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Frenchy-Lefty · **Posted:** April 18th, 2011, 11:23 pm

The guy sounds great but why doesn't get a real lefty bass especially to play in such a high register...go figure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_uc3HPrecs&feature=player_embedded#at=121

fivebass52 · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 12:54 am

Lefty is lefty.... if you had only been able to listen to this as an audio file, you would have had no clue he was playing "upside down ". It's a beautiful melody, and his playing is stellar.... no matter how his bass is strung. I'm still trying to play like that, and my bass is strung "the right way"!

pjmuck · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 5:53 am

Very excellent. Is he actually playing live or is he "bass-syncing" though? That bass does NOT sound like a J, IMO. Sounds very much like an Alembic/Stanley Clarke tone.

LefThanDed · **Joined:** May 12th, 2008, 5:55 pm **Posts:** 254

pjmuck wrote:

Sounds very much like an Alembic/Stanley Clarke tone.

Piccolo stings.
He is originally from here in Raleigh, NC.

amimbari · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 6:32 am

hey watch your language Frenchy :mrgreen:

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I heard that same thing all the time when I used to flip rightys... and replied "don't watch, just listen".
if someone had a super nice sounding righty bass, hell ya I'd flip it and play it today.
I always told people that they were there to listen to a great bassplayer in a great band, not to question his orientation.

Addison · **Joined:** June 15th, 2009, 8:03 am **Posts:** 1341

I think Frenchy was only commenting on the fact that he doesn't have the lower cutaway, not on the fact that he plays with his E on bottom.

Frenchy-Lefty · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 9:39 am

Yes! I was just suggesting he could use a lefty bass strung upside-down a la Jimmy Haslip - It just seems more confortable to play especially in the upper register. I know that quite a few guys here are playing with the E string down, I did not mean to offend anyone especially, Amimbari who uses such dangerous looking basses! :mrgreen:

amimbari · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 12:35 pm

oh ya that also Frenchy/Addison...I am never "offended/embarrassed" by ANYTHING musical anymore....

I am a lefty, and in our society...that's bad enough

fivebass52 · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 3:42 pm

Addison wrote:

I think Frenchy was only commenting on the fact that he doesn't have the lower cutaway, not on the fact that he plays with his E on bottom.

My bad... now I get what Frenchy was getting at.

Frenchy-Lefty · **Posted:** April 19th, 2011, 4:49 pm

Quote:

That bass does NOT sound like a J, IMO. Sounds very much like an Alembic/Stanley Clarke tone.

Besides the piccolo tunning it looks like he is using either some basslines pickups or perhaps those new EMG's JVX. Whatever it is, it does reminds of the Alembic sound, it's fantastic!

I am usually not such a fan of solo bass players (it seems, that the keyboard is playing the bass) and prefers when the bass sticks to a more traditional role but I totally dig this... and his venue, which seems to dig it too, is certainly not made up of a geeky bass players either. If it was in my neighborhood, I'd go to church more...

glefty5 · **Posted:** April 23rd, 2011, 6:11 am

Great find, thnx guys. What great phrasing & feel, yes very Stanley but how can a piccolo not sound Stanley? Still, I love this gospel feel, even if it's MOR. Inspiring.

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