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Kayleigh - Marillion.

We have a similarly sized singer to your number 1 option and I wouldn't want to replace her. She'd probably divorce me, for one thing.

Just about anything by Ivor Biggun. Anything by Flanders and Swann.

It's not about chords though, it's melody and drones (also cf. sitar).

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1441802503' post='2861886'] The audience aren't out of time though... They are just clapping on the "wrong" beats. And it's only convention that dictates you should clap on beat 2 and 4 of this style of music rather than 1 and 3. [/quote] Indeed, it's not like the imbeciles who clap during ice dancing and figure skating routines, who have no concept of clapping in time. And they are the reason that tambourines should never be left in range of the audience.

I've used PVA glue on the ones I've done.

If it was a Bass 7, I'd say avoid it like the plague. As it's a Bass 8, it might not be as appallingly bad.

No firmware updates for it on the Zoom site. You can also use the USB interface to change patch by sending MIDI control messages to it. That appears to be as far as it goes, though.

I sold mine because it was so light. I was playing a Thumb at the time (followed on from a Hayman 40/40, then a P) and such a lightweight bass just felt wrong to me. I rather regret it now, it was a lovely bass.

Pink Floyd's "Bike" was inspired by a rather persistent groupie.

I posted this to the rest of the band a few months ago with the comment "This is why I want to do it". We do "The Seeker". I thought I'd have a bit of revision and found an isolated bass track to that. And then I discovered that I've been playing it wrong for years.

[quote name='ColinB' timestamp='1441658991' post='2860729'] Why would you not want to stab the drummer? [/quote] I think the missing word was "unintentionally".

Should have asked - why is a chair no good?

Peavey Grind BXP Hohner B2AV or Jack 5

With various bands where we've been in a similar situation, we've taken down and packed up as much as possible, as unobtrusively as possible. Don't recall ever having been in a situation where loading out would have meant we'd have been going through the disco-dancing throng though.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1441564407' post='2859879'] I find it quite interesting that lots of people think it necessary to take a spare (quality or otherwise) bass to a gig, but very few have said they take a spare amp. I'd be much more worried about an amp breaking than a bass (even one of my cheap, crap ones) [/quote] I take a spare amp. Currently an Ashdown MiBass which lives under the front seat of the car.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1441495527' post='2859349'] Sure, and that's what I wanted to find out - did people feel it was necessary. [/quote] Depends. I've mentioned my three gigging basses, one cheap and two expensive (for sub-Fodera values of "expensive"). One of the two expensive ones is the only 5-string fretless I've found yet that I get on with. So it was necessary for me to spend a bit over a grand on that because I wanted a 5-string fretless that I could stick with, rather than buying one, keeping it for a little while, then selling it because I didn't get on with it.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1441482286' post='2859201'] If only we could incorporate "which bass is best for metal" too, we'd essentially have finished Basschat. [/quote] Don't forget "Why did Paul McCartney play a cheapo Hofner instead of an expensive bass?" and "Why did Paul McCartney play a Wal Mk III and not a cheapo bass?".

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441372900' post='2858402'] At no point has anyone (including the OP) suggested that we aren't allowed to have opinions or tastes. [/quote] Yes he has. I've quoted it before, I shan't bother quoting it again.

[quote name='Wonky2' timestamp='1441498437' post='2859368'] If it's a short gig, I'll sit on my amp , which I suppose is still acceptable to some degree..... But for full gigs, I need to sit down, I'm yet to find a suitable perch ! A chair is no good, a stool is too hard and can make things worse...... In the rehearsal studio I have been know to play quite comfortably sprawled across a bean bag type thing hahaha but that ain't gonna work at a gig. Any one else have this kind of issue ? [/quote] Yes, but not through spondylosis (both the current and the previous Mrs Zero suffer from that, so I sympathise). After suffering some damage in a motorcycle accident in 2001 (broken ribs, punctured lung, but the main long-term problem was the soft tissue damage), I start finding it painful to stand after some period of time - it used to be about half an hour, it's gradually improved. I use a Kinsman dual-stool like Happy Jack.

Just think of it as a string version of the Highland bagpipes.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441453559' post='2858998'] Vintage: Proper hefty bass sound with bass played as it should be, as part of a rhythm section. Rugged and manly. Hi-Fi: Widdly-widdly twangy cutlery-drawer-down-the-stairs in your face inappropriate slappy solo nipple-rub for gaylords. [/quote] Vintage: muffled muddy indistinct sound, where not only can you not tell what type of bass is being played, you can't tell what note is being played either. Think "hippopotamus farting underwater" and you're there. Hi-fi: Unforgivingly distinct sound, where every single wrong note and string noise is amplified a thousandfold. Useful for discovering exactly how inaccurate a tab is.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1441560629' post='2859839'] I didn't think a bid could be retracted? [/quote] [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/gds/How-When-Why-To-Retract-a-Bid-Dont-Ask-the-Seller-/10000000001673381/g.html"]http://www.ebay.co.u...01673381/g.html[/url] I think it used to be simpler but it looks as if it's now been tightened up sufficiently to mean it would make it more difficult to do this - at least more than once with the same user ID.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1441376494' post='2858454'] I wasn't familiar with a strumstick. It's a bit limiting being in one key, unless you do the harmonica thing and buy 12 of them. When If first saw them, I assumed that they would be a three string guitar tuned to a power chord. They are (generally) tuned to a power chord, but they don't have a full set of chromatic frets. Surely a three string guitar would be similarly easy to play, but more flexible. [/quote] They're pretty much the same as Appalachian dulcimers, except that Appalachian dulcimers are played from above (cf. guitar vs. lap steel). It's not so much a power chord as a melody string and two drones. With my old ceilidh band, the dulcimer player had two, one in D and one in G, and the melodeon player's melodeons were in D and G, so that was handy.

I started Mrs Zero singing by taking her to an open mic night. It had been many years since I did one, and the ones I'd done before had been on the folk club circuit (silence while the artiste is playing) so it was a bit different. House band didn't have a bassist so I took to doing that. Had great fun doing it, sometimes being kept busy all night with people wanting a bassist (note: this was an open mic, not a jam night). It wasn't just about music, I made quite a few friends there too, and still keep in touch with them. And in further response to the thread title, I wish I could say that Edwin Starr, who lived just up the road, had come to a local open mic, but AFAIK he didn't. He did turn up to help judge a local Battle of the Bands though.