Richard R

3D printing sounds expensive. And complicated. However- this is very cool and I'm following it with great interest!

I would have a chat with the minister as well. It may be that worship isn't considered as important in your church compared to teaching, or mission, or helping the poor for example. Different churches are good at different things, or emphasise different things. (One body, many parts sort of thing, but at a bigger scale). The minister may not wave a major wand/ verse of scripture/ ruddy great stick and sort things out, but they may have an insight more personal to your church. (If you're happy for me to do so then I'll share this post with our worship group. They would definitely want to pray for your group).

Welcome aboard! I started aged 51 with a borrowed bass and promptly got hooked. A couple of months later I spent £250 on a second-hand bass (much to my wife's surprise) and here I am another five years on, playing tolerably well and really enjoying myself. (And I might have bought two more basses, a small amp, and a V-bass and hex pickup on the way, but hey it's a hobby and cheaper than smoking!) Checkout StudyBass.com. Completely free and very good- read especially all the beginners' posts about position and avoiding injury.

Welcome aboard. Best to post in the musicians wanted thread too. 👍

Good album that. ^^^^^^

TBH - that's the least of the problems with that video 🤣

Bravo that man! Procrastination saves the day! (I bought a strap from the marketplace. I have the bass lead hooked round it, but I don't think that makes it part of the signal chain.)

If they have then I didn't win 😪

Nobody expects the Death Metal Comparison. It's like the Spanish Inquisition.

Which to my ears sounds fabulous. In one of the videos on SBL he talks about the choice of bass. He really wanted to play fretless, but decided that would just be too much stress to get the intonation right as well as play the music and worry about everything else that had to happen in four days. And another fretted bass had a slightly better tone for what he wanted, but the F felt much better to play this material on. I am so glad I don't have such worries: I only have two basses, they are very different to each other and I can't play either.

Headless would be good, but not for what I think I want to do with this one. Maybe when I do a build from scratch. The tuners on there have massive backplates, but the smaller ones on my other basses don't, so I think there will be space and your idea would work well. 👍

Playing Brunhilda. Or more likely, The Nutcracker.

Decided it's good enough to purchase. This is sadly NOT because I "can identify the point at which Scott plays a flat four over a minor augmented 9 with sharp seventh", as @SteveXFR suggests. It is because I have an old car that can't play music from anything other than the radio and a CD player and so if I want to listen to it in the car then I'll have to buy the FLAC and burn it to CD. £7.99 for the album on BandCamp is cheaper than a new car. It was all composed in advance, and with comprehensive demos. However the band did change things in the recording where they thought there was a better feel or alternate way to play things. Simon King said on the video that he found that a bit difficult at first but when you hire players of that calibre then they are going to have good ideas and ultimately you want that input.

Welcome to the Introductions thread.

I'm prepared to bet Scott stumped up the capital outlay. Which definitely makes it his project, even if he and Simon King had the idea jointly and Simon wrote the music. Plus the name "The King Devine project" just doesn't quite flow as well. 😁

TSOP? Can't work that out. FMOB is definitely old!

Only in that I would be interested to hear what the people who did/didn't like Scottt's album thought of a very different recent release. No intent to derail this, hence the link to the other existing thread.

I would be interested to hear what people on this thread thinks of the Stones' new album "Hackney Diamonds". There's a separate discussion thread here, do have a listen to the album then hop over:

Side one is one of my all-time favourite pieces of music.

So the full album is out... And much to my surprise it's bloody good! Maybe not ground-breaking, but that's not the point. If this is a last hurrah then it's a great way to stick two fingers up to old age and just make a proper old-style Rolling Stones album with modern tech.

I shall nick that. 👍 On third listening I'm starting to "get" this album.

We play the next album LOUDER? 😁

It is, unashamedly, a fusion album. Through-composed, very challenging to play, challenging to listen to, and lacking in hummable tunes or much repetition of themes. Scott's making of documentary is clear on his references and influences- Tribal Tech and Weather Report get named, as do others I haven't heard of. https://youtu.be/xFhGLnvilEE I've listened through it twice now, while doing other things,and I am beginning to pick out what's going on and start to enjoy it. I don't quite get it, but then I still don't quite get B!tches Brew, Heavy Weather , or several other albums in the same genre. There's enough in all of them that I keep coming back though.

At least he won't get his nuts filed.

According to unreliable sources on another BC thread, @TheGreek got his name not by Mediterranean ancestry, but because he used to kill his Mafia enemies by smashing plates over their heads.