Ricky 4000

I've been getting it for the last 4 or 5 years.

Bought the compression gloves and I like playing in them but they're made from nylon stuff, so not very warm.

Silk gloves feel nice, but I don't think they'd take too much wear from playing and they're also not very warm.

As said above, once fingers are cold they take a lot of warming up. Perhaps keeping the heat in the core / head would help too ...

In a cold room, perhaps comp' gloves with fingerless knitted gloves over the top? I may give that a try. 👍

21 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

I’m not sure that being Welsh is a protected characteristic so Mrs R was probably okay.

Thanks. I'll tell her she was lucky, this time...

Question: My Mrs was recently a bit cheeky to me. Now, as I'm Welsh, technically, I need to know if that was actually a hate crime? Because if yes, I probably need to call the police or something.

3 hours ago, Jason Karloff said:

Racey look like a 2nd rate Showaddywaddy

That's exactly what happened to be fair. 👍

Larry Graham.

No. It's Gary Tibbs outta Adam And The Ants, and Roxy Music. 👍

21 hours ago, drTStingray said:

Im surprised you didn’t look at a Wal - they were ‘affordable’ back then. I chose a Stingray at the end of the 70s because I wanted that fat, staccato (Bernard Edwards) sound - active basses did that well with concurrent amps, as well as slap sound (Wals have a great slap sound as well). I was turned on to Wals at the time by Alan Spenner (funk and also Roxymusic) playing one and Percy Jones (jazz funk). 

4 hours ago, drTStingray said:

He’s using an Ibanez Musician I think (could be an Aria) 1981. 

3 hours ago, Bassassin said:

 

There's an '81 TOTP video - he's playing either an Aria SB700 or an SB1000 - through-neck, single pickup, can't tell if it's active or passive. I'd guess that's what he recorded the track with.

 

Begs the question why the high-end Japanese basses like Aria SBs and Ibanez Musicians & Studios, which all emerged at the end of the 70s, don't seem to have been embraced by the players that @Bean9seventyis talking about - they'd seem to tick all the boxes, not Fendery, through-neck, 24 fret, 2-a-side headstock etc. Certainly very affordable compared to the Alembics that inspired their designs.

A bit off-topic I know 🤒, but I remember the Aria TSB ads featuring Gary Tibbs:

That was around the time that my bass teacher bought an SB1000... which was nice.

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

I left school in 1980 and I remember the song well, I wasn’t sure if there was a version earlier 🙂

No mate, co-written by Freddie Washington (on a P bass!).

I know I've posted this clip before:

Have you got access to the individual tracks, to play around with mixing it yourself? 🙂

5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Which elicited this reply:

 

the dance floors were exciting,

think the music industry thing was a drink too big & a sandwich too small, for me especially

 

yes, there was a lot to it, Denmark st 1976 -80 ,, fact No1, get it right ,

Sadly not a scene that I was ever part of.

Growing up in Backward Buttf*ck, Gloucestershire. The only game in town was hanging out in Woolworths...

Interesting. I thought MK lived on the IOW, and he and the rest of the band were learning their trade on the holiday camp circuit over there, before they made it to the big time.

So I suppose MK worked in Macari's before all that...?

Thanks to the mods and happy holidays!

There's a couple of fairly reliable blokes I use. I could have a word if you like... oh, whoops, please ignore.

6 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

Lol, for the first time ever I wanted to use the correct term for female dogs, in the right context as well, but the swear filter won't let me!!

 

Anyway, my point was supposed to be about the misinterpretation of "string noise"

My apologies. It's a common mistyke. 😋

2 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

 

Actually, it's a she. 

I thought you meant your other dog.

Just now, Bridgehouse said:

 

My dog has no nose either..

How does he smell?

10 minutes ago, Bridgehouse said:

My strings make a noise. 

 

Given how much I've spent on basses and amplifiers I'd be really bloody cross if they didn't

My grandad didn't die in two world wars so you could have string noise.

4 hours ago, Bridgehouse said:

Got my knobs out for @Hellzero 

 

Yeah - slight mismatch but close enough for me and given the total cost of the bits was £3.50 then I'm more than happy!

 

 

Can you put colour in the pointers and dots of those knobs? 😗

I thought you'd been here for yonks (that's English for years!). 🙂

2 hours ago, GreeneKing said:

Just to be specific. The issues are usually around the lead ending a section of the song a phrase or two early and going onto the chorus/fill/verse/outro too soon. The drummer just accommodates as I guess drummers often can without anyone noticing. Rhythm is drowned out anyway (except when playing a solo) but does recognise the issue. At the end of the song the lead usually says 'that was great/tight/sounded good' etc. with no idea that I was out of the mix for a bar or two (again) trying to sort it out.

 

It ruins my enjoyment of playing well. I think that in a gigging scenario it's me who'll look to be getting it wrong to the punters. I get criticised for being too loud at times and that is down to me wanting to be heard in the mix. I did spend one session behind the lead's amp and I had to move right up to the kit to hear it! I also ended up with a headache and nausea. The last session I went the other side of the kit to be with the Rhythm and he moved to alongside the lead leaving me to myself. It was bliss. I could hear the drums. I got told off for being too loud (the drummers wife who comes along) but I feel that I'm forced to compete with the lead who been asked time and time again to turn it down. Last session I was told I was turning the bass up and I honestly didn't touch it. 

 

We had a recording and it was supposed to show that the vocals were muffled and overpowered. The trouble was that the recorder (a phone I believe) was placed behind the PA that was facing the band and it was getting the full blast of the backline. I pointed this out and was ignored  The bass sounded just right to my ears btw.

 

 

 

 

The bits in bold ^^^^.

Hard to say without being there, but I think I'd keep my level down, rather than compete with a too-loud guitar. He's less likely to turn himself down if he thinks you're the one who's too loud.

And I'd particularly play quieter at those moments when you know he's likely to go off piste and screw the arrangement. You'll sound better for it. 😉

Unless he goes i.e. into the bridge half way through a chorus - in which case - all bets are off! 😄

From what I've seen on the TV, Copeland was a bit of a psycho back in the day, and Gordon Sting was probably actually scared of him. And there's no shame in that. Seemed to be what they call an abusive relationship.

4 hours ago, Rich said:

Is your dad Roger Whittaker? No, because you would have mentioned it if he was.

I'm having this tattooed on my arm.

Just look at the audience reaction to probably one of the greatest players of the modern era...

... and it's raining....

9 minutes ago, TimR said:

Would be good to hear from some more bass players on how they approach playing solos.

I would fake an injury, or a case of the yips.

edit: Or better still, equipment failure.

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

I thought The Wildhearts, but assumed I'd confused them with Autograph. Curses, I could've been the one to save the day, rather than the berk who said Donna Summer. 😂

I've got your coat ready... 😄

2 hours ago, NikkiSixxfan said:

So I ask once more, are bassists in a unique position to assess drummers?

No, not at all, but if the drummer's all over the place and you're trying to fit in with it - maybe it's harder for a third party to pick that apart?

Have you done any recording together? That might help you all to focus on getting a good solid rhythm going. 🙂