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ubit

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  • Birthday 14/09/1964

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  1. How the Hell do you Knick a guitar? Apart from smash and grab, I can’t see how you can sneak one out of a shop.
  2. This used to annoy me about our guitarist. We would learn a new song, but being the singer, I had to learn both parts to expert level. He would say let's do the new song. Just because he knew his part and could see that I could play my part reasonably, he would assume we could do it. Far from it. I needed to know the bass part without having to think about it. You can't sing if you are concentrating hard on your bass line. It needs to be second nature because you can't sing on auto pilot.
  3. We have not played for a while, but I am the bass player and lead vocalist. I always found that simplifying bass lines helped. Above all, first you have to know both parts like the back of your hand. Funnily enough, quite complicated lines that "walked" around the fretboard tended to be less of a problem. It was when you had odd syncopation that I hit problems. Take the bass line in All these things Ive done" by The Killers for example. Dead easy bass line. But I could never play and sing it properly because of the odd timing of the bass in the verse. It stumped me and annoyed me for years. I got away with a simplified line and no one seemed to notice. I was however, very cheesed off that I couldn't get it. I think the secret is, as it is with anything, practise, practise, practise.
  4. Mrs Ubit got us tickets to see Kiss with Skindred supporting. I can't wait for that.
  5. The music we played just didn't call for a high C on a bass. I guess it's all down to the type of music you play, whether you feel the need to use six strings.
  6. I agree that their version of Cinnamon girl is better than Neil Youngs. I have played it to death. I love them and have all of their material. A pale Horse called death are worth a listen too.
  7. I played along with one guy and he had said his address was in Coventry. After the usual, I said oh, I have just found out I'm coming down to Coventry next week. If you give me your address I will drop it off to you. He immediately left the conversation.
  8. Facebook market place is full of scammers. My mother in law is selling a table and chairs set and has had a number of obviously fake enquiries about it. They are almost identical to the scam attempted on me when I was selling a bass. They say they are going to send a courier to pick up the item (unseen) and give you the money. Then they ask you first to pay the insurance (but don't worry, you will get this back later). I'm sure someone, somewhere is falling for this. She asked where the latest one came from and after a five minute pause, they wrote Tobermory. I mean why would someone from Tobermory send a courier to pick up an item from Oban?
  9. Hit the Share option and copy the URL. Then paste it on here.
  10. Mrs Ubit got me into Alt J recently and I am really enjoying their music. The videos are so good as well
  11. Oban is terrible for live music these days, unless you play traditional music jazzed up perhaps with drums. No one is interested in putting live music on anymore and when I count the places we used to play that have closed down or turned into restaurants, I get depressed.
  12. Going to see Volbeat in December. Skindred and Napalm Death supporting.
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