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Don't know much of her stuff but I do love the bass on the track, You're the One that I want, from the Grease soundtrack.
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We are just starting to learn a covers set, at the moment I’m enjoying, Bad Reputation by Thin Lizzy and Hell Bent for Leather by Judas Priest the most in rehearsal, but I assume my favourite may change when we get to playing live.
As for when we play originals, favourites to play live are, 24 Hour Breakdown & Gripped by the Throat, we would never play either in rehearsal anymore though. -
Not sure I have an absolute favourite bass player, but the one whose playing I think is incredible that hasn’t yet been mention is Dave LaRue who plays with Steve Morse on his solo albums.
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Edinburgh seems quite stable at the moment, nothing opened recently, but on the other hand nothing has closed down either.
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Thanks for the welcome, certainly finding interesting stuff on the forum and gaining little insights into the bass. [/color][/size][/font]
[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Definitely enjoying playing bass, just need to keep practicing and get better at it.[/color][/size][/font] -
[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Moving to bass.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Thought I’d say hello here, though I have done a few posts elsewhere.[/color][/size][/font]
[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Actually play guitar in a band and have done for years, until now been more of a bass owner than a player. But we’ve decided after 10 years of gigging our own songs that we’d try our hands at a cover set for a bit. Normally singer plays the bass, but for the covers I’m going to give the bass a try and let him just handle the vocals and we’ll change to a one guitar band.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Really enjoying playing some of the bass lines, which to be honest can be a lot more interesting than the usual rhythm guitar I’m doing. Obviously some of it is quite challenging, but I am getting stuck in and have been practicing at home a lot more than I have done on guitar in recent years. Hopefully won’t be long until I’m playing regular gigs as a bassist.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Cheers.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000][b]Iron Maiden Virtual XI[/b] – their second album with Blaze on vocals, universally trashed and a poor seller, but there is only one song on it I dislike (Futureal).[/color][/size][/font]
[font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000][b]Status Quo - Ain't Complaining[/b] – the Quo go all out AOR with a set of melodic tunes bathed in keyboards. A million miles away from their 70s hard rock output, yet they are accused of always sounding the same on record.[/color][/size][/font]
[font=Calibri][size=3][color=#000000][b]Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue [/b] – lambasted for Steve Vai widdling all over it, whereas I love the guitar pyrotechnics over some really good hard rocking tunes.[/color][/size][/font]
[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]That is just three off the top of my head, I’m sure there are many more in my collection that belong in this category.[/color][/size][/font] -
Nevermind by Nirvana
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Did the same thing with another track, Book Bus, which we released digitally last year.
Video of bass recording - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGv_SXdXNY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGv_SXdXNY[/url]
Added guitar recording session - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynueiokPNIo"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ynueiokPNIo[/url]
Added vocal recording - [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3neP3tTxS-k[/media] (well okay that is a mime of the recording session). -
Many great tracks, but my absolute favourite is, Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming, huge fan of the guitar playing of Steve Morse.
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I Wanna Be A Winner - Brown Sauce - featuring Noel Edmunds, Keith Chegwin & Maggie Philbin. I got the 7" back in the day and I'm happy to confess that I put it on occasionally and think it is good.
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The magazines, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock & Prog have been purchased by Future Publishing for £800k. They were of course the publishers that originally sold the mags to TeamRock for £10m, a good bit of business for them I guess.
[url="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/08/heir-guitars-rock-and-metal-music-publisher-teamrock-saved"]https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/08/heir-guitars-rock-and-metal-music-publisher-teamrock-saved[/url] -
My band has decided to do a covers set in order to play some different venues and to different people than we do with our originals. Including a few early Maiden tunes, and I thought I'd try playing with fingers instead of a pick in order to make it a bit more authentic. I can hardly get through half a song without my forearm pretty much giving up. Can't imagine how much practise you'd have to do in order to get the stamina to play a full set like that.
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Think the magazines were doing okay and returning a profit, the problem was the parent company, their other activities took them down. Teamrock had an advert free radio station on DAB for two years, which must have cost the a fortune. Then they moved that to online and tried getting paid subscriptions for radio and content access to run alongside the print magazines – obviously didn’t work and has resulted in the magazines being taken down as the rest of the business failed.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]You’d think if the magazines do have a readership that someone might come in and purchase the titles and ensure they stay on the shelves.[/color][/size][/font]
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]There is quite a good article on it here.[/color][/size][/font]
[url="https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/team-rock-closure"][font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#0000ff"]https://www.themediabriefing.com/article/team-rock-closure[/color][/size][/font][/url]
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[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]And an interview with an ex editor of Classic Rock[/color][/size][/font]
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Bit late to the party, but enjoying reading the diary from the beginning.
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Scottish hard rock / metal band, Vantage Point, are currently recording their fourth album, Work Work Work. Here is a video of Bassist, Murray Graham, recording the track, @ Attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BezokRZgwnk
There is also a video with the guitars added, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlMzQUrZsAo but they do get in the way of the bassline somewhat 😉 Vocals yet to be recorded.- 2
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On my must-learn list
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I'd love to learn that bassline, unfortunately a bit beyond my current abilities, but hopefully with practice I'll get there one day in the future.