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Yes, I know Tom is down here - actually only about 3 miles away I believe! I also know he's gigging a lot, in fact I THINK he's playing with Adrien Belew - who has a concert here locally (Two blocks away), so I may try to check in with him there (if he's doing the gig).

Thanks,

Greg

Hey, Ed!

I am also super new to the stick and i basically know nothing at all, haha. I'm still learning how to tune the thing. But yes, learning I shall, and I am awainting my stickology book/dvd. Hopefully it get's me started.

Good luck on your stick voyage!

>>But yes, learning I shall, and I am awainting my stickology book/dvd. Hopefully it get's me started.<<

"Stickology...." comes with a guarantee. If it doesn't motivate you, we'll send you another copy.
But I have confidence, one copy will do the trick.

Justin Case

Is that one for the melody and one for bass Steve? I think Emmett suggests that you read them cross-eyed, but beware, the damn bass book is backwards and all of the words are ascending!!

Kris

I am so new, I haven't even begun yet. But all the ideas and advice I've picked up from you guys over the last month or so has been invaluable. Thankyou all!

Currently looking for 2nd hand options in the UK, but very nearly able to cough up for a new model.

But then, I guess I've still got plently of time left to get into this, being a college guy!

>>Currently looking for 2nd hand options<<

Usually the second hand plays the melody.
Now if you can add a third hand, then you're sayin' somethin'
BTW-on digital clocks, there is no 2nd hand.

Roger N. Aut

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Oh I'm splitting my sides here!

hey all, just had to jump in this ''group therapy'' session and expose my past. We're all very much alike it seems. welp....I to am a life long working bass player 42 yrs on the gig!! I'm 56yrs old . I'm not a wiz-bang technition, just a grizzled vet like so many of you. So with only a year + on stick I have been totally humbled , all I do is practice ....and put me on the ''one cloud list'' . by the way I talked on the telephone today with master Emmett Chapman . they're sending my bamboo grand out maybe today or monday. Lt. bam,combo tuners, new pasv4, ahhhhh,cant wait, Tony

Hello Ed, welcome and thanks for the nice comment.

Twizzle is right on... as I like to say (since One Cloud was the first thing I wrote on the Stick and seems to get the most response from people) "it's all downhill from here".

Its not that One Cloud is best, I love the Jethro Tull stuff too, but it seems to have found itself spread around most of the net.

Anyway to business, as I mention in my UK Sticks for sale post in the classified section, I may possibly eventually be interested in an ironwood stick for sale. I don't know it's spec yet, but assuming it doesn't have the modern truss rod what problems does this imply? Greg refers people to adjusting their truss rod as the solution to every query they have...
And also as I'm expecting to not be conforming to standard or the normal MR tuning because of the need to reach a B equivelent to bottom of a 5 string bass for using with the band. (as I write this, I remember someone refering to me as a tuning fascist because I wanted to go straight to fourths all over some time ago )

Sorry for the long post...