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Ghost Light (being a recently formed goth band) are looking for a keyboardist, and/ or guitarist to play original songs, with a fairly consistent rehearsal schedule and intention to get gigging and recording in due course. We currently have eight songs in some stage of development or other. The vocalist and I are both early-mid 40s (but look slightly less mortal for it), if that sort of thing is important to you. Vampirism not essential.

I think it depends on who you're marketing to. The last email I received from SBL mentioned John Patitucci, Gary Willis, Sean Hurley, Rufus Philpot, Steve Jenkins, and Rich Brown; most of whom I've never heard of - a couple I only know the names of because Scott Devine repeatedly name drops them like a priest during sermon name dropping God and Jesus, and none of them remotely interest me (which also applies to God and Jesus, as it happens). With that in mind, it has to be assumed SBL isn't marketed toward my kind of bassist and I should simply block SBL emails. Still, I can't help but feel that perhaps there are methods that SBL could utilise if they wished to upskill those of us with less lofty technical ambitions, who maybe just want to be better at fundamentals within a far less complex genre than microtonal jazz-funk - and name dropping bassists those of us interested in those less complex genres actually enjoy and are inspired by. Perhaps though, that's not where the money is and my autistic donkey should just get on with making the sort of music I like to hear.

But is it not more fun to inflict my mental images upon everyone here? It's certainly cheaper.

I'm increasingly considering tuning my 4 string Schecter SLS Evil Twin to D standard tuning, with a professional set-up using heavy gauge (50-75-95-110) Roto flats (I typically use standard 45-65-85-105 gauge) flats and wonder whether there's any thing I maybe should be aware of? The Evil Twin has a really thin neck, 38mm nut, 20mm depth at 1st fret, 22mm at 12th fret, modern "C" shape through neck. Thanks.

They make a series where they learn to talk and act like each other and then, having planted cameras around each others houses, spend a week trying to pretend to be each other with the others' wife and family. It goes badly, as the respective wives pick up on it immediately, but pretend not to notice and spend the entire week trying to get their "husbands" into bed. At the end of the week, whilst Ian and Scott go on "business trips", the wives go on their own trip away, together. Once Scott and Ian find out, they decide to move in together themselves and fully realise their bromance, just the two of them and their collective $6,000,000 worth of basses (after paying alimony). I realise I may be "shipping" (as people younger than me are wont to say) Scott and Ian far more than is healthy and I should probably seek therapy.

I wouldn't want to share a stage with even one other bassist, not while we're both playing bass anyway.

In the Army Now - Status Quo.

Awesome! I hope it works out for you.

It occurs to me, Mr. Devine isn't on here by any chance? I haven't got to worry about him hunting me down, kidnapping me with his best buddy and stowing me away in his cellar have I? SBL Podcast #120 - Scott and Ian reveal who they recently kidnapped! 45 minutes after the podcast started. They make the mistake of taking my gag off and I start shouting over them about how they can raise Jaco from the grave so he can kiss my moonlit gothic donkey! Ian stabs me through the heart with a vintage P bass and they livestream them burying me under the Armley Gyratory. It becomes their most watched podcast ever!

We all go to Leeds and hunt Scott Devine down, for causing the very situation where our beloved bass is now illegal. Scott starts wearing a wig to hide his baldness and never wears a hat again, and grows a beard.

Scott Makes Bank Lessons - Scott and Ian livestream them duetting on their favourite basslines in a vault full of money. The first 30 minutes is spent with them talking about how they could light expensive cigars with £50 notes and it wouldn't even scratch the amount of money in the vault. Eventually, they pick up a 7 string F Bass... *covered in gold and diamonds!*

To make one comment on the divergent topic - paper candidates can help give an inroad into a ward (council level) or constituency (national level) and give a party an idea whether it's worth throwing money at in future elections of that kind - obviously, that's a tactic best used by parties with more limited funds, who need to be selective about outgoings.

I love me some Roto flats, and the extra tension but I know they're not for everyone.

What even is the point in picking up a bass if you don't have to struggle to keep your fretting hand on the neck? It's all about the slip and skid of the fingers.

The intent isn't to trash, but in one of the most recent podcasts he mentioned something about announcing the future of the podcast and I thought it'd be fun to riff on the idea and had some fun with it. My dislike of his over fondness for jazz and for citing the same handful of bassists like no one else ever mattered, is entirely a different subject. Evidently, SBL is very popular, and presumably plenty of bassists get a lot out of it. Heck, I watch some of the podcasts, I just don't subscribe to SBL because it's never really been sold to me in a way that appeals - but not everything has to.

I used to have one, but I eventually got rid of it as I'd quickly learned acoustics weren't for me - just took me too long to offload it.

Scott's Bromance Lessons - First episode featuring Mark King and entitled "Lessons in Love", there's lots of slapping but it's not bass lessons, if you know what I mean. First 12 hours, they've gone viral and made millions, but spent thousands on salve and lube.

Promptly buys 100 new and rare basses, all costing at least £7000 each.

Nobody's Diary - Yazoo

That would certainly be a surprise re-direction.

I've not even joined, only thought about it briefly but decided against it, so I'm gonna be a civilian hiding from being forced to own a P bass.

Spurred on by an e-mail from Scott's Bass Lessons announcing "The Future of SBL" and that left me thinking how strange or funny that could be made. So here we are. I hope this thread is in the right place though. Anyway, here goes: "The future of SBL will be to forge the SBL membership into an armed militia ready to bring down any government we want! One's rank within said militia will be based entirely on how much you can slap and how groove you have. So say we all - Field Marshall Scott Devine and General Ian M. Allison."

This paragraph from their Wikipedia page covers the origin of the band name: "Devoto and Shelley chose the name "Buzzcocks" after reading the headline, "It's the Buzz, pink torpedo!", in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The "buzz" is the excitement of playing on stage; "pink torpedo" is northern English slang meaning "friend". They thought it captured the excitement of the nascent punk scene, as well as having humorous sexual connotations following Pete Shelley's time working in a Bolton adult shop.[15]"

Yes, the Buzzcocks name was written as a single word.

I know if I had a 5, I'd very definitely use the extra string - I do tend to write songs that use every string at my disposal. What I'm not good at is going above the 12th fret, and even going that far is me being adventurous. I'm not sure I'd find more strings comfortable though. As for 6, that's not for me - though my previous distaste for their use has softened since I found out about Peter Hook's use of one.