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I have now open for Travis Meeks and Days of the New while playing for Smoking Gorillas. Its been a blast and the crowds have been big! Im also practicing on my string bass. Takes time for the muscle memory to get to where I feel good about playing songs. So Ive been going through scales again. 2 octaves, and work out proper fingerings and postions and bowing.
Yes I said bowing (french bow). Sore fingers for me!

Damn, man! That sure looks good on a resume! Keep it rollin'! French bow? You playing stand up bass?

Cool.
Eric plays the string bass as well.
We attempted to convert some of our music to an unplugged set for coffee house use. NEAH !
We'll stick with ROCKIN!

Best wishes.

yes Im playing string bass...Well Im working on it. We are working on songs that require a live string bass. I used to play string bass in school and college. With the symphonies. But its been a few years. Takes a few weeks! if not months.

How do you intend (or do you) to amplify the string bass ?

I have been told this can be a very tricky situation sonically.

Ii bought a fishman . It comes with a real nice preamp..Then I will run it through an David Eden amp...You have to watch the low shelfing eq

Those Fishmans are the coolest.

I don't envy you, though. Bull fiddle is damned hard work, as far as I can tell.

I've jammed on it a few times with some bluegrass bands, & I can see why so many players tape thier fingers.

It takes awhile to get over that big bulky awkward factor, too, doesn't it?

I studied string bass until I was about 25 years old then played off and on until I was about 35. I then set the double bass aside for a few years. It came back out in my mid 40s . That lasted about 2 weeks. Because my hands hurt. But in week 3 of re leaning.. Its getting alot better and I can do 2 octave scales now and I start sight reading monday!

new picture on this site of me playing string bass in my studio/Users/steveanderson/Desktop/stevestingbass.jpg

I need to figure out how to embed a picture on here~

I used to upload mine to Photobucket then copy and paste the URL by first clicking on IMG - paste URL - IMG:
But now for some reason I cant get anything to upload at Photobucket.
Damn irritating.

Good luck, I LOVE pictures !

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... D=32696365 testing 1 2 3