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I so wish I could mate!

I like this seriously polarised set of opinions

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='855576' date='Jun 3 2010, 12:13 AM']This shouldn't be allowed. Except for bassists who are allergic to strings - they should be allowed to wear gloves that keep the strings off them. But otherwise, no. This is bad and someone should put a stop to it before it catches on.[/quote]

[quote name='hitchy64' post='855559' date='Jun 2 2010, 11:47 PM']I can see why he wears them, but it's not very rock n' roll is it. You'd look a bit of a twat playing in them really lol[/quote] You're kidding right? The are the coolest, sexiest thing out! I've added a recording I just did to see if you can tell the difference .. Gloves or no Gloves, in the OP.

Last week I ordered some of these thin black silk gloves like Etienne Mbappé uses. They arrived today. I tried them and to my total surprise they are amazing! They are so comfortable and feel really natural to play with. I can still play very fast riffs with total accuracy. Now, I only bought them because I'm a slag and they look real sexy. Etienne wears them because he has massively acidic sweat and he kills his strings within the first three numbers of a set and he now swears by them. If you have this problem, I can't recommend them highly enough. I am really looking forward to playing a gig with them now! These are the ones I got and I ordered a size smaller than my hands, I think - ie. small and my hands are about small/medium. [url="http://www.jasminesilk.com/product_info.php?products_id=36"]http://www.jasminesilk.com/product_info.php?products_id=36[/url] OK tell me which half of this is Gloves. I just recorded this tonight to give them a test. [attachment=51281:01_Glove..._Gloves_.mp3] How cool is this?!

Input impedance?

[quote name='witterth' post='853673' date='Jun 1 2010, 03:31 PM']Yeah, fair enough Nigel,Ive "got on one" here havent I? and for that I should say sorry too! Ive got too much time on my hands, but its for one week only That bastar#d did kill my gerbil though, how did you know about that? all the best back at ya! John love the mini "kwim" thread in this !! [/quote] A virtual pint is on its way mate Cheers!

[quote name='witterth' post='853650' date='Jun 1 2010, 03:00 PM']silddix I thought this was/is just a chat forum for "down the pub type of conversation",please dont patronise/insult me by thinking this story is some thing thats REALLY imporant to me, of course its not. "pissy little things & Elton John routine" is just being rude. you have taken what I have posted completley out of context. it was meant to be a bit of a laugh at the way small things just "get" to us at times Had a sense of humor or empathy bypass operation recently? "be gratious"? practise what you preach. I'm sure you may well have really important worries and woes to concern you and find yourself repelled by my trivial scrawlings on the wall. I'm suprised you have the time to read any of this with all the IMPORTANT things you have to do and get cross about. ( I know...I know...."welcome to the internet".... ) Ill make like Duncan the Dragon " ahve herd enougff, so fer thaat reason ahm oot" alright allright I surrender...teenager indeed!! in my defense you had to be there I suppose critisim is one thing...vitriolic attack another maybe that wasnt clear enough I suppose. I wish Id kept me gob shut now! [/quote] YOU brought all this up, mate. We are telling you what we think of your actions at the time and how you still feel about it now. Put a disclaimer in your post if you only want comment from those who agree with you and your actions. Life's too short for bearing grudges, especially for people who diss your tone and gear a little bit. It's not like he tortured your pet gerbil to death is it. If I've taken this out of context, I apologise, but you had a proper rant about a tiny little thing that happened years ago. How do you expect people to react? "Har har, what a happy life you must have had since!"? All the best, Nigel

[quote name='witterth' post='853604' date='Jun 1 2010, 02:28 PM']Oh sorry, I see how I came across as a "prick" now, its just, I dont remember seeing you there at the time. [/quote] Remember this? "Rant over,but KWIM?" People are telling you they [b]don't[/b] know what you mean.

[quote name='witterth' post='853595' date='Jun 1 2010, 02:18 PM']Probably right P, but I just didnt. what can I say? Im only human and certainly no saint!! does no one here ever just get CROSS!! eh? or if they do just cant admit to it? sometimes when youre alone at night with your own thoughts dont you ever just think..... "if only I could go back to that moment I'd............. (insert here)" Oh come on, you know you have![/quote] I'm sure plenty of us get CROSS, but about things that are important, not about pissy little things like the experience you have told us about. Just be gracious and keep your dignity. You should have talked to the guy instead of doing your Elton John routine.

Can't see why you're still pissed off about it TBH. If it was someone worthy of musical respect I might understand you being concerned, but you reckon he's a know nothing so it's like being called an ugly bugger by a child. So stop wasting your energy with such trifles. I also can't dig that you blanked him. Are you quick to anger? I think Joe Toasted has an excellent point. Just my thrupence worth.

[quote name='Josh' post='852055' date='May 30 2010, 07:55 PM']Smooth and warm as possible, treble is fully cut, I'll have maybe a little bit if I have some slap parts coming up but other than that even the slightest bit of treble ruins my tone. My Thumb is naturally warm and prominent in the lower mids so I have little need to muck around with my eq on either my bass or amp.[/quote] I'm with you on this, Josh. I like that sound the best, I usually have some big old dub bottom end on it too. Depends on the band though, I use more zingy tones with Kit quite often, suits the music better.

The Jaco one I posted is a spoof?

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='850100' date='May 28 2010, 09:51 AM']THAT's what I'm talkin' about. Excellent![/quote] Good stuff! Looking forward to watching that with Mrs silddx on the sofa

The programme was about ROCK 'n' ROLL! Not reggae, not funk, not jazz, not Victor Wooten, not Rocco Prestia, not Joey Spampinato. [b]ROCK 'n' ROLL[/b] Get over yourself and realise it's a lighthearted, populist look at ROCK n ROLL musicians. What in god's name do you want a serious TV programme on bass players for? There would be nothing on it you haven't got access to already, no amazing insights, no rare footage of Geddy Lee playing upright when he was a 17 stone teenager, nothing. All it would be is the bass equivalent of getting your ladyfriend to sit on the sofa with you and watch porn. All that will happen is you get all horny over the same sh*t you've seen a thousand times before, you think your girlie feels the same, then you realise you haven't even spoken to her, looked at her or thought about her for 58.5 minutes and you then see she's fast asleep next to you with drool on the left side of her chin. Off you go on your own to your bedroom, and have a w*** on your bass for 20 minutes.

A good bass player is highly sympathetic with the music - with timing, tone and notes, a good songwriter, a good dresser, a good mover, and often depressed.

[quote name='funkysimon' post='34730' date='Jul 20 2007, 03:27 PM']How many of us basschatters can read music? I can just about stumble through, though I'm never certain I'm playing in the right octave, and I certainly wouldn't be able to sight-read a piece of music; usually I have to think long and hard about tied semi-quavers and dotted this-that-and-the-others. That said, I've not done any music grade exams, and I guess that's where a lot of this stuff is taught. If you can read music, do you find you use the skill a lot? Do you think it's an important skill? To test a correlation, if you can read music, are you also the kind of person that never practices without a metronome?[/quote] The more I play, the more I wish I had trained properly and got a theoretical musical education, learned all my scales and learned to read properly.

"Excuse me, which way is the exit please?"

Doesn't bother me at all, I play them (and they are very well written lines I should add) with as much style and panache as possible and do little rhythmic flourishes where necessary. Anyway, stage performance is much more exciting to me than doing little extra bass fills here and there, I'd rather be dancing We are bass players, we do what is right for the songs and the singers. That is where our pride should lie, not going rilly rilly ree like the guitar players.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='844163' date='May 21 2010, 02:00 PM']You may recall the topics a few months back about Music Ground allegedly going bust. They're ba-a-a-ck. [url="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/MusicGroundInc"]http://stores.ebay.co.uk/MusicGroundInc[/url] Only the name has been changed, to protect the innocent. [/quote] No, the prices have changed too, now they're even more stupid!

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='844108' date='May 21 2010, 01:23 PM']Is alexs column a good read?[/quote] Nah, I just post any old crap at that time of night. Of COURSE it's a good read!

Told you you were a bloody good writer, didn't I. Keep the size of your testicles in order now Seriously, congratulations man, a fantastic achievement!

[quote name='davidmpires' post='843879' date='May 21 2010, 09:58 AM']Is it the copy with the bass player for David Bowie?[/quote] No, it's the one with Florence and the Machine's bassist on the cover. The one with Gail Ann Dorsey is last month's.

[quote name='davidmpires' post='843869' date='May 21 2010, 09:52 AM']I couldn't see a mention on their website will have to go to WHSmith for lunch[/quote] It may not be in the shops yet, David, mine is a subs copy.