Graham

Today I've listened to the new Sumac record - Love In Shadow (crushing post-metal featuring members of ISIS/Old Man Gloom and Russian Circles/Botch) and the debut album by Covet which is called Effloresce (instrumental post-whatever) Both very good and there's some exemplary bass playing on the Covet record

(Assuming I'm there) Updated Gear For Sale List: 01. Mesa Boogie Big Block 750 Amp, Footswitch & Rack Case, £550 o.n.o. - Silverfoxnik 02. Schecter Diamond P5, 5 String Bass & Gig Bag, £350 o.n.o. - Silverfoxnik 03. Behringer 5 Band parametric 19" Rack Unit, £25 - Silverfoxnik 04. Fender Nate Mendel Precision, £575 - obbm 05. USA built 4 string in a 'glo' finish, £1300 - ezbass 06. EBS Compressor, Chorus & Octave, Dr Green Bass reverb & Joyo D-Seed echo and a small Pedaltrain board & bag (Mini I think), £TBA - WalMan 07. Mesa MPulse 600 (flight-cased) and a Mesa Powerhouse 1x15 cab (+ authentic Mesa cover) - £750 the pair - TheGreek 08. 3 Pin (female) DI plugs - The Greek 09. New Chinese Rosewood/Maple Jazz neck, £35 - obbm 10. Slightly used jack, XLR and other connectors - 50p each - obbm 11. Fender Jazz (Mex), in a very fetching blue, strung with flats - £450 12. Harley Benton Progressive 5 Fretless - £100 13. G&L USA SB2 £850

Not the kind of fuzzy I was expecting, but very nice nonetheless

That looks remarkably more attractive than the Musicman he's holding to me

So long as he's happy, but that just looks fugly to me

Jared Dines is quite entertaining, his "things bass players say in the studio" video is a little too well observed 😀

Their custom shop prices are utterly rediculous, I priced up a Thumb 5 through neck before, where the only change was a 35" scale, it came in at about €7k

Oooh, I've got that on too

Just saw this on Facebook 😁

On holiday at the monent, so it was the Butlins house band last night; the bassist was great and a lovely single H Zon

Since @RussFM posted it in the "your favourite bassline" thread, I've been listening to Hot Water Music's Exister album a lot; will have to check out the rest of their back catalogue

If we can't fixate on irrelevant minutae, then what's the point of Basschat? 😆

I think it's just in general, people are quite conservative - they like what they know; they like a sing-along-chorus to a song they know inside out, they like the hero to win at the end of the movie, they like a Big Mac. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, and covers bands are fulfilling the demand for it in the market. Sure, I'd love to be booked for a 40th birthday like last night, but play grindcore rather than Summer Of 69 and Mustang Sally, but the folk who did book us to play those songs had a blast.

Not heard them before, but really liked that

Low D here, I typically play 5s, but droped the E to D when I played 4s

These two sum it up for me

Looks like my beloved (but rarely used as it's a four string) G&L will be for sale ☹️

I heard Lenny Kravitz' set whilst driving to my parents yesterday, that was good and he had Gail Ann Dorsey on bass too, so might watch that on Iplayer later.

Sounds like you're better off out of it

I really liked Capaldi as The Doctor, however he was let down in a big way by the awful scripts he got handed by Steve Moffat.

Great gig despite a few issues - our singer's voice and wireless mic both deserted him, but he ploughed on through regardless. My EBS head seems to have died, as the intermittent fault has developed into a permanent one. Not a huge issue as I usually just DI with my Microbass II and use the PA wedges for monitoring - which is what I did last night, it's just our singer has better monitors than the house system so I'd brought my amp. I'll take it back to Bernie Goodfellow, see if he can sort it; when he looked at it last year he couldn't replicate the fault, but if it's not intermittent anymore, it should at least help with repairing it. Still despite all that and the 2am finish it was a really good gig; a happy, up for it crowd makes so much difference.

You should really be blindfolded too, to reduce unconcious bias......how recognisable that will make the bass riffs is unclear 😆

I listened to Kate Nash's big single - Foundations the other day, when I realised she was the English one in GLOW. It struck me it's a pretty decent song that was probably written on piano or acoustic guitar, but has been "produced" to within an inch of it's life with a load of unnecessary layers and orchestration.

Much preferred it when he played the Les Paul bass

Another thing to bear in mind regarding the price is that the CITES regulations will be adding cost.