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    Urgent: band needed for this Sat 12th July - SORTED.

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    Main post under General Discussion for a wider reach. Please see here:
    [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/240680-urgent-high-profile-festival-needs-a-band-for-this-saturday-12th-july/"]h[/url][url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/240680-urgent-high-profile-festival-needs-a-band-for-this-saturday-12th-july/"]ttp://basschat.co.uk/topic/240680-urgent-high-profile-festival-needs-a-band-for-this-saturday-12th-july/[/url]
    Thanks.

    High profile festival needs a band for this Saturday - now sorted, thanks

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    Posted · Edited by bluejay

    I have received a request for urgent help from one of my contacts, Barry Hillier of [url="http://spottedcowentertainments.webs.com/"]http://spottedcowent...ments.webs.com/[/url] Since it's so urgent, I'm posting it here as opposed to under Gigs (but I'll put a link there too).

    [quote]High profile Gig for a Covers Band at a major festival this weekend in Gloucestershire, Outdoor stage. 8pm Saturday 12th July. Band PA's required.
    [email protected]
    [/quote]

    If you can help, please contact him directly and mention Basschat and/or Silvia as your source.

    Thanks!

    Hyde Park baby!!

    in Gigs

    Posted

    All the best! I find the request to change your name a bit of a disappointment, honestly. I mean, looks like Barclaycard have no sense of humour and expect the audience to be equally lacking in that department. Make sure you don't lose out on publicity and self-promotion because of the name change. And, as I said before, have a great one, and post pics and footage when you have them! :) :sun_bespectacled:

    Herts Bash 2 - The Precision Test

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    Posted

    I was having a laugh with myself when listening to the test. As a totally non-P-bass-fan, I didn't particularly like any of the sounds I was hearing except, as it happens, two of them, one towards the beginning of the test and one towards the end.
    I thought to myself "One of those [b]has[/b] to be that gorgeous German Warwick Streamer, I really like it". Lo and behold, when I checked Happy Jack's notes, it turns out I was correct! And the other sound I liked was the Dingwall on the J setup. Those two were the sounds he hated :D
    What's a P bass again? :o :huh:
    Me? Warwick fan through and through... \m/ :gas: \m/

    Herts Bash 2 - The Precision Test

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    Posted

    [quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1404722761' post='2494937']
    Beautiful! The invisible bassist! :lol:
    [/quote]

    :lol: I also recorded part of Lozz's introduction to the test, and a few words he said at the end - in both those cases he was visible! :D They'll appear in my blog :)

    Herts Bash 2 - The Precision Test

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    Posted

    Video of one of the 12 tests performed by Lozz, just to show how he did them. There would have been no point in recording all the tests, as the camera's sound facility is not good enough to show the subtle differences between basses.

    [url="http://youtu.be/51F3S4NVLmQ"]http://youtu.be/51F3S4NVLmQ[/url]

    Herts Bash 2 - The Precision Test

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    Posted

    OK, enough suspenders :lol: :rolleyes:
    Here is the message from Lozz and a JPG file of the table (hope the latter is legible enough). They will both reappear on my blog in due course :)

    [quote]Well today, at the second Herts Bass Bash, I had the honour/pleasure of presenting a Precision Challenge! Many of us Basschatters have opinions on Precisions, so the theory was, let the ears make the decision, not the eyes or hands. So I got to play a bunch of Precisions - some rather tasty ones as well I might add, plus a couple of curve-balls to see if people were paying attention.

    So, playing each bass in turn - Down In The Tube Station by The Jam for pick-style, Hello Happiness by The Drifters for finger-style, This Is Not A Love Song by PIL for slap-style, and London Calling by The Clash played together with a drum-machine for an "in the mix" sound.

    From there, everyone chose their 1st, 2nd & 3rd faves, based on what they`d just heard. The below shows the results, and we had a runaway leader, a Ferrari in a skateboard race is my reckoning. Many congratulations to The Yellow Car for winning so easily. I should add that I couldn`t even get my own beloved `78 into the top three!

    And, seeing as there has always been the maple/rosewood debate, as a bit of fun we simply had a chosse which you reckon each bass was. And the results were good, with two winners, Gary Mac and Herts Bass guessing 8 out of 12 correctly. Extra smart*rse points go to Gary for correctly identifying my `78 just by my playing. Good ears there Gary.

    Thanks to Mrs Grangur for assisting on this challenge, her help was much appreciated and enabled the whole process to flow easily.

    Thanks also to Mick (The Greek) for being the main organiser of the event, Sylvia (Bluejay) for the blog and inevitable pics :lol: , Sibob for his (many) pedals, Dr of The Bass for the session on modes, and lastly thanks to all who came along, yet again another good Bass Bash was had by all.

    Cheers
    Lozz196[/quote]

    Herts Bash 2014 - Sunday 6th July

    in Events

    Posted

    I have created a reference doc with a summary of the day, taken from Mick's posts, and uploaded to my public Dropbox folder. Anyone who's planning to attend, feel free to download, print, share etc :)
    [url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90710763/Herts%20Bass%20Bash%202014.pdf"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90710763/Herts%20Bass%20Bash%202014.pdf[/url]

    Beer, beer, and MORE BEER

    in Gigs

    Posted · Edited by bluejay

    It now appears that the band will be on stage at 7.00pm as opposed to 7.30 - come along if you're in the area! :)

    Edit: I've replaced the poster image with one with the correct time photoshopped in :)

    30,000 members

    in Site News

    Posted

    In fact, as I write, it's 30,001. We were commenting on this among the mods.
    Well done Basschat :sun_bespectacled: :drinks:

    The lucky chap who brought the count to 30,000 is new member JonnyHoughton :crigon_04: :)

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