Nail Soup

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?

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?

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?

People may refer to you as a good player with the added bonus of not being able to slap.

Sure - as Pete says, it is triple C tuning gCGCC . The term modal gets applied to banjo tunings which are neither major nor minor. Can also apply to other instruments of course.

How did the bill ever get to be that way round?

Considering they didn't play the instruments, they made an OK job of miming the bass and guitar.

If that’s the case why does the paradiddle etc even exist? If L and R are identical then isn’t paradiddle same as, say, mama papa?

In other shock news: Drummer quite good at percussion too Piano player not bad on organ either

Don't know, but I'm going to have guess: passing chord.

Good to see Reef “Put Your Hands” getting a few mentions here… I’d forgotten that awful song. But it did somehow remind me of the dreadful “Two Princes” by Spin Doctors.

Yes MITB is the one that surprised me..

Low-tech suggestion: Could it be handled by moving her mouth nearer the mic for those parts? Mic technique I guess.

Out of musical attributes, play-by-ear is far and away my weakest. So I would turn any such thing down. To accept it would be not fair on me, not fair on the audience and not fair on the other musicians.

I've heard a few comments over the years praising Pete's demos... and that some people prefer them to the Who versions. Based on the YT link in the OP I can see why. Would be interested if he really did these alone... impressive if he did.

But I'd probably go with the green one because I'm shallow and It's prettier.

Ref the thread title. Saying that a bass is your love is going quite far enough. Saying it's your lover is going too far.

Chris Stein is out of the live lineup too due to health issues.

If you are sharing the vocal load between the band, one thing you should consider is distributing the vocal part where the instrument is simple.... so if song has a simple guitar part then guitarist sings it. If has a simple bass part then bass player sings it. Of course won't always work out that way.

Yes - his interest in Satanism etc is purely academic!