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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.

[quote name='essexbasscat' timestamp='1341179913' post='1714915'] I'm guessing here, but the 'wrong ruler' thingy you mention could be a vernier guage ?[/quote] Thanks, EssexBC. I don't think I meant a vernier gauge though. From what you wrote, I got the impression you describe an instrument with moving parts - one we call a vernier caliper here. Maybe a gauge is not the same thing, what do I know. At any rate I didn't mean an instrument, but one of those flat rectangulars shapes made of metal or plastic, that have lines on them that stand 90 degrees to what you'd expect on a carpenter's rule. You just place it on the frets and read the distance to the string by looking past the "underside" of the string from the side. Pfffffff, complicated. Let me just sit back and have a pause. ... Tired. ... Soooo tired. ;^)

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1341181249' post='1714935'] Can I name drop them next time I'm on stage?[/quote] I'm sure they're name-dropping [b]you[/b] these days. Did they get your autograph?

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1341094248' post='1713873'] Likely the same problem we all face in trying to make an EUB sound like a double bass. [/quote] Yeah, exactly my thought and the reason I was sceptical to start with. Sceptical but hopeful. In this vid, only slight references to the light but intensenly reverberating, quite Renaissancey sound are to be heard, and I think both lack of body and presence of some sort of pick-up are possibly making that sound an impossibility. Ah well, it was nice to think about. Thanks for your input!

[quote name='Artoo' timestamp='1341150413' post='1714303']Why?[/quote] My next sentence explains that: it's a name I never heard. This was my attempt at jokingly saying that I had never heard about Chi Cheng. Sorry to hear he's in a coma though. I'd not joked had I known that.

As a noob, I want my basses to be [b]different[/b] first and foremost, from very low to very high action. I don't want to train on just one technique, but from day one wanted to train my fingers on the differences. I wanna be able to pick up any bass and play it reasonably well. IME this is better than getting very good at one action only. May I divert this thread for a second to ask what that wrong ruler thingie is called that one uses to measure the action? I ordered one locally, but it never arrived. Now I want to use the interwebs to order one.

Hi Arthur, Welcome to BC! I'd never expected that someone would mention Chi Cheng here! Then again, I'd never heard that name. ;^) But I do like you mention Melvins and Tool and lots of others there. Enjoy the site!

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1340895347' post='1711198'] probably an intonation nightmare. [/quote] Not in my experience. They held their place very well, and if one wanted to intonate anyway, one could easily do so. Today I would be too lazy, but back in the days, I felt it was great to be able to change the intonation so it fit the key. Only when playing old music, mind you. On another note, I felt that the sound this guy got from it was not interesting enough to ward a purchase. I hope to find other examples where the gamba sounds more historic so to speak.