Ricky 4000

Nice opening. 👍

Regarding the sore fingers, one old-school trick you probably already know is to spread drops of superglue on the fingertips, being careful not to stick them together or onto the bass etc.

Then I discovered you can play the bass with gloves on! Either proper 'musician's gloves', or silk ones... which have the added bonus of making one feel extremely sexy... so I'm told.

Glos as in Gloucestershire?

14 minutes ago, upside downer said:

 

That's a great setlist, should be a lot of fun to play! 

 

 

Stand and Deliver is one we used to play and always went down really well. These are the most pleasing songs to do, IMHO, the ones that hardly any other band plays but everyone knows. Also Lust For Life and Silly Thing from that era.

I'd be no good at choosing a set. I tried that kind of thing once and it didn't go well.

OTOH, the only Pistols song I've ever played live is New York. Which was an awesome choice IMHO. I should claim it as my idea...

33 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Some pretty good ones, and some unexpected 

Ooo, some good stuff on there... Stand and deliver?

This is deliciously interesting. What songs are in the set?

I think Paul Martinez was on bass with Robert P at Live Aid. I've had a few lessons with Paul. He's a gent. Did you know - Paul was on the short list to join the Stones years ago, instead they chose Ronnie Wood. 👍

There's also @Bart Funk Basson here, who demos simple funky lines, played impeccably. 👍

Costa del sol eh? I'd love to go somewhere warm like that for the winter! 🥶

32 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

Floating thumb for me, and sometimes I pluck with the thumb, but also some palm muting depending on what I'm doing.

😄

15 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

 

Peel me a persimmon?

*Simonon. 😗

And Paul Simminon. 👍

I was once told that some of the over-paying on fleabay is due to scrotes doing their money laundering!? 😗

56 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

Hmm... my £800 car is three years with me. That means I'm £89,200 in profit!

 

No wonder economists are the biggest risk to the future of this planet...

I was given my van for free, but it is insured for £840. So who's a winner now??

I am, obviously.

4 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I know nothing about the technical things but I’m really curious to find out what the problem is, might be a silly question but when it’s plugged in and you tap the pickups is there any noise coming through 

I had a similar problem to this. It turned out I still had my ear muffs on after being outside in the snow. 😄

Nobody reads the stickies.

3 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Slade

I cannot take them seriously no more! 😄

Damn.

They're sold out in Cardiff.

And I could probably go on Thursday.

The Cure was probably my favourite band in 1979 or something.

Why are gigs I want to go to always sold out?

The last time this happened it was 5 Star playing in Gloucester.

I was gutted mind. 

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

Funny that nobody seems to read what others have written...

I read your post, and I thought it was lovely.

Another user of a small Beringer USB mixer, or a Zoom, up in here. 👍

Both fiendishly complex for a newb in different ways - but also fun! 😃

Oh Jeeze.

Good thread... 👍

For those like me who didn't know much about the band, I found this documentary interesting. 👍

1 hour ago, StickyDBRmf said:

Damn still can't do it. How do you embed youtube vids?

Start the video - click share - click copy (next to the url) - paste it on a post in here. 🖕

Its circus. Who ever heard of an Entwistle circus?? Stupid game...

I can definitely play faster on a shorty, but then there are areas where the frets get a little bit close together... you probably have to switch scale completely and get used to it... wax on / wax off... sorry if that's stating the obvious.

I think 32" scale is the way to go, but I am still yet to try one. 🤷‍♀️