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Unfortunately being a "vlogger" is somehow a career. Just don't get too popular or you're no longer "influential", apparently. Mainstream isn't cool! Sorry, I'm deviating from the op a little but I had to listen to a load of this guff in a marketing meeting. Major retailers pay tens of thousands to bedroom webcam ranters and show offs to mention their products, it's another form of advertising, or even for them to wear something and not mention it. Celebrities get paid to mention a product on twitter, now I can understand why you'd want the same footy boots as Ronaldo but why would you want the same loo paper as a coronation Street actor....? Like everything, the modern world will always change in ways that baffle the over thirties. We just don't have to join in with it! So we don't have to listen to Scott Devine's "six reasons five strings suck" (they don't, he even says so) and we don't have to LOL at Davie whatever he is. We don't have to watch it. We still have choice... For now.

Definitely building in the idiot factor, the dreamers and time wasters and the horrendous eBay fees! Even when you add to eBay "advertised elsewhere" which to me is a not so subtle way of saying "for goodness sake just buy it off my gumtree ad!" You still get people who tell you they'd seen it on gumtree etc but transacted through eBay anyway

I bought a nodded jazz bass. It's from the worst era of MIM basses (mid 90's) but with the first owners mods and now more from me I love it as a gigging bass! It's worth the square root of bog all though, if I ever sold it I'd need to break it up, the neck and body are so beaten up they're worthless... But I gig it so for me I got a good deal. Dumb luck though

Very true, was in a meeting about this yesterday where everyone over thirty was staggered we would pay for someone to Instagram a photo of one of our products. Unfortunately it's in every aspect of work, I saw someone taking photos of the food in front of him at a conference then "tweeting" it or whatever he did. The conference was nothing to do with food, but he felt the need to show his 'followers' that along with some comment. Apparently you need a social media presence no matter what you do. I've thought of it for my professional life then immediately given myself a thrashing for having such a stupid thought.

I would never say any bass player must love or even like Jaco. Personally I do, I like the music and the personality but I totally understand why other people would not like it. For example, I find some of the weather report stuff to sound quite dated now with the synth sounds, etc. Though the musicianship is incredible. With Jaco I never thought it was technical wizardry just for the sake of doing something complex, I always hear a groove there, and I love finding bits of his work with other people or his versions of songs like "I shot the sheriff". He had a distinctive voice, and if that's not your thing, that's ok by me.

Hi Grangur, We are a covers band, rock, pop, soul, blues and funk. We go from chuck berry to mark Ronson via Bryan Adams and Duran Duran. The criteria for our set is: will people sing AND dance along?? Not a foolproof formula but tends to work! We have an out of date Facebook page that I might update when I get chance, with photos, videos and so on. Are you local and thinking of coming along? Would be good to meet a basschatter. ☺️

Classic rock with some funk, pop, soul and blues

This Saturday we are playing at the White Lion in Baldock, 9pm til the last person drops... Come along for songs you will sing and dance to, or just for the freakshow of a lefty bass player!

My life in one paragraph

I was playing a p with flats! Must do more twiddling with the eq next time

Brice six string. It was cheap... That's all it has going for it, I just got excited at the affordability of it. It had no character whatsoever and was heavier than lead. Just utterly pointless as an instrument.

I hope that we as individuals can do what we like for our own conscience on this topic, but it's when the mass public hysteria grows over something that pushes us to make choices based on other people's view of the correct moral response. I have a hard time with my conscience on Michael Jackson songs, great music but a morally reprehensible character. Take the recent example of "comic" Dapper Laughs on ITV. He plays a particularly unpleasant character on stage who uses the term "rape" inappropriately on trying to get a laugh from the audience. I am in no way defending him, by the way, but it is interesting how he was hounded out of work and yet other equally distasteful comedians continue to make similar jokes and don't have a moral outcry against them. In my view his real crime was not being talented/ funny enough to pull it off/ get away with it in the way that Ricky Gervais, etc do when they joke about disability and so on. I am not defending or attacking here, just find it interesting how one gets the morality police hounding them out of work and the other maintains a position of reverence in the public eye. In my view, great art seems to survive the crimes of the artist.

My favourite is using the word "custom" on what is obviously the most bog standard encore/ Westfield... Etc.

I'd only ever played with backing tracks for my 18months to two years, then answered a bassist wanted ad in my local music shop. I turned up with a 15w amp and a list of songs I could play. The guitarist was unbelievable and could sound like any famous player he wanted while improvising. The drummer was unreal too. They liked my honesty and have a go attitude and realised I wouldn't try to take over and they took me on. I improved leaps and bounds by playing with better players. In short, don't wait until you think you're ready to play with a band, just go and do it! It will improve you far more than backing tracks ever can. Playing different stuff with other players and improvising a bit can help you bridge those gaps in your technical ability very quickly.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1510321170' post='3405573'] It's complicated. [/quote] It's my guitarists job. He owns the PA and knows what he's doing. I turn up on time so he can plug stuff in to my amp. That's all I know.

Pretty sure I went in there and had a look... 2006ish maybe? I was probably trying to find a fender jazz MIM and someone told me they might have lefties down there. Really impressive instruments if I remember but I was still a bit intimidated by those shops at the time

In my covers band we play enjoyable songs, there's very few I dislike, but I don't listen to that music except to learn the song structures, figure out parts and practice backing vocals in the car. I prefer to listen to lots of different types of music and sometimes it does make me think about how I can change my playing in certain parts of covers that I play, because we have licence to play our part as we please as long as it works. If I was writing and playing originals I think the music I enjoy listening to would have more relevance to what I play in a band.

[quote name='prowla' timestamp='1510299771' post='3405346'] Why not have a 3rd pickup at the neck position too? [/quote] I have considered it but don't think it would get the use of there's a great big humbucker further down the line

[quote name='El_JimBob' timestamp='1510221807' post='3404680'] Perhaps for elegance and aesthetics' sake, something like [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuhlWTD1htQ"]THIS[/url] from Haeussel... [/quote] Looks and sounds excellent!

Am thinking of having a bass made once I get enough stuff sold... I fancy having a jazz pickup at the bridge in the 70's position and a humbucker in either the mm or the p position. You don't see many basses like that, so just wondering what the barriers are? Is it just a stupid idea?

[quote name='gelfin' timestamp='1510008833' post='3403286'] No one seems to have mentioned how often wedding partys fall into disarray and drunken arguments and fights break out. The best / worse one was when the best man got up to speak handed an album to the bride full of photos of the groom in uncompromising positions with various other females that he had been with very recently. I have never seen anything like what ensued. [/quote] Sounds like an episode of East Enders! I appreciate the dramatic effect of waiting for the chance to grab a mic but he's allowed them to legally marry and go through the whole charade. Sorry, to make this bass related... The best mam sounds like a total lead guitarist.

Andertons have a YouTube video on various Schechter basses. I'm intrigued by them as they do most of their stuff in lefty but it's usually on an "available to order" basis so that puts me off if I don't like them.

[quote name='timhiggins' timestamp='1509318208' post='3398096'] That must play havoc with your digestion ! [/quote] I just turn the pastie upside down, not myself.