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What is all this crap? I'm getting hot MILFs and lonely Texas wives following me on Soundcloud. I can mute them, but there seems no simple way of reporting these rogues to Soundcloud. Wot gives?

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1384668591' post='2279265'] When I say "skillful" I'm not talking about chops. I mean skillful as composers, players, lyricists, etc. And yes, I like to think that a band sounds better once I apply my knowledge to what they do. That's what an artistic collaboration is all about. If you don;t understand why skill is important than that explains a lot. [/quote] Thanks for the clarification. My opinion stands.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1384639172' post='2279128'] Whatevs. Actually smiling. [/quote] Please explain to us why a bass has magic for one bassist and not another then.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1384638517' post='2279121'] You continue to contradict yourself, which I've just noticed somebody else pointed out. How can you be so passionate about musical equipment???, apparently it's all in your fingers. I'm damn sure a painter and sculptor have tried all manner of tools and brushes, and have a set that they have found that they wouldn't part with, as they feel special to them. I bet they don't just get some from B&Q and use them. All musicians I know would all claim that some instruments have that rare quality that makes them magical, including classical musicians, and guitarists, without exception. I'm done on this thread. [/quote] Why you done? I am NOT contradicting myself. The magic comes from the player finding the right equipment according to their body and mind's needs and perception. Just because someone thinks a certain bass is magical for whatever reason doesn't mean the bass has magic, does it. It's all in the mind.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384635734' post='2279077'] They weren't what i'd call a punk group. [/quote] Totally agree. They are what they are to the people who listen to them.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1384637434' post='2279107'] No-one said it had a soul, I think your getting a bit excited. It's simply about how it feels in your hands, nothing more. Vintage sellers don't tell me anything, or need to tell me anything, I know a great bass when I play one. Nothing spiritual about it, and that wasn't implied or intended, your words. As for your quote "Everything good about a bass is in the player", with respect, I think that's a total load of old balls, in fact, its probably the biggest load of old balls I've ever heard whilst talking about guitars. But we all have our opinions. [/quote] Yes, I AM excited. That's why I am still so passionate about music and musical equipment after all these years. When have you ever heard an artist or a sculptor raving about the magic of their brushes and chisels? It's all in the mind mate.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1384634764' post='2279060'] I've just read the rest of this thread, after posting something at the beginning. I think a lot has gone off-track a little, but had to reply to this post. I disagree entirely with this. I'm a very average player, and whatever bass I play, I'm still very average, there's certainly no magic in my playing. I have however felt the magic in many basses. There are basses out there that I've played, and they have felt effortless to play, with dream tones, and simply ooze magic, and make everything, including my playing, sound amazing. I've only experienced this with old, good example, original, vintage Fender basses though, haven't even come close to that emotion and feeling with anything else, and its certainly not coming from me. So no, if you find an instrument that oozes this magic, then its a rare thing, but it happens, and I usually buy it, and rarely part with them (A rare exception happened recently actually, when i sold a very rare, magical original 50's Precision, to a friend of 'chilliwailer' on here, who came with him to check the bass out, this was one of those magical basses, and hopefully chilliwailer will testify to this, as he's a subscriber to this thread, and he will confirm, i'm sure, that magic does come from some instruments). You cant explain it, but if you've experienced it, then you know what I mean, if you haven't, then you haven't, but hopefully you will. You also said in another post " If a bass is decent, one can find oneself through it. The best bass is the bass you don't even notice you're playing". I agree with this, which makes your posts confusing to me, and contradicting. I suggest you play as many pre-cbs Fenders as you can find, and odds are, you will find a magical one, and then you'll know. [/quote] It's a piece of wood and metal, and a little plastic. They are all different. On their own, they are nothing. If they fall into the hands of the right players, who the wood and metal and plastic fit perfectly with their bodies and minds, then the wood and metal and plastic can facilitate the magical feelings in the bassists who hold them. Everything good about a bass is in the player. I have the bass that makes me feel like this, it's a 1983 USA Fender Jazz. I have played some '60s Fenders, they were all bad for me. Oddly, a beat up old Ricky 4001 really made me feel magical a few years ago, and I hate Rickys. It's spiritual man, no bass has a spirit despite what vintage sellers tell you. The spirit, and the magic, is in the player. It's just wood and metal and plastic. It has no soul.

That's really good for a second practice. Congratulations on your new band! Great feeling isn't it

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1384631851' post='2279019'] I think that's unfair, it was an honest mistake made by 3 out of the 6 people in question doesn't mean I'm anti-feminist it just means she is very masculine, nothing wrong with that same thing as Brian Molko he looks like a woman (some confusing times as a child) not a criticism just a fact. [/quote] Oh crikey mate, I was being lighthearted while making a general point, nothing about you at all. I don't find her masculine in the slightest, I think she's gorgeous. But that's not why I like the band so much, I just love their power and presence. The songs are really immersive too.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1384631252' post='2279004'] My wife said bloke as well, wasn't intending to be offensive but she is very masculine. [/quote] She is an elfin beauty! What's wrong with you people?!

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1384631127' post='2279002'] Maybe because she doesn't have a mini-skirt and a big rack that some may get confused. [/quote] One does wonder, doesn't one. Perhaps there are too many videos of chicks with low tops playing funk bass on YT so people think that's all women can do with music. I mean, god help us, an ANGRY feminist woman? In this day and age?

[quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1384630636' post='2278994'] You 2 should be worried [/quote] SERIOUSLY! A bloke?! A punky bloke in stilettos? Her voice sounds nothing like a bloke either. She's an immensely attractive woman! Something is very wrong with either you geezers, or me

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1384629225' post='2278974'] The whole fake attitude thing has never done it for me but not a bad sound apart from the vocalist. [/quote] Interesting Wayne. It's the vocalist I find so special. The band support her wonderfully IMO.

Cool!

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1384619778' post='2278835'] Well, maybe not ones that you like as much. But ones with equal skill. They do have the advantage of being produced so there's a slickness there. I've produced dozens of bands like that. In downtown NY, you'd see bands like that one after the other. I just see it as energetic amateurism. But again, if you like it you like it. Not everything I like is masterful. But I do require some melody or something interesting and original. That band just sounds like a w***er bar band to me. Sorry. [/quote] I don't understand why skill is important anyway. This band are skilful, very tight, great dynamics, they care about the music. Whaddya want? A punky Snarky Puppy? w***er bar band? Nice that you have produced many w***er bar bands, did they sound good after you applied your magic?

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1384615265' post='2278778'] I like that they have a retro thing going on. I just don't think they're very good. [b]You can see hundreds of bands like this in pubs, basements and garages every day. [/b] There's no composition skill. The playing is elementary. I remember as well as anyone what fun it was to bash away as a lad and still enjoy doing it and hearing it now and then. But these days I need a little more emotion other than rambunctiousness. [/quote] No you can't.

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1384612103' post='2278731'] Will do. The last one...which starred Alan "Bricktop" Ford got a decent European distribution deal so hopefully this next one will on Amazon in a few years [/quote] Excellent!!

[quote name='Thunderbird' timestamp='1384606864' post='2278619'] Ravey was the best way I could think to describe it [/quote]

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1384592013' post='2278393'] are you bassing or guitaring on this Nige? sharing it about [/quote] Neither on the recording, Steve, it's synth bass. I replicate it live. Sam's our wonderful guitarist Thanks for sharing it mate!

Done Paul.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1384605693' post='2278596'] Just the impression threads like this (and their subject matter) leave me with. Moderation has basically robbed the 'wanted' section of all usefulness, while we wait for some sort of magic software solution to the trying to sell for free problem. My preferred solution would be thread deletion when problems arise, rather than swinging a sledge hammer at a small nut. You can't tell me that the problem was so huge that the moderators were being deluged by dodgy ads. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate everything you guys do for the site, I just think you're wrong this time. [/quote] Why is it robbed of usefulness? I don't understand that. It's easily searchable. Sadly there are people abusing it to avoid paying a small fee apparently and Hamster has had to impose some restrictions to minimise it. This site has become very large, it was different a few years ago.

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1384597138' post='2278461'] Don't understand lifting the Joy Division blueprint and reapplying it 34 years later really, in fact I find it kind of depressing that originality in music is becoming something that no longer has to apply. [/quote] Originality is not celebrated. Anything 'original' and different is usually slated too isn't it. There's plenty of 'original' music out there. All music draws from the past as well as the present.

Blimey! All this criticism because a band sounds like other bands from the past. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Siouxsie as well. There seems to be a big thing about funk on Basschat, and yet almost all the funk bands that people rave about sound like music from the 70s. There's nothing wrong with some young people taking from the past, they have something to say lyrically about the current, they have what seems to me to be a real fire in their bellies. Never mind, I like them.

[quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1384604753' post='2278583'] This place is turning into talkbass by degrees... [/quote] How do you mean?

[quote name='paul h' timestamp='1384604316' post='2278577'] This was a few years ago and to my knowledge nothing ended up on YouTube (thank god...I was never really happy with them) I was also asked to score a feature once but as I was already designing the posters, opening titles and closing credits I felt I had to pass. Luckily the same writer/director is working on a new screenplay and has already approached me. It's all just low budget indie stuff so I will be doing it more for the love of it than for money and fame [/quote] Hopefully that's why most of us do these things mate That's really nice he approached you to do it. I hope it goes well Paul. Link us to the result when it's out.