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ilan

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Re: Upright Basses
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2009, 01:30:36 AM »
I have never seen any advantage in playing a bass guitar in upright position. It doesn't make the bass sound any more "upright" than it did horizontally. It just looks a bit stupid IMHO.
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Re: Upright Basses
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2009, 08:34:52 AM »
Didn't get a chance to watch the video yesterday cause I was in the office...very cool.
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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2009, 05:28:26 PM »
Damn~ That vid is amazing! wow

The guy in Pentangle is goood tooo
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Re: Upright Basses
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2009, 12:54:27 AM »
Quote from: Grog on November 20, 2009, 06:50:01 PM
Has anybody actually tried to play an EB-1 origional or reissue with the telescoping pole for any period of time? Seem pretty awkward to me............... :-\

Hey~ I oughta try that.

I'll let ya know how it goes....
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« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2009, 12:53:29 AM »
I play an occasional gig on upright. I'm not very good at it, but I love it. This is me:

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« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2009, 05:32:49 PM »
The old bassplayer from HumanLab runs a music store here in Surf City.
He calls himself Billy Bass & plays upright. Hadn't been to his store til this weekend & dropped in to off a guitar which I ended up sellin' to someone else.
He gave me a Bass Player mag with a famous Jazz guy on the cover playing upright, forget his name but he played with Bill Evans Trio & died at age 25 in a car wreck.
Article said he transformed Jazz. He practiced 8 hours a day.

The mag has an ad for a URB pickup endorsed by Ron Carter.
Forget the name too, sorry. SUCKS to get old.  :-\
I saw Ron at the Hollywood Bowl 34 years ago with CTI All Stars featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet & Hubert Laws on flute, Herbie Hancock on keys.
Nice change from Classic Rock.

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Re: Upright Basses
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2009, 06:46:48 AM »
Scott Lafaro

Haven't seen the article...guess I need to go buy a copy (one of my favorites).
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« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2009, 11:58:28 PM »
Yeah, that's him: Scotty.

Great article on Bill Laswell too with a great title:

The REVOLUTION Will Be IMPROVISED

This ain't URB but it's cooool:



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Re: Upright Basses
« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2009, 02:28:19 AM »
I started playing upright about 6 or 7 years ago, the hardest part for me was learning how to use the side of my index finger to pluck, if you play them like a bass guitar with two fingers they sound thin. Slapping is also not real easy. I use a magnetic pickup and I can play as loud as I want right in front on an SVT and it sounds very clear. I played in a loud rock a billy band for a while that played a lot of very fast stuff and uprights are a blast to play. I'm still better at electric though and probably always will be. I found it to be quite an adjustment.
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« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2009, 08:12:41 AM »
i like a lot of things laswell does, especially the painkiller stuff. the buried secrets record was totally improvised but has a nice cohesive feel to it. laswell used a pink t bird through a marshall on that album.
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« Reply #25 on: December 01, 2009, 06:59:12 PM »
As the owner of an Englehardt EM-1 and a Dean Pace EUB, I can honestly say I am addicted to uprights.  I placed exactly one gig with my electrics last year and that was because of travel circumstances (The Dean will solve that problem).  I can see myself playing uprights for the long term.




I even borrowed this one for a gig when I could have used an electric...
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Re: Upright Basses
« Reply #26 on: January 10, 2010, 03:57:25 PM »
Diggin' ol' Pentangle today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuxq_J1VuA&feature=related

Danny Thompson on bass.


House Carpenter is a cool song too.
Bert on banjo & John on sitar!!

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« Reply #27 on: January 11, 2010, 08:51:37 PM »
Here's Kelley & the Cowboys at ElvisFest this past weekend...

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« Reply #28 on: January 12, 2010, 01:42:31 PM »
Pamlicojack - me too bro! My two main gigs are primarily upright now although admittedly, I do still play a couple of tunes on electric. I'm hooked .......
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« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2010, 05:49:58 PM »
This Rain Song clip is labeled Zep but tho it's Page & Plant with Jones on Bass...
It's Charlie Jones (Plant's son-in-law) on Upright bass:



It's rainin' cats an' dogs this week in Surf City! El freakin' Ninyo
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