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He’ll be telling us that all basses sound the same next. Great vid 👍

Enjoyed that - the musical he's on is very gospel sounding but without the crap you have to put up with in a church!

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James is a really nice chap, and as mentioned he's great fun to jam with but expect to fly by the seat of your pants. I find his gigs great fun. He does have some crazy banter, but he doesn'ttake himself seriously... he named an album 'frantic' as a response to a reviewer. In the time I've known him ( about 4 years) his playing has developed a lot more subtlety and feel. It's not just crazy fast riffing. He has some great bassists, not just Norman, but his go-to drummer Mark Kemlo is incredible.

The thing that ruined facebook for me was when they switched to more "intelligent" algorithms rather than just putting in sequence whatever your friends happened to be posting. Straight away this destroyed what originally made facebook a good idea, which for me was getting in touch with people I hadn't seen or heard from for ages. Now it's just bland rubbish (albeit quite bass focussed for me). Sadly most people I found interesting to be in touch with left facebook many years ago.

Welcome! I don't think there are any shape differences between the tribute and the USA models.

He’s a big FI user if I recall.

Sent you a private message

Will aim to do one!

The Blob Monkeys

Kind of you, Chris! I met him through my friend Deke Leonard, who adored him (and vice versa). James had a band called Glas, but fell out with the singer. He asked for my career advice and ignored it - rightly! I never saw him as a frontman. He can’t sing, but neither could Wilko. He just carries it off with sheer strength of character. I think he may be on the spectrum, but boy has he made the most of his talents. How long he can keep up the relentless touring is another matter. Apologies for raving, but nice guys can make it. And in my book James Oliver is a worthy contender. He gives 110 per cent and I would be delighted to be his bass player.

I'm not sure if anyone will be interested given some of the exotica other people are bringing but I'm happy to bring along all or most of my gear on the basis of being very ordinary but someone might want to try out now that guitar shops aren't a thing. choose from Warwick Gnome, TC Elf, Peavey Minimax, Bugera Veyron. Fender Highway One Jazz, Fender American Deluxe Precision, Squier Anniversary P, Burny Thunderbird.

Just got tickets for Babyshambles in Nov so I am buzzing!

Sorry, didn’t think I needed to specify. They can be professional teachers or whatever you want to call YouTubers, but in these video titles they’re labelled as professional musicians or bass players.

Not true. If you watch this video in its entirety you'll definitely see some brbr dengs in there.

Thought I might take a look at the Headrush Flex Prime - you don't hear a lot about Headrush gear from bass players, so I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with them? Was thinking of taking one for an "audition". They seem to have a decent range of bass-specific amps, FX, etc (Ampeg, GK, Hartke, Peavey and Trace Elliot amps and cabs, various bass-specific effects like the Darkglass B3K, etc) and lots of other nice features, including the ReValver built in, so you can do amp modelling directly on the pedal.

Pretty! I do love that ACG angled headstock design.

I thought it was Mark Twain

A request off a Facebook transcription page, this is the complete Victor Wooten part for the tune 'Bil Mon' from the 2003 Bela Fleck and The Flecktones album, 'Little Worlds'. Lot of ghost notes so not an easy read. https://bilbosbassbites.co.uk/bil-mon-bela-fleck-and-the-flecktones/

I'm pretty sure the people who taught music in my school were professionals. There are professional TouTubers educating people various aspects of music, maybe not following an syllabus but educating and informing non the less.

Was going to reply to add to this the obvious reasons why these platforms are not being regulated as much as they should but think it’s going down the politics rabbit hole which will end up with the thread locked. Luckily we can still enjoy watching SBL invite other YouTubers onto their channel for challengers and have the cheek to call them professionals!