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[quote name='bagsieblue' timestamp='1365882097' post='2045656'] One of the early German budget ranges? - Streamer Standard. One piece bridge, Carolena body, a precursor to the Rockbass but they were made in Germany - not bad basses really. [/quote] really? wow, you learn something everyday. I had no idea there was a budget line of Warwick Streamer that were made in Germany. I thought the budget line started with the Rockbass!

[quote name='Huw Foster' timestamp='1365808114' post='2044940'] [media]http://youtu.be/gZehS6m-P9Y[/media] Another new one... Got some free time at the moment so I'm just enjoying being able to play! [/quote] YOU!!! I am pretty sure it was a video of you playing that Precision that made me think for the very first time "hmmm, P basses can sound really good!" And if it weren't you, this video does it again x10. Lovely playing and beautiful tone, thank you for posting this!

I googled chango, and now I am suitably enlightened (definitely not in use in Spain)... but I also found other meanings. In particular, I loved this entry from the urban dictionary: [quote] A school that is part of Shenendehowa. Even though it's only an elementary school, it still has cliques. Cliques include: Popular kids: A bunch of immature snot nosed f***wits who think they own everything in the school. Goths: A bunch of kids who masturbate to Good Charlotte, whilst slitting their wrists. Wiggers: A bunch of kids who are white, but they think they are black. Weird kids/nerds: The group of kids who look normal, but act "weird" according to the popular kids. This the group I was placed in. Normal kids: Nothing special about them. The teachers are mainly nice, but one of the gym teachers owns a riced out Scion xB. In short, it's an okay school. Not the best, but okay. [/quote]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1365874862' post='2045546'] Then the band should be called 'Monkey McMonkey & The Chunky Spunkers'. See? That doesn't use the 'F'-word. [/quote] Milty!!!! See what you did???

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1365874710' post='2045541'] ...for monkey? [/quote] I've been called that...

[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1365872185' post='2045486'] [url="http://s1262.photobucket.com/user/chaylockyer/media/ChangoWebButton_zps8f863a4c.png.html"][/url] How many points do we get? (Chango is Spanish for monkey...) [/quote] I had you in mind when I wrote "or logo" Chango is monkey? In what country? (just curious, I am from Spain... but there are quite a lot of different words in the spanish we use in Spain or Argentina, Bolivia... sometimes with hilarious consequences )

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1365788017' post='2044639'] This thread is like deja vu! My band (also soul/funk) had the same dilemma when we started, first name chosen was FUNKIT (already named here by someone) and there was the chance to play around with the words and make it FUN KIT (also mentioned here). In the end we decided to quit the FUNK or SOUL word games and we simply became GROOVES. What's funny about this thread is that i read the names of a lot of funk/soul bands that are actually playing right now here in Portugal, from memory i recal FUNKENSTEIN, FUNK OFF, FUNK U... there's really no much more room left for funk band names... stop thinking about it and call yourselfs a different thing. From your OP i would say "THE CATS". Cheers [/quote] indeed, leaving the word funk out is the safest bet... almost any combination with funk in it has already been used, and if it hasn't, there's usually a good reason for it!

erm... what do you think? [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/warwick-streamer-bass-for-sale/1008675626"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/warwick-streamer-bass-for-sale/1008675626[/url]

you are discussing the wrong point. It's not whether 15" or 18" can produce enough treble... the question is... who is going to carry my cabs??? The 2x 15" I tried might as well have been part of Stonehenge!

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1365783566' post='2044553'] Well go like their facebook page then! [/quote] well, I got curious and checked them... I like it!

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1365772967' post='2044292'] Yes! It's settled then, your new band is called The Funk Brass Monkeys [/quote] No, we only established that if you have monkeys, you get more points

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1365772800' post='2044286'] I ran my Ashdown 400 watt head through a couple of 4ohm 15" cabs a couple of times, and it had loads of volume and movement of air, and house-shakingly bassy, but there was absolutely no clarity to the higher notes. The speakers weren't the best you could buy, and the cab was home made out of MDF, so all in all, probably not great for what i was using it for, but if you had a decent neo 15" and a good cabinet, and pair that with a 4x10, it would probably sound rocking! I have no idea how an 18" would sound, but it was the idiocy of the guys argument. He liked distortion because it cuts the low end, but he also wanted to use 18" speakers... How stupid can one person be? [/quote] I moved past that idiot, I don't care about him I just want a cab with two 15" or two 18". The two 15" cab I tried, an old Peavey of some description, did not lack treble, at least not to the levels I normally want.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1365763300' post='2044039'] No way!! The 30 mile cycle back will sober you up ready for the evening [/quote] I'm calling a taxi...

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1365764651' post='2044068'] Ha! It's genuinely funny that this guy was such a Lemmy fan, that he thought you had to have Lemmy gear, but didn't understand any of the reasoning behind it. Why would you use distortion because it cuts all the low end? why not just EQ it out? and then why also use 18 inch speakers, which will just make it more bassy? I would choose any GK cab over any 18" cab any day of the week. [/quote] I'm not saying he is right in anything. But I would personally like to try 18" cabs, if I had someone carrying my stuff. I was surprised at how good a 2x15" cab sounded, and how powerful, with just a 150W amp. I imagine 18" speakers will not be very efficient, even less than your typical 15" ones, but I'm curious.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1365771257' post='2044242'] The funk brass monkeys! [/quote] any band with monkeys in their name or logo earns extra points, for me...

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1365676258' post='2042632'] Some idiot on YouTube argued with me one day about bass tone. He basically said distortion was a good thing, because it cuts all the low end, but then said you [i]need [/i]to use 18inch speakers, and not some "4x10 gallien krueger POS". This was on a Lemmy video. I just decided the guy was clearly too stupid to even understand what he was saying. [/quote] youtube arguments: engage only for amusement purposes I had one guy, a couple of years ago or so, who took serious offense at something I said about a moronic post of his and he kept adding comments to my comment and then sending me messages. This was both in English and Spanish, both of very poor quality... I had a little bit of fun winding him up, but he was too easy a target and I got bored soon. He continued to send me messages for a while after I gave up...

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1365678038' post='2042674'] What's the difference in timbre with your ProSteels compared to a cheaper alternative? And what gauge? I use D'Addario 9-42 on my Strat, it sounds great. I have also read from an expert on Gibsons that many players go for higher gauges on their Gibbos to get better tone, but if you have a great guitar in the first place it will sound great with even 8-40s, only poor guitars need heavier gauges. [/quote] Somehow the 9-42 has become "standard" on the typical Fender scale length instruments, and 10-46 on the Gibson shorter lengthe ones, which results in a comparable feeling of "tension" on the strings. I do feel that thicker strings sound meatier, and depending on what you want, this could be just the thing. I had a Yamaha AEX502 with P90s and it came with 11-48 or something like that. It was not as nice to play as my strat, but that thing sounded huge! I changed to 9-42 and it still sounded great but a bit of the "grit" and creaminess was not there anymore. Still great. But different. I don't think you can salvage a poor guitar with a heavy gauge string set... it would just be another flavour of poor, no?

I am mostly involved with one originals band, called Sea Bass Kid. The style is a little hard to describe, as it has influences of various things, from funk to ska and lots more in between. We are a six piece band (soon seven, it seems) and we are all focused on this band.... but we have other projects on the side. Most notably, there is a ska band (rhythm guitarist and singer/guitarist are in it), and a funk band (the third guitarist, drummer, and me on bass are in this one). It has not been complicated, so far, so decide what songs get played where, because it's been mostly a collective effort. For the funk band, we came up with ideas when getting together as "the funk band", and whatever came up there we used in that band. I am not present when the ska band meets, but I get the feeling it's the same. The rhythm guitarist comes up with a lot of the "song scaffolds" for SBK... and lately many have had a strong ska component. It seems he gives priority to SBK. Cool. SBK's funky side is, however, a lot more subdued except in a couple of numbers. In fact, it's one of the reasons the funky band was formed... but sometimes we jam as SBK, and we come up with some interesting funky ideas. With three members of the funk band it's tempting to "grab them" for the funk band, especially as some you can tell that they will never make it into a SBK song... but it still feels a bit funny. It's working out alright, so far... but I wonder how other people manage in these situations. Do you take the "best" ones for the main band, and develop the class B songs on the side bands? Do you keep strictly to the "what starts in this band, stays in this band"? This would be the most logical way to go about it if you work in group... but it gets complicated when several members are shared between bands. What about when you write something by yourself? I have a few ideas of my own that I recorded on a Zoom H2, and I tend to just think that the "funkiest" ones I will present to the funk band, and the others not quite so funky to SBK. I can imagine a situation when some song starts to form, and we don't know which band should play it. Personally, I would love to share a couple of songs, if only to see how different bands -despite the overlap in members- can interprete a song in different ways and each band give it their own colour.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1365753862' post='2043811'] The only problem with funk in the band name, if you were to ever change direction musically, it could be a problem [/quote] we could always say that we use the word "ironically"

[quote name='borisbrain' timestamp='1365720879' post='2043632'] The Huggy Bears [/quote] I guess you met our drummer

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1365754086' post='2043815'] Coolio Im way ahead of you - already planned the cycle route with a nice pub at the end for Sunday dinner A [/quote] and a tow truck for after the pub?

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1365698994' post='2043208'] And to answer your question yes it must be a real pain since its fresh for everyone else but youve been over it and disected it a million times already and moved on. But hey its something in the bag and youve got your name on it. No one can take that away so good on yah! I would agree live you have more energy even in the pared down version I saw but live v record is always like that and the brass brings a different element to it all. But still you do have the musicality and querckyness to your sound which works for me A [/quote] So many things I wish we had done differently on that CD. Starting with... recording newer songs! BUt I guess it's the same for everybody: the new song is always better than the old one We have a sax player now too She just joined and it's still early days, she won't be playing live with us just yet, but it's looking very promising.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1365695955' post='2043126'] Yay! Bring it on I do believe my 'preorder' was through your good self! But if I have to que up with the rest of the hoi palloi then so be it!! [/quote] ok, that makes more sense... I thought you were just being overenthusiastic and could not wait etc etc I had already told you that a copy would be making your way as soon as it's official (28th April nearly there!) I thought the only thing that was not quite clear yet is whether I would post it or I might be able to deliver in person I'll email soon

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1365694916' post='2043095'] Stonking album and even better live. Ive pre ordered mine already. Go buy it. Good luck with the launch Jose [/quote] oh, have you? thank you!!! I had no idea you could preorder it yet! Is that through bandcamp? If so, that will be the electronic version. Once we have the physical CD in our hands we will enable the physical CD sales thingy. The band wanted to enable it already, but killjoy that I am I vetoed it and said that until we have it in our hands we should not do it... just in case. The CD is good... but it already feels dated to me, I'm sick of it and it has not come out yet! I wonder if every band feels the same way about their albums. I also don't think it really captures what we do live. Part of it is because the songs we recorded were part of our older set, which did not even have trumpet. Dima, the trumpet player joined at the right time and he quickly added trumpet to the songs... but in the past year and something we have written a lot of songs and we have already "evolved" a little and sound much better (in my opinion). Can't wait for the second album!