randythoades

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1375789656' post='2165561'] no youre doing great!!! old school is good lots of us are very old on here [/quote] That's good! I am definitely old school (and my children consider me to be old, although I consider myself to be middle aged...). A wide generalisation mind, but I half consider any music recorded since 1990 as "new" music. I can hear my father in myself more and more every day!

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1375784592' post='2165450'] oh dear you said the 'S' word <runs for cover> [/quote] Oh dear... not doing well here!

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1375774409' post='2165301'] youve done it now !! [/quote] Well, playing the classic rock stuff seems to suit it anyway and I have started using the felt picks that ukele players use for the R+B stuff and it give a really nice sort of muted sound just like my fingers! I find it much easier to keep time with pick which starts to drift with fingers. My mind says they can do it but they don't have the mobility they once did - and they don't hurt!! I don't like popping or slapping anyway, have always been a bit old school.

Thanks guys. Hoping just to hang out amongst rock star company, talk the talk, but not necessarily walk the walk... Actually nice, just playing bass again along to the records that brought me into music in the first place, a bit of Kiss, a bit of Def Leppard, a lot of Quo, some rhythm and blues. Trouble is, what with playing the guitar for so long and arthritis in my fingers, I am afraid that it is pick playing all the way for me, which seems both very strange and natural at the same time!

Hi all, just thought I'd introduce myself, been a while since I have been a bassist so please be kind! My name is Simon. Originally started as a bass player but dreams of rock stardom (and the promise of girls with few morals to be fair) lured me over to fast guitars and pointless widdling... Stardom not really achieved but marriage, family and business took over instead. Arthritis now hit after 20 years of widdling and I had to abandon my guitar duties and picked up my basses again. Back to enjoying music again!! Hoping to get out and do some classic rock in a band again... just for the fun of it this time though!