Nail Soup

Someone on BC (can't remember who) is in a Devo tribute band - 'We are Not Devo' I think.

That is pretty niche IMO... although Devo are well deserving of a tribute.

I wish the tributes were spread out over more rather than being concentrated in certain bands like AC/DC.

What a great player and inspired many to pick up the bass.
I saw From The Jam a year or two ago and Bruce did not look well then. And he missed a lot of gigs. So no surprise about the retirement.
FTJ have said that the band will continue without Bruce..... seems strange seeing that the name is based on the fact that they contain an original member.

I read on-line descriptions of two bass players in the last week or two which really grated on me. They didn't relate to the bass players in question whatsoever, just seemed to use generic terms they had heard someone use about bass players before.

Example 1: Sting. The Journo said that Stings bass playing "filled out the sound of the Police". No it didn't - he had an economic style designed to preserve the space in the Police sound.

Example 2: Brian Ritchie of The Violent Femmes: The Journo said "and Brian Ritchie's bass playing keeps the group grounded". No it doesn't - his playing is very flamboyant, over-the-top and busy etc.

Grr! Got any examples which grind your gears?

Most open mics have a variety of abilities and are very supportive to all participants.

So just stick to the ones that are like that, do a bit of practice to get the best out of what voice you have, sign up and have fun!

John is increasingly dismissive of the other's contribution to SP, so he will look at this with scorn no doubt. 

Just hope Frank can do the songs better than Billy Idol did recently.

Two nights at the Bush Hall won't reach many people though.... maybe there'll be something more after.

On 29/05/2024 at 16:10, lidl e said:

All my basses are heavily modded, put together by parts or built from scratch.

 

I do have two very old ibanezes that are stock that i am selling. Everything else though is heavily modded.

 

Here's a few.

 

Built from scratch with a buddy

 

Refinished in nitro, new pickuos, new bridge

 

 

built both from parts. Ledt is warmoth nody with 2tek bridge and moses graphite neck with Batolinis, right is mostly fender parts, schaller tuners, lollar pickups 

 

 

Built entirely from scratch. Friend built the neck

 

 

Defretted, put in bartolinis and a bart harness

 

I love the looks of the orange one.

James Williams, of Iggy and the Stooges had a very high-tech career afterwards....

From Wikipedia:

Technology career

Immediately following his graduation from Cal Poly Pomona, Williamson moved to Silicon Valley. For the next fifteen years, he worked for Advanced Micro Devices in San Jose, California, designing products around its chips. His coworkers never inquired about his earlier career as a rock musician; in a 2010 interview with Uncut, Williamson asserted that many of his colleagues were "nerds and geeks ... they don't listen to The Stooges much."[17] In 1997, he was hired as Sony's vice president of technical standards; in this capacity, he liaised with competitors and helped to codify nascent industry standards, most notably the Blu-ray Disc. During the Great Recession, he accepted an early retirement buyout offer from Sony in 2009.

In 2015, Williamson was selected to receive ANSI's Ronald H. Brown Standards Leadership Award for his contributions to consumer electronics standards development. The award, named after late United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown, is presented as part of World Standards Day celebration.

My home town band... some people site this/them as the originator of goth. UK Decay - The Black Cat.

The late Gary Holton was in the Heavy Metal Kids..... were there any songs from them (didn't recognise any in the set list)?

I watched it, expecting it to be about some people forming a two tone band. It was more about the IRA etc... was a good watch, but mis-sold.

They really have no idea about how a band works.. they painted the main guy as the lyrics person and the blond girl as the musical leader of the group, but they passed ideas between them or collaborated on anything.

At the drummer's audition they decided whether to give her the job by recording two versions of the song ... one with her on drums and one with no drums at all. If the one with drums sounded better the job was hers! Especially ridiculous she was obviously a really good drummer.

The girl in the record shop who had no had no musical experience at the last minute decided to take up bass. Next scene.. the band are playing a song with a cracking bassline.

But I suppose non-musicians won't have noticed and just enjoyed it on face value. And maybe people who know any thing about IRA situation at that time would have found lots of faults with that side of the story.

Most of my favourite lines would be too simple or not well-known enough to serve as a party piece.

So I'll go for "Good Times" by Chic.

11 hours ago, upside downer said:

 

You wouldn't go far wrong with a few Ramones tunes.

Yes, one of the Johnny Ramones 'rules' was no guitar solos.

On the occasional Ramones song which had a guest solo, Johnny did not play it, or any other solo, live.

On 04/09/2020 at 17:18, Nail Soup said:

Just thinking back to music lessons at school (back in the seventies when I was at 'big school' aged 11-16)

I can say I learned absolutely nothing that has helped me in my musical life.

All our teacher did was to stand in front of a blackboard and make us learn the different clef and key signitures on the stave and that kind of thing. Never touched an instrument, occasionaly heard (classical) music and rarely did anything practical. Thinking back I'm getting angry at how bad those lessons were.

It wasn't till I left school and got my first bass that I learned anything. Essentially taught myself from books and friends.

 

Anyone have similar experience?

Or a better experience?

 

My (bad) experience was late 70's/early 80's at high school.

6 hours ago, Crusoe said:

I've been learning guitar (sue me), so I've been watching channels like Anyone Can Play Guitar - really good tutorials and covers a range of styles, like jazz, blues, indie, punk, rockabilly, reggae... Justin Guitar is very good too. he covers a lot of theory as well as songs.

Can definitely  agree with "Anyone Can Play Guitar"... really good tutorials and aligns well with my music taste.

How are they making these mixes? Some kind of AI, or do they have access to the original stems? Or something else?

4 hours ago, SamIAm said:

.. I also found that using a low G string (Which is tuned an octave below the standard G) produced a more pleasing sound.

Each to their own, but IMO a high G has the classic Uke sound and gives rise to the 'closely bunched' voicings.

4 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

As an instrument, I'm finding that you can pretty much make any chord shape and it just sounds rather lovely, so much so I'm thinking a better specced one may make the experience a little better.

A lot of really cheap ukes have tuning, intonation and playability issues and hold the player back. 

For a small upgrade you can get a pretty decent one. You don't need to go high level, just something around 100 quid, similar to a starter level bass.

Of course for some other instruments and styles, it is desirable to have long nails on the plucking/picking/strumming hand. There must be those who also play bass... so I guess they work round it by means other than cutting.

I'm in for this...

This is a song I've been meaning to cover for a couple of years now, but never found an approach I've been happy with - until now! 

Techy stuff:

DAW: Studio one

Drums: Snare/Tom/Ride played live into one mic (95% is a single take - the 3rd) , then added  suitcase bass drum on a different track. Plus percussion.

Bass: Vantage Avenger

Guitars: Squier affinity Telecaster, homemade 3 string cigar box guitar with slide

Vox: SM38 mic

When I read the title I first of all thought it meant what to buy as his 18th bass...

I've seen the ad and would not have recognised Buble (even with the singing at the end) were he not referenced by name right near the beginning.

Inside of a violin?

1 minute ago, Dad3353 said:

 

The speed of the 'strike' determines the velocity, so a gentle tap sounds very different to a 'bash'. The current version is temperamental in this regard; I'm certain that the newer version will be good enough, without rivalling an acoustic kit in all respects. A lot of the demos I've seen seem to be lumberjacks, so not much scope for recognising velocity, but they can be played with nuance. 

Thanks. 

If that's the case, and I was directing that video, when he hit each drum 3 or 4  times they would have been at different volumes  with a comment about the sensitivity.

As far as I can make out, none of these type of 'air drum' products are velocity sensitive, so you cannot vary the volume of the hit.

If so, that limits the usefulness for me.

Anyone know any different?

On 30/11/2023 at 20:29, TimR said:

Not safe for work. Lots of profanity. 

 

This guy is very funny, but think he hits the mark very well. Part 1 and 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's vewry funny, and good advice too.

Especially funny what he calls bass players and pretending to think they are the most useless liability in the band... he is joking right?