StickyDBRmf

On 20/04/2023 at 16:35, Mykesbass said:

Listening to Steve Lamaq's Round Table today - lovely bit of 21st Century disco from Alison Goldfrapp:

 

Can anyone figure out where I've heard this synth line before? Not being "is this new?" snarky it's just bugging me. BTW I like this tune not so much the rest. And the lyrics! (now I'm being snarky)

I am now 65. 

That said, I had more "chops" in my 20's.

I also drank way too much. Which put the love (addiction) of alcohol before music for a long time.

Got sober when I was 52. Music came back.

I think I have better "ears" (not "hearing") now than my younger years.

Musicians hear me and exclaim, "You get it!"

I enjoy playing, and I have to PRACTICE to play things I "hear" in my head, and then translate to fingers and strings.

But it's freaking wonderful.

I'm trying to get "good" every day. If you love it, that's what matters.

Random list of bassists, my influences

Chris Squire 

Alphonso Johnson

Paul Jackson

Scott LaFaro

Percy Jones

John Wetton

Buster Williams

Sara Lee

Jah Wobble

Tony Levin

What Dan Dare sez. (both posts) I had a J then added a fretless P to my arsenal. I wound up using the P more and more, even for the slapping/popping, that I sold the J (BIG MISTAKE in life under the "general" category). Straight-up tone (or full-out, same thing), roundwounds, fingers. Solid state amp and 12" speakers. I did put a Dimarrzio pu in, but that was 'cause I had changed EVERY PIECE (I wore out the neck) on it except the body, and I figured, "Why not?" and it was cream-colored, so it looked cooler. But the original pu did my best John Wetton, and Stanley Clarke impersonations...

I have a ESP LTD I picked up for $200 US. (I made the store owner throw in a set of strings) It was a STUDENT BASS in the high school. Binged up banged up, neck true, active EMGs.

I bought a Hartke bass PJ with paint chipping away with your fingernail, NO STRAP BUTTONS, a tag "$30, as-is". Both pu's worked when I tried it, when I got it home the P shorted out.  Neck was dead-straight, pulled the frets out, had me a frettless. (all Jaco, all-the-time). Still haven't gotten around to putting something into the P-hole. Might cut it out a bit a shove 3 Strat pu's in side-ways. Paid $15 for them.

Too bad his shop just closed, township wanted to double his rent.

Oh, and a Morley Wah for $30.

BTW the crowd noise on Bennie and the Jets is from Jimi Hendrix performance at Isle of Wight.

I don't remember what I was using in my old band to cut thru, but our guitarist called it the "make our ears bleed" sound.

Seriously, I think when I wanted to cut through, I would turn on the Morley Wah and "tune" it to a frequency that cut through. It had a "boost", so the wah was a little louder.

Zappa always mixed it up. Sometimes to his bands bewilderment. He went thru a phase where he was calling all the songs in reggae. (You can make any song reggae.)

Frank considered what he did "entertainment". You pay to be entertained. 

I want novelty when I go see a group. I can listen to a studio performance at home.

Maybe the exception is Pink Floyd.

Due to a move I am constrained to one Chapman Stick. With twelve strings, I can play as many wrong notes as I need.

"How did you do that?' Haha, it's a secret.

Whatever it takes to make music

The Chapman Stick has a damper between the X-fret and fret 1, because with all those strings all sorts of stuff would be reverberating. It's tapped with both hands, so you don't have a hand to dampen overtones. But Bob Culbertson (google him) uses a capo sometimes, so I said "why not?"

As to questions about what will fit, put yer bass in the boot and go to a music store and try a few out.

On 20/03/2023 at 14:54, StickyDBRmf said:

My first bass. It's a Jazz sunburst tort maple neck / the big block inlays. '73.

I just made myself sick by going back and figuring out what this bass cost new. $250.00 US total w/ hardshell case. It was a Christmas present from mum&dad. With trade of my Fender Mustang guitar orange w/ red racing stripe. I eventually sold it to a friend for $200. Then I looked at what people are asking for in the used/vintage market. 

Seriously I would like to have one, but it wouldn't be worth more than $500 to me. I know how it played and what it sounded like. I can get that out of my $200 ESP LTD.

Nostalgia is weird. 

On 02/04/2023 at 06:43, wateroftyne said:

Prepare to have your head melted. Well worth the effort, though.

 

The band’s musical evolution over the 10 years they existed is remarkable.

Every player on BassChat no matter what type of music you play. Go right now and check out Gentile Giant. Ray and the band are some of the most articulate and happy music ever played. Brain melting indeed.

I know a guy here in the states, left his Rick in the back seat of his car. When he got back to his car, he saw the back window had been broken. As he approached the car, he saw in the back seat two Ricks.

Oh you guys are good!

I can't believe Dad3353 beat me to the "28" joke. I read this whole thread to make sure no one had done any "number" jokes.

Oh, wait! 

86753o9. I hate that number.

3 minutes ago, itu said:

No one walks in the States, is that something similar to (water) closet classics?

You're thinking of the new Fender Waterboard. Made in the States, tho no-one knows where, and gets to the truth. Although it may be just what you "want" to hear.

I just bought the new Fender Midscoop Bass. 

Whoops. Wrong thread.

6 hours ago, tegs07 said:

 

This is really great! (for putting my f*cking sheets on). Lots of weird noises?

Nick is cheating he has bass pedals too. 

I saw a picture of Garry Tallent playing a Longhorn Bass w/ Springsteen and thought, "So THAT'S how he does those 4 hour shows."

Seriously my Longhorn weighs nothing as long as you don't mind sounding like surf music all the time. It does cut thru though.

Hey! He plays something between 1:34-1:37. And the guitarist is not in tune, what do you expect?

1 hour ago, WinterMute said:

I bumped into Jonas in a lift in Olympia on his way to a demo with that beast round his neck, I believe it was for electronic drums and he'd just turned up to play with his mate...

 

Honestly didn't recognise him at first as I was ogling the bass..!

"with" . He doesn't play the fretless in this video.

Whoops. Not very good at this adding files thing. But that's funny.

Seriously I have bass in 4ths/bass in 5ths on one neck and I can play any of the strings with both hands.

Emmett Chapman might have been on to something...

My first bass. It's a Jazz sunburst tort maple neck / the big block inlays. '73.

Double-neck?