You’ve probably never heard OF Carol Kaye, but you have certainly heard her music, especially on bass. Pure awesome.
Tal Wilkinfeld & Jeff Beck 2009(?).
Jaco Pastorius was brilliant on bass, but had serious mental problems.
Mercy Mercy Mercy. This jam cranks, but that can’t be Stanley Jordan on bass (or guitar, or any other instrument) despite the Utoobage description, yet someone was playing a 6-string bass…
Have a great weekend, folks. Rock on.
The 3rd one, a Massé shot, is completely legal – a high-angled strike on the cue ball that produces extreme English. This one works as both RSM’s Rule No. 5 and a retrolink to my own Best Shot Story.
Way too many irreverent snarkage possibilities to be included here, so leave ’em in the comments. Go for it.
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A little girl gave the missus this wristwatch in church.
Chet Atkins & Les Paul Limehouse Blues 1978. Wait for the end – Atkins shows that he was playing a fold-up guitar.
Using instruments crafted from tin, 2×4’s and salvaged parts, RT has stated that RT N’ THE 44s was born out of “an attempt to make listenable music from junk.” [Wiki]
[h/t to Anachronistic Decay.]
Here’s a related video from La armonía del vertedero – Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados de Cateura de Paraguay:
My late Uncle Bunk had what he called a “BoomBass” that consisted of a cookie tin nailed to a 2×3 with a single wire on a bridge that ran up to a fretboard, with tambourine thingys on the top and a spring peg on the bottom. You played it by banging it on the floor and hitting the wire with a notched dowel. It was also painted very nicely, and someone I know still has it.
Besides the diddley bow, my favorite instrument that began as junk salvage: the steel pan drum.
Bob Lyons plays Jason Mraz’s reggae-ish hit on steel drums in Wellington, Florida December 2009
Have a great weekend, folks, and remember, no man can eat 50 eggs, Easter or not.
“I Am The Eggplant” followed by “Lettuce Be” and “Big Butter and Eggplant.”
Tacky Raccoons 