ras52

Given all the Simply Red love on this thread, this is going to be very exciting news for some: http://www.music-news.com/ShowNews.asp?nItemID=88793

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1429554669' post='2752581'] I like the top one. [/quote] I can't believe it's only £135! Gibson "proper" do something similar for a modest - by their standards - £635:

Yum yum... these all look tasty and very keenly priced: just the thing for a bassist who dabbles? Any others that might get my saliva flowing?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429536937' post='2752359'] Yes, this. A business card is as good as anything. Take time over cutting it and get the shape snug in the neck pocket. [/quote] +1, I did it last week (my first shimming). I used one of my own cards!

[quote name='ianrendall' timestamp='1429536246' post='2752348'] Rumour has it there could be as many as 24. I still think they are meant as spares for the first five frets. [/quote] Ibanez do a [b]30[/b]-fret [b]fretless[/b]!! http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/eb_page15.php?year=2015&area_id=3&cat_id=2&series_id=51&data_id=57&color=CL01

[quote name='MarkW' timestamp='1429535411' post='2752330'] I love the scene in The Big Lebowski where he criticises the taxi-drivers taste in music: "Come on, Man. I had a rough night, and I hate the f*ckin' Eagles, man!" [/quote] And - in a spin-off from the rock-quote-quiz thread - "Turn up The Eagles, the neighbors are listening."

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1429468280' post='2751665'] I try to avoid ghost notes because they tend to scare me. I thank you [/quote] I'd rather have a piece of toast...

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429521097' post='2752120'] Or Tate Sex, which is when you do it in an art gallery. [/quote] Or Tate & Lyle Sex.... sweeeeeet love-making.

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1429519935' post='2752096'] Great at the time but ultimately disappointing. [/quote] Not to be confused with grate sex, which is when you do it in front of the fireplace.

[quote name='SpaceChick' timestamp='1429294183' post='2750233'] What gets me about MacArthur Park isn't necessarily leaving the cake out in the rain, although that is a foolish thing to to. It is the fact that she'll never have that recipe again, why? Why did she get rid of the recipe, that is carelessness in the extreme, and what happened to it, did she leave it with the cake and the paper became so wet that it broke? Did she throw it in the bin? Did she accidentally drop it on a fire? Anyhow..... For mine: Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton lay down Sally - Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton I think you can see a theme [/quote] But isn't the singer WH doesn't have the recipe? The someone who baked and left it may still have the recipe. Perhaps - before it got wet - the singer was planning on taking the cake home and reverse-engineering the recipe from it. Anyway, I feel a mash-up of Wonderful Tonight and Lady in Red coming on...

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1429289914' post='2750144'] Contrary to popular belief, Cat Stevens is neither a cat, nor is his name Steven. Who'd have thought it, eh? [/quote] After famously converting to Islam, his brother followed suit. After rising through the ranks of Saudi nobility, he's now known as Sheik 'n Stevens.

Stop this right now! I'm pretty much gasless having recently acquired a bargain BB425. I don't need anyone giving me the idea that a 1025 would be so much better! :-)

Depends what you're calling a hit, I suppose... if it's something postmen of today are still whistling, how about Greensleeves (C16)?

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1429233941' post='2749590'] Reverend: [url="http://www.reverendguitars.com/category/bass/"]http://www.reverendg.../category/bass/[/url] [/quote] Oooh http://www.reverendguitars.com/instrument/fellowship/

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1429284623' post='2750057'] If Morrissey ever forms a harmony trio with John Lydon & Damon Albarn I may have to leave the country. Or planet. Or something. [/quote] I trying to imagine what that would sound like, and the best I can come up with is.... Bob Dylan.

[quote name='RandomBass' timestamp='1429279962' post='2750000'] Tiny Tempah has successfully undergone anger management counselling. [/quote] Prior to counselling he was known as Massive Tempah...

[quote name='simonlittle' timestamp='1429222817' post='2749526'] Not the ones with me on bass though, obviously... [/quote] Actually you're right! A quick bit of research shows that, as far as I can tell, I've never skipped you

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1429216520' post='2749436'] I remember at one of my gigs in the late 70's in my soul/ funk band. We'd done a run of Ewf, Commodores and isley brothers numbers and a middle aged couple came over to my side of the stage got my attention and asked me if we could play something by the Nolan Sisters. [/quote] Whereas at that time I was in a post-jazz-punk-prog trio, and we had a cover of a Nolan Sisters number in our set.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1429203180' post='2749225'] Since when was Richard Harris Richard Burton? Although you never saw them in the same room together. [/quote] Burton was more of a reggae man: http://www.soundcloud.com/caughtbytheriver/under-dubwood

[quote name='lowhand_mike' timestamp='1429193876' post='2749070'] add mcarthur park to that (the first time ive heard it too), got to the bit where he sings about "someone left a cake out in the rain" bloody shtooopid [/quote] But that's the point of the song! To communicate the overwhelming [i]Weltschmerz [/i]that arises from the contemplation of such a shtooopid act as leaving a cake out in the rain...

Happy to "pitch" in BTW, such matter pre-date computer notation by a long way, see e.g. http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2207676/Silly_question_Chopin_C_minor_

[quote name='Fisheth' timestamp='1429186873' post='2748905'] a "Journey chronicling his depression over the last few years" [/quote] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1429187914' post='2748937'] Sorry, but this made me laugh like a drain for some reason. [/quote] Me too.... reminded me of an a old sketch (Rutland Weekend TV? Not the Nine O'Clock News?) where a singer/songwriter introduces his set with, "I've suffered for my art: now it's your turn."

[quote name='dustandbarley' timestamp='1429188351' post='2748948'] Great ras52, and just to emphasise the poor job the editor has done; IF the yellow circled note DID NOT have the natural sign, you would have played F NATURALS for the previous red circled notes (despite the purple circled note). [/quote] In a band situation I'd ask what the others are playing... or if the chord names were given, I'd play F# for D and F for D minor... or I'd ask the question on Basschat

[quote name='dustandbarley' timestamp='1429183749' post='2748825'] Am I right in thinking ras52, you would play F#'s for the red circled notes but feel there should have been accidentals for those notes to avoid ambiguity? [/quote] Yes. My thoughts would be: "Hm, is that red note an F# or an F natural? I wish the editor had made it clear! I see that the F# is explicitly cancelled by the natural at the yellow note, which suggests that the red note's an F#."