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My first fretless gig was recorded on a demo. I'd already been playing exclusively without frets for about 3 years and spent the majority of my practices plugged into an electronic tuner (my ears are good, but they aren't Mozart's) so I didn't fear intonation issues. Went well. Never even had to do ...

I use them interchangeably. Generally. But in the 26 years I've been playing bass, the difference between bass and "a low guitar" has always been in the mindset of the person playing it. When it's approached as a bass, the player will choose completely different methods of expression than someone wh...

He has actually said "People only applaud fretless bass solos because they are glad it's over". I think I'd have mentioned that certain guitar players only have teeth because there isn't a bass in them (yet), or that if he didn't like it as much as the others did that there a probably hundreds of o...

Generally, you'll look to make it something that does not stretch the string materials much, as that would mess with the player's intonation on a per-string basis (different thicknesses of the same material will stretch different amounts even if the distance to the fingerboard is identical). That wo...