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Sure did look nice!

14/15 (also got the Pixies-related one wrong)

Tickets for Gizmodrome at the Scala in London have just gone on sale for Wednesday March 18th. £40ish incl p&p.

I was responsible** for Colin Greenwood out of Radiohead buying Norman Watt-Roy's shoreline gold Fender Jazz **one link in the chain

[quote name='prowla' timestamp='1508866538' post='3395001'] Oh, and I played Greg Lake's 8-string bass a couple of times: once at Manchester uni and once in a bass shop in Romford. [/quote] I took my double-neck 4/8-string Shergold in to Chandlers in Kew for a service. While talking to one of the Chandlers, another interrupted, "sorry mate, we've got Greg Lake on the blower with an urgent question, mind if your man talks to him?" "Not at all. Ask him if he wants to buy a Shergold double-neck, yeah?" (he didn't)

Are they playing in E minor?

iReal Pro might be a rather over-egged pudding of a solution (in that you'll also get loads of jazz standards with it, but you can upload your own and transpose etc)

Don't waste time trying to sound like your heroes. They don't sound much like you either.

James Brown's Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto Vulfpeck's Christmas in LA these and many others feature in my non-intolerable Xmas playlist at [url="https://open.spotify.com/user/toneknob/playlist/20XsgQ4kMStnkfZF6iNYdB"]https://open.spotify.com/user/toneknob/playlist/20XsgQ4kMStnkfZF6iNYdB[/url]

Some fretted 4s One fretless 4 One "acoustic" 4 (fretless, hollow body, tubey onboard preamp) One "other" (double-neck 4/12-string guitar)

[quote name='nicsim' timestamp='1506806700' post='3381301'] For now - as I'm only dipping a toe - max £250. So, second hand really. [/quote] There's loads of bargains to be had in the for sale ads on basschat. Also the bass-related facebook groups seem to be quite busy.

Here they are at Red Rocks supporting the Trey Anastasio Band (Trey sits in for a couple of songs) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY_jAY9bsf0

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1506073267' post='3376229'] They make the individual bass, guitar, drum, vocal audio tracks available. If you have recording software such as Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase etc, you can import the individual instruments you want as a backing track, and play along. The suggestion here is that you can load everything but the bass part and 'be Joe Dart' for a bit I'm seeing them in London tomorrow, thought I was going to miss it due to playing myself, but gig got cancelled......hooorray! Si [/quote] Thanks! That sounds quite cool, and a nice next step from the nugs.net (etc) scene of releasing every gig (see for example Snarky, Phish, Umphrey's, Mule and that lot) Hand also up for London gig tomorrow. LCD Soundsystem tonight. Sunday quiet sitting.

[quote name='GisserD' timestamp='1501856513' post='3347841'] i just noticed theres some stem files for vulfpeck on bandcamp. anybody with a DAW can pretend to be Joe [/quote] Can you explain this in easy words so I can relay it to a curious old person. thanks!

Grolsch bottle washers, but preferably the old more rubbery variation, the newer ones are more plasticky and not so good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWhVSPngBw

I'm Spartacus

BluesFest have confirmed that the O2 gig in October is going ahead as planned, and have pointed to the statement by Donald Fagen at https://www.bluesfest.co.uk/news/statement-donald-fagen

As well as all the above, it helps tighten up rehearsal discipline. Cost-conscious band member: So we did a six-hour rehearsal booked and there's only 1 hour 45 minutes of material recorded. Where's the rest? Zoom H2 Owner/Bassist: That's all of it. I didn't bother uploading the bits when we weren't all here, setting, toilet breaks, tea breaks, guitarist tuning, guitarist testing new pedal, drummer complaining about the house kit, guitarist replacing broken string, aborted starts because guitarist was too loud, aborted starts because the singer forgot where to come in, noodling between agreeing which song to do next and starting said song, etc etc

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1504650161' post='3366403'] Do those of you who use public transport ever feel uneasy about carrying your gear around, from a safety / security perspective? [/quote] Nope. Anyone who tries to lift my effects case (or gig bag come think about it) and do a runner is only going to succeed at one or the other

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1504555659' post='3365697'] So how do women in the UK judge men? [/quote] Every single minute of the day.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1504529572' post='3365456'] Uber has changed everything these last couple of years though. Hundreds of cabs going past my house at any given time of day / night which can be booked and paid for instantly through the app. Usually costs less than a tenner and gets me and all my gear from my front door to the gig and back [/quote] Ever been declined a ride because of your gear? I have - couple of weeks ago the Uber rolled up and took a look at my gig bag and effects case, said no way mister and off he went. I asked the next one who turned up "Ok if I put my gear in the boot?" "yeah, no problem. What else you going to do with it?"

As a London gigster I use public transport if I know there's an amp at the venue for me to use - I use an iGig bag plus Pedaltrain effects case. If there's no amp I'll use ZipCar or Uber to take the above plus amp. Having said that I used to be in Genesis tribute bands. The load for that gig would be: bass, double-neck, acoustic 12-string, bass amp, guitar amp, case for effects/cables/etc, stool, Moog Taurus bass pedals - all of which would easily fill the back of a VW Golf (seats down)

Someone on another internet message board thought I was Alex James out of Blur because I play bass and I like cheese

I met Nick Beggs in the queue to get into a Frank Zappa movie at the Prince Charles Cinema. His first sentence to me contained the word "willy"