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What year is your
Sterling? 1995
Body colour?
Tobacco Sunburst
Fingerboard?
Pau Ferro
Your main gigging amp?
SWR SM-400, AccuGroove speaker cabinets
Your country?
USA
Name of your (main) band?
City Lights, Adama, and many others--I am a freelance player
Other or previous basses?
1971 Fender Jazz, Mike Lull M4V, PRS 5 string, Carvin 6 string, Ashbory
bass, Fernandes P bass, various other things. In the past there have been
other Fenders.
Your favourite bass strings?
DR Highbeams
Fingers or plectrum?
fingers 90%; thumb 9.9%; plectrum 0.1%
If plectrum, which one?
Jim Dunlop Tortex or Gator 0.88
What was the name of your very
first group/band? The Diamonds
(1964)
Did you start playing guitar or
bass first? Bass before guitar;
clarinet and sax before bass.
Do you play, like or dislike 5,
6, 7 and 8-string basses? I own
5 and 6 string basses. I like all basses.
Did you ever have a famous person
in your audience? I was
playing in a club in West Hollywood in the early 70's - John Lennon walked
in accompanied by Mae Pang. I almost passed out. The singer in the band
announced, "We have a famous guest sitting in the back...John Lennon. I'd
like to dedicate this next song to him" Then he sang "Yesterday" a
McCartney song! The crowd all was heading toward the back of the room.
Lennon and friends left after the one song.
In the late mid-seventies I was in the house band at a Sheraton Hotel
which was very close to a major concert ampitheater. Most of the groups
that played there stayed at the Sheraton. These people all came into the
lounge at various times over the year:
Jan Hammer and Jeff Beck, War, Lynnrd Skynnrd, Andy Williams. Various
famous people have sat in with bands I have been in over the years
including Steve Miller and Michael Shrieve (Santana drummer)
What track on what album should
we listen to in order to hear you and your bass-style best?
You might as well start with the first track on my CD, "Late Night TV"
(http://www.cdbaby.com/jazzexpress). I play in a lot of styles so any one
track is only a small sample.
Why do you like your Sterling?
Great feel--neck feels like a great Jazz bass (which is what I'm used to).
Variety of sounds possible. (way more than a Fender). I picked my Sterling
after hearing Pino Palladino on his StingRay, Jaco Pastorius on his Jazz
bass and Dave LaRue on a Sterling and trying out many, many fretless
basses. I thought that the Sterling was best of all possible choices and
would be able to get the sounds I heard from all three players and more.
And I was right.
thanks to Jeremy for being part
of The Sterling Collection
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