burgundymouse

Well done! I had my first gig in June and couldn't relax until our encore and then was disappointed it was over! Made damn sure I really enjoyed the next gig and seemed to work as I looked and felt much more confident as a reluctant singing bassist! Good luck with the next one.

I was in a band that cut the second verse of Money for Nothing (faggots in earrings and make up) but we did a storming rendition of Immigrant Song about the Viking Hordes being your overlords.

I bought a 1992 MIM P bass in the marketplace on here for nearly tuppance, got it re-strung and set up properly and I now prefer it to my brand new, paid full price American Standard Jazz. The only problem I have with it every now and again is that it uses me as an earthing mechanism :{ Must get that looked at.

Awwww. You're all lovely. And perfectly sound advice. I'm going to hang around here more often.

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1323037130' post='1458633'] . Just heard you doing the full part during the guitar solo [/quote] Thank you! The guitarist shouldn't have all the fun in a 2 1/2 minute solo You're right it really needs the full bass part but at the moment my brain won't work that way

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1323034874' post='1458590'] this seems to be a pretty acceptable rendition! (see what I mean?) [/quote] I'll bank that! My timing can be shocking sometimes - my teacher has me practising with a metronone but I end up tuning it out .....not good. All hlpful comments gratefully received especially by people who maybe have a better ear for this stuff than me.

I've only been playing bass for year and up until 6 weeks ago certainly couldn't sing and play bass at the same time (some may argue I still can't!) but I was rather proud of this being a relative beginnner. Even better, I bought the P-Bass from a fellow Bass chatter - I am now very very unfaithful to my Jazz. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtFSTHLkDU&feature=youtu.be"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPtFSTHLkDU&feature=youtu.be[/url]

+1 to the good service. Phoned on thursday to see if they had an Ashdown amp I was interested in. They had it in their Leeds store, shipped it down to Epsom and I picked it up on Saturday. Really helpful staff and they carried it to my car. Its a big store though with lots of stuff you didn't know you wanted until you walk in so might be an idea to leave the house deeds at home.

[quote]had another fag and two pints of London Pride [/s]finished dismantling his kit and put it all away.[/quote] I think I was married to this drummer once!

Count me in with my Fender Jazz and embarassingly small Laney amp. And possibly a Thunderbird Pro IV I have my eye on. And would be very interested in the double bass session if I win the competition in Bass Guitar mag this month!

I'm also a lefty playing a righty. Pure fluke as when I bought my bass I didn't think to ask that such a thing as a left handed instrument existed. So used to living in a right handed world. Us left handed people use more of both sides of our brain because if it you know?

I saw them on the Dance of Death tour in 04. Bruce running the full length of the stage with a huge flag during The Trooper without pausing for breath did it for me. Have a great time - they really know how to put on a show.

[quote name='silddx' post='1233792' date='May 16 2011, 11:05 PM']Possibly a sexual issue of some description?[/quote]

As a new music student myself, having only taken up bass in November I feel inclined to comment. Good students need motivation.Without it you don't get through the downs of learning. Hence is taken me until I'm 33 to try to learn an instrument properly with good fundamentals taken from lessons. Its great when your teacher says you're coming on and they're pleased with your progress because that means you don't feel disheartened about shelling out hard earned cash on lessons, and even better when you can see how much you've learned. Its then relatively easy to be all cocky and confident, getting a few tabs off the internet and practising until you have someone else's work down to a t. That doesn't make you a good musician - it makes you good at learning by rote. It only took a couple of sessions at the local jam night for me to beg my teacher to punish me for not learning my scales and their application properly. I went into my lessons initially thinking I wanted to learn how to play Rage Against the Machine or Nirvana or Hendrix or whatever, however you realise there is much more satisfaction from knowing that with a bit of application you too can produce something shiny and new. OK - maybe not quite yet but as long as I get these scales nailed I think I'm in with a shot! As you can probably tell, I''m in one of the lows of learning where some people would just say" its too hard "Nand give up and that's when a good teacher doesn't just dish out critcism - they give you a new goal to help you get over the low. I think that's different though to telling every student they are the next Jaco . Hope that makes sense?

[quote name='RockfordStone' post='1228870' date='May 12 2011, 02:40 PM']I dont think ive ever practiced my moves as such. I just go with the music. I throw myself and the bass round if ik in the mood. Whilst sometimes i miss a note, i firmly believe a crowd will prefer a band that enjoys it. If they want note perfection then we have cd's for sale[/quote] Indeed. There's a song by the Beastie Boys (bear with me) which goes "We need Bodyrocking not perfection, let me get some action from the back section". Oh yes indeed.

Wasn't there a scene in spinal tap where in every cut on a live scene he was playing a guitar with more and more strings? Aside from that I just don't like the sound of it. Nothing persoanl but its a bit like musical w**king

I was a nail bitter for years until just before I took up bass and then managed to grow them long enough to make them pretty colours (I am a girl - its allowed!) Then took up bass and hated the tinny sound I gor with long nails so have gone back to keeping them short but beautifully manicured now rather than bitten.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1220997' date='May 5 2011, 01:22 PM']And Billie jean until the hands locked up. Three songs in three days must be a record for me [/quote] I did that one a couple of weeks ago also inspired by BC. Whilst also learning My Sharona. Has a small RSI problem afterwards! Tonight I've been doing Message in a Bottle and Are you Gonna be my girl by JET.

Since you've been gone by Rainbow Second was Come as you Are - Nirvana Third was Pretty Fly for a White Guy - The Offspring My teacher then got fed up of me learning them too quickly and threw Elvis Costello Pump it up at me. Grrrrrr.

Great news. Hope it goes well. Good luck with the first gig