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Danny and Béla !!

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13 minutes ago, BassTractor said:

I found one yesterday that still seems to work - - a warning against him by Rockers Reunited:
https://www.facebook.com/100057087835235/posts/dear-sir-madamsee-below-email-going-out-to-his-theatres-maybe-they-will-take-no-/1328868242359424/

That's definitely worth plastering over any social media accounts one might have. 

Thanks for the link. 

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I have a Guitarist friend who I have known for years. For a very long time he has been known as 'Dank Foreskins'. It's actually an anagram of his name.

When the Bass starts the Ostinato on the open E string in 'Love Games' for the first time. That was a wow moment for me back then.

If you are Windows user, good luck with getting rid of all things 'UAD' after any deletions. It's an annoying process to eliminate all folder and file debris.

Apart from the usual automatic delete process, you will then have to manually go from 'Start Up', right through the 'Reg Edit' files and folders.

UAD doesn't want to let you go, that's for sure!!

13 minutes ago, chris_b said:

You guys are lucky I sound like Kermit gargling with porridge.

I couldn't imagine what that sounded like, so I had a word with the fellow over at ChatGPT. The below, was his response.

Question = What would Kermit the Frog gargling with porridge sound like?

ChatGPT said:

"If you imagine it, it’d probably be a mix of:

Kermit’s distinct voice: that high, slightly nasal, throaty tone.

The wet, bubbly gargle sound: like sloshing oatmeal mush in the back of the throat.

A muffled “hrrmm-hrrmm-hrrrmph” quality: because porridge is thick, it would make the sound less liquidy and more gloppy.

So it might come out like:
👉 “Grrhh–glllhrrmm–muhhrrggghhh–blrrp!”
with little oaty splats at the end.

Do you want me to try to write out a full onomatopoeic “Kermit gargling porridge performance,” as if it were in a script?

Also, would you like me to make a quick audio impression of this as well (using onomatopoeia and frog-like tone), or do you prefer it just as a written script?

The fellow who runs the YouTube channel in question is named 'Shaun Martin'. He has seven various social media and YouTube channels with links in his main profile channel.

It looks like he is some kind of digital creator/groupie who probably thinks Mick Mason is a celebrity. He's now certainly that!! 

He has seven channels including YouTube and other Social Media platforms, and looks like he will interview anyone who has any kind of involvement in show business.

The seven links are next to his picture profile.

He comes across as naive and star struck (just my opinion, of course).

He's probably a very nice chap who just needs convincing the Mick Mason is a proper, full on, professional conman.

Link to his Digital World:

A backstage pass to the world of entertainment! - Shaun Martin

For some reason, I always thought it was the great studio player, 'Larry Kimpel'?

He actually played with George Duke quite a bit around that period,

Good luck getting to the bottom of that one...

The channel owner must be glued to his 'Puter, because he is removing posts pretty much immediately.

1 minute ago, Reggaebass said:

Quite surprised there’s nothing in the comments 

I have just looked at that YouTube link and was thinking exactly the same!!

"A backstage pass to the world of entertainment!" didn't mention the other successful racket he is running.

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37 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Fine & suspended sentence, anyone?

This is one of the charges, "pretending to act under the authority of a County Court". If proven, the fellow might not be so lucky this time...

Section 135, County Courts Act 1984: up to 7 years’ imprisonment for pretending to act under County Court authority.

Other possible offences might carry higher penalties (up to 10 years or even life) depending on intent and impact.

1 hour ago, Belka said:

 but you run the risk of becoming a 'busker' who learns the overall form of the songs but never learns anything properly. 

Yes, of course, one can run that risk if not serious about what they do or deliver. But if one wants to be called up again, one makes sure they know all/most of the relevant, popular Bass lines to certain well-known songs, rather than just busking lines over changes and structures. Any regularly called up, depping musician, will have a vocabulary of 'learned' tunes stored in their brain that they need to know (or should do). That's why they get called back again, and again. Just busking over a set of chords might be okay if you get called at the last minute. In fact, some bands/MD's/leaders may well be thankful you helped out without any major disasters.

However, you probably won't get the call again in favour of someone who knows the tunes/Bass lines. Or at least, you get asked to learn the tunes in advance. As 'Chris B' said further up thread, you want to do as good a job as the musician you are covering. Just busking the gig on its own, probably means you are just winging it. Successful, regular depping is an art. If you get called back regularly, it's probably because you are better than being 'just good enough'. You tend to do a lot of homework and become familiar with a lot of tunes.

The only gigs I remember doing where just busking away was okay, were usually Jewish functions. A lot of the music was just solid one and five playing. Or on certain pub gigs, playing Jazz standards, or covers of soft rock/country tunes etc, but certainly still not to be taken lightly. Well, that's from my personal playing experience, along with working with excellent, reliable deps... And just as importantly, have enjoyed regularly working with them on a musical level. YMMV.

I'm now 68, and although still in the music business, I retired from live playing a couple of years back. I was basically a freelance player all my working life since the age 17.

Although I did the regular show/cabaret tours and static theatre runs (cruises in the early days), the rest of the time was filled out with depping. Even on shows I would dep out my show to go and do other dep work.

Functions/sessions/pubs/weddings/corporate events and even other shows! It would break the boredom and often more/extra money.

I was probably part of a scene with a few other Bassists (other musicians as well) who would share the work around and get calls from the same fixers or bandleaders.

Most would be good sight readers, always good buskers/good listening ears and knew a lot of tunes.

Quite often, on West End function gigs, the Rhythm section would do dinner music anywhere between one and two hours, so a knowledge of busking Jazz standards/show book tunes would be common as well.

Although the fake book could be used if there were tunes you didn't know.

Sometimes I would know days or weeks in advance all the relevant details, other times, like others have said, it could be very last minute and I wouldn't have a clue who I would be working with.

All the same criteria were involved though. Good prompt timing, dress code, keep your mouth shut on gigs, keep up to date with popular tunes that most bands would do, including certain Basslines that tunes would be reliant on.

Watching and listening on the gig for cues for endings, key changes, what key the tune might be in. Not overplaying or showing off. Band leaders would often hold up or down a certain number of fingers for the keys. Two up/three down etc...

If reading was involved, always ask if there were any tricky parts that I should be aware of. It all became just second nature, with the occasional flying by the seat of your pants thrown in.

Depping for me, was an important part of filling in the gaps in my diary, so it became a parallel way of life. As it was with many musicians from my generation. It was the normal, really, and all part of being a working musician.

Some dep work/freelancing took me to all kinds of places in the World as well.

Lincoln Goines:

J-Rod & The 4 Korners....

I've just seen this video with Trevor talking about his session and gigging career from the early days.

It's just casual talking and very funny at times between two of the UK's top session players.

It around forty-five minutes long:

This chap shows how he uses AI to his advantage and in fact, how it can be useful.

The video is forty minutes long, and personally I don't like his musical examples, but that's not really the point.

Apples and Oranges and all that stuff, I suppose. I've used NI software for years and can't say I've had any notable problems with them.

They are just part of the furniture for me, which is just as well, because a lot of my 3rd party VI sample libraries require Kontakt.

32 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

This does look interesting, and I might just break my nothing outside Logic rule. However given that the developer is calling it a day and the Mac specs says it works on Intel Macs, does it also come with an installer for an Apple Silicon version? 

I'm a W11 user so can't really help. But all I had to do was just move the whole folder to one of my sample library drives and then just open the .nki file in Kontakt.

There was no installer.

47 minutes ago, 2pods said:

Purchased

Thanks

I've just loaded it up and started having a proper look and listen. These two walk through videos are a good start.

It looks like you can load in any other 3rd party samples you have and then create your own patterns in the sequencers:

Sadly, the small developer/company, 'Naroth Audio', are closing their Internet doors. 

There are few good bargains to have, and this particular one below is excellent. It's a collection of unusual Percussion instruments (and sequencers) called 'RHYTHMUS'.

Well worth the £19.00:

Rhythmus by Naroth Audio: Unique Found Percussion & Dynamic Sequencers

3 hours ago, Hellzero said:

 

I earned these almost the same day, 4 years ago, and then nothing, ... still don't know how the system really works and what's this for as there is also the ranking saying I'm in the top 1% of all members, but where is my envelope? 🤔🤪

 

Not something to brag about. It's just BC management acknowledging you are a veteran of a certain age.

A bit like reaching the pension age, but without having the financial package to go with it.

Personally, I would have preferred a set of strings rather than badges. But hey ho, that's just me.