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[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1410459781' post='2549736'] Yeah checked that and there equal in hardness and size and placing. Ive tried using different techniques such as letting my finger bend and roll over the string and same result. [/quote] You probably need to practice your technique. Play some sh*t really slowly and concentrate HARD on plucking evenly on both fingers. Do exercises that involve crossing strings, paradiddle your fingers ( [i]i i m i m m i m i i m i m m i m [/i]etc ), and whatever else you fancy. Do it regularly and you'll probably reap good rewards.

1. Hamster - 2. Silverfoxnik - BC Rich Eagle, Schecter Diamond P5, Levinson Blade B15, amp & cab tbc 3. Bluejay - with no fewer than two cameras, and possibly her so far pretty successful - despite being lefty - Warwick Corvette 5 Pro 4. Happy Jack - who knows what I will bring this year? 5.Chris B 6.TheGreek 7. iD Entity - Zon 5, Wal 4, Amp of some kind, a couple fun pedals 8. Bassace: Double Bass and a small amp 9. Walman - some bits to be decided 10. Kiwi 11. Sibob - Whatever I'm using for my gig that night 12. obbm - Sadowskys, Mesa Prodigy, Berg CN212, Mesa Bottle Rocket and some cables 13. StephenY - Alpher Bass #004 and EBS TD650 14.seashell - MIM Fender Precision 15.Bottle - mixed bag of goodies, Ibanez, Squier and a bunch of cabs, amps n pedals 16.Macdaddy - possibly Paul the drummer. Will confirm at tonight's gig. 17. Billy Apple. Burman rig and a Ric. Maybe a Squier JV and some other bits 18. Clarky - maybe something DB-ish as my Fender JV Precision is covered by Billy Apple's 19. PTB - MTD 535, Reverend 5, MarkBass combo, any new toys acquired in the meantime 20. ChunkyMunky - Musicman Bongo 4HH, Musicman Bongo LTD '07 HS, MarkBass F1. 21. Charic - Modded MIM P, ACG 4, Yamaha RBX6JM, Hartke Kilo, Bergantino NV610 + Pedals 22. Shockwave - Waghorn RD Artist carved top clone. 23. Walbassist - Fender American Special Precision, Sandberg Custom Thinline fretless 5, Demeter VTBP-M-800D, Bergantino HD210 24. Johnm03 - Satellite and small Stagg thing... 25. steve-bbb - hartke + trb + status + couple of J's 26. xilddx - Fender Japan Power Jazz Bass Special / Zulu Bass / 1961 Gibson Melody Maker guitar / POD X3 LIVE

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1410439602' post='2549443'] I can happily report that I seem to be U2 free on both my iPhone and laptop [/quote] Thank god I'm in the same boat as you. I mean, what the f***? How f***ing DARE they?!

[quote name='taurus1' timestamp='1410451854' post='2549596'] Sadly the PA isn't very mighty,although I have tried your suggestion in the past.None of us were particularly happy with the result.If we can someday afford a better PA then it might be the way forward. [/quote] That's a shame, although maybe spend the cash on a PA cab that can take bass?

Some footage from our show at the Bournemouth International Centre last week. It was a brilliant gig to play, my first time with in ear monitors too, I'm a total convert! I'm on guitar and BVs, Chris Taylor on Bass, Simon Palmskin Richmond on BVs/MacBook/Percussion, Simon and Tim from the Kick Horns, Mitel Purohit on tabla, Ged Lynch on Drums, and Sheema on sitar and vocal. What a band to play with! If you watch it, I hope you enjoy it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeTH90bO1s

[quote] I started off with a number of different directions myself and ended up settling on what felt natural to me. I think that's an important thing to bear in mind when remixing - you can get caught up in trying to cater for what you think the band (or a specific audience) want to hear, when it's best to just go with your gut feeling and create something that sounds good to [u]you[/u], the remixer. [/quote] And you proved that beautifully mate

If you have a PA why bother with a cab at all? DI your head and use a monitor wedge (providing it's not a valve head of course).

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1410193847' post='2546996'] Big thumbs up from me! [/quote] Cool! You can download Skol's remix for free from the TGU website if you want. http://www.reverbnation.com/transglobalunderground/song/21763873-hoshe-mamba-skol-remix?1336410755

I adore it!! You've done a fabulous job mate and it really has your personality in it, You have a definite stamp on your music and remixes, that's really rare. Thanks so much for doing it! Nx

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1409168574' post='2537111'] A mere bagatelle for a man of your calibre. Looks like a great set-up. [/quote] Cheers man

I want to be there, and I don't want to be there. She's possibly the only massive artiste who's managed to retain all her mystique and her legend remains intact. All the reviews are amazing, but you know, I just want to remember Kate Bush in the way I've always remembered her.

[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1409158937' post='2536966'] This is lovely, Nigel. And available on vinyl too!! I'm gonna order a copy. Funnilly enough I saw a sitar player at a local gig this weekend. He was accompanied by a guy on 6 string bass. It was magical! I was thinking of starting a thread to see if anyone had any recommendations for sitar/Indian/fusion type music. But spookily enough, here was your thread just when I needed it, lol [/quote] Thanks Shell! Do you know who the sitarist was? Just finished about 12 hours of rehearsal. It was fantastic. Brilliant studio in Kings Cross, seems like all the great and good use it, called The Joint. We had our own sound engineers with their digital desk and in ear monitoring for everyone (except me, I had a wedge), so all monitor mixing is stored and ready to go tomorrow. It was without exception the best rehearsal sound I've ever been a part of, by miles! The band sounds fabulous too, Chris Taylor on bass, Ged Lynch on drums, Mitel Purohit on tabla, Simon and Tim from the Kick Horns on flute and various saxes, Simon Richmond MDing and running the production, and Sheema. It's a real honour playing with these fabulous musicians, it's very humbling, and they are such lovely people and unremittingly professional. Can't wait for the gig tomorrow!!

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1409036540' post='2535597'] Lovely review mate! Neil Spencer typically knows his onions too when it comes to spotting good music. Well, I usually agree with him... and of course my own taste is impeccable Very excited for you and all the best for the launch event on Thursday. [/quote] Cheers Paul

Thanks Mark. Now begins two days of 12 hour rehearsals

Thanks chaps!

Delighted that Sheema's new album just got a lovely 4 star review in The Guardian/Observer! [url="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/24/sheema-mukherjee-solo-debut-review-singular-creation"]http://www.theguardi...ngular-creation[/url] [i]Sheema Mukherjee: Sheema review [/i][i](ECC100)[/i] [i]– a singular creation Classically trained but a fusioneer by nature, sitarist [url="http://www.mukherjee.co.uk/"]Sheema Mukherjee[/url] has played with trance troupe [url="http://transglobalunderground.net/"]Transglobal Underground[/url] and folk radicals [url="http://imaginedvillage.com/"]the Imagined Village[/url] among others. This solo debut ([url="http://www.eccrecords.co.uk/ecc100"]vinyl/MP4 only[/url]) draws from her palette with panache. Slash Sitar is a showboating rock thrash (air sitar, anyone?); Sikkim Girls comes drenched in Bollywood strings; Morning Celeste is a dreamy neoclassical raga; and the driving Little Dragon sounds as though John Lee Hooker had mastered the sitar. More unexpected are sweetly sung covers of Radiohead and Françoise Hardy and playful evocations of 60s pop (Mrs Moo) and sodden samosas on an English beach (Bit God). A charming, altogether singular creation. [b]Neil Spencer[/b][/i] Here's a video of a few numbers from our second show in the Bournemouth International Centre. Top night! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqeTH90bO1s[/media]

[quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1408811090' post='2533743'] Sadly this often appears to be the case. I remember struggling as a child...we were dirt poor like all other working class people were, I wore "hand me downs" with patches on the knees and elbows of my clothes. We used to wake up during the winter with ice on the inside of our windows as we had no heating. This generation don't know hunger. [/quote] Your eyes and ears are closed if you think that doesn't happen now, all over the uk.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1408703487' post='2532673'] IME this arrogance and disregard is typical of a lot of this current generation. It seems to go with a sense of "entitlement" they all seem to have. This follows in the jobs market too. They all want great jobs from day1. Plus it [i]has [/i]to be something they will enjoy every moment of every day, or they won't do it. I also have a step-daughter who's looking to move rented accommodation. She can't find anything she can afford, so somehow it's her Mum's responsibility to fork out the extra or house her AND the bf. Besides, they can't both go to their own respective families can they? Or maybe that's just the ones I know? [/quote] LOL what nonsense! Arrogance and disregard for others spans all ages and socio-economic strata. Same as humility and consideration for others.

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1408699065' post='2532594'] What time you on? [/quote] Not sure mate, but probably about 8pm.

Basschat affiliate Xylem does these [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/112080-xylem-basses-guitars-build-progress/"]http://basschat.co.u...build-progress/[/url] [url="http://www.xylembassguitar.com"]http://www.xylembassguitar.com[/url] He is in the USA but BC member winterfire666 just received a bass from him and put a review on here. The basses look amazing!

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1408055614' post='2526797'] is she a punk rocker? [/quote] Eh?

[b]ECC100 Records Sheema Mukherjee Album Launch - Thurs 28 Aug - Gilgamesh in Camden London[/b] Very proud to be playing guitar and BVs with Sheema. It's quirky sitar fusion, and I've got butterflies because I'll be playing wicked music with some truly scary musicians. There will be drums, tabla, guitar, bass, sitar and vocals. [size=5][color=#FF0000][b]You need to register your free ticket here[/b][/color] [/size][url="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sheema-mukherjee-album-launch-tickets-12529220235"]https://www.eventbri...ets-12529220235[/url] From Wikipedia ... [i]Sheema Mukherjee is a British composer and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar"]sitar[/url] player. She is best known for her work with musical collective[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transglobal_Underground"]Transglobal Underground[/url] and [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imagined_Village"]The Imagined Village[/url]. She is the niece of sitarist [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikhil_Banerjee"]Nikhil Banerjee[/url]. In 2005, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)"]Billboard[/url] referred to her as a "sitar prodigy".[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheema_Mukherjee#cite_note-1"][1][/url] Mukherjee studied [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_classical_music"]Hindustani classical music[/url] under her uncle Nikhil Banerjee, [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Akbar_Khan"]Ali Akbar Khan[/url] and later [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aashish_Khan"]Aashish Khan[/url].[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheema_Mukherjee#cite_note-2"][2][/url] In 1998 she joined Transglobal Underground. In 2005, she composed the music for the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Playhouse"]West Yorkshire Playhouse[/url] productionsGluey and the Lion and Non-Contact Time. She also composed the score for the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamasha_Theatre_Company"]Tamasha Theatre Company[/url]'s 2009 musical [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights"]Wuthering Heights[/url].[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheema_Mukherjee#cite_note-3"][3][/url] Her composition "Bending The Dark" was featured during the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics"]2012 Summer Olympics[/url].[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheema_Mukherjee#cite_note-4"][4][/url][/i] Gilgamesh is a mad place too, you'll love it

Thomann have people who check over returned items and B-stock items for despatch (really?! f*** me.) I wouldn't be surprised if they swap necks and stuff, maybe even carry out repairs, but clearly they don't know what the f*** they're doing if that's the case. The frets lifting on subbeh's neck is totally unacceptable, can't believe it really.

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1407776249' post='2523904'] What's the problem? You've got a bass that can handle the gig and you can buy a good secondhand amp for good money. There is far too much emphasis put on owning expensive gear when in reality, as nice as it is, it's not strictly necessary. I've played gigs on cheap basses and no one cares as long as it works and you play it well. We've all bought gear for the sake of it but really, the gear is secondary to the playing. Go out, play with your band, enjoy yourself and if/when you have enough cash you can upgrade if you want but until then play and enjoy what you have and don't worry about what you think other people think you should be playing. [/quote] Bang on. In fact, if the sort of gigs Bonzo does have PAs and on stage monitors, he could just get a Sansamp or even a cheapie behringer active DI. Most pro musicians are semi-skint anyway.

That's a lot of bangers for a bass. And I'm delighted for you! I always loved Xylem's work to look at, and I'm so pleased the bass exceeded your expectations. Worth every red cent.