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    Strange Audition

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    Ha, audition stories..where to begin!

    Once had a very solid drummer turn up, small kit, looked the biz. Seemed ok until we started to realise after about the fourth tune that he was gonna play the same four on the floor groove to every single song exactly the same every time!...would've sounded great if we had been doing a disco medley but...jeez!

    Myself and a drummer friend went to a "blues" audition organised by a "name" blues guitarist. I'd never heard of him, seemed like a nice bloke until that is he whacks his Fender 100wt champ up full.....no-one could hear a bloody thing, only what could best be described as SRV on a rocket fuelled megaphone!!...drummer and myself didn't get the gig..apparently we were'nt listening properly....not surprising at those volume levels.

    I sure we've all got many more.

    Musings regarding Joni Mitchell

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    70's mega genius, real thinking music, clever, clever writing...incredible talent. Have'nt read the whole thread and wasn't sure if this was an obituary...guess she's still hanging in there. I never realised she smoked so much...yuch

    Bass demo, what would you play

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    [quote name='alittlebitrobot' timestamp='1427053373' post='2725185']
    the sad thing is, I'd prefer the birdy song and I wouldn't get to hear it 'cause I would've closed the video before Teentown even got going.
    [/quote]

    ha.. can anyone actually play TT apart that is from Will Lee...

    Recording discipline - your top tips for a young band

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    Coming at this from a slightly different angle.

    Be sure to listen carefully to the basslines your going to record. What may seem ok live or in the shed may not sound quite right when cleanly recorded.

    I cut some tracks decades ago but I can hardly bear to listen to them now because the notes I played just were not musical enough but I nor anyone else did'nt realise it at the time. Very annoying.

    Action affecting tone.

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    Just to broaden out the discussion a bit.
    I do find it hard to understand why bassists are seemingly obsessed with "low action", or plays like butter etc. I can understand guitarists thinking this way with the thinness of the strings they play, but bass is a bigger instrument which,lets face it is physically harder to play but which still demands that good tone is produced
    The idea that you can set up a bass to play "easy" like a guitar is wrong. Bass guitars are almost mini double basses which are not easy at all, at least not to start with.
    Hence the best tone is achieved like a double bass with a high action which allows the strings to really get moving
    Apparently Jamersons P had immense high action just like a DB, but boy did he get a great tone, but then Geddy Lees J has amost no action at all and to me it just sounds clanky and grindy which I know appeals to some but it does'nt really sound like a good solid bass tone to me.
    I shall now retire to my nuclear shelter....

    Stupid equipment mistakes!!!

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    [quote name='ubit' timestamp='1420994890' post='2655947']
    Mate, we played a party one night. The electrics were really dodgy and my amp kept cutting out, so there were long periods of no bass in the first set. During the break, I di'd straight into the desk for the rest of the gig. The thing was during the break folk came up to us and said, that was brilliant! One guy even booked us on the strength of that woeful performance.
    Thing is, you thought your sound was sh*t. Everyone out front never noticed, I bet you all the tea in China!
    [/quote]

    And how much time do we all spend talking about and worrying about what bass or amp to buy or take to the gig.
    Bin sayin it for 30 yrs, the public havent got a clue about bass, it all sounds the same to them whatever you do.

    Frets, why so big?

    in Bass Guitars

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    [quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1413996739' post='2584653']
    I suppose it's a matter of taste - [size=4]I much prefer low frets.[/size]
    [/quote]

    Me to. My old P has been referetted at somepoint with wide frets which are very low. Sublime with flats, my plucking fingers barely have to move.

    American Standard Precision Question

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    [quote name='luckman67' timestamp='1420618871' post='2651274']
    I have never used flatwound strings only ever used roundwound,from when I started playing bass back in 1987. And some of the videos I've watched the players have left their flatwound strings on for years. Apparently Klaus Voorman has had the same set on for decades.
    [/quote]

    Love flats but they can be a bit weird. The Daddarios I use don't seem to have the richness that rounds have when they are new but as they age they thicken up. One set I use are now ten years old and just amazing, woody with the tone open and dense like treacle with it off.

    Jools' Hoot

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    Posted · Edited by notable9

    Might as well have a rant..
    Joss Stone. Just for once I wish she would tie her hair back off her face, stop all that over egging the pudding and just sing it straight like say, Gladys Knight, Aretha et al. She's ok, voice is a bit thin for me but.... I do find her quite unwatchable and even sometimes not always good to listen too. There done.
    ps: I wonder what this site would be like if everyone was of the same opinion?

    Wilko & NWR

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    Someone was well out of tune and in a pub band type of lineup its gonna stickout. Impression I got was that they literally were'nt gig ready to do the show, either that or to much hospitality had been consumed. Pity.

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