The Future of Music is not what it used to be

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This site was put together by a Paraplegic who plays with the electric bass & hand drums; aka Bassin at 66.

A slightly vague and incomplete bio: My being, my body, part of my mind, was converted into living the life as a paraplegic long ago the result of a fall striking and crushing my L-1 vertebrae on an iron railing.

I used to play bass guitar in a half dozen rock bands long ago in the San Francisco area where I was born and lived for 29 years. Playing was a joy, being on the stage, the music loud and people partying, and, getting paid for it! 

My rig was one Fender American Precision bass (no back up never needed one) and a Standel 150 watt amp with 2 ea. 15" speakers. Standel is no longer in business. During these years of playing, mind altering substances arrived in San Francisco and the band got into Acid Rock, our night clubs gigs faded, we played  a few big outdoor venues. I sold my equipment and went 'Back to the Land'  far up in the Northwest.  Do the math, this old body is indeed that...

Twenty Five Years Later
I'll gradually fill in this space.

Checking out the internet I found several individuals with Spinal Cord Injury who were actually working musicians. I contacted them and got inspired to put this site together. I myself pretty much forgot most of what I knew when I was playing in bands so it's all about new beginnings and starting over...

BASSES: Over the past 3 years I've bought 3 basses: an American Fender Standard (active) Jazz with a maple neck & blond Ash body; I have a Fender Aerodyne Jazz (passive) bass, and a 2007 - 4003 Rickenbacker 4 string (passive) bass, I have to say that I love all three of them equally even though they are totally different from each other.

AMPLIFICATION: The new Behringer ULTRABASS BXR1800H 180 watt head powering a Gallien-Krueger Goldline 2x10 GLX Bass Cabinet with 2X10" Paragon aluminum cone loudspeakers that can handle 300 watts, a Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus Box & a Fender RT-1000 Rack Tuner.

I play the bass almost every day, learn riffs from Bass Player magazine; rock, fusion, funk, modal jazz, classical, world music, sometimes adding notes that fit but don't sound like the original at all! I lengthen the riffs from these tunes, and being an amateur, I don't read music, only tabs, so I don't see the timing or spacing of the notes. What results are good sounding progressions that nobody would recognize, not even myself! This is about sound therapy and healing through music more than playing actual tunes

My wife and I have started playing Ukuleles, they are happy fun instruments to play. She has a Concert size and I have the larger size Tenor. Check out The Ukulele Shop, ask for Rob ukulelerob@verizon.net or visit: http://stores.ebay.com/ukulele4u Rob will help you decide the size and brand for your needs.

You have to understand that I do this as an amateur, by myself for fun and relaxation, meditation & sound therapy - unfortunately, as an old fogy in a wheelchair, this body don't get out much . So, home alone with four strings, a head and a cabinet whose speakers vibrates throughout my body and wheelchair soothing my mind is what it's about, until...  Gray

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