MrCrane

On 03/04/2024 at 13:19, MuddBass said:

 

For those interested, I've gone ahead and placed an order for one of these Ibanez models https://www.ibanez.com/usa/products/detail/gsrm20_2y_06.html.

 

 

Excellent choice. My daughter got one of these when she was 8 and it took her all the way to Grade 8.

(Nowadays she just raids my collection) 😀

24 minutes ago, Crusoe said:

Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams Bryan, you were 9 years old in the summer of '69. There's no way you played until your fingers bled.

Yes, but according to Adams, the '69 isn't referring to 1969

Little Drummer Boy. Partly because it's sickeningly twee, but mainly because of it's association in my mind with Ian Brady & Myra Hindley

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/chilling-recording-shocked-the-court-133705.html

1 hour ago, Ashborygirl said:

Gibson, their QC hit rock bottom 20+ years ago & it's been downhill from there. 

[Bernard Wooley]Can you actually go downhill from rock bottom? [/Bernard Wooley]
🙂

On 09/02/2024 at 14:45, walshy said:

I meet my courier at the door with scissors and a Stanley knife 

And now we know why delivery drivers run away without knocking. 🙂

10 hours ago, daws0n said:

is there any best practice to follow for unscrewing the neck?

 

Make sure you replace the screws in the same hole they came out of.  I’ve heard of case where screws of differing lengths have been used.

Danny Thompson

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

James Jamerson

Dee Murray

Jack Casady

Kenny Gradney

Kenny Edwards

Joe Osborn

John Entwistle

Bob Babbitt

'Duck' Dunn

Rod Clements

Richard Davis

Rick Danko

You could try asking on the Tokai Registry site.

https://www.tokairegistry.com/

Rubber Washers 3.99 for 12 on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0026WZB7W/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item

17 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

One of the most beautiful songs ever written about unrequited love :

Hold my beer.

7 hours ago, Dlew919 said:

Bohemian rhapsody. My favourite rock band. Their most known song. But I’ve heard it so much I need never hear it again. And Queen have better songs. 

Fairytale of New York for pretty much the same reason.

You can also add Rod Clements of Lindisfarne onto the list.

Pah! Amateurs!

Last set of strings I bought cost £218.

(Admittedly they were a set for an Upright  🙂)

For a bass guitar, the last set I bought cost £50 (Thomastiks) but that was in 2014 and they're almost broken in by now.

My daughter started taking bass lessons at that age. She's just turned 15 and got her Grade 8 certification a couple of weeks ago

24 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

A month earlier, the van the Fairports were travelling in had a major crash on the motorway, killing two, hence the Benefit Night. 

Martin Lamble and Jeannie Franklyn. One a truly gifted drummer taken far too early and the other, the inspiration for Jack Bruce's "Songs for a Tailor"

From 1969

5 hours ago, Waddo Soqable said:

DJ.. "what's this one again? “....

PT..."no idea man".... 

To be fair. Tork was actually quite an accomplished musician on the Greenwich Village scene. He'd worked with Pete Seeger and heard about the casting for the Monkees from Stephen Stills (who'd been rejected for a part)

On 24/03/2023 at 13:05, tauzero said:

"I'm a believer" by the Monkees has a cracking bass line by Carol Kaye. Or at least I thought it was, but someone says otherwise in the comments under this transcription.

 

 

 

Actually, that comment was mine. 😊 

1 hour ago, fleabag said:

The most wondrously musical DB player i've ever heard.  If anyone doesnt know the Solid Air album by John Martyn, it's worth every penny. Thompson is prolific on it

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_Utj4Aljc

I would pay good money just to watch Danny tuning up.

The work he did with John on the BBC's Transatlantic Sessions is well worth checking out (and features a stellar rendition of Solid Air).

CDs backed up to FLAC format and then converted to mp3 on an iPod Classic with a 512 Gb Solid State Drive for listening to.

Some FLAC downloads from Bandcamp, but only a few.

I had a similar issue with my Jack Casady, the tool in the OP was about as much use as a bucket of warm spit.

I then  got hold of the'Jack the Gripper' tool cheap and it worked very well. (I subsequently applied some threadlock and haven't had an issue since).

On 16/04/2023 at 00:04, Downunderwonder said:

Worms come to the surface to avoid drowning underground.

Not true apparently.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-earthworms-surface-after-rain/