Frank Blank

I have a couple of these...

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I started playing in bands at 15 yrs of age and it took  over twenty years to find a stable committed band and after that finished another ten years to settle into the duo I’m part of now. If my musical collaborator left now I’d pack it in.

Actually, thinking about it, my current musical project began in 2004 and we did our first gig in late 2017, so I can’t really comment as I think we are mad. What I might suggest is that if you are good musicians doing covers you might be quicker at getting a set together than bands that are writing original material. Not saying one is superior to the other here btw.

I think it is extremely rare to find committed musicians prepared to work. They are either young and wanting disproportionate success to the amount of work they are prepared to put in or older and too jaded to put work in,it seems difficult to find a sweet spot, I have rarely found musicians who are willing to work in order to get a good set together, it’s either musos wanting a compliant platform from which they can flaunt their virtuosity or pedestrians who didn’t realise making good music is a difficult and arduous task. I think the answer is that you need more luck than anything else and don’t let go of that guitarist. Good luck.

4 hours ago, Huge Hands said:

I thought I remembered seeing a Stranglers clip on the UK TOTP wher JJ Burnel is jumping around wafting smoke away instead of playing and then Hugh Cornwell mimed the guitar solo in mid air below the guitar neck.

Then again, it could have just been some sort of perverted dream I had...

This one?

2 hours ago, fleabag said:

Quite right 

 

Check his chat from about 2:17

 

Hooligans, I do love that word and they sure were, perfect nomenclature.

2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

Now Marc Almond I can understand...

That was at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, a Birthday Party gig, MA wasn’t even onstage. Everyone was looking over the balcony above the stairs when he walked in, someone gobbled and everyone else just joined in, he was soaked, he turned around and left. I remember a similar situation when Orange Juice backed up Killing Joke at Hammersmith Palais, they were spat at so much it was even dripping off the drummer. I remember Edwin Collins leaving the stage with the wry observation of “You’ve got very adhesive spittle”.

3 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

A guy I was at school with got booted straight in the face by one of The Cockney Rejects for spitting at them. They`re certainly not bothered by a bit of a tear-up, those guys, the two brothers in the band being rather good boxers in their youth.

They were gentlemen not to be trifled with.

3 hours ago, fleabag said:

On another note, i DID get to see Killing Joke at a rally in Trafalgar Square in 1980

That gig is actually legendary in KJ circles.

Killing Joke were a band you were risking trouble with if you spat at them, I’ve seen a few post gig dust ups. JJB was a major reason I picked up a bass. Just as a possible list of interest, these are people I have successfully spat at in a gig situation...

Suggs

Fad Gadget

Ian Astbury

Kim Gordon

Nick Cave

Marc Almond

Doctor (from Doctor And The Medics)

...it’s not big nor clever but what the hell.

Thank you so much! That’s perfect.

Any chance you could post a pic of the back of the SWB Pro? I’ve just ordered one and I’m curious to see the back.

1 hour ago, Sibob said:

Playing two notes together creates harmony, whether that harmony then falls into the western music definition of a chord is another question.

I wholly agree with this.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

And to answer the OP as soon as you play more than one note at the same time it's a chord IMO.

This...

5 minutes ago, spectoremg said:

And this. My vote also goes to Fragile. 

Oh my God, Fragile... such a +1.

On 20/12/2017 at 20:25, upside downer said:

Influences when I were a lad were Jah Wobble's rumblings on Public Image Ltd's Metal Box.

Jah Wobble on Metal Box, sublime. That’s the pinnacle for me, right there.

1 hour ago, Barking Spiders said:

The Specials - chock full of cracking bass by Sir Horace. essential for the band's sound.

New Boots and Panties - the first time I head Norm's tasty bass work.

+1 twice.

See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! by Bow Wow Wow - Leigh Gorman, yes...

Empires & Dance by Simple Minds - Derek Forbes, yes...

Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum by Japan...

Mick Karn, what a dude.

I saw Motörhead at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on 12th of April 1982. They were so loud they caused the building structural damage... proper. The second loudest band I've ever seen.

7 minutes ago, borntohang said:

Not to invoke damned names or anything, but there's an excellent and huge thread over at TB regarding the Jaguar SS. I believe it's actually onto it's third incarnation because of post limits.

I had a feeling someone would kindly point me in the direction of an excellent and huge thread! Thanks. Your comment confirms what I was thinking, tuners, bridge, J pup but I hadn’t considered the strings so that’s cool advice. Did you change tuners?

12 minutes ago, leftybassman392 said:

Maybe the article in the following link will help clarify some of the issues raised in this thread. It's concerned with sustain (natural sustain that is, not the kind you get from a Marshal stack cranked to 11) on guitar strings, but a plucked string is a plucked string so with a few minor caveats the same basic rules apply.

Sustain

I'll keep digging around in the meantime.

As I clicked into this article I somehow knew that scene from Spinal Tap would be depicted somewhere, class.

I have had a scoot around the site and can't seem to find a definitive thread on this, please feel free to disabuse me of this notion and direct me if incorrect. I am selling up all my full scale basses in order to completely move over to short scale. Initially I was considering a Chowny but I am leaning towards getting a Squier Jaguar and modifying it, if, indeed, it needs any mods. Any opinions on this, any people out there who have modified a Squier Jaguar, if so what mods have been good/bad, any people who think it unnecessary? Any opinions, thoughts welcome... 

On 11/12/2017 at 18:50, milford59 said:

I have also recently bought a Squier Jaguar Short Scale which I have upgraded with DiMarzio pickups, a Gotoh bridge and some better strings. That's a very nice bass to play and I feel I can make some real progress now.

You may have saved me a post here. I am thinking about modifying a short scale Squier Jaguar, after the mods, how did the bass compare with your other basses?

9 minutes ago, Misdee said:

Because I am well familiar with basses from that era they hold no particular mystique for me. At the risk of stating the obvious, the problem with a lot of vintage instruments is that they are old and worn. A lot of these instruments were made without any thought of longevity. No one suspected they would become holy relics. More often than not, once the romance has worn off you are left with something not particularly special, riddled with niggling problems that you have paid over the odds for.

I think this is absolutely right.