BassMunkee

First bass was an Axe fender copy - black, bought mail order for £99 from the back of Kerrang! magazine, came with a 2 watt (2watt!) amp as I recall.
I loved it, actually.

You don't need a guitarist - couple of bassists works perfectly well tbh.
Rothko did very well with just bassists...

The Cult - American Horse.
I always liked the very beginning of it.
(That was a while ago, it was then that I realised that learning other bands' basslines was boring. No offence meant in any way at all, and yes I am aware of the benefits, it's just not my thing)...

Red Onion Solutions - get onto them and they can do you a very cheap, very good bypass pedal.

I have ordered a Gothic. Yay!
I have to wait until 14th November. Boo!

Fortunately my band is composed entirely of machines - (except me, probably) - however what may help technique-wise is this:
Stand your bass guitar on end with the neck pointing [b]up[/b].
Hold the neck in both hands, bracing one hand [b]slightly lower down[/b] the neck than the other.
Swing the bass up and round your head, [b]into the back of the guitarist's[/b], ensuring that you follow through.
Power down your swing and rest your bass [b]firmly and squarely[/b] in the small of your guitarist's back, shouting:
[i]"How do you like them onions you poncey little oik!"[/i]
A swift kick in the [b]happy sack[/b] is optional, but satisfying at this juncture.

Every 3 years or so.
Just as a special treat really - as I actually like it when they sound grubby...

It does strike me as just a tiny bit ludicrous that people can knowingly move in next to something (potentially) noisey like a church or kennels or whatever, and then complain about it.

3 options present themselves:
1. cover Joey whatsisname from ManOWar and do Sting of The Bumblebee or whatever it was, if you wear the leather codpiece as well I can guarantee no one will notice any fluffing (snigger).
2. Stick as many effects on as possible (or just fuzz the ar5e off it) that way no one will here any notes anyway.
3. Get a hyper-long-uber-delay and by the time anyone hears any notes the gig will be over and the place will be empty and you'll be at home tucked up in bed with a Shandy and a copy of Woody Guthrie's autobiography.

Job done.

[quote]QUOTE (bottomfeed @ Aug 21 2008, 05:20 PM)
.... Ommmmmm ... ah...wait a minute..... it's coming through now..... by the mystic power of profile viewing ... 14!?
a mere bass playing foetus!... consider me shamed![/quote]
[quote]Aha, cheat lol, but yh, i am currently the youngest, as far as i can tell lol
i could also be the least experienced, gi wise, with a grand total of... 4, i believe lol
Zach[/quote]
FAIL - I have a grand total of 0 (zero) gigs under my belt...

KICK hat snare hat KICK hat snare hat KICK hat snare hat KICK hat snare hat

Very helpful, I recently noticed this after having changed my strings, the A string seems a little 'flat' - so I'll check this, thanks!

Oh that is sweet. :wub:
Where did you get it and can you post up some soundclips...?

Well then I blame all of you!

[quote name='The Funk' post='266551' date='Aug 20 2008, 07:24 PM']Prince Charles' birthday. Do you think HRH Queen Elizabeth II wangled it so that noone within the realm could take delivery of their Epiphone Thunderbird IV Gothics before her firstborn and heir (who's getting one for his birthday)?

I smell royal conspiracy...[/quote]
Ooh do you know, I hadn't thought of that.

It's terrible what the royals will do, you know...poop.

Is how long I have to wait for delivery of my Epiphone Thunderbird IV Gothic!

EEP!!

What can I say - I like dirty strings, because they sound nice - I just thought I would treat myself with some shiny ones.
I keep the old ones anyway sometimes I reuse them for a particular thing if i want a tone that is less bright.

See that's the thing - nail file to the nut, sorted.
Goes to show that even the same gauge can have variation, and it wasn't that much tbh.
Probably shouldn't super glue it, no, but I'm not gonna want to remove it so I figure what the hell.

So I get my new Rotosound 40/100 with the nice red cottony bits on and I take my old strings off and put my new strings on...
G: check
D: check
A: oops - doesn't fit in my nut, the old strings were the same gauge, so anyway I try some brute force. That's better.
E: check
Tuning up: check
Bit of a play: oo-er that's a bit funky, and not in a James-Brown-Sexy-Crotch way

So me nut's come off, pulled off by the A string d'oh.
So anyway a bit of filing later and some super glue and we're good to go, strange though coz when I changed the strings 3 years ago or so, they fitted fine, still there we go.
Thought I would share that.

[quote]All those are sub genres, which originated in Metal, it doesn't need to be more specific.[/quote]
Yes, but I'm a pedant.

Hmmm,
Metal - Death Metal, Doom Metal, Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Drone Doom, Melodic Death, Noise Metal, Industrial Metal...
Rock - MOR, AOR, Post Rock, Pop Rock, Punk Rock, Gothic Rock...

Specifity.

Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV

[quote]ok, first off....why does "the" tend to get spelt "teh" (ref. above post)?[/quote]
It's a deliberate mispelling done to poke fun at people who do it accidentally, sometimes used ironically, like:
ZOMFG111!!!111!!11!1111!!!!! or WTF???////?/?

Plus:
JFGI - Just F*****g Google It
Owned, which is like Pwned and also ownage/pwnage
LEET - Elite - (you may also see L33T or 1337)
WOOT or W00T or W007 - literally: "Wow Loot" but in most forums used either sincerely or sarcastically in a similar fashion to "hooray".
So for example:
"W007 I just totally pwned his ar5e, I am teh 1337."