PaulWarning

been to see the Glitter Band a couple of times in the last 15 years, memorable shows and yes they did all GG's big hits

this is true, add Gak to the list, although I do all my bass related buying online I do try and avoid Thomann, I'd sooner support UK business

hi, it's a good time to live in Nottingham, if you're a Forest supporter

I hate shopping, finding places to park the car (or even worse having to use public transport) and having to deal with idiots, behind the counter and in front of it, I buy as much as I can online, except food (even than I mostly use click and collect)and clothes, it's convenient, cheaper and there's far more choice.

I couldn't get on with the Smiths, Morrissey's style of wailing just irritated me, strangely I like some of his solo stuff, less wailing more singing

Orbison's voice gets on my nerves, great range, just don't like the tone

to borrow a quote from one of our American friends, re Elvis (Presley), you had to be there, most of us, even on Basschat, are too young, shame about all those awful films though.

I suppose I'm in 2 one is a fairly busy punk originals/ covers band about 40 gigs year, the other I do open mics with my partner on drums me on electro acoustic guitar and singing which obviously never clashes with the main band as open mics aren't pre arranged. Our guitarist is in 3 bands, which causes problems, but we do have a dep, I'm never happy with people in more than one gigging band, it causes problems if band A gets offered a good gig that clashes with another band that a member is in. Another pet hate of mine is when you see someone playing in more than one band at a festival, to me, it devalues the commitment of the bands. I've insisted on using our dep when this happens at a coupe of festivals this year where the guitarist is playing in one of his other bands

lol, we're a punk band who does mostly local pub gigs, mostly covers with a smattering of our own songs, we do occasional festivals and gigs where we do an originals set, but not many, all our albums are on Spotify, Verbal Warning if anybody is interested

yes, when you can't hear the droning, the Real McKenzies are another example

I think exactly the same thing about Bob Dylan and Prince

just been quoted a renewal price of £86 for 1 year and £136 for 2 years, I tried a blog many years ago, in the end only one person was looking at it 😂

I don't but a lot of sound engineers seem to think so

The Who and the Stones have made some cracking singles, but never rated the albums much

our singer runs it, he doesn't seem to know how much traffic it gets, most of our audience is 50+

our annual payment is coming up for our website, wondering whether it's worth it or does Facebook do the job for free?

judging by some of the answers on here some opinions are popular, not unpopular, these twiddling Jazz bass players aren't worth listening too seems popular as is Oasis are rubbish, I agree with the former but not the later

Spinal Tap BBC2 10.40 tonight, I think it's been a while since it was on mainstream TV

finally got round to watching about half of this last night while babysitting for my daughter who has Disney +, way too long, and it would've drove me mad working like that to write new songs, more tedious that watching the full 8 hours in one sitting I imagine

I don't think there's a right or wrong way, whatever you prefer, it is possible to get a deep tone with a pick, Macca and Carol Kaye for instance, well I think they do. I prefer a pick, I think it cuts thought the mix better and suits the style of music I play (punk generally) and having converted from the dark side that is what I was used to, and I've not had enough reason to change

most acoustic guitars manage without intonation adjustment, IMO it's overrated as a problem on basses, generally we don't play chords with loads of overdrive, unlike guitar players, so unless you've got perfect pitch (disclosure time, I've got the opposite, whatever that is) you or anybody else aren't going to notice, who does on fretless basses for instance? I once asked a double bass player about how accurate his playing was, intonation wise, his reply was "As long as you're somewhere near nobody is going to notice"

seem to remember a story about Bruce Springsteen and his band, E Street Band? being the pickup band for Chuck Berry

I use a Behringer UM2 straight into my laptop, then play along using Audacity, slow things down, go up an octave to make the bass stand out, the big game changer for me was when I bought some Audio Technica WS1100 headphones, head and shoulders above the Sennheiser HD 280 pro's I was using before

It's been on before, really enjoyed it, always had a soft spot for the Hollies, it seems to me a lot of bass players seem to finish up playing a precision