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Strings purchased through TB are hand selected and live twice as long.
Not only that, each and every string is broken in, matured and aged by TalkBassists for a minimum of two years.

TalkBass Red Label bass strings are roundwounds crackling with spice and bursting with vibrant, smoky tones. They're a blend that combines brightness and more agressive notes heard at the Whisky out West, creating an extraordinary tone. TalkBass Red Label has hints of cinnamon and pepper, fruity sweetness, and a mellow bed of vanilla, before the TalkBass signature of a long, lingering, smoky finish.

TalkBass Black Label bass strings are rich, complex and incredibly well-balanced groundwounds, full of dark sounds, sweet vanilla and signature smokiness.Blended exclusively from strings matured for at least 12 years, they bring together tones from the four corners of Rock and Roll to create an experience that is complex, deep and rewarding. TalkBass Black Label strings roll decadently over the tones, releasing intense sweet vanillas that give way to orange zest and aromas of spice and raisins. The finish is unbelievably smooth and layered with rich smokey, punchy malt.

TalkBass Double Black bass strings are the Intense Tapewound Blend - powerful, full-bodied and smoky. The heavier influence of the deepest and warmest tones of Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll are immediately apparent, with swirls of soft smoke over rich raisins and fruits - apples, pears and citrus. These soften into sweet vanillas and spice, before developing into a warming finish of oak bass bodies and lingering smokiness.

The unique tone of TalkBass Green Label bass strings is a delicate blend of copper-plated steel, pure nickel, polymer coated and stainless steel of four key signature styles, represented by Sklar, Entwistle, Bruce and Lee. The individual characteristics of these mature aged strings are perfectly balanced to bring together intense tones of crisp cut grass, fresh fruit, wood smoke, pepper, deep vanilla, and sandalwood. They creates a punchy yet warm depth of character that just isn’t possible to achieve with one type of strings alone.

TalkBass Gold Label Reserve taperwound bass strings are known for their creamy smoothness. They open with a luxurious burst of delicate nectar and gentle smokiness that develops into sweet fruits and deeper, velvety, honeyed tones before giving way to sublime, lingering whispers of smoke and oakiness in the finish.

TalkBass Platinum Label bass strings with a secret blend of big, classic TalkBass tones with intriguing contemporary notes of citrus and fragrant almonds. Initially sweet with a warm vanilla undercurrent and a suggestion of punchy tangerines, they move smoothly over the hearing palate into a nutty, malty dryness before a long finish brings elegant suggestions of soft charcoal smokiness and a beautifully bright citrus zest.

TalkBass Blues Label bass strings are incomparably rich and smoky flats, with velvety smooth breaking waves of powerful flavor. Created from hand-selected steel cables of some of the rarest and most exceptional flattened steel, there is no sensory experience quite like TalkBass Blues Label. Hazelnuts, honey, sherry and oranges tumble in first, before releasing hidden secrets like ginger, kumquats, sandalwood and dark chocolate. A rich honey mellow sweetness emerges, accompanied by hints of pepper and dried fruits, before an impossibly long, lingering, smooth finish of perfectly balanced, deep, dark, smokey tones.

And have some Johnnie Walker while you're at it.
 
When Geddy changed from Rickenbacker to Fender, he spontaneously played a song during rehearsal. Here's the lyrics:

Love my Fender
Love it sweet
Never let you go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so...

Geddy's playing reached superluminal speed, just long enough to open a tiny wormhole, reaching back to 1972. A guy named Elvis happened to be on the other side of the hole...
 
Not only that, each and every string is broken in, matured and aged by TalkBassists for a minimum of two years.

TalkBass Red Label bass strings are roundwounds crackling with spice and bursting with vibrant, smoky tones. They're a blend that combines brightness and more agressive notes heard at the Whisky out West, creating an extraordinary tone. TalkBass Red Label has hints of cinnamon and pepper, fruity sweetness, and a mellow bed of vanilla, before the TalkBass signature of a long, lingering, smoky finish.

TalkBass Black Label bass strings are rich, complex and incredibly well-balanced groundwounds, full of dark sounds, sweet vanilla and signature smokiness.Blended exclusively from strings matured for at least 12 years, they bring together tones from the four corners of Rock and Roll to create an experience that is complex, deep and rewarding. TalkBass Black Label strings roll decadently over the tones, releasing intense sweet vanillas that give way to orange zest and aromas of spice and raisins. The finish is unbelievably smooth and layered with rich smokey, punchy malt.

TalkBass Double Black bass strings are the Intense Tapewound Blend - powerful, full-bodied and smoky. The heavier influence of the deepest and warmest tones of Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll are immediately apparent, with swirls of soft smoke over rich raisins and fruits - apples, pears and citrus. These soften into sweet vanillas and spice, before developing into a warming finish of oak bass bodies and lingering smokiness.

The unique tone of TalkBass Green Label bass strings is a delicate blend of copper-plated steel, pure nickel, polymer coated and stainless steel of four key signature styles, represented by Sklar, Entwistle, Bruce and Lee. The individual characteristics of these mature aged strings are perfectly balanced to bring together intense tones of crisp cut grass, fresh fruit, wood smoke, pepper, deep vanilla, and sandalwood. They creates a punchy yet warm depth of character that just isn’t possible to achieve with one type of strings alone.

TalkBass Gold Label Reserve taperwound bass strings are known for their creamy smoothness. They open with a luxurious burst of delicate nectar and gentle smokiness that develops into sweet fruits and deeper, velvety, honeyed tones before giving way to sublime, lingering whispers of smoke and oakiness in the finish.

TalkBass Platinum Label bass strings with a secret blend of big, classic TalkBass tones with intriguing contemporary notes of citrus and fragrant almonds. Initially sweet with a warm vanilla undercurrent and a suggestion of punchy tangerines, they move smoothly over the hearing palate into a nutty, malty dryness before a long finish brings elegant suggestions of soft charcoal smokiness and a beautifully bright citrus zest.

TalkBass Blues Label bass strings are incomparably rich and smoky flats, with velvety smooth breaking waves of powerful flavor. Created from hand-selected steel cables of some of the rarest and most exceptional flattened steel, there is no sensory experience quite like TalkBass Blues Label. Hazelnuts, honey, sherry and oranges tumble in first, before releasing hidden secrets like ginger, kumquats, sandalwood and dark chocolate. A rich honey mellow sweetness emerges, accompanied by hints of pepper and dried fruits, before an impossibly long, lingering, smooth finish of perfectly balanced, deep, dark, smokey tones.

And have some Johnnie Walker while you're at it.

I got Brown Label ones. I can't describe the smell here, but the tone was pretty crappy. They look pretty good with a rosewood fingerboard, though.
 
When Geddy changed from Rickenbacker to Fender, he spontaneously played a song during rehearsal. Here's the lyrics:

Love my Fender
Love it sweet
Never let you go
You have made my life complete
And I love you so...

Geddy's playing reached superluminal speed, just long enough to open a tiny wormhole, reaching back to 1972. A guy named Elvis happened to be on the other side of the hole...
Geddy's Fenders are really thru-neck custom builds which have Ric pickups under the scratchplate.
 
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Not only that, each and every string is broken in, matured and aged by TalkBassists for a minimum of two years.

TalkBass Red Label bass strings are roundwounds crackling with spice and bursting with vibrant, smoky tones. They're a blend that combines brightness and more agressive notes heard at the Whisky out West, creating an extraordinary tone. TalkBass Red Label has hints of cinnamon and pepper, fruity sweetness, and a mellow bed of vanilla, before the TalkBass signature of a long, lingering, smoky finish.

TalkBass Black Label bass strings are rich, complex and incredibly well-balanced groundwounds, full of dark sounds, sweet vanilla and signature smokiness.Blended exclusively from strings matured for at least 12 years, they bring together tones from the four corners of Rock and Roll to create an experience that is complex, deep and rewarding. TalkBass Black Label strings roll decadently over the tones, releasing intense sweet vanillas that give way to orange zest and aromas of spice and raisins. The finish is unbelievably smooth and layered with rich smokey, punchy malt.

TalkBass Double Black bass strings are the Intense Tapewound Blend - powerful, full-bodied and smoky. The heavier influence of the deepest and warmest tones of Rockabilly and early Rock and Roll are immediately apparent, with swirls of soft smoke over rich raisins and fruits - apples, pears and citrus. These soften into sweet vanillas and spice, before developing into a warming finish of oak bass bodies and lingering smokiness.

The unique tone of TalkBass Green Label bass strings is a delicate blend of copper-plated steel, pure nickel, polymer coated and stainless steel of four key signature styles, represented by Sklar, Entwistle, Bruce and Lee. The individual characteristics of these mature aged strings are perfectly balanced to bring together intense tones of crisp cut grass, fresh fruit, wood smoke, pepper, deep vanilla, and sandalwood. They creates a punchy yet warm depth of character that just isn’t possible to achieve with one type of strings alone.

TalkBass Gold Label Reserve taperwound bass strings are known for their creamy smoothness. They open with a luxurious burst of delicate nectar and gentle smokiness that develops into sweet fruits and deeper, velvety, honeyed tones before giving way to sublime, lingering whispers of smoke and oakiness in the finish.

TalkBass Platinum Label bass strings with a secret blend of big, classic TalkBass tones with intriguing contemporary notes of citrus and fragrant almonds. Initially sweet with a warm vanilla undercurrent and a suggestion of punchy tangerines, they move smoothly over the hearing palate into a nutty, malty dryness before a long finish brings elegant suggestions of soft charcoal smokiness and a beautifully bright citrus zest.

TalkBass Blues Label bass strings are incomparably rich and smoky flats, with velvety smooth breaking waves of powerful flavor. Created from hand-selected steel cables of some of the rarest and most exceptional flattened steel, there is no sensory experience quite like TalkBass Blues Label. Hazelnuts, honey, sherry and oranges tumble in first, before releasing hidden secrets like ginger, kumquats, sandalwood and dark chocolate. A rich honey mellow sweetness emerges, accompanied by hints of pepper and dried fruits, before an impossibly long, lingering, smooth finish of perfectly balanced, deep, dark, smokey tones.

And have some Johnnie Walker while you're at it.


I'm cheap...so I play TalkBass Refurbished Rounds.

You get a "Happy Pack" which consists of ten sets for a 4 -string bass. If you play a fiver , you just rob an E-string from another set and downtune it.

No identical strings sound the same in the entire ten packs. And the gauges are all different too. But that's half the fun:- being pleasantly surprised.

The strings are pre-boiled before they're sent out. But they still retain a good amount of grime ,fingercrud and rust.

They come with a small tin of Chicken grease and a booklet on how to get your Mojo rising.

They are certified "Totally Dead" and on the packages it says "can be used as introductory Flats".

And get this:- they're pre-intonated and you can see where the witness points are!!

Anyway , it says in the booklet that nothing in this world is perfect and only hoyty-toyty milquetoast bass players think that every note they play is going to be exactly in tune.

Says the big famous bass players don't worry about that at all.

You get the whole ten packs for $5.95 ( plus tax and a measly $75.00 for shipping).

Life is good, I gotta say...
 
I'm cheap...so I play TalkBass Refurbished Rounds.

You get a "Happy Pack" which consists of ten sets for a 4 -string bass. If you play a fiver , you just rob an E-string from another set and downtune it.

No identical strings sound the same in the entire ten packs. And the gauges are all different too. But that's half the fun:- being pleasantly surprised.

The strings are pre-boiled before they're sent out. But they still retain a good amount of grime ,fingercrud and rust.

They come with a small tin of Chicken grease and a booklet on how to get your Mojo rising.

They are certified "Totally Dead" and on the packages it says "can be used as introductory Flats".

And get this:- they're pre-intonated and you can see where the witness points are!!

Anyway , it says in the booklet that nothing in this world is perfect and only hoyty-toyty milquetoast bass players think that every note they play is going to be exactly in tune.

Says the big famous bass players don't worry about that at all.

You get the whole ten packs for $5.95 ( plus tax and a measly $75.00 for shipping).

Life is good, I gotta say...

They are great for that 1960s vibe...
Dead sounding, and as we all know, tuning wasn't invented until Malcolm McLaren created the Sex Pistols.
 
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I'm cheap...so I play TalkBass Refurbished Rounds.

You get a "Happy Pack" which consists of ten sets for a 4 -string bass. If you play a fiver , you just rob an E-string from another set and downtune it.

No identical strings sound the same in the entire ten packs. And the gauges are all different too. But that's half the fun:- being pleasantly surprised.

The strings are pre-boiled before they're sent out. But they still retain a good amount of grime ,fingercrud and rust.

They come with a small tin of Chicken grease and a booklet on how to get your Mojo rising.

They are certified "Totally Dead" and on the packages it says "can be used as introductory Flats".

And get this:- they're pre-intonated and you can see where the witness points are!!

Anyway , it says in the booklet that nothing in this world is perfect and only hoyty-toyty milquetoast bass players think that every note they play is going to be exactly in tune.

Says the big famous bass players don't worry about that at all.

You get the whole ten packs for $5.95 ( plus tax and a measly $75.00 for shipping).

Life is good, I gotta say...
Kudos! Love it!
 
The string companies are much like pantyhose manufacturers: The technology exists in both strings and in pantyhose to have the product last FOREVER!

However, both industry's manufacturers keep stringing us along, to meet their bottom lines, and so we are forced to constantly buy defective strings and pantyhose, uerh, well just strings for (most of) the dude players, 'cause the products all wear out and manufacturers continue to hose us.
 
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The string companies are much like pantyhose manufacturers: The technology exists in both strings and in pantyhose to have the product last FOREVER!

However, both industry's manufacturers keep stringing us along, to meet their bottom lines, and so we are forced to constantly buy defective strings and pantyhose, uerh, well just strings for (most of) the dude players, 'cause the products all wear out and manufacturers continue to hose us.
The G strings are particularly problematic
 
Antimusic is the negative equivalent to music and usually utilizes the antipitch controversial of -440Khz which in antimusical terms define the antinote designated as ∀-4.

Also antimusic controversial antinotation utilize 10 vertical lines called omniclefs utilizing a sextant to determine which line the antinote in qeustion is plotted in according to the angle of Pluto's alignment exponentially relative to Andromeda's positional angle on the night sky on the southern hemisphere of Venus shifting inversely proportional every new moon.

A given piece of music's inversely proportional piece of antimusic played at any given place and time in the multiverse, provided the respective antipicth controversial and pitch standard also are inversely proportional will result in the collapse of the space time continuum and as such collapse reality to an inverted sphere of infinite sigularities, which is why this is probably also the most likely scenario of what caused the existence of the multiverse it self as we know to be in the first place.
 
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Antimusic is the negative equivalent to music and usually utilizes the antipitch controversial of -440Khz which in antimusical terms define the antinote designated as ∀-4.

Also antimusic controversial antinotation utilize 10 vertical lines called omniclefs utilizing a sextant to determine which line the antinote in qeustion is plotted in according to the angle of Pluto's alignment exponentially relative to Andromeda's positional angle on the night sky on the southern hemisphere of Venus shifting inversely proportional every new moon.

A given piece of music's inversely proportional piece of antimusic played at any given place and time in the multiverse, provided the respective antipicth controversial and pitch standard also are inversely proportional will result in the collapse of the space time continuum and as such collapse reality to an inverted sphere of infinite sigularities, which is why this is probably also the most likely scenario of what caused the existence of the multiverse it self as we know to be in the first place.

Does this mean I can't play "Smoke On The Water"?
 
**Anyway , it says in the booklet that nothing in this world is perfect and only hoyty-toyty milquetoast bass players think that every note they play is going to be exactly in tune.
Says the big famous bass players don't worry about that at all.**

Seriously, this is true as far as I know. I worked for years on the sound engineering/recording side of the business, and almost none of the "greats** I met were overly worried about intonation.
There are people for whom it is extremely important, due to thecontext and content of their music (like Invalid Link Removed for example), but most times people were more interested in the sound of the ensemble, rather than whether the Bass player's "A" string was exactly intonated at the 7th fret with that of the rhythm guitarist's

Btw, bravo, a truly excellent post!
 
Antimusic is the negative equivalent to music and usually utilizes the antipitch controversial of -440Khz which in antimusical terms define the antinote designated as ∀-4.

Also antimusic controversial antinotation utilize 10 vertical lines called omniclefs utilizing a sextant to determine which line the antinote in qeustion is plotted in according to the angle of Pluto's alignment exponentially relative to Andromeda's positional angle on the night sky on the southern hemisphere of Venus shifting inversely proportional every new moon.

A given piece of music's inversely proportional piece of antimusic played at any given place and time in the multiverse, provided the respective antipicth controversial and pitch standard also are inversely proportional will result in the collapse of the space time continuum and as such collapse reality to an inverted sphere of infinite sigularities, which is why this is probably also the most likely scenario of what caused the existence of the multiverse it self as we know to be in the first place.
Antimusic is, of course, illegal in Utah, and requires special judicial permits and an ante-post mortem bond to be posted with three months escrow limits in Caleb County, Tennesee.
 
AntiMusic is actually music produced by ants, but instead of sound waves the ants produce pheromones that vary in intensity and frequency of emittance which is very similar to volume and frequency of sound waves.

Apple Computers was the company that discovered this formerly unbeknownst aspect of Formicidae socialisation, and are bringing out i[devices] that will simulate the ants' pheromonal music, but in an audible way that is discernible to humans — this technology and science of translation of pheromones to soundwaves has been dubbed by Apple as Ant + iMusic together = AntiMusic.
 
**Anyway , it says in the booklet that nothing in this world is perfect and only hoyty-toyty milquetoast bass players think that every note they play is going to be exactly in tune.
Says the big famous bass players don't worry about that at all.**

Seriously, this is true as far as I know. I worked for years on the sound engineering/recording side of the business, and almost none of the "greats** I met were overly worried about intonation.
There are people for whom it is extremely important, due to thecontext and content of their music (like Invalid Link Removed for example), but most times people were more interested in the sound of the ensemble, rather than whether the Bass player's "A" string was exactly intonated at the 7th fret with that of the rhythm guitarist's

Btw, bravo, a truly excellent post!
Absolutely true. Recent clinical studies have confirmed that 5% of audiences listen to the bass player, and even that 5% cannot distinguish any note played within plus or minus two and half steps. The remaining 95% stated: "What's a bass? I thought that was just a giant guitar."
 
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Does this mean I can't play "Smoke On The Water"?
Smoke on the Water was an attempt to bring to light the mental problems of Pink Floyd's, late Syd Barrett in 1972. David Gilmour and Roger Waters have admitted that Syd would still be alive today had more people realized Smoke on the Water was about Barrett. Finally, after seven years passed, Pink Floyd paid tribute to Deep Purple's noble, but failed attempt by releasing Comfortably Numb, with the lyrics rewritten from: "The dishsoap rag is right on the table" to be: "A distant ship smoke on the horizon..." Sadly, it was already too late and Barrett died just days after the 1979 release, in 2003.