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Mono Neon - now that's finger strength!!

Are you talking about his fretting, his plucking, or both? Cause I can bend my strings with my fretting hand that far & I use 45, 65, 80, 100 gauge strings. And in no way am I claiming I'm at his level of awesomeness, LOL :)
You must have forearms like Popeye haha!
 
He played Fodera nickel .40-.95. He now has a signature set with DR Pure Blues with the same gauges.
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Yup, I've used...
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My favorites were Trace Elliot SS. I think they were like 35-95 or something like that.

All of these lite gauge strings made any bass i played with them on, feel like a Strat.

:)
 
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A while ago I mentioned in a thread that there are two amazing bassists I've shaken hands with. One is legendary and the other destined to become so. I asked people to guess who they were but there were few takers.
 
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