Wanna see a picture of me playing bass on stage?:

[RandomKoolzip]

Nashville, TN, Sept. 2003. Band: The 8th Grade.

www.the8thgrade.com

My former band. That's my favorite bass in the world: a Hamer Cruisebass...the model is from 1986. It used to be my dad's and I inherited it when he died. One of the volume knobs is missing.

[gmoney]

1. knobs are like $2.50 at any music store...

pick one up... or even three so they match!

Fun photo... sometimes I miss playing bass in a band.

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I know....but I dig that "worn" look that Billy Sheehan had on his bass.

uh...not. I hate Billy Sheehan.

No, anyways, the action on that fucker is so high other people can't even play it. The strings are about a 1/2 above the fretboard! But it sounds sooooo sweet, like Chris Squire's tone on "Close to the Edge," but with a jazzy, rubbery edge to it.

And since I play with a pick, that's the ideal sound!

[enigmatic]

3. You play w/ a pick, too?

Before switching to guitar I used to play bass in hardcore bands and always used a pick; I had some purists look at me like a freak...

[RandomKoolzip]

7. Screw the purists.

If it's good enough for Paul McCartney and Krist Novoselic, then it's good enough for me.

A lot of bass snobs look down on pick-users, but there's a whole variety of sounds available with the audible grain of pick use that are unavailable to finger-pluckers. It's not wrong, it's just different.

Plus, all my fave bassists were pick players. Tina Weymouth, Joe Lally, Rick Danko, Scott Thunes, Brian Wilson, etc.

[Skittles]

4. I.............ER...............is it ME doing drugs or is it you???

:7

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Why choose? Let's ALL be on drugs!

[prof_science]

5. Well. I DID.

heh. j/k.

[Robeson]

6. Where were you playing in Nashville?

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Mercy Lounge...it was an "After Uptown Mix" party.

I forget who played that night at Uptown Mix, it mighta been Wilco. We flyered every parking lot in the uptown area and started playing around 11:45. Great show, lotsa peeps.

Living in Nashville sucked sometimes, but at least there were no shortages of places to play.

[Robeson]

10. No, there's never a shortage of places to play....

....and a whole new "scene" is opening up in East Nashville. More of a Democratic crowd than the "West" Nashville young Republican crowd.

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Yeah, before I moved to Chicago, East Nashville was

definitely the place where all the cool people were moving. (I lived on Belmont, across from Bongo Java, the other "cool" neighborhood in Nashville)...

We played Mike Grime's bar in EN a couple of times (I forget what it was called) before it closed down, too.

[Robeson]

12. Yeah, then you'd probably be amazed....

....there have been about 5 to 6 new bars open up in East Nashville, and they are the happening places. Sometimes the West Nashvillians make it over to this side of the "River" and have this wild look in their eyes because they can't believe that there's a whole new scene going on over here, and that no one gives a shit about their part of town. Lambchop played recently at a bar over here, with about one days notice, which made it a really intimate thing.