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Wow!! I don’t know what to say! That’s incredibly kind. I’m not far from Manchester, 30 mins drive. Totally overwhelmed. Thank you so much.

Thank you DeeDee - how thoroughly decent of you. I will check out options for lifts and see what’s possible.

Hi Al and thanks for the positivity! I’m quite diverse and like everything from funk to metal! So versatile bass is the best!

Hi Josie! Not too far from Stockport - thank you for the kind words.

Thanks for the welcomes and kindness! Currently based in the North West but can get a lift or sort postage. Just determined to start over.

It says GB 334 A on the back of the headstock - I can hardly find any of them on the web!

Hi Thank you to anyone that reads. I’ve had a forced long lay off from bass playing, following going to rock bottom, after almost dying, after a long tough health battle and the recovery from being smashed by a HGV. Losing the life passion of music was unspeakably depressing. I’m coming out of hell and desperate to reignite my life passion. I can now hold a bass again through sheer determination! However, I have no bass equipment and just need something basic to get restarted. Can anyone help? Thank you for reading.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1416570371' post='2611518'] Not our personal music, but music that we come across ? We are all musicians after all, and probably listen to an awful lot of it between us over the course of a week. There's so much music out there, probably more than there has ever been before at any point in history. The problem is finding it. I've come across a couple of guys on here due to my particular tastes in music, they've just been chance things, and we exchange PM's etc. So it maybe be a way to make new friendships ? I personally discovered 2 great new ambient music composers yesterday, the guy who's my dissertation supervisor introduced them to me. [/quote]Great idea. Sorely needed.

I am listening to this right now. It's awesome. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo[/url]

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1416267342' post='2608610'] Old Vince has definitely still got it. Never as good without Dunaway, Smith, Bruce & Buxton though. Jon. [/quote] Damn straight! Dunaway is massively under-rated!

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1416262712' post='2608548'] Aah, that's more like it. [/quote] Check out this bass and drums! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJKd7y3ISc

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1416262186' post='2608537'] Great if it's your thing but to me it just reminds me of teeny pop from the 70s. [/quote] Try this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3JYbtki664

[quote name='elcastillian' timestamp='1412173441' post='2566442'] Here's an interesting song re' behind or ahead of the beat. What do you think [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZRURcb1cM[/media] [/quote] Great thread. Great music is about groove! This song is a classic example. If you listen closely to the hi-hats, they are being played in perfect on the beat timing, but the bass drum and snare are leaving enough space for the bassline to work into. If you listen to the where the accent on the snare falls in the bar and where the accent on the bassline falls in the bar, that's what really creates the feel of this song. Along with the phrasing. This is why I do not subscribe to the school of thought of quantising everything - those who want to quantise everything straight onto the up and down beats just do not understand the concept of groove. Or phrasing.

Still insanely good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4rAgHY1QEI

Good effort! Nothing wrong with that! Might have a sneaky listen later!

I forgot just how good this really is![url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek[/url]

I forgot just how good this really is![url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gHSbIifmek[/url]

Is it still clipping with the gain at 1/2?

OH YEAH!

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1410775836' post='2552868'] Cheers guys. There are more responses here than I expected, almost too many to respond to individually but there are some good points there. We had a solid couple of years where the gigs were really fun and we seemed to gather a bit of a following. I don't think that we're still at that point, as the gigs are drying up a little (one of the reasons the singer is keen to take every offer) and we're not rehearsing very often. The singer gives the impression that she wants the band to be the main thing in her life, and I don't feel that I'm in a position to do that or that the band is actually ready for that. Had we jumped on it and gigged more widely a year or two back when things seemed to click a little better perhaps we might have been able to take it to that next stage, but we didn't. I do wonder if there's an element of denial over whether we've missed the boat there. I'm about 6-8 years older than the rest of the band and I've watched friends get signed to labels, slog round rubbish venues staying in travelodges or on floors and end up in the same position they started in except distinctly jaded and frazzled round the edges. It seems like the ones who are happier have just continued to do their own idiosyncratic thing on the local scene to whatever niche following is around whilst carrying on with a relatively normal life. So that's the model I want to pursue, and happily that's more or less how my other projects operate. It's difficult as the singer and the guitarist (who are a couple) are people I knew before we put the band together so whatever I do I need to keep it amicable. They got together at about the same time I met my wife and we've spent a lot of time together. I think I might suggest that they look for a new bassist, but agree to play out the remaining gigs we have booked and see how that goes down... [/quote] Sorry to hear of your family issues. Given that two of them are supposedly your friends, that makes the way they are treating you even worse. Why you feel you need to be amicable to accommodate their poor behaviour I can't work out. Sometimes people will do what you let them get away with, a hard lesson to learn. I look at it this way. If someone who calls themselves a friend(s) could not be understanding and supportive given the circumstances, at what is one of the worst times in life, when WILL they be? This is serious stuff, compounded by them accepting and playing gigs without you. By their conduct, you are not really part of the band as you don't seem to have a voice in anything.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1414238404' post='2587363'] Might not get any thanks here, but Rocco is way too mechical and it just isn't funky, IMO. [/quote][url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56_eUJzWOTg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56_eUJzWOTg[/url] Those clipped grooves are an art form in and of themselves, he has plenty of funk, he just chooses when to unleash it to suit the songs. Listen to that bass and drum interaction at 1:19 onwards - that has the funk!

Tough call. Try the Streamer Stage II also before making a decision!

Dennis Dunaway. What an under-rated bass player. Not just for tone but also phrasing and groove. Here's an example, such a simple bassline but with amazing feel and a classic example of a bassline with composition which fits the song perfectly and compliments the drums. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ISnXBe23Q"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ISnXBe23Q[/url]