paul_5

Most of the Eagles' output and 'Lily the Pink' by Scaffold. 

Let’s be honest, it’s safer than stacking them vertically!

Equine, Women and Song - Whitesnake

Really useful as an envelope filter - it'll do up and down sweeps depending on where you set the start and stop frequencies. Pretty decent octave too.

Dig a pony - the lads

Speaking as an Englishman, I think the attraction with moving ‘North of the wall’ would be that I wouldn’t be living in England anymore.

55 minutes ago, Musicman666 said:

 why not tune a bass down to standard d and throw a capo on the second fret ..instant shortscale .

well, that means we don't need to buy another bass - where's the fun in that?

5 minutes ago, bassbloke said:

Robert Trujillo.  When I say I don't get him, what I mean is that I struggle with the fact that someone whose career includes excellent Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne seems to have regressed so much as a player.  I'd say it's even more apparent than Lars Ulrich.  Whenever you see footage of him, he's playing some crappy wah, fuzz drenched 'solo' or smacking seven bells of sh*t out of a custom shop Warwick.  That said, I doubt he'd want to swap places with me.

James Hetfield offering him a million dollars to join Metallica might have something to do with it…

Another vote for Stu Hamm here too. I bought one of his albums on the recommendation of another bass player and was spectacularly underwhelmed. His tone seems to lack any kind of low end too. 

Punch & Judy - Marillion

Primus. All of it.

Somewhere there's a really beautiful version of this played by Dorian Gray.

56 minutes ago, NikNik said:

Has he bought a router??

Looks like he ran the bit too hot when doing the headstock. Oh, burnished you say? Intentionally?

It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Thing with putting batteries in pedals that are on boards is that they drain current as soon as there is a jack in the input. If you don't unplug the lead from the input jack then it will drain the battery in a matter of hours even though you're not playing through it, whether they're switched on or not.

Having to unplug each individual pedal after a gig kind of negates having a board in the first place.  

I've heard of people using USB power cells with a booster to give 9vDC, but haven't used one myself.

Ebony Eyes - Stevie Wonder

A huge departure from the awesome playing in the video above, but this really impressed me as a budding bassist in the 90s.

Steve Vai - Guitar

TM Stevens - Bass

Devin Townsend - Vocal

Terry Bozzio - Drums

It's quite the ensemble.

Monster player! I first heard of him when he played on Steve Vai’s ‘sex and religion’ album and he was GREAT on that, but it turns out I’d been listening to him for much longer as a hired gun for loads of other people. A sad loss.

Cupid’s Dead - Extreme

Nice! Is it polyphonic like the original freeze? I used to love sticking chords into mine.

Crustacean to station - David Bowie

Turbot Lover - Judas Priest

On 05/03/2024 at 20:54, thebrig said:

We auditioned a so called experienced guitarist last week who has played for 50+ years.

He turned up and spent a good twenty minutes trying to tune his guitar and he didn't mute it whilst doing so, I always record rehearsals and auditions, and the tone you hear in this clip of him tuning is the tone he used for every song we played regardless of the type of song.

 

He didn't get the gig.

Interesting (and very fluid) use of microtones there - do you play much Indian classical music?

On 05/03/2024 at 22:01, chris_b said:

I need to be a better bassist and owning more basses won't achieve that.

You’re kinda new in these parts, aincha? 😄

Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band

Big bottoms - Spinal Täp