SteveK

Yorkshire AC/DC tribute: Highway to Hull

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1373454459' post='2137714'] What would be the point? [/quote] If the chip only showed a code identifying the owner (similar to chipping dogs), then I guess that would be of limited use. However, I can absolutely see the pointif thechip/device was able to show its location.

Dire Strats - genius!

[quote][size=4]Lyrics - Are they important to you?[/size][/quote] They can be! Although, for me, it's first and foremost the music, arrangement etc... but, if there is also thought provoking, interesting lyrics, as in many of Peter Gabriels songs, then that can turn a [b]good[/b] song into a [b]great[/b] one.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1372593318' post='2127464'] As I said, I am also a fan and they were more than decent. Their age didn't seem to be an obstacle to being on stage for over two hours, so that's not really an issue is it?[b] I just wish they would trim the fat on a few of the songs to make space for others from what must arguably be one of the best back catalogues in the history of music[/b]. At the prices they charge for tickets, I don't think that's too much to ask. [/quote]Haven't seen it yet, I'll watch it later, but... A live (as in, being there) set, is a whole different thing from a telly set ( ). A song that feels long and drawn out while sitting in front of our tellys, may feel like it's only just got started when actually in the audience.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8[/media] With ex band-mate and wonderful drummer Clive Bunker on drums.

Par for the course, you'll find yourself in good company. I'm sure this will have happened to Pino, Mark King or any other musician you care to name name. This is possibly the kind of scenario responsible for the Carole Kaye/James Jamerson 'who played on what' dispute. As for the suggestion that there may be 'a court case somewhere in there'... not a chance!

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1371305089' post='2112378'] I think the point is that much of what people perceive as "tone" isn't really - its nuances of technique timing and phrasing. [/quote] And the "nuances of technique timing and phrasing." can absolutely effect the "tone". And by "tone" I'm not talking [i]treble and bass[/i].

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1371247868' post='2111848'] If you want to sound like Flea and you're using a Squier 50's P -- it ain't gonna happen. [/quote] I bet Flea could make a Squier 50s P sound like Flea.

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1371130902' post='2110199'] Thats what I said though...the attack, I mean how can you pluck a string any other way than harder or softer? [/quote] Take a look at this clip from Rockschool posted here a couple of days ago, particularly from the 13:30 mark [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eKTM__dabo&feature=player_embedded#![/media]

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1371126434' post='2110111'] I cant see how the way you play makes much difference. I mean, the only real change you can make is to attack. Same with a pick. You cant change a sound by plucking the string a different way. There only is one way to pluck a string. The only difference is how hard you pluck it. Possibly, a finger nail being slightly longer might make a slight difference, but I still think its a load of bollocks that you can change your sound drastically by playing" differently" [/quote] With respect, you are wrong! There are many, many ways to pluck a string - and in any case, your fretting fingers are just as much a part of what defines the sound that you produce.

The man speaks sense. Got GAS? Forget about acquiring the bass/rig of your heroes - If you're serious about your instrument and have money burning a hole in your pocket, invest in some quality lessons - You'll be amazed at how your sound improves.

Indeed he did, and indeed he is Still can't embed the clip.

My partner in rhythm Jimmy Copley just posted this on FB. Thought you good chaps might be interested. He recorded this 38 years ago. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gMr1pxFldFg"]https://www.youtube....d&v=gMr1pxFldFg[/url] May not be the greatest tune in the world but certainly some rather exceptional playing. Not able to embed the video for some strange reason

It doesn't matter how well [b]you[/b] treat your instrument (oh, matron), there will always be big footed stage crew ready to drag your 'beloved' out of its stand by its cable. It's happened to me on two occasions, both times requiring major repair. More recently (about 4 weeks ago) one of the strap-locks failed necessitating a speedy swap of basses. Having said that, if I were playing more local pubs and clubs I probably wouldn't bother with a spare. Edited to answer the question: At the mo I'm using a Warwick Corvette custom as my main bass, and a 1985 Warwick Streamer (ex main bass) as spare.

Take it from me, as someone that was in a band that attracted a large contingent of punks, it's no fun being spat at for 1 1/2 hours! It was all so f***in' negative.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1370866738' post='2106501'] The arty sounding 'Midnight Circus' got their demo tape rejected by EMI. When they re-sent it in under the name' [b]the Flys[/b]' they got signed... [/quote] And dear Neil O was a fellow band mate, many many years ago.

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1370848501' post='2106143'] This maybe an urban myth...on radio 2 last week I heard that the first Pistols gig sold something like 43 tickets...but the amount of people whom now claim to have been there would fill a Wembly Stadium Punk sort of passed me by being a weekender type soul boy, it got better with the Pretty Punk Stylee Sigue Sigue Sputnik though [/quote] Those 43 tickets probably had no mention of The Sex Pistols and even the promoter wouldn't have known about them until an hour or so before 'doors'. Apparently, for their first few gigs The Sex Pistols would just turn up at a gig on the night, uninvited, unwanted, likely unpaid and blag their way on to the stage. That was certainly the case at our Westfield college gig.

Now that this thread is on its last legs and unlikely to get many more views, I feel I can now make this confession... call it an [i]unloading[/i]. In 1975 a band I was in played a gig at Westfield college, London - We were actually [b]booked[/b] to play. After we'd set up and done our sound check, these four scruffy scalliwags came up and told us that they were going to play and they were going to use our PA. We agreed to their... er, request? How we mused at their rather quaint moniker. I have, since that day, suffered many sleepless nights and bouts of depression - what if we'd said 'No, f^^* off, you can't use our PA'?... Things may have been so different [quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1370784595' post='2105453'] I've always puzzled at the people who think that the Pistols couldn't play. [/quote] Trust me, on that night in 1975, by any reasonable definition of the phrase, they 'couldn't play'... Never seen a hall empty so quickly. And for BetaFunk's benefit: We weren't a Prog band - There was [i]other stuff[/i] around [b]in[/b] and [b]before[/b] 1975

[quote name='ironside1966' timestamp='1370786123' post='2105475'] To understand punk you have to understand what it was like to live in the 70s. Adults were king. There was very little TV aimed at the teenager, the music on TV was very much light entertainment, and the band conformed to that model. the other side of the coin was the self indulgent supergroups with their lavish performances and even more lavish lifestyle were miles away from the kids in the street. Very few working class kids formed bands and if they did they were often cover bands playing the local club scene. When punk came along it suddenly become fashionable for teenagers to learn to play instruments and form bands, or in fact do anything, make clothes, start magazines, even start record labels. Punk made it alright to have a go. [/quote] I was 20 in 1975. By then I had spent 2 years travelling the length of the UK and Europe playing music. Didn't need no punks to tell me it was 'all right to have a go'... Had a mind of my own donchaknow. 'sfunny, when I think of punk I am reminded of this scene from Life of Brian... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqq3e03EBQ[/media]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1370684703' post='2104305'] It was just another way of a generation of disaffected yoof to say saying 'F*** you'! We all did it one way or another. [/quote] The difference being that other subcultures adopted already existing musical genres. Punk was pretty much the only fad, genre (call it what you will) that created its own music... or more accurately, its own attitude towards music, whereby it was an advantage to be crap at playing it. And possibly worse, it was de rigueur to slag off anyone considered to have a modicum of actual talent. Unfortunately record companies and the like, being band-wagon jumpers, bought it hook line and sinker.

Musically speaking, punk was the worst thing to happen. There was a handful of decent records from so called punk bands, but mostly it was drivel. Personally, I had/have no interest in 'music' created by anyone who barely knows how to hold a guitar or a pair of drum sticks. Of course, 'attitude' is important in music, but when that's all there is... then, no thanks!

dlloyd, don't you think that you're being a little pedantic Most musicians I know consider 'session work' to be a session in a recording studio. I don't ever recall anyone refering to a live gig as a session.

This is another of those questions that is impossible to answer definitively without actually hearing the piece. Everyone is suggesting a pedal, or having a bit of volume in reserve - these are fine suggestions and may well work, but let's not overlook the 'old fashioned way'... have a word with the rest of your band and see if they can't back it off a bit while you're playing your 'lead part'. 'Dynamics' could be your friend here.

Learn to play and understand the C Major scale - It's the first and most important key (sorry, unavoidable pun) to breaking the code of music. It's the centre of the musical universe.[url="http://www.jazzguitar.be/music-theory.html"] C Major scale[/url] Don't forget to have some fun while learning, picking out the bass line to your favourite songs, playing tunes from your head etc