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To be fair, my embarrassment stems chiefly from the fact I can't stand Nickelback! The aim was to keep the new singer's identity a secret, and hopefully get people talking about it a bit, so the idea behind the video was to get people guessing as to which of the featured people was the one who got the job. (Clue: it's not the guy with the huge 'tache at 0:32!) Then of course, once the Thunderclap goes off and the song comes out, we'll be showcasing the new member as far and wide as possible, but hopefully with a slightly larger base level of interest than if we'd just told our existing followers, "hey, look, we have a new singer." Don't know how well this experiment will work, but I thought it was worth a try! (And thank you once again for supporting it!)

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1392402539' post='2368368'] Lol really? I thought everyone would hjave seen it. But the good news is i liked your song. [/quote] Oh christ, and it's THAT song as well! Yeah, I'd heard the song (unfortunately) but never seen the video. Might have gone with a different idea if I'd known... [quote name='madshadows' timestamp='1392407357' post='2368483'] Great song and video, like the singers voice a lot [/quote] ...but thank you both, I'm really glad you like the song!

Oh crap, did Nickelback use that idea for a video as well? I half-inched the idea from Hooverphonic, who did exactly the same thing (but more professionally) when they introduced their new singer. And apparently Michael Jackson did something similar back in the '90s. I didn't realise Chad Kroeger and his ilk had done this as well. Bugger...

Just a little update on this one: we made a video. http://youtu.be/v8N8nPhu6XI Hope you like the song. Amazing what you can do with a budget of £0.00 and some very generous, if slightly eccentric, friends!

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1392391109' post='2368115'] Regarding the the Tony Iommi/John Birch "misunderstanding" , as I remember it , the problem arose out of the fact that someone of the same name as that esteemed guitar builder had committed and been found guilty of a heinous crime in Birmingham around the same time that John stopped making guitars , and Tony had seen the story on the local news and for several years after that presumed it was the same guy. [/quote] This seems to be a running theme for Sabbath...didn't they end up hiring Vinnie Appice to play on [i]Mob Rules[/i] by accident? The story I've heard is that they were trying to get hold of Carmine Appice, but their manager ended up phoning the wrong Appice!

Can anyone confirm or refute the rumours I've heard that he was experimenting with 8-string basses circa [i]Sabotage[/i]?

And for bonus points: what's the best pedal tuner for metal? (Joking aside, need to look into getting one myself. Guitarist has been using a Korg for a few years - seems to be fairly rugged and easy to read on a dark stage!)

Yeah, that's a slightly scary statistic! Though I guess some people will pay a lot of money for some of those CS Fenders, which must help bring up their standing if you're measuring it by the amount of money these companies turn over. Does the original post give any indication as to who's in 3rd, 4th and 5th place? I'd be interested to see who's following directly behind Fender and Gibson (RIC? Yamaha?) - or who the Custom Shop could potentially bump off the 6th spot!

That certainly makes for interesting reading! One could argue that, comparing Roland and Yamaha, there's even more money to be made by dabbling in everything - I know Yamaha also make saxophones and pianos and so probably have a more varied catalogue even than Roland. But then another consideration is whether the figures in the table are just for sales of music and audio, or the company as a whole - e.g., Yamaha motorbikes...and do Roland still do anything computing-related these days?

[quote name='squire5' timestamp='1392117212' post='2364781'] In N.Ireland there are many folk duos about who insist in giving each song,or tune,the full works IE who wrote it,why they wrote it,what they were thinking about after they wrote it and tend to go a bit far. [/quote] This seems to be a commonly committed sin at open mic nights throughout London. Not everyone, but every so often - usually once a night - you'll get some lad with his acoustic guitar, dressed like every other bloody hipster in the place, prattling on about how this song is "really important" to him because he wrote it at some particular time in his life about which we have absolutely no knowledge, in a desperate attempt to appear "sensitive." And the song that follows is usually sh*te.

I rather hope that this will lead to somebody re-mastering Joanne Shaw Taylor's last studio album - and no doubt many others, but that's one example that sticks in my mind. It really grates when you have an album of great songs that is hard to appreciate because the guy right at the end of the chain decided to take the "EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE" approach on a blues-rock album.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1391686628' post='2360109'] ah I see sorry didn't realise a blues pentatonic was minor... would that be I,II,bIII,V,bVI then? whats with the bV? surlely that clashes pretty badly with the chords underneath? I've only every played with modes, never bothered to use any pentatonics. [/quote] There seem to be two widely accepted "minor pentatonics." I think I, bIII, VI, V, bVII seems to be the most widely used - I only came across the I,II,bIII,V,bVI form recently. A popular "blues scale" is like the first example, but with the extra bV between the VI and V. (Yes, prepare to draw in breath sharply!) It fits surprisingly well if you're playing blues, but then in most blues the major/minor tonality is quite ambiguous as it is!

Both are correct - timmo's referring to the "minor pentatonic + added b5" (aka "the blues scale"), CamdenRob, your example is what's normally referred to as the "major pentatonic." Edit: just seen Timmo's follow up. The original "minor pentatonic" is just A, C, D, E, G, A - all of which are notes taken from the (natural) minor scale of A. The D# / Eb has simply worked its way in over the years as a popular "blue note," which is why the scale you cite in your OP is often referred to as the "blues scale." There may be a longer story behind its origins, but as far as I can gather it's just an extra note that jazz and blues players began to use to add colour to what they were playing. I'm sure it upsets no end of classically-trained theorists!

(NB I'm kidding myself that this is musically relevant enough to warrant posting in GD; Mods, if you beg to differ then I won't object to you moving it as you see fit!) Anyway, I have a little favour to ask you lot... As some of you know, Cherry White (aka That Band What I Play With) have appointed a new singer. We're trying to build up a bit of a buzz around said singer's identity via this medium: [url="https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/8526-who-is-cherry-white-s-singer"]https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/8526-who-is-cherry-white-s-singer[/url] What happens is, if you connect your FB/Twitter/Tumblr to this campaign, it allows us to post a single, short message to your feed/blog on the 1st March. You may get a couple of email updates from us, but otherwise there's no spam, no cost and no strange requests to sign up to other weird stuff. If any of you kind souls you could help us get to our goal of 100 supporters, that would be fantastic. (Because the message won't go out otherwise!) Thank you all most kindly in advance.

[quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1391608948' post='2359136'] Managed to get this 2010 example for £750 inc. shipping [/quote] A bargain price to boot! I hope the two of you will be very happy together.

Yeah, me too. The Ox was, without a doubt, my favourite player, but I don't know how much I like the look of some of his more...erm, "exotic" instruments!

Peter Hook sig, perhaps? The actual choice of bass isn't as important as having a strap that hangs down to your ankles and gives you back problems within ten years of buying it.

This may answer your question! http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass7174.html Just underneath the Thunderbird entry: [i]"Designed by Peter Cook* from a Gibson Thunderbird-style neck, with body in the form of a pole-axe, black and cream stringing, two Thunderbird pickups, two volume and one tone control, 34″ scale."[/i] *Presumably not [i]that[/i] Peter Cook...

[quote name='Samashton12' timestamp='1391093174' post='2353175'] Seen this before, doesn't seem very accurate to me [/quote] That was my first thought when I saw your OP...but I think that tab is also for the Leeds recording, and the Isolated Bass video is the IoW performance, if I'm not mistaken?

[quote name='DaytonaRik' timestamp='1391085717' post='2353038'] Well, patience and persistence paid off and yesterday I was rewarded with a near mint 2010 GibsonThunderbird IV for the princely sum of £750! Exited much! NBD is next Wed/Thu depending on delivery. This is worse than waiting for Christmas!!! [/quote] My hearty congratulations, and I hope the two of you will be very happy together! I got my 2011 'bird through the marketplace on here and I can honestly say it's the nicest bass I've ever owned - I seem to have been cured of any and all gas since last October!

BUT IS IT FLAT OR ROUND?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1391003787' post='2352136'] I bet he won't follow through (arf). It's an astute bit of publicity, nothing more. [/quote] I don't know, I can remember when "puerile digital arts community" b3ta.com ran a week of photoshopping Prince. The results were generally hilarious (provided you weren't Prince, I guess) but his legal team didn't like it one bit. A rather sheepish note went up a couple of days later to say that his legal team could probably sue them for more than their servers were worth, so could people stop posting humorously mangled pictures of Prince, please?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1390912266' post='2351115'] Not really. It's a comment in the state of music. When venue owners are complaining that it's the bands that are the problem, the venues are the ones that should be exercising some sort of quality control. It's all well and good packing your venue with band A's 'fans' bussed in from out of town one week, but then you can't moan when the next week no one turns up to see band B. It's a short sighted business plan doomed from the start. Most 'hobby' musicians are very unorganised. [/quote] [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1390912782' post='2351122'] Perhaps. So why does it seem to still be so prevalent? [/quote] I obviously won't be the first to point out that the problem cuts both ways - I've shared bills with plenty of juvenile bands who behaved like they were owed a living, and I've encountered several venue owners and promoters who don't see why they should pay for a band, when they can find plenty who will play for free. Unfortunately, a lot of bands need to put away the romantic side of things when off-stage and run things more like a business - bookings, promotion, sensible touring schedules, etc. For example, I've not been to a Dick Venom gig, but it's clear, when you compare their onstage image against BRX's posts on here, that they've struck the right balance between the two. When a venue owner asks why he should pay an 'originals' band for making some noise in his/her licensed space, perhaps the band needs to be able to answer, "You're hiring professional musicians. We'll set up, play and clear off on time with surgical precision, and do what we can to keep your punters entertained, and keep them drinking. If you want a free band, don't come crying to us when you get a bunch of stroppy, disorganised sixth-formers behaving like Axl Rose on your stage area." On the other hand, the promoter or venue owner needs to be firm about who they do and don't invite back - or even who they cut short. I've never forgotten a particularly stroppy bunch of kids at one gig who turned up late, borrowed bits of kits that they'd forgotten to bring, went to the bar instead of the stage when they were due to go on, and shouted abuse back at anyone who tried to hurry them along. In the end, it was the sound engineer who went and told them, "if you don't stop f**king around, you won't play at all." By this point the promoter in charge of the night was, of course, nowhere to be seen!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1390830930' post='2349960'] This is what Kit wrote, and I agree. [color=#333333]This would be a great list if it addressed that fact that the vast majority of bands playing small to medium venues do. not. get. paid...[/color] [/quote] I also think Kit is spot on with that one. The rest of his list is quite astute, judging by my own experience, but his first point - the idea of a band demanding a rider - is frankly alien to me. "You can get a hot meal, some water, and two drinks each"? I can't remember the last time I played a gig that came with that good a deal!

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1390654617' post='2347953'] Well this is the thing - the nut seems like it may need filed down. [/quote] Have a butcher's at these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOSCO-Nut-Slotting-Files-Bass-Guitar-/151153507703?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2331737d77 Best £65 I ever spent - it's amazing how much of a difference a little bit of nut filing can make to the playability. Oh, and best of luck with the truss rod - I've always been fearful of adjusting that one myself!