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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1478723453' post='3171260'] I don't think it's narrow mindedness, if you listen and don't enjoy it then that's it, trying to force it onto people won't make them like it, just dislike you maybe. [/quote] [quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1478725096' post='3171279'] I don't think it is impossible, I just don't think it is particularly appealing as a lead instrument in that context. And for me, although this is clever, it kind of reinforces my view. [/quote] To quote the great mystic and philosopher Ba Nahna Rama, it ain't what you do it's the way that you do it. Some of (well, a lot of) Steve Lawson's multi layered/looped solo bass stuff sounds wonderful to me and A Walk In The Country from Mo Foster's Bel Assis is just one of my fave pieces of music ever. Add in Elgars Cello Concerto for some similarly sublime bass frequency melodies. However, Mr Wooten skilfully going "thwack splickety splackety thruppetta whuppetta thwappetta thwap" on his Fodera holds no appeal to me at all.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1478730994' post='3171331'] It's a vintage old aged relic ... give him a break! LOL [/quote] Yeah, I know how he feels. Happens all the time. To me. You go upstairs and you've completely forgotten what instrument you're a virtuoso on.

Oh yeah, I love that album where Jeff pays tribute to Gene Vincent's double bass player and the Jeff Beck's Bass Workshop album.

As others have said, it's not about the flash and the fills (tho some chromatic approach notes and walking bass will go down nicely). What it is about is (and you might find the use of this word surprising) [i][b]the groove[/b][/i] and playing/driving the song right in the pocket. Creating an energy behind a fairly simple line played fairly straight rather than allowing the 1-5-1-5 to be a plod. It's a skill which will serve you well in many other contexts too!

Came across this absolutely 100% honest kosher guitar company from Korea while doing some random Googling and I'm completely blown away by what good value their absolutely and certainly genuine instruments are being sold for. "The Top Guitars Custom Company" http://thetopguitars.com/custom-modulus-quantum-5-quilt-5-string-bass.html Why, they are offering Fordera (sic) 5-string basses for only $900. And if you'd like one of those Modulus basses featuring those wonderful wooden necks that Modulus were always so famed for then that will set you back less than $500. Bargain! These guitars and basses are clearly completely genuine and certainly not knock off forgeries. Oh yes, absolutely. Who could think otherwise. Well, now that I've stopped laughing I thought I'd post here for your enjoyment and delectation. I wonder how many people have ordered from here expecting I to get a genuine article? Surely not many? I wonder what they actually received and just how good a quality those specimens actually were? Dear oh dear oh dear!

I love the lilting swing you can get in a 6/8 song too...

Interesting article on the Gary Willis site but I do wonder if there is a bit of pseudoscience in there and he is actually describing more of a psychoacoustic effect of how we perceive a note with a loud attack and lower body sustain - a sort of natural compassion thing going on in our brains. Or maybe I'm just being too sceptical. However, in the OP's situation I wonder if there is a combination of two things happening both being caused by the pickups being a touch too close to the strings? First the close proximity causing too high a signal to be sensed by the pickups, causing the audible overloading. I'm convinced that pickups can be over-loaded in this manner and small decreases in pickup height can make a big difference, esp since the signal strength fro my the vibrating string will vary on an inverse square relationship. Seen this happen on a few Wals which have particularly powerful pickups. Whether it's the pickups themselves overloading and distorting or the high pickup output overdriving the input stage of the active circuit I'm not sure. However, a slight tweak of the pickup height cures it. Also, if the pickup is too close to the string then the strings can experience magnetic damping effects, causing sustain to be lost.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1478451505' post='3169114'] You can also link to photos on other websites directly using an HTML code... e.g. To an image on your Facebook page... [/quote] Ha! Now there's a way to show the code in plain text to show the BB Code standard format!

[quote name='Chewie' timestamp='1478459673' post='3169178'] Que.......... That just made me roar. [/quote] Yeah, the problem is you've got to really screw with the code to stop the site trying to parse it and just come up with a broken image...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1478455921' post='3169149'] ...which boils down to BBCode, really. (From Flickr... **[**img**]**https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5694/30747048696_9f5cecac63_o.png**[**/img**]**...) [/quote] Indeed, but you're not relying on only using photo hosting sites that provide the code automatically for you. You can pick most images off the net and type them in directly... just like Mr Karfler did (or not, I see he wimped out and saved it in Photobucket first!)

A couple of things spring to mind. Look backwards to some bands like Blondie and the Runaways. Cherry Bomb got a lot of coverage from the Guardians of the Galaxy film. Then there's stuff like Joan Jett's ILove Rock and Roll, Blondie's One Way or Another or Pleaase Don't Touch by Motörhead/Girlschool. Definitely look at some of Pat Benatar's stuff. Then what about some more Britpop type stuff rocked up? Ready To Go by Republica, I think I'm paranoid by Garbage, My Favorite Mistake by The Cardigans. They've all already got great guitar lines with he scope to rock them up further.

You can also link to photos on other websites directly using an HTML code... e.g. To an image on your Facebook page... I've added lots of double asterisks and spaces into the text below to show the format. Remove them and it's the code for the above photo. Basicall, the square brackets with img in it followed by the image URL followed by /img in square brackets (hope this works) **[** img** ]**https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14524570_10154317164445860_5715355225436498288_o.jpg **[**/ img **]**

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1478199736' post='3167535'] . Also as others have said unless you need to manipulate the sequenced parts live, or you intend to run other things such as effects changes for the live instruments or lights off the sequencer, you are much better off for the sake of reliability using a pre-recorded track. Put the click track in one channel and the music you want the audience to hear in the other. [/quote] Did that a couple of years ago for an orchestral backing to Carol of the Bells with our church worship band and choir. Worked really well.

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1478201967' post='3167566'] This is my personal favourite Cliff Track. Brings back warm memories of an 80s childhood. Classic video too. [/quote] And in turn, that Cliff song always makes me think of this rock n roll classic... http://youtu.be/0KCi1_BjyCc

I guess the problem will partly be that, at that end of the market the amps are trying to add in whistles and bells to make them look competitive against the competition while building down to a price. That means whatever little cash is available is being spent on marketing features not on core performance. The sad reality is that a £100 practice amp that has a built in tuner, DSP, iPod input, USB connection, memory presets but poor quality chassis, speaker and cab (and which therefore has huge sound limitations) will sell shed loads more than a well designed and built £100 practice amp that just has a gain, volume and two or three basic tone knobs (but which sounds great and gives reliable performance). Should be the other way round, but it isn't. So manufacturers tend to build the former not the latter. It's the truism. Every penny spent on a gimmick wasn't spent on a part that really matters.

This filth just got posted on Facebook. Spalted ash apparently. I'm off for a cold shower!

You may find that the thre way to do it will be to programme the whole track on the sequencer with the click track. Even if for large sections all you have is the click and no synths actually playing . Count of four clicks to come in and then just play to the click while you count the bars so that you're at the right place in the song when the synths etc do come in.

[quote name='Angel' timestamp='1473612007' post='3131638'] A Padalka Edit: Pic shows with preview but not in thread? [/quote] This would normally be the antithesis of the bass I would like but visually I find this rather arresting. Confused now and needing a lie down...

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1478120745' post='3166968'] Lets face it, he sang one of the best rock songs of all time! [/quote] Not listened to this in a while but loving the great Clem Cattini's drumming and Alan Tarney's bass.

I've got a soft spot for ol' Riff Pilchard but if I'm gonna watch a superannuated rock star sing Roll Over Beethoven it's going to be this one! http://youtu.be/RJRZcbqcYkY

Started with a 75W Laney Linebacker combo in 1982. Graduated to a Trace Elliott Series 6 1215 combo in 1988 (thanks to some industrial sponsorship money which went along with my university research grant) which I played for the next 20 years. An SWR Workingman's 10 joined as a practice amp in about 2002. In 2007 the TE fell off a luggage trolley on a load in and died. Having a gig the following Saturday it was rapidly replaced with an Ashdown MAG300evo and Ashdown 4x10 (act in haste and repent in leisure) which over the course of a year I grew to loathe. I just couldn't get it to sound good to my ears. I bought it because my chum had an old, black (UK built I later learned) MAG300 which my bass sounded amazing through. So... In 2008 I got a Markbass Little Mark II, a 2x10 Traveler speaker and a 1x15 Traveler speaker and now I'm in hog's heaven with my sound. I love that amp set up. Sold off the SWR (which I was really sad to see go) and the cursed Ashdowns on eBay. No inclination of changing amps again at the moment. Ask me in 2028...

All the discussions on here remind be terribly of what it was like in the early mid-2000s at Wal as Pete found his health deteriorating and his lease crumble from under him a couple of time in quick sucession. For a while he didn't have the heart to turn down orders (always assuming things would pick up, I guess) and of course that only left him further and further behind on orders being left unfulfilled. As I recall it was only when some friends and family convinced him to close the order book and just work on the orders he had that he started to whittle it down. Even then I also think that Paul ended up finishing off a few pre-existing orders when he took over the reigns in 2008/2009. I do hope that Zon aren't entering into that kind of phase as well...

When we did La Bamba we'd alternate the chorus with the Beatles version of Twist and Shout, that worked well. And watching Shrek yesterday with the nipper in the karaoke party at the end the do a great mash up of Listen To The Music and Happy Together I'd love to try sometime.

Lots of "proper" tunes that ended up doing double duties as TV themes. Here are some of my faves... Heartsong - Gordon Giltrap, Holiday http://youtu.be/ktRsmHrLHU4 Billy Taylor Trio - I wish I knew how it would feel to be free, Film'XX http://youtu.be/jlH_XFuf3wU Kate Rusty - Village Green Preservation Society, Jam and Jerusalem http://youtu.be/HGnNQ6PX-Mg Siobhan Maher Kennedy - I wanna see the bright lights tonight, sitcom can't remember the name Nantucket Sleighride's already been mentioned. Light Flight - Pentangle, Take three girls http://youtu.be/d9gCN9- Theme and Variations 1-4, Andrew Lloyd Webber, South Bank Show (the original version features Coliseum as the backing band with Don Airey, Gary Moore, John Hiseman and John Mole plus Barbara Thompson and Rod Argent!) Most but not all on this vid... http://youtu.be/TMCb90JpvxY Here's a little video playlist for ya... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGIYNBxcSZ3s4Q2qC42nv4yaQbP7KHKEd

I'm kinda in between. I always take good care of my basses and everyone comments on how great they look for instruments that get regular play. However, if one gets a bit of a ding, well that's life/entropy. I can't help feeling that if that's the worst thing that happens in a week or if that's the worst thing I have to worry about then life can't be too bad, can it.