Frank Blank

I only really like drum solos if they swing, that limits it pretty much to Joe Morello IMHO...

Stick with it, I thought it was a great series.

1 hour ago, HazBeen said:

After quite a few gigs I still think the Electro I bought off @Hellzero is on of the nicest looking and sounding fretless basses I ever owned.

Oh lord that’s a beautiful thing...

That was hilarious.

*joins Bavarian Oom-pah band just for the hell of it*

55 minutes ago, gpw5150 said:

Probably £70, tbh, i would not spend any more than that and i am the sole bread winner.....!

The PJB’s are £70, the AKG’s are £50 ish

Cool, @PaulWarning beat me to it with these...

7 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

I think there's not enough thought given to open or closed back designs, I use closed back Sennheiser HD 280's which I find really comfortable, I've got a pair of cheaper open backed Sennheiser HD 206's for watching the TV that I find annoying after 30 minutes or so because they squash my ears 

Sennheiser recommendations. At sub £100 I don’t think you can beat Sennheiser.

45 minutes ago, gpw5150 said:

Hey all,

My wife has decided to buy ne a decent pair of headphones for bass practice and listening to music on my commute, recommendations please!

What’s the budget?

I don't know why I felt like posting this again?

9 hours ago, Walker said:

I’ve just bought a QSC K12.2 to use with my Kemper. I had a 10 minute play last night and it’s incredible. I’m lucky enough to have a hand-wired B-15 Heritage and the B-15 profiles I have on the Kemper are just as satisfying to play.

I have just asked my local music shop to get a QSC K12.2 in to try, looking forward to it!

...and contributing to the death of RnR, obv.

This is so exciting my monocle dislodged!

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

Well said frank. Have a listen to Raging Fyah.  you may like them 👍

I’m liking them! I should respond with a recommendation too, Samsara from Brighton, great reggae with a kind of subtle Klezmer overtone sometimes, why this band aren’t huge escapes me...

3 minutes ago, Piers_Williamson said:

The Trammps....Hold Back the Night

 

That, Sir, is quality...

As well as 'smoking quantity' play along with the bass from the 2nd and 3rd Linton Kwesi Johnson albums, Forces of Victory and Bass Culture. When you are just listening the bass lines sound simple but when you try and play along it's quite difficult and you realise there is something quite fundamentally different going on to what you're used to playing. I am not a good enough theorist to analyse and decipher the differences but I've found that after a while of playing along with these tracks you somehow just switch into the groove and it becomes easy to follow. I've listened to a lot of reggae and dub over the last forty years and I think these two albums a perfect exemplars to get into that reggae mindset, simple but beautiful.

Smoke quantity.

14 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

I've recently come across a whole bunch of stuff on French ambient electronica label Ultimae by way of Carbon Based Lifeforms. Over the last last coupla weeks I've not been able to get enuff of AES Dana, especially...

 

I'm digging AES Dana! When I get the chance that is between repeatedly playing Wonderful World by Nine Horses...

Just now, NikNik said:

I recall one video of them and found them interesting at the time. Can't find zilch on them now.

B u g g e r

5 hours ago, NikNik said:

Anyone remember Heist from the mid '80s? I liked them at the time but could not listen to them today. Too much GADDACLANK-CLANK-CLANK-CLANK. I dropped Slap before the '90s arrived and don't regret it.

Wasn't there some old footage of Chris Squire and Steve Howe playing something called 'Bass Odyssey'?

You post on this thread regarding Heist, was trying to garner info about them. I’m sure they were pals with Paul Raven from Killing Joke.

On 01/12/2018 at 20:20, FinnDave said:

On the off chance that you haven't had a taste of Tim Blake's 70's electronica, may I suggest you keep an eye/ear open for Crystal Machine and New Jerusalem. 

More new ones on me, thanks!

4 hours ago, bartelby said:

I’m listening to CD 11 of a 14 CD boxset retrospective of Éliane Radigue. A French pioneer of minimalist electronic music.

Thanks for posting this. As much as I love electronic music I’m beginning to realise that my knowledge of genre’s history is woefully inadequate, I know very little about anything prior to Tangerine Dream or Kraftwerk really so finding out about/listening to Éliane Radigue is cool.

There was a short-lived post punk band called Heist, two bassists, one fretless, one fretted, although I can’t find a thing about them online, maybe I was dreaming?

1 minute ago, paul_c2 said:

Not on the bass......all told, scales are actually quite boring so I don't do them, instead if I practice at home I will do a quick warm up then actually practice pieces (if there's stuff I need to work on) or sight reading if there isn't. My warm up is a daft little exercise where I basically do 1-3-2-4 on the E, then A, D G strings, then go up a fret and do it backwards (4-2-3-1 on G, D, A, E strings). I start on around 5th or 7th fret then gradually work down to 1st fret. I don't even plug the bass in, and if I do the volume is down (there is no value in hearing it - its to warm my fingers up). Then also I do "Subway" to warm up as something a bit more musical. But that's about it.

On the French Horn I'm much more disciplined on scales and stuff like that - a ton of scales, arpeggios, then lip slur stuff, then pieces I'm working on etc.

I do very similar finger exercises as the one you mention. When it comes to the scales and arpeggios on the French horn do you work through them systematically or in a specific order?

Do any of you have routines/regimes for practicing scales/arpeggios etc? I’m looking to establish such a practice regime so I thought I’d see if anyone had any kind of system or routine for learning such things?

On 21/11/2018 at 20:11, Twanger said:

I got some way into that thread before it overpowered me.

Keep going, it’s one of the most informative threads on this forum.

2 hours ago, AdrianP said:

Saw a new band, Piroshka, at the Lexington in Islington last night. New as in only formed a few months ago. But it's more a post-punk/shoegaze supergroup (hello, is there anyone still reading?!) made up of former members of Moose, Lush, Elastica and Modern English. Given that it was their first ever gig, bar a warm-up at the weekend, it was a really great evening. The band really seemed to gel well and, given that all the material was new, the audience really got into it.

On the subject of the band, Michael Conroy, previously bass player in Modern English, really impressed. He plays a lot of notes, it has to be said. But never more than the song required. I will probably seek out more of his earlier stuff. Had a quick search on here and couldn't find any reference to him so maybe check out his work. 

I saw Modern English on several occasions back in the 80s, for a short while they appeared to be the default support for a few bands I went to see, notably Japan. I still listen to Mesh & Lace and After The Snow, an interesting and peculiar band.

1 minute ago, donslow said:

Will have to try find one first.... music shops within 25 miles all cater for “standard” instruments 

Where are you, you could try mine...

28 minutes ago, donslow said:

would a short scale neck work? How short a scale should I be looking at? Would a typical precision short scale neck have the same widths and thicknesses?!

Go try one, just in case.