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Relieved Ade of a Bass Fly Rig. Deal done in the morning, posted the same day. He'd packed it to stand a thermonuclear blast, so it arrived unsullied by the machinations of the Royal Mail. Easy, friendly communication throughout. Cheers!

I've been getting this on my Motorola... Started earlier today, and this evening the site is unuseable on the phone, it redirects within seconds every time😭

Very sad to hear this, my sincere condolences to those close to him. RIP Colin.

My HB Acoustic Fretless 5 wears D'Addario Black Nylons. They Feel and sound great to me.

I saw this from Danny Vaughn last week. Doesn't sound good.

Exactly what I wanted to hear... Many thanks!

Apologies for the thread resurrection, and the deviation from the topic, but I've been trawling the forum for info on the UR22. I currently have the UR12 running into Cubase AI9, which is great for my purposes. Recording the drummer's electronic kit individually through the interface is fine, ditto my bass, but we also like to play together and record to capture ideas. We both go into a little powered mixer which we then output into the interface. It works fine, but obviously this way we go onto one track in Cubase. Am I right in thinking (hoping) that with the UR22 we could both go direct into the interface, and then fairly easily assign drums to one track and bass to another track while still playing simultaneously? Thanks in Advance!

A Dutch friend turned me on to Kurban while I was staying with him. I find most lyrics a bit daft anyway, so it didn't matter that I didn't get the words.

BBC 4.

I enjoyed it. Not the usual suspects, and not the approach I'd expected.

So 2 Fridays ago Stewart Copeland did his drum thing on the telly, obviously there was a heads-up thread earlier that week. Last Friday Tina Weymouth did the Bass episode... Naturally there was a thread. Guitars tonight... Nothing! 🤣 *edit* Until now I guess.

I'm Trying! I've always done BVs, but this is the first time I've attempted lead vocals, and it's tough. If I'm honest I've never had any desire to front a band, but my desire to go through the process of finding a singer (based on previous experiences) is even less. We want to keep it small so the idea is that everyone needs to sing, and I reckon we can handle it between ourselves. I'm not prepared to dumb down the bass for the vocals, or dumb down the vocals for the bass, so I write the parts independently. I've found what works for me is to record a rough version in Cubase, then to learn it as if it was a cover.

Good Call! All those guys owe him at least a small percentage of their royalties!🤣

Out of the whole Seattle thing, Nirvana were probably the least interesting for me despite being held up as the flagship. I wasn't paying much attention to popular music, so they kinda passed me by at the beginning, but I was being dragged around a really chic, cliquey hipster store by a girlfriend when I was about 18, feeling totally uncomfortable as I always do in that kind of place, but there was this amazing heavy, grinding riff coming out of the store's speakers, slowly increasing in tempo. Inevitably an assistant (with far too much make-up) asked if she could help.... I asked if she could tell me what the music was. She nipped upstairs and came back with a scrap of paper that said 'Louder Than Love - Soundgarden'... Next stop was EGS Records, just around the corner, who ordered it for me. That was it for the next 5 years... Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, AiC, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog. It's all great stuff, I listen less to it now, but on the occasions I do I still find something in it. I think it's permanently in my playing too, no matter what I'm playing some of that era bleeds in.

Alice in Chains - Dirt. That's just perfect to me. Ben Shepherds's bass on Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Superunknown and Down on the Upside is all great, fantastic tone and interesting choices, also Hiro Yamamoto's lines on Loud Love. Any of Jeff Ament's stuff with Pearl Jam, fretless awesomeness!

Nice selection! Pretty sure that Sei is the Flamboyant though, not the Original as labeled.

Just plugs... Thankfully!

You live and learn I guess. I naturally assumed that, being at a music show they'd know all the inscand outs and advise accordingly.