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[quote name='dlloyd' timestamp='1330004449' post='1551221'] They never did take risks. [/quote] I think he means that there are no hippy bollocks record companies around any more

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1330003730' post='1551190'] major record companies aren't taking risks with bands like they used to. To get with a major record label as a band you need to have already achieved a good level of success. Ed Sheeran being a good example. [/quote] Ed Sheeran was playing outside one of my gigs 2 years ago. Look at him now. You know why? He has broad appeal, looks interesting, and worked his balls off. He also relates his feelings through well written lyrics matched with music he feels is right. You'll probably say that's just hippy bollocks. [quote] You say pity me but I enjoy what I do and that's enough for me [/quote] Good for you. Just don't slag off musicians who really feel their music is ethereal, that it comes both from within and from without, that it's like god touched you when it all goes right and magic happened, whether on your own or with your band, you truly communicated and people responded. Don't slag off musicians who think music is more than a technical and theoretical challenge.

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1330003114' post='1551153'] Firstly congrats. Secondly, i can't comment on you or how you play because i don't know you. Most guys who do a lot of top sessions such as laurence cottle, know lots of theory. And to be at his level of expertise when I'm 50 is something i aspire to. i think musical ideas are a combination of things you've listened to previously and things you know and understand on your freeboard. I definitely don't believe music comes from the soul! Just sounds like hippy bollocks [/quote] So what you've just written is a combination of things you've read previously and things you know and understand on your keyboard? Hippy bollocks? You have no ideas of your own you want to express through your instrument? You have no message for the people? You have no soapbox to stand on? Nothing to say at all? Just a combination of external influences and some fretboard skills. Pity you.

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1330002593' post='1551138'] i agree completely. Trouble is bands are finding it harder and harder to get sustained success in todays industry [/quote] Not really, it's always been very hard. Bands are at the mercy of markets and lowest common denominators of public acceptance. However, the public and musicians have far more power now due to recent communications technology advances. Unfortunately money is still the key to breaking through from small time success to great success, bands need marketing budget and infrastructure, this is where I think the record companies will find their new niche.

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1329999639' post='1551041'] well they could. I've seen Janek play 3 times and he can definitely cover that material and enjoy it. I had a lesson with steve lawson who IMO is a great virtuoso of the electric bass. i was amazed with how strong he sounded when playing simple lines, much cleaner and clinical than the older guys did. He can definitely play that stuff but chooses not to. [/quote] You have completely missed the point. I can play Chris Squire's lines, you can, but you or I could NOT have created them. If you have no musical ideas, or only naive ones, in your soul, it doesn't matter how well you can play does it? You should stop judging musicians on their psychomotor skills and get the the heart of the art.

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1329998799' post='1551019'] This is the problem. I said wide array, not every genre! Chris squire also in my opinion is not anywhere near up there with the likes of Janek Gwizdala or Richard Bona! Not even close. [/quote] In terms of what? Chris Squire can WRITE. Janek Gwizdala or Richard Bona are not anywhere near up there with the likes of Chris squire in terms of being part of a successful writing team, their bank balances may reflect this You simply cannot compare a session musician with a band member. Successful bands tend to be able to communicate feelings and philosophies and observations lyrically and musically in a way a wider audience can relate to. Most session musicians' attempts I've heard have been failures. Session musicians are experts in operating their machines with the requisite level of feel to fulfil someone else's vision in as short a time as possible. Band musicians are very different beasts.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1329994956' post='1550909'] This guy is right. This comment summed it up for me: [i]"...would you expect the chef’s friends and family to eat at your restaurant every night?..."[/i] [/quote] The chef is part of the establishment whose team works there everyday, the kitchen is infrastructure and part of the business. It's not a good analogy. There are no analogies to the role of the entertainer in these venues, that's why they get f***ed over so often, and the fact that they are being undercut by their own kind. The biggest threat to entertainers is from themselves, they are all competing for the same scarce resources and there is no effective legal structure to protect their income.

[quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1329995260' post='1550915'] [/quote] Seconded! HAHAHAHAA!

I think he makes a lot of sense. But it is simplistic and more relevant to his type of genre, jazz, than it is to mine - original music. I think he missed a point in that he has only written from the perspective of the music being interactive wallpaper, rather than the main attraction. His type of band should be paid a certain sum to perform, not get percentages of the door, bar takings, or be expected to bring an audience. The venues he talks about are multi-function, a place where people want to go to meet friends, talk, drink eat and listen to 'good' live music. They should be paid properly if the club owner hires them to fulfill his vision of the venue, just like any other service should be paid for. In this sense, he is dead right. Most of the pub/club venues I play at with Kit operate similarly to the way he suggests is a good model, however, the promotion is usually handled by the external promoter putting on the 'night'. It's a combination of the reputations of the promoter and of the venue that gets the punters in, the influence of the bands themselves on the size of the audience appears to be quite small. Nevertheless, we almost never get paid, but we are doing it to build a reputation and an audience, hopefully dividends from our investment will be paid in the future. The promoter and the venue are giving US an opportunity to play to an audience. We are not a wallpaper band, we want the audience's attention on US. The venue and the promoter's reputations benefit by the bands hopefully thrilling some people with our music and performances. It's symbiotic until the there's a significant change in reputation of one of the three parties involved. The letter is good, but only really relevant to small-time working jazz bands and lounge acts who are there to augment the ambience of eating and drinking establishments.

[quote name='Matt_Arlita' timestamp='1326819651' post='1502393'] [media]http://youtu.be/MPqnzpkK6pw[/media] A bit of rocking out yesterday on the bass with two extra strings. [/quote] That's really good, you have really nice feel. Very smooth.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1329955045' post='1550538'] Mr ****, I was replying to what somebody had said to me actually. [/quote] Ok mate, no worries, deleted.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1329953681' post='1550507'] Very Jamerson from 'What's going on'. Which is the highest praise you can give any bass player in my opinion. If he was playing live then he deserves a round of applause because he was flawless and had great feel. [/quote]

This isn't a video either. I recorded it on a 4 track Fostex X-26 about 20 years ago. Drums were programmed on an Alesis HR16, bass was a Bass Collection SGC Nanyo DIed through a Marshall JCM900 twin combo, guitar was the same amp and an Aria Pro II super Strat with a Kahler. It sounds a bit naive to me now, but it's not bad. http://soundcloud.com/silddx/no-feet-allowed-1992

Another Absolution fan here. Great album.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1329946926' post='1550306'] Could be worse you could look like that bloke in your avatar. [/quote] I was wondering what a 'block' was, and whether to feel insulted

[quote name='umcoo' timestamp='1329925094' post='1549853'] Good thread! I bought an Ibanez Blazer just so I could pretend to be like him His playing, especially on the first 2 (and maybe less so the 3rd) albums, is just great. Love it. [/quote] Didn't he sell that Blazer on ebay a few years ago?

[quote name='M-N-Y' timestamp='1329949821' post='1550395'] Watching someone as talented as Uriah Duffy play the DL bass line makes me realise just how good Henrik is. [/quote] That's exactly what I was thinking but I didn't want to say it

[quote name='crez5150' timestamp='1329950421' post='1550420'] Indeed....... Though I'm 'one of those' that doesn't mind X-Factor [/quote] I don't either, but I think it's best days are over. It was extremely entertaining a few years ago.

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1329941448' post='1550191'] If I was like those people in work that irritate me, this is where I would see an opportunity to relate a story about a time that I was in Jamaica it since aim not one and haven't been there, I won't. [/quote] http://basschat.co.uk/topic/168901-your-weekly-alcohol-units/

[quote name='Jam' timestamp='1329949617' post='1550388'] I thought the bass playing was quite interesting, it's Bruno Mars that I think is dross. [/quote] This is the thing. Bruno Mars is not dross, he is almost completely derivative, saying nothing new, but he IS very good at what he does. However, all the geezers on here saying he's great would probably have a vastly different opinion if he was the winner of X-Factor, which is what he sounds like.

[quote name='GregHughes' timestamp='1329947450' post='1550327'] I thought it looked mimed when I watched it last night as it was a pretty complex bass line with those dance moves. Maybe I'm just synical/jealous. [/quote] I'm finding these comments amazing. Is our music culture so bad that a good musician moving about or singing at the same time as playing something a titchy bit complex means he must be miming? EVH is miming? Flea is miming? Geddy is miming? Fvck me :S

[quote name='jonno1981' timestamp='1329946987' post='1550312'] I seriously thought he was miming all the way through the performance. Some great Jameson esque bass parts and tremendous bass tone! Maybe I need to listen again but it looked and sounded far too perfect for a live show. [/quote] Weird People CAN play well live you know. A perfect sounding band CAN actually be real.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' timestamp='1329946438' post='1550298'] 46 years have not been kind [/quote]

Why do you like him (the bassist) so much?