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    Things not to say before an audition

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Doesn't really count as an audition but..

    I was bored and out on a business trip south of the Mason Dixon Line a few years ago and dropped into the local Sam Ash for a look see.
    They had an old Kalamazoo bass in so I had to try it, so noodled away on a 12 bar followed by an 8 bar.
    A long haired, bearded hulk of a guitarist guy cruised over and offered me a job in his band.
    I was very flattered and explained that I was British and only here for a couple of days.
    After a couple of "shee-its" and "goddamms" he offered me a go off his king sized spliff and asked if I could hang around for an hour so's his bass player could come over to learn the licks I'd just played.
    The bass man arrived 10 minutes later.
    The guitarist grabbed him by the beard, pulled out what looked like a mini baseball bat and said to me "Play!.
    In a quaking jelly terror I managed to stagger through 12 bars.
    The guitarist then shouted in his bass mans ear "Did you hear what he didn't play? Did you hear the space, m*****fkr?" "That's how you gotta play from now on, y'hear?"

    I have never left a music shop, trembling, so fast in my life.

    I hid out in my hotel room and the factory for the rest of the visit and was never so glad to suffer TSA security just to leave and go home.

    The 'Show us your Limelight!' thread

    in Gear Gallery

    Posted · Edited by Jazzneck

    Thank you Discreet, a great job.

    For the anoraks:

    I was playing through a blonde Fender Bassman head going into a home made 15" cabinet which the head is sitting on and the recovered Vox T60 cabinet half hidden by the chair and my jacket.

    On top of said cabinet is my packet of No.6 Tipped and my IMCO lighter. <_<

    The 'Show us your Limelight!' thread

    in Gear Gallery

    Posted · Edited by Jazzneck

    [quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1452106456' post='2946519']
    That is a great pic.
    Don't you still have those side burns Mr. Jazzneck? :lol:
    [/quote]

    Oi certainly do Mr.Gary Mac!

    I went for about 30 years doing the day job with short, neatly trimmed hair and no sidies then, just prior to retirement in 2010 a couple of photos, including this one, were discovered and my sons and colleagues dared me to grow them again.

    So I did....and b*ll*cks to the lot of you! :P

    Yesterday I went to the barbers for a tidy up and I will admit that even after the haircut, my hair and sidies are longer today than they are in that photo.

    However, all is now silver and grey, a small area of thinning at the back of the scalp and the length of the sidies has increased on account of the fact that the curvature around my face has also increased due to serious fatness. :D

    The 'Show us your Limelight!' thread

    in Gear Gallery

    Posted

    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452077518' post='2946082']
    I would dearly like to see that pic! :)
    [/quote]

    Voila!

    Not the best picture quality in the wold but it was taken in the spring of 1968.

    Rehearsal at GPO Hall, Easton Street, High Wycombe.

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    musical dyslexia

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Welcome to the club.

    Without wanting to brag, I have a degree in chemistry from Brunel and worked in technical and factory management for 46 years.

    My maths is bloody good.

    I speak three languages well enough to live in the appropriate countries.

    Like you, I'm totally dyslexic when it comes to music theory, reading and writing.

    Have tried numerous times using damn good, well respected teachers.

    Now I don't bother or care anymore - I just picks up my guitar or bass, listen and plays the bloody thing.

    Don't worry about it. :D

    Deadwood

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Read chapter 1 of The Tone Manual by Dave Hunter - the bit about the actual guitar, not pedals, strings, plecs, amps etc.

    Too much info to quote here

    He discusses an awful lot about the whole subject - materials, components, fit, electrics, the whole lot.

    After reading and digesting this chapter for a while, I tweaked one of my Squier bolt-on bass neck fits and its nut to see what happened.

    It brightened the sound considerably, both acoustically and electrified.

    I then noticed that these tweaks were already incorporated on my Bill Nash "1965" Strat. which is a very bright machine.

    Interesting stuff which stopped me spending loads of money on a la di da bass. ;)

    missing bass

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Jazzneck

    This is no help at all but I did find the first electric guitar I bought in 1963.
    Sold it in Germany in 1965 and found it again on eBay in 2013. :D
    It can be done - tell her not to give up hope.

    Motown or Stax?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Jazzneck

    [b] [font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif][size=4]Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon is the book.[/size][/font][/b]


    [font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif][size=4]I haven't read it yet, it's an early Christmas present.[/size][/font]

    [font=tahoma,geneva,sans-serif][size=4]Oh and as Muscle Shoals has been mentioned, dare I add Chess Records, too?[/size][/font]

    Best Bass Intro

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Jazzneck

    Thank you BT.

    ... and a third (yeah I'm cheating a little bit here, but..) and a fourth

    [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw[/media]

    [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGb5IweiYG8[/media]

    I'm stumped.......

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted · Edited by Jazzneck

    Thank you - another useless Fender Fact to go in mt little black book.
    To be honest, I'm not sure about the rest of the bass either.
    To quote an old Selmers Charing Cross Road salesman "I reckon it's worth two aspirins and a glass of water at the most."

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