bassmandan

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='167529' date='Apr 1 2008, 10:47 AM']Congrats on the European tour![/quote] merci monsieur!

Just found out that my band (link in sig) are confirmed on the Magnum tour again this year, European dates only though..... I'm not sure if/what they're doing for a support in the UK, I've a feeling they'll be playing a double set though - will definately be worth catching if you can! it'd be good to meet any European BassChat members that are nearby, and/or if anyone's out gadding that way then drop me a line and I'll try and get you on the list, confirmed dates below and I'm told there may be two or three more to be added at some point: May 15 2008 - Z7 PRATTELN SWITZERLAND May 16 2008 - SCALA LUDWIGSBURG GERMANY May 17 2008 - MATRIX BOCHUM GERMANY May 18 2008 - FABRIK HAMBURG GERMANY May 19 2008 - COLOS SAAL ASCHAFFENBURG GERMANY May 21 2008 - ELSERHALLE MUNICH GERMANY May 22 2008 - HIRSCH NURNBERG GERMANY May 23 2008 - CAPITOL HANNOVER GERMANY May 24 2008 - POSTBAHNHOF BERLIN GERMANY May 25 2008 - RETRO MUSIC HALL PRAGUE CZECH REPUBLIC exciting times!......

surely these are April dates?..... I'd be up for the 30th but I might be out of the country, keep you posted though - regards, Dan

[quote name='birdy' post='167362' date='Mar 31 2008, 11:30 PM']With regards to regrets and what might have beens I always find a speech that Steve Jobs (Apple Computers) gave as highly inspirational and how all that we do can be right for us. Anyone who is interested can read it here [url="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html"]http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005...obs-061505.html[/url] and hopefully it may be of some interest or comfort. Steve[/quote] thanks for that birdy, highly thought provoking and a great read!

I'm waiting on £500 worth of far eastern plywood...... ..... not really FX related I'll grant you but I reckon I could make a fairly impressive floorboard out of it! I reckon I'll try and flog BassManKev my offcuts!

somebody once approached me in a club and declared that they'd got one of my old basses; 'which one?' I asked, 'a blue one, Satellite or summat.....' they replied......'oh that thing, hang on a minute.... I thought I'd thrown it away ages ago!?' - 'yeah, I took it out of your bin mate!' - truly horrific bass it was, I ended up feeling quite sorry for the kid. best 'crap' bass I ever owned: Marlin Sidewinder

[quote name='dabootsy' post='167106' date='Mar 31 2008, 07:03 PM']I think i regret starting this thread as its becoming more depressing than Eastenders[/quote] damn straight!.... now go and stand in the corner and think about what you've done! [size=1]oh yeah, and my biggest musical regret: picking my (now ex) girlfriend over a band who ended up signing a multi-album deal with Parlophone and spending two months living with Dave Grohl in LA recording their debut album (still yet to be released mind you)..... about 6 months later she made it abundantly clear she wouldn't be sacrificing any element of her cosy little life for me so it ended up being curtains for us anyway!!........ bee hatch broke my heart!![/size]

[quote name='pete.young' post='164501' date='Mar 27 2008, 02:34 PM']If the first chord is F# minor, then the home key of the song is E . Transpose it down a tone to D, and the chord progression becomes Em A D Bmin G Emin C A Emin A D Bmin G A D The transposed progression you wrote out is to play the song in C .[/quote] bang on! just because a song [i]starts[/i] on a given chord, that doesn't automatically mean that it's in that key. The tonic chord of the original is E but the song starts on the second key chord: F#m primary chords: I = E, IV = A, V = B and secondary chords: II = F#m and VI (relative minor) = C#m transpose to: primary chords: I = D, IV = G, V = A and secondary chords: II = Em and VI (relative minor) = Bm

I put a switch on the ac side of my laptop adaptor that cuts the earth cable, I switch the earth off whenever I'm plugged into my interface..... got the idea off a mate who uses the slightly more primitive 'sellotape' method NB: other adhesive tapes are available! [size=1][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarVm5xFPtA&feature=related"]sellotape[/url][/size]

obviously 'Music For Chameleons' don't even technically need to use a real fretless for it!... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM[/url] ....why oh why can I never sus out how to prperly embed these things?!?

doesn't Branson own it now?!?...... [url="http://imageshack.us"][/url]

Ewan Vernal - Deacon Blue he was the sole reason I went down the Bass road..... there were plenty more great players from the 80's of course, but I didn't get into them until the 90's I guess.

Top Notch Mate! ordered a fairly complicated lead with three ends and it arrived promptly and did exactly what it was supposed to! Dave was most communicative during the ordering process, basically because I wasn't and I'll definately be coming back for more!! cheers - Dan A+++ as they say in Ebay-Land!

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='138101' date='Feb 11 2008, 12:25 PM']I played for years with a keyboard player who used really cheap cables and he did have a really awful sound.[/quote] hmmmm, are you sure it was just the cables?!?.... over the years I've noticed a distinct inverse proportionality between Keyboard players' musical abilities and their inclinations to extract decent sounds from their rigs!

[quote name='seymourfluid' post='130357' date='Jan 29 2008, 11:12 PM']As above, cab up round your ears. I use a 1 x 15 with a 2 x 10 with tweeter on top and have the 2 x 10 at ear level for my own monitoring giving me the frequencies I need to hear.[/quote] hey SF!...... how tall are you? Can't be much more than two feet by my calculations....

it's all to do with an 'end correction' of 0.6 x diameter....... .... i think...... no, really!

Ian Thomas

dammit! now I've got GAS for those LXs (I'd obviously have to do something about the wooden pickup covers!)......

[quote name='ahpook' post='121877' date='Jan 17 2008, 12:33 AM']something nice to hang on your wall i'm sure ![/quote] .... but not before you'd seriously scrutinised it's structural integrity!

Mr. my life is brilliant, my life is brilliant Blunt! surely couldn't have been right could it?!?..... apart from the fact that the intro's far too long as it is, with or without a spurious line, I'm fairly sure the opening line should've been "my life is pointless, my life is pointless"

lovely stuff..... even if it goes a little bit too 'Fast Show Jazz Club' for my liking for the last couple of mins

mind you, having said all that.... Ashton's formidable range of er, two Basses boast both styling to make you look like a rock star [i]and[/i] a 22 fret fingerboard that will push your playing to new limits!