Frank Blank

45 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Pride of place on our wall...

WTF?

3 hours ago, cetera said:

I've created a monster! lol!

A beautiful monster.

I have had three of these, still have a modded fretless, great basses for the price.

GLWTS.

18 minutes ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

Nik, that pic shows your bass face in the presence of The Mouse! The first pic is of you clearly not getting into it yet.

If it helps the first time I played it I had a similar face on, ten minutes later I was in heaven.

1 hour ago, MacDaddy said:

Is Rhianna a band?

1 minute ago, Mykesbass said:

HaHa - who are we supposed to be moaning about now? 😀

 Bernard Manning?

6 minutes ago, Meddle said:

Are we honestly whining about Coldplay and Nickelback on the Internet still? What is this? 2005? You guys are miles off the pace. 

No, you hard of hearing fool, we're doing naked spaghetti macramé specifically to avoid being on the pace.

6 hours ago, Drax said:

How many crows do you need? 

Seven, it's seven crows that are needed, in most instances anyway...

I loved Wals so much back in the eighties, mainly because Mick Karn played one and Paul Raven. I remember playing Paul’s a few times at rehearsals and thinking that I’d finally played a grown up bass, they were the few times I’ve ever tried one and I remember deciding they weren’t for mortals like me. It would be interesting to try one now I’ve grown up!

O pointy birds, o pointy pointy, 
Anoint my head, anointy-nointy.

I’m quite up for this despite it being a 3h drive (I like driving), I really enjoyed the SE Bash and I think it’s well worth supporting such events.

I must admit I have a totally unfounded and, in analysis, irrational reaction to Nickleback despite never having heard a track nor seen a performance. I think I can trace my prejudice down to having heard them described as ‘Mum Rock’ and indeed knowing two Mums who like them. However, my mum (*spits, dances on grave* capitalisation withheld) liked Frank Sinatra, David Bowie and preferred The Rolling Stones to The Beatles yet I don’t refer to any of those as Mum *insert genre here*. I have heard a couple of Coldplay tracks which left me unmoved in any way, I cannot understand their popularity (but don’t begrudge them it) any more than I cannot understand the vociferous reaction to them, alright they don silly garb and consciously uncouple from partners but they do seem to illicit a reaction far more hostile than their banality deserves.

28 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

A special place in my private hell has been reserved for him for this performance alone....

I almost watched that but realised that’s 6m 12s I’d never get back...

Just now, AndyTravis said:

Was that the band with a girl singing and b.vox by female bass player - a lot of them, lad playing a fender acoustic? Just switched over and missed their name...

god I hate Marc Almond.

A) yes.

B) Agreed

Now I’m not one for dissing music/artists usually but will someone tell Marc Almond to fvck off.

Just watching Another Sky on Jools Holland, intriguing.

Hej Emil

*waves*

Having had such a bad experience last Thursday I was worrying about playing again but during today’s rehearsal my compadre suggested we looked to see what was happening locally this evening. It just so happened that an open mic night was being held at The Railway so we threw the guitars in the car and went down on spec. Well we had a total gas, a very eclectic group of performers doing varied covers, Fame, Where Do You Go To My Lovely, Word Up a pianist and a drummer just jamming this Latin jazz groove, so cool. We went on midway through proceedings and did a couple of our songs and played them much better than last Thursday. The organiser dude said at the beginning of the night “I’ll try and rustle you up something to put the bass through...” I’ve been struggling to get the sound I want out of the AER lately but tonight, when I got on the stage I plugged into this...

...the sound was (after a very minor tweak) just lovely. I dunno, amps. Monday night at The Railway, what a gas.

20 minutes ago, StringNavigator said:

Europe is not a place to tread in one's moccasins without careful deliberation. Especially with so many doggie lovers! (Of course I mean that in the most innocent of terms.)    

I find a pair of light pink ballet shoes are just the ticket when tiptoeing across the endless carpet of animal faeces that threatens to overwhelm the major urban conurbations in Europe.

2 minutes ago, StringNavigator said:

Would you encourage "your" friend to start playing a bass guitar at 60 and join a band?

I would indeed, if he wished too, obviously there are things to consider and watch out for, hence reasoned advice but, yes, of course.

2 minutes ago, StringNavigator said:

There are far, far better things to be done in one's twilight years...

Sure, if that’s your choice, all of which, no doubt, have pitfalls and things to avoid but, like playing bass, alone or with others, can be a wonderful thing to do too.

2 minutes ago, StringNavigator said:

For me, playing bass is a legacy issue. After 50 years I can't stop now. I still have my fretless '69 PB. There's still DNA on the fingerboard from the summer of '69...

That’s great, excellent in fact, I’m still 100% behind the op doing his thing.