Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[beans-on-toast]

To play and moonwalk at the same time must be difficult.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Hot cross buns are bloody disgusting. Nobody knows what that "icing" is.

It’s getting to hot cross bun season with easter a month away. Not only is there the drippy white icing but the raisin surprise* in the bread.


*I hate it when I see rats in the alley behind the bakery.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Hot cross buns should not to be confused with the hotpants of the 60’s and then a reprise in the early 70’s.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I’ll never hear this song from 1979 the same way. Bob explains.

 

[GonePlaid]

I’ll never hear this song from 1979 the same way. Bob explains.

A) Don't recall ever hearing it. B) Yikes!

 

[GonePlaid]

To play and moonwalk at the same time must be difficult.

I did marching band in H.S. on sax. Hard enuff to march and play. Plus, I can't 'Moonwalk' not playing, so there is that.

 

[beans-on-toast]

A) Don't recall ever hearing it. B) Yikes!

The Boomtown Rats had their biggest hit with the song despite being banned in the US. Bob went on to organize Live Aid which helped get him to be Sir Bob.

this is a good version.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...was canceled along with F1 racing.

Now, I have nothing to do, this weekend! Looks like the Monaco GP may be the start of the season.

I went to the art museum with a friend yesterday evening to see the PROOF show, again (he'd not seen the exhibit, yet) as we got an e-mail from the museum that they are shutting down for a few weeks starting today. It was actually quite nice to spend time there with almost no one around. No shoving somebody aside who would be blocking MY VIEW of a particular piece of artwork.

Going to lunch with another friend (see, I do have at least two ) who is leaving tomorrow for Doha, for three years, for work.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

In 1976 Lou Rawls was #29 on the Billboard charts with You'll Never Find. To this day I still love this song. Frank Sinatra called Lou "the silkiest voice in the industry on a cool cat."

 

[mikeoso]

I did marching band in H.S. on sax. Hard enuff to march and play. Plus, I can't 'Moonwalk' not playing, so there is that.

Hmmm...in marching band I played bass drum. That was in the early 60s when a bass drum was a REAL BASS DRUM. Yeah, let's see you moonwalk in THAT rig.

 

[BassmanPaul]

When I had my 66 EB-3, I just used what I could get-and cut off a lot of 'extra' string. I don't remember seeing SS strings back then. Didn't know the 'ball end' trick. I'll keep it in mind if I get an EB-0 in the(distant)future.

As they were available in the UK by US manufacturers they must have been available in the US. Mind you in the Sixties Short Scale basses were more the norm. When I bought my Precisision, which I still have, long scale strings were rare in Liverpool. I had to take a trip to Manchester to buy a set of Rotosounds.

On the subject of Nylon tape wounds I won't ever put them on a bass. Did so three times and three times the bass was stolen shortly there after.

 

[GonePlaid]

As they were available in the UK by US manufacturers they must have been available in the US. Mind you in the Sixties Short Scale basses were more the norm. When I bought my Precisision, which I still have, long scale strings were rare in Liverpool. I had to take a trip to Manchester to buy a set of Rotosounds.

On the subject of Nylon tape wounds I won't ever put them on a bass. Did so three times and three times the bass was stolen shortly there after.

They might have been. I don't recall ever changing them. Or maybe I asked for strings for an EB-3?

Shows how valuable they are.

 

[mikeoso]

On the subject of Nylon tape wounds I won't ever put them on a bass. Did so three times and three times the bass was stolen shortly there after.

...possibly indicating that a bass with tapes immediately becomes irresistable? (All three of my basses wear Rotosound tapes.)

 

[LBS-bass]

The Boomtown Rats had their biggest hit with the song despite being banned in the US. Bob went on to organize Live Aid which helped get him to be Sir Bob.

this is a good version.

When was it banned? They played it frequently on the Washington, DC AOR stations. Maybe the ban didn't last too long?

 

[alaskaleftybass]

I tried flatwounds one time. When I play, I add expression to my notes, such as a little vibrato or when playing runs I'll sometims stretch the string to move the note just a touch. It's a technique I've used for many years. I can't do that on flatwounds-- the strings just roll under my fingers. Plus I like a bright crispness to my strings. To each their own!

 

[GonePlaid]

I tried flatwounds one time. When I play, I add expression to my notes, such as a little vibrato or when playing runs I'll sometims stretch the string to move the note just a touch. It's a technique I've used for many years. I can't do that on flatwounds-- the strings just roll under my fingers. Plus I like a bright crispness to my strings. To each their own!

I tried 'rounds' for awhile when I was playing 6 nites/week 75-82. Chewed up both the frets and the fingers.
Tweetchie zone, as you say.

 

[the harp unstrung]

 

[LBS-bass]

I tried flatwounds one time. When I play, I add expression to my notes, such as a little vibrato or when playing runs I'll sometims stretch the string to move the note just a touch. It's a technique I've used for many years. I can't do that on flatwounds-- the strings just roll under my fingers. Plus I like a bright crispness to my strings. To each their own!

Good to know. I play in a similar way and I bought a set of flats a long time ago but never installed them. I might not. Never had any fret problems from rounds in 40 years but I guess maybe some frets are more soft than others.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Good to know. I play in a similar way and I bought a set of flats a long time ago but never installed them. I might not. Never had any fret problems from rounds in 40 years but I guess maybe some frets are more soft than others.

I have a bunch of Ibby's and they get sent to Juneau to the local music store for a tune up and check on the fretwork, bridge, truss, etc. I use Hartke's and Ernie Balls. At times I've also used D'Addario's. All the basses show little fretware but I must mention that I play with a light touch and light strings. I let the amp do all the heavy lifting. Also using a light touch allows me to use my fingers to dig in for dynamics. You must have a light touch too. Some people seem to equate slamming on their bass strings is rock and roll-- me-- not so much.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I can see a good case made for rounds in the amount of attention it requires for a clean technique. As I point the prow of my non-FSO leeward toward the Sea of Flats (not too sharp of me ), my idea of what I want is British Invasion. Except for, you know, the violin bass thing. And not too pleased with the idea of flats, tapes were the next step. A flats gateway drug.

Started my day watching a raccoon. That would be here, a few hours ago, rather more than a few hours ago now. Put a teaspoon of chocolate in the morning coffee, and finally got to drinking it once the cat and dog were settled. If I can get those two settled and sit down undisturbed in under 30 minutes, it's a miracle. Closer to an hour to have everything seen to properly.

And looked up from my chocolatey coffee to see a raccoon directly in my line of sight. Pretty happy to see the raccoon. If I'm going in the woods today, maybe I don't want a big surprise.