Nail Soup

Those bass recorders are really expensive though 😕

I think at school we were just taught to get the 'right' notes out of the recorder with no thought to tone and listenability.

Mind you, I couldn't even do that!

30 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

I read it as drums/bass locking together rather than a chops showcase.  Could be wrong.

 

 

I re-read the op and you could be right 😃

1 hour ago, uk_lefty said:

Or go for the ones with the coolest names.

Or the most knobs.

1 minute ago, Waddycall said:

Psycho killer coulda be good - and I know that already 👍

I think Psycokiller is good for bass, but not a showcase for a drummer…. If that’s what you’re after.

2 hours ago, Peloquin said:

I used to love SLF until they started playing half and half sets of SLF and Jam songs. 

Who is in the band now? 

Foxton left to do From the Jam..... and original bass player Ali came back IIRC. I think he is still there?

Pom Poko in Bedford Friday 4th.

New-ish Norwergian 4 piece... here's their best known song

If you want to go back that far, I reckon a lot of stuff by Blondie fits the bill.

Fretting arm or picking arm?

I very dislike his music, but respect his line of self-depricating humour.

I'm thinking that it could be a simple quarter note I-V bass pattern, which speeds up according to the vehicle speed.

It would certainly make them less attractive to ride.

59 minutes ago, bassfan said:

I started guitar lessons in my early teens, then got a girlfriend and stopped

Objective of learning guitar fulfilled?

So the electric scooters are going for hi-hat and tuba for the on-board sound.

How can bass guitar get in on the electric vehicle sound malarkey?

I don’t do much of my own… although I have built a couple of cigar box guitars. 
The action on my bass needs lowering since a string change a couple of months ago and I vowed to do it myself. But I got the Allen key out of my tool kit and it is too long to fit in the recess. Never got round to getting a new key and  not even sure what to google to get one. Must get into gear!

I still have the same preferred tone in bass as when I started out, influenced by punk and post-punk. 

But now I have much wider taste in music so there's more chance I could play something which needed a different tone which I would do. Well try anyway.

3 minutes ago, ped said:

Someone will be along shortly to say we all sound the same whatever we play 😂

And that no one in the audience cares anyway. Or the rest of the band.

I remember setting up my first audio interface many years ago. I ended up ringing the Helpdesk because it didn’t work. We tried loads of before I casually mentioned the USB extension cable I was using. I could almost hear the support guy’s eyes rolling ….. moved the box nearer to pc , no extension cable - worked fine.

Lesson learned.

1 hour ago, Ricky Rioli said:

work on the last four notes of a tricky passage first, then the last eight notes, then the last twelve notes, etc. Once you've learnt the whole section, when you're playing through it, you'll always be moving onto a handful of notes you're more familiar with, rather than constantly moving further away from what you're comfortable with.

I had the same advice from a teacher in a guitar workshop… he described it as “always heading towards success”

Not a gig, but related.

I had a solo open mic spot about 8 years ago. I felt I hadn't practised the vocals at full volume enough (I can't do it much at home) so decided I would stop off in the car park of a disused sports centre in Luton and have a run through in the car.

So I parked up, got the acoustic out of the boot and got in the back seat.

I played though the songs a few times, when I became aware that there was now a police car parked on the other side of the car park… and that they seemed to be observing me.

I carried on, thinking best to act innocent. The male officer started to walk over . I carried on playing.

He had a real serious look on his face until he got a few feet from the car, then he started kind-of laughing.

He was laughing  because he could see the guitar. It transpired that up to now they could only see the movement of my strumming arm, and thought I was entertaining myself in quite a different way.

I'm assuming they had some kind of tip-off as it would be too much co-incidence otherwise.

Anyway I did the open mic… went pretty well and I had a good "Something funny happened on my way here" anecdote to tell.

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

I'll work on getting a much lighter touch on the strings. It's going to take some time I think. 

Good luck……. I find that learning new stuff is one thing, but breaking old habits much more difficult.

In rock I can think of the bass player from Beak (the Portishead spin-off, but they don't like being called that😕)

He does about half the lead vocals too. He switches between two basses live, one in hand and one in stand. No strap  - which makes the changeovers easier I guess.

I think Jah Wobble used to it at one time?

I heard this lot via a social media suggestion, thought they sounded good and (quick google later) saw they were playing locally to me. It was tonight and they were very good. I think it's fits here..... Grandma's house, a new-ish Bristol band.

1 hour ago, Dan Dare said:

Great stories. You should write a book. 

I want the TV series 👍

They got quite a lot of coverage couple of years ago.I thought he was a good front man but didn’t like his contribution musically. I thought they were good instruments wise especially the bass.

3 hours ago, Bluewine said:

She looks like she's in her late 20s ?

45 minutes ago, steantval said:

She is 36 years old.

Yeah, I'm old enough to think Twenties too!