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Hi DT, Here's a simple fractal for you then: Welcome to BC: [(Welcome to BC) * 0.99999] Yes, do build that bass, and keep us updated on it. It's cool stuff. Enjoy the site!

If you can afford it, do it. Fifty years from now, you'll be sorry if you didn't. As to the title question: I [b]only[/b] give in to GAS on the 21st of every month, the day after the money comes in. This is called discipline. ;^)

Wow! Great story, Shelly, and an inspiration as well. Best of luck, and HAVE FUN!

[quote name='norvegicusbass' timestamp='1341314274' post='1716716'] Do the top players and jazz players in particular already have a strong idea of what note will ring out wherever they are on the fretboard? [...] Will it be something that will come in time and loads of practice? [/quote] Yes and no. In general they are good at this, but it also depends on the player. You put this "predicting tones" in the context of improv. Many things can be said about this - for example: - Many jazz soloists practise for years on all types of standard licks in all kinds of keys and styles, if only to have something to fall back on when getting trouble during an improv. As a listener one can often hear the sudden change from song related beauty into some weak tones and then suddenly some standard licks. - In a lot of improv, the player would not as much decide on the next tone, or even have time to "predict" it, but would just play those series of tones or arrays of finger positions that years of practice have taught him/her will do well. The player would probably (but not always) know what's coming though. Hm. I wonder if that is clear enough. Tell me if it doesn't come across. You made one cool thread, bro!

Hi Andy, Welcome! Old? I hope not! Lotsa folks here hope not. Me for example, I started little more than half a year ago, at age 55. You'll do alright. :^) So, your wife gives you this luverly bass, and then you dare mention Esperanza? You've got some bollocks, my friend. Respect. ;^) Me, I'm inspired by Tal. Enjoy!

Hi Steve, Welcome to BC! Looks like the tone's already set, and it's a good tone. FWIW, I hear that the RockBasses are bloody great - starting when the "W" was incorporated in the headstock last year - and in fact give the German ones a run for their money. Enjoy the fora!

Hi LesDong, Welcome to BC. That bass is in high regard on these forums. Good luck from another newbie! Enjoy!

Hi MysticGuitar, Welcome to BC! You'll fit right in: I hate both the people and the weather. ;^) Enjoy!

Wow at all the style and creativity! I was thinking that this seemed a dull thread. Then I clicked anyway... Well done, lads 'n' lasses.

[quote name='WurzelHedghog' timestamp='1341321905' post='1716973'] don't get me started on sea kayaks getting in the way when I'm surfing grrrr ;-) [/quote] Pfff, you only say that 'coz your feet are wet and cold. ;^) Comfy in me wellies 'n' wool,

Hi Wurz, Welcome to BC! Runcorn! Home of some of the best sea kayaks in the market. You the guy complaining about my parking? ;^) Enjoy the forum then.

Hi Jom, Welcome to BC. Ceramics is good. Bass is good. Security check passed! Me too, I could well imagine being a ceramics artist, and in fact started a little, but then found out it got in the way of my music. Kudos to you for managing both. Enjoy the site!

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1341254218' post='1715887'] "Enter your email to win" I doubt it's going to be that simple. I'm sure there's some element of chance involved. [/quote]

'Allo 'Allo!, Nicolas, Welcome to the surface! Keep on enjoying then.

Hi Will, Welcome to BC! Enjoy the site, and yes: share your wisdom.

Hi Dan, Welcome to BC! Practise man, practise! Don't be sitting here. And best of luck on wednesday. Your inauguration is finished when you publish your gig experiences on thursday. Enjoy the site!

Hi CJ, Welcome from an ex church organ player. Lemme get this straight: you're normally a bassist, but as the earliest rays of sunlight touch your face, you surreptitiously change into this ... monster? What a sad destiny. ;^) Enjoy the site!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1341222721' post='1715231'] I can't help but feel that a lot of people here have missed the point.[/quote] Either that, or we are just not giving a rat's ass about the original list. Personally, I haven't even checked it. Too many songs I don't even know. "Competing" with a list, or criticising it, feels rather unnecessary. Adding some possible joy to this thread though, is. I found Skank's list at least as engaging as the original one.

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1341085349' post='1713768'] I'm not sure if they're allowed ship new ones abroad though.[/quote] When Japanese companies don't send all or certain products abroad, there may be a cheap, nifty solution: White Rabbit Express. [url="http://whiterabbitexpress.com/"]http://whiterabbitexpress.com/[/url] They're owned by White Rabbit [url="http://www.whiterabbitjapan.com/"]http://www.whiterabbitjapan.com/[/url] and state that they "specialize in Japan-only products". To use this service, you either give them a link to the product and ask them to buy it for you, or you get a Japanese address from them, and use that address when ordering. Upon receiving the product, White Rabbit sends it to you. We've used White Rabbit Express for small stuff, and find they're a dependable company. I don't know how expensive it will be for a bass though.

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1341216283' post='1715113'] Probably something, from Stewart MacDonald, I'm guessing. Could it be this? [url="http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Straightedges/String_Action_Gauge.html?actn=100101&xst=3&xsr=236"]http://www.stewmac.c...1&xst=3&xsr=236[/url][/quote] Yes! A String Action Gauge! Thanks so much. Here, normally, you'd get plastic versions for free from a guitar factory stand at an instrument show, or an importer would leave some freebies at your local shop. This pro one seems expensive at 19 Mercan bucks. I'll do a search now I know what to search for. Thanks again!

Me, I love the coinspin at the start of Gentle Giants's "The Boys in the Band". My fave noise however is when Laurie Anderson plays her violin on United States Live I-IV. Slight detail: the violin has a tape head mounted, and the bow has a tape on it with prerecorded violin tone. The speed of her bowing then governs the frequency of the produced tone. Hard to play I gues - hence "noise".

Wait a minute! You want to download from, or to upload to? It's very hard to download to... Buying the music: yes, but that's not what this thread is about. We do not know B5's reasons, so I rather assume he has some. Ponting out that one should pay [b]is immoral![/b]

OK then, you harny bostords. Here it is: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoogY-UGio[/media]

Earth and Fire - Maybe tomorrow, maybe tonight - 1973 For obvious reasons it blew Can the Can right out of the water. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL6rMomAA40[/media]

It depends on what you want: the complete video or the sound only. For the complete video, there's lots of sites that will do it as well as downloadable free or paid software. Problem is YT change their software to make this harder. A Google search will direct you to all of this. If you're just in for the sound, http://www.youtube-mp3.org/ will normally give you an mp3 in seconds or minutes. On that site, you just enter the URL of the YT vid. If they have it in stock , you get it in seconds.