BassTractor

Cor Dekker of Ekseption started it all.
To date one of few bass players who played solos I love to hear.
Sad life though: after his Ekseption stint, he fell victim to heroin, becoming a dealer and getting a prison sentence - - only to be released due to his health, so he could die at home.

Good, dependable bass player, and reportedly a luvverly bloke.
Here seen while receiving an award  -  probably for their "Ekseption 3" album.

Just now, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

Is 10/8 a time signature thing?

 

Yup. 😀

10/8 :  "Down and Out" ? Twould make sense for a drummer to have that little meter reminder.
No idea about Trundle.

3 hours ago, police squad said:

It's a keeper and the best P bass I've ever played

Great tonewear too. 👍

Still owning:  a Chinese dizi  -  a bamboo flute that has a hole (second from left in the pic) that you cover with a membrane, which creates a nasal sound.

Instrument owned the longest but now sold: probably my Yamaha TX802  -  an FM synth.
Behind those few buttons are like a 1,000 parameters to adjust, if one wants to. Building just one sound could take me eight whole working days.
Stellar synth, though, and one learned how to be quick at editing.

Bass owned the longest: probably my beloved 2007 Bongo 4HH Dargie Delight - the original olive green version with martini glass fretboard inlays. Have to admit those inlays charmed me.
BTW, this is my actual bass despite the shop pic. The inlays pic is borrowed from someone.

On 03/05/2024 at 19:25, Man.about.Tyne said:

Lieve hemel, een echte Nederlander! In de jaren '80 heb ik een paar jaar in Haarlem gewoond. Ik wou dat ik terug kon gaan...

Lieve hemel, echt Nederlands! 😀 
Goet gedoan, jochie! (hiervoor moet je de tv-reclame voor Paturain kennen, met Rijk de Gooyer).
 

Welkom, @BEADist.
Je zult het hier best wel leuk vinden, want het is normaal inderdaad een vriendelijke plek.

On 03/05/2024 at 18:58, SteveXFR said:

 

I have a particular dislike for that term. What makes something "real music"? What music is not real music? Is it a real thing or just snobbery? 

Metal fans are particularly guilty of this sort of thing, arguing over what's real and what isn't. 

Well, IMO, "real music" is not when someone churns out the most drab "stereotypical pop punk song with the worst lyrics", as you so rightfully wrote.
Everything about that song stinks in my ears.
Must admit it didn't help that the MGK person to me also looked like the typical loser who just wants to be known as a so-called "rock star", but I still think I'd reacted almost just as negatively if I hadn't seen the footage.

To me "real music" is essentially about love for music.
In the Willow gig, the interplay between especially guitar, bass and keyboards to me seems like a stellar example of what I'm on about. I only hear love for the composition there, not love for money or love for being famous.


 

1 minute ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

Or we both just know real music when we hear it. 

Nah. Not an explanation I'm willing to accept. 😁

40 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

this is real music!

1 hour ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

This is real music!

Bah!
You just knew I was gonna write that, and copied me avant-mes-lettres. 😁

Willow Smith - the last song on her new album "empathogen".
More intricate than most, with some stuff straight from a prog album. 😀

 

To me it stands out, and is real musicians making real music, musically enjoying what they do  -  from composition all the way to desk gig.
Me, I love the interplay between all the instruments, which is done very cunningly. Her voice is adequate enough to me too.
Some Des'ree and other vibes are very welcome in my ears.

Did I mention I lurve this?
Bought "empathogen", which seemingly came out today, and must seek out their earlier stuff.


Now, that MGK song OTOH ...
Shudder.

36 minutes ago, cetera said:

It's almost like 'Rolling Stone' ENJOY not having a clue about music.....

The word for that might be "fricke".

(wrong thread)

On 02/04/2024 at 15:40, Jonesy said:

Yamaha P45's recently. I think the Yammy is the way to go

That, or you might be as lucky as I was. I got a Roland F-140R for P45 money.
The F-140R is not as known as many other Roland or Yamaha models, and I reckon that's why I got it cheap.

Its keybed, sound generator, amps and speakers all perform way above the P45, and IMHO its only drawback is that I see no way of accessing its hundreds of sounds without switching through most of them sequentially (this is so bizarre that I have a hard time believing it's true, so maybe there's a hidden, undocumented function somewhere.

Anyway, if you're looking at the P45 anyway, then keep an eye out for this one.
One never knows.
 

Maybe choose something people can remember.

I gather this varies for different people, but personally I only remember  The Gr'80s  and  Neon Yuppie Coke Machine  from this thread.
Kudos to @Chiliwailer and @2elliot for those.
 

3 hours ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

The drummer in my Jazz band stood in on a gig with Noel Redding.

So I've played with someone who played with someone who played with Hendrix.

How's that for tenuous?!

Cool!
... and also reminds me of the glorious Tenuous Claim to Fame threads we've had  -  IMS several of them.
Some comedy gold in those.

 

28 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

Good job I don't do Facebook . I wonder what the link contains 🤔

It's somebody warning other buyers against a named seller.

Cue a short repetition of one of my stories about composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
High-brow, silent, socially awkward man. Still, I asked whether he listened to non-classical music, mentioning jazz, Gentle Giant, Yes and Zappa as examples.

Him: "Shallow music."
Me: "Give me some credit. I'm a musical person, and love for example your stuff ..."
Him: "I am more musical than you are."
😃
 

Oh! Another one.
Trying to give you the story just as how it developed for me:


Got asked to dep on piano for rehearsals of some sort. Some players I knew and some new to me, and first we gathered around a cuppa. Great atmosphere. Someone had brought his granddad or summat, Jean (French male name), a friendly and humourous bloke if a bit silent - maybe uncomfortable in the situation.

As we proceeded to the rehearsal room, granddad followed us, which I thought was remarkable, but hey ... not my band!

So we start rehearsing, me highly concentrated on the notes, as this was sightreading.
Granddad sat to my side and a bit behind me. Looking half over my shoulder I noticed he was rummaging his bag and producing something from it, which irked me a bit, but I couldn't turn around and signal him to please stop. Notes, ya know.
Next thing is that I hear these immediately recognisable, bee-you-tee-full harmonica tones sent directly from the gods ... Granddad was only Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidore, flamin' baron of Thielemans. (Laughter ensued; they'd agreed to not let me in on this and to then watch my response.)

 

2 hours ago, miles'tone said:

Is this normal? 

 

Yup! We called it referential pitch. Don't know its official name.
And yes, I've tuned instruments for like 50 years by listening to certain songs in my head.

7 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Is there any other way..? 

Oh, yes! Fingers often "knowing" what to play next from experience, for instance, and the musician being "surprised" by the sound of it.
 

Remark made by a musician friend about a composer we both know:
"Imagine that! 😱 He hears the music in his head! 🙇‍♀️ "

I was all What the Flying, as from childhood I'd always imagined everyone can compose and everyone can hear new music in their head.
I'd already learned that not everyone can compose, which at the time flabbergasted me (but hey, it explains the hitparade innit 😁), but now this ...

So I ask you: is this a known phenomenon: like my friend not being able to hear new music?
Is it rare?
Is it the (well-)done thing?

(Taking for granted most people can hear existing music in their head.)

Philip Glass, with a nice-to-me twist to the story.

Our music college student choir premiered his "Satyagraha". Whilst studying there unofficially, I didn't have a student card yet and was not in the choir. Was a Philip Glass fan though, and wanted to partake.

So there's me crawling on the floor so as to gain access to the concert building - unseen by the doorman in his office at the artists' entrance.
That went well for some metres, but then I spotted one Philip Glass in that hallway. Just as I thought all was lost, I saw him smiling. Phew, and I passed him with a sheepish smile and a thankful nod.
Later, I went up to him, thanking him for his kindness and explaining why I'd done that. He appreared to be a very down-to-earth and friendly bloke, with great warmth. Even bought me a cuppa; should've been the other way round, but he wouldn't hear of it.

Helped by his friendliness, I dared ask him for permission to play one of his organ pieces, mentioning that I'd been practising for 18 months developing the techniques for playing minimal music. 
He said yes, and told me where the notes were and who to contact. Still have the notes; never performed it.

Whimsical Dutch Canterbury-like band Supersister always have whackiness up their sleeves.
This long track suddenly turns into something else after roughly nine minutes.

"Judy goes on holiday" is off the album "Pudding en gisteren", and if you don't understant this Dutch title: it was also released with the international title "Pudding and gisteren". See what I mean with "whimsical"?

No thread like this can be without Bill Bruford, of course:
Yes: Five per Cent for Nothing in the original short version.