chrisba

£99 + VAT IN Costco, saw one there this evening. Might have been my imagination, but it looked like it wasn't full length scale.

The chink of ice cubes in an early evening Gin & Tonic

[quote]+1 on liking Judy Tzuke. I am the Phoenix is a superb album.[/quote] + another one, both for Judie and I am the Phoenix. I used to listen to her a lot at Uni, and saw her play live there too, back in the very early '80's. Loved the music and fancied her wildly too. I only have her vinyl though, and no way of playing it, must buy some digital versions. I always adored the put-down at the end of "Sportscar", spoken rather than sung, "I don't care who you are, you're not putting your car in my garage". Another favourite song of hers was called Liggers at your Funeral, not sure which album it was off.

[quote name='Conan' post='978363' date='Oct 5 2010, 02:13 PM']Totally agree! You can hardly tell that it's the same track! Horrible self-indulgent semi-soloing from Wetton that ruins the delicate ambience of one of my favourite Genesis tracks. Yuck! I was expecting him to start slapping! I don't like it. [/quote] +1. Spot on about ruining the ambience. Nice bass playing, but wrong song to do it in. I liked "...and then there were three" too, great song writing, but was very disappointed by Duke and its successors.

[quote name='Conan' post='974151' date='Oct 1 2010, 03:14 PM'][i]Several[/i]? [/quote] I once designed a computer system that stored peoples details, and had a binary field for storing their sex, 0=male, 1=female. We sold the system to a local authority in London, and they had at least 5 different values they wanted to put in that field, including "hermaphrodite","born male, now female", "born female, now male" and I'm sure there were some others. I'm not sure if there are any hermaphrodites or trans-sexuals here, but I was just covering myself :-)

One of the main things I like about this forum is the diversity of those on it. There are all ages from teens to retirees, several different sexes, many musical tastes: jazz, punk, metal, indie, classical, gospel and many others. We have people who never play outside their bedroom, and those who play to large, packed houses, and everything in between. And we have those who play in tribute bands, covers bands, those who play mostly originals, those who play solo, and those who play in orchestras. Those who make a living from it, and those who would happily play for nothing. Lets celebrate the diversity of this happy crowd rather than trying to criticise or question peoples choices.

On most ( but not all ) PC's you can record what's coming out of the speakers. If you have a Soundblaster card, there is an audio input channel called "What-u-hear", just record this while YouTube is playing, even better record it using Audacity ( don't forget the free MP3 plug-in mentioned above if you want to save it as MP3 ). Other sound cards have one called "Stereo Mix" or something similar. I'm told that you can plug speakers out into line-in, and record that, never tried it myself though.

Normally, Come Up and See Me by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Our singer always starts with the same joke, "Here's a little Cock <pause for effect> ...ney rebel"

[quote]You get paid, and people come and see you. And not just musos staring at your fingers and calling your gear sh*t, women, women who dance, and wear skimpy clothes. smile.gif[/quote] Spot on. The guy that runs our band says "We are entertainers. People come to the pubs we play in or pay us to play at their parties because they want to be entertained. If we could write songs that are more entertaining to our audience than the covers we play, then we would, but we aren't clever enough to do so." I would rather play covers to 200 drunken students than original music to 20 introvert musicians. Loads more fun.

[quote name='4StringFortress' post='972518' date='Sep 30 2010, 11:40 AM']Yeh i love the look of the BB basses So whats the different between the 414 and the 424? i know the 424 has a 5 piece neck but what else is different?[/quote] I don't think the 424 has the matching headstock, which is sad. I tried a BB614 in Sunburst, it was a thing of great beauty, lovely to play, but I wasn't over impressed by the sound. Too "active" , if you know what I mean.

I don't think there is any bit of music that screams "1960's" as much as Herb A.

Come up and see me by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel About 2 years ago, aged 48, in a pub in Andover.

I asked Ashdown the same question regarding my Electric Blue combo. They replied that it could damage the amp, so don't do it. This is not true of their more expensive amps. My sound man gave me a little box ( home-made, I think ) that kills phantom power ( he called it a Ghostbuster )

My Squier P used to have a rattle on the open A string, pretty sure it was the truss rod, but it definitely wasn't broken. If it was broken, then it would turn very easily, wouldn't it ?

Hmmm. My daughter is at Warwick University. I feel a surprise parental visit coming on...

We play it starting on E, saves all that retuning nonsense. I don't change any settings, as we are an ( apart from me ) acoustic band, and the guitarists don't ever change theirs. I might try switching in the sub-octaver on my amp when nobody's looking, but I'm worried I might forget to switch it off again. For the synth riff that opens song, we have used a Stylophone in the past, but have just acquired a violinist, so she gets to play it instead. Apart from that ( and some close-harmonies in the chorus ) we play it exactly like the original :-)

[quote name='karlthebassist' post='783852' date='Mar 23 2010, 07:35 PM']...and all I can say is wow.[/quote] Please elaborate ! What differences have you noticed, both to sound and playability, that are attributable to lighter strings ?

We got asked to learn this for a student gig. I diligently learnt the bass line, but the rest of the band decided it was too corny. I gained a little kudos with the audience by just playing the bassline while the others were switching off. Their loss.

Taking the real thing off is not terribly hard, just undo 13 screws and undo the nuts that hold the pots and jack. 5 minute job. You will need to do this at some point because I doubt if it is identical to the standard Fender shape ( I looked into this when I had an Affinity P, and concluded it was different, although I didn't actually try one ). Alternatively, take or find a photo ( square on, to avoid distortion ), crop it to just the guard and then scale it up to full size.

Radio 6 were saying this morning that Andrew Lloyd Webber was putting up the cash.

[quote name='chrisba' post='743274' date='Feb 12 2010, 04:38 PM']The solo at the beginning of Sweet Child O' Mine. We play it in just about every gig but I think I have only about a 50% success rate on stage. I can play with my eyes closed, standing on one leg whilst reading War and Peace on my own at home.[/quote] [quote name='ThomBassmonkey' post='744300' date='Feb 13 2010, 08:26 PM']That's pretty impressive. [/quote] I meant reading the Braille version with my toes

Expensive basses are often expensive because a lot of time and money has gone into making them [i]look good[/i], both from a design point of view, and fancy pieces of timber, expensive and complex finishes etc. You don't need a bass to look good when you are playing it on your own, only when other people are watching you play it !

The solo at the beginning of Sweet Child O' Mine. We play it in just about every gig but I think I have only about a 50% success rate on stage. I can play with my eyes closed, standing on one leg whilst reading War and Peace on my own at home.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='725988' date='Jan 27 2010, 06:26 AM']Does that have the feature that the CD-BT2 does whereby you can monitor a single channel of the backing track? I've got loads of those tuition-type CDs with the bass panned hard to one side and the accompaniment to the other. On the CD version of the Tascam, you can listen to just one side, with your bass signal playing along. It'd be really useful to have that option on the MP3 version, but I can't find any mention of it in the Tascam bumf or the manual.[/quote] No, it doesn't ( at least, I've never found it ). Several solutions come to mind. Listen through a stereo amp with balance control, only use one of the earphones, use Audacity or similar to do a "with" and a "without" version of the track, build yourself a little headphone switch that cuts out one side or the other.