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Much as I like Thomas Yorke, David Byrne is rather more eloquent on the topic of Spotify in yesterday's Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world?commentpage=1

What's the betting we'll be waiting about nine months for the Zygote to be delivered?

I have to agree: I'm more likely to roll off the treble a little on my VM Fretless and I've strung it with D'Addario Chrome flatwounds.

I purchased the new Arctic Monkeys album, 'AM', today. And an oldie - 'Rain, Steam & Speed' by New Zealand's finest, The Mutton Birds. Enjoying them both very much. AM may have convinced me I have to try some dirt in my bass sound...

I think you should cover The Violent Femmes' 'Prove My Love': "Third verse same as the first" http://youtu.be/ZLmxbS15A-c

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1378848172' post='2205640']I wish there was a setting on eBay where you could exclude sellers in the US from searches, but allow the rest of the world.[/quote] I wish the eBay iPhone and iPad apps would actually show me items located in the UK when I ask for it. Unless Poughkeepsie and Genoa have secretly ceded from their conventional countries to join the United Kingdom, they are failing dismally.

In 30 years I don't think I've ever tripped over my own lead

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1378830577' post='2205274'] Ah, Andy's... I wince at the mention of their name. Prior to my mega bass-sabbatical, I sold a pair of basses through them and had to go to court to get them to cough up the cash when they were sold. Using them was a mistake, but not as big a mistake (and pretty much my biggest regret in life) as selling the basses in the first place: a pair of Wals (fretted and fretless). [/quote] I didn't have to take them to court to get my money, but I deeply regret selling my oddball Epiphone Genesis guitar to Andy's when I was mighty strapped for cash after I left university circa 1991.

Encrypted Data stream?! [ hides from GCHQ intercepts with their crypto breaking algorithms by using a cable ]

Noah and the Whale are from Twickenham and featured in the last series [?] I keep watching. The occasional jewel still turns up.

I've only had to to it once in the recent past - when learning the bridge to the Beatles' 'Here Comes the Sun' which has measures of 11/8, 4/4 and 7/8 in sequence. (1, 2, 3 : 1, 2, 3 : 1, 2, 3 : 1, 2 / 1, 2, 3, 4 / 1, 2 : 1, 2, : 1, 2, 3) Or rather, once I'd already internalised it without thinking too much by playing along, I had to explain it to the guitarist and drummer by counting.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1378499347' post='2201305']I've just bought a new bass. [/quote] That worked for me a couple of weeks ago. No hassle ( though it is over 10 years since I bought the one before that) Reminds me; I should put up a NBD thread...

Ah, is that your postcode in the title? The end was truncated on mobile till I hit 'Reply'

Out of interest, whereabouts in South London?

I've been having fun with this little app for IOS: Sight Reading Machine https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sight-reading-machine/id662692296?mt=8 Handy sight reading practice when I have a bass to hand or just on the train. It generates a tune and plays it; you can configure it to select a wide range of parameters such as tempo, key, note lengths, etc. Notably, it comes with presets for both 4 and 5 string bass.

I am really enjoying the fact that now I have a GK MB 500, it's possible for me to get to a gig on public transport. Bass in a gig bag on my back and carrying a GK 2x10 cab in one hand, the amp and leads in a small case in the other.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1377883507' post='2193261'] I've been waiting for years for that [i][b]Road To Damascus[/b][/i] moment [/quote] As experienced by Saint Pull? [gets coat]

Probably a fairly decent explanation here http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/3552246-post4.html

In the closing years of the 80s I used to gig with a 1 x 15 Sessionette 100 combo. It took a lot of punishment in a loud 2 guitar band, but held its own remarkably well.

When I saw them live (on several occasions in the late 80s and early 90s) the Blue Aeroplanes functioned brilliantly with THREE guitars

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1377811260' post='2192352'] My P stays in tune for months. I check it before every gig, but sometimes I wonder why I bother. [/quote] Likewise with my Musicman Sabre (I'm afraid for the OP).

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1377701213' post='2190542']Yes, I used to say that all the bass was done on Nick Rhodes`s synth, as JT angered me by my (then) girlfriend fancying him far more than me. Since having matured, I can honestly say that JT is a fantastic bassist who as well as playing good riffs/lines, has a fantastic fell for melody in his playing. Still wish he was uglier though [/quote] My wife is another JT fan. She's still not quite forgiven me for passing up the opportunity to buy one of his old Arias that he gave to a friend of mine who did Duran Duran's tour lighting in the 80s, though it was a few years before the Mrs & I met.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1377728435' post='2191197']An interesting list but it shows that there aren't too many 'oldies' on here on BC. Only Macca, JPJ, John Entwistle and Jet Harris are from the 60s Beat Group era. No bassist from the 60-62 era Beat Instrumental Groups (I did add Brian Locking)[/quote] You missed Jack Bruce getting a look in already. I think Bill Wyman deserves a mention, as does Trevor Bolder.

BTW, I've done a few rehearsals and three or four gigs with mine, including two outdoors and I've been nothing but impressed with it. The only major issue that has surfaced is that it's far to easy to knock the Gain control when pressing the Mute button. More than once, I've been wondering where my sound has disappeared to after tuning up, only to discover the Gain had been accidentally turned to down to zero. All the knobs turn with very little force, but that one seems particularly vulnerable as it's right next to the Mute. I don't think my fingers are quite [i]that[/i] fat