peteb

Bump for the weekend!

A couple of serious enquiries but no takers as of yet

[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

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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?

Cheers Ben - speak soon

I'm in Bradford for my sins

[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!

Re. the warming up issue - nature of the beast I'm afraid, from what I understand they all seem to do it!

Price you have to pay for the authentic punchy ampeg sound I suppose.....

I am selling my Ampeg SVT 5 pro hybrid (i.e. valve preamp) head, 1350 watts, dual channel (clean & overdrive) with an onboard octaver and compression

Please note that it has been toured (I bought it from the bass player from INME) so the casing is not pristine and that it does have the usual US Ampeg idiosyncrasies i.e. you need to let it warm up for 5 minutes before you can plug the speakers in and it also has a knob missing on the overdrive channel (that I don’t use so I haven’t got round to getting a replacement) – however, it works just fine (lots of compliments about the sound when I’ve gigged it), has that genuine SVT sound and is a very powerful amp suitable for pretty much any musical situation. I had it looked at by a professional amp tech when I got it and it’s basically a pro quality piece of kit.

I also have a 4u rack that I will be selling (it came from a PA / lighting company and is proper professional quality as you would expect). Again I just want the money I paid for it (£65), but if you take them both together I will do you a decent deal on the rack. I would prefer to ship in the rack obviously, just for piece of mind!

I would prefer to arrange a pick up if possible but I’m happy to ship at cost (although I have no idea how much that would be) – I’m open to any suggestions to keep the cost down.

Cheers – Pete

Bank Holiday Bump (Warwickhunt can’t be expected to hold his Lakland forever)...!

Some eagle eyed chap PM'd me saying that the action wasn't as low as they would prefer and asking about how the truss rod worked, etc

As a result I have now put on a new set of strings and adjusted the neck relief, action and intonation and can safely say that the truss rod operates perfectly and the bass now has a very low action (which of course won’t be to everyone’s taste but can be adjusted easily enough)

[quote name='Doddy' post='473605' date='Apr 27 2009, 07:08 PM']For what it's worth-I've just done 3 weeks worth of gigs which involved quite heavy reading,where as for the next few weeks everything will be
learned by ear.
I personally think that you should learn to read and develop a good/quick ear. However if you choose not to,that's fine-more work for me. [/quote]
You can develop a good/quick ear without learning to read, that’s the whole point

If you are going up for the type of gigs that require heavy reading skills you need to learn to read – if not you can get by with a ‘good/quick ear’……

Of course, when I say "learn from him" I obviously mean "rip him off blind"!

You are always going to come across someone who is better than you every now and again - that doesn't reflect on you or mean that you can't play

If the guy with the 66 Pbass is really good, it means that you have the opportunity to watch him at close quarters and learn from him.....

I have now sold the cab to Geoff – nice guy who was kind enough to let me try out his very nice Sadowsky Metro as well as being a font of knowledge about loads of gear I haven’t been able to try out for myself. Shame I was in a bit of a rush otherwise would have loved to chatted for longer

Thanks to everyone who showed an interest

The reason for the low asking price was (apart from the space it was taking up) that when I tried to sell it a year or so ago for £120 (which I soon dropped to £70) there was no serious interest at all – this time I had several people contacting me!

Cheers – Pete

Saturday morning bump!

Need to sell if I'm going to be able to fund a purchase from a gentleman from the north east!

[quote name='horribleman' post='471026' date='Apr 23 2009, 07:27 PM']Where are you based?[/quote]
Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire

Cheers - Pete

Titled of thread slightly amended – many thanks to a couple of observant posters!

I still have my SWR Big Ben 1x18 cab available, and seeing as the missus is complaining about it taking up too much space in the spare bedroom / junk room I’m happy to let it go for £50 to anyone who is prepared to come to Bradford to get it…!

Great sub bass cab to add bottom to any rig with a quality Bag End 18” speaker (rated at 400w RMS I believe), well made cab, etc – please see pix below

Cheers – Pete

I’ve decided to move my Musicman Stirling 4 string on – I’m just looking for what I paid for it, £620 (and I thought that I got it for a rather good price)!

Looks great (been gigged so a couple of very minor dings), plays well, always been well admired by other players – just generally a very nice bass!

Please see pix below

Cheers – Pete

[quote name='ARGH' post='468868' date='Apr 21 2009, 06:02 PM']ahhh..the birds in lycra years...its making a comeback fella!!

AND BIG HAIR!!![/quote]
There's probably some towns up in the North West where they are still waiting for it to happen first time round!

[quote name='LWTAIT' post='468873' date='Apr 21 2009, 06:06 PM']i think they both are and aren't. somtimes i think some people care so much about being technically good that they forget what music is about - being fun to make and listen to. so in that way, they are opposites. but also theyre not opposites because you have to be technically good to play good music (not necessarily good at deep theorey, but you have to be able to identify when a certain note doesn't sound right, and also need good technique, be able to get a good sound etc. which i'd all class as part of being good). it's a balance, really.[/quote]
Yep, I pretty much agree with you there – you do not need to be a virtuoso to play a great music and some great players are tedious beyond words to actually listen to!

However, a band does need to be able to play together to some degree….

[quote name='WILD FROG SHOT' post='468509' date='Apr 21 2009, 02:06 PM']Doubt this will be the last time but, once again, music is not a competition. There are technically bad players in all generations; is it really a crime for younger people writing their own music to be below par? At least they have time to develop and improve. Surely it is more of a "lazy" crime to play solely in a covers band.

+1 on the comments that bands should act as a unit rather than a group of individual fret-w***ers.

I cannot really comment on nu-metal; wasn't the point to remove the face-melting solos and add some hippity-hop to get some groove back into heavier music? Also didn't it open up Metal to a new audience of kids who weren't the sad greasy-haired B.O. fuelled loners at school /adults (that never grew out of it)?

Arguably, isn't being technically good (as in near-perfect theoretical knowledge and knowing what one "should" play here and there) and having "standards" the complete polar opposite to what music is supposed to be about?[/quote]
NO, being technically good and having "standards" is NOT the complete polar opposite to what music is supposed to be about – if you truly believe that then I really hope that I never accidentally have to see your band play!

Music is absolutely NOT a competition to see who can play the fastest or most technically, etc but the OP was suggesting that young original bands these days do not play as a unit as well as their counterparts from 10 or 20 years ago, regardless of the quality of the performance of any solos (or fret w**king as you prefer to call it) - and if a band can't perform their own music to a reasonable standard then who will be able to appreciate the quality of their material?

And as for “the sad greasy-haired B.O. fuelled loners” – you obviously were not around in the 80s when there were always plenty of women around rock clubs and their main complaint was always that they could never get near the mirror the following morning!!

The Precision bass is probably the bass reference tone and I have read of session players saying that many producers always ask for that particular sound

If you read the Guy Pratt book, he says that Gilmore wanted him to play a P bass when he joined Pink Floyd

Sass Jordan (Rats period) - Tony Reyes, Carmine Rojas among others