Maude

Our Mod band had a brilliant gig last night supporting Secret Affair at The Hub in Plymouth. Our normal pub set is mainly covers with a few originals thrown in, but last night we decided to do a full set of originals. Chatting in the bar area to people before the gig we found out that quite a number had come early to especially see us as they had "heard good things" on the scene, so we were a little nervous as due to the drummers mum being ill and passing away last week, and the guitarists young daughter being hospitalised and diagnosed with a rare life changing condition, we had missed lots of rehearsal time. We had a blast and needn't have worried as we got a lot of positive feedback after the gig on our own material. Secret Affair were ace and were really nice to us after the gig, making time to chat backstage and thank us and give encouragement. All in all a very successful night.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1508428352' post='3392146'] Me Blue [/quote] It was a humorous quip following Dad's post about the sharing of cake Blue. Only quoting half of my post is kind of pointless. Nevermind. Although that being said, if anyone wants to take a gig of this nature and gets something good out of it, be that money, the warm feeling of happiness, a weekend away with the family, etc, the it's really none of my business anyway.

Take the gig, don't take the gig, who cares? But if you're having cake and aren't offering me any there's going to be trouble.

Wasn't the Bass Synth Wah discontinued? Such a cool little pedal for so little money.

Ooh I like that. I keep wondering about making one out of a suitably sized violin/viola. The body won't be big enough to be loud but it would be plugged in with pickup anyway. As long as the scale length was suitable. Or a TB10 sort of thing with a small cello. Or a..... no, must stop

[quote name='OliverBlackman' timestamp='1507730862' post='3387568'] So nickels wear less than steels? I generally use steels so I had a set on the bass when I got it, but I was shocked at how quickly the board marked. Might be worth buying some nickels and tape wounds I guess and comparing? [/quote] The speed of strings marking your fingerboard could be technique related. On a fretted bass you can achieve vibrato by using the same type of motion as a string bend, if you use this motion on a fretless the board will mark quicker. Vibrato should be achieved using the technique employed on all traditional 'fretless' string instruments and a string bend becomes a slide. This way you are merely pressing the string into the board rather than grinding it across it.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1507911447' post='3388781'] ..... Singer was adamant..... [/quote] A band I used to be in did Ant Music

I was turned the volume up on my LB-30 Drophead and the knob came off in my hand. I still have the knob but don't know where the rest of the rig went. I wonder if Ashdown could send me a free replacement?

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1507595920' post='3386694'] I think some forget that were all in it for fun. Some of us are in it for fun & money. If your not having fun it's time to move on. Blue [/quote] I think that sums up a few of the discussions on here in one simple post.

Ha ha. I got halfway to a venue one Friday before I realised I was supposed to be going somewhere else, the place I was heading to was Saturdays gig. D'oh

Oh wow! If hats and waistcoats are out, pass me the razor and I'm rockin' this at the next gig.

[quote name='mentalextra' timestamp='1507313781' post='3384756'] Just out of interest, have any decent Christmas songs been written in the last 20yrs? [/quote] The Darkness?

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1507054012' post='3383079'] I searched for me and only found me! I must be unique! [/quote] I didn't even find me

I really hope it isn't true, http://movieweb.com/tom-petty-dies-dead-66-years-old/

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1506838005' post='3381368'] what makes you think speaker Ohms ratings are irrelevant? Hook up two 4 Ohm cabs to a 4 Ohm amp and tell me what happens [/quote] I was meaning folks worrying about showing a 4ohm output amp a 4ohm load rather than an 8ohm load to get the most out of it. With the amount of amp power cheaply available and the more efficient speakers available there is little point worrying about wringing the last drop of power out of an amp these days, that was all. Obviously nobody is going to plug two 4ohm speakers into a 4ohm amp unless they really don't know what they're doing, and again with the abundance of information at hand these days that's unlikely as well.

I have a friend called Rod, he doesn't like fishing though.

And you try and tell the young people of today that, they wouldn't believe you!

I did once ask of Mrs. Maude, "How can you need so so many pairs of shoes with only one pair of feet?" To which she replied, "How can you need so many basses with only one pair of hands?" She now buys whatever shoes she wants

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1506503003' post='3379138'] Hugely talented, very unique and broke lots of new ground. Changed the entire meaning of 'bass playing' for many. [/quote] That's a quote I do agree with.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1506497350' post='3379081'] Sorry dude, No one deserves to be beaten to death, because a meat head decides he ain't letting an individual into his club. [/quote] Quite agree, and I didn't say he deserved it. From what I read, he would go to clubs and bars and provoke fights and allow himself to get beaten up. If this is true then you can only expect bad things to happen.

[quote name='FDC484950' timestamp='1506493202' post='3379046'] As always on a forum, opinions tell us a lot more about the person giving them than the topic being discussed. From your background and interests it sounds unlikely that you would like or identify with the sort of music he produced. No-one has to like a given genre or artist/musician. Does it lessen or increase any musician's legacy whether they're popular or well-liked? Not sure. [/quote] You're quite correct that I don't identify with that given genre and it doesn't take away from him in the slightest. My opinion matters not a bit. That post, and the one before it, was questioning the whole 'must have been influenced by him'. Of course as time moves on, every new player is influenced by those that came before them, and they were influenced by those that came before them and so on. I have been influenced by the players that Jaco was influenced by, and they would've had influences before them, so why is it only Jaco that must have influenced everyone, not someone before? I'll add that I'm not rubbishing Jaco in any way.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1506478653' post='3379020'] This has to be a bit generational. I've been studying bass player styles for 50 years. So I get some younger guys, 55 and under not getting or understanding Jaco. Hell, I'll be 65 in a few months and I don't get the appeal of this guy named Pino. He's not someone I would consider one if the "masters". IMO he's a product of the "masters". Blue Blue [/quote] Blue, if it really was generational, why would I 'get' and be inspired and influenced by players that came before him? I'm out every week playing music that was written before Jaco was on the scene. It's not generational, it's just some people don't like his style of music or playing, therefore don't listen to him or that genre. I honestly can't think of any music I listen to, and it's wide ranging, that sounds anything like Jaco. I'm not knocking him at all, just saying that I don't feel I have been influenced by him in the slightest, therefore can't agree when you say that everyone has been influenced by him.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1506287545' post='3377689'] As a youth of the 80's/90's, the band Chicago was always synonymous with cheesy rock ballads. It's only in the last year that I've discovered how superb their earlier output was. [/quote] I have exactly the same problem with a lot of bands. It seems alot of bands changed their style in the eighties and had hits with terrible songs. This was my first encounter with these bands and turned me off immensely, only later finding out a lot of them were very good in the seventies.

I use hotmail and don't really have problems.

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1506283782' post='3377642'] Jaco was heavily influenced (initially) by a lot of Soul & R&B music (has cited the likes of Bootsy, Donald "Duck" Dunn, James Jamerson, Jerry Jemmott and Tommy Cogbill) - don't know if you like that type of music, but if you do, some of it will have rubbed off on you? Bass as an instrument didn't stop when Jaco died in 1987 - there are loads of great bass players out there (insert name of your bass hero here) who have taken it to another level since then. He was an outstanding bassist of his time and (along with Stanley Clarke) helped put electric bass on the map in the Jazz / Rock / Fusion world. [/quote] I play in a Mod/Northern Soul/Ska band who play covers and originals. Obviously a few of those names you mentioned are big influences, other influences come from the original Jamaican ska bands and the likes of The Who, The Jam, etc. I never realised I was so influenced by John Entwistle until a fair few people have commented after various gigs. I also play doublebass and am very influenced by early rock'n'roll and rockabilly bands. I grew up on post punk, goth, industrial and metal so have influences from there as well. As you can see I have a wide and varied taste but still can't see any influence by Jaco. You mentioned Stanley Clarke, I bought an album of his years ago thinking it would further my bass knowledge but I just cannot listen to it, I revisited it a while ago thinking I might have changed my view, nope cannot stomach it. The same us true of Jaco, I have tried listening to every track posted in this thread but can't get past thirty seconds or so, it really makes me cringe. Yes he can play but it makes me recoil. Edit to add, I didn't mean "why did it stop at Jaco" moving forwards in time but rather going back in time. I am much more influenced by people before him that influenced him, therefore I am influenced by them not Jaco. I also read up on him today to try and understand more but all that achieved was making me realise that as well as not liking his music I don't think I'd have liked him as a person either. Not that that takes away from his talent or his untimely death, although it seems he partially brought that on himself.