QuoteHey...hows your foot doing?  Fully recovered?

thanks for asking.  last year at this time i was still in a cast getting ready for our first show that i played partially standing and mostly seated using a status graphite bass for weight relief.

now i'm fully free of braces, crutches and what-have-ya. i'm planning on using the good basses as much as i can. so i'm going with the SII and A-Bass getting ready for our first show of the year tomorrow night.  been training with a 22 Lb. (US) weighted vest 2 hours a day to help me get accustomed to moving  around with a millstone around my neck.

i'm in a band of nit-picking perfectionists so we video our rehearsals.  sometime after practice i'll get a text with all my clams noted.  kinda like being back in school again.  here's a mashup of our last rehearsal, songs separated by 3-second blackscreens. the first track is with me playing the A-bass, the second with the SII. there's probably 20 tunes we played on here, pretty much striaght thru. (ya really don't need to watch the whole video unless yer into that kind of punishemnt) i guess if i can pull this off standing upright, then i'm fit for service.

now - if i had a 5-string fretless, i could do another half dozen of these songs on it.  got a fretless 5-string essence.  nice bass.  doesn't hold a candle to these two basses.  probably gonna put it up for sale soon.

"...pointing out clams..."
Tell them it's a free-form jazz interpretation that's allowing for self expression in a rigid environment.... ya gotta let your freak flag fly!

The band does sound really good, could use more bass in the mix, at the same time, our iPad isn't known for a booming low end. 🤷🏻�♂️