BillyBass

Do you have to be so judgemental? I posted something pointing out difficulties I was having and you seem to have taken it personally. You don't know anything about how much time I spend practising so don't lecture me on what I should be doing with my time. And no, I'm not a great bassist but I am trying to improve; I normally get about 2 hours of practice in on days off work. 'By the way' is something we decided to learn and have a go at. We managed one rehearsal with it before the last lockdown in December. I was under the impression the open E in the riff was slapped, maybe I'm wrong.

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True but if you don't like most slap bass music but need to learn it for a song your band covers, as in my case, it is difficult to find the motivation. I generally have the action on my basses higher than optimum for slap; one of the first things Phil Mann says in his course on slap in SBL is that a low action is essential. So that means either using two basses or fret rattle and buzz, particularly when using a pick, or leaving the action higher and struggling with slap...which I'm not a fan of anyway. I will knuckle down and learn it eventually but until then I'll try and wing 'By The Way' with finger style.

I'd love a TT-800 and perhaps a Barefaced 210S to go with both my One10s, that would sound amazing I'm sure. Not necessary though and she would kill me, so its not going to happen. The fact that there don't seem to be any TT-800s in the country and probably won't be for several months does make it a bit easier.

I once tried my Octamizer after my Jam Ripplyfall chorus and it was just mud. Don't feel the need for any more experimentation there.

But there won't be an adjoining wall to their house. The conservatory will be off my back wall, there will be a double glazed sliding door in between the house and the conservatory and the other three sides will be out in the garden. The survey is this afternoon, so I'll ask the surveyor about this. Conservatories have moved on a bit in the last 20 years so condensation shouldn't be an issue but I'll be doing the electrics so I'll make sure there is enough heating.

These really are quite good. There's a good YouTube clip of a performance on an American Radio station Thanks for tip @Nail Soup I think I'll go and see them when gigs happen again

I'm having a conservatory built in a couple of months. I live in a semi so my plan is to leave my heads and cabs in there so I can practise at all hours without disturbing the neighbours. Whether I leave basses in there or not depends on how the temperature fluctuates in there, I'll see. The neighbours I don't want to disturb were burgled, in 2019 I think. They used to leave the porch door unlocked, for the postman, and the main door locked. They have cameras and 3-4 pet dogs. The burglars wore hoodies to avoid cameras and fed the dogs drugged meat that knocked them out for a few hours. We, on our side of the semi, have no dogs or cameras but weren't burgled! The police said that the unlocked porch door was liked by the miscreants as they could get into the porch and then, inconspicuously, pick the front door lock.

I'd never heard of 'Yerasov' so I googled and found their website. I love the names of some of their stuff: The 'Black Formica' and the 'Brown Creature' 😁. The reviews on their site would suggest that this stuff was introduced about 15 years ago. Any good?

Latest change: Ampeg Optocomp out, Cali76 in. Signal chain: Polytune>Cali76>Octamizer>Hamstead Subspace>Di-2112 into my amp's input, then the jam Ripply fall and Atlantic Reverb/delay into the fx return.

There's a name from the past! Catchy jingles like: 'We are all prostitutes' never made it on TOTP, can't think why?

Don't tell the EU, they'll never put Astra-Zeneca back in pharmacies

You could try Viagra

The nails on my plucking hand index and middle finger I keep really short as I hate the clang when the nail hits the string. Most of the songs we do work just fine with fingers but there are a few, stuff by the Stranglers, Decode by Paramore for example, where speed or tone dictate the necessity of using a pick. I would like to be as proficient with a pick as with my fingers, so I've just got to put the hard work in.

You heathen! Their first album was a classic, the second was quite good but it all went downhill from there. Personal taste and all that; I was a punk.

I've just read through this whole thread. It's encouraging for me as someone who picked a bass up for the first time 3 years ago to read about all you seasoned players struggling with a pick. I feel comfortable with fingers, I have so much more control but some of the songs my band covers I can't play fast enough or just don't sound right with my fingers so I'm obliged to nail the picking technique. Consequently I try to get in at least 15 minutes pick practice per day, mainly by practising songs. I'm determined, so I will nail it eventually but the confidence isn't there yet.

I went to see them at the Greyhound, Fulham palace rd, about the time or just after this charted. Captain Sensible told us all that he was really rich now and that if anyone wanted to borrow a fiver they should ask. Rat scabies stood up and stuck an outstretched palm towards Captain Sensible asking for the fiver!

Captain Sensible and 'Happy Talk'. Not quite the same as New Rose & Neat Neat Neat. It wasn't the Damned but near enough

I've generally had a good experience with GuitarGuitar and luckily for me, they have a branch in North London that is quite easy for me to get to when taking stuff back. Now, one of their competitors, beginning with P...🤬

I use a couple of Stranglers bass lines for technique practice. 'Hanging Around' for crossing strings and 'Goodbye Toulouse' for speed. Great bass lines and not as easy as you would think, especially (for me) with a pick.

This is a SX jazz bass in action:

Stranglers - Live X-cert Motorhead - No sleep til Hammersmith Jethro Tull - Bursting out

But @BassAdder27 wanted funky stuff. IMO anything from '20 jazz funk greats' by Throbbing Gristle would be real crowd pleasers, really funky.

Didn't Donald Trump just incite a white riot in Washington DC?

Johnny Moped's 'Hard Lovin' Man' was the best track on the 'Live from the Roxy' album. I was a teenage punk and had no idea it was a cover. And other great songs I later realised were covers and still consider to be improvements: Helter Skelter - Siouxsie & the Banshees Telegram Sam - Bauhaus Satellite - Sex Pistols Somebody's gonna get their head kicked in tonight - The Rezillos Eve of Destruction - The Dickies