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[url="http://www.scala-london.co.uk/scala/event.php?id=2086"]http://www.scala-lon...ent.php?id=2086[/url] They have an album out 'Not the Weapon But The Hand' and in addition to playing that, they will be doing some Porcupine Tree and Marillion numbers apparently. Should be an interesting show. Tour Dates .. August 29 Germany Berlin FritzClub 31 Poland Inowroclaw Festival September 1 Poland Krakow Studio Club 3 Germany Munich Backstage 4 Germany Bonn Bruckenforum 5 Belgium Verviers Spirit of 66 7 France Paris Le Trabendo 8 Holland Uden De Pul 9 Holland Amsterdam Paradiso 11 UK Manchester Ritz 12 UK London Scala We'll be performing our album "Not The Weapon But The Hand" as well as music from our respective solo albums and bands. Getting a 6 piece band together now and it's looking good. More updates will be posted at our [url="https://www.facebook.com/HogarthBarbieri"]Facebook page[/url]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1372237782' post='2123118'] Excellent news, it's a real winning collaboration [/quote] It's fabulous! I can wait to hear more! I've played it over and over since I first heard it.

[quote name='steviedee' timestamp='1372200972' post='2122948'] Just put the cleartones on my Ricky and I have to admit I think they are excellent. They feel great the coating is really subtle. I generally find the rick a bit of a challenge but the heavier gauge really helps out. [/quote] I'm very pleased and relieved to hear it mate!

Amazing entries this month. One of them blew my f***ing mind though, and I can't stop listening to it

The genuine Fender Strat gold anodised PG arrived from the States today. It looks beautiful and was a perfect fit. Can't wait for the Jazz to get one.

Although I'm a reasonably decent player with a pretty good ear and musical imagination, I'm self taught, and over the past few months I've felt ready to make some commitment to learning theory, some notation, and generally being able to understand music much better so I can develop my musical imagination and translate it to my bass (and guitar for that matter) better and quicker. I had a lesson with Jake over two years ago but didn't feel able to make a suitable level of commitment at that time. He kinda blew me away with his intense level of insight, knowledge, experience, and his general philosophy and attitude to music and learning. He also said something to me at the end which both scared the sh*t out of me and hugely inspired me at the same time - Jake was singing and playing the exact things he was singing, improvising, I thought 'I can do a bit of that!' and so I did. What Jake said next was a revelation for me, he said 'the difference is that I'm playing what I'm singing, what you're doing is singing what you are playing.' And he was dead right. Finally, I have found the confidence and commitment to start learning how play what I'm singing, to start learning to be at one with my instrument. I'm under no illusion about how long this will take. So I had a very reassuring chat with Jake a couple of weeks ago and got a lesson scheduled. I was full of ideas and preconceptions last night, I was vague and unsure what I needed, or wanted, to learn but I had some ideas. We talked, and played, and discussed, and Jake put up with all my yap. Jake has highly penetrating insight into the needs of a student, having taught so many. After an hour of chit chat, he made sense of my rambling unformed thoughts and preconceptions of my own abilities. He assessed my knowledge and technique (thankfully my technique is generally fine), then Jake showed me some things he can do that made me go 'THAT'S WHAT I NEED!!' So after a bit more talk and playing, he gave me my homework and I have taken my first step on the path to understanding. I won't give away what he's set me but it involves all keys, but after half an hour of doing a little bit after he left, it's like a light has turned on and I can't believe I hadn't spotted the pattern before, it's already unlocked a big chunk of fingerboard, and that's just the very beginning, I will be having two hours with Jake every month or so. Anyway, I have a lot of work to do, and there is that mountain to start climbing, but that mountain looks so bright and beautiful now (not that massive, dark, impenetrable mass it was before), and I know that when I reach the summit, another mountain will appear It's all very exciting! Thanks Jake!

Nice gig at the Silver Bullet on Saturday, next one is this coming Thursday[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] 27 Jun - Buffalo Bar - London N1 (supporting [/font][/color][b]Indelicates, [/b]who are f***ing cool![color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif])[/font][/color]

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1371818731' post='2118477'] Jeremy is an awfully middle class twits name for a bunch of grungy traveller cool as hell alternative lifestyle so hip it hurts eco warrior mofos isnt it??? [/quote] AH! I was confused innit. Jeremy is the bassist's name. And I reckon he's about right, I played with Zulu on the same bill as the Levellers, there were loads of people there like that Thank you Si !

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1371818896' post='2118481'] I actually quite like a lot of Reznor's stuff, I'm dismayed to find out I've been wasting my time! Nirvana and G'n'R, similarly. Just out of interest, can you recommend some music of merit? Something that you listen to perhaps. I'm genuinely interested to find out what you consider worthwhile and of acceptable 'merit'. [/quote] Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark.

Ad, this is the first time I've seen this thread. Congratulations! I hear great things about Eastwood.

Would someone kindly explain this one to me please [b]20. Richey Edwards on The Levellers[/b] “You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.”

Mark E Smith. What a jumped up little arsehole.

[quote name='Hector' timestamp='1371753170' post='2117799'] On the topic of playing by ear: I haven't had time to transcribe much in the last fortnight. I had a gig on Tuesday where I was really struggling to hear what I wanted to play clearly. Today, I had a gig where my soloing and walking lines came directly out of my head and through the bass with little effort and no 'conscious' thinking - almost as if playing by pure instinct or as if singing. This is the first time that has happened, and the feeling was indescribably wonderful. I expect I'll be chasing that for years to come. What made the difference? Two hour transcribing on Wednesday evening. Really opens up the ears..... [/quote] Oh I love that feeling! I've started transcribing and learning a live version of Zoot Allures by Zappa with Scott Thunes on bass, that's just learning it by ear, not notating it or anything, and already I have floods of ideas and inspiration. I have a gig tomorrow and I can't wait

Some of them are funny, some are f***ing harsh, especially the one about Eric Clapton, amusing nonetheless. http://flavorwire.com/200333/the-30-harshest-musician-on-musician-insults-in-history

It's a lovely idea. Just to let you know there is a pinned thread here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/210389-we-need-strings-charity/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/210389-we-need-strings-charity/[/url] at the top of the GD page

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1371674430' post='2116924'] There is no doubt that knowing your fretboard and some theory is an asset when playing music. No one picks up a bass or any instrument for the first time and automatically knows what to play. Like I said earlier, playing by ear is a matter of listening closely and trying to copy. One of the first riffs I learned to play was "Sunshine of Your Love" by CREAM. I had no idea about any notes on the fretboard, or what the actual notes I was playing were. I simply kept searching the FB for the right notes, and after a while of trial and error and many playbacks ( plus a lot of patience) my ears and fingers were in agreement, and I nailed the riff. I used this method with lots of songs, and over time patterns began to emerge and it got a bit easier. Being an old dinosaur, I did not have much choice back then, as there was no Internet resources for instruction and very few teachers, even if I had the money to pay for one. In a way, I am glad I was forced to work things out for myself. This is why beginners are constantly advised not to be overly dependent on tabs as they impede the development of the ear. So, with this groundwork under my belt, things could only get better when I started learning the fretboard and some basic theory. [/quote] I was surprised to hear from Lawrence Cottle that transcribing includes learning by EAR, rather than what I'd assumed was listening and writing down notation. I've been transcribing by ear since I was 18. And it made perfect sense to me what LC was saying (although a weird revelation), you can't transcribe without having an ear! Of course you f*cking can't, why didn't I even realise that!

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1371676436' post='2116956'] AFAIK, this is not a deluxe. The deluxe that I know has three stacked pots plus a single one. This looks just like a regular J-Retro 01, unless of course John has changed features at some point in time. best, bert [/quote] Correct

Have you asked him what's going on his bonce when this happens? It's possibly the same thing as playing and talking at the same time. I think time will cure this and it won't happen overnight. Definitely metronome practice or even playing with the recorded ensemble version of the song. He will start to break the timing and rhythm into smaller pieces soon.

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1371650446' post='2116617'] I don`t really understand the playing by ear thing. Surely you need the basic theory to know what you are hearing? How would someone know what note is being played if they don`t know how to play a bass? How do you get to play by ear and know what notes to play? [/quote] for me all the music I play and listen to is in my head as music. I can improvise to music without knowing what the notes are or what the scale is or the intervals. This is limited however as although I can hear the notes I want to play over the backing music, I can't always play those notes quickly enough. Now I'm taking lessons to learn what I need to do that. Music comes before theory. I can sing all my bass lines without knowing what the harmonic structure is, practice and knowing i can always hear them in my head means I can play them again and again.

Theory can't teach taste. I agree with the op. I can sing what I want to hear but I wish I could translate that very quickly to the fingerboard. That's why I am starting lessons soon - theory, reading, technique and all that will be to serve my ears and imagination and allow me to make music more efficiently. But taste is all down to me.

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1371632189' post='2116313'] I don`t have "bad" days so to speak, but I do have "much better" days, when everything just sounds great (to me), and for no apparent reason. [/quote] I was going to say this too. I have fallen head over heels for my new Jazz Bass, and I'm playing a lot at the moment, partly because I'm recording guitar and bass for an album of sitar based fusion, rehearsing and gigging a fair bit, and about to start lessons with Jake. I'm fired up, enjoying bass more than ever, and playing for fun too every night. I'm normally decent even after a lay off so I don't have 'bad' days, but every day is a very good day for me at the moment. I'm playing better than ever.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1371649696' post='2116611'] That brings a few memories..was often down there early 90's.. and was indeed the Orange Club at the time [/quote] God that's going back, what, at least ten years?!

Lee Thompson is the sax player from Madness, and he does look like Van Morrison after a year at a health spa

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1371646102' post='2116539'] Haven't played there for a few years but the Underworld in Camden certainly used to be a focal point for the heavy rock/metal/thrash scene Also could try The Purple Turtle in Camden? [/quote] Both great suggestions Clarky. Also check the Dublin Castle in Camden.

Do you mean the J Retro with four knobs and a side jack fitting, not three knobs and the jack on the control plate?