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On 07/09/2023 at 12:45, chris_b said:

In their 7th decade. . . . good on them.

What for churning out a load of predictable mush?....

12 hours ago, Paolo85 said:

I have decided to give walking bass a proper try (I am useless at it and all previous attempts failed)

Have a listen to  the Gadd, Paul Desmond version of 'Autumn Leaves'. It'll do ur walking practise the world of good.

16 hours ago, smithy said:

So more SIS (Skill Improvement Syndrome)

This. Ive recently began studying cello. If there is anything to kill GAS permanently it's learning a classical instrument cause its all about study and practise practise practise....Sure you can get a better instrument but it'll be just has hard to get the notes right as the beginners instrument. I now see my bass playing in a completely different light as well....that its so darn easy in  comparison.

Watched it after the Proms. Seen if before too. It's brilliant. Proms, AC/DC, weird combo but hey...

That single sounds like an 80's American power rock big hair chart tune...Utterly predictable chord shapes...awful thick compressed sound...Mick on autotune? NFW! Yep, all nice and safe for the modern world which really is the definition of 'sold out'.

Luckily for me my music box has the antidote. Paint it, Brown Sugar, Honky, Wild Horses, Angie and Miss You for starters...That's better.

Calm down Malcolm..... Anyway, maybe...tho it'll cost ya  haha

Played finger style down where most of us play I can tell u exactly how it sounds....but I wont.

My days of earning from this caper are long gone so now it's nothing. Chromes on my P bass are 17 yrs old and very nice....they may even do another 17, well see, if Im still around that is.

For me its all about my No 1 tone and not bass so much tho after years of this and that its basically any old  P bass with dead chromes as  I just know that out in the room that dry biting lower mid bark is tearing peoples ears off.  

6 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Adele's To Make You Feel My Love

Just had a listen and it sounds suspiciously like something from a long time ago...Cant think off hand what tho... So maybe BD was covering the original and not her "cover".

Im pretty sure it was in a Ron Carter book, so its probably more jazz than blues. I down loaded it from the internet years ago ..Just an idea.

Try this for fun, kinda jazzy blues

Found two different bands in the last four yrs with JMB. Seems a pretty good site. One for drums, the other bass.

Just chkd out the trio...Nice work all three of you. Great to hear old school power trio rock, thought it had died. How bout some Robin Trower? ...haha Anyway you play the way you want...U prob wont get much pit work but ur having fun thats the main thing.

Guy from around our way I think has got his Cornettos and Corneolis in a muddle. Heard the Godfather theme the other night...haha twas very funny.

Just had a look. That looks very nice indeed if it's the right weight. They were very well made. Looks better than the Fender 71 there in cream. Ive never come across one yet between 71 and 73 that has the bridge like that in the right place....

Those PB-70's are the biz next to the Mex RW which appear to be unobtainum at the mo....no ones selling them...not surpirsed. Also don't disregard the CV70's P either if you can stand the Squire Fender style logo. The only non Fender copy with the thick ole 70's neck. Ive got one..it may well be a keeper.

So now they go out all cuddly and safe playing predictable old blues numbers so as not to offend anyone...yet Brown Sugar has become the Devils anthem and is not to played, or even uttered by anyone, but thats the Stones I love. Young, dangerous and unpredictable. All they are now is a vehicle for cynical Micks bank balance which in itself is pretty obscene seeing as they're all worth gazillions. As for Rodders...dear oh dear, bu them Im still stuck listening to the glorious Maggie Mae/Wear It Well...brilliant

Some weird existential strangeness going here. If this carries on bands will gradually become less and less of the performers and performance their supposed to be and judging by the current trend for crowds to seemingly put on the usual ..me, me, me, show at festivals Ive seen recently, tis the crowd which are becoming the performance. 

Wrong thread..ooops

All sat here now waiting for the obligatory pics.. which of course you did take....didnt you?

On 24/06/2023 at 08:24, Burns-bass said:

Most bands at Glasto are on backing tracks. Royal Blood being a good case in point. Makes sense.

So Glastonbury is just one big Karaoke event. You could not make it up. Be cheaper and easier to have holograms of ur favourite bands, save a whole lot of hassle and money ...Oh sorry its marketed as a "live music event", silly me.

In the nicest possible way I can think of I actually wish they'd just go away. Grew up with them, love everything with a passion up until about 84 and have absolutely no desire to hear them hacking thru the blues catalogue just because they can...And without Charlie, well..whats the point anyway.  

Whole clutch of chart pop from summer of 76  when I was strawberry picking. Brothers Johnston in particular....Places me right there like it was yesterday. Then a couple years later hearing Powerage for the first time....again I'm straight back there with my first band as we try to learn Deni Deni...Haha grt stuff.

19 hours ago, TimR said:

@greavesbass what were the circumstances of you leaving and why were you covering bass.

The dep was to cover for his bassist who was on holiday.  I left to pursue drums which I'd packed in years ago..It was perfectly amicable, in fact they tried to hang on to me.

So at rehearsals he was hugely welcoming and chatty. However he and his wife go back a long way with my recent long term ex and I turned up at gig with my new woman in tow...Maybe it finally dawned on him that he felt some weird conflict....