SICbass

Aaaaah, this feels like unexpectedly running into an old friend. Welcome back this thread!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1479124316' post='3174059'] Not if your technique is good enough. [/quote] That's me knackered then 😘

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1479125125' post='3174069'] IME from owning an all steel Born To Rock Bass, the tuning is actually more stable because the body and the strings (made of similar materials) act more evenly to changes in temperature compared with a wooden bass. [/quote] Really. That's interesting, I hadn't thought about it like that.

[quote name='Jabba_the_gut' timestamp='1479070981' post='3173747'] And another website of some quite different basses.... [url="http://www.atlansiaguitars.com/Bass-Guitar.php?type=bass"]Another lot of different designs[/url] [/quote] There's some fun-looking stuff there. I like the one with f-holes, but what are those 8-pole pups all about then?

Wouldn't tuning with temperature variations be a bit of a nightmare?

Keep the playing simple. You also won't get as much sustain out of your strings as usual. It's usually less of a problem than you might think. I've done gigs at skiing events where, even under lights, the stage temperaure was barely above freezing. Just keep your hands warmed up between songs. I did try one of those little metal boxes that hunters use. They're lined with something fireproof and you leave a slow-burning piece of charcoal in them. They fit in your pocket. To be honest, I didn't really need it in the end though.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1478881800' post='3172414'] And Adam Clayton calls it a 'Struggle'. [/quote] Now, now, play nicely children! 😉

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1478845562' post='3172028'] To be fair, if you had put Martika down as having one hit with Toy Soldiers, I would have been none the wiser as I had never heard the song you posted. I was so sure about Toy Soldiers, so I looked it up and found she had a couple of hits. [/quote] With me it was just the opposite, I knew Toy Soldiers but had no idea who'd sung it. Love Thy Will be Done, I knew from heavy rotation on MTV in hotel rooms and I'd never heard of that other song. We live and learn, eh? 🙂

Here's one that I haven't seen in the thread so far and satisfies all the criteria as a one hit wonder. The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump. http://youtu.be/hchOYs_d_Bw

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1478625958' post='3170422'] Martika had a number 5 with Toy Solldiers and 7 with I Feel The Earth Move [/quote] Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't aware of those until I read Wikipedia 5 mins after posting 😊

Also this, although it was co-written with Prince was Martika's only UK hit. Love Thy Will Be Done. I think it's just beautiful, hence the embedded video. http://youtu.be/10V_Z0_udjg

Sorry if this one is already in there somewhere, but "da-daa-daa-daa" by the German band Trio.

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1478336233' post='3168452'] I saw a guy from work once while heading out of a Buddy Guy gig. I asked what he thought to which he replied "The playing was OK but there's no place for humour in blues." That was why I'd enjoyed it! [/quote] Your workmate was of course completely correct in his observation. Nobody could seriously think that BB King was joking when he sang Nobody Loves Me But My Mama (and she could be jivin' too).

I sympathise with the OP. I work mostly in theatres where there are usually a dozen guys auditioning for one spot. You have to develope a thick skin, which isn't always easy. I do this for a living, so it's also not just about hurt pride. On one occasion, not only did I not get the gig, but when the guy who [i]did[/i] get it wanted me as a sub, he was told that I was on a blacklist that the musical supervisor (who was only there for the auditions and didn't work in the theatre) had of guys who shouldn't even sub on the production. This stuck in my craw for several years until I was asked to audition for another show in the same house as a sub. I got in and, over the following years, got to hear loads of stories about what a kn#b the musical supervisor was, how his decision-making process was totally flawed and how some of the other guys that also landed on the blacklist had been playing in that house for years in numerous productions. None of the guys in the band, including the MD, understood why any of us had been blacklisted. I know it's something of a platitude, but try not to let it get to you. Very often the reasons are so banal and have little or nothing to do with the playing.

Definitely try some of the Albert Collins and the Icebreakers Albums. The live album 'Frozen Alive' is killer.

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1477097947' post='3159897'] Where would I keep the Ampeg 8x10? [/quote] If I were you, I'd sleep in it.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1477342248' post='3161633'] Glare at the [s]drummer[/s] guitarist so everyone else knows it was their fault [/quote] There, fixed. You're welcome!

Probe records, god I haven't thought about that place in years. Pete Burns was a well exotic figure back then. A sad loss, RIP.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1476912715' post='3158512'] Time to revive this thread with a gem from our keyboard player. ...'There's no music during the chorus, just the bass and drums' . [/quote] Burn him!

Very cool. Loads of fun and they've nailed the sound. Where did you see them?

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1476708841' post='3156469'] I wouldn't have thought an inch would make much difference. [/quote] Ooo-err! Well......,,,somebody had to.

I have 2. A 1976 Jazz ( different pick-ups, ugly-dodgy varnishing from a previous owner etc. etc.). Not by any means a looker, but I love the sound. The other is an original prototype of SKCs Bogart bass. It has a humbucker on the back and a jazz pup at the neck. Before they went all graphite, they had wooden, jazz bass bodies with carbon fibre necks and that's what mine is. A warm, fat sustain that goes on for days without losing thickness, yum yum. I got it in 1990 and showed up last year at "The Holy Grail of Guitars" event in Berlin. When Stefan from SKC saw it, his eyes nearly popped out. We hadn't seen each other in over 20 years.

Really locked in with the drummer is when I feel best, just lost in the moment. On very rare occasions, these are the best, it feels like I disappear altogether.

http://youtu.be/w0-g8G9aMRU