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Well, that IS the origin of the musical bow--it came from the archery bow which tribes used to make music. Eventually, the bows used for music became more specialized for that purpose and were no...

No. The photos were taken at my bass instructor's house. He had gone with me to pick it up so when we got back, we took it in so he could hold it up while I snapped photos. Those are all his...

I remember in the 70s I bought a used Rickenbacker fretless and met this guy who played guitar and he knew a drummer that needed a gig so we all got together and played a bit. I brought my brother's...

I agree and quite sincerely.

I am reminded of the event not too long ago in Canada concerning an airing of a new Taylor Swift song that was supposedly "leaked" (of course, it wasn't ) and the station told people to tune in at a...

I Had to do it. I had to get my baby tattooed on my arm so I'll always have her with me. It took four hours and was sheer torture the last two hours.
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This.

Maybe you need to learn the difference between techno and rap before you post about such things.

Ok, folks, my bow is finally finished:

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The stick is made of pernambuco wood from Brazil, by far, the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs
Why not go with the music of the spheres themselves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XDLRrJMPAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmPmeN0wexw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5XDLRrJMPA

Couple of Gary Numan songs featuring Mick. He also played sax...

Compare to Steve Hackett:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8QQevsbwrE

Remember this?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTyxsrZd5mc

The cover to end all covers:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jD8PcwCMIg

When's prog going to win a Tony???

Did Kenny Weaver come back to his senses or is he still a rightwing born-again Christian?

Basically all of them.

Couple more:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFLifnbe8g


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQS3hkmUVk
Not sure who the woman is but she coulda banged my tambourine all day and all night.

In another forum, I once posted a history of bubblegum music and while not all sunshine was gum and not all gum was sunshine, there is an awful lot of common ground between them. Unlike a lot of...

I've always liked this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYabnQctxpo

Remedios Varo:

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Max Ernst:
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All this talk about huge basses makes me think of this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q259PP4HdzM

The offices of music publisher Carl Fisher at Cooper Square in New York had a 4-string double bass during the 1920s that stood 11 feet and 8 inches tall. The Strad magazine published a photo of it...

In London in 1832, James Ayton debuted his huge bass at the Corn Exchange. I am not sure how tall it was but the strings themselves were eight feet long. It was not fingered but rather used a slide...

Basses are big instruments, of course, and it doesn't matter what kind of instrument it is. If it's bass, it's big. This is because a bass instrument must produce low frequency sound waves which...

When my brother and I were teens, I got a set of Ludwig drums and he bought a '64 cream-colored tele with a Bigsby arm. He still has it (and I still have the drums). We played each other's stuff all...

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My first real introduction to jazz was this Al Hirt album my parents had. I can't remember what it was called and can only remember "Begin the Beguine" and "Stompin' at the Savoy" but can remember...

That's one of the songs I learned to play all of the instruments on.

What I miss most about the 70s was album shopping. I loved to hit the record stores and dig out the coolest vinyl. I especially liked to raid the import bins. I had all the good record stores in...

The problem with Jaco's style is that I know SO MANY bassists who were so influenced by him that they play just like him. Great bassists but they sound just like him. What sets Percy apart is that...

jkelman, I disagree with virtually everything you said but to each his own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kacol6v7GTY

Yeah, I'll bet he wore some people out with that one.

Same here. I have one RTF CD--Warrior--it was in a discount bin and which I never listen to.

Well...I may as well say it...RTF's adulation of L. Ron Hubbard taints them for me. I can't listen Romantic Warrior because they wrote it for him. That ruins it for me. That they would waste their...

They sound way more Medeski, Martin & Wood to me than they do Brand X.

And features Percy Jones playing a bit of double bass!

Btw, I wasn't really trying to compare Brand X to RTF, but was concerned why so many who rave about RTF and fusion or jazz-rock in general...

Here's Phil Collins and Percy Jones jamming with Eno:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZItWvebsXc

I have Do They Hurt, Masques, Manifest Destiny, Moroccan Roll, Product, Unorthodox Behavior and Xcommunication. I also have Marscape which may as well be a Brand X project since it has the same...

Yeah, try hitting a rim shot snare on a rubber pad.

Yes, it will take time. Took a good 10 years for people to get off that MIDI kick. The thing about it was it has to saturate the market. Like if I play a string section on the MIDI keyboard it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s28oq4W2PPk

It's always that way. We get this new technology and we just go overboard with it until people start asking, "What was wrong with the old way?" Remember when MIDI became all the rage? No need to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16OvXJ2kUZk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01i-ipKZEw


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXsPpoxyB0

My kid brother is a real prog and fusion freak but I could never get him to really get into Brand X whom I thought were far and away the best of that bunch. I mean, the Return to Forever stuff is...

In the days before the super technology, producers used to bring in top-notch session musicians to play the tracks for the guys whose musicianship we were supposed to be hearing and often were...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryfnnB-l9A8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGLpurOG0yU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qI6UDD2uQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oai3mUL-T-I


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DxIxZPoH5c

Back in the 80s, I was in the military which I hated. To keep my sanity, I had to rebel and subvert at every opportunity. I was super into punk rock, hardcore, thrash and like that. I sneered at...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYB_llikBJY

"Billy Don't Be Hero" was another crapper. "The Night Chicago Died" was another. The funny thing is that these songs were advertised on k-tel type record offers when they were popular but I never...

Avant-garde has never been difficult for me to listen to. My friends can't believe I doze off while listening to Merzbow blasting away on my system but I find it relaxing in a weird way.

Would this count?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwygxdxLDvk

Will nobody mention BOC?? The first album, Tyranny and Mvtation, Secret Treaties?? The hardest of the hard rock??

My band is learning the whole Miles Davis "So What" album because we've been commissioned to perform it (we're getting paid for it for a change). Of course, we have the title song down. This one...

It do! He's now making me a bow to match!

As long as we're all comparing stereo system dicks, I use a Sony digital audio/visual system with surround-sound JBL speakers and a rather large bass woofer which has its own power source and volume...

I agree to always change the strings on a new guitar. The factory strings are generally not that great. I've always used the Fender super bullets on electric guitars, the Martin strings work well,...