toneknob

[quote name='JamesFlashG' timestamp='1412345502' post='2568082'] wow how have i not heard that stevie song before - boogie on reggae woman love it, like a funky 12bb but with some real nice chords changes. I might have to make it part of my practising to transcribe a song from this list each day nice choice who ever it was =P [/quote] You're welcome! Good luck with the transcription! It once appeared in its entirety in Bass Player magazine, transcribed by Bryan Beller, who dubbed it "the hardest song he's ever had to transcribe".

Yep, Dave LaRue for sure, a great player. Check him out with the Dixie Dregs from back in the day. Here's some more with JS from (I think) the same show as the original clip. Familiar fare for Satch fans for the first few minutes, but then after 4m20s it's all systems go, we have lift off on Satriani spaceways. The pickup from 7m45s onwards is amazing all round. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DzRb4DHGw

I can't bear the music, but I wish I was that good.

Here you go: http://www.timeout.com/london/search?_source=global&_dd=&page_zone=music&keyword=&section=music&on=period&s_date=2014-10-22&e_date=2014-10-26&locationText=&_section_search=music or browse from http://www.timeout.com/london/music

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1412007261' post='2564781'] Here's a man who should know talking about it at 11:50 ; [/quote] Thanks! That's a perfect example of implied metronomic time being all that's need to demonstrate beat placement.

Here's a simple but effective demo from a drummer (he's exaggerating to emphasis the effect) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlcSuJlOwJ0 My take is that you have metronomic time, and if everyone sticks to this then you're on the beat. Stay in time but play either side of metronomic time, then you're playing ahead or behind the beat.

Norman Watt-Roy plays the "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" bassline solo on his own and unaccompanied: [url="http://www.theblockheads.com/page/player/norman_plays_hit_me"]http://www.theblockh...an_plays_hit_me[/url] Have you been playing it right all this time? (I haven't)

I've managed to steer clear of this thread, and indeed all reviews and setlists, ahead of seeing the gig last night. Time to join in! It was an amazing gig! Although "gig" is underselling it, maybe "multimedia musical theatre operatic dance spectacle" might work as well. The opening six songs were overwhelming and various gig pals including me reported welling up at various places - for me Lily and Top Of The City, another's was Hounds Of Love. The two concept pieces/song cycles/whatever The Ninth Wave and Aerial were incredibly ambitious, very high production value and a lot to take in, and I felt they both were too long - some editing could have seen another 3 songs creep in maybe. Bertie's bit was rather cringe. I didn't miss "the old stuff", I'm not so keen on that material anyway apart from the obvious hits. It would've been nice to hear something off The Sensual World. John Giblin was brilliant, as were all the musicians. Tough to call all his gear as sometimes the band were in the shadows a bit (and 15 rows back my eyesight's not what it was). On top of at least two electrics there was an electric upright - Ampeg Baby Bass shape, but might not have been that, plus a gorgeous hollow-body fretless that looked a lot like an Ibanez Artcore. Happy to be corrected on either of these though.

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1410881456' post='2554246'] Much happier without the cost, smell and addiction. [/quote] Funny you should mention that - the one thing I was immune to as a smoker was the smell. I had no sense of smell (now back with a vengeance and very sensitive to fag smoke), and my sense of taste improved a lot as well. Once I was out driving through town and suddenly could smell a recently lit cig. Odd that, being on my own with the windows and sunroof all closed. It was someone in the open-top car in front, coming in through the air vents.

You can now delete U2 from your iTunes... https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut

Tony Levin on Secret World Live in 1993 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwX_c0PcjY#t=165"]http://www.youtube.c...wX_c0PcjY#t=165[/url] Keep your eye on TLev at about 3m40s. You can see something fall off his Trace Elliot amp. Happens to the best of us I suppose.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1410774706' post='2552848'] Agreed. It is one of the worse books I ever read. Then I stopped smoking and thought, well, I will give up anyway, nothing to do with that book, just feel like it now. Then went on amazon and looked at the reviews, and they all said 'what a badly written book, didn't work but I decided to give up anyway', then it clicked! [/quote] I found that when it got to the point where "I'm now going to tell you how to actually stop, if you don't feel mentally prepared, don't read on, come to a clinic" I thought "oh, I feel like a smoke actually" and off I went. A couple of months later I was smoking one morning after a night out, hungover, felt terrible and thought "I just can't be arsed any more" and put one out half-smoked. That was it. I'd absorbed enough from the book to know what to do (this will vary from person to person). My life as a smug and annoying ex-smoker had begun!

Had my 5000-day anniversary a few days ago. Not that I'm counting really - I've been looking for an arbitrary anniversary as an excuse to treat myself to a year-of-my-birth bass (not bought yet, but all of a sudden it's ok to start looking). So, 5000 days (or 13 and a half years, ish) of not spending a fiver (on average) on fags = about £25000. Probably more when you take into account extra weekend smokes. Like others, I just stopped. No cold turkey here though, apart from two or three occasions in the first week, there were no withdrawal symptoms. On those two or three occasions, I just did something else for a bit and the symptoms went away. What took a million times more willpower was reading the Allen Carr book to instil the frame of mind to stop smoking easily.

Talking Heads, Naked. And getting back to the rules, here's one with the title track omitted (again taken from yesterday's listening) *Title Track* The Line Devotion to a Dream Halfway to the Moon Winterqueen Sing Monica 555 Waiting All Night Wombat Wingsuit

Has anyone actually downloaded it?

Hi, Very late notice I know, but my jazz-rock outfit Velcro Pelmet is playing at the Swan in Hampton Wick tonight. if you fancy it, details at https://www.facebook...63505957248931/ - it's free! Expect material originally by the likes of Weather Report, Miles Davis, Mike Stern, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Frank Zappa and others all with the Velcro twist. Tony

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1410288416' post='2547914'] Bestial Cluster - Mick Karn Bones of Mud and Velvet Breath, great tracks [/quote] On the nose. Take it away.

The answer was (you'll all be kicking yourself now) "Ótta" by Sólstafir. Here's an easier one, more bass-centric this time. 1. *title track* 2. Back in the Beginning 3. Beard in the Letterbox 4. The Drowning Dream 5. The Sad Velvet Breath of Summer and Winter 6. Saday, Maday 7. Liver and Lungs 8. Bones of Mud

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1410274201' post='2547717'] Oh. Not Dolly Parton after all, then. Hmm... [/quote] Sorry, forgot to mark your entry. Wrong (Great thread Bilbo!)

Not Sigur Ros nor Ikea. The correct artist is in Joey's list but without the album name the entry is disqualified.

I listened to this yesterday, honest... 1. Lágnætti 2. *title track* 3. Rismál 4. Dagmál 5. Miðdegi 6. Nón 7. Miðaftann 8. Náttmál and if you;ve got the Deluxe Version, you can add: 9. Tilberi 10. Til Valhallar 11. *title track* (Elevator Mix)

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1410264134' post='2547584'] Ok.An easy but great one...... Chloe in the Afternoon Cruel Cheereader Surgeon Northern Lights (Title track) Neutered Fruit Champagne Year Dilettante Hysterical Strength Year of the Tiger [/quote] St Vincent, Strange Mercy (brilliant album by the way)

I've no idea how loud a 30W Marshall gets, but I use a Roland Micro Cube, which sounds fine at bedroom volumes, and you get 20 hours of battery life if you need to go in the shed. It's got an aux in and headphones out as well.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1409832655' post='2543732'] I was vaguely thinking of suggesting Christmas Wrapping for our band to cover at the Xmas jam at our local pub. Largley because we have a female vocalist. I hadn't really listened to it properly though. Now I've listened to that tasty bass line, I don't think it's something I could manage! [/quote] It was transcribed in a seasonal edition of Bass Player magazine a couple of years ago. Let me know if you'd like a scan. It's a cool song to learn anyway!

Tracy Wormworth, maybe best known for "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I Also she cropped up in Sting's late 80s touring band - some rare and out-of-sync footage here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x38lb5_sting-the-lazarus-heart_music - but now in the B52s... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mW5Vj4ngdw