stingrayPete1977

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1427019105' post='2724656'] What the hell is this? [/quote] A photograph of a rickenbacker with all the bad bits blanked out?

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1427017539' post='2724640'] Do you mean the sea salt and chardonnay vinegar ones. because they are without doubt the best crisps,ever. ( Sometimes reduced to £1) [/quote] Sorry, yes thats the ones. Yum

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1426965953' post='2724239'] Nothing more to see here, lock it down I say. [/quote] I agree, I love slagging off Clang sticks as CamdenRob calls them but I've never started a thread years after selling a bass I didn't like just for the hell of it. Lol

Xotic for me or Celinder....GB Spitfire in that baby blue colour maybe.....Alleva.....a Fender if you can get a good one....Sadowsky......Sei.....

I like the coop own brand sea salt and balsamic vinegar ones.

I'm loving the OPs angle of I'm not telling anyone that has one and likes it shouldn't enjoy it I'm just trying to stop anyone else becoming as stupid as those people in the future He's making me want one a bit, is he John hall?

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1426925541' post='2723445'] Can I just say that you've wasted all your hard earned cash and should have bought an OLP [/quote] I've got one and I like rice pudding too.

Can I just say I promise this isnt me with a different account

Lol

A little point Conan has highlighted for all of us here that use speakon only gear is to invest in a Jack to speakon lead, it would have enabled a test with other cabs here, it would allow the use of a speakon head with some one elses cabs on a shared stage setup or emergency etc, it would allow if reversed the use of a speakon cab with a borrowed head for shared gigs, rehearsal rooms or half way through a gig if your head blows up and a friendly bassist lends you an Ashdown or something. Don't leave home without one!

Is it compulsory that they are run by idiots? We used one once a week for two years, they charged more than anywhere else and a membership fee, e had to renew the membership fee every year and when the guitarists Mom died the day before our rehearsal they charged us the full fee. Now I'm all in favor of charging if you cancel to stop kids booking it and not turning up but after two years money plus drinks etc you'd think they might wave that one? We've never been back so that's £120 a month lost to save them £31.50

When I listen to my old originals stuff I think "is that me?", sometimes for the better actually, pre basschat, pre over thinking it days

Weekend warrior for me

It's useful for jamming to see visually IMO, I couldn't see a B7 either but in that situation it would be the B and the fifth I'd be playing with generally then adding anything fancier by ear. I'm crap on most instruments.

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1426630827' post='2720220'] Thanks for that picture Pete. I have now printed it out so I can show to the wife the next time she complains about bass guitars taking up space!! [/quote] I'm quite a lucky boy being allowed to keep a double bass in the bedroom I know I'm not sure the word accomplished and my upright ability should be in the same sentence kev without the words terribly un before it, lol

Even if some one else does the dots later don't under estimate the player of those dots, say a reading player in the strictly band gets dots to something Pino played that player still has his or her ears and understanding of the dots to correct it on the fly.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1426669973' post='2720428'] I can imagine at least three different scenarios that a session player might encounter in a professional capacity. 1. The part is written out as notation to be played as scored. 2. The part exists only as a recording whether it is a synth part on a demo that's going to be replaced with "real" bass or someone else's bass part on a recording that is going to be performed live. 3. No part exists (except maybe in the mind of the songwriter) and you will be expected to come up with something appropriate for the piece. There might be a simple chord chart or might be a case of listening to what is already there and writing something to fit. Each situation requires a different skill set. A truly versatile musician will be able to do all three, but it's up to the person arranging the session to pick players with the appropriate skills. Just as a musician who can't read is no good for a session where the part has been written out as notation, someone who can't quickly come up with a new baseline or improvise to a basic idea is useless if they are expected to be part of the writing process. [/quote] We have been here many times before, in reality the people who read well almost always have the ability to improvise too, there's always the tale of the guy who can play anything perfectly as long as it's on paper that can't jam a twelve bar but for every one of those there are a thousand sight readers that will blow you away within moments of some one calling out "give me a jazzy blues thing in Eb". Chicken and egg IMO, those that can't read saying they never get reading gigs and those that read saying they would have lost half of their gigs if they couldn't read!

The little one lives on a hanger in the other room normally and the big one only fits there really, big clumsy awkward thing! Lol. It could go in the spare room but thats south facing and gets very hot even in winter. Sensible answer is very quiet with lots of clicky clacky fingerboard noise

The one on the left is a lot louder the one on the right unplugged [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/20130308_185259_zps4eb72611.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/20130308_185259_zps4eb72611.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='lowregisterhead' timestamp='1426625410' post='2720109'] [i]Desirable[/i] perhaps, but not a [i]necessary[/i] skill. It all depends on what kind of gigs you might get a call for. Suffice to say in 40 years of pro and semi-pro work, I've never been asked to read dots. [/quote] From what I gather the people doing the calling have a fairly good idea about who has what skills or know someone who knows someone else who knows who can or can't read/play jazz/upright bass/etcetc, which is why you haven't had those calls rather than the gigs not being out there to get?

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1426623365' post='2720053'] The basschat Paradox Having a reading skill means your a better musician If you use that skill to perform live , your using a music stand so lose the better musician rating [/quote] Damned if you do, damned if you don't, lol

Ah this is poop, some big bass playing names gone recently what with Jack Bruce last year too

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1426513304' post='2718641'] scot-free. [/quote] Well the get everything else for nowt even without Devo max

I'd have the Lakland, anyway if you wait long enough there will be an AC signature version of all our basses in the end.

I'm gonna guess, epic