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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1358457960' post='1939726'] It's a shame Hendrix never played in Cream. [/quote] He had a jam with them though.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1358456620' post='1939694'] You've been scone a little while from this thread. [/quote] I got caught up in the crosstown scone.

Scuse me, while I butter this scone.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1358449706' post='1939489'] In a similar vein, does anyone bother with the Bass USA page? Surely we need to know who's touring in the UK, unless it's to pander for a few US bassnerds? [/quote] It's divisive. We live on one f***ing planet, let's just have bass regardless of where it is. That page also comes across as sycophantic.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1358448058' post='1939453'] Haha no. Sarcasm obviously isn't as easy to detect in text as the blatant mistakes in BGM! [/quote] Thought so

[quote name='mc2' timestamp='1358447808' post='1939447'] Hey! I was actually up for that gig back in the mid-late '90s...but wouldn't move from NY to CA. Congrats! -jon [/quote] You mean Bass Player magazine I imagine. Unless you wouldn't move from North Yorkshire to County Antrim or something.

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1358447054' post='1939422'] Doesn't matter now what it is because it's probably scone on its way!!! [/quote] Terrible!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1358446950' post='1939419'] It's the third scone from the sun. [/quote] brilliant!

Jeremy Pritchard.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1358442492' post='1939296'] In an uncharacteristically pedantic moment, I've just looked it up. If Wikipedia is to be believed, in the late 60s there were only large mechanical strobe tuners like the Peterson which were unlikely to be adopted by touring bands. The needle type electronic tuners appeared in the 80s and the clip-on tuners not until the mid 90s. So, "no tuners" was a fair assessment of what was going on here. [/quote] We are only joking about what it is (we know it's not a clip on tuner, they did not exist then), none of us seems to know, but it's most likely to be a scone.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1358441311' post='1939259'] Are you sure that's a tuner? I'm only 31, but I've been playing since I was 8 and I can only remember seeing clip-on tuners in the last 10 years or so. When I was a kid, my mum took me to the local music shop to look at tuners, and the only electric tuners were those chunky ones with the needle display and the built-in microphone. Other than that the choice was pitch pipes or a tuning fork, and that was in 1990. I don't think they had clip-on tuners in 1969 - would any veterans care to confirm this? [/quote] You have had too much beer my friend

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1358440838' post='1939241'] [i][/i] [size=6][b]QIUCK REVEIW - fENDER USA StaNRAD PERCISSION[/b][/size] Teh FFender Precisn are well known old-stager in world fo bass guiitrs and it have not lost ist place in hearts of many. Bass Guitarists. [b]Features[/b]: 4 prong bridge, 6 active puckups, wodden ash body, carbon mapel nek with rosebush breadboard, 4 jumbo machinehads, case, price tag, volume knob. [b]Sounds[/b]: Punchy, deep tone with plenty of growel and brightness for slap from rear pickpoo, ideal for all stiles from County to Mettle [b]Value[/b]: AT £14,000, UAS Percussion Stanrad are good for beginrs and prose alike [b]Rating[/b]: 8 stars out of 6 [/quote] I'm sitting here laughing, a lot

The singer is the star, you have to do what's right for the singer. Who told you music was a nice, easy hassle-free occupation?

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. Frederic Chopin

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1358437982' post='1939159'] They were asking for trouble really. Creating a magazine for bass fan boys who love nothing more than correcting other bass player's bass knowledge and hours of staring at tiny details on spec sheets. They were always going to be faced with pedantry of this kind regarding the magazine! [/quote] Are you being serious?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1358437607' post='1939153'] I think you'll find most people here are critical because they'd like the magazine to be good and something they were proud to read. I doubt whether anyone would accept a similar lack of professionalism from the band they play with so why should a magazine aimed at us as readers be any less exempt? [/quote] Quite. I have no idea why so many people make excuses for them. probably the same people who don't mind a bit of horsemeat

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1358436962' post='1939133'] " Hopefully Joel will be along soon to clarify matters. " Noticed after his initial contact, he doesn't seem to have been on since and maybe that's not a bad thing..I'd be happier if he was sorting out all the errors and producing a decent magazine rather than apologising to us lot, who to be frank have sometimes nothing better to do than be picky....! (And yes it is annoying but nobody died) From what I understand from speaking to a past Editor, it is produced on a [s]bass[/s]shoe string. Doubtless the offending Mike Lull review will be along next month...... [/quote] You can buy a lot of food for the price of this shoddy magazine. It's not being picky, it's about getting the magazine you deserve for the money you shell out. You'll notice there is never a mistake with the cover price and subscription pages, except they often forget to send people their 'free' goodies according to other threads.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1358431133' post='1938982'] That's a tuner? That makes much more sense. My first thought was that it was a scone, and just left it at that. It was the '60s, best not question these things [/quote] A scone

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1358429383' post='1938948'] Wow. You worked with Hendrix [i]and[/i] Docherty? Some pedigree there. [/quote] No, just Hendrix. I refused to work with Doherty, he took a lot of drugs, turned up late and unrehearsed, and played out of tune and forgot his lyrics. Rank amateur.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1358379186' post='1938390'] Ah, 1969, remember it well. [b]No tuners in those days[/b]. No amps back stage either, [b]in fact it was either a tuning fork or an out of tune piano[/b], no one I knew played harmonica. You'd press your ear to your bass and hope to hear the notes but if there was a back stage it was usually pretty noisy so what did we do? We walked on stage and tuned before we started to play just like Hendrix. Not play amazingly like Hendrix I mean but just play music. [/quote] I can clearly see an electronic tuner clipped to his headstock so your memories of the '60s prove you weren't there.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1358369368' post='1938101'] I saw a vid of a gig by TREX (not in the same league, I know) in around 1973 or 1974 and they did much the same... shambled on stage, farted about, adjusted things, spent ages tuning up, but with the audience of young girls screaming all the while. A different age, wasn't it? I suppose the attitude was, 'Hey, we're the talent. And we're tripping. You lot wait till we're good and ready'. Not like now, where every musician is a snivelling excuse of a big pair of girl's knickers, has to be 'professional', not get too out of it and grovel to the merest whim of 'the punters'. There, I've said it. [/quote] What did you think of The Libertines?

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1358427577' post='1938903'] Hi, I can't open OldG's entry - is this a known issue or is it just me? [/quote] I couldn't either.

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1358426696' post='1938881'] Wouldn't things be strange today if every car on the road looked exactly like a Model T Ford still... [/quote] Conservative lot, bass players

Ahh, this must be a Bass Guitar Magazine production

I would disagree with your point about EE not breaking through, maybe it's the Mercury that got Alt J onto yours and others' radars. Your taste and perception is of course your own affair, but FEELING like the band have " .. purposely gone out of their way to create something 'credible.' " is purely conjecture. My feeling is that I am very encouraged that music like this is being brought into the 'mainstream' and that they have a diverse audience. Enjoy the jazz