After I had been playing for a year or so I started wearing my basses way up high on my chest because that's what all the Serious players did (figure 1). But I eventually found that to be pretty uncomfortable, so I lowered my basses down to the hip-stomach area, and played my jazz pretty much at a 90 degree angle to my body (figure 2). My Jazz is still strapped that way, but my new Jag is strapped about six inches higher, which I find to be pretty comfortable, and my Roscoe is still strapped up high because I think it would look stupid to be playing that kind of bass down low by my hips (figure 3).
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P.S. most of those photos are pretty old. I haven't had long hair in years!
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