Bassfinger

Jaco. Personally I think Lemmy summed his playing up very well.

Nope, defines the figuratively, as in reference to a metaphor.

Some kind of reference to the gun safe and fetching my keys.

Aaarrrrggghhhh! He said 'literally' when he meant 'figuratively.'  I can't watch any more.

Amazon Prime music. For no other reason than that's what the Missus pays for.

The plus side is its the highest quality output and when I'm listening to music I pipe it through my hifi. I don't walk about with headphones on, although I do stream it in the car as well.

But if Mrs B suddenly stopped paying I doubt I'd have the motivation or energy to sign up with another myself.

I've found that while inexpensive systems can work well (I used the Xvive), you still need to spend £150 of more for the earphone doobreys if you want a decent bass response. Cheaper ones are fine for guitar or mandolin, but bass is fairly demanding on the earphones.

About half hour for me. That puts me in range of two large towns and one smaller settlement. I'd go further for gigs, but not for rehearsals or the like.

53 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

That was the edited version?  

Indeed.  As you know, I'm a terobvell typistic. 

Bug ran of Retrovibe gear, in particular their pickups.

9 hours ago, Oopsdabassist said:

Hobgoblin in Newport Pagnell, bought my mando there.

Ah, not a gazillion miles from me, will check it out. Thanks.

I like your sig John.  If Sir Douglas had obeyed the rules he wouldn't have lost both legs and later ended up as a POW.

Team,

Been playing the standard Mando for a couple of years and I'm now looking to get either an octave mandolin or an Irish bouzouki,the latter of which I would play both GDAE and GDAD.

I'm really torn over which to go for. So with that in mind, do you fine people that have trodden this path before me have any experiences, thoughts, tips, sage words of wisdom?

Years ago I was in a certain music shop trying a few basses with a view to buying one when in walked Mick Abrahams, ex of Jethro Tull. He was friends with the owner and just used to tootle in and chat.

Having a couple of his solo albums I recognised him and said hello, shook his hand.  We had a chat and he ended up grabbing an acoustic and we played All Tore Down as a duo.  My closest brush with stardom, unless you count meeting Robert Plant at a party, or seeing Ozzy Osborne in the VIP lounge at Heathrow (to my eternal shame my Dad, who was with me, thought he was jn Iron Maiden.)

I seem to recall for a while there were two Asias.  Asia, and Asia featuring someone or other, or someone or others Asia.

They should have stopped at the second album.

Even Harley Benton would baulk at putting a bridge that crappy on their MM-alikes.

And strings can make a massive difference to tone.

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

Let me see. . . . a musician is having some success and the Basschat massive isn't happy about it.

 

Well there's a surprise. 

I'm happy for them. Just wouldn't be for me at that stage in life.

1 hour ago, SH73 said:

What if it comes with a nice 7 figure bonus?

I was in that ballpark before I retired.  Unless I'm stupid, I've got enough to keep me in reasonable comfort until I drop off my perch without having to mime to my latest release on This Morning, or cut the ribbon at a new branch of HMV.

Have it been in my twenties then it would have been a tempting dream, but now I'm in the Victor Meldrew phase of my life it'd be a blooming nightmare. I'd tell them to do what they want with the recording and give the royalties to charity.

Some graphite lube on the nut slots will stop the popping, although it's harmless.

Good grief.  I've just turned 56 and I'm feeling it this week. The last thing I'd want is to have a demo I did in the 80s come to light and the buggers trying to give me a record deal now!  That ship of opportunity has sailed for me.

On 03/03/2024 at 16:27, skidder652003 said:

Gig last night, rough old dive, bruiser landlord ( nice bloke mind), dodgy clientele etc. p1issed up girl decides to invade the stage several times screeching into the mic. Tops off the evening by jumping on stage and grabbing our singers head and sticking her tongue down our straight female singers throat ( not impressed) and to end a lovely evening, scouser crack head screaming at everyone to f@@k off for 10 minutes straight.

Venue loves the band, wants to rebook in October… opinions?

Happened really fast, our singers a tough old cookie and pushed her away calling her a dirty b1tch.

In an ideal world I guess you would call the fuzz but it was 1am and she just wanted to get home.

Dont think we will be returning to this particular Torbay establishment.

Just asked Mrs Bassfinger, ex defective [sic] inspector. She says sexual assault. Fair chance would get charged with something different, but that's what she would arrest for under the circumstances described.

10 hours ago, cetera said:

Foreigner should be in. Ozzy maybe. The rest, nope....

Foreigner were brilliant in their heyday.  Great musicians, decent singist, some very good songs, and a range of work that overlapped into so many different styles.  It's one of life's great ironies that their most successful single is the least representative of their output (the album was a corker though.)

Ozzy deserves to be in, if only because his autobiography is one of the funniest, yet most sadly tragic, books I've ever read.

On 06/10/2020 at 17:44, ubit said:

And is just about the coolest guy on the planet. Not only good looking and an actor. He plays bass and jams with big name rock stars. Is an animal rights activist. Is devoted to his family and has a good sense of humour. 

And he plays mandolin too.

IKEA, McDonalds in Wokverton, Scottish Power.

3 hours ago, jonno1981 said:

How long before hofner release period correct versions with a rounded back. I bet they’re creating the cnc templates already!
They’ll be a flood of owners of the current reissue selling their basses as they’re not vintage correct to Paul’s bass. 

And for extra authenticity they be built, strung back to front, stolen, hidden in a loft for 52 years, and then put on sale.