Upright Basses

[ilan]

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.

[patman]

Didn't get a chance to watch the video yesterday cause I was in the office...very cool.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Damn~ That vid is amazing! wow

The guy in Pentangle is goood tooo

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

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....

[JZumbro]

I play an occasional gig on upright. I'm not very good at it, but I love it. This is me:

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

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.

[patman]

Scott Lafaro

Haven't seen the article...guess I need to go buy a copy (one of my favorites).

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSPrSM3vGYk

[bobyoung]

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.

[nofi]

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.

[pamlicojack]

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...

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

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!!

[pamlicojack]

Here's Kelley & the Cowboys at ElvisFest this past weekend...

[luve2fli]

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 .......

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QWQS-pRR8

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