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Had a fantastic day yesterday in the company of Billy Sheehan, have been in contact with billy for a number of years, always had great chats with him etc, he arranged for me to meet up with him yesterday in Glasgow, just can't put in words how cool that experience was, i take part time photos of bands for fun, and billy asked if i would take some shots, Mr Big are a very slick set up!! Pro all the way, i was listening to Billy's onstage sound which is just incredible he has the smoothest low end with just the right amount of grunge on top he is an expert at sound control of a bass guitar , he can manipulate that bass to sound any way he likes it, so happy i got the chance for this experience, great bunch of guys too, i took a pile of photos if anyone fancies a look. cheers Geo Billy Sheehan pics here https://www.flickr.com/photos/139327844@N08/

Nice work Norris - and it's only gone and changed 'penile' to 'puerile' on your last post!

Just as well you added that caveat, otherwise the previous poster might have felt very hurt.

Muchio respect for Billy... Very personable and a great raconteur. Not sure I've heard anyone with a more refined right-hand. His solo on the Stanley special is probably the best... and Stanley's response at 7:40 is hilarious... Second vid is Bill showing he can cut it in jazz which we know from Niacin.

Okay, I want to test something out. Ahem. Steve Harley and pink torpedoney Rebel. S.P.

... to impress people they don´t know.

another device to get people to buy stuff they don't really need with money they haven't really got

Sure - he's not for you. You are in no means in his demographic. You may as well spend your time getting annoyed with TV adverts for CBeebies. As a guitar manufacturer. And also as somebody who has worked with Davie504 - I think you're missing something very important. People like him are VITAL in getting young people interested in playing the bass. Kids (largely) don't care a stinky poo about what famous rock star plays what bass. But what kids DO do is watch a lot of youtube. I have kids coming to my stand at guitar shows *specifically* because of Davie. So what that recent "The Guitar is Dead" article https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-slow-secret-death-of-the-electric-guitar/?utm_term=.ce7968ff795a didn't take into account was the effect that these youtube players are having on sales. Just my 2 cents. **EDIT haha. love the censorship applied to my post. "stinky poo"

I imagine it would go something like: "I enjoy playing bass, i'm alright at it, I made some videos, list them with a title that fairly accurately relates to the content, some people watch them". I'm almost certain that he doesn't have the time or inclination to defend himself against those in his extended community (bass players). He's happy, he's helping infinitely more people than he's hurting. Again, good luck to him. Si

Oh gawd! I can't remember the last time I had one of those. You should hear him perform on the brown paper bag too.

I think my Beatles post broke Basschat

Wouldn't surprise me, I've been misunderstanding a lot of stuff lately. I think I went to someone's house today for Thanksgiving because I thought I was invited. Now, I'm not sure if I was really invited. Great food. Blue

I presented Billy with a malt whisky from JURA which is not too far away from where i stay he was over the moon with that he is taking it home to Nashville.

I'm sure there's been a few threads about this but oh my god, this kind of hyperactive attention whore-ishness represents everything I hate about the internet. I see that annoying face and the awful clickbait every time I look at YouTube, there is just no getting away from it. You search for anything to do with bass, and bang, there he is, with 4 thousand novelty party trick videos, pulling stupid YouTube faces and pointing at 12 string novelty basses. "Finally, a funky fretless 19 string slap bass jam! Leave a comment, like and subscribe LOL etc smiley face" ad infinitum. Jesus christ. Yes I'm sure these guys are all very talented and special, but when I see this stuff, all I see is a bunch of ballerinas prancing around for attention. Anyone remember a time when people got laughed at for being attention-seeking show-offs? Those days are long gone. Now I know this is a rant and I'm being rude, and I'm obviously in the minority, because 1 million followers blah blah, and I know it's a 'business model' blah blah.. but it annoys the living crap out of me personally. Stock Aitken Waterman was also a business model, and their pinnacle was 'The Reynolds Girls'. Just because something is a 'business model' it does not mean it's good. There are people like Adam Neely out there who also have a trillion followers, and they're not resorting to this stuff. No disrespect to anyone who loves it obvs, just my personal view. /end rant (I also hate 'Remco Hendrix', and that german guy with the ridiculous massive beard, and every other o.c.d. novelty internet show-off out there).

I may well steal adopt this idea

It's been said before, the guy that shows up with the shiny new huge elaborate kit and can't play. Blue

Do you prefer something like that: ?

If more drummers played like Ringo instead of trying to be Neil Peart* amateur music would be a happier place. * Not a dig - I think he's fab, mainly because he can actually play like Neil Peart.

Cracking pics and giving him a nice bottle of Jura the elixir of life to me. Well done sir and thanks for showing your pics. Dave

Always keen to hear new stuff, I was intrigued enough by the enthusiasm shown in this topic to give 'em a whirl through their Youtube presence. Luckily, I was doing other stuff at the same time, so I didn't completely waste my afternoon. Good gracious; I knew, several decades ago, a few folks that would listen to stuff like this, but they've, for the most part, either stopped smoking that stuff now and got their life back, or are dead from over-use. In any case, I couldn't stand more than half an album or two; I completed none. Would I do it again..? Ha..! Still, I did learn some new stuff, but I'm not so keen, now. How odd..!

Hmm. Speakers don't just blow. Usually something drastic has to happen. However, whilst looking for a better picture of the driver, I found this on t'other low end forum... https://www.talkbass.com/threads/trouble-with-my-gk-neo-112-ii-cab.1085139/page-7 Much food for thought here, and some checking of manufacturing stickers.

Re. stand, I bodged a stand for my Stag that actually works pretty well. The donor was a tattoo leg/arm rest - took off the pad and it gave me this quick release jobbie. Once it is folded up it (nearly) fits into the bow pocket on the carry bag, too.

So... if Ringo used a brown paper bag to guff in, what's confusing me is how Bernard managed to get the same effect using a moped?!? Oh 'eck.

For a long time Bernard Purdie has claimed he overdubbed a number of Ringo's parts. I doubt he'd peddle that guff if he didn't rate his playing...!

This is my Mrs' birthday. Hope she enjoys herself!

Yes - I think the thread's fu had it

Hi Stu, Welcome to BassChat Join in the discussions whenever you can - enjoy

I have never seen anyone make it all look so easy. Why is he not a member on here???

My tin is pretty corroded and the track-sheet disappeared at some point but the vinyl is still flawless. I have Second Edition too, but the bass extension isn't even close. 45 rpm for the extra 6dB of win! For some reason though, I tend to play Flowers of Romance more often even though there's no bass on it.

This sums it up in a nutshell for me. People can argue till they're purple about how bad some the content is on YouTube, but there'll always be quite literally millions of people who think the opposite. They can't all be wrong. Yes, the likes of PewDiePie are an - ahem - 'acquired taste' and not for me. But they're young entrepreneurs earning shedloads of cash off their own backs. And if they achieve that pratting around on the internet then why the hell not? Same goes for the numerous YouTube musicians. It's a world away from grinding out small change playing pub gigs; but god knows the music industry needs some new ways of earning a living right now. If you don't like it, heed the old adage of Why Don't You and "go do something less boring instead". Meanwhile, the World Wide Web will keep turning, leaving us oldsters in its wake

Which brings up another point (can't remember if it's covered in the videos above)... If your left hand fretting is inaccurate and you're stopping the string too far from the fret, there will be a natural tendency to use more pressure to avoid fret noise.

David Gilmour seemed happy enough.

Thanks for that..nice but sad trip down memory lane..anyway reckon we ought to get back to the thread...ah yes now drummers....

Aye, if only more people had listened to me....

So a mock up...still need the wires/pots which are somewhere in the postal system...

Just in case, remember a fender jazz has long/short pickups, but Warwick basses are long/long pickups. The bridge pickup may have a different length than you need.

you'd be surprised what OM night attendees will tolerate and still cheer wildly

Looks like a 'hairdresser's' bass to me...

Really odd discussion for me. It's a sound you can use. And so I use it. Sometimes when writing bass lines I will consciously choose an open string rather than fretted equivalent for the sound/flow/feel It's a tool in the toolbag and I don't see why you wouldn't use it. Right tool for the right job etc..

This ^^^^ it comes down to what falls to hand and seems right for the part you are playing.

Further to Rik's comments, the watts are Class H

Also, the best bass for the thing you want to do is the one you're about to buy...

I went to see him doing a one man thing , may have been the Bass Centre in Whapping ?...any way He was completely out of His tree ,& just played a load of nonsense , I was a huge fan , but as they say "never meet your Heroes"

I'm amazed this is a thing! ha ha ha! It's a bit like saying that an able bodied person prefers walking with their left leg rather than the right.

If you ever played double bass you would have learned to love open strings. I carry some of that love over when I play bass guitar, and dampen the note with my left or right hand, depending on what i'm playing.

... he played all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

I love the intro to this tune. And Tiran Porter's bass tone on the opening section is pretty much my idea of Aural Heaven!!!! This is hard to beat as well... And finally... The fabulous Mr Gustafson (RIP)

...and sometimes some people take the internet a little too seriously. These things come up on our recommendations cause click on them. If we didn't click on them YouTube's algorithm would soon give us many other recommendations. That guy seldom comes up on mine but he will now that I have looked at him once. He's good at what he does and a lot of people watch him. He must be doing something right.