Ha Ha... here is some serious fun! As for the wisdom, as an old bass thumper myself, I don't think every bass player would agree with every commandment...For instance, ask John Patitucci! No, seriously: if this was a bass forum of some sorts, there would be much to talk on each and every one of these “commandments”. #9, for example, isn't very accurate. Every bassist knows that you can keep flatwound strings until they break: there's no point in changing them. You just clean them up a bit every now and then. I got an old pre-CBS Precision strung with 30 years old LaBella flatwounds, and it sounds better than ever. On the other hand, roundwounds sound like shit after a week of gigging, and you MUST change them... Er, but this is not a bass forum, is it?
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Great one! The 10 Commandments as laid down by James Singleton.
As a bass player I can tell you number 9 should be higher up.
I'd guess that the importance of each varies according to the level of transgression.
Good laugh ...I love bass players
I'll pass it on to mine
Cheers
LOL
Ha Ha... here is some serious fun! As for the wisdom, as an old bass thumper myself, I don't
think every bass player would agree with every commandment...For instance, ask John
Patitucci! No, seriously: if this was a bass forum of some sorts, there would be much to
talk on each and every one of these “commandments”. #9, for example, isn't very
accurate. Every bassist knows that you can keep flatwound strings until they break: there's
no point in changing them. You just clean them up a bit every now and then. I got an old
pre-CBS Precision strung with 30 years old LaBella flatwounds, and it sounds better than ever.
On the other hand, roundwounds sound like shit after a week of gigging, and you MUST
change them... Er, but this is not a bass forum, is it?
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