BassMunkee

[quote name='tayste_2000' post='320863' date='Nov 3 2008, 12:45 PM'][/quote] I love this - I shall do this.

They just look wrong. Sorry but they do - I may be shallow - I just can't get past it.

So Airbourne killed - highly recommended. Support was - Stone Gods, who were ace, and some Canadian band called sound and fury - they weren't bad either. A good night in all. Fortnight's time - Sigur Ros then Feeder, then Motorhead after that, the Counting Crows in December.

Airbourne, in about 20 minutes

Actually I thought it was rather good. You guys who are critiscing [sp] it are I think missing the point and being a little western-biased in your comments. Thre's a lot more to Japanese playing than the notes themselves. So what if it's an expensive bass - at least he's using it and using it for something - to our eyes - different and adventurous. Fair play I say.

Quit onstage, halfway through the 3rd song when everyone is rocking - (assumin you are that sort of band) - just stop, unplug, and leave.

Don't tell them. Don't answer their calls or mails or texts. Join another band and make sure it's more successful than them, then when the time is right, invite them to support you at a gig where all the audience are there to see you and not them, have a chuckle in the wings as they play to a half-empty room, then at the end of your gig after the third encore, sarcastically thank them for warming the crowd up. Oh yeah and make sure that you get some of your T-Shirts and CDs sent to their dressing room, but make them pay half-price for them, "just for old time's sake". And if you can, cop off with the lead singer's closest relative/significant other.

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[quote]I suppose on the other hand, he (i mean He) did give RocknRoll to you (gave RocknRoll to you...)[/quote] He gave rock n roll to everyone. I'm an Empiricist anyway. I need concrete proof. But more than that - I don't care about your god or anyone else's. We'll all still die no matter how pious you are or how much spare change you tip in the donations tray at the weekend. All it does is make you feel better because it gives you something to cling on to, your daily or weekly fix of comfort. That's all it is.

[quote]Philosophy is fun but doesn't really prove anything, does it?[/quote] Which is interesting, because neither does faith. But you can argue with philosophy.

Hooky G C Green Tony Pettit

Beat me to it, I was gonna ask where Tonbridge Wells was!

It just seemed like the right thing to do. That and the fact that that the first ever gig I went to was Godflesh and Loop, and G. C. Green was just the nuts.

Dancing For Architecture. Go here: [url="http://www.myspace.com/dancingforarchitecture"]Dancing For Architecture[/url]. We have a track up and everything.

Trying bowing the strings with a flute.

[quote]Really? Where abouts and how old were you when you escaped?[/quote] Out towards Hildenborough way, and effectively when I was 18 and went to Uni...

I was born and raised in Tonbridge...

[quote]Well I bought some stuff, but unfortunately had to deal with these clowns: [url="http://www.dv247.com/"]http://www.dv247.com/[/url][/quote] Curious. I've used them several times and found them to be excellent in every way, coincidentally I actually got my copy of Cakewalk through them, very cheaply, easily, and quickly... Guess you can never tell, eh?

[quote]I could say that I don't like Jazz but if I was honest I've never actually listened to any and wouldn't know where to start anyway.[/quote] It's easy to recreate it - get a mate who's a drummer to set up at the top of a steep flight of stairs, both of you should be wearing berets and turtlenecks and at least one of you should have a husky-voiced french girlfriend who smokes Gitanes, pick up your bass and randomly play every note on the fretboard for 5 or 10 minutes, whilst your drummer practices his tempo changes then, for no readily apparent reason, get your/his aforementioned missus who is standing behind said drummer to push both him and his kit down the stairs - just you make sure you finish with a flourish ever so slightly after he hits the bottom. Then have a Creme-de-Menthe-and-beard-stroking session whilst, oh I dunno, a "performance artist" or some bloke you've met randomly on the street reads Sartre. Badly. Voila! (Please note, the above is merely a suggestion from a self-acknowledged jazz heathen and is not in any way meant to be taken seriously)...

[quote]Sorry, Mark, but that WAS what I meant! I think liking everything shows a complete lack of taste!! Now wait for the fireworks![/quote] Much as I would love to disagree with you, purely for the sheer hell of it(!) I have to say I can only agree with that. I don't see how you can "like everything" you may have a broad palate but that is still indicative of critical awareness in that if nothing else you are aware of a boundary. By "liking everything" you may be attempting to say that you dislike imposing boundaries on what you may or may not like, which is fair enough - but if you are actually saying "I have no critical, artistic, philosophical, or taste-based opposition to any song/form of music whatsoever then you're either not being entirely truthful with yourself or you genuinely have an under-developed quality filter. imho - of course.

I am a big fan of The Beastie Boys.

The range of music I listen to is considerably greater than the music I like to play or buy. I like to play darkly-ambient whiffly stuff or Post-Rock-esque 8 minute long pieces where very little actually happens at all - which is just how I like it. However I don't spend all of my time listening to Boards Of Canada and Explosions in The Sky. I do listen to a lot of ambient, post-rock, post-punk, industrial, trance - all that kind of thing, but then I'll equally quite happily go through anything from Elvis Presley, Bjork, Bob Dylan to SunnO))) and Lustmord. I'm quite the fan of Wagner, as well. I listen to a lot of Radio 1 and watch a lot of MTV2, Kerrang, VH1. Even if you only like to play a certain sort of music, I don't believe you should only listen one type of thing and write anything "mainstream" off - there's a lot of good stuff out there, some of it in very unlikely places and I believe that as a musician I am a lot more well-rounded and creative because I listen to a very broad range of music than I would be if all I ever listened to were CDs of music that I had picked because they are the bands I specifically follow. I think that there is a largely unfair degree of snobbery with regards to radio-friendly mainstream music, as applied to it by so-called "musos", I have extremely niche tastes in what I choose to buy and play but I think it would be very detrimental to my development if that was all I chose to listen to. Decrying the likes of - I dunno - The Enemy or Alphabeat as being irrelevant because they are pop and/or on radio 1 is dangerous ground imho. I'm not saying we should all go out and get "Hi Ho Silver Lining" as a single and there is a lot of dross that I do really dislike - Cliff Richard, Celine Dion, Victor Wooten - but I know I dislike it because I've listened to it, not because I feel that in some way that it's beneath me and therefore I dislike it because it does not become me as a musician to countenance it.

[url="http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=1162166&t=9389"]BassMunkee - "Want"[/url] Comments welcome.

That's a very cool thing to do - if what appears to have happened actually has just happened...

[quote name='OldGit' post='298654' date='Oct 3 2008, 03:27 PM']Wow, sorry! Mea culpa .. I'll try to keep up but I'm making no promises ..[/quote] That's quite alright sir, I'm a gobby sh!t and I'm afraid I can't resist an opportunity...!