KevB

Looks like I might be testing the theory. Since this thread started I've been in contact with a band who don't play the sort of stuff I'd naturally gravitate toward and they are all much younger than me. Not been in a band for a year now so about time I got back into it, will be interesting to see how it pans out. They might just bin me after an audition of course but I'll see what happens, first meet scheduled for Jan 26th.

Not so much the bassline as tone - a snippet of the 80's hit 'party fears 2' or whatever it was called came up on the radio this morning. I'd forgotten hown strongly the bass cuts through in that song and what a great tone it is (sounds very P bass to me but could have been something different) Edit : Now I've found it I realise it's actually a good bassline as well, forget the histrionic singing though! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPsdRUHiCAE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPsdRUHiCAE[/url]

I've been in similar situations over the last year since my last band folded. I had interest from an originals band but they didn't seem to be gigging much and some of the material was rather samey. Then more recently I had a session with another band who seemed to be going down the route the OP's audition is for and though some of the material was new to me it was all pretty safe and didn't inspire me either. However I'm now coming round to the feeling I'll have to be less picky otherwise I could get stuck not gigging at all this year. If you don't miss gigging at all then no, I wouldn't go for it. I'd like to get back to gigging again and it seems to me it is easier finding bands when you are in one than when you are not so I may have to pick a band who don't necessarily fit my personal choice of music but will be a means to an end in getting back on stage and maybe finding another gig that I'm more enthusiastic about.

I got my S/H ric without playing first via eBay. Was only the 2nd or 3rd foray on eBay I'd ever made and it is still the highest I've paid for anything on there after 10 or so years. Fortunately it turned out to be a decent example (it had hardly been played in truth and was at most 18 months old judging by the SN). Sadly it's seen little use over the last few years as the tone hasn't really fitted in with the bands I was in yet it remains my longest kept instrument. Make of that what you will. People still ask to play it when I take it to jam sessions.

[quote name='bassman344' timestamp='1357643375' post='1925721'] Fender will have an aisle in Tesco and Asda soon ; somewhere between the deli counter and the deoderant. . . !!!! [/quote] Any music manufacturer would give their eye teeth to have that sort of distribution network behind them!

I can't recall the last item of any size I put on eBay that wasn't 'collection only'. Too much messing about with couriers these days. If it goes for a bit less money but the buyer collects and pays cash I'm still happy. As others have said, sell to second bidder. Your conditions of auction were clear on the listing. I'd never bid on a 'collection only' auction if I knew full well I couldn't pick it up.

I would expect quite a lot of public libraries might pick up copies though? I don't know how they go about their book purchases and I assume they probably get them at a discount?

Been lucky with my three US Fenders (S1 jazz, active P deluxe and 50th anniv passive P) , all play extremely well. They were all bought secondhand though so were set up and played in already. Two have had a bit of further tweaking from a local tech but basically they are quality instruments from the off. Two are from 2003 and the other is a 2001(recently picked from a fellow BC'er) so maybe the early noughties were one of Fender USA's good spells? Having said that I've generally heard good reports from recent US models so find the OP a bit surprising.

Over fussy things like the Alembic Dragonwing or whatever it was called. Or that custom abomination with a dragon carved into the body.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1357562162' post='1924431'] I can't help but feel that people who obsess over HiFi have lost sight of the most important things when it comes to music: Do you like the song and does the performance move you? They should also be taken on a tour of a good recording studio to see how many 100s of metres of frankly rather ordinary cable an audio signal passes through to get from the instruments to the grooves in the vinyl or bits of an uncompressed digital audio file. [/quote] +1 When they set out, Elvis, The Beatles etc were not only heard on some pretty basic systems but recorded on them as well but managed to change the face of popular music at the time. There are limits though. If I'd heard Yes for the first time on wax cylinder I might have been a bit less impressed

I see Richard fairly regularly at a Sunday jam session. I didn't go yesterday but I was there last week and he was fine. I believe he's quitting the jams when the current band leader goes at the end of Jan so may not see too much of him after that unless he comes back for occasional depping.

Oh yes, brings plenty of memories back that one. Some of my first forays into record buying were at Bostocks Records. They had little units in covered makets in Bradford and Huddersfield. Usually Greek 'imports' of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and the like. Great dirty slabs of vinyl with, if you were lucky, the hole correctly centred. They appeared quite indestructible and were listenable to if you weren't much of a hi fi buff. Which we weren't, it was all 'radiograms' in those days and I had to wear headphones like a couple of half melons with a curly lead to avoid annoying anyone else in the room.

Although 'Can't Buy Me Love' was No1 when I was born the one my mum associates with me & YOB is a No1 from later in the year that she used to sing along with to me when it came on the radio - 'Baby Love' by the Supremes. Fortunately I was too young to be embarassed and presumably it was Jamerson on bass so I'll let her off.

Vinyl......CD....Hmmmm [IMG]http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c307/KevB64/fight.png[/IMG]

Fly Me To The Moon?

I often don't hear my rig particularly well if playing small pubs and I'm very close, the sound just seems to go through me but is fine in the mix where the important people are out front. Don't have a problem being heard with my jazz (though it is an S1 and I frequently play it with the S1 engaged). Been trying out a passive P recently purchased on bc and that does indeed punch through pretty much anything! As for 'bassists you can't hear' - honourable mention for JPJ on Celebration Day!

Not pop but some very nice walking type stuff in Yes's 'Yours Is No Disgrace'.

OK, just needed clarification. Their blurb at the side of the products is extremely misleading in that case! It gives the strong impression that the ric copy is a prodcut of Tokai gakki.

To the OP, I had to learn P&J pretty much note for note for a blues rock band I was in a couple of years ago and as with you I was surprised how much there was in it when it is all broken down. Tommy Shannon's a somewhat underrated player. I wasn't 100% nailed on but close enough for pub work. I had a little run through Wizzard's 'I wish it could be xmas everyday' last night for a laugh and that was a bit busier than I expected too, those little fills that double up with the saxophone had me on the ropes for a few goes through!

I tend to have that problem with Radiohead as well...

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1355829852' post='1903191'] A few months later I saw him playing in a band locally. I wondered if he was actually the same guy. His skills that night certainly didn't match his CV. [/quote] Was it his regular band though? Was it a very short notice depping gig that didn't give him time to properly prepare? I'm not saying you are wrong in your assessment but I think we all have to think before we start throwing stones. Personally I wouldn't have a go at someone about their playing after a gig like this guy did with you though so I can understand your grievance. Had an embrarassing moment the other day at a jam session. Someone got up and wanted to do 'Angels' and I realised after starting playing it I'd forgotten most of it (not played it since one of my previous bands split in 2006). Another bass player nipped up and reminded me of the bits I was struggling with over my shoulder as i was carrying on with it. I later apologised to the singer and hoped it didn't throw him off. He looked completely bemused and said he didn't hear anything wrong with what I was playing at all!

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK9lnKUeNs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRK9lnKUeNs[/url]

Got half way through second song after the chat with presenter then went to do something else.

Any minor glitches will be instantly forgotten as soon as you have your next gig/jam/rehearsal I can guarantee it, well done shell. Funny you mention 'Zombie'. I did it in a band for a while but the band leader insisted on a slightly different arrangement in the middle somewhere which meant I had to adapt the bassline in that part. We did it at an open mic night somewhere and sure enough I got some local bass player buttonhole me afterwards to tell me I didn't play it 'properly'

The second singer in one of my previous bands seemed to have great difficulty learning words and would gig with a crib sheet in front of the monitor. Unfortunately he didn't use big fonts so would disappear on one knee at regular intervals to get an update then bob back up in time for the next verse or chorus! It was really starting to grate but then the band broke up before it became a real issue.