Crap. I knew that. Thanks. Stupid fingers.
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Crap. I knew that. Thanks. Stupid fingers.
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And a ribbon is a different animal because it generates a current due to movement of the ribbon in a magnetic field. Or something like that. I still haven't completely figured out how Alumitones work. It's been explained to me several times, but that was a brain part that didn't survive rugby.
I know it "looks cool" to some. Mild ape hangers look OK to me. The real ones just look stupid. And having less control of a motorcycle out there with all the hungry boxes is never cool.
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You are right, but I am really used to playing lower.
I do vary my strap height according to what I am playing.
Jazz with soloing all the way up the neck requires the bass to be higher than rock. (Unless I’m playing Rush or something like that)
I’ve been having right elbow issues lately so having the bass too high actually causes pain.
Interesting trivia. As you probably know, the band who did U-Stink-But-I-♥-U was NJ band Mucky Pup. I saw them a couple of times back in the day.
I have a couple of friends who can play with their guitars or basses really low without problems. My body just says no.
I love that! I’ve seldom been as excited to get a book as I was the book with that record in it. We still have it.
I've been called a lot of things, but I have never been called "stupid fingers" before.
How can you say that this is not cool!? And he is completely safe - he has a helmet on...
Ha. I’m a bit of a Wishbone Ash/ Martin Turner fan. I pre-ordered the box set when it was first announced and then waited several months for it to arrive from England. Big Yes guy too.I was kidding.
Oh, mercy, mercy me (with regard to untangling variables and options).
I'll investigate. Thanks for info.
I'll tell you a little something about bars that tall too, that I learned from personal experience. When I purchased my bike it had really tall apes on it too, placed my hands about an inch or so above my shoulders. And yeah, clearly your hands eventually go to sleep, that much we can all understand due to plain old physics. But what I learned was that at freeways speeds the entire bike would basically start wobbling from side to side. Imagine a pivot at ground level along the front to rear axis of the bike, and everything above it basically swinging back and forth, side to side. So the amount of movement at the top of those bars was unnerving to say the least. Luckily though, I had already ordered new bars and cables when I purchased the bike because I knew that crap was coming off, so I only had to put up with it for a couple weeks. Never again!
Info: Just saw a Youtube video from 1971, live, Jailbait (from the same album). Showed him playing a Ric with the pickup switch on neck, neck toaster pickup. Thank you very much.
I've been called a lot of things, but I have never been called "stupid fingers" before.
Dear sir,
Perhaps you should visit your eye doctor. You appear to have mistaken an end-of-gracious-thought period for a snarkificational comma.
Sincerely,
Grammarhead
I guess if looking like someone just stuck a gun in your back and snarled, "Reach for the sky, varmint!" looks cool, he does!
I don't think of that as low.
Also, why are you standing on the wall when the stage is CLEARLY marked?
