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James Jamerson never "paid other bass players for their used strings" to my knowledge.




Well, I heard this in one of three places: Either it's in the documentary movie, "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" or I heard it while on a studio tour of the Motown museum with the Detroit chapter of the Audio Engineering Society - standing right in the place where the Funk was brung (that was magical, actually), or possibly a documentary that ran on the Detroit PBS station perhaps 4 or 5 years ago about the Funk Brothers.

One of those three places. I actually think it was the movie. Now I gotta see if I can rent the movie. Highly recommended, BTW if folks haven't seen it.

The tour, by the way, was given by the museum staff as well as by Tony Bongiovi and Dave Clark, two former Motown Engineers (both worked at the tail end of the Detroit Motown era).

Dave Clark went on to design and install the first flown speaker array (at Pine Knob) and Tony Bongiovi went on to design and operate the Power Station in NYC.

BTW, I don't dispute that he left his strings on for very long times. It was when a string broke that he paid for old strings from other players in the area.

-Scott

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