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One Armed Bandit - Judge Dread

I was wondering who'd be first to spot it. Well done. 😁

jack bruce taught me that you do not have to play a fretless as a fretless.

Blimey. They were distributing so many brands, all of which will be looking for new UK distributors. When I was in the trade they offered really long credit terms to retailers, it was a proper lifeline to keeping product on the shelves. This really isn’t good news for the small independents out there.

An amazingly talented band. Dave

Same amp & cab as forever. New bass, tho!

This is very much like a similar cable I put together, but using stereo components to enable me to mount a stereo wireless unit on the strap when using my 4003's rick-o-sound output.

Hopefully this is a one time only deal. GK Fusion 550 running through a headless Mesa Walkabout. The Walkabout head needs repairs, my green TWO10s is up for sale, so it's staying at home. It sounded good at sound check but it's really different.

Apologies for the hijack... as you were.

If ever I'm asked "Are you a musician?" my answer is always "Good God, no - I'm a Bass player"

I doubt you’d say that to a blind or visually impaired student, or musician or virtuoso, so I’m genuinely a bit lost on that statement. (though in 32 years of playing bass I’ve never considered myself a musician )

I'm generally fine whenever. Looking forward to it!

Stingray 4 would definitely be of interest.

Oh don't worry about that, you can just make it up 😃

Agreed! 😎👍

I jammed with Ritchie Hayward of Little Feat once, with Pre-Feeder Grant Nicholas.

Wot about reading rythm? That to me is the hard bit of sight reading

Apologies, the -> were meant to deonte moving from one note to the next

I know that 'Music Theory' is an academic subject but in my humble opinion, knowing note names, knowing which notes to play when and why *IS* music theory. Someone could have decent music theory knowledge without having studied it academically, surely? If a guitarist told you what chords he was playing and you knew which notes to play (or even just where to put your fingers) to make it sound good, that's music theory, surely? Maybe we should seperate it into Music Theory and music theory? Potato/Potato, Tomato/Tomato, let's Carl the whole thing Orff 😃

I would suggest, from long experience, that this is patently untrue. Not to decry the benefits of reading, but the Knowledge can, and is, put to Good Use by thousands of musicians, all over the Planet, every day, with nothing written at all, nor understood even if it were. Ears, on the other hand, can be useful. Knowing, from experience, how chords are constructed, and why, rhythmic notions to recognise different styles, and play to adapt to them, improvising over a piece never before heard... All of this, and more, much more, can, and is, achieved with no idea of notation, of any sort. Reading is Good, but it is only a part of Music Theory, and maybe not the most important part.