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forget age its just a number - get some camera gear keep playing and you will find others th jam/gig with as Lemmy said [color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif][size=1]"If you think you are [/size][/font][/color][color=#6A6A6A][font=arial, sans-serif][size=1][b]too old[/b][/size][/font][/color][color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif][size=1] to [/size][/font][/color][color=#6A6A6A][font=arial, sans-serif][size=1][b]rock 'n roll[/b][/size][/font][/color][color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif][size=1] then you are.".[/size][/font][/color] [color=#545454][font=arial, sans-serif][size=1]your not too old, do it all[/size][/font][/color]

Invicta, thanks very much for replying, i found this useful, was beginning to think I had asked a dud question! I will keep as it is ,i think.

hi, I have a cheap DB, one of the gear for music ones, i bought SH. I restrung with innovation silvers (not the silver slaps). i Can get E A and D string to hit the fingerboard but G is really hard to get the click, Is it worth buying a G string with less tension? it may be the set up, i have around 10mm space between finger board and strings? a professional setup would cost more than what I paid. has anyone changed the D and G to make it easier to slap? will the strings lose the tension over time? they are about 2 months old. thanks for any advice

thanks for the advice, i will take both up!

[attachment=225772:DSC_0661.JPG] nice for the front room if i lose interest (not)

Suffering from manic depression i have bought a saxophone, 6 electric guitars, several amps including a JJ burnel and 2 cabs throwing out 800 watts in the spare room and a full acoustic drum kit. Sold most at a loss after losing interest. Recently after listening to one of my fav bands the stray cats again i suddenly decided i wanted a upright bass. I managed to find a gear for music white one on Gumtree for just £230 (bloke selling all his kit cheap), its immaculate and i love it , i know its cheap but its a good start to see if i can stay interested. I have strung it with innovation super silvers (it had steel strings on) and bought a pick up and connected to one of my amps. I love the sound even though it probably sounds shoddy to experienced players. Actually managed to play the majority of stray cat strut which has really given me the bug and now addicted to the upright. May need a lesson to help me hold it correctly, finger etc but appears nobody near in the north east (Durham), Getting a little bit of stiffness in my neck and fingers tingle a bit after long bouts playing but otherwise good.

stomp brothers johnson and love come down, evelyn king do it for me

timex social club - rumours

i saw grandmaster melle mel and the furious five about 35 years ago (think thats what they called themselves, GM flash was no longer part of it). it was at the birmingham odeon in front of around 200 people. at the end they introduced their new single which was a soul record with one of the group singing at a really high pitch, michael jackson like, problem was he was miming and the tape/vinyl record got stuck!!! must have been a vinyl they were miming to? everyone jeered but was sh*te show anyway

i have just turned 52 but although age stresses me, its just a number, and now i follow Lemmys philosophy "[color=#141823][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]“I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too f***ing old"[/font][/color]

good luck, its your bass so i hope its sorted

get a refund ,it could be it was never theirs to sell, better safe than sorry

life on mars, taped it from a top of the pops album and ashes to ashes, heroes, and starman

[quote name='Doctor J' timestamp='1451984247' post='2945144'] We once had a drummer who showed up for an audition with his girlfriend who sat in the corner chain-smoking beside him. That didn't really work out. I hate when the player doesn't match the brochure. A guitarist auditioned once, had emailed us a couple of instrumental tracks, really technically superb stuff. He showed up, looked the part, but then took a bottom rung starter guitar from the case. First alarm. He then set up his amp with that horrible "wasp trapped in a tin" kind of tone. Second alarm. He told us he had learned our songs, originals, We asked him which one he wanted to play first. "The first one" he said. He didn't know the names of the songs. Third alarm. He then struggled his way through a very basic riff which starts the song, so we all joined in. When, after for bars, we switched to the verse he kept playing the same riff. Even when we went to the chorus, yep, he kept playing the intro. That was the only riff of ours which he knew and even then he couldn't actually play it. Our drummer, at this stage, had buckled up in laughter and had to pretend he ripped his bass drum skin to put an end to the madness. [/quote] lol, this made me laugh!,

only tuned in to see Pauline Black, like jess glynne version of love come down, turned off when tom jones and weller came on, cannot stand them!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1451475247' post='2940731'] I agree with the above, but unfortunately there are songs I just will [i]not [/i]play and so I don't 'do' covers bands. They include, but are not limited to: Sex On Fire, All Right Now, Mustang Sally, Mr Brightside, Brown Eyed Girl, Sweet Home Alabama, All The Small Things, Get Lucky, Honky Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, Play That Funky Music, Creep, Smoke On The Water, Hotel California, Superstition, Proud Mary, Wonderful Tonight, Born To Be Wild, Wonderwall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Moves Like Jagger... and yes, bleeding Summer of Fecking 69. There you have it. There are lots more but I can't think of them right now... [/quote] Agree with you 100 percent, so bloody boring

i play like that all the time, i dont know when i am in tune

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1450737826' post='2935444'] I was born in 1981 so obviously wasn't around at the time, but I've picked up the impression from a few old punks that the Pistols and their ilk were part of a fairly cliquey, arty, high fashion scene that only small circles were close to. The same people reckoned that when bands with a larger working class following (like Sham '69) emerged, they were almost regarded as a bit déclassé, even embarrassing, by the "scene" punks. Does that sound somewhere close to what was going on? [/quote] No,not to my knowledge at all, never when they were around, we followed the pistols and the "hangers on" were all seen as part of it, nobody really knew that much or even understood where they had originated from until much later,in hindsight looking at them now, Siousie and the others you would certainly think that, but not at the time or it just went over our heads.but it was over before we knew it,barely over a year before the mk2 pistols/mclaren carried on, pistols for punks at the time were never seen as embarrassing,i think a lot of people read about them and their "beginnings" after the event and make judgments years later, which although mostly correct now were never thought of that way at the time. Sham 69 were great to see but scary gigs at times, but i never spoke to anyone who compared them to pistols because of their roots, we just moved on with the latest "punk" band to hit the headlines, but we were young.Sham did it for me when they produced hersham boys, even as young uns we thought it was crap, at the time we were just as interested in the punk/skin image, When the pistols started they took the country (youth) by storm if u was a certain age, as we had never seen anything like it, i remember comparing lyrics with me mates but never where people came from, the 70s was some era, looking back some of it was sh*te but bloody exciting at the time, the pistols were obviously limited in their ability but they influenced loads of bands and for me was miles better to listen to, become a part of than the preceeding 70s, 60s rock, soul, funk stuff that was around, ironic that i love 7s soul, funk, disco now, lol

i was 16 around the time the pistols appeared and there were loads of punks and skins around, loads of gobbing at every gig, but the soul generation were a bit older where i was (love 70s soul now), 2 tone was later though, we had migrated to being skinheads and i went to see the specials in leamington around 1981, i remember hall anouncing their new single ghost town,

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1450637221' post='2934514'] I think that's exactly the kind of response they were looking for.... even nearly 40 years later. Maybe the social movement (sub culture) the Pistols had with a lot of the youth might be lost on you, they were certainly a voice for the young workingclass at the time. Zeppelin may or may not of connected like that in the late 60's early 70's I don't know about that I'm too young and wasn't there . But I was for the Pistols. The pistols may not of been great musicians but I'd say Lydon's lyrical content is a masterpiece of the times.. not sure Dylan could even get close! Like most things in life you either get it or don't. They changed the whole live music scean in London almost over night.. Maybe form the UK the Beatles were the last group before them to have had that kind of impact. Maybe I'm talking B#llocks, but that's how I (see) saw it. [/quote] Well said, your not talking bollox, some people just did not get it. or missed it

everyone knew who sid vicious when i was at school, alter, he became an even bigger icon to a some people.sure he was not a talented player but as he was from my era i would rather listen to the pistols occasionally than the boring dross spewed out by some of the multi talented bass players that people rave about, or the mega boring set lists that are always played at some gigs.

Hi, i want a PJ bass but my budget is limited maybe around £300 max, unless there is a really good one out there for more money that would be a lot better? any ideas? thanks

thanks guys, great advice as always