SpondonBassed

Welcome Raeman. You've come to the right place. There is a thriving marketplace on BassChat here.

Hahahahaha. Bless.

I think I'd re-consider my position on acoustic bass if I had a spot in a mariachi band but I wouldn't keep it near the bed for fear of mistaking it for a slipper and scaring myself half to death with the thought that I've shrunk! If I wanted to practice during unsocial hours I think I'd go with headphones on my rig. I am fortunate enough to have a well isolated practice space though so it never comes up really.

Welcome Thaibass. Gosh. There's so much goodness in that image but there is no doubt about what the most precious bit of kit in that room is. You must be very proud. Does she play much yet?

I think he might have thought that himself from reading the article I linked out to above. It stated that he was the first to quit but that he was welcomed back after the others realised they'd under-rated his worth to the band.

Good point. I only 'got into' it because I was matey with a family of musicians and I was press ganged. I didn't need the music as an accessory to puberty. In fact teenagers need no excuse whatsover. They are horny all of the time.

Watch this then. Good post, you've earned your kip.

The image of the troll-like creature should be a clue here. It made me laugh anyway.

I like that. If the whole band are starting with the right number of BPM at the first practice it is a good foundation for later when there is no artificial gauge for tempo.

I'm in awe of the image you've provoked in my mind. All those shiny new huge buckets of drumber extract. Yuk.

He was also the oldest of the fabs. He'd taken the position of drummer with the Beatles after the band had been going a while. His background in bands previously was Skiffle and Blues. https://www.biography.com/people/ringo-starr-306872#! 'In 1962, he officially joined the Beatles, replacing Pete Best. After their first gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, Best's fans were so angry about the switch that they gave Starr a black eye. Eventually, Beatles fans came around, and Starr was accepted, and eventually beloved.' Remember these were the days when skiffle bands used washboards with thimbles, pots and pans as percussive instruments. George Harrison was not a genius*. He was a spiritual man. Ringo was not brought up on click tracks or even drum kits. He took on a role that got him punched by fans who missed Pete Best. Lennon was a youth who had reasons to be bitter about his life. He was a survivor. McCartney came from a family which still did the Cèilidh thing. He was a great mixer. During their last years of live performance they pushed the limits of technology for amplification at large venues and found it lacking. The fans were louder than they were. The studio years are how they managed to continue as a band where pressures beyond anyone's control at the time were killing bands outright. To keep going as they did was an indication of the toughness of their outfit. As Maccer often said; The Beatles was a great little band. Me? I liked them from the very first time I heard them on the jukebox in the London pub where I lived until the age of two. That was between '62 and '65. The bass travelled through the ceiling to where I slept while happy drinkers played their hits time after time. You'd think I'd be fed up hearing them but no. How many bands endure in that way now? Like lots of other things in the 21st century, it seems that bands are built to be disposable. *A previous comment about George not being a genius made me laugh. Why would anyone suggest that he was?

Wow! I got a strong whiff of IPA from that lickle bit of nostalgia. Funny how the little things bring back memories with a blast.

That's torn the backside out of a potentially good scrap. Cobnuts!

I think we should invite this person, who I gather is a bassist, to join BC and give his side of it. If he isn't already here that is.

So... if Ringo used a brown paper bag to guff in, what's confusing me is how Bernard managed to get the same effect using a moped?!? Oh 'eck.

No love for George's lyrics then? He really blossomed when the Beatles finally folded. Nobody noticed much in the shadow of what went before but I feel sad knowing we've heard the last of his music. He was damned good at it.

Have we found a new name for the guitar yet? I have a pink proposal for one... Sorry Andy. I'd restart the topic if I were in your boots mate. It's been sabotaged by Mary Whitehouse's ghost.

Not these days no. I used to do it when I was young and living in bedsit land though. If I did it now, I'd still set up an amp but I'd mic up the acoustic and play through a sub harmonic or octaver effect just for brownie points.

Oh gawd! I can't remember the last time I had one of those. You should hear him perform on the brown paper bag too.

A wise graffiti renderer once wrote above the cistern, Eat **** because billions of flies can't be wrong. Other advice on YT consumption is available too.

Sorry Andy. You were saying?

It's needed. One member has been seen posting an avatar with an image of Ali G trapping his pink torpedo in a squeeze box! Try to describe that politely to a bass playing Nun with a caning habit.

That's tape for you. I loved chopping bits of it up and splicing it with a cheap record shop slicing kit but I was a lonely kid because of it. I occupied so much spare time compared to using the cut and paste feature that is on everything these days. Since digital technology sorted that out I have had to get very good at twiddling my thumbs* with the abundance of free time that I was suddenly faced with. It was that or go back to smoking as a means of marking time. I had a Sony twin deck for copying four-track cassettes. It had a double speed button that halved the copying time. It worked well. I only needed it to copy all of the (already pirated) cassettes that I had been lent prior to emigrating from Ireland to come back home. If such a device was on hand and had a line-out, I am sure it would be possible to hack together a high speed digitising rig. * After I got bored with thumb twiddling, I took up the bass again.

Aw. I was going to do a show and tell about my pet bantam c o c k e r e l ! Cancel that then.

Hahahahahaha. What has it got against molluscs? That's just shellfish!