Get Back.

[Drunk Monk]

Just got to Station x and Imagine came on...

[Drunk Monk]

Listened to Abbey Road while driving home yesterday and sang it at the top of my lungs coming over Hwy17. Such a masterpiece.

We watched ep1 again and enjoyed it just as much, if not more.

[thatguy]

Oh yeah, get back! Thanks for saving the day, Billy!




--tg

[King Bob]

I think I'll skip to the rooftop and then maybe come back for the rest later.

Probably only of interest to TG - I thought McCartney held his hand weird on the neck of the bass, with his thumb wrapped all the way around. Granted, they didn't show his hands a lot, so it could have just been that part of the song, but I looked up photos, and he seems to always do it, or at least with his thumb on top of the neck. The only photo I saw where it wasn't like that was him playing a Rickenbacker.

[thatguy]

He started as a guitar player, only taking up bass after Stu left the band. I play guitar like that. It's a lazy thing, but also probably depends on the shape/width of your neck and the thickness of the strings...maybe a Hohner bass thing. I noticed that Sir Paul's bass strings were black. What's that about?

--tg

[King Bob]

Must be a guitar player habit. And the Hofner is a short scale bass, so you don't have to reach as far or clamp down as hard. I only recently started anchoring my thumb on the back of the neck. It came naturally when I started practicing a lot of scales and interval exercises.

I don't know about the black strings. Possibly a coating? Or blued steel maybe. Or old and dirty?

[Drunk Monk]

The first time I saw Paul, I was struck by that violin bass and how long his reach was. It seemed that the neck was extra long because the body of the bass seemed short, and Paul had orangutan arms. I thought that might have given him some advantage on his approach to bass, like pianists who have an excessive fingertip spread.

But I only noticed that once, that first time. In successive appearances, he seemed to have a normal reach. But that first time was the closest I got to him. A friend had seats in the center maybe a dozen rows back and she had me join her there for a few songs. Funny memory - we were sneaking a toke and right when we went to light the joint, the pyro cannons went off for Live and Let Die. We were close enough to feel the heat and the impact of the air displacement (it was a cold evening so the explosiveness of the pyro was palpable as it buffeted the air).

[thatguy]

Funny memory - we were sneaking a toke and right when we went to light the joint, the pyro cannons went off for Live and Let Die. We were close enough to feel the heat and the impact of the air displacement (it was a cold evening so the explosiveness of the pyro was palpable as it buffeted the air).

ive only ever felt that at Burning Man ‘11 standing near El Pulpo Machanico when it would go off



And re: the black bass strings, I found this

Rotosound RS88LD Black Nylon Flatwound Bass Guitar Strings ...

https://www.amazon.com › Rotosound-RS88LD-Flatwound-Guitar-Strings › dp › B0002GNUYU
‎The 'Black Nylon Tru Bass' Strings were originally developed to simulate a double bass sound on an electric bass. These RotoSound strings made their most famous appearance on top of the 'Apple' building while Paul McCartney was playing his Hofner bass. You will note that the tension is low, making this string extremely comfortable to play.

—tg

[Drunk Monk]

I've worked a lot of pits (front of stage) so I've been way too close to pyro and speakers. 

Big bass has impact too. I remember almost being blown into the audience when I had to cross the pit at Reggae Rising and that bass hit. 

I confess that I kinda like that sensation. Rocks the heart of my bottom.

[King Bob]

Sting played an electric standup bass when The Police toured for Ghost in the Machine and it shook the Cow Palace. Biggest bass sound from an instrument I've ever heard.

[thatguy]

I confess that I kinda like that sensation. Rocks the heart of my bottom.

Have you ever experienced the elusive "brown note"?

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

Good one, tg. 

I remember talking to Mickey Hart about a gong he wrote about in one of his books that was rumored to cause death. This is better. I'm gonna tell all the nooB Rock Medics about this.

We've had plenty of 'code browns' with IPRs. My fav was this dude at the Kaiser, trippin ballz at a Dead show. We all knew he crapped on himself and were trying to convince him that he needed to get cleaned up. He kept denying it. When we finally got him to a janitorial closet where we could hose him down, he exclaimed "who shit in my pants?!?"  

Man, I can hardly even type that without giggling. It was a mess, but feckin hilarious.

[Greg]

In related news....

[Drunk Monk]

Have you ever experienced the elusive "brown note"?

Ya know, I've been pondering this. If such a thing does exist, and some EDM DJ discovered it, just imagine the havoc they might wreak upon some poor unsuspecting audience. 

That would be a bad night for Rock Med.

[King Bob]

Mythbusters busted that myth. It was a good episode.