Graham

7 hours ago, Merton said:

Played a party, depping for @Graham again as he… was a guest at the party 😀

No pressure then…. 😆

I had fun even if the acoustics were a bit crappy, it was either boom or toppy clank and nothing I did seemed to make much difference. Hopefully it sounded better out front!

 

Gave my new Zoot Funkmeister P5/32 an airing, man it’s such a comfortable instrument to play - thanks @Cosmicrain 😊

 

Great to see you last night, the sound was quite bottom heavy but sounded good out front; I particularly like the picked sound -  was quite gutsy

Quick video of your new bass in action

On 19/04/2023 at 06:23, bartelby said:

New Julie Christmas single 'Not Enough'

 

 

Always happy to hear more Julie Christmas 

4 minutes ago, bartelby said:

I didn’t think it was too bad for a bunch of 60 year old millionaires playing at being angry and such.

It's.....fine

Like most of their output in the last 20 years it's an 80+ minute album that should have been a 25 minute EP

There's some good riffs and ideas which get swallowed into the overly long song structures

If it had been someone other than Metallica I'd have probably turned it off after the second song, doubt I'll listen to it again.

Production's good though, at least you can hear the bass

7 hours ago, bartelby said:

Giving this a go...

Me too, not overly impressed so far.....which is at least what I was expecting 

18 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

On the occasion of the celebration of Jesus's death:

 

I'm not sure I'd celebrate anything with Burzum

4 hours ago, dub_junkie said:

I was the owner before Graham when it had no mods and a fetching(?) orange swirl pickguard taken from another Ray25 when I had two of them.

Really nice bass, obviously greatly improved with the tasteful work done. Enjoy!

Keir

 

 

Oh, that's really cool

Picked up my first Stingray yesterday, a Ray25CA in a lovely blue finish

The previous owner, a nice chap also called Graham, had made a couple of mods - it has a Retrovibe Stinger pre-amp and a series/parallel switch. He'd also replaced the pick-guard with this black anodised one

Overall, very happy with it, just a shame my next gig isn't until the end of May

In ours the singer takes a bigger cut, but he:

Books every gig and liases with the client/venue

Owns, sets up and runs the PA and lights

Arrives earlier to set up the PA, while I normally stay to help break it down, I could in principal leave ten minutes after the last note is played

Is the only member who plays every gig, so finds deps for the rest of us

Writes and supplies the set list

I'm more than happy for him to take  a bigger cut, so I don't have to deal with any of the above

Shout out to @Merton for stepping into the breach for me last night, my mother died Friday night and I wasn't in a position to play a gig. 

The video I saw looked great, apart from Matt getting the lyrics wrong of course 😁

Ah Jesus, I am speechless - everything I'm currently lusting over in one instrument- graphite, 35", 19mm, Stingray Humbucker and jazz pickups and headless to boot, in a lovely colour.

I've no means of raising the cash, but it's a stunning instrument and that was some lovely playing in the demo

Just now, Merton said:

Already done one gig today - a kid’s birthday party with my “rock band for kids”.
It was great, and if I’m allowed to share any pics later on I will - short version is it was the kid of a relatively famous drummer so they are understandably nervous of too many pics getting out.

 

Just learning songs for the second one, a pub/club gig in Eastbourne depping for our @Graham again 🤓 (There’s a last minute dep guitarist too, so the setlist has had a slight tweak and that means three songs I’ve never played 😎)

Good luck we got back from holiday yesterday, so thought the kids would probably benefit from me not being out tonight.

Watching a demo made me think the M900 v3 will essentially be this, with a power amp bolted on and a separate footswitch

I finally got round to listening to the full album, and it's fine.

A couple of decent songs, a bit boring in the middle, could do without the military fetishism, but overall pretty inoffensive. I might listen to it again, but it's not particularly likely 

On 09/09/2022 at 09:22, thodrik said:

I would offer the Lou Reed/Metallica Lulu collaboration with Metallica as a further bar.

Ian Astbury from The Cult loved it:
 

https://thequietus.com/articles/07865-loutallica-lulu-ian-astbury-the-cult

Frankly, there is more artistic beauty in Astbury's defence of the album than in the music itself. 

On The Cult, I actually think that Beyond Good and Evil is their best album. It was released on 2000 and they were kind of going for a harder edged sound to fit in with the nu-metal crowd. They then made a brilliant psychedelic/stoner rock album almost by accident. I still really like it. 

I love that Lulu exists, because I swear Lou Reed trolled Metallica into making it, convincing them it was a work of profound art, laughing his derrière off the whole way.

I will however, never subject myself to listening to it a second time.

The new Fallujah record that came out yesterday, some very tasty bass playing on this tech/death/prog album @odysseus you might like this, not sure how you feel about heavy vocals though?

https://open.spotify.com/track/0W5LVt1fLq1SdCrmj9S7EU?si=Ft2QX1XORt2qJCkBw6uQ8w&utm_source=copy-link

It's been a while since I looked at a bass and immediately wanted it, that's stunning! And you say there's a blue one as well?

Just now, Merton said:

Never played there before but it was great! Even with the pressure of the bass player dude standing right in front of me - I just concentrated on the lovely lady instead 😅

Was that a young(ish) lad who wanted to talk your ear off about Darkglass?

6 hours ago, Merton said:

Just back from a loud, rowdy pub gig looking after the bass seat for @Graham again.

Got to use my newly acquired Two10S (thanks again @RickW!) with the other already in my possession. Sounded marvellous!

Crowd were great (especially the lovely lady dancing right in front of me, ahem) and the dude who took this pic - a fellow bassist who was probably horrified at my sloppy playing 😀

Thanks, glad it went well 😀

It's always a fun venue there and good there was a decent view 😄

Nine Inch Nails

I think when I was younger I was like "urgh, synths" but finally gave The Downward Spiral a go a couple of years ago and was astonished at how good it is

I reckon if I'd heard them about the age of 20 they'd have become my favourite band.

Akercocke in September

Cave In in October

Damnation Festival in November

Rolo Tomassi in February

Echoing a couple of other people, the carpet covering on my EBS cabs, I'm not a fan in general as they seem to degrade quicker than other covering options, and even more so as a cat owner.

My main bass is an ash Lakland in natural finish, not a fan of natural finishes on light coloured woods, but I like everything else about it so live with it

30 minutes ago, Merton said:

Haha! I think you’re probably right 😁 Good fun gig though, thanks for letting me step in your shoes 😎

It is a very fun band, thanks for covering, I'm having to play fewer at the moment due to family commitments, so good to know there's good players filling in 😀

11 minutes ago, Merton said:

Two gigs this weekend.

Gig 1 - Lingfield Park for a school for epileptic kids. I was depping in the band and always enjoy their gigs because the singer messes around with the songs and structures so it keeps us on our toes 🤓

 

Gig 2 - tiny function room in a pub for a mate’s wife’s 60th. Completely makeshift band who’d never actually played together as a 5 piece before that evening. Drummer didn’t seem to have done a huge amount of homework (“What’s that song?”) but we had a giggle and on the whole scraped through without anything horrendous happening.

 

 

Nice to be back to a level of normality with these things. A quiet august will be followed by a pretty busy September I think so that’s nice.

Oh, you were depping for me on Friday night

it's less that Matt changes the song structures around, and more he's not always sure what they should be 😁

Nicholas Cage Fighter

https://open.spotify.com/album/7GzN1P1QFtMNIp3p6ZQEFe?si=xU5P7xE8RwGIgwR28kel2g&utm_source=copy-link

Put it on because of the name, but actually very good metallic hardcore

So there's another new track out, Nightcrawlers 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7E23y6lreAy6VWsxTnFx4s?si=IpLKtW75Q0a8upAB0DOw4A&utm_source=copy-link

This one seems like a waste of Ice T, and similarly how Carcass can sound like Jeff Walker reading from a medical text book, this sounds like Mega-Dave just reading from Janes Armaments; the military fetishism is a bit hard going