Jazzneck

Thank you, all of you! I will stick around and I'll take Mykes advice and maybe post in the Guitarchat bit at the bottom. Bilbo and Mick, thanks for the very kind invites - you may regret them when you find a fat, slide playing busker on your steps outside Jazz East and the Herts Bass Bash. Be safe, peoples!

Does this count as a recording? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqjD4oinpJA[/media] and this one, too....this is raw as a raw thing. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pca_S6sj_SE[/media]

Just posting to say that I have finally given up bass playing. My body and brain has finally beaten my heart as I now find it a real struggle to stand and play properly with a bass strapped over my shoulder for more than 10 minutes at a time. Also the thought of dragging gear about and playing gigs, which usually take 6 hours out of what's left of my life, is also a factor in this decision as it's no fun anymore. I may continue to sit and jam with close friends, if they'll let me. On a more positive note: I have taken up finger picking and slide guitar, something that has always fascinated me. Those old parlours and lap steels are light, short scale, small and sound damn' good. My bass gear will be kept in cotton wool and will pass to my children and grand children when the time is right. So it's over to you youngsters - please remember that bass is a rhythm instrument which should only have 4 (FOUR) strings and should be played accordingly on the bottom 9 (NINE) frets only Don't hide in your bedrooms playing with yourselves. Join a band and get out there and play gigs, lay down the groove with the drummer, entertain people and have some fun. Best wishes to the lot of you! Jazzneck.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1482254734' post='3198959'] Yes, but tell us, what do you REALLY think? [/quote] That is what I REALLY think and what I REALLY do. .....and today is that one time per month.

..........to only go on to Basschat once per month and to ignore bedroom playing, musical theory spouting, tone and technique obsessed, slapping, effects loving, bullsh!t typing so called bass players!

I like it!!!! [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3]I think it's wonderful that the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world can sound like me and my mates playing an unrehearsed gig down our local boozer.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3]I just wish that more bands adopted the attitude of "We don't care, let's have some fun, enjoy ourselves and the punters probably will, too".[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3]...and Charlies drums sounding like dustbins is great.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3]IMHO expecting perfectionism leads to misery in most cases.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial][size=3](cor! that's a bit heavy for a Tuesday afternoon, innit?) [/size][/font][/color]

[quote name='converse320' timestamp='1476389782' post='3153963'] Don Nobles? I work in Louth, great town, great people. [/quote] If that was the only bookies in Louth in 1966, it must have been. I've just had a butchers on Google Earth and Aswell St. does look right. It was cold, hissing down and the journey back to south Bucks in a Bedford CA van was long and miserable. Happy Daze.

You need a Limelight Pbass - accept no substitute, play it, sleep with it, do not widdle around on it. It's a mans bass!

Played a gig there at Butlins in April 1966. Had a great time, they gave us a chalet to kip in when we finished - it was bldy freezing but the chalet maids were warm. We stopped off at Louth to see the singests family on the way home (darn sarf) and lost all our gig money in the bookies after lunch. Last time I have ever bet on anything,

Barry Vise supplied the transformers and I think the big heavy one is second hand.

Incubation in progress: [attachment=229579:50W start1.JPG] [attachment=229581:50W start4.JPG] Please don't ask any technical questions as my son is doing the job and I start to get a bit confused when we get past the word "valve". Updates will follow as things develop .........unless I fall over beforehand.......

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1471470904' post='3113350'] IIRC, in the early-mid 1950's Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Elmore James and a host of other name Chicago R&B artists at times dispensed with the services of a bass player and employed a second guitar to deliver the low-end shuffle. Their output didn't seem to suffer. [color=#f0fff0].[/color] [/quote] Yes, Mr. Delvar - no bass that I'm aware of in those early Chicago recordings apart from the occasional thud of Willie Dixons dog house bass. Those lovely grooves seemed to come from sh*t hot drummers, top flight second guitar and a great pianer. Of interest is that the said Willie Dixon, bassist supremo, was in the studio doing the writing, arranging, engineering etc. whilst a lot of those tracks were cut, but he wasn't actually playing. Another for your delectation without bass - it certainly motors on.... Recorded live with Baby Face Leroy playing guitar and bass drum simultaneously with vocals whilst Muddy Waters and Little Walter do their thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pca_S6sj_SE

My daughter just had me editing and mixing some stuff for her club synchronized drowning team. One of the tracks used was "Walks Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles. Although I've always liked the number this is the first time I have really listened to it. WOW! What a bass line - simplicity and really grooves even though they sound like they used a drum machine. What a bass sound - real clarity and grunt. Loved it! From what I can determine Michael Steele played bass on this. Wot you finkin'?

Atomic Rooster (but sometimes a bass player was used in the studio). And the best of the lot - Hound Dog Taylor and The Houserockers: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt6V20j2BjQ[/media] The great Brewer Phillips on second guitar.

Should have been old stock [b]HP Sauce[/b] for the Frenchies. Remember the label? "Cette sauce est une melange des.......etc."

I trust that the gear that was already in stock in the UK on 23rd June will remain at the old price in GBP....... Oh, I'm very naive ain't I?

Try an Ampeg AEB1 or AUB1 with La Bella flats, much easier to get that sound.

Before I start - this is true and I do not want any PC comments, I am not racist but this one really made me laugh out loud. I pulled up in a BP petrol station early 1990s behind a gleaming black BMW, smoked out windows, sound system thumping. The massive immaculately dressed West Indian driver got out, looked at me and stated, with a wonderful grin "That gotcha didn't it, mon?". Reg No: SAM 80 S Brilliant...

Won the strap on eBay last week. Wondering if it was a basschatter who sold it. Excellent strap which is now with my pre-EB Stingray. Just curious, that's all.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1465345020' post='3067476'] Played the White Horse in High Wycombe when it was a biker pub. We were on after the strippers ... [/quote] The White Horse is 150 yards down the same road as The Ambassador Court Hotel. No bands or strippers in our day, though.

Many a pub in High Wycombe has gone down the toobs since we frequented them in the 1960/70s. The Nags Head aka The Blues Loft is burnt into my brain forever. Other pubs and youth clubs we played are now car parks, £1 shops, lawyers offices, ladida maisonettes etc. Happy daze and nights remembered. But the best is this (sorry Jack I'm going to trump you): Me and Mrs.JN were married on 6th June 1970 and our first flat was the top two stories of what is now The Ambassador Court Hotel in High Wycombe. Upstairs in the roof was the sitting room and kitchen and we went downstairs to bed and the bathroom. This is it today: https://www.ambassadorcourthotel.co.uk/ Our flat was in the rhs of the two original semis which have been knocked together. The rent was £5/week all inclusive, part furnished.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1465219489' post='3066217'] Put the TV audio signal through a hi-fi system and everything will be fine. [/quote] That's like wot I do. And it sorted out the bass sound on the Led Zep O2 DVD too. Just playing that DVD through the tele on it's own sounded like JPJ had stayed at home.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1465156684' post='3065726'] You're very lucky they didn't arrest you for threatening behaviour. [/quote] No threat was made. Just told them where I would be, at what time with a couple of friends, that's all.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1465149453' post='3065624'] Ok, great day at the Herts bass Bash, and the Preamp/DI Pedal shooutout went as follows. And yet again, in one of these shootouts I`ve managed to get zero scores for my own gear, namely the Aguilar Tonehammer and the Sansamp Bass Driver. Bah [/quote] Sorry I couldn't be there but I'm glad that you all had a great time by the sound of things. Never mind Lozz, at least we know what we're doing - don't we?

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1465128204' post='3065452'] I guess you've not been in a similar situation. I have - involving my car which was removed from my parking bay without my permission - and the police were no help at all. As for sending the boys round, it's potentially satisfying but fraught with risks and likely to get you in more bother than the thief. I again speak from experience, having had tenants in my flat who stopped paying rent and then overstayed their contracted tenancy. In that case I wasn't even legally allowed to enter my own flat! [/quote] You guess wrong. I have been in that situation. Found the oik responsible after reporting it to the police and them doing nowt. Rang the police to tell them I would be round at the oiks place at 06:00hrs the next morning with a few mates. Guess who was being led away to a police car when we arrived at 05:47hrs?