Bassfinger

So, you're saying he would fit right in then?

A bad gig is where the males in the audience throw their knickers at you.

I'm liking that. It's simple yet stylish, just like me

Whatever You Want, by Status Quo. Classic track from their peak, doing what they did best. Only 7 bass notes in the whole song, but lifts and carries it along beautifully.

Planet Rock.

Reminds me of the Jumping Jews of Jerusalem from Blackadder.

I get stuff like locking strap nuts from Ali. Absolutely identical to the ones sold here for £11 a pair, but they're 99p each posted from Ali. UK sellers are making a terrific mark up on stuff like that. Am I brave enough to buy a bass from there...no, at least not yet.

It doesn't matter, because politicians know better than the rest of us poor thickos and will never implement such a thread.

Or perhaps he demanded second confirmatory thread? A Peoples Thread, if you will.

I'd disagree with Them Crooked Vultures. Love their work. Asia. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. And I'll go out on a limb and say most iterations of Whitesnake.

Kansas - Leftoverture.

I am dyslexic and read music. I was taught properly as a youngster when my Ma made me endure piano lessons. Then as a teenager I took up the guitar off my own bat, and despite having binned the piano lessons a few years before was able to see how it related to music written for piano. Then as an adult in my 50's I've had to adapt again to learn to read stuff in the bass clef, but the memories are quickly flooding back and with a bit of reading around the topic I'm doing ok. I wouldn't say I find it easy, but lessons at the right age from a patient and skilled teacher taught this dyslexic to read music moderately well Conversely, I can't read tab to save my life. I can see full well how it works but when I try my brain just won't grasp it.

But go down that road and eventually every topic becomes a pinned post, and there is no reason or opportunity for further discussion.

Mrs Bassfinger. As aforementioned elsewhere, I started as a guitarist but an I jury has left me with no feeling in two fingers and only partial feeling in my thumb. I was struggling with finger picking, and Mrs B suggested that a bass guitar might suit better due to having a 3rd less real estate to cover with my tight hand. She was right. However, now that I am a bassist I take my inspiration from Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond. He also was not a bassist, or even a musician, but when asked to join Jethro Tull he rose to the occasion and effectively bluffed his way through 5 albums and several world tours.

To do that we'd need to establish cause and effect.

Even better idea. Can we ban the "I don't get the relics threads" threads?

Jethro Tull's Aqualung. So many styles, great lyrics, Anderson coming of age as a songwriter and Barre coming of age as a guitarist. I love every note. And it pains me to say that I don't really dig jazz.

Its guff. I've imported enough guitars from outside the EU and into it with zero consequence.

Disraeli gears. Learning all the basslines.

Three: One to change the bulb. One to play an accompanying bass riff. And one to superglue themselves to a train and tell us the planet will die unless the government makes some laws.

My Grandad worked for ITT back in the say and I still have half a dozen huge reels of leaded solder that he punted my way. My great grand kids will still be using it up when I'm gone.

I learned by arrissing about really. Playing along to songs, at first copying the bassline verbatim, but as I got better I started doing flowery little fill notes and riffs, and quite by accident walked into walking. I'm now trying to formalise my technique a bit with some reading on the subject.

This vintage look guitar thing does seem odd to me too. After all, no one buys pre rusted, artisan dented cars, or computers will faked aged yellow plastics and craftsmen painted coffee cup rings, so why the need to do such things to guitars? I don't have a downer if people dig that sort of thing, it just goes over my head.

To be fair, that example is dripping with social comment!

I took up bass after damaging my arm, leaving me with no feeling in 2 fingers and limited feeling in my thumb. I was struggling badly with the guitar after that - I could pick and strum so could do the basic stuff, but the more advanced finger picking that I'd taken years to master was no beyond me, which was very dispiriting. So on Mrs Bassfingers advice I turned to bass, where 33% less strings means less real estate for my working digits to cover, so, with practice, I'm hoping to be a better bass player than I ca be a guitar player these days. It looms like it might work. So if I knew then what I know now I'd cut out the middle man and go straight to bass. Having said that, I'm probably the better bass player because of my knowledge of other instruments, so I guess I can't give a firm answer.