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Official Zon Club Part 4

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Dirty! :D

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p.s. someone after a show was giving me $#!% the other day for using a JC-120 with my basses. Well I just saw this article today -- guess who does the same, turns out? None other than my favorite figure in metal right now, the insanely skilled Colin Marston of Krallice, Gorguts, Actopus, etc

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JC-120 = new hotness with bass
 
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tsar nicholas said:
^ awesome touch and timbre on this! Very expressive. What model bass is that?


edit : just listened to "Friday Night Suite." Amazing, moving. Have you thought of pitching that act to John Zorn? I can totally see him releasing that on Tzadik.
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Thank you! That's the bass Joe made for me to replace my Sonus Special. Having had the Special, I knew pretty exactly what I wanted - set neck, fretless, "custom" pickups with radiused tops, extended fingerboard to serve as a ramp. I was planning to get a mahogany body and Joe talked me into Guancaste with a Bubinga top - and I'm glad he did. I think Addison had one built to a similar spec - guess I'm a bad influence.

I wasn't familiar with John Zorn - thank you for that tip. I will look into it and if anything comes of it I'll let you know. Heck, I'll owe you a beer or few. :D
 
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tsar nicholas said:
p.s. someone after a show was giving me $#!% the other day for using a JC-120 with my basses. Well I just saw this article today -- guess who does the same, turns out? None other than my favorite figure in metal right now, the insanely skilled Colin Marston of Krallice, Gorguts, Actopus, etc

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Nice to see people experimenting. Sry you have to deal with others giving you crap. I've dealt with it a lot doing solo gigs or playing a 6 or even using dirt, but as long as I'm happy with it and the music feels honest to me I'm fine with my choices. I always try to support others especially when they are doing something outside of my comfort zone.
 
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Mulebagger said:
Nice to see people experimenting. Sry you have to deal with others giving you crap. I've dealt with it a lot doing solo gigs or playing a 6 or even using dirt, but as long as I'm happy with it and the music feels honest to me I'm fine with my choices. I always try to support others especially when they are doing something outside of my comfort zone.
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^ thanks, amigo! re : narrow-minded hasslers : Yeah, it's just one of those things one learns to kind of shrug off.

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here's my latest in the "Scrufty" series, which is turning into sort of an urban blues conceptual art thing and I'm into it. Straight 8th-note rock groove here, which one can tell by the shaky performance that I don't play very often!

It's the fretless 2001 Sonus again -- I would have definitely used the fretted for this sort of thing before, but I find that the more I play the fretless, the more I WANT to play it and am getting confident enough to use it in "fretted" situations.

Bass melody thing starts at about 2:00



p.s. I'm really getting into these harsh, cold guitar timbres
 
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kesslari said:
I like it. So - who is or was Scrufty?
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^ thanks amigo! The bass rhythm part is cribbed with some modification from a Have a Nice Life tune, and the guitar work is heavily indebted to Angelo Bruschini from Massive Attack.

"Scrufty" is a character that kind of popped into my mind about a month ago, he's a sort of ornery cartoon kid with a guitar and strong sense of wariness in regard to authority. As soon as he appeared in my head, the melody to "Scrufty's Theme" presented itself to me, and then as the character developed in my mind -- sort of on its own, I wasn't intentionally working on it -- I got inspired to do all these other tunes. The short, three-part format is something that I'd started using recently and it perfectly fit most of these melodies and vibes that Scrufty inspired me to do. It ended up being the realization, I think, of a kind of "urban blues" form that I'd conceived of 15+ years ago but never was able to bring to life until now.

One of my friends said today that he thinks these pieces are "semi-narrative" and came up with a hilarious interpretation of "Scrufty's Bad Day Blues" where the robotty sounding part is Scrufty's mom coming down to the basement to hassle him. I think that is awesome !

My wife also thinks that Scrufty is a projection of an aspect of my personality rooted in my preteen years, which is probably not inaccurate!


p.s. the name -- I stole it from my 3-year-old daughter, who has this little white fleecy dog puppet that she named "Scrufty"
 
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For you Zon owners, I have a question. I see that zon offers many of the Sonus' in 34" scale. This intrigues me because I'm thinking if selling my Modulus Q5 because it find the reach and string tension of the 35" scale just too long and rigid. But I love graphite necks! How do the 34" scale Zon Sonus' feel? Anyone played a Q5 also? how do they compare?
 
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