Funkmaster

Just a 'heads-up' that The Welsh T Band will be doing a few gigs in South Wales next weekend at... 10th October 2008 Chatterton Arms Pencoed, Bridgend 9PM 11th October 2008 Penrhiwceiber Constitutional Club Penrhiwceiber 9PM 12th October 2008 Four Winds Hotel Port Talbot 4PM It'll be our front man's first gigs in the land of his fathers since he voluntarily exiled himself in Wakefield nearly 30 years ago! (The story is he came to Wakefield for a party one weekend and just somehow kinda forgot to go back home!) If any South Wales BCers are about and not giging next weekend it'd be great to see you at one of the gigs. Cheers David

I should join in with the Warwick-love too! Got 3 thumbs - fretted 4, freless 4 'Jack Bruce', and a fretted 5, and a Warwick Triumph EUB completes my collection. Absolutely stonking instruments the lot of em! David

[quote name='alembic1989' post='272575' date='Aug 29 2008, 02:19 PM']The thing is .. as a small (just me) label I am only going to get 500-1000 pressed up...and if I'm honest it will take years to sell all of them IF i ever do..so it's pretty small potatoes.[/quote] Fair comment - but still worth talking to MCPS - particularly if you expect the cover track to get airplay the radio station will log the play so that the appropriate royalties are paid to the writer(s). If it still works like it used to (15 years ago!) the licence cost will be based on the running time of the other artists song versus the total running time of the release. And you'll be able to ringfence a proprtion of the copies (appropriately marked, as 'promo' copies) to be given away that you won't have to pay licence costs for. And if it's your tracks that are likely to get airplay talk to PRS about joining them and registering your tracks with them so you get royalties back for their airplay. (And the day every three months when your PRS cheque comes through is and continues to be truely exciting!) MCPS and PRS will be happy to help you with this. David

I was asked to record a replacement bassline for a track in a studio in Leeds by a mate of mine. A mate of his had been commissioned to write some tracks for the pre-production stage for a film, The film was based round the Northern Soul scene and the idea was that it would be a 'Quadrophenia' like look at the scene. Anyway, it was a typical little converted bedroom project studio and while I was setting up and tuning up they played me the track to get aquainted with it... And the singer was Skin from Skunk Anansie! The film never made it into production but I've got a CD somewhere of me playing with Skin! What a stunning voice! And, not really a gig, but a little while ago I got the opportunity to contribute to a few compositions for TV background 'library' music - and it's just odd to hear them turning up on telly. Fairly regularly too!

Hi Karl That single cut f-hole is a stunner! Welcome to BassChat! David

[quote name='Funkmaster' post='256621' date='Aug 6 2008, 07:10 PM']There used to be a two (or three?) octave Stylophone back in the Rolf era. I know cause I used to have one [i]'back in the day' [/i]and it was great fun! I seem to remember that it had two playing styluses so must have been duophonic? (But I might be remembering it wrong!) And it was a lot more bulky than the usual model though. I don't think it was available for very long too.[/quote] Just been on a trip down memory lane - well google anyway - only picture of the [b][i]350s[/i] [/b]'big one' I can find is on here. [url="http://www.stylophone.fsnet.co.uk/"]http://www.stylophone.fsnet.co.uk/[/url] Two styli too - brain must still be working a bit then!

[quote name='cheddatom' post='256399' date='Aug 6 2008, 03:44 PM']Can't you get a mini 2 octave keyboard?[/quote] There used to be a two (or three?) octave Stylophone back in the Rolf era. I know cause I used to have one [i]'back in the day' [/i]and it was great fun! I seem to remember that it had two playing styluses so must have been duophonic? (But I might be remembering it wrong!) And it was a lot more bulky than the usual model though. I don't think it was available for very long too.

Adrenalin will get you through I'm sure! I've done three in a day with three different bands - a ceilidh band, a rock/R&B band and an R&B Blues band and I thorughly enjoyed it! Mind you it was at my 50th birthday party. Last year I also did a sunday morning in church near huddersfield, Sunday afternoon with an R&B band in Whitby and sunday evening across the other side of the country near Wigan! Definitely a 'do the gig and hit the road' kind of a day!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='254122' date='Aug 4 2008, 09:21 AM']Bit soul destroying![/quote] Well I have to say that in the 35+ years of regular gigging I don't remember that ever happering before. There's been one or two 'one man and his dog' type of gugs - but never no one! Odd. The 'professional' attitude did have to kicked in... as in 'gotta play the gig so we keep up our end of the bargain, to ensure we got our fee. And as I say, with the Great British R&B festival coming up over the bank holiday it was usedul to knock the dust off some stuff we haven't done in a while.

Played an afternoon gig yesterday. Apart from a mate coming for the first set, there was no one in. No-one.... not one person (except for the two girls behind the bar)... so it turned into a rehearsal. We tried out some new stuff and some stuff that we haven't done in a while. The owner of the place appeared at the end of the gig and seemed happy to hand over the agreef fee. The funniest thing is that it was the best paying gig we've done for a month or two! How does that work?

Nice 1!

Just a bump to say band now sorted - thanks.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='249564' date='Jul 28 2008, 01:37 PM']But give the upstairs curry house a miss - it's a m*nger.[/quote] Think it might have changed hands Dave. Was OK last time I was in Colne a couple of months ago!

One of the pubs on the Colne R&B Festival fringe is looking for a band to fill the Sunday afternoon slot over August Bank Holiday weekend. The gig would ideally suit a bluesy band on the R&B side of rock. It's a small place but usually a good crowd get in. The Welsh T Band usually play both the Sunday and Monday afternoons there but we are booked at anither venue on the Sunday aft this year. And the pub has asked me to sort out a replacement band for them. PM me if you're interested and I'll sort the booking with the venue for you. Cheers Dave

Girl to guitarist in one of my bands, 'Do you do any Kylie?' 'No, cause she doesn't do any of ours!'

[quote name='ianrunci' post='239684' date='Jul 15 2008, 12:31 AM']I'm hmming and ahhing about it, I'll wait for him to reply, I would only really want it if its got a maple board otherwise I will probably take the money and get a stingray. I'm not sure about the G&L as its a 5 ver and I can't really get my head round them[/quote] +1 on the 5ver madness! I got a 5 string thumb about a year ago (yes - I like Warwicks - the 5ver is my third Thumb!). It's been put away since I got it, waiting for an easy opportunity to use, it but I finally took it out on a few things recently - everything from a church band (reading) to a ceilidh band (usually a dead easy gig on either my 4er fretless or Triumph upright). But the 5ver was complete madness. It was odd having a guitar round my neck that I should have known my way round but absolutely didn't! David

[quote name='Oscar South' post='241387' date='Jul 16 2008, 11:36 PM']Has anyone heard of Ben and Joe Broughton by the way? Joe is a great violin player and has played with various big folk names such as the Albion band, Ben is a really good guitarist/bassist and is my main instrumental tutor at university. [url="http://www.benandjoebroughton.co.uk/"]http://www.benandjoebroughton.co.uk/[/url][/quote] I sound engineered Ben and Joe at a folk festival a few years ago. Great players both of 'em, definitely! David

[quote name='cheddatom' post='239209' date='Jul 14 2008, 02:52 PM']I often find myself popping the odd note, as opposed to just fingering it. I thought a lot of people did this?[/quote] Yeah - me too. In my head, and in the right place, I just see it as kind of musical 'punctuation'. Plus a bit of slapped 'disco' octaves occiasionally (in the ceilidh band mostly) But I'd never see myself as a slapper - it's just another way to coax a different sound out of the bass and gear. David

[quote name='bottomfeed' post='237215' date='Jul 11 2008, 12:03 PM']Isn't there one of these already?!... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22006&st=40&p=225802&#entry225802"]Here[/url] ah well.... the more the merrier!... copy/paste.... etc... Yes... the Jedson bass.... a short scale pile of w@nk! .....but it looked kinda cute! [/quote] LOL - I thought I'd seen this topic before! Still gives me a chance to tell this story again! [quote name='Funkmaster' post='224714' date='Jun 23 2008, 09:04 AM']Mine was a horrible, horrible short scale Jedson bass - with those horrible slidy on/off switches for the pickups - which invariably got knocked, muting the guitar, when plucking entusiastically! It was 1973 and it was £19.50 from Contact in Leeds. And I was 15 And I learned 'Sunshine of your love' and the 12 bar progression on the bus back home beause I had a gig that night! David[/quote] I'd snap one up if I saw one again too. Where do those old bases go. You go into music shops and there's any amount of old guitars - but where are the bases? David

[quote name='OldGit' post='232469' date='Jul 4 2008, 09:21 AM']I wasn't joking ... is that Up North Speak for 20 quid?[/quote] Yep - you got it OG!

Sorry to have missed this one. Hopefully will get to the next. David

Pretty much I only take one bass to a gig. Usually my fretted Thumb and occaisionally my fretless Thumb. But for ceilidh band gigs, as well as my Warwick Triumph upright which I play most of the time for ceilidhs, I always take the fretless too. Cause there's stuff I just can't play on the upright yet!

[quote name='silddx' post='226860' date='Jun 25 2008, 06:53 PM']I tried a few amps with my new Corvette $$ at the Bass Gallery today (top chaps, great shop!) .. - GK MB150E-III/112 which I was very impressed with, the chorus was 'orrible but it's loud enough, sound quite nice and full of features. The amp search continues.[/quote] Just a good word for the MB150E/112 combo. Used that set up for quite a while now (with Warwick thumbs pretty much exclusively). They're a compromise sound wise of course - you're never going to get thatbig trouser flapping bass sound of a big rig. But they rock well enough. The MB150 on its own will happily cope with smaller gigs. I often get comments after gigs from people asking if I was going through the PA too. And with a couple of GK carry bags they are very poratble too! Check prices with Thomann though. They tend to be lower than the UK distributor will supply for. David

[quote name='bottomfeed' post='225802' date='Jun 24 2008, 12:27 PM']Yes.... me too!..... I was 13, what a horrible bass it was! (though I wouldn't have known it at the time) I didn't really start to learn how to play till several years later... it sat in the corner of my room trying to look cool for a couple of years... I eventually sold it at school... & got an Audition bass from Woolworth's, £10 coz it was shop soiled & had a string missing... Then the journey really began... can't find a pic .....[/quote] Great to see a photo of a Jedson again, Bottomfeed Strangely enough - my college tutor started out on a Jedson too. It kind of blew away my excuse for never being a particluarly good player! David

Mine was a horrible, horrible short scale Jedson bass - with those horrible slidy on/off switches for the pickups - which invariably got knocked, muting the guitar, when plucking entusiastically! It was 1973 and it was £19.50 from Contact in Leeds. And I was 15 And I learned 'Sunshine of your love' and the 12 bar progression on the bus back home beause I had a gig that night! David