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cdf
Junior
Username: cdf

Post Number: 15
Registered: 5-2003
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 6:09 am:   Edit Post

It seems the Universe itself is a bass fan. Astronomers have noted ripples analogous to sound waves emanating from a black holes (see www.msnbc.com/news/963885.asp?cp1=1) The article mentions a B-flat 57 octaves below middle C. Wonder how big that string would be ...
dnburgess
Member
Username: dnburgess

Post Number: 100
Registered: 1-2003
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 6:34 am:   Edit Post

B flat?! You mean the universe loves heavy metal?
davehouck
Intermediate Member
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 133
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 6:51 am:   Edit Post

It's the same everywhere. The band leader has the bass player staying on the root forever.
mdrdvp
Member
Username: mdrdvp

Post Number: 65
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 7:22 am:   Edit Post

Humming B-flat for billions of years. Pretty long song that is. I also wonder who the bandleader is.
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 579
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 7:50 am:   Edit Post

Who it is???
I dunno ...but the guitar MUST BE an Alembic seen the sustain LOL!

Paul the bad one
alembic76407
Intermediate Member
Username: alembic76407

Post Number: 174
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 9:55 am:   Edit Post

B-Flat!!!!!! it must be a horn band, I hate playing between the dots
groovelines
Intermediate Member
Username: groovelines

Post Number: 103
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:18 am:   Edit Post

so does our passion for the lower register mean we are in tune with the universe? or just "matter-sucking drains"?

On another note (ha!), naturalists believe that elephants communicate over vast distances, up to 40 miles, in sub-sonic frequencies.

hmmm, matter-sucking; big-eared; wrinkled, grey skin; communicates via low frequencies, oh man, I better stop, the picture isn't looking so good...
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 580
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:43 am:   Edit Post

As a matter of fact brother Michael the groove one - there is also a brother Michael the antique one (BTW brother and sisters you gotta click on MIchael's profile: one helloffunicebass!!!! THERE he is hiding is baby!!!!)
Where was I?!
Oh yes ...as a matter of fact that elephant sory IS TRUE!
I'm a long time National Geographic trustee and in one of the past yars there came this report about elephants "talking". They discovered it by providing an elephant in each of 3 different groups (females with children - males are solitaires) with transmitters who could be spotted by satellite. They discovered that the movements the three groups made were "coördinated" but the groups were miles and miles from each other away. I don't know if there was actually "proof" but I thought so.
They discovered they were "transmitting" ULFrequencies not HEARABLE by man but when you were in the neighbourhood of an elephant transmitting those sounds you immediately became nauseous and got a terrible headache.
No kidding no joke this time!

Paul the elephant one

That discription you gave ...it's TOTALLY ME!!!

(Message edited by palembic on September 11, 2003)
pastorscott
Junior
Username: pastorscott

Post Number: 12
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 10:54 am:   Edit Post

Paul... I used to get nauseous and a headache around a girl i used to date. could she have been a matter-sucking big eared wrinkled grey skinned ol' gal, and I just never saw it??? Also, (back to the B flat) doest this mean God is a bass man??

palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 581
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 11:20 am:   Edit Post

Wooooooops!
We're goin' deep here!
"Was (is???) God a bass-player".
I dunno ....but what I DO know that the Alembic premises in Santa Rosa are about the closest place to heaven that I can imagine ...for bass-players!
However that this could be denied by the hard working people there.

Paul the bad one

Pastorscott ...that was ME you were dating than?
cdf
Junior
Username: cdf

Post Number: 16
Registered: 5-2003
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 1:55 pm:   Edit Post

I have also heard that elephants (and a few other critters) are capable of generating sub-sonic frequencies. Just recently I was reading some differing conjectures on whether the sub-sonic sounds were rudimentary communication or defense mechanisms. In one experiment people were played the same pieces of music with and without certain ultra low frequencies, almost invariably they reported some degree of nausea and/or anxiety when the music was played with the ULFs. Either way very interesting, but I prefer to think its a long distance elephant jam sessions.
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 583
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 2:19 pm:   Edit Post

And something else.
When Brother Paul the fake one/the artist formerly known as DIno was pregnant of Renée-Nicole (uh-uh ...I have the feeling that this text is going the wrong way ...well ...you know what I mean) I gave him the advice to excercice his upright bass-playing to comfort the not born-baby. It worked! It also works with just born and very young kids.
So all you pregnant sisters and brothers (I still have the feeling I'm missing here the right english language) ...keep on playing that sweet upright with the deep tone, it' gives a very relaxing mood.

Paul the bad one

Don't try it with your Paganini violin pieces or your Jackson heavy-metal licks!!!!!!!
dadabass2001
Junior
Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 47
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 4:53 am:   Edit Post

I have an album from the seventies called "Common Ground" by the Paul Winter Consort. On several tracks Winter and/or Paul Mccandles (I believe) play duets with African hawks, wolves, and humpback whales. If I remember the LP liner notes correctly, Paul felt several species here on planet Earth sing in D flat. PS. the album is excellent, recorded in an artist commune in New England.
Mike
groovelines
Intermediate Member
Username: groovelines

Post Number: 105
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 5:31 am:   Edit Post

Paul, the elaphant one - now come on, grey and wrinkly? Now I've got to ask, where does that glow come from, the infusion of amber-hued ale?

Mike
groovelines
Intermediate Member
Username: groovelines

Post Number: 106
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 5:33 am:   Edit Post

Paul, not quite the elephant one - come on, grey and wrinkly? So where does that red glow come from? the infusion of amber-hued ale?

Mike
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 587
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 7:50 am:   Edit Post

Mike ...euh ...I forgot my sunoil HA!
dean_m
Intermediate Member
Username: dean_m

Post Number: 178
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 8:03 am:   Edit Post

Yep,
Thats right Paul. It does work even now. When shes cranky, there's nothing like some out of intonation etudes to really send her over the edge, but it does sooth the baby. HA!!!!
IT really does work though!

Peace,
Dino(bptfo/tafkad/ktf)

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