The Last Bass Outpost

Isn't it good that we don't all like the same things?  I love the LP bass, especially if they keep the body guitar sized - I am not a fan of the "oversized" LP bass.  I just really like that small body with the long neck coming out of it, perhaps it's the "wrongness" of it that makes it right for me

I always thought the LP shape looked especially good for bass, too. 

Mate, when you start a thread like this with a title like that I'm going to assume the dude has just died or something. 

I fixed the title.  It really is unfortunate, though, that so many times we do have deaths to post about  That's, of course, inevitable, but it seems the last few years there have been an abnormal number of them. 

That's even worse than I thought.

If the reports are accurate, most of the town is in ruins.

People hear about California fires so much, but the devastation of this is hard for me to imagine. 

To make a comparison, it makes you realize that Paul McCartney wasn't kidding when he said half the things written about the Beatles weren't even true. 

These guys are very popular in Norway... but not in Denmark

Why Danish sounds funny to other Scandinavians

Not common in the U.S., although Jaco briefly played a Framus S-380 in Germany.

https://equipboard.com/pros/jaco-pastorius/framus-s-380

Me and Luca were friend when I was studying at Pisa University. He was born in Pisa while I was coming from Southern Italy. It was 25 years ago.  I was already playing bass and we were introduced each other by common friends. We never played in the same band but we were going to each other concerts and had many evenings together talking about music and having a drink.
Then I moved to Milan for work and left Luca and many good friends in Pisa, but they went to my housefor concerts, sport events and so on..

I was really amazed when he went out with his records. He is in national newspapers here in Italy, that wonder how such a guy may play American music, being born under Pisa leaning tower.

No wonder for me, both grew up with such music in our ears. Give a try to Luca songs. I know that will be weird in Italian but they come from his heart

When you blend different things together like that you can come up with something unique.  I can't imagine what it would feel like, though, to see someone I knew personally to receive national attention like that.  That would probably be an unusual but good feeling. 

Just like me, then. Learnt spanish when I was about 20, but found out that heat/sun was not for me. After an Ill-fated trip to Spain many moons ago, my wife and I spent more time in the Holland/Belgium region.  So I bought a book, still trying to learn to read/speak dutch. At a brewery tour in Flandern, I learnt that dutch is not too far from norwegian (the guide spoke slowly).
And what beautiful language

It's strange that our experiences turned out to be so similar.  I didn't plan for things to go in the direction they did and I doubt if you did, either. 

Norwegian is similar to Dutch in that they both rely on word order rather than case endings (like German does.)  In general, though, I find Germanic languages to be somewhat difficult when it comes to pronunciation.  I'd say Danish is the hardest to pronounce because of the glottal stops.