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Stringbusters seem to have run out of their stock of Elite Stadiums (standard gusge) just as I've used my last set! Does anyone know of any other places holding stock where I can get some cheap on-line? Cheers - Pete

Alas poor Yorick indeed! Let’s get this right, you’ve actually been sacked from a Van Halen tribute band fronted by Rocky Shades (whom I once had the honour of supporting once in the 80s – one of the most hilarious nights of my musical career)! Respect! Either you are the worst musician in the world (which I seriously doubt because I refuse to believe that anyone can be worse than Rocky Shades) or it is the ultimate backhanded compliment – in that RS would not know a decent player if he tripped over one, which from what I remember would probably not be such a good idea seeing as he jumped off stage to beat up a punter when we played with him!!

Never played it myself but Clive posted an excellent youtube clip on here a while ago......

[quote name='SJA' post='484312' date='May 10 2009, 02:01 PM']I'm not a fan of Mr Big, but I think it's cool to see hard rock back. at the risk of getting flamed, I'm interested in hearing the Chickenfoot (Sammy Hagar/Joe Satriani/Michael Anthony/Chad Smith) album preview clips of all the songs are here- [url="http://www.cede.ch/en/music-cd/frames/frameset.cfm?aobj=710439"]http://www.cede.ch/en/music-cd/frames/fram...cfm?aobj=710439[/url] strangely the bass is much more upfront than it was on Van Halen albums (eg. "Turnin left")...[/quote] I agree (except that I am a Mr Big fan)! Hope that the songs on the Chickenfoot album live up to the pedigree - early signs look pretty good Will be interesting to hear Satriani play in a proper band situation and as for actually being able to hear the bass, I think that may be down to rather different band politics......

Re. the elitist charges – some of the jazz supporters here do tend to be rather elitist but in real life most of the jazz musicians that I’ve met are anything but and seem to appreciate all types of music and playing on its own terms……

[quote name='spinynorman' post='482233' date='May 7 2009, 06:04 PM']The rise and fall of jazz in three paragraphs. Before 1900 you had two streams of music in the west, the formal classical tradition, funded by the Church and blokes in wigs with country estates, and popular/folk music fueled by beer. Both relied heavily on melody, rather than rhythm, and co-existed quite happily for centuries, because everyone knew their place. If you wanted to dance with a duke's daughter you went for a waltz in a big house, and if you wanted to dance with a milk maid, you went to the local inn for a knees up. Then comes the 20th C and WWI, Americans are everywhere and the popular/folk music gets all mixed up with some African influences with hot rhythms. So all the milkmaids rush off to buy jazz records and learn to dance the jitterbug. Trouble is, the dukes' daughters think Americans are cool and don't see why they should miss out, so they start jitterbugging too. Now no one knows where they are. Worse, the classical composers try to absorb jazz into their compositions, but still nobody wants to dance to it, so they think, why should we bother writing tunes? This creates the conditions for Schoenberg and all the dismal honking and squeaking that followed. Now, here's the real problem. Because "serious" classical music has gone all avant garde, a few jazz musicians think they will be taken more seriously if they start honking and squeaking too. So they invent bebop and realise that, with saxophones, which the classical guys turned their noses up at, they can honk and squeak better than anyone. Soon there's wopbop, aloobop and heaven knows what other kinds of bop, and the milkmaids, who all now work in factories, are crying "We can't dance to this." And as they look up through tear-streaked eyes and smudged mascara, there stands Elvis.[/quote] Post of the century so far! Brilliant and spot on!

[quote name='YouMa' post='482650' date='May 8 2009, 04:38 AM']Im glad im not the only one who thinks it sounds like a poor mans VanHalen with a weak singer,sorry to.[/quote] WTF! Weak singer?? Weaker singer than Van Halen??? Please tell me that you're not being serious!

Just got back from a rehearsal - been playing 'Green Tinted 60s Mind', working out the intro and all the vocal harmony parts, etc Great fun and a great song......

[quote name='3V17C' post='481961' date='May 7 2009, 01:43 PM']reunited Mr Big live on Japanese TV peace c[/quote] Cheers - excellent stuff Great band.............

Without wishing to resurrect the occasionally amusing but generally futile Playing by ear vs Reading thread on the Theory & Technique forum, the following is a quote from that thread by dlloyd on jazz: [quote name='dlloyd' post='480486' date='May 5 2009, 10:52 PM']Jazz used to be fun, it used to be dance music. It became more of an intellectual pursuit during the 1940s/50s when bebop musicians realised there were some neat theoretical tools to add dissonance to dominant chords. That in itself wasn't a bad thing... But when rock and roll appeared and people stopped listening to jazz, lots of people found themselves out of work and it (the first real 'American' artform) got preserved as a university course. One that was largely taught by those who never got bebop in the first place.[/quote] I think that he has pretty much hit the nail on the head there but obviously many people here still see jazz still as a viable proposition so what do they think?

[quote name='simon1964' post='480167' date='May 5 2009, 05:45 PM']Not in a Jazz, but I've put EMGs in my bog standard Precision and it sounds great. The biggest issue is likely to be where you put the battery - will be worth checking whether you will need any routing.[/quote] I've did the same on my 70s P bass many years ago Always sounded great, a bit of a pain changing the battery thru!