Sté

Whatsapp is a great tool to communicate with the band.

And i can say i find all rehearsals usefull; cause out of the fun we have, band listening and tightness constantly improve by playing together. As we only make several gig a year, we need these moments. 

Cigarette kills !

And we are not professional, so one beer stop is the good amount of friendliness we need to have this little chat.

Record. We put a zoom digital recorder in the room in a corner, and forget it.

Then I treat it with reaper to cut it following tunes, and send it to bandmates. As we rehearse two times a month, we have time to listen it, discuss about it, work with it to be ready to play it better on following rehearse.

One beer stop. Not one beer stop every three tune, just one beer stop in the middle of the evening.

Mark Knopfler on may the 7. It will be a good day: my brother and I bought tickets for our father and us as a gift for his 70 birthday. We were Dire Straits fans in the eighties/nineties and our father too. It will be a good ole'days celebration bewteen guys for us

I have not listened Mark Knopfler music since "sailing to philadelphia" album, but always have pleasure to from time to time.

Mine is the Keeley bassist:

I'm a "store" guy. When i'm not playing, they're in their bag.

My watch didn't survive to the 20th century... But i move my left hand ring to the right hand when I play.

Awesome bass !

Nice !!

Don't know the context too, but already seen this kind of idea:

Edit: This is Stig Pedersen from band "Disneyland after dark" ..

I've got a 96' MIK: really good bass. Perfect neck, one of the best i ever played, and a nice jazz sound with stock pickups.

10 ? I'm 11 !

One per instrument. 4 basses, 2 guitars. 

15 hours ago, miles'tone said:

They are exactly the reasons why I love it. Although I wouldn't call it ugly of course.

Exactly the same feeling. Except the bass sound that i don't really like, even if it suits perfectly the song.

To me, a musician is someone who makes music, whatever instrument (or anything that can be used as an instrument) he uses to do it. The difference would be more between a musician and an artist. The artist is a different animal, with an active creation side which is not always there for the musician.

Keeley bassist. Perfect if you like transparent compressor. The only thing i add permanently between bass and amp.

Really nice one !! I play her all black sister since 6 years now as my main bass. The most comfortable bass i ever played, with an incredible dynamic: you go from whisper to LOUD SHOUT with just your fingers.

My first bass line was... on guitar.

That was the first time i ever took an instrument: the old beaten guitar from my father. And the first thing i've ever tried to play by ear was the bassline of "Scatterling of Africa" from Johnny Clegg. As i wanted to learn guitar, I became guitar player for 7 years, before falling definitely into bass. I've understood way after this first try that it was "a bass line". At this time, i was sure to play a guitar part

Thank you Marc.

That was 2 weeks ago. Our jazz trio with a reader. We did it as a single event project: mix music and text reading. The guy is a professional; his main gig is to read in public as "the man who reads everything". You give him a text (from book, songs, ads, Tv program, newspaper, ... anything you want) and he reads it live with his artistic interpretation.

It was an awesome experience for both 4 of us and we have decided to continue together; as a side project of the jazz quartet we already have with a sax player.

Pics of our better gig to date:

Thank you ! I'll try  . My English understanding is way better now; it should be easier.

Thanks ! 

Awesome Dog-in-the-suitcase 

Hello All,

Sté from France. I used to lurk around here several years ago. Time flies ...  and i'm happy to say hello again today.

GK Neo 115-III. Perfect with my 700RB-II