Bilbo

It is usually boats!

You arrive at the gig to find the ceiling on the stage is one inch above your head and your bass is too tall to be played upright.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1357377227' post='1921708'] I just got told that Mr. P.C. Haas been nominated for the 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. If I had any idea what that meant, I would be thrilled! [/quote] Well I'll be damned. I won :)

Five-string Parker Fly.

The theme to Pipkins. Well it can't all be hip and cool.

I just had my attention drawn to a great review of the book by Kevin LeGendre for Echoes Monthly magazine. I really rate Kevin so his endorsement is a real buzz for me PS the review is in the August 2013 edition p. 34-5

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1378337840' post='2198994'] Excellent, Bilbo, really class playing and feeling. [/quote] Kudos to Mirosolav Philharmonik. It Is entirely a VST and was not 'played' but typed in

Just bought a Shure SM58 off Gareth. Good price, good comms, quick turnaround etc. Would deal with him anytime.

I wrote it over a couple of days, whilst walking the dogs. Put it into Sibelius, created a midi file, populated it with Misoslav Philharmonik's solo cello and posted it. Took about 35 minutes.

My September offering. I took a moment's look at the image and solo cello came into my head. I put this together quite quickly using Arabic sounding scales but it really does it for me in terms of it relating to the image. More so than almost anything else I have done before. Simple but effective. [url="https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/syrian-sofa"]https://soundcloud.c...r-1/syrian-sofa[/url]

Singing lines and playing them (not playing lines and singing them) is by far the most effective means. Links your ideas to your fingers. Remember to learn the intervals backwards as well (fifth to root not just root to fifth).

Hardcore

Speaking as someone who is close to that pinnacle myself.... Seriously, the concept of there being a line of improved development from Monk Montgomery through Jaco to these gunslingers is anathema to the concept of Music as Art. Atheletes get faster, higher, further etc, not artists. Having looked for great players all my life, I have learned that there is always some other cat just around the corner. Great bassists canplay crap music, crap musicians can play great music. Technique is not just about faster but also about expression. It is all very complicated. Interestingly, guitarists seem to have stopped trying to speed up as the shredding has proven to be a dead end. Same with horns really. Its about the ideas now, not the process.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1375911329' post='2167452'] That's the thing with db, everyone will watch![/quote] Get a hat. You'll be fine.

[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1377872953' post='2193092'] I guess being a grunge kid (and seeing as i may have sort of triggered this a bit) - anything with more than 4 strings, unless you're playing metal - anything that's ostentatiously flashy wood, PRS or anything too 'session muso' or jazz. Acoustic basses unless its 1994 and you're on MTV unplugged. Violin basses. Any bass worn above the belt buckle. Especially 5 string bookmatched and used for slap jazz funk fusion! [/quote] More prejudices than a coachload of UKIP members on a European tour

Yeah, what's this 'in tune' malarky?

I always say that playing with a great feel is about learning about when notes END as opposed to when they start. Then again, I am about as funky as a cup of tea and sponge finger

Tony Reeves (Greenslade) Dudley Phillips (Perfect Houseplants) Mike Mondesir (Billy Cobham)

It is the interaction that is impossible to replicate without the ability to play piano/sax/trumpet etc. MIDI just doesn't begin to cut it. A solo bass piece is always an option but the images have never suggested that to me.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1377726383' post='2191155'] PS: IMHO, you need to get some of your upright playing incorporated into the monthly composition stuff! Love it. [/quote] It is always in the back of my mind but the problem is the 'composition' competition is as much about delivering a performance as it is a composition and, whilst I can play basic guitar and programme vsts etc, I can't replicate anything credible in the area of jazz so, most of the time, the double bass doesn't fit with the ideas I am working with. But, yes, it would be nice.

Yes it was a one off. We do this thing in Felixstowe (got some great stuff coming up) but it never travels, I am afraid. Thanks for the feedback though, Rob.

Interestingly, only 79 have read this thread but 224 have listened to the track

Percy Jones & John Giblin