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Bassfinger

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  1. Praise be to the Lord that it is rare.
  2. We do weddings - if they're willing to pay our rates, we're not poncing about for a poxy grand between the five of us - and our typical set list is a mix of old stuff and new material from the last 15 or 20 years. I Predict a Riot, Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me are not my favourites by any means but the crowd universally respond positively when the hear the opening notes. That said, our heavy rock versions of Video Kills the Radio Star and Country Roads seems to be our biggest fan favourites at weddings. We do a rocked up version of All Of Me that breaks to Enter Sandman in the middle and that gets the youngsters bopping and the older customers breaking out their air guitars every time. A good manager - Mrs Bassfinger is our manager, so I have to say she is excellent - will ask if there are any special requests how many guests, their age mix, and will show up at a fair proportion of gigs themselves to gauge the reaction and provide feedback.
  3. Those Entwistle pups are astonishingly good bits of kit and laughably inexpensive. I've heard they're no longer being made. They're certainly harder to get hold of these days.
  4. Used to subscribe to Bass Player but binned it off a couple of years ago.
  5. Practice, practice, practice, time, time,time, repetition and persistence will eventually retire your brain and form those neural pathways. I recall that I got it figured out in two or three days - and then a year to perfect- which is unusual for me as I have the natural coordination of a one legged cat burying a turd on a frozen pond.
  6. The entire Royal Blood catalogue.
  7. Isle of Noises, Conversations With Great British Somgwritere - Daniel Rachel.
  8. That's a good picture. Dangle it too low and it becomes difficult to rotate the fretting hand far enought forward to reach E. To compensate many players hold the bass more upright hat the norm, a la Bill Wyman, well illustrated here.
  9. I must be boring, I call them things like the Green Sire, the Geddy Lee, the Steinberiger, etc. Not very imaginative I'm afraid.
  10. I have cause to be in central/North London recently. My companion pointed out the fairly mediocre inter-war semis we were driving past and casually told me how they were now selling for more than a million. I've got a 5/6 bed farmhouse with outbuildings and 11 acres and woukd have significant change from a million were I having to buy it today. The thought of a normal Joe trying to buy one of these Lomdon on a normal wage is frightening, and just unimaginable for a struggling artiste.
  11. Reminds me of a lass from Croydon that I briefly dated.
  12. I'm probably lacking a little in the bicep department, but I'm taller and close on the same weight. Shoulder pads deffo not needed
  13. Hulk Hogan was actually me in a wig with a fake mustache.
  14. Always used Tortex Trangle in 1.0 flavour on the bass. I've got big hands, so that and the need to get those big strings moving make them ideal for me. Our rhythm guitarist is a big lad and I gave a couple to him and now he's switched to them as well, although he uses the lighter weight ones in Yellow.
  15. I don't think I've ever seen two in the same room that wear them at a common height.
  16. I've got to learn the bass, so thought I'd familiarise myself with rhe track first.
  17. My Daughter's music teacher is called Mr Starr. I expect he's heard all the jokes.
  18. What is this "job" thing whereof you speak?
  19. Me round my friends house, posing with my then new bike, trying hard not to look out of breath and sweaty after the 3 mile uphill ride. I do have a couple of me playing but can't seem to find them on this device, so this'll have to be a placeholder. Edit: Found them. Me with the band posing for a FB photo... Me in the studio laying down my tracks. The Eagle eyed will note how I chose to go DI.
  20. I've worked in Finland and Iceland, and went out with a Finnish lass for a while (she's now a government minister, so my influence must have been a good one ) and its true to say they do like their heavy metal. And not just run of the mil, metal, but often quite extreme forms of the genre. On the plus side, the UK has more boy bands and Britons Garotte Takent wannabes than it ihas people.
  21. My solicitor shall be demanding my increased share of the money.
  22. Yes. Both personally, and on behalf of the band. Their customer service is, in my experience, first class. On the occasions we've had issues and had to do returns etc it's been painless and refunds swift.
  23. Im glad im not the only one! It took me a good while to learn that one as well. A great song to do live, IMHO one of the best pop songs of all time.
  24. Plain titanium wedding band on my fretting hand, causes me no issues whatsoever. I wear a medic alart bracelet on my other hand, and bought a paracord one to wear when gigging so as not to scratch any basses, but otherwise don't ever notice that either. My Prince Albert, on the other hand...
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