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so i've been a guitarist for about 10 years now and i've been getting into bass for the past year and a half. it was inevitable considering that most of my listenings lately are les claypool, fishbone, and p-funk. so for my birthday, i got a bass. an epiphone ripper. was entirley bought off of just research and hoping it wouldn't be a lemon when it came in. i'm happy to say that it's a quality instrument and i've been wearing out my fingers playing all day and slapping part of the day. the slapping sounds really good...i know gibson/epiphone basses aren't known for slap-ability but this one definately has it. then there's the small stuff like the brass nut which increases the resonance. the fact that it has two volumes along with the three way switch. the finished fretboard.

it just plays very very nicely. the stock pickups are actually pretty good too.

Hi,

I played bass too, the bass that I'd like to get is a Rickenbacker like Lemmy and a Kramer Spector like Rachel Bolan, acoustic bass should be cool too and a 8 strings Hagstrom like Hendrix.

I went to your myspace web site, it's cool what you play !

Reggae without drums should be hard to play, did you used a click track ?

I guest that Jonny, Jon and Jonathan are the same person ?

Some part of The Platypus Comes sounds like Red Hot Chilli Pepper (B.S.S.M. Album), it's cool

the platypus comes from everything i've come across....which includes rhcp...though i'll admit i'm not a follower of them. i'd say funk influences come more from fishbone and george clinton (including parliament and funkadelic) and the meters than anywhere else.


as far as without drums....they were recorded by myself with my computer....i eventually used a click track because i found that i could get cleaner tracks faster than just simply using rough tracks then recording over them. i'd do the same with or without a drummer. but that's the recording engineer in me talking after having a conversation with the musician and artist in me.


as far as the tracks go...i haven't recorded any basslines yet with my bass...all the bass you hear on those tracks are me fingering basslines on my parker and dropping them down an octave on cubase. i'd like to eventually have a band going and make money doing that or make money off of audio editing. with my current job and possibility for moving up...it'll probably be audio editing...which is great because i'm the best at that....i create the best seamless audio and don't stop until it is seamless.

We need a bassist for REAL heavy project, got the speed and the groove? Contact me.