The Swiss Army Bass

[cofi]

Jay Wasco's Swiss Army bass - an inconveniently unique instrument; hard to play, interesting to hear -

Yup-that's right. It's a bass guitar with a midi keyboard mounted on it. Yes, the two are played simultaneously. The bass is played with the left hand alone by means of a guitar technique known as "hammer-ons" while the keyboard (which emulates a distorted slide guitar most of the time. among other things) is played with the right hand. This instrument has a weight equivalent to that of a small motorcycle, and as you might imagine, requires years of time and patience to "master".
He does make it look easy, check out the videos on JaysMuseum.com -Link--jaysmuseum.com/swiss%20pages/swissarmybass.htm

While you're there, check out the Egotar, bass/slide guitar hybrid -Link--jaysmuseum.com/egotar.htm.htm

Jay Wasco is a very talented musician, excellent playing, amazing technique, here is a video of John, covering a "Neil Young" song, there are other videos of john in the links above, enjoy

Jay Wasco-Heart Of Gold

This is my favorite by him, it's a "Elton John" song from the 60s,

Jay Wasco - Rocket Man

There are longer versions of these songs, on the link's above,

[sparky]

Awesome,
I get enough trouble with playing my guitar, without even trying to to play that thing,
I wonder, did he build that himself ?? thinking about it, he must have,
I'v never seen anything like that before.

He must have been practasing for years to get to play like that,
like I said awesome,

Thanks for posting

[cofi]

I just watched him again, and he is good,

I love the slide bit he does on the song "Rocket-Man"
IMO, totally unique. he's a bloody star in my eye's

[sparky]

Amen Brother,