cheddatom

[quote name='The Funk' post='73051' date='Oct 11 2007, 08:38 PM']Trust me - physical violence has its place.[/quote] In your bedroom?

There are deffinitely more important things in life, that's a very good point. However, if I personally got ripped off for £1000 i'd be using a lot of my free time to get it back, as I can't afford to loose it. There's no need to get upset about it, but maybe he's not getting upset? I don't really know much about the case, but I read about your generosity with that broken flea bass, and I was quite shocked to be honest. It's very obvious that you have a LOT more money than me. I'm a generous and laid back person, I hate money, and I never worry about it, but I don't have enough of it to have the same attitude as you, and obviously, this guy on ebay is in the same position.

Yeh, I totally disagree with that point. I could afford, for once in my life, to spend £400 on a bass. I could not afford that again for a long time, and probably will never afford £1000. I could never afford to loose £100, let alone £1000.

Yeh, well, I never want to be a technically skilled a Victor. The drummer in my band is really into all of these solo drummers on drummerworld.com and youtube etc, which are similar to all the amazing bassists around. They play technically brilliant stuff, and it either gives me a headache or fades into the background. 10 minutes of drum soloing should contain more than 10 seconds of groove! Same goes for bassists, occasionally I want to hear a funky solo, but only in the middle of a funky bassline.

[quote name='3V17C' post='72879' date='Oct 11 2007, 02:57 PM']i should also say in his defence that on the very day after his mum died he turned up for rehearsal as usual![/quote] That's not necessarily a defence. I wouldn't turn up for a practice if my mum died. I might go for a drink with my band, but, y'know, if you said that to Trisha, she'd be telling you about how he's a classic case of whatever and needs therapy. Little Johnny: Mummy, when I grow up I want to be a drummer! Mummy: Now Johnny, you can't do both.

An amateur drummer died and went to heaven. He was waiting outside the pearly gates when he heard the most incredible fast and furious drumming coming from within. Immediately he recognized the playing and rushed to ask St. Peter if that was Buddy Rich playing drums inside the gates. St. Peter responded: "No, that's God. He just thinks he's Buddy Rich."

^That wasn't a very good drummer joke!

To be fair, I can't beleive he takes his phone on stage. I've never seen that.

He's not necessarily un-committed, just a bit messed up in the head. It sounds like he has quite a bad OCD about his mistakes, and obviously as you say he's depressed. I may sound like a "big gay boy" but I think some of these posts are really insensitive, and Happy jack is just funny.

I think the level of technical ability you reach can always increase, although the better you get, the harder it is to improve. What is Victor going to do next? Nothing different, but maybe a bit faster. You have to decide why you're playing the bass, and then keep challenging yourself in those key areas. So it may be that you want to just rock out in a covers band playing root notes with your pick, or you may want to be a great bassline writer for original stuff in a band. You may want to compose you own music, or songs, or you may want to become a bass virtuoso. I never want to be as good as Victor. I can see the appeal in it, but i'm more interested in writing songs with my bands mates, and in shaping the sound and feel of these songs. I hardly ever play the bass outside of our band practices, and I think that is the reason I don't really progress technically.

I think multi-effects are great, but, it's not as though they're making a B9.2U yet :-/ aphook's point is very important. I use a B2.1U, but in congunction with other pedals for different sounds. If you can do everything you want with a simple multi though, it's obviously a lot easier at gigs. I wish I could just tap 1 footswitch every time I want to change my sound, as opposed to 3 or 4 etc.

I just play! I don't know any songs that aren't my band's. That sounds quite bad really, but, I just stopped playing other people's stuff about 4 years ago. I don't know why. It's probably bad for me as a musician.

For some reason, I got it into my head that I could play faster, smoother rythms, if I could get my three fingers going 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2 etc. I'm pretty much there now, but it was a very unnatural thing to try and do. I don't know if anyone else plays like this? This is for very fast (imho) stuff that I want finger (as opposed to pick) tone for.

[quote name='bigd1' post='71990' date='Oct 10 2007, 08:31 AM']I was in a band called "Dr White & the heavy Bleeders"[/quote] That's a very cool name!! I'm playing drums in a band, just for fun, and we're called the Premature Ejaculators. We thought we'd be the only ones, but there are another 2 bands out there with the same name! Grrr.

I've seen some great deals in my local cash converters. I would be sure that what you're buying works first though. I bought a PSU off their Ebay shop 2 weeks ago and it was broken. They gave me a full refund though, so... I spent a lot of time in these types of shops about a year ago looking for my stolen guitar :-(

Does the bass sound good and the guitar crap because the bass has a good tone coming out of the board, and the guitar is going straight into the mixer? If you had a little pedal for a nice tone for the guitar, and put that before the mixer, it could solve it.

Has he just cracked himself in the nuts by swinging that mic around?

[quote name='Mrs Tinman' post='71634' date='Oct 9 2007, 04:03 PM']Cheddatom, get ready for a spank now [/quote] Sorry, am I too late?

Funt Clap?

[quote name='16Again' post='71578' date='Oct 9 2007, 02:44 PM'][/quote] Your lead singer looks so cool!

Why don't you put the mixer after the FX, but before the looper. It's a cool idea, i was doing something like this the other day, mixing my playing through my board, with weird noises on another FX unit. My little mixer is very crappy though, and destroys my tone :-(

Every botb i've been to or played at have had questionable results. We played one once, and they gave us a list of the things the bands were being judged on. Last on the list was "number of people who showed up to watch you". They were asking the audience, as they turned up, who they had come to support. So basically, it was a local popularity contest. The only way to enjoy BOTB's (as someone already said) is to treat it as a normal gig. That way you won't be annoyed when some crap band takes home the prize.

Heh, yeh, I should have said "when I know some band members", otherwise I know i'll look a dick! Some of the bands I know will really listen to me, 'cos i've done mixes for them etc, where as others I get the impression I should have kept my mouth shut. It's just so annoying when you see a band, and they could sound so much better! That's another topic anyway, sorry.

We've only ever been criticised once (that I can remember), and that was on the internet. They guy attempted to be constructive about one of our songs, but he had trouble explaining himself. It's pretty pathetic though, that people actually bother to take time write to (in their own opinion) a sh*t band, just to tell them in as clever way as possible (in their own opinion) that they're sh*t. I can't ever imagine myself being bored enough. I've seen bad bands in the past, and had a little giggle with my mates about them, or maybe moved to the back of the pub, or sat outside, but, i'd never actually tell the band that I didn't like them. It's just not helpful. Sometimes, if I see a band play, and I think they have potential, or I liked them, but saw problems, I will go and try to offer them a bit of advice in a nice way (I hope). Just tips about tone really. I wonder if these bands just think i'm an idiot :-/