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Just play it in 10ths.

Apart from bypassing the system, I'd take a compressor if your head doesn't have one to even out the loud bits. Oh bugger, just read the posting date so the gigs over!!

Mail him any Thin Lizzie MP3 and call him a pillock. Nice to be able to use all methods if you can but surely it's what works best for you and the song.

No need to slap, leave tons of space and move in to the drummer's house. That's the team. Forget the rest of the band.

I can drive a tractor too. Welcome.

Look for a Status energy 4 stringer. (it'll have a headstock) Classy, cheap slapper heaven.

Welcome to Basschat from France (ex Billericay, Loughton, Woodford Green and Shenfield)

I want you back. The Jackson 5 and Animal by Toto

I should have one, that way I'd get it for nothing.

It's a very fine line between "genius" and lost the plot.

[quote name='Telebass' post='405776' date='Feb 10 2009, 10:44 PM']The ultimate bass is simply the one you like playing the best, through the amp that you like the sound of best. The 'ultimate' bass is like the 'perfect' tone - a myth.[/quote] I agree 100%

I used Ground-wounds on my Jazz. Very comfortable and they didn't mark the board.

Best of luck for Friday. Go for it.

Never had a problem with it. However, just as an exercise, I thought I'd have a go at 7 days (Sting) Impossible for me. Bass, no probs, vox, no probs, together, NO CHANCE

I'd ban people from covering their basses with stickers that don't peel off and make it illegal to wear a bass lower than the knee.

Interesting thread this. I could not get the link to work so I have not viewed the guy on You Tube. But it seems that the original question of "Does anyone know who he is?" immediately got ignored and an indepth discussion ensued about whether the guy is a bassist or not as apparrently, he uses higher register tuning. Without having seen this, my opinion is, music is music no matter what you play it on. If you're also good at it as well, that makes you a musician. I trust some/most of you will have heard of Brian Bromberg. Love him or hate him, he is a well respected world class upright and electric bass player and composer. His album "You know that feeling" has no "guitars" on it whatsoever. All guitar parts are played on the bass or variations of such. ie, piccolos etc using effects. I don't know many guitarists who could play those parts on guitars as well as he can let alone on a bass. It's purely an extension of the musical instrument preconceived idea that we have in our heads as to who should play what, on what and what it should sound like. It's all relevent in the world of music as far as I'm concerned and is no different from a bass player using a distortion pedal because that's not what a bass sounds like really is it? I wonder if all the upright bass players of the 50's slagged off the first guy they saw with a Precision and said it's not really a bass but an electrified plank of wood. Probably not. If the guy is good, plays his stuff on a bass of some kind, then he's probably a good bass player.

And Synth is short for Synthisizer

Sad news indeed. Thoughts go out to his family & friends.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='324541' date='Nov 7 2008, 11:02 PM']Mike, you say that like Sandy Toksvig is a bad thing. [/quote] Stevie Wonder is a mate of mine and he thinks she's really fit.

Other. F bass

Can't choose your family mate, only your friends. Next time, use a friend. Hope your brothers okay anyway.

For party/function gigs, you need to stick in all the stuff that will get people running for the floor to dance. Depends on your line-up but these never failed in my old UK function band Brown Sugar Satisfaction Relax Freak out Dancing in the dark (Springsteen) Dancing in the dtreet Thriller Billie Jean The heat is on Simply the best I know some will look down on function bands but there is no better view from a stage as 300 people going for it on the dance floor and not wanting you to stop. Good luck

After the initial pick it up, balance and weight thing and feel of the neck, I check for dead spots (notorious on Jazz basses) then any dodgy fretwork, then controls. Then, for some strange reason, I always play "Good times" by Chic?? That seems to tell me if it's the one for me.

I have to be on the hi-hat side. Great for communication with the drummer, great to keep an eye on his kick and I've put too many dings in headstocks in the past if I'm on the other side. (Bloody cymbals, except when they're drowning out ego driven lead solos with the same frequency crashes, Ha ha, I love a bit of stage tension)

Bienvenu Luc, j'habite en France aussi (23 La creuse) mais je suis Anglais. J'espere vous passez un bon temps sur Basschat. Keith