Dr.Dave

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1356295942' post='1908981'] I would like to play bass and breath at the same time. Anything additional I am completely in awe over so much respect to you folks. Practice. I sort of thought that might be the key, but I think your brain has to be wired in a certain way first. [/quote] It does. It has to be wired to tell you ' yes I can ' whenever the rest of you starts to say 'maybe I can't' !

Well - I sing while playing bass and I find it very easy. I sort of freaked myself out about it when I first tried and had to practise my way out of that silliness til my confidence returned - but anyway........ I always find myself singing other players parts in my head while I'm playing bass in songs where our guitar player does the lead vocal. Often the vocal line but sometimes guitar parts or solos. I also sing them or 'la la' them out loud. No reason - I just do. My pal and part time 4th member of DocB, Gobiron Ryan , as good a harmonica player as you'll find , as was his late Dad (who I played with for years) both told me that harmonica playing - or at least blues harmonica playing - is just like singing with something in your mouth. That's how both of them approcahed it. Ryan is a multi instrumentalist (inc being a decent bass player) and I know that he can play bass and harmonica at the same time even thoigh he doesn't live. So - I put all thise facts together and they tell me that if you were acomplished enough at bass playing and playing harmonica it wouldn't be any more difficult than singing and playing.

1st set tomorrow will run - Gimmee All Your Lovin Bad case of Loving you with Gary Glitter medley in the middle True Blood theme tune Werewolves of London/Kid Rock/Lynyrd Skynrd Sweet home Alabama ...ish Why Did You Do It / Brick in the Wall medley Beastie Boys 'Party' with Monster Mash in the middle Winner Takes It All (insane Metal version !!) Roadhouse Blues/Blockbuster/Jean Genie Medley Detroit Diesel with bits of Thriller and AC/DC in the middle plus a verse of Cigarettes and Alcohol that turns into Get it On then a Great Balls of Fire singalong before it goes back into Detroit Diesel. Second Set. God only knows - all depends on what went well in the first.

I'm down the road in Wakey but I play in Leeds a lot and when I do I live there overnight in Clarence Dock !! I'm no Christian but I do like churches and we have a couple of crackers in our Cathedral and Chantry Chapel. Always good to hear from Westy bass players - welcome.

It's screaming QP's to me as well. I've always loved mine.

You say it's 'only a little concert ' , 'shell. Here you are full of beans about what you've done - swapping numbers with other musicians with a view to getting something together............. sounds like a big deal to me. Nice one , matey.

Another advantage is your Dad can make you one out of an abandoned bog door lock when you're a teenager and when you're still using it at 50 with 1000+ gigs and adventures under your belt and your Dad's not around any more , you realise what a truly precious possession you have !!

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1355573386' post='1900051'] No mention of Mustang Sally then ? [/quote] Yes. Not sure if I have a fave song to play but it would be up there. It's right at the end of our set - which means I have that great feeling of another gig done without any of us dropping dead and a pint waiting for me. We have folk - usually young , curvy , types of folk in short skirts (and , hopefully , with a 'Daddy' complex) ! - on stage with us as backing singers - place is gong nuts , as it always does when we play Mustang Sally ....... what's not to enjoy about that.

Because I was playing in a blues band about 15 years back we got asked a couple of times to do a Blues Bros set - which we were happy to do with the addition of a makeshift horn section consisting of a couple of pals from a soul band. It was a laugh. I got bored being the bass player in a blues band anyway so I expect this would have been the same had we done it regularly. My current band has been going years but I sing too - so even in our early blues incarnation I didn't get fed up. These days we don't really do any blues stuff at all.

[quote name='jaydentaku' timestamp='1355475626' post='1898752'] What fabulous legs, Dr Dave [/quote] You should have seen the ones on the lassy that donated the tights !

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1355495623' post='1899229'] aah! thanks! [/quote] Knackered and Expensive is , perhaps , a better description but not so catchy !

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1355494233' post='1899196'] John Berry - now playing bass - for "Slade" is the world's longest working Big Issue seller as his day job ...................... on Eastenders. [/quote] John Berry - there's tall and there's taking the piss. His boom stand goes straight up ! I was using my own mic in a stand prepared for him and I had to pull it down about a foot. The Slade roadies set the hired-in Ampeg vol really low and I was using that too. I figured not to fcuk with it so I couldn't hear it at all..... but the sidefills !!!!!! Dear God , I think my ears are still whistling. You can just about make out the sidefills in one of these pics.Can't remember but I assume the Marshall was for Malc , sure Dave Hill brought his own.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1355494370' post='1899205'] I will try my best, I know I need to give it time but I am not very patient with anything, good idea about strap height too I had not really given stuff like that a thought [/quote] My dear Dad , bless his memory , used to say 'patience is a virtue' Sadly , not one he passed down to me !!!!!!! I always think that patience means putting up with bad customer service !! I could also suggest a Jazz bass , with it's slim , easy neck ....... however your user name and equipment list makes me think asking Posh Spice whether she'd like a four cheese pizza with extra lard would make more sense !

I should just take it steady , mate. Push but don't shove. Wondering too if shortening your strap would help - short or even long term. The higher you sling the bass the straighter your wrist. Keep the cast - stick it on top of your bass amp so you can scowl at it in a bad moment and say 'you'll never be master of me'.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1355489853' post='1899076'] He's in the process of working out a deal with Natal drums, via Marshall, right now, AFAIK he's using Pearl mostly though some venues just get told to provide a kit to a spec. In their heavy rock days he had a custom built, chrome Ludwig kit that he paid £14k for. It was sold via Bonhams to a fan in Germany a few years ago. [/quote] I stood behind him as he tuned and adjusted (what I assume was) a supplied Peal kit at the glam fest thing I did with them at the 'Bootfest' at Nostell Priory , near Wakey. He can't half get his head down , that lad. Wears a mouth guard too - I expect to stop him grinding them down ! I remember wishing that John Berry would catch a sudden dose of altitude sickness and somebody would say 'is there a bass player in the house'. !!

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1355481346' post='1898873'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVMygJ90UK0[/media] [/quote] That's excellent Paul - never seen that. Let's be fair .......... whatever your views on the image , the songs or whatever - which of us wouldn;t want to work with an 'on the money' drummer like that ?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1355480683' post='1898857'] Vintage and Rare [/quote] No , that's a shop. V and R are def. still letters !! As for my angel's wings.... well , the guy paid his bills and - so far as I know - lived happily ever after. My Mrs had a very successful exhibition. Vintage and Rare took their whack , paid tax on it , helped society and invested the profit in Starbucks. Mr Ishabisi Hiroshima of 1945 Whatthef***wasthatbang St , Nagasaki is still happily spilling his seed over the vintage fender he keeps in a locked cupboard because he can't play a note and I bought my first Trace Elliot rig and joined a new band on the strength of it. !0 years on I'm still entertaining the proles by calling them worse than sh*te and getting away with it because they're stupid enough to think I don't really mean it. Plus I buggered off to the Dom Rep with the change and learned to Scuba dive. Thatcher taught her children well !!

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1355427618' post='1898391'] So, er, did you get it for £150, or for £600? Or did someone else get it. I don't understand. [/quote] £600 and I got it......... not sure how that was confiusing. Anyway - principled hombre that I am (!) I did two gigs with it the following week (never liked jazz basses) then my wife , who works in a museum , had to put an exhibition together for about five quid so she came up with a 'my favourite thing' type of deal. I made up a silly sob story about it - orphaned cats ,terminal illness in goldfish etc etc - and it spent the next 4 months in a glass case in the museum. I then packed it off to V and R and 4 weeks later got a cheque for £1800. I thought about contacting the guy and giving him some more money...... but only for a few seconds when I was pissed !

My right hand fingers do it on their own but I doubt anybody else notices. We had an air harmonica player in the crowd once !! Funniest thing ever.

I posted this ages ago but .... seeing as it's nearly Christmas here it is again !!! Must have been pre smoking ban - my mic stand ashtray is there as well as my pint holder !

My best ever bass deal followed a 'lowball'. I didn't mean it to be insulting - it was an auction organised by a local shop to sell a 68 jazz bass belonging to a retired pro who had fallen on hard times. The guy in the shop told me the only offer had been for £150. I upped that to £600 purely to get the auction running and was amazed to get a call half an hour later accepting my offer. I actually felt bad but what can you do - the guy needed the cash.

It's dropped onto page 2 !!! Noooooooooo , I won't have that !! Cosmo wants to -- I plan to and have done in the past - anybody else actually playing Slade stuff at the mo ??

Funny how many truly great bass player's name's rhyme with Lee , McVie , Lea , Flea Dr D

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1346182668' post='1786269'] We announce our drummer as "[i]the beast from the north east"... [/i] [/quote] What if he moved to Cheshunt ?