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30 minutes ago, super al said:

 

In my strange little world I too hate the bassline but it's still my favourite Stones toon.

It's the preposterous bass line that makes it so great. Bill probably couldn't play it w/out smirking or laughing. (I've had those)

On 30/01/2022 at 11:01, Lozz196 said:

I’d probably have been a rhythm guitarist, I’m pretty good at that but not too hot on that lead malarkey.

Kinda one reason I got a Chapman Stick. Bass AND rhythm because no guitarist seems to get what a good rhythm guitarist IS. (they all wanna go "widdly widdly widdly WEE.)

Rolling Stones "Miss You" Bill Wymans octave bass line sounds like "Aw, Bill, ya gotta get w/ the times, here!" Probably put in his resignation right after.

24 minutes ago, Seashell2 said:

It depends on the type of music really. When it was rock, I'd be in black jeans and a black lacy top with various bits of silver jewellery. In cold and draughty venues I'd add an ankle length black cardigan with ostrich feather trim.

 

If more pop  and lighter music was on the set list, I'd wear similar but without so many skulls 🙂

 

Country requires a long checked shirt, black cowboy hat and a shoe string tie.

 

Now I'm playing more sophisticated stuff, which is even a bit jazzy. So I've started to wear dresses - always black or red. Sunglasses go well with this look, although if it's too dark you can't read the set list 🙂

 

Always wear long sleeves and low heels! 

Ah! I knew I'd been doing it wrong all along!

Scared me for a moment. Didn't let "electric" sink in...thought you might be switching to ukulele. Or banjo. As a previous upright player, I can identify.  Played only upright in college. Love how it resonates thru my body. 

29 minutes ago, Boodang said:

This thread is probably not aimed at the rockers among us. I usually play in a piano/bass/drums trio doing jazz groove stuff (think 70s tv theme tunes). Half the set I play an EUB, the other half with a bass guitar for the funkier numbers. When I'm playing the bass guitar I'm the only mobile member of the band but it's not like I feel it's necessary, or appropriate, to leap about the stage, so I just stand there and feel a bit of a tit. Then I thought, just because it's a bass guitar doesn't mean I have to stand, so now I bring along a bar stool, use that and then like the rest of the band I'm sitting on my derrière whilst playing.

I also applied this to a covers band I was in which was mostly a collection of friends who just wanted to play. The stage was crowded, 3 guitarists, backing vocals, percussion, keys, and occasional brass/woodwind, there wasn't much room to leap about, so I started plonking myself at the back next to the drummer on a bar stool and only came out the shadows if most of the band took a break while we did an uptempo rock number.

So the question is, do we play standing up just because that's what's expected / how it's always been done? How many out there play sitting down? I remember Herbie Flower's used to do the Sky gigs on a bar stool.

I'm thinking of taking this to new levels with the trio. I'm going to get a small rug and do the Hellborg thing and play sitting cross legged on the floor. Another option as there's space in the van, is to bring a nice comfy padded lounge chair and do the gig sprawled out in that. I could put a standard lamp next to me to give it that homely feel!

Martin Mull had an album "with his fabulous furniture". And of course Robert Fripp sat down and stood up again (playing the guitar...)

I currently have my Chapman Stick on a stand connected to the belthook and I can hear it resonate.

So I guess it's a tone-cymbal stand.

I'm just glad the strings I use have not been discontinued or "New And Improved" in, what, 45 years?

And they sound good on all my basses and guitars and, as it happens, my Sticks.

I think it all depends on what type of tonewood the bass is made of. I hope this hasn't been mentioned before. 

Tony cheats. He de-tunes the upper string on the bass side of the Stick. When Adrian ate my chili @ Roxy & Dukes I told him I played Stick and said if we ever got together I promise not to play E.T.

All the above and: King Crimson - Red.

Early Chicago, while Terry Kath was alive. I played a lot of Pete Cetera basslines in a rock/horn band I was in. (Sorry Pete, it's true)

And there's no one on BassChat that plays a contrabass with a F# string? Because I'm a Stick player and my low string is either A or Bb and I'm not crazy about it either. D'Addarios roundwound and I've thought of going a little thinner...

5 hours ago, Bassassin said:

 

Never fully understood why Tony didn't call these Sticky Fingers.

 

Because you can't use them on the Stick. Trust me. 

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. There were no lyrics but the dancing created quite a stir when first performed. So I guess the music wasn't offensive. 

But the orchestra was being pelted with assorted produce yet kept playing.

Budapest By Blimp - Thomas Dolby

It keeps my strings clean.

I bought an Affinity Strat for $60US in a pawn shop it's red, rosewood (or whatever) fingerboard. There wasn't a scratch on it 'till I added two more springs in the back and the screwdriver slipped. I hear the bodies are thinner is that the same as the Affinity Jazz? 

Everything works on it and it stays in tune as much as a Strat w/ a whammy bar can. I tune it to Joni Tunings so I'm changing it all the time. Like 5 times on a good day.

Why would I want to change anything? It cost me sixty bucks.

6 hours ago, Marvin said:

 

I've not read his biography,  I did, however,  watch the documentary about him shown on BBC4 (?) a while back. His birth mum seemed thoroughly unpleasant and his almost non-existent relationship with her seemed to account for some of his own unpleasantness.  He even admitted to not being nice, but then used drug and alcohol abuse to hide behind. You'd hope that someone who knew they'd be an awful person would change their ways...in Clapton's case it seems not.

A key ingredient in 12-Step recovery from alcohol & drugs is forgiving those that wronged you. Or you can buy into $$$ sucking treatment center (Crossroads Antigua) that will stroke your EGO as long as you contribute. 

EGO stands for Easing God Out.

I did like some of the Cream stuff but that was 3 on-fire musicians butting heads musically. Always a catalyst.

57 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

There's never been a good Christmas song. Unless you count Angel of Death by Slayer

I love Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi. 

20 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Elvis was overrated. Danzig was much better

I get your drift.

I have a '70's Japanese guitar - Cameo - that someone GAVE to me. The only thing wrong with it was...that bolt-on neck angle. Put a shim in and it's a cool guitar. Showed it to a local luthier, we looked it up, they sold for around $450US back in the day. Good deal for a set of strings, a clean-up, and a piece of wood.

I would loved to have seen them at Earl's Court in 75, when they were at their peak.

I kinda like Mr. Bungle.

"Do they have to be alive?"

I would think Utopia would have been utopia for me. I was already in thru the out door with Zep and rock-in -general and listening to jazz, jazz-rock, fusion, and Todd from Nazz (my sister turned me on to them in '69) on.

I was in Boston@ Berserklee College of Money '78/'79 and they were telling me "you can't swing unless it's 4/4 or 3/4 so Frank Zappa and The Don Ellis Orchestra were OUT as far as THEY were concerned.

I left Berserklee and got a job as a dishwasher, put a band together that did originals and covers of Zappa, Beefheart, The Tubes, and  BeBop Deluxe.

Never got return engagements...