knirirr

Looking good - I hope you're still enjoying it!

100% I must have re-started playing around 2016-17 and it's taken until the end of this year to manage to play a gig with the variety of music I like and a band able to do it justice. To get there involved quite a bit of networking at jams, though I found the drummer by advertising on JMB.

So did I. Recently, I played a tape of my first gig to a teacher, who thought that the intonation was good but the choice of notes ... less so ... No ponytail involved, but I'd have one if I could get the rest of my hair back to go with it. BTW I always try to drop in to Machynlleth when passing.

I don't know... But, at both jams I attended this month someone either brought a fretless bass guitar or promised to do so in January.

Quite! Unfortunately playing those one tends to meet extreme fans or haters (I have given them up for the moment).

Indeed, though I think that fretted bass clickbait is long overdue a cultural reappraisal.

Claimed!

I saw this anon opinion earlier today: Is that an accurate representation of how they are viewed? BTW, I got one out at a rehearsal a few months ago, prompting the saxophonist to comment that fretless bass guitars appeared to be prevalent in Oxfordshire. Perhaps they are popular everywhere.

I traded in my old iPhone for a Pixel but still have the box, inc. a cable. If it would be of use to anyone then I can send it on for the cost of postage (again, I guess that £5 would cover it).

These appear to be in good condition, and I think the green silks mean they're Fenders. The numbered markers came off some Labella strings I put on instead. They were on a Jazz. Yours if you don't mind paying for postage (£5 ought to cover it). I would want to post them after Christmas due to being away and also the evil queues at the local post office.

From time to time I drop in and perhaps ought to do so more often, though I have been looking at https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/ a bit more frequently.

I've not been banned, but I was blackguarded by one of the big-shots as an incompetent and a racist for not liking a particular sub-genre ... which I had said I enjoyed listening to earlier in the thread. There was a lot of miscommunication in that discussion and the mods deleted a lot of it. They have changed the design making it harder navigate and so I visit less often now.

Strangely, on those occasions where I find it easier to take an EUB there's usually at least one person who will comment on how cool and/or expensive it looks. It's a cheap EUB and sounds a bit rubbish compared with the acoustic but no-one seems to notice (except double bassists).

It works if one follows Mr. Neely and regularly watches his videos. Perhaps not otherwise...

Ah, then you missed the bit where he says something along the lines of "everything I've said up until now in this video is complete bull****", then proceeds to explain why, for the rest of the video.

Adam Neely did an interesting video on A=432

Though I normally only play 4 strings (because it's a pretty standard 3/4 DB) this thread has tempted me to borrow Mrs. K's 5-string to try out at a jam. They normally do the Christmas jam in a room where the ceiling's too low to stand up with my DB.

Do you know if there's still a jazz jam in the Wine Vaults there?

You may judge for yourself here. 😉 I made plenty of mistakes(*) but I think we didn't do too badly for an amateur band. The audience liked it and were pleased to have that sort of material played, and it was good to be doing it as a proper gig rather than a number here and there as the house band at a jam. (*) E.g. forgot what key I was in for the first few bars of the first solo...

Quite. I'm reminded of a local shopkeeper (now passed away) who didn't quite get this. I once had this conversation with him: "Do you see anything you fancy today?" "Unfortunately not, sorry." "Well, you must be blind then!"

I recently booked tickets for this: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/witneyjazz/t-lnrplpg ...can't resist a hard bop gig with 4 horns in the front line!

We did a wedding gig last night - nothing fancy, mostly playing background music as the guests arrived. No pay, as the BL had signed us up as a favour for the bride. One requirement was that at the end of our set, before a ceilidh band came on, the bride's father was to join us on stage to play some blues harmonica. As it happens he was clearly sober and pretty good at it.

I have only played it once, at a jazz jam. I didn't recognise it at first and realisation dawned when the chap sitting in on keys started singing "ride, Sally, ride".

Performers reading charts on a gig is a popular complaint in the jazz community, it seems, though no-one anywhere I play seems particulary bothered by it, and iPads are common. Even the pros use them, but they are usually discreet. I can remember heads/changes if I play them a lot, but if I don't for a few weeks I have to get the crib sheet out again. For the next gig we have lined up I can play 3/4 of the set without charts but stuff like this never seems to stick in my head.