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[quote name='fatgoogle' timestamp='1369429438' post='2089309'] Really enjoyed my first listen, especially the Private universe and trust tracks for me. I went to a Nick seymour masterclass last year, very interesting and a cool guy. Be great if you had a couple of 7" pressed. [/quote] Thanks man, that's great to hear! Vinyl would be so cool, but financially unviable at the moment. What was the masterclass about? Production?

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1369514596' post='2090077'] Like the video Nige P*ss funny in places - the opening lines by Kit genuinely made me LOL. And the band as a whole seem like a good bunch. I can see why you love being a part of this! [/quote] Cheers mate The band really are all very lovely people

[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1369430793' post='2089323'] To be fair though, I was playing grade 5 piano tunes by the age of 9 (along with half a million other 9 year olds).... that doesnt get youtube videos. He's very good.... doesnt mean he'll be a great. Listening to it theres about 5 parts to it. [/quote] That may be true. But the kid's got natural timing and expression. He's clearly extremely musical and he feels what he's doing.

10 year old drummer .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1wbR4BX7U

I could have been in the 3rd row Alex side (colleague with connexions), told me he'd be in touch with a ticket. I think I must have pissed him off or summat, never heard a word. Should I be regretful? I am sort of, but I've seen them a few times, never up close though. The've been my favourite band for 30 odd years.

[quote name='John Cellario' timestamp='1369423917' post='2089243'] Good player...I also grew to hate slapping in the 80's when I worked in a music shop and everyone tried to play like Mark King but this is very tasty. [/quote] Wicked note choices aren't they! I like this too, although it's more circusy, but still tasty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WWcf6eVCfI#t

Stunning slap bass, really beautiful and musical, also superbly executed. I love this guy, Stephen Jay, never heard of him before today, he was Weird Al's bassist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVILzPXpSSo&

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1369380507' post='2088463'] Do you have to pay royalties for recording covers? I ask as we make a concious decision to only record original material when in the studio. That having been said I probably wouldn't want to record a cover in any case, I don't enjoy playing them at gigs too much either. Sadly they seem to be increasingly necessary in pubs and clubs. Will give the recording a listen at the weekend. The previously advertised PH song was nicely done I thought. [/quote] You know, I'm really not sure what the implications are, but I'm sure some payments will need to be made. Cheers.

Fantastic news mate! Congratulations! Very well deserved.

They may have assumed it was the house rig, they may have been inexperienced or whatever. When we gig with other bands, we usually arrange long before who's using what.

And NOW! The Making of Love Songs in Age, there's some shits and f*cks in it so NSFW I suppose [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B59JvPyt8DY[/media]

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1369319256' post='2087720'] He was also in Gong and played guitar (this may please Nige!) [attachment=135359:steve-hillage.jpg] [/quote] F*ck me! Nosferatu before the files arrived in the post?

Fakkin jokers, the lot ov yer!

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1369150238' post='2085488'] Hey thanks Xilddx, I knew you'd be as enthralled as I am! Yes got to agree with you that Thomas Wictor is one of the best bass journos we've had. I love his writing and the Interviewing Bassists threads are just amazing on so many levels. So much to absorb and learn from (I find myself going back to it to take notes on all the fantastic album suggestions/youtube links - such great new music to get turned on to!) But it's the 'all laid bare' personal and spiritual matters that unfold with nothing less than full support and positive well wishing from all the Talkbassers that got me (yes, on Talkbass! ). Really restored my faith in people. His writing style (if that's the right word as it is straight from the heart) is so universal everyone can relate to it. Inspiring stuff! [/quote] It's f*cking amazing! Thanks again!

[quote name='krysh' timestamp='1369260505' post='2087151'] thanks for posting this nige. i'm on page 22 of the 2nd thread now. ordered a cd and a book. this threads are magic. [/quote] In Cold Sweat is a fabulous book! Zappa's MAJNH is a fabulous album! I just ordered Ghosts and Ballyhoo: Memoirs of a Failed LA Music Journalist, the book he wrote spawned by the TB thread and TB members imploring him to make book out of all the stories.

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1369301292' post='2087404'] Shocking! The idea of making aftermarket replacements is not illegal is it? If so, the car industry and it's compatible spares market is foobarred. Who is buying Rics anyway? [/quote] He probably tried to stop Hipshot marketing it as a 'Rickenbacker Replacement Bridge'. But it clearly hasn't worked. [url="http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=215"]http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=215[/url]

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1369218662' post='2086354'] He went after Hipshot for daring to make a compatible bridge that worked properly. [/quote] Did he?! What a *****. I have one of those Hipshot bridges on my home build, it's a great piece of design.

F*ck knows. I have a couple of pro gigs but the work is rare. Maybe eight gigs a year and some recording sessions. One of my pro gigs is with a successful underground band doing global fusion electronica who've been together for 20 years and release the occasional band album and have loads of other satellite bands, one of which appears to be breaking with their debut album. They make a living, but it's damn hard work. My other gig as a guitarist is with a very niche artist but quite sought after for various sessions and composing and tours. She makes a decent living and loves most of it, but again, it's very hard work, and you have to be unremittingly reliable and at the top of your game.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1369243166' post='2086846'] Sorry to hear that you're having trouble mate It's good that Skol's sig idea is working though. [/quote] Thanks mate.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1369242172' post='2086828'] Just out of curiosity, did any of our signatures lead you to vote, or were you just going to do it anyway? [/quote] Well normally I have my eyes on the recording forum, but I've had some sad sh*t going on in my life in the last few weeks and I'd forgotten about it, and the composition challenge (for which I've had no time to submit an entry either) so it was skol's sig that drew me to it about an hour ago.

Some excellent entries, there were two that really stood out for me. I voted for the one I imagined some grizzled old geezers driving dusty roads to, with a million telegraph poles disappearing into the hazy horizon.

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' timestamp='1369140391' post='2085280'] [b]No it is not a "Movie" it is real life![/b] People are being crapped on like this in all walks of life! Telling it staight just gets one ridiculed. It is all about bums on seats/selling product. [/quote] Exactly right. Most of us have a nice rosy view of what it's like to be a pro music journo (and indeed a pro musician), and despite Wictor being IMO one of the best (if not the best) of the ones I've read because of his honesty, openess and ability to ask astute questions from a much more interesting set of angles, he got f***ed over. There are three threads, they get closed when they reach 50 pages and the next thread is started It's HUUUUUGE! Amazing to have Scott Thunes and Bryan Beller contributing. I'm only up to page 31 on the first thread, and it's been fascinating and eye opening. It's a realtime window into Tom's soul. Superb stuff.

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f32/interviewing-bassist-stories-866617/"]http://www.talkbass....stories-866617/[/url] It's on Talkbass so deep apologies to Basschat for posting it, but it deserves reading. Also, I had no idea it existed until BC member [b]Miles'tone[/b] posted it on my thread about old music mags, Miles, massive gratitude to you for posting the link mate! It's a thread started by Thomas Wictor, an ex Bass Player mag journo who got pissed off with the new BP editor killing his stories and interviews. It's a MASSIVE thread, and it's full of Wictor's anecdotes about his inteviews, and working for BP, and loads of very juicy inside stuff about your favourite bassists, much of it necessarily anonymous. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1368934756' post='2083184'] I absolutely agree with the OP here. Has anyone here heard of the (ex) Bass Player writer Thomas Wictor? He wrote that great book "In Cold Sweat - Interviews With Really Scary Musicians" (his legendary interview with Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes takes up nearly half the book!) Well he was writing for Bass Player at, what anyone who remembers how that mag used to be would call it, it's creative peak. The turn of events that finally led to it becoming the bland, thin paged ad-fest that it is today is explained in this epic (and amazingly troll-free) thread he started on talkbass - the best thread I have ever read on a bass forum bar none (no offence intended to Basschatters or anyone anywhere else in the bass world whatsoever) The said downturn in the quality of Bassplayer which he was so passionate about actually affected his physical health in the end but this thread is brimming with great interviews and stories that we're canned by the new editor at the time due to them being 'not relevant' anymore. I really wish we had the Bass Player of old, I'd still be buying it if it was like it used to be (and don't even get me started on our good old 'Bassist'!) Check it out... [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f32/interviewing-bassist-stories-866617/"]http://www.talkbass....stories-866617/[/url] [/quote] Mate, that's an extraordinary thread on TB! Thank you SO MUCH ofr posting the link! And yeah, I have the Wictor book, Scott Thunes is my favourite bassist and that interview was wonderful to read. Thanks again

That's the best thread title I've seen for ages.