PaulWarning

 my tastes are rather narrow, it's tricky keeping it down to 8

That'll Be the Day - Buddy Holly

I'm a Man - Spencer Davis

And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Chasing the Night - The Ramones

Safe European Home - The Clash

Not a big reader, so a book of sudoku puzzles

Luxury item would be a pub

53 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

The guys who made the Matches?

🤣 that's right, that'll teach me to rely on my fading memory, got the Bryant bit right.

31 minutes ago, Nicko said:

Didn't the Everly Brothers do that first though?

you may mean Buddy Holly, the Everly's had a lot of hits written by Bryant and May

interesting, just after the minute mark

to fully appreciate to impact the Beatles had, (too quote one of our American cousins 😊) you had to be there, I can fully understand why someone under the age of say 65 would have another fave band, the music we hear in our teens stays with us forever, being a few years older than 65 I can say the Beatles are my fave band of all  time

4 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

But you never know what results Google (or other search engines) might throw up. Everywhere on Basschat (apart form Off Topic, eBay and those sections only visible to Supporting Members) is indexed and will be discoverable.

oops 🤣

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

IMO, if you've reached the point where you feel the need to air this on a publicly accessible part of the internet, then either you or the vocalist needs to go.

one of the advantages of Basschat is that singers (and guitarist) don't come on forums for bass players. at least I hope our Singer doesn't 😂

in our band if someone really doesn't want to do a song we don't do it, sort of choice by consensus, there's plenty out there to choose from

2 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DpE4G-_7dYb8&ved=2ahUKEwinm-i7_bX7AhUKZsAKHcQPACAQo7QBegQIBxAE&usg=AOvVaw0qzufo03G1lMzKag-gFEXa

 

 

basically you need as much overdrive/ distortion as you can get

don't sack the singer till you've got another one lined up, being in a band is a minefield, finding people you can sort off get along with and have similar musical tastes is very difficult.

it's been around a while, is this a revamped model?

I use my Zoom B1on with the BA Metal patch, I think I get pretty close, P bass with DR neon strings, others may disagree, can't comment on flats, I've never used them

I spent years trying to improve my HiFi, eventually I decided it doesn't make a bad song better no matter how good it sounds, the situation you're listening in makes a far bigger impact, ( like down the pub in good company on a crappy juke box, the backing track to an advert or TV program, or even driving the car).

I use ad based Spotify, sounds fine to me, mind you, I am a bit deaf these days.

Which brings me back to the Revolver remix, yes it sounds better, but once the novelty of trying to decide if you can hear something that you couldn't before wears off you're back to listening to a great album, would I shell out to buy it? no.

2 hours ago, pfretrock said:

I read somewhere that Jameson's bass was low in the mix, else it made the pickup arm jump out of the vinyl track. Odd since pickups back then weighed about half a ton.

the better arms had a counter weight, the weight on the stylus should be around 2 grams if my memory serves me right

the Revolver remix and additional tracks are now on Spotify, non Beatle fans look away now 😀

I've just moved onto to thinner picks, I used to use 1mm on bass, have gone down to ..60mm nylon Dunlops, and for acoustic guitar down from .60mm to .46mm, less strain on the old thumb joint 😊

Just now, dmccombe7 said:

That's a tidy cab for that kind of money Paul.

GLWTS.

Dave

cheers, heavy cabs are not easy to shift these days, I paid £85 for it but that included postage, it's been sitting in the spare bedroom for a few years now, can't see me using it again, it's also on FB (see my recent Scam thread), someone is supposed to be coming round tomorrow morning, cash in hand.

Just tried it out, it does sound good, shame its on the heavy side

5 minutes ago, warwickhunt said:

I've played along with this little scenario with an identical 'buyer'.  They go through the process and then say that it'll need insurance for the cash side of the transaction; they ask you to pay that upfront but not to worry as they'll reimburse you in full with the cash they send you... can you see what's going to happen?  

 

You pay them the insurance and you'll not hear from them again.  They aren't after the item, your bank details or a large sum of money but if they can get enough gullible people to pay £20-£30 in insurance to them, it's worth it.

that does sound plausible, after all they don't really want the item, so there's no point in obtaining it from you, they'd have the hassle of selling it on to get any money out of the deal

I've had a Zoom B1on for about 5 years now, use it at all my gigs and practices, no issues at all

Yes I knew it was a scam, like you say, couriers don't hand over cash, just wondered how it worked

Trace Elliot 1153 vinyl covered, plywood cab, the original 200 watt speaker has been replaced by a 300 watt Trace Elliot Celestion speaker, great sounding cab and relatively compact. 62H x 48W x 33D cm, Weight 27Kg, I got this cab from @geoff90guitar about 5 years ago, I've gone lightweght

Cash on collection please, Nottingham/ Derby area

I've got an item on FB marketplace, someone has been in touch offering to collect the item using a DPD, they will give me the cash on collection, how does this scam work?

40 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Generally 90's "punk" was just noisy pop music. Has there ever been a debate about what is or isn't punk or whether punk is dead?

punks not dead, but a lot of the original punks are heading that way, The Butlins Alternative (Punk) Festival has been scrapped due to poor numbers

Took my Hondo Professional 2 to practice last night and it reminded me what a lovely neck it's got, IMO, slim (38mm at the nut) but chunky, as it's very heavy, being a plywood body, and like @Marvin's Warwick the first fret is a stretch the way it hangs on the strap it got me thinking what other P basses have a similar neck, so I Googled it and this thread came up

52 minutes ago, bassbloke said:

There's only 1 cover of Sound of Silence that you need to bother with...

 

 

Nah, this one is the only one you need bother with 😀