chris_b

Wow. I played in 3 different bands with Simon and never saw him with a tash before!!

I don't associate slap as being solely a Funk style. I see slap being used in many other genres and most of the Funk I listen to is finger style.

Some of my favourite musicians are probably awful and contemptible people. If they make good music I just listen to them and ignore the rest.

Good slap is a valid and effective technique. Bad slap is "circus bass", just pointless tricks and noises. So good slap works in the context of the song. Bad slap is usually someone showing how clever they are in a solo. My first attempt at slap came when I first heard Thank You by Sly and the Family Stone. I have to admit, my efforts since have been pretty half hearted. I haven't had much incentive, I've never been asked to slap in any band and none of the bass players in the other bands I see use slap. One singer even thanked me for not slapping! Slap (tapping, chords and harmonics) are totally missing in the musical world I inhabit. Two months ago I had such high hope for my technical improvement during lock down, and all I've done is play stuff I know. Maybe I should get the Jazz out and start learning "good" slap.

I used to buy my strings from Squires!

If you like the sound of the Orange AD200 get it. The fact it hasn't a built in DI is not a problem. If you really need the DI get one of those too.

Bartolini pickups are worth investigating, as are Lindy Fralin and Nordstrand NJFS pickups.

He's going to loose possible sales if he doesn't put prices on his website.

Switching around to playing left handed is a good idea. Didn't Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath have a similar injury to the finger tops of his left hand? His answer was to switch to playing left handed. You'll be in for some extra work but you could do this.

Dusty was instrumental in bringing over the Motown Revue when they toured the UK and took over Ready Steady Go in 1965.

These days bricks and mortar music shops will always be in trouble if they don't have a successful online business.

How about talking more and ranting less. Hm? And maybe stick to the point of the posts you attack rather than immediately veering off into the bushes.

If the audiences attending original band gigs are any barometer, that'll be the death of music as a popular medium.

I know rock and reggae players using Barefaced cabs. Check them out.

Do the scales and the tecky stuff, but play songs as well. Alongside the grind, you've got to make playing a musical instrument interesting.

From the Peterson Strobe tuner site: "The Buzz Feiten Tuning System makes use of special "Buzz Feiten presets" preprogrammed in most Peterson tuners — the strings have to be tuned slightly flat or sharp because of the nut's compensations."

It is worrying for the tens of thousands of people who make their living from live music and music venues.

I think you need a different tuner.

ABC Surbiton. I bought my Wal mk3 Custom there. I think that was around 2004.

I've used an AG700 for about 3 years. It's one of the best, most flexible amps I've used and it immediately retired my TH500 and Thunderfunk. You can get any sound you like out of this thing. I usually don't employ a wide range of different sounds myself but the AG700 has been right in the pocket with everything I've wanted to do, from loud blues rock to covers, funk, reggae and even playing quietly at home. Another bonus, it goes to 2.67 ohms. I have used 3 8 ohm cabs and mixed 4 and 8 ohm cabs in the loud bands and the sound was immense. I'm sure Aguilar cabs are some of the best but the weight of the GS range make them a no-go area for me.

Your drummer's got crazy wall paper in his front room.

For a cover band, we were loud. I had to buy an 800 watt amp because the 500 watt amp was running out of steam. So we'd been asked to turn down many times, but once we were asked to turn up! The drummer was visibly wilting by the end of the first set, when we were asked to turn up even more! I was right at the limit of my earplugs by the end of the night.

All the hours I spend on here. . . . . . . . my wife doesn't thank Basschat!!!

When the song starts I'm usually OK, but it's the count-in, between 1 and 2, that my mind can go blank.

Before I joined, thankfully, the band was asked to play the "anthem" at the end of the gig, so the keyboard player started God Save The Queen. About 2 bars in the manager rushed on stage shouting, "Not that Fecking anthem!" The whole place stood up and sang the Irish National Anthem! This was in the 70's and the gig was in an Irish club in Willesden!