Agwin

I suspect Ludwig would approve

On 16/11/2022 at 21:26, TheGreek said:

Years ago I wanted big bassy 15" cabs which moved lots of air. Now I tend to want middy 10 or 12" cabs with a warmer   more rounded tone. 

I tend to set my graphic as an inverted smile with more mids than bass/ treble 

Yup, my EQ went from a smiley face to a frown a few years back and it sounds really good out front. (I've wandered out wirelessly to have a listen)

Zenith – Rock covers
DRN - Rock covers (stood for Don’t Really k[No]w) as in the answer to, “What’s the name of the band?”
Strontium Dog - Originals & rock covers (after the 2000 AD character)
Miss Fire - Originals
Scarab - Originals
Pointy Finger Hat – Originals
Stocky Whippet - Originals
SeriaMau – Originals & rock covers (after an M John Harrison character)
Granddad’s Tank - Originals    (often called Granddad Stank)
Icefire - Originals  (after the children’s  novel)
 

Just gonna leave this here

Done

How about a one in one out policy?

Whether that's basses or wives is up to you

A Heft?

11 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

I think this is true of 100% of bass players, and, indeed, folk on the Planet..! We are all, in our own way, 'not like anyone else'. In fact, it's so much the case that we're all the same in being different..! 

Remember, you are unique - just like everyone else.

46 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

I remember those days very well. Several bands felt like i was in a  Guitar and friends band.

Dave

Not so in this particular band, no ego involved.

(We could jam for England)

Having been brought up listening to the Deeply Purple ones the length of any non vocal passage was always indeterminate with an “End of it cue” to let us know when we were back on track.

Just occasionally, if the muse was upon him, he’d go off on one.

In fact, on one of our original songs, I always thought it would be a good idea to get a looper and join the singist.

On 05/10/2020 at 09:55, dmccombe7 said:

 

Usually the vocal parts are easy its the guitar solos i tend to count bars.

In a previous band there would be occasions when, during the guitar solo, the singer had time for a trip to the bar!

A few years back we went to see Deep Purple at whatever the NEC was called that month. It was the start of a massive (over 12 months) tour. Lynyrd Skynyrd were the penultimate band on and they absolutely blew Purple away – leaving me somewhat disappointed in the Purps and very impressed with Skynyrd.

Saw Purple again, same venue, at the tail end of the same tour and they were excellent.

10 hours ago, bassfan said:

Interesting you take a spare.  Ever had the need to use it? I carry spare strings, less space taken up in the car! 😂

If you're mid set and you break a string (this happened to me last year) it's easy and quicker just to grab the other bass and carry on with the set.

From left to right:

Number one gigging bass, Spare gigging bass (always goes to gigs, just in case) Twiddle and Noodle at home mostly bass. Red one sold on.

Just had a listen - and even before I read the comments I was thinking "That's a film score just waiting to happen."

Nice

14 minutes ago, HengistPod said:

 

Most of these metal bands project an image of being a bit cross about something

Brilliant 😂

In the days before wireless I was mostly bass-cable-amp for gigs, so for wireless it’s the same:

Bass into G30 transmitter - receiver on top of amp.

Incidentally, the transmitter goes into my back pocket so swapping basses is a doddle, just unplug bass A pop into stand, grab bass B and plug in – job done.

Line 6 G30 - Never had any issues apart from one sound guy who insisted I used a jack lead "because it would pick up interference from passing taxis or car engines" or something equally ridiculous.

It hasn't yet - although there's a first time for everything.

Tywyn Oopsie Daisies

I like to think I have a healthy open attitude to music whilst, naturally, preferring some styles over others and I also like to think I can be encouraging to anyone keen enough to take up my favourite instrument.

But;

WHAT THE HELL HAVE I JUST WATCHED!!

Apologies, I didn't intend to shout

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

Root notes, write down the structure of each song with the notes for each passage (intro, verse, chorus, solo, outro etc) and include what type of ending, dead stop or rock n roll

Absolutely the above.

48 minutes ago, Raymondo said:

 

I have never really cared what the music was labelled as, I either liked it or I didn't.🙂

Quite right, too.

I just about managed to scrape into 1959 as my birth year.

After some consideration I seem to remember the term Heavy being followed by both Rock and Metal back in the day.

I seem to recall Purple being referred to as Progressive at some point in the dim and distant too.

27 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Back in the day Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath and Heep pretty much defined heavy metal, it wasn't until the 'NWOBHM' came along that metal lost its blues edge.

<edit> "I know 'cos I was there".

I was there too.

And I concur