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[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='306875' date='Oct 15 2008, 09:50 AM'][url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OGzwNdTVHJo"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OGzwNdTVHJo[/url][/quote] Ah, silly me! I was looking for a track called "Breakfast with Alice" Lots of 2k in the EQ a touch of flanger, chorus or phaser ... I like that sound ...

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='306849' date='Oct 15 2008, 09:07 AM']I just listened to it on YouTube.... what a dreadful song New strings every 10 minutes? The intro and chorus bits he's playing relatively high and he's quite high in the mix. The guitars are actually quite restrained for this sort of thing.[/quote] Link please? I can't find it

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='306810' date='Oct 15 2008, 02:43 AM'][url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1QXDrLHBoGo"]Hmmm[/url]....[/quote] Thank gawd we are not all the same, eh?

Do you mean a band that plays whilst people watch or a ceilidh (kay-lee) band that calls the dances? As a ceilidh band musician that plays loads of wedding's I'd say the latter is better but then I would, woudln't I ... If you fancy getting all of your rellies to dance with each other have a trawl through the Webfeet listings for bands in your area. [url="http://www.webfeet.org/county/index.html"]Webfeet: Ceilidh Bands by county[/url]

Excellent film, Took ages to get time for us to go 9as our son didn't want to see it "it's a giirrrllllsss film" he claimed. I laughed all the way through. There's so many tongues in cheeks .. Mind you Julie Waters looked rather too much like Garry Glitter in some scenes ... The Abba songs are really well written with terrific words and tunes, arrangements.. What's not to like? oh yeah the clothes well listen with your eyes closed then .. Oh and yes the bass playing was great - and great to hear it on big cinema speakers ...

[quote name='elom' post='305841' date='Oct 13 2008, 10:42 PM']Funny you should say that. We played a gig in the next village to me on Saturday - great crowd, all going for it. First set was a stormer, so was the second. Then we got to "Bohemian Like You" - not a difficult song and one we've been playing since our first ever gig 18 months ago. I completely forgot how to play it - absolutely completely. I looked to the guitarist but my brain would not compute. I flubbed around for the whole track not playing a single correct note. And at the end of the song the dancing crowd whooped and applauded having not noticed a thing! It knocked the stuffing out of me a bit and although I remembered all the rest of our songs I didn't enjoy it as much as usual. Ironically, we launched into a version of Chelsea Dagger at the end (which we are 'looking at' but have never even rehearsed) and of course that was perfect! I'm annoyed at myself. I'm not a great bassist but I know my job and I do a competent job so to screw up like that on a song we've played so often is pretty poor. The landlord was happy though and booked us up for next year at an increased rate! Oh well, on to the next one...[/quote] Hey don't worry. I'm a bass player and I didn't notice Rich's fluffing, as it were. The chances of anyone at all realising you messed it up is pretty slim ... That's the up side of bass being the invisible instrument ...

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='305683' date='Oct 13 2008, 06:19 PM']OK is it just me...? The banner presently at the top of the page (RNCM Bass Day with a pic of a tuning peg) advertising said day, who the heck strung that bass? That image bugs me every time I look at it. Who would string a bass up like that, it's just crying out to constantly slip out of tune It might have locked the winding underneath down but it's totally unnecessary and ugly. [/quote] Some advertising "creative" thought a normally wound string looked boring, I suspect...

Ha ha I was thinking exactly that when I saw it ...

Talk to OBBM. He makes up leads for wireless systems with the threaded mini jack so he'll know where they come from ... .

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[quote name='Rich' post='305226' date='Oct 13 2008, 09:27 AM']Friday night at the Point in Cardiff. Good crowd, not full to busting but more than enough to make it worthwhile. Excellent support from "Ponty's ugliest band", fabbo skameisters Tattsyrup... took me right back to my yoof. Listening to 'Ghost Town', it was strange to reflect on how topical it is all over again! The FOH sound was pretty good apparently, the in-house engineer certainly knows his onions. Sound on stage wasn't great though. Ah well. The new Jackson tunes went down an absolute storm, and are a blast to play. Alarmingly, I completely blanked in the last tune...just going into the 1st bridge, I suddenly realised that I had completely forgotten how it went... fumbled around for a couple of bars until I reached a bit I could remember. Then the 2nd bridge came along and nope, still can't remember it. [color="#FF0000"]Embarrassed[/color]? You have [i]no[/i] idea... Of course, I can do it now...[/quote] ha ha It didn't show Jacksons tunes were very good and very well received in the audience as you noticed .. I like Long Train Running "with horns" too. I didn't realise the doobies did it like that (found the youtube now) FoH sound was, indeed, pretty good, except for some confusion as your three singers took it in turns to sing lead vox ... Bass sounded good over the bass side of the stage but not really audible over the horns side .. oh well ... I still think gig PA should be mixed in mono ... Two hands on the neck "Walk on the Wild Side" bass intro raised a smile as always and a fine bass /drum solo duel in Carwash ... Nice one Rich ..

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Also, learn to play the (vocal or other) melody of the tune as that will give you some ideas and pieces that work with the chords

A good way to do this is to park the theory to one side for a bit and use your ears. Free your creative side from the limitations of what you fingers can (currently) do, or from the listed notes of the modes and scales, by creating the solo with your voice, not your bass. The method is this: Get a recording of the section you need to solo over. Play it and sing or hum (or doobie doobie doo) notes that fit over the top of it, according to your ears, not "the rules". Don't worry, if your ears work well you will stay within the rules anyway. Music is like that. Once you've some ideas record the two - the backing track and your vocal noodling - edit and improve then learn the tune you have created on your bass. This may lead you along some interesting new finger developmental paths Try making it go somewhere, to "tell a story" and to have some kind of shape. One way would be this .. Start out with an announcement statement (so your bass says "Hey I've started!") for, say, 4 bars, then 8 bars introducing a melody or groove, then build for 8 and then have some kind of climax at the end. Then everyone will know you've been soloing and you'd finished. That way you can avoid the random noodlings or million note mayhem that people sometimes end up playing when they haven't planned it ... of course either of those things may fit your style and music but at least it will be planned. Don't be afraid to use gaps and long notes. One very nicely constructed solo is the guitar break in the Walker Brothers No Regrets. I'm not suggesting you copy this , but listen to the way it moves along through phases and works with the other things going on in the backing. Here's the youtube. The solo is 4 minutes in (!) OG

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='303424' date='Oct 9 2008, 11:20 PM']I'll be buying this bass on Monday - the funds I've been promised from Nigeria should be here by then because I've sent them all my bank account details. Mind you I'm probably being really silly seeing as I'm so rich anyway. I've just won the Spanish National Lottery and my prize money is being held for me in a bank over there while I authorise my new Spanish agent to make the transfer. He was ever so helpful and not that expensive when you put it all in context. I can't get over how lucky I've been recently. I've even won the Reader's Digest Prize Draw![/quote] I never know what I might find, on any day I go online. I used to get in quite a huff, while wading through unwanted stuff. But then I changed the man I am, the day I answered all my spam. Now every time I check my box, I load up on fantastic stocks. I'll gladly say I felt no loss, when, with a smile, I fired my boss. With just one click, the best thing yet, I freed myself of all my debt. I have, paying a few small fees, ten university degrees. Now that I'm losing all this weight, I'm sure, someday, I'll get a date. Instead of going to a show, I spy on everyone I know. (That's easy, since I have in hand, this nifty wireless video cam.) I spend my evenings viewing screens, of barely legal horny teens. And with a little credit charge, Whoopee! My penis was enlarged! Meanwhile these shots of Britney Spears should be enough to last for years. And so I lead this online life, my monitor is now my wife. It has become my greatest dream, to launch my own get-rich-quick scheme. And if you think you might get missed, relax, you're on my e-mail list.

That's a fair point about not knowing who is in the support band before they take to the stage. When I used to headline We generally had no idea as someone else had done the booking. To be honest, sometimes you'd look in and see no one dancing and that the support band were pants and just think that an hour phoning your kids, doing your makeup and eating pizza was probably a better use of your time. If they were any good though we'd all be moshing down the front and cheering and stuff... And then there was the support band of 16 year olds doing great Hendrix stuff who thought it hilarious to have a water fight in the dressing room tent whilst we were on stage .. and I don't think we'd upset them at all, they were just being rock and roll.... all over our stuff ....

[quote name='Clarky' post='304033' date='Oct 10 2008, 04:53 PM']We did a hilarious gig in July at the Bullet Bar in Kentish Town with a varied set of bands - 2 x punk, 1 folksy acoustic dude, 1 grungey Neil Young-alike ... and a guy who had been in the X Factor! About 20 years old, Johnny Starfinger (or similar) turned up with Mum, Dad and Grandad. Didn't talk to any other band. Did his slot to a backing tape, loads of swoopy ballads and fantastic line in cheese ("this goes out to all the laydeeez, yeah!") - the latter was especially funny as the audience mainly comprised the other bands and a few punks, almost all male. Here's a surprise, disappeared staright after his set and didn't watch the rest of us. Man we were upset. At least he didn't need to borrow my amp[/quote] Ha ha Imagine how he felt "but they promised me a full house of laaaaaaydeeeezzze "

[quote name='Rich' post='303799' date='Oct 10 2008, 01:09 PM']A couple of years ago we played a music fest on the same bill as, ahem, a well-known Eurovision-winning guy-girl quartet who are not called Buck's Fizz. The girls were really nice, chatty, friendly, watched some of our set and complimented us afterwards. The blokes however were a different kettle of fish... didn't say a word to us all night, appeared to go out of their way to avoid even looking in our general direction. Miserable pair of feckers. So far up themselves, they must need torches. And having heard their soundcheck, I know just how much is on their backing tape... let's just say it's an [i]awful[/i] lot more than just a drum track... [/quote] Can I tell them their sound man instructions Rich? eh, eh? can I eh?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='303935' date='Oct 10 2008, 03:18 PM']How about one of those silent basses, don't they fold away?[/quote] Adee's air basses do, well more roll than fold. Then you have to inflate them, of course, before playing smoke on the water or Sons and Daughters ... Bit frustrating if it comes on the radio and you want to join in ...

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Thanks for your comments, laban, and welcome to basschat. All I can say is that your experiences differ from mine.

[quote name='funkmunky' post='303852' date='Oct 10 2008, 01:57 PM']I would really appreciate comments from PC users using Internet Explorer to let me know of any faults in my website. All links (other than the links page itself) should be white and underlined turning red when you scroll over it. The links in the links page should be white, and all background boxes containing text in the gigs, media and contact page should be nicely proportioned. Thanks for all your help! Steve[/quote] You need to go to a cyber cafe or somesuch and log on using the PC defaults. Most people use IE 6 or IE7 and a screen resolution of 1024x768 these days. It's usually a reveletion for site owners when they see their gorgeously well designed site on a screen set to that, with huge tool bars open at the top and bottom and the favorites box open down the left side. Suddenly only 2/3 of yur page is visible .. However a [b]lot[/b] of people surf like that 'cos that's how the computer was when they bought it 3 years ago, or their company won't let them change anything or they are afraid that if they chage screen settings they will erase their bank details ... or whatever ... If you make just one change, Steve, reduce the image on the home page to about half the size it is now and add key-word rich text to the home page describing exactly what you do, where you are and who you have worked with. You get 5 seconds to impress the visitor to any page on your site but the home page is key. in 5 seconds you want them to know that this is the site of the bass player they are looking for, and where you are and what you do, and that it's worth spending more of their precious time digging deeper into your site. Otherwise they will hit the back button and take the next hit down in the google results page ...

Ah synchronicity in action .. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=29407&view=findpost&p=303796"]Basschat posting about a venue looking for rock bands[/url] isn't life wonderful sometimes ...

Hi Steve ... Your links page reads like my gear list When do you get a Shuker? Very nice look to your site. All the essential headings are there and it will be good to see how the content pans out when you add it., Yor might like to put where you are in your header .. it's a World World Web so location info is essential. "Bass Player and Bass Tutor, Birmingham, UK" on the header will say so much more .. Also something on the contact page. That's the second place I'd look to see where you are in the world .. I appreciate that you have your location on other pages but people may not get that far, (fickle surfers!) and google may not return you for a search for "bass tuition Birmingham" unless you stress the point. Also there are other Birminghams, and you have a dot com address so you may get enquiries from Alabama Fine but a long way to go to teach every week ... In a typical Mac website styleee your text is fixed size which is a pain for us older eye people ... if possible you should change that to allow us to use the browser controls to change the size. Not being technical, or a Mac user, I don't understand how the Mac built sites make their text un-copyable but they do and yours is. That's a pain if someone wants to copy and paste your Bio text for a blog entry or press item of other beneficial thing .. However Google should be able to see it so all is not lost. There's a fair amount of stuff you can do to help Google (and thus searching people) find your site. Probably best to read my website thread (linked from my sig) and then PM me for any further stuff, if you like. OG

South Africa eh? You sure you want to carry a Steinberger? Steiny case: Rifle case I think I'd work on my reading and listening skills .....