Japhet

I've been to gigs with fantastic musicians and expensive tickets where all I can hear is people trapping off about their tiresome lives and other random garbage. People often aren't interested when they know who they've gone to see and have paid a fortune to be there.

I use a Vitoos ISO4 Plus on a pedal board and find it really good. I keep digital and analogue pedals separated and have a couple of the analogue pedals daisy chained and it works perfectly. Under £30 on Ebay and is very slim and neat.

As already stated - make sure you have a speaker plugged in before you fire it up, otherwise blue smoke will eminate from your lovely new amp.

I enjoyed it. Watched it on the night and would still be watching it now if all of the people mentioned so far in the thread had been included in the programme. Not sure what people actually expect from a one hour programme.

Sad news. Loved SAHB back in the day and after Alex departed as well.

They gave you a shewee at primary school? I thought all the gender neutral stuff in schools was a recent phenomenon.

I mostly gig now with my Harley Benton 50 P Bass and leave my Stingray, Lakland and Tokai at home.

Try positioning your thumb on your fretting hand opposite your 2nd finger. It's comfortable to position it opposite your index finger but it makes stretching for other notes much more difficult.

You have friends here Ozzma. If you can record your music I'm sure there will be people here interested in what you do and keen to discuss it with you.

I wish we played this. I'd set it up on the Looper and then I could wander off, have a pint, read the paper, have a look round the shops and probably fill in my tax return.

I'm in - mainly because I'm utterly skint but I have to say that my enforced abstainance seems to have had a remarkable effect on GAS. Not really interested in anything and haven't been for quite a while. I've flogged a few bits and pieces too.

My Father In Law used to say 'Get your guitar out and play us a tune'. I would reply that bass isn't really an instrument for that sort of thing and he'd then get grumpy. I suppose I should have just treated everybody to the bassline from Simple Minds - Waterfront for 10 minutes and that would have been the end of it.

Those Rumblekats look nice but the control knob panel looks horrendous (to me). The only way they could have made it worse would have been to nail it on.

It's the nature of auditions that a lot of them are a waste of time and it goes with the territory. Sometimes something will just click, not necessarily just the music either.

Ibanez Talman get good reviews although I've not heard or played one.

If you're that uninspired by it I'd turn up and jam it to see how it feels. If you miss out it's not a disaster and you haven't spent your time learning stuff you don't like. It might even lead to something more enjoyable.

I reckon you've knocked it out of the park with your first post Telebass.

Mix up the chromatic passing notes so that you play above or below the 'target' note. For example a turnaround using G E A and D could be played with passing notes as Ab G F E Bb A Eb D and then next time round G# G Eb E Bb A C#D and then you can swap the passing notes around however you want. You can also often use 2 steps instead of chromatic passes.

Saw them in (probably) 78 supported by Graham Parker and The Rumour at Brunel University. Absolute monster of a gig with Robertson, Gorham and Downey. Made me want to play live music even more than I already did. I remember watching Phil Lynott doing his thing with his P bass and thinking 'I fancy some of THAT!'

I've always tuned low to high on the assumption that the heavier strings have more pull on the neck and therefore are more likely to have an effect on the other strings, so get them done first. Makes sense to me but I'm ready to be shot down in flames.

There are artists who have passed me by for the simple reason that I wouldn't know where to start, Ry Cooder is a prime example. Others I've heard a bit and didn't like (e.g.Bob Dylan, Miles Davis). There are other artists who blow hot and cold for me but I do listen to the stuff that I like and filter out the rest, like Jeff Beck, who i think is a genius who often pushes the envelope a bit too far for me.