The Last Bass Outpost

The EB-0 section is definitely a labor of love for Jules. I'll even forgive him for calling the tuneomatic 2-point bridge "infamous." 

It can be glossed over, for instance, in favor of the EB-3--which is understandable.  But Jules certainly does make the analysis of the EB-0 interesting.  

Great bass and it really can level a building. 

I didn't mean that France was the only place it happened.  Just that when you watch documentaries they seem to show France more for some reason.  Just like Civil War photographs tend to focus on the same images of slaves over and over again.  Or POW photographs tend to show the same picture of 3 Confederate soldiers after they were captured at Gettysburg, etc. 

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After posting that, I went to the grocery store where they were playing ABBA.  It seemed liked quite a coincidence because that music is rarely played now.  Frida was my favorite. 

He doesn't play it at all like Tom Hamilton does who chords the riff with a pick and open strings, Sting's version is an approximation that wouldn't get him a job in any self-respecting Aerosmith tribute band, but he does play it like you would imagine Sting playing it. I like that, he puts his own stamp on it.

That interview with him is great, thanks for posting. I can relate to a lot what he says. Some of Stings solo music is "too adult" for me (I'm turning 60 this year, immaturity can last forever!  ), that comes from his singing, but I've never had issues with his bass playing. When people said that he is not such a great bass player in the later days of Police, I marveled at their ignorance, did they ever really listen? I thought his bass playing was always witty.

If Sting was not such a great bass player, somebody should have told that to Stuart Clayton when he wrote his "Giants of Bass" book.  I remember the section on Sting as being pretty enjoyable.  However, I've lost a CD to this and that greatly reduces its usefulness to me.  The edition I have does seem at times like it has been a little rushed and maybe even improvised.  But it would be my guess that this new edtion corrects those faults. 


https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2017/09/bass-books-giants-of-bass-vol-1-2/

The Guardian columnist is quite witty.  A lot of humor going on there. 

I thought Susan Dey was hot too. 

I wouldn't be able to name anyone on TV that was hotter during that time period.  She then went on to make some movies which weren't too well known, but she was still as sexy as ever.  Notably, "Looker" 1981. 

Reminds me of the actor who plays the spaceship's doctor on the Netflix sci-fi series "Another Life."