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Love his playing style plus he always looks like he's having so much fun on stage. I'd buy him a pint if I ever get the chance.

Charlie says ' Prodigy

I did meet a non music hero once. I used to do downhill mountain bike racing and somehow ended up in the national championships. After taking my usual pre race nerve poo, I whacked current world champion Gee Atherton with the portaloo door, almost knocking him off his crutches. He wished me good luck in the race. Nice bloke.

The Rolf Harris autograph reminded me an old bloke I used to work with had a Garry Glitter signed photo proudly displayed on his office wall. This was in the days before his crimes were known. I don't know what happened to the picture.

No. I wasn't 100% positive it was him as he wasn't wearing a Les Paul so I said "ere, you play a bit of guitar don't you" to which he replied with a chuckle "yeah I've been known to play a bit now and then". Robert Plant lives local but I didn't like to ask about reunion potential, he's probably sick of that question.

We both walk dogs on the grounds of an estate owned by an actual cult (not The Cult) and my dog is a d**khead who likes annoying aging rock legends.

Closest I got was a guitar hero when Jimmy Page stroked my lurcher. Nice bloke, slightly eccentric, likes dogs.

Jazz just puts people off. It's only really enjoyed by a small minority. If rules are what you need then metal has loads of them! Most of them came straight out of blues. It doesn't just have to be based around learning songs. I tried the SBL Players path which seems to be purely around learning little tunes that they've composed for the lesson so that's pretty much just learning songs anyway. Anyway, I found very little interest in the SBL lessons, they felt like a chore and mostly ended up using talkingbass instead.

That still doesn't explain why everything but blues jazz and soul should be ignored. Why ignore anything else just because their roots go back to these styles? I found it extremely difficult going from SBL lessons in blues and soul to playing something like Slayer which requires a very different style of playing. There was nothing that prepared me for the speed of punk and the super fast fills in it. I'm not saying don't teach those fundamental styles, just offer a bit of something else as well to keep it interesting. I gave up with SBL because it was boring and didn't prepare me for what I wanted to play.

Anyone starting out in learning an instrument is doing it for enjoyment. If you're already a professional musician then you need 1 to 1 tuition not Scott's Bass Lessons which is aimed purely at amateur musicians. The biggest drawback of online learning is there's no one to point out when you've got the details wrong or answer questions and those are the sort of thing you need at a higher level but it doesn't matter to the amateur as much.

Playing an instrument is something you do for enjoyment. If lessons are six months of playing styles you have no interest in you'll soon get bored and give up. You can learn those basic skills from any genre so why stick to just a few? There's punk and ska songs full of arpeggios, tricky rhythms in all forms of rock. Chord tones in metal. Iron Maiden just has everything. Sabbath is just blues tuned down and distorted.

I agree but that diversity is missing from Scotts bass lessons. There's little if anything to cover anything but the most mainstream styles plus jazz. There's no punk, metal, reggae, hip hop or other less mainstream styles.

I tried his lessons and didn't like them. The instruction is good but as with any online lessons there's no feedback on how you're doing and no one to answer questions. What really killed it for me was the lack of variety in the music. I didn't play anything I enjoyed. There's a few metalish tunes in the higher difficulties but no punk at all. It's just all jazz and soul music. How about a few ska bass lines or some Matt Freeman style lines? Or some heavy riffs?

I used to use a Stingray 5 string and didn't find that any better.

Didn't McCartney palm mute his ric on Come Together?

They must make palm muting impossible.

That explains why Al Cisneros picks up on the neck. And I thought he did it for the tone

No one wants to blow a seal. Yes I'm immature and crude

This is the one I want. They're very expensive but they look amazing and Al Cisneros is a heavy bass leg end https://www.hotroxuk.com/rickenbacker-4003ac-limited-addition-al-cisneros-bass.html

Nope, just a simple Mexican P bass but tuned down to A#

Do the AT7 valves solve the wooley sounding distortion? That's my biggest problem with the amp.

I had the amp repaired last year after the power section blew up. While he was in there he checked the preamp and was of the opinion that the valves were fine. He said it just sounds how a mk1 Terror sounds.

I've never been 100% happy with my Orange Terror 500 mk1. Its plenty loud but turning up the gain sounds really wooley and I want plenty of gain. Yesterday I tried my Two Notes Le Bass straight in to the effects return which I believe bypasses the Orange preamp and just uses it's power section. It sounds much better but could it cause any harm? I had to run the master volume a bit higher but I guess that's just because I'm missing the preamp gain.

There's so many bassists who I'm a fan of who play Rickenbackers, I have to try one at some point. They're really popular in doom and stoner metal plus there's Lemmy, Peter Hook and Cliff Burton.

Two timing touch and broken bones - Hives