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[oujeebass]

[mike1762]

There's something not right with that photo... it's that kid on the far left: his bow tie is crooked.  His parents must have been so ashamed.

[crobbins]

 

[hendixclarke]

Look like a 80's motif...  
 
Maybe a Hollywood screening of a new TV show.
 
That's what I read...

[pauldo]

Mr. Flowers. . .  
Your observation skills are astute and keen, obviously you are a man of distinction and taste.
 
To raise a glass with you would be a treat!
 
How's this for cool?
One of our queens caught in the act of laying eggs (note the eggs in adjacent cells - they look like a grain of rice)

[crgaston]

 
Vader on bass...
 
...'nuff said.

[svlilioukalani]

In my world a man is not judged by race, age, or how long their hair is. But their taste in music. When one talks too much it show what they don't know; their ignorance sticks out all over the place. I had a lot of foolish ideas as a college student. But several years on the road with a blues band changed all that.
 
I saw Stanley a few weeks ago at Jazz Alley in Seattle. He only played his upright. His band was a bunch of hot young guys. He and they were amazing.  After the show Stan invited everybody in the club to come down to his dressing room to say hi. Our love for Stanley extends past his playing. He is a man's man, a teacher, and one mean bass player.  
 
My bet is...  
Stanley bashers have never seen him play live. A bass players who use the word hate in terms of a right hand technique, has not taken the time to learn to use technique.  
 
I see the connection. And love this web sight.

[hydrargyrum]

Technique isn't everything, and some people would rather hear a sloppy punk band than a tight fusion combo.  It is really pointless to argue over matters of taste, or to assert that there is one ultimate musician that everyone else is required to recognize and like.  People, and music, just don't work that way.  I love the work of Tom Waits with a passion difficult to describe, but I know he sounds like gravel in a blender to some people.  It doesn't affect my appreciation for him at all.

[lbpesq]

My favorite color is yellow.  Anyone who has a different favorite color is obviously an idiot.
 
I like sushi.  Anyone who likes hamburgers more than sushi is a moron.
 
Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it?  Well, replace the words yellow and sushi with Stanley Clarke or Jimi Hendrix and we have the above discussion.
 
As many of you have figured out, I'm a complete, total, unrepentant Deadhead.  But guess what?  I know that some of you just don't appreciate the Dead the way I do.  And guess what else?  I don't mind!  It doesn't change the pleasure I get from listening to the boys one iota.  In fact, I'm glad that not everyone loves the Dead.  The shows would have been even more crowded and tickets harder to come by over the years.
 
Now can we please go back to talking about basses, guitars, amps, effects, and Whippet Dinkels?
 
Bill, tgo

[hydrargyrum]

Yellow?  Are you some sort of halfwit?  GO BLUE!
 
 
 
(Message edited by hydrargyrum on May 06, 2009)

[olieoliver]

I second that motion (emotion) Bill!  
 
OO
The hamburger Lover!

[olieoliver]

Oh yea and my favorite color is COCO-BOLO!

[adriaan]

Now can we please go back to talking about basses, guitars, amps, effects, and Whippet Dinkels?
 
Well, I haven't had my say yet ... I for one was phenomenally bored by that RTF reunion concert that someone posted a link to here at the club - in my innocence I sat through the whole thing waiting for a flash of unexpected brilliance, the kind that gives you goosebumps. No such luck.
 
And IIRC it was the whippet's dinkle.

[jedisan]

So Bill, I got a Dead story for you? one I will always remember. So let?s fast rewind to sometime in the mid ?70?s, The Dead are playing a three night gig at Winterland. I have already been Thursday and Friday, but have no ticket for the obviously sold out Saturday night. My best buddy already has his ticket in advance, and we decide to go anyway, and scour the streets looking for a ticket for me. We agree that by curtain time, if I have not found a ticket, we will sell his and go party elsewhere. So after a fruitless hour or so, there I am, standing by the entrance at curtain time, no ticket, just waiting for my best bud to return. Just out of nowhere, a cute young lady approaches me, and says,
 
 ?I have an extra ticket, would you like to buy it??  
 
Well, my jaw dropped, I said,  
 
?Yes, how much??  
 
She sold it to me at face value, a ticket she easily could have doubled the price for, and made a tidy profit.  
 Needless to say, the kindness of this young lady you would be hard pressed to find these days.
Just wanted to lighten up the thread a little, I hope you all don?t mind.

[hendixclarke]

Skills, Techniques, and Knowledge are the (3) components rolled into a beginning, middle and end yielding: WOW HOW DID S/HE DO THAT, AND I WOULD LOVE USE THIS ON MY MUSIC PROJECT TOO...  
 
If you critics of Stanley, had not copied any Skills, of Techniques of Stanley in anyway then I respect your comments.  
 
Everybody I knows, people who owns Alembics almost automatically play Stanley cords... And ya'll know it true too.
 
Same with Jimi cords... heeeheheee eeeh  
 
So stop hating.