Clarky

A cut-down Rattlin Bone played the 12 Bar in Denmark Street last night. We managed to cram all 8 of us on the absolutely tiny stage - two trombones, trumpet, double bass, sousaphone, two vocalists and guest violin - and played a short (30-minute, as 5 bands on) uptempo set. The audience response was great, lots of dancing, nice applause, great comments afterwards and we sold a few CDs. Highlight was the violin guy who was on a mutual try-out - very nice chap and exceptionally good player. Rattlin Bone may now have a new member! That would take us to about 15 Anyways, a good evening and a reminder of why I like being in a band.

[quote name='Machines' post='1264074' date='Jun 10 2011, 04:07 PM']Check out the first post of this thread. Also, your camera will have a choice of resolutions (well, mine does). You can probably opt for smaller ones but then you might end up resizing them smaller anyway ! I take pics on my camera in highest setting and edit on PC before uploading, doing this also makes a huge difference to upload times.[/quote] OK, will attempt over coming week to re-size my images ... or dump them (I have looked on my camera through the menu options and cannot find a lower resolution option) I still think my in-your-face suggestion in my last post would get people to sit up and take notice

Fair do's on limit - you have the stats, I don't! Was arbitrarily suggesting a figure on the basis of no knowledge whatsoever. So then why not, in answer to second part of above post, re-post (posibly in several popular forums and keep bumping) along the lines of (with shouty capitals): [b]"ATTENTION ALL MEMBERS - ACTION REQUIRED! Due to the memory limit of your favourite bass forum nearing the limit, we need you ALL to take immediate action and reduce the memory used in your attachments to below 10MB. This can be done by removing old, defunct pictures, by linking to third party photo hosts (eg Flickr) or by re-sizing the pictures you wish to keep. Re-sizing can be simply done by .... blah blah blah [this is where I don't have a scooby do so fill in details here]"[/b] I reckon this will elicit a better response than you have had so far PS, I will read with interest how to re-size as my attachments total over 50MB (my camera takes 3-5MB pictures and I am too tech-gumbyish to know how to adjust this

Not sure if its been suggested but why not choose a (for the moment) voluntary limit to the total size of the attachments per member (say 50 MB) and ask everyone to prune their attachments to below this threshold - then after a week or two, see if this has solved the problem. The difference with your suggestion of everyone just weeding out or re-sizing stuff is that it gives an explicit target for everyone to work towards? Also use a more attention grabbing title - I only just read this thread after nearly 3 months as it looked so, well, boring! Housekeeping zzzzzzzz

We printed up some more CDs for the Meadowlands festival gig a week or two back - I have about 6 or 7 if anyone is interested. As before a fiver including post secures this fine piece of artistry (or something like that!)

This shop in Belgium claims to have them in stock [url="http://www.keymusic.com/en/product/Ibanez-G104-Grooveline-Deep-Espresso"]http://www.keymusic.com/en/product/Ibanez-...e-Deep-Espresso[/url]

There's one FS on BassChat (a 5'er) although that doesn't directly answer your question [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=133456&hl=grooveline"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...p;hl=grooveline[/url]

[quote name='crez5150' post='1263589' date='Jun 10 2011, 08:43 AM']Can I just ask.... Is Slap bass in the upright world frowned upon as much as it is in the Electric world? Genuine question[/quote] I imagine among jazzers, slap upright bass is frowned upon. I like tasteful slapping on the upright bass but some rockabilly guys turn it into horrible thwak-a-tak, pyrotechnics - the equivalent of our friend on the Rotosound stand at the Olympia bass show and equally unlistenable to me. This guy (Nicolas Dubouchet) never forgets that there is a melody when he plays and thats why I like his stuff

Reminder bump - that said, we only get half an hour and it will be far from the full-on Rattlin Bone experience - 6 rather than 14 of us and no beat-boxing clown!

Here's him playing gypsy jazz:

Check out this guy Nicolas Dubouchet, there's loads of Youtube vids with him playing in a French gypsy jazz group and he mixes jazz and slap. This is just him playing solo. Wow! Wish I could learn to slap even a hundredth as well as this

The bridge and pickup 'hole' problems are easily dealt with - Hipshot bridge and Pickguardian pickup surround (which Foxton had by the way on his black 4003) - and I didn't find the slab body a problem. Like I said on another thread, if I wasn't spent out I would be lobbing money the way of BCer Squire's beautiful fireglo 4001v63 thats FS. To the re-phrased question, I suspect a lot depends on familiarity/cosiness for those that move from a Rick to a Fender, and the impact of trends cannot be overlooked- Geddy went from Rick to Fender but via Wal IIRC and his Wal phase was at a time when Wals were the hottest thing out. If you spend any time on the Rick forum, there's a huge pro-US bias there and Rick appear to be seen as more of a US-centric franchise than the global brand that is Fender

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1263090' date='Jun 9 2011, 07:08 PM']I though Bruce Foxton played Precisions more nowadays? In most of the recent clips i've seen of him he's playing a Fender, still gets that same sound though![/quote] I saw Bruce Foxton on the cover of BGM a couple of years ago with an all-black 4003 (Jetglo with black scratchplate) but yeah its true he plays Fender more

Chris Squire, Lemmy and others have used them through their career and continue to do so. My guess is that, if players have moved on, its because of the singular, characteristic sound of Ricks - precisely the same reason that the likes of Chris Squire and Bruce Foxton still play them today I am guessing

Just sold Dutch BassChatter Henry a Precision neck and tuners. He paid fast with good comms. Addendum: the mail service screwed up the delivery so I voluntarily reversed the deal ... and then reversed it again when the neck eventually turned up. Don't forget to post me some feedback Henry as I ended up with lots of hassle chasing up the delivery and out of pocket on two lots of paypal fees!

And the Jetsonics will turn up to the opening of a paper bag But seriously, Low End Bee, what dates are you guys available to do?

Mine is like this but an unlined fretless - very gypsy jazz/Maccaferri looking [attachment=82116:2x4strings_large.jpg] I think I am going to get one of these, as they come highly recommended on Talkbass for this type of instrument - plus it doesn't require reaming out a hole in the wood to take the jack endpin [url="http://www.kksound.com/floatingbridge.html"]http://www.kksound.com/floatingbridge.html[/url]

[quote name='Bankai' post='1261449' date='Jun 8 2011, 05:00 PM']I shall enquire. Can you PM me with rough dates when you could do it?[/quote] Given that Dick Venom are from Nottingham and half of RB are from the South Coast, probably best if it a Friday or Saturday night in September - any one as far as I am concerned

Out of interest, what are the acoustic bass-playing members of BC using to make their bass gig-friendly? Piezo pickups? microphones? I have just acquired an Eko fretless bass (from, you guessed it, Beedster) and fancy trying it out in a live setting. I already have preamp and acoustic bass amplification (Acoustic Image/EA rig) but how best to take the signal/sound from the bass in your view?

[quote name='Bankai' post='1260776' date='Jun 8 2011, 09:28 AM']I think that'd be a gig to get the whole London crowd in for! Three basschat bands, one night? I could try and organise something longer if you think it'd work, during the day we have bassmeet:london and then in the evening we have you three playing? Perfect?[/quote] Sounds like a plan

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='1261106' date='Jun 8 2011, 12:58 PM']I'm trying to re-arrange for this. I'll do my best.[/quote] Seriously Ad, don't bust a gut to be there - there will be many more London RB gigs (hopefully at least one with the same bill as the Jetsonics) and you have already seen us at the 12 Bar Edit: I've just learned that due to a variety of reasons (relative's funeral, Spinal Tap-like bizarre gardening accident injuries etc) we are down to six from 14

Yep, me on this thread again This time bought a lovely looking fretless 80s Eko acoustic bass off the legend that is the Beedster!

[quote name='Beedster' post='1261074' date='Jun 8 2011, 12:33 PM']Anyone?[/quote] If you don't get a reply why not join the Rick forum - you will be deluged by Rickophilic replies to your questions. Just never mention Rickenfakers

You need to add a [s]price[/s] date