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Roger's just looking for publicity for his new album... And he's probably right that his rock music peaked in 1971. Just means he's stuck in his own past and hasn't noticed the world moving on.

Well I've certainly got hundreds of albums in my garage that were released by my band, unfortunately they all look and sound very similar ...

Cheeky interim purchase before my ACG arrives. Cheers Jonze! This is a 2006 CIJ Mustang, always fancied one, and the wife has a couple of bass gigs (she plays a Mustang guitar), so made sense! Liking the Fiesta Red more than I thought I would, but was the right price, so don’t care either way! Cleaned up the fingerboard (needed a little TLC), fitted some La Bella Mustang Flatwounds, overall a very cool bass Si

Christ you guys are going to struggle if we have an 'R&B' thread.

I've a list of 'members' that would, in my opinion, deserve the epithet.

Have you tried offering to help carry the stuff to the car, you know, don't leave it all for her to do? I mean, don't strain yourself, obviously ...

I admittedly haven't read the interview, but it sounds like another ageing proponent of rock music doing the genre no favours at all. Like some kind of ailing Egyptian king, wanting all of the riches to be buried along with him. If rock music really did peak in the 1970s then it truly deserves to die off. But I doubt any young bands starting out in the genre would give a flying **** about Daltry's opinion on the matter. In spite of his achievements, I personally have always thought him to be a monumental...

'I grew up in total ruins': Irmin Schmidt of Can on LSD, mourning and musical adventures Should be of interest to a few of you.

No wonder i've flipping seen them. It's my mates flipping band! He flipping engineers for us too at times! What a cupid stunt I am...

The Pink Torpedos Sure I Saw them In Preston ... bit long for a band name

YES!

and also ... All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt – review

A folding four-panel screen/room divider, cunningly papered over on one side with a full-sized photo of the hallway wall. Open it up around the junk PA stacked up there and it'll all 'disappear'; she'll be none the wiser. Either that or a Harry Potter cloak.

I would say that 1976 was one of the finest years for rock music... Black Sabbath: Technical Ecstasy Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak Thin Lizzy: Johnny the Fox Rainbow: Rising Rush: 2112 Rush: All the World's A Stage AC/DC: High Voltage AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Motorhead: On Parole Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive David Bowie: Station to Station Status Quo: Blue for You Led Zeppelin: Presence Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same Ramones: Ramones Jethro Tull: Too Old to Rock'n'Roll: Too Young to Die! Parliament: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein Hawkwind: Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies ZZ Top: Tejas Blondie: Blondie Amongst all the others released that year.

***NOW SOLD**** For sale : £360 (special basschatter price) this fretless CHB-1 conversion. We converted a B-Stock CHB-1 that had faulty fretwork into this fretless beauty! Only one of it's kind. Fitted with GHS Precision strings.

John Paul Jones?

Those born in the 40’s - “The best music was in the 1950’s and 60’s” Those born in the 50’s - “The best music was in the 1960’s and 70’s” Those born in the 60’s - “The best music was in the 1970’s and 80’s” Those born in the 70’s - “The best music was in the 1980’s and 90’s” Those born in the 80’s - “The best music was in the 1990’s and 00’s” - Repeat ad lib till fade.................................

Since when would anyone on the internet look for context in a quote before mouthing off?

And, of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong with being "fine with a Squier". If I played instruments pitched at the level of my playing ability then I'd probably have an Encore and, for me, the Squier would be an aspirational instrument. There is no bassline that I have ever played that couldn't have been played on a £200 bass. The reason I play a Mike Lull T5 (current retail price c.£4500 though that is WAY more than I paid for mine) is simply because I like it, well, love it to bits would be more accurate, and I CAN. "I imagine the sock placement is partly to do with easy of sitting position." And how do you know where Anthony Jackson places his socks?

Group photo of my boards. I separated the Noble+Cali because sometimes that is all I need. Or will just choose between the two fun boards depending who I am playing with.

Because like all high end basses they are different instruments made for people who want something specific that only a Fodera can give them. If you want a Wal or a Ritter or an Alembic you buy one of those and not a Fodera. If you can't get that then you are obviously not the sort of person that these basses are aimed at. If all you want is something with strings capable of playing low notes you'll probably be fine with a Squier.

Most people will have their favourite era, usually according to what age they are. So no, I don't agree with Roger Daltry.

I have kinda shared this in another post but I thought I'd share it here and go into a bit more detail: So this is my pedal board/Rig in a box, the general idea behind it is I play solo, electronic drums off backing tracks, so to gig I take this box and my bass, that's it. The bass signal is split in two, a dry chain and a wet chain: Dry chain; Boss TU -> AROMA ABL-5 Mini Bass Limiter -> Behringer Xenyx Mixer Wet Chain; Boss TU-> Digitech Bass Whammy -> Morley Bass Wah -> Palmer Depressor (Hidden under the shelf) -> Big Muff Pi Nano -> TC Ditto (this changes in and out, just here for fun/practice at the mo, I'm going to have a nice envelope filter here at some point) -> NUX Time Core -> ISP Decimator (again under the shelf) -> Donner Volume Pedal -> DHA-VT1 Bass Driver D.I. -> Behringer Xenyx Mixer Then there's my TC Helicon Create XT for my vocal processing and my lenovo tab 7 that's running my backing/click tracks. I have live mix-downs of my tracks where the drums are panned hard left and the click hard right, so I send the left out to the mixer and the click to my in-ear monitor amp (the little black box behind the mixer). I send a mono full mix to the front of house that they treat like they're playing a CD through the PA (I send it at mic level -20 dB peak so I can run through a D.I., the stage box or whatever they're working with without clipping anything). My in-ears are hard wired and I get a full mix plus click, no amp, no fuss, set up in 1 min flat. I'm very happy with/proud of it.

Stumbled across this and found it an interesting little read so thought I would share in case anyone else was interested. http://rumblinman-blog.tumblr.com/post/62650774540/the-bassist-within-elvis-presley

We're all a bunch of cat funts here

Inflatable wife ?

Surely that is not correct? The artists you are referring to are classic 50s / 60s "rock'n'roll" and are not usually considered to be the (generally) heavier and typically guitar based "rock" bands which came to the fore in the mid late sixties and have stayed with us ever since. The way I see it: Chuck Berry = rock'n'roll Jimi Hendrix = rock Remember Daltrey is making his comment in May 2018, not in 1971.

I wouldn't beat yourself up about it Dave. It's easily done.

John Francis Anthony Pastorius?

Looks like these are coming along nicely. Thanks for the pointer to the TalkBass thread. Hadn't seen the new Rocklite rosewood alternative, which looks very cool. Also, if you are looking for the 'hidden' Rocklite page, try: https://www.rocklite.co.uk/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/1848?opendocument&part=9

^ That sounds like a very sensible approach.

Dan nabbed my wiring loom and pick up. 'Twas a righteous transaction!

Mate I'm definitely in the same position as you in terms of playing ability and the instruments I deserve versus the instruments I have. I own a '90 Streamer Stage 1 5 string, an '08 Thumb NT5 and the retail of these combined would be circa 10K but really I could get by with a £350 Yamaha TRBX305 or similar. But like you I love my basses, not only to play and for their tones but also just to look at and admire the craftsmanship and beauty.

Now come on, Rog, at least give your own band until '73, and Quadrophenia. For me, there's a stretch between '67 (The Who Sell Out) and '73 where they can do no wrong. They came off the boil a bit after that period, but plenty of other bands started peaking then. Waters-era Pink Floyd probably hit their peak between '73 and '77, for example.

I can`t see this myself, how can AC/DC not have been taking rock uphill, or Guns N Roses, both quality bands imo.

This is the one you need - I guess a used one could be called mid range price (£1000 ish) - they don't come up often - has markers on the top of the fretboard.

I only caught a couple of acts - Ed Sheehan I thought was excellent - the look of delight on the faces of the audience was quite infectious - to the extent I used a bit of I'm in Love with the Shape of You in a song at my gig later - so stuck in my head was the chord sequence - damn, how can he wrote such catchy songs!!! Saw Rita Ora and a bit of Taylor Swift - Rita Ora's outfit a bit puzzling but that's probably my age. Music ok though. And then Liam Gallagher - what more can you say - vocals a bit off key at times but there you go - typical post 1996 Oasis-like stuff. BBC to be commended imho for such a feast of live music even if some were using quite a lot of backing tracks.

Sold a P Bass to netcarlos. All good, deal with confidence!

Bass needs more power from an amp to create a better sound. I'd start at 500 watts not because I need to be loud but because I want a clean powerful sound at whatever volume the band plays at. If you've been out of bass playing for the last 10 years, you might have noticed that the bass world has changed. You can still buy the old stuff, but it really is the old stuff. Modern bass gear is smaller, lighter, louder and sounds light years better than the average stuff of years gone by. I'd look in the BC classifieds (because you can find great gear at a good price) and look at separates because you can change your mind about your sound (and you will) an be able to upgrade each piece individually.

Depends on how loud your drummer is really, a 100 watt 1x15 should be loud enough but will it have the depth of sound you want? Ideally I like to have more power than I need, so that I don`t push my amp, with that in mind for the size venues mentioned I`d probably look at 300 watts or so. The Fender Rumbles are great amps in this range, as are the Ashdown Rootmasters. Both are lightweight as well - but not on sound I should add.

Very jealous of your workshop!!

I always feel like a fraud though, visiting guitar shops when I have no intention of buying anything, like I’m wasting their time. Anyone else feel that? I’m guessing not many! 😁

Despite suggestions that Mr Henry Juskiewicz may continue as CEO one hopes that whoever assumes control will sideline Hapless Hank into a powerless 'continuity' role, wrap him up tight in an NDO and pay him for a year to keep his mouth shut, at the end of which period they fire him out of a howitzer into a barbed-wire factory. It's a tragedy in the truest sense of the word. A man sets out to do good, succeeds for a while then succumbs to hubris and madness. Fate beckons. The cannon roars. Curtain. One of the most piquant details of this sad drama: having tried - and signally failed - to thrust auto-tuning upon guitarists, Gibson now finds itself being sued by Tronical Systems, the license-holder for the much-despised digital Min-e-tuners. Indeed, so loathed are these excrescences that there is actually a land-fill the size of Wolverhampton comprised exclusively of Robo-tuners removed from Gibsons. It remains to be seen why the Hamburg-based Fritzes at Tronical have it in for Hank but being sued for $50m can't have helped Gibson in the last week or so. Juskiewicz: victim of circumstance? Or just a hopeless tw4t?