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If you couldn't play Bass anymore......

#421
I guess I'd get out of music altogether. get on my Harley with a metal detector on my back and go prospecting for precious metals and watching out for gemstones. I suppose I could do electronics repair. I could always find work in the haberdashery, "oh, you want it in navy? let me that for you".
 

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#422
Kevin Colt said:
I guess I'd get out of music altogether. get on my Harley with a metal detector on my back and go prospecting for precious metals and watching out for gemstones. I suppose I could do electronics repair. I could always find work in the haberdashery, "oh, you want it in navy? let me that for you".
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"I get my disability check and Pah! It's dahn ta' Pants 'n 'at."
"Hey Mr. Nebby, how am I gonna go dahn ta' Dawny Iris 'n pick up chicks if I ain't gawt no good clothes ta' wear?" Hey yinz, go dahn ta' Pants 'n 'at!
 
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#423
I'd either start another collection of foil milk bottle tops, with interesting indentations from the beaks of the various birds attempting to get to the cream. Arranged in a pecking order if you like. Or I'd write a song about it.
 
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Lagado said:
It's a bit odd, I didn't watch it all the way through until now. Some serious lows.

I've just tried to see what the lowest note is that I can sing with a sort of decent sustained pitch, low F.
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I can usually get a low D, and a bit lower if I have a cold. Jacob Collier says he records a whole lot of low notes when he has a cold so he can put them into his songs later! Check out his last sung note on this!
 
#430
If I lost the fine motor skills to play the bass I'd likely switch over to a djembe or some other loud & musical drum. Not saying those don't require dexterity, but hopefully I could still keep the beat.

And ... shakers. Through a percussion group I performed with I discovered I'm not half bad at them!
 
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Bill Risby said:
I can usually get a low D, and a bit lower if I have a cold. Jacob Collier says he records a whole lot of low notes when he has a cold so he can put them into his songs later! Check out his last sung note on this!
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Isn't he putting an F# over a B bass there? The lowest note is a B drone to my ears.

"An oktavist is an exceptionally deep-ranged basso profondo, especially typical of Russian Orthodox choral music. This voice type has a vocal range which extends down to A1 (an octave below the baritone range) and sometimes to F1 (an octave below the bass staff) with the extreme lows for oktavists, such as Mikhail Zlatopolsky or Alexander Ort, reaching C1.

Basso profondo - Wikipedia.
 
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Rip Van Dan said:
Wow...that's a tough one. The other instruments that I have a foundation in and would want to play are guitar and keyboards. But if I can't play bass, I'm going to presume there's a problem with my hands, and that would pretty well preclude playing guitar or keys.

I actually had a bad flare up of psoriatic arthritis in my hands about a year or two ago. Couldn't straighten out the fingers in either hand and they hurt a lot if I tried to squeeze anything in them. If I didn't try to squeeze anything, they just hurt. I also play guitar, but there was no way I had the flexibility to play it. I could still play the bass as long as I held the neck in the correct position. So if my hands can't play bass...I'm pretty well screwed! I might try to get a position as a lead singer for a group because I don't need my hands to do that. But "voice" would have to be my instrument if I could no longer physically play bass.
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Let's hope that does not happen brother!
 
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Tony DeNardo, the bass player from the Muggs had a stroke in 2001 which paralyzed his right side and left him unable to speak. After some medical treatment and a lot of time and work on Tonys part he took to playing the bass lines (bloody good ones too IMHO) on a Rhodes keyboard bass (Keyboard bass - Wikipedia).

The band released their self-titled album in 2005
Tony's bass lines groove so well that most people I've played the band to who haven't heard them before didn't pick that it wasn't a stringed bass.

Great band and Tony is still one of my favourite bass players.

 
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I'd do something else. Not sure what. These days, I honestly don't have much desire to play. We have a private party at a giant lake place on Pelican for like $400 on Friday and I'm not really looking forward to it at all. Playing music, celebrating, just seems counter intuitive right now.
 
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Bret64 said:
Tony DeNardo, the bass player from the Muggs had a stroke in 2001 which paralyzed his right side and left him unable to speak. After some medical treatment and a lot of time and work on Tonys part he took to playing the bass lines (bloody good ones too IMHO) on a Rhodes keyboard bass (Keyboard bass - Wikipedia).

The band released their self-titled album in 2005
Tony's bass lines groove so well that most people I've played the band to who haven't heard them before didn't pick that it wasn't a stringed bass.

Great band and Tony is still one of my favourite bass players.

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I'd forgotten that I heard their music 8 or 10 years ago. I didn't know their story and I didn't know that Todd Glass had joined them. It's easy to miss noticing that Tony DeNardo's playing a Rhodes because he lays down a serious groove.
 
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