This one's for you, Thumper.

There's a club here that once a year has "The Bass Summit". (We're in Summit county. Get it?) It's a night of bass player fronted bands and solo artists. They each get 20 minutes. I have never had so much fun in my life instigating discussions that got so heated sometimes that players has to be pulled apart.

So if you are ever in a room full of bass players, drop these names.

Charles Mingus.
James Jamerson.
Stanley Clarke.
Jaco Pastorius.
Victor Wooten.
Pino Palladino.

And watch the fur fly as all those bottom dwellers defend their favorite.

I mean, we ALL know Jaco was the greatest ever, right?

And....go!

LOL!

And by the way, those nights present some GREAT music. The last one I went to, the next to last group opened with The Chicken and morphed right into Donna Lee. I was awestruck listening to a guy name Jared Lees play Donna Lee on his 6 string Prat bass. That's one of the most difficult pieces of music ever written. By either Miles Davis or Charlie Parker, depending on who you choose to believe.