Bobthedog

25 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

Gutted I could only watch a bit of it due to it starting late. I really hope it gets put online in full because the bits I did hear were inspiring. Hard not to be inspired by that lot but especially when discussing the greatest.

When Alicia came on that was wonderful to a) hear her emotional story but also b) hear the reaction of the musicians. Rob Trujillo came on later, which surprised me, but I had to leave before he had a chance to say anything.

Not a bad group of musicians paying tribute to Rocco:

Just look on the Dingwall website. It has plans of the various controls and what they do. 

35 minutes ago, Bart Funk Bass said:

Michael Cera - Juno [Oscar winning movie], Superbad, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, This Is The End,

Norman Reedus - The Walking Dead tv series

Ronn Moss - The Bold and the Beautiful tv series, the longest or one of the longest series with 8000 episodes. Ask any 90's wife, she knows it

Here I go again - Whitesnake

4 hours ago, Bart Funk Bass said:

 

According to your thumbnail, you are a grown man and I bet you watched a few movies during your lifetime! 

I know some people but Michael Cera, Norman Reedus, Ronn Moss? Never heard of them. 

5 hours ago, JottoSW1 said:

Note Hulk has his bass artfully arranged to cover up the rumoured steroid ravaged testicles. Have no idea who some of these "celebs" are.

I did feel very ignorant when I watched this as I knew very few of the "celebs" too.

I must confess I had not heard of him until a couple of years ago when I came across this on YT. Love this cover:

1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said:

She has gone up in my estimation. I know she has talent, but i didn’t realise she could sing like this. 

Perhaps not your genre but this is another example of just how good she is:

Notifications followed by a selective pass through unread since last visit. 

18 hours ago, bobbass4k said:

Added some new builds to my dirt section - 

 

That is not a pedalboard, it is Anderton’s pedal stock. 😀

I grew up with a semi pro musician for a father, not only was he the drummer in several bands but, for reasons unknown, he became well connected in the music world (Mitch Michell, Jake Hannah, Joe Morello etc). Accordingly there were bands rehearsing in the house pretty constantly but I also got to go to many concerts and music parties with my father. Even if there was no live music at home there was always a record playing. I was encouraged to play an instrument, starting with violin and trumpet at school and drums at home (a slight digression but my first drum kit was a present from Joe Morello to my father at a concert - Joe’s stage had some mini kits on and at the end of the concert Joe gave one to my father for me!).

I have therefore always loved music from home, albeit mainly blues and jazz This led onto me teaching myself classical music via Classic FM when it first launched and the associated magazine that they published. This then was converted to Opera as a great love. 

I was never any good as a player (always playing the notes and not the song) so never tried to get in into a band (other than some school concerts). I gave up playing in my early twenties and became a lover of listening to live music wherever I could get it and of pretty much any genre. Taking up bass eightish years ago was as a result of the love of music my parents gave me (my mother was involved in musical theatre and also had an involvement in a record store). I am still a crap player (due the same lack of talent but now also arthritis in my fingers) but keep plugging away thanks to the inbred love of music. 

My parents both died before my first gig on bass.

Charles Mingus at Carnegie Hall album: only two tracks including 24 minutes of a pretty much improvised C Jam Blues. Perdido to follow. 

Thanks to Harry Bosch playing it in a book I am reading.

Bob Marley, Legend.  Just right for the evening.

3 hours ago, BigRedX said:

There are some members with text only signatures that I have had to hide because they took up the whole of the screen when viewing Basschat on my laptop.

Also it appears that if you change you signature it becomes visible again to those who have hidden it, because now Bobthedog has replaced his massive photograph with 3 lines of text I can see it again.

I never had a picture, it was only 5 lines of text plus a link to my feedback thread.

To be fair, text is not usually the problem. It is the stupidly large photos or videos some deem fit to include in their signatures. 

44 minutes ago, jrixn1 said:

H4n?

I have the H4n Pro which works a charm and sound quality is very good. 

I made the mistake of editing my signature and have been hit by the new rules! Dam you @Ped and your good ideas! 🤣

2 hours ago, ped said:

I believe there’s a setting to limit signatures now so I’ll take a look. Any suggestions as to the maximum image size and number of lines? Images resize to fit the width I think so height is the most critical 

I would say no more than four lines of standard font plus one headline size font max.. No idea as to what that is in image size,

My Glockenklang Blue Rock (1000w) stayed true all the way up. My Bergantino  Forte HP (1300w) has not been tested yet but at ear testing levels in my study suggest it should also be okay. 😀

Both via a BF Big Twin II. 

I have always struggled to sell stuff as an apparent hoarder and now have a heap of pedals and (not) crap to get rid of. Lockdown has curiously changed my attitude to pointless hoarding and am just arguing with myself to get on and clear the decks (and garages, cupboards, floors etc etc). For no reason other than I no longer want stuff around me. This will likely include things such as my Harley and other reasonably valued assets

27 minutes ago, TwoTimesBass said:

Mmm... feedback...

 

How about they look awful? 

Late 60s to early 70s did violin and trumpet at school. Plenty of hands on experience and playing in a band / concerts. All classical until one concert I was "allowed" to jazz up Summertime, it was just a bit of growl rather than anything clever. I remember my father beaming at me from the audience as I went feral! All was done using 'script - no tab (did it exist then?).  

I do not recall learning any music theory other than note length, however. Perhaps there was some but I have forgotten in all. I taught myself jazz songs on the trumpet but never learnt the relationships between notes and could only learn songs I knew the tune to. Did it help me later on? No, but my father was a semi pro drummer with some well known musicians as friends and I grew up with either records or live bands playing at home. That was possibly my inspiration to learn an instrument in my later years.

Having said that, the arthritis in both hands means I will never be more than a just about average bass player, irrespective of whatever I may have learnt back then or indeed am learning now. 

1 hour ago, binky_bass said:

Make it a 6 string and I'm all over it! 

Weirdo! 

Having recently been looking at basses in the last few weeks, I will now add PJ style basses to my what puts me off list. To me, and I have never played one, they are neither P or J and are therefore wrong.

If someone gave me a singlecut PJ with wooden knobs it would only be used once on 5th November.