Jazzneck

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1363091134' post='2008175'] You can use more than one browser. Just use Chrome for Chordify and your usual browser for whatever. [/quote] Thank you Mr.Discreet, Chrome works for me and Chordify. Great site - let the fun begin...................

Bugger - it says I've got to have Internet Exploder 8 or above or Mozilla/Google Chrome - I can't use these as they screw up my online banking and other stuff. Any suggestions or do I just slink away mumbling like a Luddite asking why people have to keep changing things that work for me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prxkTbekrMQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOE0QmC49IE The second one is probably classed as old but I don't care, it's new for this exercise.

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1362954484' post='2006812'] I'd love to have been at the hippy fair they did as one of their first gigs and checked out the looks on the faces when this dropped. [/quote] Sorry, but this is going to sound really big headed but I do not mean to be. Back in early September 1969 I happened to be in Wessex Studio with a mates band with Tony Clarke producing. Mr. Clarke put on The KC master of 21st Century Schizoid Man for our delectation. F**K Me! I felt as if I had been hit round the back of the head with a cricket bat - incredibly heavy and very advanced for it's time. Best thing I'd ever heard 'til then and there have not been many others since IMHO. I came very close to walking away from attempting to play bass or any other musical instrument at that point, believe me.

From Ms. Kaye's website: [font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#804000"]"Beginning in 1969, she wrote her first of many bass tutoring books, "How To Play The Electric Bass" [b]effectively changing the name of Fender Bass to Electric Bass [/b]and began teaching 100s of Electric Bass students, many of them now famous themselves."[/color][/size][/font] [size=4][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Funny that - I bought an Electric Bass in Germany in 1963, at least that's what I asked for in the shop and I came out with a Hofner Bass. [/font][/size]

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1362776615' post='2004790'] The one that began Heavy Metal [/quote] Balls - this one did, recorded in August 1969. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6_B6zhENrQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6_B6zhENrQ[/url]

Well I tried it - it sounded awful so the inductor and button are back in the box. Should have known that The Doc would be right .

So I have got my hands on a defretted OLP MM Stingray bass and have started to learn the fretless game. Whilst widdlin' last night a thought struck me - I have an inductor of the right value a la 1960s Gibson EB2 in my parts drawer and I wondered whether it might be worth trying it in t'OLP. My logic is to fit the EB2 circuit using two of the three existing knobs as volume and tone and to substitute the third knob with a suitable push switch for the inductorized circuit. Please do not larf too loudly, but has anybody tried this? have any experience or suggestions? or am I just a deluded old fart?

A few years ago - guitarist took the p*ss out of Peter Green's "Oh Well!" The soundman hadn't got a clue. I lasted through 4 songs and I was out of there with a fair few other disappointed punters - thank the Lord I was given a free ticket..... However, only my own humble opinion as I not only saw the Original FM a few times but was honoured to play a support to them in 1968.

A massive well done from me. too. I heard from a man who was there that it was a great memorable evening.

[center][size=5][b]WATCH OUT LADS![/b][/size][/center] [center][size=5][b][attachment=127994:ys_15.JPG][/b][/size][/center]

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1361203302' post='1982682'] Pffffffff! [/quote] Ah ...... the sound of escaping carbon bibaxide - bit like the rest of this thread.......

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1361148550' post='1982002'] That's better! No, nothin intendered ... [/quote] You're a cunning devil, Bert. I have just noticed that if the Latin name for potassium is substituted in your "Interest List" the capital letters of these elements would then spell out a classic English word. So.........................and you, too!

Bugger (correct spelling, I checked), I'm even more impressed now.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1361132772' post='1981667'] My real name is Bert, though you will find Albrecht in my birth certificate. My father calls me Albert. best, bert [/quote] So you're not The Walrus or Dr. Robert then? Oh dear, Ho Hum..........slumps away , head down, disappointed but mightily impressed at Bert's English, openess and great humour .

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1361112329' post='1981167'] ...........to feeling worse than a Squier when playing it. [/quote] Best bass I've ever played was my mate the session man's LPB Squier Precision which you've heard on countless 1980s records. Cost him U$75 including a set of La Bellas and a gig bag.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1361110748' post='1981140'] Bloody hell, 27 pages..? Good job no-one mentioned The Rolling Stones. [/quote] Er, didn't they chart in 1963 with "I Wanna Be Your Man" written by Lennon and McCartney who had something to do with The Beatles?

He could be The Walrus, y'know?

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

[quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1361046114' post='1980410'] The End! [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u426/roadrex/A%20Day%20In%20The%20Life/applause_456.gif[/IMG] [/quote] Don't they ever stop?

Agreed - well done.

I've been afeared to post on this subject as I'm not a musician, cannot read music, I know nothing of musical theory and do not want to be accused of trolling, stirring things up, being facetious or patronising. However, I started to attempt to play guitar in 1962 and could make a pretty fair fist of all the old rock'n'roll 3 chord 12 bar numbers with my mates and could make a reasonable enough noise to play at school dances and youth club hops. Then along came The Beatles...... In those days there were no easy ways of cribbing songs where I lived - no Guitar Institutes, no YouTube, no tab and the few bits of published sheet music we got hold of for the chords were wrong (I think they may have been transcribed for piano?). So we used to buy the records and sit round a record player and work them out. This led to a lot of head scratching, argument and frustration but we finally got there most of the time. I remember that "All Your Lovin'" nearly ended up in a fist fight. We found chords, shapes and what I think are called inversions which we could not find on any chord charts or in books at the time, but they sounded right and worked. Even our school music teacher admitted to us, just the once, that what we were playing was complex but it really wasn't music. Now I'm old and even more ugly, I still use this technique for working out new numbers and I look back and compare some of the stuff pre and post Beatles and I can't help but be amazed (in my view) on what an influence they had. I understand that a massive amount of jazz musicians in the 1920/30s and a lot of 1950/60s beat/pop bands (including The Beatles) had no musical training, couldn't read a dot and knew of no theory but they made some wonderful and long lived songs. Anyone tried to work out joint chords and bass line for "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Something" on an acoustic guitar just using a 45" disc on a record player with no other aids? Try it, assuming you can't play it already - an interesting exercise...... Please do not take offence as none is intended from this dinosaur.

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1360744307' post='1975586'] Bet I could beat them at tiddly winks [/quote] Probably could but you wouldn't beat me at Ludo. (edited for spelling, y'know?)

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1360738354' post='1975545'] It's interesting how acting on negative emotion in the heat of the moment can sabotage perfectly good relationships isn't it? Everyone has triggers from their past experiences and they're part of what make us human. It can take a bit of practice though to recognise when our buttons are being hit and take evasive action before we react. [/quote] This - and if I have upset anybody with my purile and sometimes off topic comments due to short circuits in my system then I apologise a thousand times and more.

[quote name='niceguyhomer' timestamp='1360604939' post='1973218'] That confirms to me what a complete f***wit you are [/quote] Enough is enough - with that statement you lost the argument.