This is nice ...

[TBird1958]

Nothing better than playing a '76 Bird loud with a pick - Big clanky MF'er. 

[uwe]

Real bassists play arco!

(ducking for cover) 

Been there, done that ...



The  bow-wielding electric bassist you hear in the above audio later on ditched his arco aspirations in the Australian wilderness looking for American thighs to knock him out. The rest is history.

[Dave W]

I'm getting T-shirts made with that slogan!

Market them to the right audience and you could make some real money. 

[Hushnel]

Interesting thread, I wasn't aware that anyone cared either way. I use a pick rarely, but I always have one with me. I make them out of rawhide, sometimes ebony, even vintage tortoise shell.

I knew of a guy in Gainesville back in the 70s that was missing his right hand just above the wrist, he was a good bassist, he had a leather prosthetic with a pick installed. He had to play from the elbow.

I paralyzed my right arm by 50% when I broke my neck in an automotive accident, previously I had crushed the radial head in my right arm elbow the doc fused it. Three times in my life I had to re-learn how to play. The good news is it's been 27 years since I've used alcohol or other intoxicants "o) and better than I ever was on bass or guitar.

Any tool it takes to service the song is appropriate. I ain't you, you ain't me and there is nothing wrong with that.

[Dave W]

Interesting thread, I wasn't aware that anyone cared either way. I use a pick rarely, but I always have one with me. I make them out of rawhide, sometimes ebony, even vintage tortoise shell.

I knew of a guy in Gainesville back in the 70s that was missing his right hand just above the wrist, he was a good bassist, he had a leather prosthetic with a pick installed. He had to play from the elbow.

I paralyzed my right arm by 50% when I broke my neck in an automotive accident, previously I had crushed the radial head in my right arm elbow the doc fused it. Three times in my life I had to re-learn how to play. The good news is it's been 27 years since I've used alcohol or other intoxicants "o) and better than I ever was on bass or guitar.

Any tool it takes to service the song is appropriate. I ain't you, you ain't me and there is nothing wrong with that.

It shouldn't matter, but it does to some people.

[Highlander]

The  bow-wielding electric bassist you hear in the above audio later on ditched his arco aspirations in the Australian wilderness looking for American thighs to knock him out. The rest is history.

Don't remember him using the upright live...  (supporting Slade, 73 or 74 ish)

That bass Jim Lea was playing, Ma'am... iirc Scott's too...

Gustafson was incredible to watch live... just the once with Gillan... fretless and fretted Wal's...

As for tools of the trade... use both, but mostly fingers these days, and my nails for a bit of clank from time to time too...

[uwe]

I believe Cliff Williams used the bow on his electric bass on this particular Home track - not on an upright.