Bilbo

Haven't got a scooby.....

Jim Stinnnet's second book of Paul Chambers solos featurs bowed solos specifically. [url="http://www.uptonbass.com/Arcology-The-Music-of-Paul-Chambers-Volume-Two/"]http://www.uptonbass.com/Arcology-The-Musi...ers-Volume-Two/[/url]

Thanks, Kirky! Just what I was looking for.

Looks like a non-starter then! I cannot play a double bass for more than about 15 minutes before I start getting pains in my left arm (not fatigue, real pain!!).

[quote name='mathewsanchez' post='415214' date='Feb 20 2009, 12:55 PM']I used to be able to play twinkle twinkle little star on violin when I was about 8 years old. Can't pick one up without damaging someone's hearing now... [/quote] Well done, son. Can I ask where you did this? I have wanted to do these grades for years but don't know where to go to do them (I left school in 1806).

I have mentioned here before that I have tried the double bass before but, due to injuries caused to my hand(s), I couldn't keep playing. I was wondering, therefore, how these Stagg's compare to the real thing not in terms of the sound etc but in terms of the sheer physicality of playing them. Does the fact that they are smaller make them easier to 'get around'? It may be an option for me as an alternative.

[quote name='JohnSlade07' post='414783' date='Feb 19 2009, 09:35 PM']I've managed to work out the first few bars but would like to finish learning it some time before 2012.[/quote] Have they finally made John Entwhistle's bass playing an Olympic sport?

[quote name='crez5150' post='413323' date='Feb 18 2009, 04:55 PM']Oi Bilbo...... I beat you to that...... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=41648&hl="]Celebrity Face Cyst[/url] and mine was much funnier! ner [/quote] Sorry, crez. I'm new here....

[quote name='Lemuel Beam' post='413037' date='Feb 18 2009, 01:41 PM']Diamondhead - wonder what happened to them?[/quote] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head_(band)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head_(band)[/url] I still have a copy of their legendary 'white' album that I bought at a gig!

Ra ra ra!

Two thirds of Dave Hollands catalogue! 'Long As You're Living' - Claudia Acuna (5/4) I'll come back with more later.

[quote name='urb' post='412166' date='Feb 17 2009, 04:39 PM']RAWK!!!!!! That's better - now where's my Iron Maiden t-shirt and frightwig...?[/quote] What you have to remember about this is that, at this point, Iron Maiden were only really one step up from a pub band and had only recently released their first LP (I saw them on their first major UK tour that year - still with Paul Di'anno on vox). These were the heady days of the NWOBHM (this band played a track on the FM Records compilation 'Metal for Muthas Volume 2') and there were loads of original bands gigging in pubs all over the UK - and not a tribute band in sight. I was young and impressionable but soon grew out if it but these were my first steps into being a musician and I learned a lot about what it means to play in a band during this period!

Just realised that I had uploaded a low grade version by mistake (hence urb's comments about fuzziness!). Let's try again - this was state of the art recording technology in 1981! Maida Vale BBC studio!

[quote name='dlloyd' post='411056' date='Feb 16 2009, 01:40 PM']His career as a whole was iffy, punctuated by short periods of brilliance. That's the nature of the illness he had. The illness didn't start in the 1980s, he would have had it right from the outset, benefiting creatively from his manic/hypomanic episodes... and he was aware of it, refusing treatment for fear of losing the 'highs'.[/quote] Depends on several things. His illness may have lain dormant until he started drinking (Zawinul talks about this in his biography 'In A Silent Way' - [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Way-Portrait-Joe-Zawinul/dp/1860743269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234799439&sr=1-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Way-Portrai...9439&sr=1-1[/url] ) and doing drugs with the likes of Mike Stern. Personally I think of his work as that of a highly capable and vibrant voice but not necessarily one who had a lot to say. I think his 1976 - 1980 work was marvellous but, after he left WR with whom he had started to become unreliable, he was in trouble.

[quote name='dlloyd' post='410957' date='Feb 16 2009, 12:25 PM']I'd say you're overstating that a bit. An individual affected with bipolar in a major depressive episode (as he was at that point), who heavily self-medicates with alcohol and cocaine, frequently sleeping on park benches, etc. has plenty of things to blame for mediocre performance before he needs to blame those around him.[/quote] Your point is valid but I was referring to a career overview not to the defeciencies in his playing that arose over the closing years of his life. There are lots of examples of him throughout his career playing without stellar composers/arrangers and he is not nearly as effective as he was with WR, Mitchell, Metheny etc. Examples include the LPs/tracks he did with Michel Colombier, Airto, Al DiMeola, Mike Stern etc. Even that Trio of Doom thing is a bit iffy.

I write out a chart including chords and dots for groove definition and specific breaks etc. If I have time, I use Sibelius. If not I use a beer mat with the picture torn off.

Pete's tuning idea is one I have thought about for a long time but never actually done anything with. I have a six I don't like playing and would trade it for a 5 but no takers so I thought, what if I tuned my 4 BEAD and worked from there? The questions about neck tension and intonation, however, created what we in the trade call 'the dither' and nothing ever happened. Because I mainly (90%) do jazz gigs, its not a big deal (those low Bs are more a rock/pop/funk thing). I had one gig where I needed the low B but lost that to Mike Mondesir!

My wife once met Francis Rossi at a theatre and went up to him and said 'Hi, Rik'. She then slagged off the play only to find out his daughter was in it

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='407527' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:48 PM']Okay Bilbo recommend me some jazz that's likely accessible for someone with an open ear and mind? Peter[/quote] Hal Williner 'Weird Nightmare' [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Nightmare-Meditations-Various-Artists/dp/B0000028OW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1234443279&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Nightmare-Me...3279&sr=8-1[/url]

I always smile when people talk about Jaco as a far out jazzer; he was a funk/groove player who could take it up a notch further than his peers. His 'jazz' stuff was no where near 'far out' and was all essentially groove oritentated. There is very little Jaco that is hardcore, improvised music. Massive chunks of what he did was very tightly rehearsed groove playing, what I call 'implied repetition'; like Larry Graham or George Porter. His second LP, Word of MOuth, is marvelous. Great writing and arranging - takes repeated listening (if you can get past 'Crisis', the train wreck that opens the cd)

My mantra for practice material: If its dull and repetitive, it'll probably work... (I have the Hanon and have used it on piano not bass. I could do with some bass practice but other things are in the way at the moment. Why does that always happen?).

[quote name='Eight' post='407499' date='Feb 12 2009, 12:21 PM']This thread makes me sad. Bilb - you coulda made it kid. You coulda lived the dream and played metal... instead you got in with a bad crowd and ended up playing j@zz.[/quote] But would I have been happy? The rest of the guys on that recording went on to ........ eh, nothing much. I'll cope with the disappointment!

[quote name='urb' post='407453' date='Feb 12 2009, 11:45 AM']shame it's a bit on the fuzzy side -[/quote] Its an MP3 of a cassette of a 28 year old session taped off the radio - what do you expect!!

[quote name='Hamster' post='407105' date='Feb 11 2009, 10:59 PM']Ummmmmm - if that's you, it's not to bad for a beatnik! [/quote] It's from a Radio One session I did for Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show in 1981. I was 17 and playing an Aria SB700 through a Frunt amp - with a pick!

[quote name='blamelouis' post='407429' date='Feb 12 2009, 11:08 AM']Unless its watermelon man, eh Bilbo ! [/quote] Grrrrr. I am also enjoying the new (?) Dave Holland Sextet cd 'Pass It On'. It is a band with a pianist (Mulgrew Miller - Holland has not used piano in his bands ever before, if I am not mistaken, so this is a departure for him). Some of the tunes on the cd have been on earlier Holland cds but these versions are fresh.