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teb wrote:My '69 Hagstrom 8-string plays like a dream. Short scale, skinny, fast and dead straight Hagstrom neck, low action, TI Jazz Flats on all eight. Sustains like a mother, too.
http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... string.mp3

That does sound nice! Makes me want to make a "ghetto" 8 string out of my old ibanez( first bass)

Sounds like David Lindley's "Your Old Lady"

I've actually expanded my use of the eight-string somewhat over the last couple of years. We tend to think of them as having a big, powerful sound (which they can and do have) but some of the stuff I've liked the best was on fairly mellow passages where I probably wouldn't have originally believed that it would be a good choice. It's still got deep power, but it's kind of a "power in reserve, used sparingly" sort of thing. Like this clip:

http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... k%2010.mp3

or the fourth clip in this string (1:54 in):

http://webpages.charter.net/tbradshaw/M ... amples.mp3