Maude

Yeah but he got some funny looks lugging the speaker cab in there. 😉

Nope, it's coming, wait for it. If I say what it is, people purposely won't post it. 😉

IBTAPC. 😄

No need to get your coat. Stick around and you'll find most folks are OK (not that @Teebs fella, but he can't help it 😉). I think a lot of folks are getting a bit short tempered with lockdowns and no gigging, I know I am. If you are a beginner then that's great and welcome to the world of bass. Maybe you could've asked, 'Is it important to be able to play fast?' Or something along those lines, rather than, 'How fast do you need to be able to play to be respected?' A similar question but worded differently comes across better. It takes time to find your feet in some places, that's all. 🙂👍

Throwing My Baby Out With The Bathwater - Tenpole Tudor

Could it not be said that the bassist is still playing at 120bpm throughout the verse, but just playing no notes? The song is still being played at 120bpm while the bassist waits to play some notes in the chorus. Even though the bassist isn't playing the song is never 0 bpm.

Rubbish - Carter USM

S'pose not, but Fluff Freeman is pretty dusty these days.

Tonefluff.

Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag - Pigbag

I'm certainly doing less at the moment, and I think those that have heard me would agree with you. 😁

Which actually leads to the next question. How many notes per beat are you talking about? Playing 16ths at 10bpm would require the same dexterity as single notes at 160bpm. Bpm is irrelevant.

Is that just playing 16th notes or more?

I don't think how many notes you can play in a given time is any kind of indication of ability at all. Is a badly timed busy bassist playing a hundred miles an hour all over the fretboard better than one who puts in that perfectly timed single note per bar, whilst locked in with a great drummer to create the heaviest funk groove in town? Sometimes busy is good, sometimes sparse is good. The bassist who knows when to do what will be the most respected. 🙂👍

Safety In Numbers - The Adverts

I've asked them to not to, shhhh. 🤫

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello

Are you all 'awake'? 😆

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Technically there's no reason you can't cut a headstock off and reattach it. Loads of headstocks are glued to the neck with a scarf joint. If you took two inches off the neck, before you glue the head back on you'd need to get a shorter truss rod, which would mean fretboard off. Once the head is glued back on you'd need to reshape the neck all the way along its length to loose the new 'shoulders', then fit a new fretboard and slot it for your new scale. Completely feasible, but ultimately pointless. Edit, I've re-read my post and 'pointless' is the wrong word, especially considering what I'm in the middle of. More an awful lot of work which could go wrong and render the bass unusable, for relatively little gain.

Hellhound On my Trail - Robert Johnson

And if part of punk was about not selling out then Malcom McClaren was never punk. Dressing up as whatever the latest fad was too sell that fashion to to the gullible masses. First a leather clad Rock'n'Roller, then a Teddy Boy, then he saw punk in America and thought I could flog this to Britain. A walking, breathing sellout, yet seen as a central figure in punk. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Well not really John, it's just music. 🙂

Talking of Surf. Richard Dale could almost fit in with punk ethics before punk even existed. Ha ha, good old swear filter.

There's just so many offshoots, as with all genres. I seem to remember the Irish tinged punk coming out of Boston such as the Dropkick Murphys being described as Boston Scally Punk. Obviously being punk it has to fit into a neat little pigeonhole. 😄 Perhaps back in the mid/late 70s you could say what was punk or not, but 40 years on it's all too blurred. Saying that, what was punk back when it all started? Were Blondie punk? Talking Heads? They were part of the CBGBs scene and got lumped in with punk. It's all a pointless debate. If it was true punk and played by punks ethics, it couldn't continue, yet it has. So is anything punk now?