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500,001 Nice one Well done Chris.

[quote name='Prosebass' post='453900' date='Apr 4 2009, 10:01 AM']I'm still buying up old copies of International Musician from the 70's and 80's. Best magazine there has ever been to give a full spectrum of players , gear and the industry as it was back then. My new years resolution was not to buy any new magazines and I must admit I don't feel like I am missing anything.[/quote] Yep I liked that and Beat International

+1 the sad demise of Bassist and it's subsequent incororation and disappearance into Guitardist Magazine I rarely buy music mags now but always found the American ones more player/music orientated with good stuff to learn and mess about with and the UK ones obsessed with equipment reviews but featuring yet another Deep Purple/Floyd/ Zep transcription. Yawn!

Good luck with your quest for a band. You could try bandmix.co.uk too.

I find making the fretboard and using Brasso works well and it's non abrasive.

Galoot Galah It be lookin good even wif out de nakkin on! Great bass Sister Abdullah X I want one

+1 again Danny Thompson That bloke with Seth Lakeman is good too. Ben Nicholls according to the album sleeve

Great review but I wish that I hadn't read it. I've been gassing for one of these for ages and they keep popping up secondhand and I have no money and oh god it's all too depressing...

That's a good idea

[quote name='Rich' post='449204' date='Mar 30 2009, 08:36 AM']I use the big mooring cable all the time now, I'd be lost without it. When I first started playing fives, I had to change my playing style to suit and it took a bit of work. Now I find that when I pick up a four, I have to change my playing style to suit [/quote] Me too. It may be the nature of my 5string, a Peavey TL5, but I find that it doesn't respond as well to "digging in" as my Jazz 4 string. It sounds great with a lighter touch though.

[quote name='captain black' post='449161' date='Mar 30 2009, 01:41 AM']I've noticed a proliferation in the numbers of 'Dads Bands' around at the minute. You can see them all over. They're young. Their dads ferry them to 'gigs' and set the gear up for them while they stand around looking vaguely interested. They spend the whole night playing power chords learnt from Tab off the internet while adoring jailbait looks on. The dads stand at the back nodding all the way through and then pack up the gear at the end. The upshot? It's all done for them! They haven't had to do it for themselves. As a kid I had to bus 6 miles to practices then carry my amp and bass about a mile (stopping for many rests) so that by the time I got there I could hardly play. When you learnt your favourite songs you had to LISTEN to the Record ...NO REALLY LISTEN and work out what was going on. You learnt the subtleties. You learnt your trade. You couldn't just google it. So I think your answer lies in the fact that the future generation of bands are missing out on the 'serving your time' part. Also the standard of affordable guitars and basses you learnt on back then, or should I say Planks (hondo etc.), was pretty poor in comparison to what young 'uns have today (not that Dad hasn't bought them a Les Paul anyway). Anyway....Rant over. Ps. Apologies to anyone who helps out with their son's band but you get my point.[/quote] Oh dear. I wish that I could disagree with this but you are so right. It probably removes the those that can't really be bothered to make some effort filter so that anyone can do it in a half as*ed manner and pretend to be a musician.

I think that I do but often when playing songs originally recorded on a 4 string around F G or C it kind of sounds right to me played up near the nut as we do quite a few soul and Motown covers. I like the choice though of starting from the middle of the neck and it certainly works well on newer material . We play killer by seal in Eb; couldn't get away with that on my 4 string.

Pogues?

[quote name='escholl' post='448055' date='Mar 28 2009, 01:14 PM']nostalgia isn't what it used to be.[/quote] Damn you beat me to it!

[quote name='ped' post='447941' date='Mar 28 2009, 10:44 AM']Hi Pete, I heard you guys were really good. I will have to check you out soon. ped[/quote] They are and you should. I've seen them a couple of times at The Jazz cafe and had a very brief chat with the bass player about Ibanez SR1005's. Top bloke and a great band. I think that Morph the Cat was released a couple of years ago. Walter Becker's Last solo album: Circus Money is pretty good for bass grooves too Welcome to Basschat Pete Academy.

[quote name='Zoe_BillySheehan' post='447430' date='Mar 27 2009, 03:55 PM']Aw thankyou Mike! and nah, thats not a thing to be sad about. you were around to experience the clash 1st hand. damn i would have loved that!!! Z x[/quote] The saddest part is that I had tickets to go and see them at Hammersmith Odeon around the time of London Calling and they cancelled the gig.

That's really good Zoe. Well played. I'm a big Clash fan it's a great tune. Sadly I'm old enough to be nostalgic about this from playing Give 'em Enough Rope to death during my last year at school. Mike

He *anks higher than anyone else in Wome

Well done sounds a great gig. I've recently been revisiting all the early albums. I'd forgotten how very English and pastoral(?) it all is but also how varied. What have you let yourself into? Lot's of hard stuff to learn and play in odd and oftenchanging time signatures! Great tunes though 9/8 anybody? Have fun

Chris I really like your band photography and your music. I think that your pics are very good; if that's the image that you looking to project then what's not to like. They're well lit pro shots and you all look good. Ties and trainers? well it's all so subjective isn't it. Whatever works for your band image. Great bass playing and sound too. I'd come and see you if you were playing around here err... and I like the look of your singer singer too. Both of them ps I'm a professional photographer of some 25years standing so know a little bit about pictures!

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='431516' date='Mar 11 2009, 02:06 PM']Damn. Why didn't I think of that? This is usually when you tell us she's only fifteen!![/quote] or his daughter!

Very nice Bilbo. I hope that you're not still too tender after BBC's visit to post some more.

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