spinynorman

If you have only 3 songs in drop D, I can't see why you would need to relearn all the other songs, or take 3 basses to gigs. I used to use drop D for 2 songs out of 20. I just took 2 basses to gigs, tuned one drop D, used the other for the rest of the set. If there had been a problem with the main bass, which there never was, it would have taken 30 secs at most to retune the dropped one. Incidentally, string spacing and neck width on 5-strings can vary quite a lot, depending on the model, so it might be worth looking again.

I've got a set of TIs string through on my 51 RI P. I suppose one advantage of the crappy bridge is the angle over the saddle is quite shallow.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='750819' date='Feb 19 2010, 12:58 PM']I present the first in my series of studies designed for the Pre-Novice. This is called "Étude in E": [/quote] I've seen this before, in the Bill Wyman Book of Root Notes. I think it comes just before "Étude in E#".

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='750799' date='Feb 19 2010, 12:46 PM']This is tempting fate... I'm now waiting for the first.... "I'd been playing for twenty minutes and I could play Portrait of Tracey" (or any other nightmare part you care to mention) [/quote] My son, aged 17 or so, picked up bass for the first time and learned the entire Stone Roses catalogue, by ear, in about a fortnight. My suggestion he might also want to learn a few basics fell on deaf ears. Later he went to join an originals band and came unstuck when they produced chord charts for their material, and he had no idea what to do with them.

Once I switched one bass to flats, the others followed, an any new bass gets flats straight off. As has been said, there's no substitute for trying a set, see how you get on, and then maybe try others. If your budget is flexible TIs are nice, but pricey. Rotos are cheaper, I've had a set on my P for years and they're good there. Didn't like Chromes, but you might.

[quote name='Damn-Deal-Done' post='740559' date='Feb 10 2010, 02:05 AM']This thread isn't too old so I hope no one minds me opening it up again. To anyone who has bought a Bass from Bach Music, what was the packing like? Any danger of receiving a damaged instrument? Interested in their black 4004, looks like a solid canvas to mod. Thanks[/quote] There's quite a lot of people on the Bass Outpost that bought BAchs, including people in the US, with no reports of any arriving damaged. The NonReverse TBird is now in the Bach catalogue, though it says Sold Out. [url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/c100211/model-td/"]http://www.bachmusik.com/en/c100211/model-td/[/url] Rob (who's in Holland) on the Outpost is setting up as an importer. [url="http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.1440"]http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=434.1440[/url]

Could have been worse. Could have been a rap for indecent exposure.

I found the TCV album took a lot of plays to get into, you have to really want to spend the time with it. I had the same problem with Era Vulgaris, there's nothing immediately accessible there, unlike Songs for the Deaf and Lullabies. With McCartney, they could have been Those Straight Puffins.

I really don't understand this "play all the ones you can find till you find one you like" mantra. I've had several basses that felt and sounded wonderful, till I got them into a band setting, and then they just didn't work. I found my MIJ Standard P languishing on eBay one Monday lunchtime with no bids and 20 mins to go. The starting price was high for eBay, but well within what the bass was worth. I sniped it by a margin of 35p from one other bidder who had the same idea. Since then it's had 90% of my gigging and rehearsal time, the other 10% being taken up by more exciting basses that I wish worked as well, but don't. There may be eras in USA production that are as well to avoid and MIMs have mixed reviews, but MIJs seem to be pretty consistently ok. So don't muck about, just buy one.

There's a Youtube clip of a live version of Dylan's "It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry". There's a ton of high profile performers on stage, like Clapton, Tom Petty etc. About half way down the comments there's this: "Why do they let that idiot sing? There's ten people on the stage could sing it better than that." Next comment "That's Bob Dylan". "Oh sorry, didn't recognise him. I'm only 12." (actually he said, I'm only young.)

I did once try to play Maggie May with a "proper" bass line. It didn't work.

This piece in NME made me sit up ... [url="http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/49287"]http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/49287[/url] There's various blogs and other on-line things that seem to be taking this at face value. I can't believe McCartney seriously thought he was a contender for the job. When I told my son, his first thought was the same as mine. Grohl didn't have a bass player lined up and, realising McCartney was angling for it, blurted out the first name that came into his head. Later he had to phone John Paul Jones "Hey, JP, I've got a problem ... ". What would TCV have turned out like with McCartney on bass ????

Sorry, Marlin, I wasn't checking back on this thread as there had been no replies in a long time. Just sent you a PM. These are the albums I have still, if you're still interested PM and I'll work out shipping. 1 Art Tatum The Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol 1 MGM 2310 723 2 Benny Goodman Orchestra Riffin' at the Ritz Saville SVL203 Mono 3 Billy Ternent & His Orchestra Unmistakably Billie Ternent Rediffusion ZS55 4 Bing Crosby Bing Crosby Forever RCA NL43860 Double 5 Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong Bing & Satchmo MGM MGM-C-844 Mono 7 Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli Quintet of the Hot Club of France Decca ACL 1158 Mono Cover unstuck 8 Duke Ellington & his Orchestra In a Mellotone RCA LSA3069 Cover unstuck 9 Fats Waller The Vocal Fats Waller RCA LSA 3112 10 Fats Waller Fats at the Organ RCA RD 7599 Mono 12 Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians The Best of Guy Lombardo Vol 1 MCA MCA2-4082 Double 13 Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven Decca AH86 Mono Cover unstuck 14 Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians The Best Songs are the Old Songs MCA MCA-89 15 Harry Roy & His Orchestra Truckin' on Down Saville SVL191 Mono 16 Harry Roy and His Band The Genuine Sound of the Thirties EMI MFP50334 Mono 17 Ivor Moreton & Dave Kaye Piano Favourites Burlington BUR022 Mono 18 Joe Glover & his Collegians Flames Flappers & Flasks Fontana Z4010 Mono 19 Louis Armstrong Greatest Hits CBS 21058 Mono 23 Original Broadway Cast The Sound of Music Philips ABL3370 Mono 29 Stephane Grappelli, Joe Venuti Venupelli Blues BYG 529.122 Mono 31 Various Dance Bands And the Bands Played On Decca DDV 5001/2 Mono Double 32 Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane Grappelli Fascinatin' Rhythm EMI EMD 5523