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[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1381794587' post='2243981'] Some advice -- as long as you try to figure out basslines and make and read tabs, you'll struggle for the rest of your life. What you need to do is understand what chords you're playing over and the notes within those chords and how they correspond to each other. In other words -- basic theory. Learn the modes. Play them up and down and backwards and sideways. Play some jazz standards and walk over the changes. Once you get good at that, you can rip through a song like that Whitesnake tune without even thinking. He's just playing basic busy rock runs over the chords. If you know the chords, it's childsplay. If you try to memorize the runs, it's calculus. [/quote] some people can memorize long intricate lines easily and struggle with chords patterns and keys and scales while others find scales and keys easy but struggle to memorize solo lines note for note might be calculus to you but not necessarily to others

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1381769212' post='2243441'] So it's OK to pay someone to professionally relic a bass, but sacrilege to let your mates do it? [/quote] well im sure the guys in the sandberg factory probably make a concerted and careful effect to achieve a planned result rather than just twattin around like beavis and butthead

bunch of f***ing tools

yup i just bought a fretless vmJ recently off here and modded it a wee bit new gotoh bridge and new set of swingbass on it and it sounds absolutlely lush and secretly i would probably choose it if i only had one dont know if i could part with the other three though

despite the double fretw*** warning above i still clicked play just to be objective ..... until i heard some hip-hoppy snoop dogg dogg wanannabe f-ing and cursing so 10 seconds was about as far as i got

never heard of it but now i have i rather like it

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1381568944' post='2240686'] I'd say the difference was always there, well before Love is Like Oxygen. They'd been writing, and had a cult following for, their own B sides on most/all of the early hits. They came out of the heavy rock closet with the album 'Sweet Fanny Adams' in 1974 - the track 'Set Me Free' was a belter of a rock tune. Mick Tucker had a huge following as a powerful and talented rock drummer. [media]http://youtu.be/SW6zZAigmMo[/media] [/quote] and this [url="http://youtu.be/a_3vvo6Ebb4"]http://youtu.be/a_3vvo6Ebb4[/url]

one thing i did find vaguely entertaining was the contrast of his apparent smugness with his own playing and his irritation of his hair getting in the way

[url="http://youtu.be/_ayn2PE8-fM"]http://youtu.be/_ayn2PE8-fM[/url]

[url="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/thom-yorke-warns-isolated-tribes-about-spotify-2013101180285"]http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/thom-yorke-warns-isolated-tribes-about-spotify-2013101180285[/url]

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1381505349' post='2240048'] Even Mark King has bad days...not his finest hour! [media]http://youtu.be/VElv-wrqWIA[/media] [/quote] well slap my thigh

Have you hugged yours today? You most certainly wouldn't if you saw the sweaty mess ours ends up in at the end of every gig

maybe you could coat the cabs with that sticky anti-climb paint that'll learn him

please remember to wash your hands afterwards

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1381498992' post='2239916'] Playing emotionally sterile, technique-for-techniques-sake solo versions of ELP songs to a crowd made up largely of balding middled aged men who still live with their mothers is not my idea of "a vision of a better life"......... [/quote] were you at that genesis gig i went to in earls court c.98 ?

[quote name='Ziphoblat' timestamp='1381497817' post='2239901'] ^ I think the way to avoid such "animosity" would be not to introduce the person by trying to objectively compare them to an established player. It kind of goes against everything you described in your post. [/quote] this and in your thread title using a turn of phrase that is overtly provoking a response? just saying etc etc

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1381431707' post='2239105'] Nailed it! Absolutely Nailed it! He's probably a cracker of a bassist (in fact he defo will be) but that 'solo' just reminds me of a youtube bedroom bassist. I honestly hate that style of bass playing, it would be a perfectly nice piece if played on a suitable instrument, perhaps a nylon guitar, but just sounds bad on a bass. Wooten goes extremely unmusical at some points but he has a style to him. [/quote] i beg to differ - there are plenty of bassists on youtube who can pull this stuff off with much more style and finesse - it would be good to see this bloke playing what he enjoys and does best because it doenst look like this - his tapping 2 hand technique often looks cramped and uncomfortable - it may sound reasonable as a final result but to reiterate Nige ,,, no finesse or passion whatsoever

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1381413901' post='2238726'] Well, he is really really good. lol. BUT... he doesn't really do it for me. No disrespect. That's just my taste. His tricks are terrific but his playing with a band isn't particularly interesting. TO ME. His slapping is good but so is the slapping of thousands of blokes. So it comes down to his two handed tap/chord melody playing. That's where he's the master, right? Well, check this out. I believe what this guy is doing is so far beyond what Wooton has ever done. He's stupidly great. Never heard of him. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2wuhDDhzoU[/media] [/quote] jeebus just how frigging annoying is it with peeps when they ram in 64 hemidemisemiquavers at the end of every bleedin line made it to 3:07 where the bow was thrown in FML

[quote name='LeftyJ' timestamp='1381328719' post='2237682'] I think I read in an interview with Dave Stewart recently that Spotify only has around 6.000.000 paying users WORLDWIDE. All the others are using the free version - which obviously doesn't generate any income. For artists to get paid more, Spotify will need a heck of a lot more paying clients. [/quote] ive been paying tenner a month not to be annoyed by adverts but to be honest even with a good sound card there really doesnt seem to be a great deal of discernable difference in streaming quality which they claim between the paid and unpaid service - ive occasionally let it lapse to the unpaid service and if the adverts are bearable then it is not too bad tbh - one time they had an abundance of the meerkat adverts and i ended up enjoying the ads more than my own taste in their music my biggest criticism of spotify as an end user is the nagging advertising (artist promo) when you are a paying user, and the poor tagging of the artists - often there will be several tags for one band or artist but with slight variations on spellings and the related artists feature is often highly dubious to the extent that for example when you go and view Genesis, the related artists might not show Peter Gabriel or Steve Hackett or similar. Also just more recently have started noticing jumps in the streaming, not sure if this is buffering or my machine or the stream itself or maybe they just trying to simulate the needle skipping across the vinyl

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1381324821' post='2237585'] What the f*** is a "dying corpse"? [/quote] looks a bit like one of the rolling stones but with a slightly more healthy glow not many comments on [url="http://www.truthinshredding.com/2013/09/frank-gambale-spotify-in-my-mind-its.html"]this [/url]but Frank Gambale doesnt seem to get much support from the limited comments there are personally i use spotify quite a bit these days as i dont watch tv at all and spend most evening listening to music and/or podcasts

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1381244101' post='2236305'] They tend to be the people who will call you to their desk for help and moral support when there's an error message on their PC screen, whether they understand it or not. [/quote] like parents

judging from the comments ive had from other bass players on my own instruments which i have set up then i would seem to be doing something right although notwithstanding that i am not scared to attack the bass with a screwdriver and allen key i would be first to admit that there is still a lot to be learnt about the fine details of the science of setups personally i find programming the video recorder damn near bloody impossible!

[quote name='clauster' timestamp='1379178188' post='2209561'] Thanks for the heads up. Wish I'd made the trip to Maidstone now. [/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/219090-kick-backs-fri-25-oct-shorne-kent"]http://basschat.co.u...oct-shorne-kent[/url] next gig