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[quote name='Joel McIver' timestamp='1402668618' post='2475816'] Hey all, I'm definitely interested in hearing your opinions, positive and negative, about our magazine, so feel free to express them here or to me at [email protected] if you prefer confidentiality. Cheers all Joel McIver [/quote] Hi mate, as I said I like it. My only gripe is, when my subscription runs out, the magazines stop coming and I only realise months later when I think, I haven't got one for a while. Is there no way you can get in touch with subscribers to say, you are due to renew?

I just listened to that all time high song! Bloody hell! That is a dirge right enough, innit? Bit of a blokey jaw going on there too I reckon.

I've had a listen and I concur, great new material and they sound as fresh as ever. Why this band were not huger than they are is beyond me !

I'll need to check that out, cheers !

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1424174628' post='2693391'] The one thing that playing in a 'bedroom' to backing tracks etc won't prepare you for is actually playing with other people...it can be a whole different ball game. You can learn a song at home, think you've really nailed it, get into a practice room with others and it'll sound 'different'...others may not be playing what you expect them to and you have to respond to that. Over analysing your playing can be a destructive path..it was for me and resulted in a miserable 2 years of thinking I wasn't good enough to be in certain bands. What you realise is that the really good players are both encouraging, polite and humble. The one's who think their excrement smells better then the rest, they're not worth being in a band with anyway. Enjoy playing, and one of the best ways is to play in a band. You'll learn more and improve quicker than staying home. My playing has massive holes in it, there's straightforward stuff that I'm absolutely crap at...but I've never failed to get in a band I've tried out for. This to me is really odd, but what the hell. If you can fit it in with your job, go for it. [/quote] Absolutely! I don't think I'm an amazing bass player by any means. The thing is, I have played in a band for years and years and I KNOW I'm a solid player who fits in very well with the band. Playing with other people is a whole different kettle of fish than playing along with cd's , but it's also a lot more enjoyable . It's great fun locking in with a drummers beat and it brings your dynamics on by a long way. When we started years ago, we were all pretty much the same level, so it didn't matter that we were rotten , but we evolved together and that journey is what it's all about. It's great fun and that first public performance still sticks with me. The joy of knowing that you are partly responsible for making a nice sound that people will dance around to and that you can have made someone's evening a really good one, is amazing. Stick with it and believe you can do it , because you will.

I have both and I like both. Super shiny and heavy relic. It's just a look .

I have a Sandberg California TM4 which is heavily relic'd and it's quite simply the best job I've ever seen. The Fender road worn, to me don't look very realistic. There's a Fender Rory Gallagher Strat that looks terrible. The flaking paint effect has been achieved by using stickers!

[quote name='The Badderer' timestamp='1422707577' post='2675841'] you'll find you if just play the root note rather than getting a bit adventurous they'll probably comment favourably on that too [/quote] Well this boy is a professional musician, who teaches guitar at a very high level. He was depping on bass for the band. He learned the bass parts from the albums, so very unlikely he was playing just root notes. He did say that after the first few gigs, the band asked did he bring the Fender because they thought that previous bass players hadn't sounded so good . He's not one to be big in it, so I think he was meaning the sound rather than his amazing bass playing.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1424129113' post='2693082'] I don't see what's so unusual about it. It's essentially a P-Bass with a couple of design improvements. [/quote] Rubbish! You clearly can't improve a P bass !

Thing is mate, you have a bass, you've learned a couple of songs........you're a bass player! Don't let anyone tell you any different! As for ability. Everyone has varying degrees of it. Some people on here are awesome, some not so, but as long as you put the time in on practising, you can count yourself among the club that we are. Keep at it man !

I just struggle to memorise lyrics until we have done the songs a hundred times. Maybe it's old age :/

I've built a few basses and have found that changing tuners for another brand can help cos there's a multitude of different sizes available. I was always swapping them around.

I see what you mean now. That's the kind I have

I'm not familiar with the flat ones, what are they like ?

Been playing for close to 35 years. Last weekend , first song , started playing crazy little thing called love and realised I was in standard tuning whilst everyone else was in E flat. I'm the singer so I had to mumble away and pray for a speedy death ! Everyone danced !!!'

Well, as stated, I got me the new Beck album and on first impression, it's very good. Purely personal, but I won't be buying any Kanye or Beyoncé material. Thanks goes out to Kanye right enough, cos I wouldn't have bought the Beck album were it not for him!

Can you put on sex is on fire? Like we are not playing live!

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1424004048' post='2691363'] 'You might as well sell your other basses, that is the one for you'. [/quote] Aah, the old trap you fall into, until the GAS monster rears its ugly head!

I love a happy ending!

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1423838183' post='2689574'] Congrats and well done. I'm the opposite unless I'm digging in I don't feel the force. I do use some palm muting and soft thumb on a few numbers tho. [/quote] Yip, I'm the same. I very much doubt I'd be able to change after so long anyway. I just like to feel the beef!

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1423952587' post='2690926'] Yup, unless you plan on having a successful music career playing through a headphone amp Into your headphones, I'd suggest you don't have a problem . Si [/quote] Can't argue with this !

Have you got your amp eq in a " happy face" pattern? If so, try setting it flat. This pushes the mids, which also evens things out and you should hear the D and G a lot clearer.

[quote name='anaxcrosswords' timestamp='1423916494' post='2690317'] After our first set at a pub gig a fortnight ago, I slightly tipsy female came over and complimented me on two songs which weren't - and never have been - on our set list. [/quote] I've had arguments with people who come up and say can you play such and such, I say we don't do that mate, then they have said , yes you do I heard you do it last week. I'm like, we weren't playing here last week, yes you were! No we weren't! Then I'm like, how do you argue with this?

[quote name='kevvo66' timestamp='1423872853' post='2690072'] We bass players are the good people of the band ,reserved and jolly nice people [/quote] Tell that to Geezer Butler

I must say, I am slightly jealous of all the players who can choose which " good " songs to play.If we played the songs we liked, we would get hauled off and never get another booking. I was told years ago, you have to play what the people want to hear. We ignored this advice and played songs we liked. Over the years we gradually learned which songs to drop and which went down well. It's amazing, the rubbish that people want to hear again and again, especially at functions. What we have to remember is, some of these people don't get out much and don't have the " pleasure" of hearing these songs over and over and over, so they demand brown eyed girl and they dance to it and we have to put up with it.