SICbass

Congratulations, what’s your band called?

Is that meant metaphorically or are you really playing Wembley? If so, wow, what gig?

I saw what you did there 😬

Given the fact that he was presumably just about to probe the inside of your mouth with a sharp object, a plucky choice of words I’d say.😙

Well done that man, sounds like you had a great time 👍

It’ll never catch on 🙃

👍

Take pretty much any 80s Fender...

I‘m probably way behind the wave here but YT has been peppering me with videos of these guys recently.

I‘d say you‘ve answered your own question there.

That’s sad news. Still, its good that he made the decision on his own terms.

Obviously, I don’t know what these sound like, but I played a 3-p-pup Maruszczyk Bass once. Fugly, but an amazing range of sounds for a fully passive instrument.

I‘ve been happy so far with mobile sheets pro https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/ It accepts anything as a pdf, including photographed stuff. I don‘t know, off the top of my head, what other file-types it accepts.

We kind of had the opposite to the OP. We’re doing a Blues Brothers gig where half of the band have never met the other half. Due to availability restrictions there’s no rehearsal beforehand. In itself not a problem as long as everyone is familiar with the material and has their ears on. However, the drummer, who none of us has met but came recommended, went awol mid-November. No reaction to emails, texts, Facebook etc. By the time it became apparent that he wasn’t going to reply it was early December. Try finding a decent (no rehearsals) sight unseen drummer for NYE starting early December... 30 phone calls later they found someone. We’ll find out tomorrow what he’s like.🤞

Jealous.

That’s the spirit, fill yer boots!

Yeah baby!

It’s a dead giveaway i’init? You are Santa 🎅 and I claim my five pounds.

I played a show at 15:00 UK time. In Germany Dec 24th is the big day, so 25th and 26th are normal days for theater and show stuff.

Rest assured, it’s a lot simpler than it initially looks. It takes a bit of getting used to when you want to fine-tune sounds “in the heat of battle”, but once you familiarize yourself it’s really pretty OK.

I was very disappointed about 20 years ago when I saw Earth Wind and Fire doing this. They were one of the bands way back when who used to do it “for real” and to see them doing it made me a bit sad. I guess it’s because audiences have come to expect perfection rather than wanting to enjoy the energy and imperfection of a truly live performance.

I don’t know if it’s possible to extract small sections of YT videos, but in this episode of Live from Daryl’s House (featuring the supremely quotable Joe Walsh) there’s a line between 37:12 and 37:42 from him which sums it up for me.

Congratulations. 🍾 It’s nice to hear of good things happening to good people.

I saw them a couple of years ago. The do not disappoint.

He wrote some absolutely crackin‘ bass lines.