Bilbo

I prefer to stay home and practice. I guess it is about what you want from attending. Practice playing with others? Networking? Social experience? Hearing other players? Impressing others? Practice getting a good sound live? I got far more from workshop bands in Cardiff in the 80s and 90s than at Jam Sessions. Great for networking when you move to a new area, though. stinky poo players may be stinky poo players but even stinky poo players know where thd good ones are.

No it wasn't. It was Carole Kaye. All of it.

I did two double bass gigs on the same day yesterday. Four one hour sets and three set ups and tear downs. No pain, no strain - all perfectly comfortable. We get there in the end, don't we?

Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Marc Johnson, John Patitucci, Jaco, Jeff Berlin, Kermit Driscoll, Renaud Garcia Fons, Anthony Jackson, Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee and a few others. This is a game I have been playing for decades and I can recognise dozens of Jazz musicians from a relatively few notes. In the end, their voices are as distinctive as your family's.

Michael Spearman Trio

Whatever else you say about Yes, no one else has produced a catalogue like it. Gates is a massively original work.

It's cheap as chips too.

Scrivener.

Unbelievably, I have just found out that three more bass tracks I recorded at home are going to be used on another imminent release, the fifth album by a Prog outfit. I will post details when the album is released. Exciting times (tiny little victories for me, at least).

Available on Spotify.

Not all Prog was as whimsical as Jon Anderson's Yes. Greenslade had songs about sado masicism, Animal Farm and corrupt journalists. The Prog bit was the length of the track, the sections, the keyboard solos etc. Even JJB's tone is pure Chris Squire. Labels don't always stand up to scrutiny.

I had a six string once. I got the seven specifically to try the guitar tuning thing.

Interestingly, if I understand the implication of your reference to me, I tune my seven string bass BEADGBE not BEADGCF. It is essentially a guitar with a low B tuned down an octave. The opposite of what you are doing. 😀

My Wal is 33 years old and wins hands down in terms of my oldest item. I have a metronome that may be older but I cannot be sure.

I remember enjoying this when it came out. Its a Prog tune, as far as I hear it.

The function band I play with. I am the Sasquatch on the right hand side of the picture.

Sixer? Lightweight.

There was a website that listed all the Wals ever made with the owners if known.

A new album out last Sunday; Tim Ainslie and The Vibes 'Pint Half Full'. Check it out on Spotify or Amazon. Think Dr. Feelgood. My favourite track is 'In Or Out'. Root note heaven. The biggest thrill for me is in knowing that the bass parts were recorded at Bag End Studios (my garden shed ). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pint-Half-Full-Ainslie-Vibes/dp/B07STZWPGY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=tim+ainslie+and+the+vibes&qid=1562253255&s=music&sr=1-1-catcorr

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Nope. I have it now.

An interesting little thing by Ralph Towner, only 1.26 long. I transcribed the guitar part and then re-transcribed it for double bass. A solo piece that most of us on here can play, a spacy ECM vibe - all tone and no technique. I cannot post a link to the tune as it is not available on youtube (it was but it isn't there now). Four Comets One.pdf Four Comets Bass version.pdf

Last night's Gypsy Jazz gig with the Champion Souza Quartet.

Tonight I am debuting my new set up. David Gage Realist with Audio Technica ATM350 microphone. Sounds great in the woodshed but will it work live? Gypsy Jazz Quartet in Felixstowe. No drums so in with a fighting chance.

JB always sounds better as a sideman.