pete.young

[quote name='BigRedX' post='489596' date='May 16 2009, 10:09 AM']London International Music Show[/url] next month[/quote] Unless some drastic improvements have taken place in the last couple of years, don't bother. I went to this in 2007 and from a bass player's point of view it was a complete and utter waste of time, money and effort.

It's great news that they're getting back together. I missed them completely the first time around and only discovered them when my band decided to cover Twisted and Hedonism - that made me realise what a good player he is. I'll definitely go and see them when they tour. Much respect to Tayste for digging out that interview. Really good stuff, another reason to be glad I bought a G5!

One of my work colleagues has decided he wants an 80's covers band or an 80's tribute band to play at his 40th birthday. Date is Thursday 18th June and the venue will be central London. If any of you fine dudes has a band that would suit and you are available and willing, please do me the honour of dropping me a PM and I'll put you in touch with the man.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='416025' date='Feb 21 2009, 11:47 AM']We need players like Wooten. He pushes the envelope of what's possible on the instrument. And this in turn inspires us to become better bass players. Otherwise we all might as well just play 12 bar, 3 chord tricks in pubs for the rest of our lives.[/quote] +1. I really don't understand why certain individuals in this forum feel it necessary to attempt to belittle such great ability. I wish I were in a position to decide whether to play this way, or not.

I had an RSB Special fretless , bought second-hand in 1986 for what was a lot of money in those days and sold to silverfoxnik on this forum - I gather it's since moved on in a south-westerly direction. Not sure if it was a defret or not, but it was a nice job if so. Really nice bass, only moved it on because I acquired a better Bass Collection fretless from Beedster which I still love.

I've tried both. We often find we need to move the key of a song up or down a few semitones and the lower tuning is helpful when the bassline is already at the bottom of the range of conventional tuning. I had an OLP MM3 5-string for a while but couldn't really get on with it. It wasn't a bass I'd want to spend all night playing. I then strung a bass up B-E-A-D and just used it for a small number of songs in the set, but swapping basses during the set was a load of unnecessary hassle and I couldn't bring myself to play it all night. Having a 2-octave neck helped with the higher octave stuff, you just end up playing everything in the top octave up a 4th. The only problem I had, which may have been specific to the bass, was that it didn't trigger the synth pedal very cleanly. Then I found a 5-string that I was comfortable with playing, that I do want to spend all night playing, did trigger the synth properly and as an added bonus it has a huge range of different tones. So I'm using that as my main bass now and getting into it. There is still the occasional 'Where the hell am I' moment but they're becoming fewer. As others have said, I'd recommend you give BEAD a go, unless you want the excuse to buy another bass. Who, me?

Clip-on blue LED light, supposedly for lighting up the fingerboard but makes you look like you've got luminous smurf hands too.

I have an ancient Ibanez CS-505 which works really well on bass, doesn't have EQ issues, is probably full of germanium transistors. They come up on the bay quite often for not very much.

[quote name='Simon' post='478984' date='May 4 2009, 01:36 PM']Yeh, I did... but I'd appreciate it if people didn't make my transcriptions available online without my consent.[/quote] Seems entirely reasonable. Any news on the new edition of the books, Simon?

I've got a Fender 3mm (!) which was rejected by my guitar-playing son which works for me - we have a couple of numbers in the set (Town Called Malice, Lithium etc) which really benefit from the sound. It's probably slightly too think to be ideal but I'm too lazy to go shopping. Colin Hodgkinson uses a pick, and also has a pick-like technique using the nail of his first finger (with the thumb pressed hard up against it). OK if you've got fingernails.

"Who out there thinks Nick should give in to his mid-life crisis and get the tattoo done?" ROFL. Me for one !!!

My first bass was a Hofner Senator, £15 quid in 1971. Rather startlingly 160 quid in todays money. I must have done a couple of hundred gigs with that bass. Somehow £160 quid now seems like a lot more money than £15 quid did then!

[quote name='conductorbtcb' post='472912' date='Apr 26 2009, 08:22 PM']Hi all, I once played bass (in my younger days). I now conduct a concert band. The Band performs outdoors most of the time and we have been using a leisure battery and inverter to provide the supply for our 100 Trace Elliott bass combo. Recently, the power supply has started providing a "earth buzz" through the combo at fairly moderate levels. Anyone suggest a cure?[/quote] Use a double bass instead?

The 'German' bank account number is an IBAN, or International bank Account Number. The details that Thoman just send me for an order included DE 19 7607 0024 0811 5008 00 That should translate into Sort Code: 76070024 Account no: 0811500800 Is that what you used?