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I love all four of my basses. But I may love the next one even more

Heard Imelda May on Robert Elms show last week Really like her voice on her new songs

How Long Ace

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1490511384' post='3265528'] if its the USA youve decided on then consider a nice squier classic vibe and throw in a wizard thumper - should do the same thing for about half the beer tokens hope this helps [/quote] I have an a secondhand SX precision( nice piece of ash) bitsa: wizard thumper,cts pots and goto 70s tuners. I fitted a s/h mighty rosewood mite neck. Sounds lovely and ticks all the p bass boxes for me. Whole thing cost me £185 in total.

Yes

[quote name='Deedee' timestamp='1490429216' post='3265038'] I agree. The trick is to play songs that people will know, but don't necessarily hear very often. [/quote] Yes

My take on this is if playing pubs where people have gone out on a Saturday night to see a band why assume that they are such philistines that they can only accept mustang on fire, brown eyed now, honky tonk sugar etc and have any less sophisticated or eclecttic tastes in music than me or the rest of the band. As someone said earlier in this thread, with 60 years of popular music to chose from can it really be that hard to find numbers that people like to listen to, get drunk, or dance to and are fun to play. Be a little adveturous, see what works and throw out what doesn't,or is getting a bit stale and you end up with a great setlist

Our local poundland stocks simply duracell and they are pretty cheap. Not sure if they're different to regular ones. Pp3 I've always used duracell industrial or pro bought onlinein my active bass. Cheap and seem to last well but can't compare as I don't use many. For my canon flashguns I use recharcheable 2600mh 7 day shop AA cells which are very good, until they lose their memory but cheap enough and seem to last quite well Avoid Ikea Batteries-ive had a couple leak and they don't last long

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1487952600' post='3244534'] I find James Jamerson lines tend to be among the more tricky as they're typically not repetitive and feature a lot of subtleties. The bass line to Bernadette is a deceptively tough one to perfect [/quote] Try For Once in my life. Jeez

Kay precision bass copy HH vs bass amp A huge kind of orange/acoustic reflex bass cab type of thing that sounded fine closeup but would rearrange a persons digestive tract at 100 paces. and quickly curtailed my career with that band as my dad selfishly refused to transport it on the roof rack as it was denting the VW beetle roof

A shot of John Entwistle with a reverse firebird in front of a stack of Sunn speakers playing Won't Get fooled again

Having celebrated my other 40th over four years ago and having spent a good number of those either as a member, or latterly depping in wedding/party/ function/covers bands. That seems to have dried up a bit of late and although the money is good and I quite enjoy them most of the time, I'm coming to the conclusion that I'm getting a bit long in the tooth for this. It seems that the "pro" ones are mainly thirty something blokes in waistcoats and often beards and sometimes a svelte young lady or two. Probably more suited to the target audience demographic for weddings especially. Much as i can keep up musically I don't want to be the fat old git at the back who doesnt quite fit in. I am however happily playing with several other old gits of a similar age and experience in a couple of other bands Nothing non pc or ageist as far im concerned. Just horses for courses

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1487015242' post='3236292'] How strange that you should mention Nausea. For there is a strikingly prophetic passage in Sartre's 1938 existentialist novel La Nausée which bears upon this very topic. Antoine is sitting in the park contemplating things (as is his wont): [/quote] Mange toute mange toute mon amis Le petit bassiste américain est super

Black Magic Woman - Santana

That bloody fast food thing "kentucky Fried Chicken and a pizza hut..." Heard it on a virgin tv trail Recently. a particularly pernicious ear worm truly horrible

https://youtu.be/Sc2m4w9h0cw

Just watched this on BBC2 Very moving but also funny,sad and heartwarming . Great telly

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1482861888' post='3203140'] Hyper-enthusiastic, fun and colourful 'Party Anthem' band designed to pull the chickies and make some money. What's not to like? [/quote] Where do I sign

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1482122173' post='3197787'] they sound bored to death. Mick sounds like a white boy trying too hard to sound black. How did he get away with it for all these years. In the end, the Stones are a cover band, copying others, even when they write their own songs lol The only time they were great was with Mick Taylor. [/quote] As Sonny boy Williamson said about Clapton and the Yardbirds: “these British want to play the blues so bad,” Williamson once remarked, “and they play the blues so bad!”

[quote name='casapete' timestamp='1479143736' post='3174298'] You definitely need some way of playing along with songs / tracks to make sense of what you're doing. I use a small mixer for both recorded stuff and my bass, and then into headphones. Lines which sound dull and uninspiring come alive when put into context. [/quote] I use a vox amplug, http://www.voxamps.com/amplug2 Headphones and an ipad Spotify and youtube for tunes. I sometimes download Guitar pro or power tabs on my mac from ultimateguitar.com using Tuxguitar app to learn bass parts from tabs for stuff I can't get my ears around or need a quick fix for a dep job This is is all free. Which is nice.

Keep it nice and clean,well set up and try to be careful, but not precious about scrathes,small dings and wear and tear in the line of duty. Was a bit miffed when the drummer walked into and knocked my us jazz off its stand at a rehearsal once though but nothing broken fortunately.

1. Us Jazz 2. Bitsa p bass 3. Peavey Tim Landers Or sometimesswap 1&2 depending in the band i'm playing with Usually alternate between all 3 of these at rehearsals to share the love (and string wear).

[quote name='bigd1' timestamp='1467019994' post='3080420'] In other news, I was very disappointed with ELO very dull indeed, in fact it was a bit painful. [/quote] Yep I was never a big fan of ELO but this was depressingly dull, if very accurate to the recordings but boring as hell. Didn't bother with Coldplay