Bilbo

I just came across this. I read the reviews on Thomann and think that this is brilliant. Trus tme, it has to be better than the crap that my generation started on (Columbus anyone? Zenta?). I think it would be brilliant fun to try one of these! And for all the wrong reasons!! Do they do it in fretless?

I have one bass and one amp. If I have a breakdown (it has never happened), I will borrow some kit. If it's on a gig, well..... Thinking about it, I don't even have any spare strings. Last broke one in 1981.

No worries. I have gone off the idea. I did some research and realised that I meant the Pink Fairies.... 'We're Piggies from Uranus...'!!!

I always loved the bass part on This Must Be Love by Phil Collins (Face Value). An easy part but one that strangely eludes you.

10! A healthy crop by any standards! Well done everyone. Now to listen..... (Note: one of the advantages of submitting a composition is that you don't have to listen to all of them)

She's ten, guys!!! Give her a break. Buy a cheap black one and let her cover it with stickers!! She has other basses around to compare. If she gets serious, she will find her way. My first guitar was unplayable, had steel strings and two nylon ones. Now look at me. Felixstowe's second best double bass player!!

Jeff Berlin has been linked several times with major Rock acts but the idea is laughable really. JB could play the parts standing on his head but he could never play the part. He was a middle-aged man in his teens and never had that sense of danger we associate with Rock music and all of its sub-genres. He has tried to get himself linked with all sorts as a composer/player and spent a lot of time trying to link his chordal bass concept with artists like Bonnie Riatt etc. They had the sense to pass on the idea but JB would keep on keeping on. A great technician but no idea about the entertainment industry at all really. Just one nearly off-topic comment; has anyone heard Sammy Hagar's version of Donovan's 'Young Girl Blues' off his live LP 'All Night Long'? Stunning.

Tell me what your budget is and I can put you in touch with loads of folk.

Not read the whole thread but every bass I play sounds disappointingly like me.

As a 29 year fretless man, my advice is do not practice reading music in a darkened room. It will ruin your eyes. There is only one thing in the fretless canon that is different from the fretted and that is the need for good intonation. You have to play with your ears and not your eyes. Make sure that, when you are playing with others, you can hear yourself. If you cannot, you are in no position to guarantee the accuracy of your intonation. Otherwise, a E major scale is an E major scale.

Movies Howard Shore – Lord of the Rings Trilogy Pat Metheny – A Map Of The World Javier Navarette – Pan’s Labyrinth Schindler’s List TV Bill Conti’s Theme From Cagney and Lacey. Great lines Mr Benn – A Don Warren (Duncan Lamont) composition that featured UK Jazz/session legends like Kenny Wheeler, Ken Baldock and Ray Swinfield (the musicians are featured on the Mr. Benn credits; how rare is that?) Noggin The Nog – a solo bassoon thing by Vernon Eliot. I loved it long before I had the faintest idea what was required to make it happen!

I know the feeling. I lost my drummer last year and, for a Jazz trio with sax, bass and drums, you need a certain quality in your drummers that is frighteningly rare. It killed the trio, basically. I now have about 50 tunes sitting on a shelf and never getting played.

I have had enough of this. I am leaving the country. I may go to Italy and [b]Live In Pompeii!![/b]

Me Mum popped over last week and I was preparing a salad. She said 'what's that red thing'. I said 'It's a tomato, mother'. Work with me on this.

There aren't enough of them, I think.

Stonking great gig with Alan Barnes. A monster saxophonist and really funny guy. Great humour, great playing - sore fingers (again) but what a way to go!!

It's been too long!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ionJMtalyPA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc52vCJ83LA

Are you gonna tell 'im?

As for dodgy vocals, why do you think all of mine are instrumental?

I have had this 29 years now. It's 30 next March.

Any time practising is useful. Jazz gigs without drummers used to fill me with dread. Now I prefer them.

I am sitting here listening to Swallow (with Carla Bley and Andy Sheppard) and he makes me want to get a five string fretted bass (E-C) and play like Jim Hall.

I finf Ornette to be one of those artists who produced some absolutely sublime material interspersed with some which is all but unlistenable! "Kathelin Gray", a track of his Song X LP with Pat Metheny is deep stuff. What is unquestionable was his vision and his commitment to his own artistry. One of the greats.

Did a gig in a theatre last night. Apparently it was built in 1905. I think that was also the last time it was cleaned.