. i mute with my right fingers. i will do a walk up and down fret by fret pushing down 2 notes with each of the 4 digits on my left hand simultaneously while fingering each note...

i think the markbass one is about the best i've seen so far. some of these home made ones look a little dubious.

that's great thanks much for sharing

i've never been a huge fan of kiss and always assumed that they got the attention they did by some talent that i just wasn't aware of because i didn't really listen to them. then a friend of mine lent a dvd box set of theirs. it was about 6 hours long and it took me about a half an hour to...

i know that JPJ on his solo tours uses multi string guitars ( manton's i think - though i can't remember if the guitars are guitar based or bass based ) that will be strung like a 12 string guitar ( though not the same string gauges ). it fills out his sound a great deal more than just a bass...

i would suggest a godin a4. with flats it has a real db type of sound. also check out the tacoma ABG. i had one with frets and it had a great sound and i think it might sound really good fretless. also have you considered one of the electric uprights ( kydd etc. ) they may allow you to...

i've been playing for 26 years. i love my 4 strings. i have a really nice 5 as well. while i like playing the 5, i kind of think of it as a novelty. i think it is just because i have become so used to a 4 string. i play a lot of fast fusion like stuff at times and i can't seem to get around...

haha great thread. i agree with most of the above and that is the reason why i stopped buying bassplayer magazine a few years ago. i noticed that vic and flea and stanley and les and on and on seem to get on the cover way too many times and players that i think should get a cover - jonas...

i had an EBMM stingray 5 string and now own a lakland skyline 55 - 01 with nordstrand big splits and an audere 18v preamp. the build quality of both is superb. i personally prefer the lakland as i like the 19mm string spacing at the bridge, i prefer the wider and shallower neck and my hands...

weather report - heavy weather jonas hellborg - icon jonas hellborg - good people in times of evil 801 - live king crimson - red, starless and bible black japan - oil on canvas brand x - masques joni mitchell - hejira, mingus, court and spark, don juan's restless daughter pat metheny - bright...

if you search youtube for slap bass you can find some video which may or may not help your hand positioning and show you some fingering ideas. alex sklarevski has some lessons on YT as well.

the easiest way to think of this is the truss rod opposes the pull of the strings. the strings want to pull the neck to the front side of the bass and the truss rod wants to pull it back. therefore tightening the rod will oppose the strings and pull the neck back while loosening it will allow...

i've found that low action is better. it'll be easier on your hands and honestly, why make anything harder than it has to be. if you are hitting the frets on the b or e then examine how you are striking the strings, perhaps there is something not quite right with your technique. i slap all of...