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#301
When Mambear & I moved out of N.Y.C. in 2000 we joined a church here in Va. That was one of the agreements we made when we decided to leave N.Y. and work further on repairing our marriage.. After a long bout of inactivity in music.. I started playing bass in this church in 2001.. but I was rusty as all get out... and I knew absolutely none of the songs... so I had to try to find them on various music sites since no one at my church had any of the songs..

I am somewhat of a forum hound in my hobby of choice and I have another username on some of the other forums I visit.. but for my music stuff I wanted a different name.. So I got to thinking about the fact that I was even still here.. and that my marriage had survived my decade long DA moment.. (We just had our 20th last month) I counted it as a matter of grace... and Amazing Grace is one of my favorite spiritual songs.. so at first I thought.. Amazin Bass ... ROFL.. but my playing was so far removed from amazing, especially back then... that I could not even think of the name Amazin Bass with a straight face.... but I had stopped trying to do things on my own terms around 98.. and I accepted Christ then.. and it saved my marriage and my life.. (It is amazing to me still how a woman will be more willing to submit to a man who us willing to submit to a higher authority..) and probably the lives of my kids too. We left N.Y. on a wing and a very big prayer.. and we didn't know where we were going to wind up in Va.. just that the door was cracked to get out of N.Y. and we were running through it.. the music became another part of that saving grace to me. It helped me to get settled into my church as I was not raised in the church.. and it was an adjustment for me.. that notion of saving grace became Sav'nBass..
 
#311
When I first started playing bass I was playing my sisters right handed bass upside down (I'm a lefty). The guys I was playing with started calling me patches which turned into Patches Ohulahan, I thought is was because of my very Irish last name. Years latter they told be it was my chopping or "patchy" playing where I would tend to cut in and out on a designated bass line.

I know own two lefty basses strung lefty; the patchy style is gone but the name remains. I play music with my best friends and nicknames stick, the original band was Jewbacca (drums), Bushleague (guitar) and Heffe (guitar, harm, vocal).
 
#315
The southern spelling of this definition: That property of matter which manifests itself as a resistance to any change in the motion of a body. Thus when no external force is acting, a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion continues moving in a straight line with a uniform speed (Newton's first law of motion). The mass of a body is a measure of its inertia.
 
#317
flapbass: i don't thumb, thump, bump bang, bash, beat, bonk, box, clobber, conk, crash, cuff, drive, hammer, knock, pluck, pick, pop, pound, pummel, punch, punish, run into, slap, slug, smack, smash, sock, strum, swat, tap, thrust, wallop, assail, assault, attack, hit, rack, set upon, smite, storm, torment, torture, try, or wring the bass.

i flap the bass.
 

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