Saturday 21 January 2006
Bass dreams
Lately a running theme in my dreams is ‘alternative ways of playing bass’. Like bowing it with the blade of an ice skate, a technique favoured by the devil in some sitcom. (I found myself on the show’s set between shows. The devil and the angel who shared the house along with an ordinary twenty-something guy, were hanging around, still in character.)
This morning I dreamt there were big lighted buttons of various shapes and colours all around the bridge of my bass like some sort of kid’s toy. Each button played a different tone. And I woke up going “Aww, you mean they’re not real?”
I once saw John Gzowski play guitar using some sort of little electronic noisemaker device which he placed over his pickups, sending the sounds direct to his amp. Maybe I should steal that idea.