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BVs can really bring an upright player into the audience’s attentional space 👍

On stage I’m too absorbed with the physical and emotional demands of playing to give a f*** about how I look, in short I’m totally absorbed. In which context an Italian lady came up to us after a gig a few years back. The singer - a good looking guy 20-years my junior - naturally assumed she was going to talk to him. She did, but she said ‘The bassist plays his instrument like it is a beautiful women he wants to make love with’. Still makes me smile, and I like to remind hime. He now recognises the true hierarchy in the band 👍

Best lesson ever? Seeing a video of myself gigging fretless. On stage I assumed I looked/sounded like a cross between Jaco and Jamerson. I was very wrong. Just as Richie Benaud used to say ‘There’s only three things wrong with the England Cricket Team - they can’t bat, they can’t bowl, and they can’t field….’, there were only three things wrong with my playing; tuning, timing, and tone 🤫

Interesting and to a degree sobering read to this point. The good points. I want to go and listen to do much music I’m unaware existed, and will be doing so. The less good? Anyone who at the same time (mid to late 70s) loved reggae, who also - being a longhair - had to endure the ever present threat of walking around a corner guitar in hand to be confronted by a bunch of skinheads (I took several beatings, one quite serious), and who struggled at the time and ever since to understand the fact that the very same skinheads also loved this same music, will find several sections of this book both enlightening and - in terms of the actions of some music business people at the time in essentially hiding the ethnicity of the performers to increase sales and build a white market for reggae - disappointing in equal measure. Certainly, and whilst recognising it was far from reggae, how I view the Two-Tone artists/label/era have shifted hugely. I think I’m going to give it some thought and start a separate thread 🤔 But back to the glorious music which is what this thread is about. Gonna listen to some of this tonight 👍

Nice to see you back Rob, sorry to hear you’ve had some challenges, but yes, bass is very good for the soul 👍

Thanks @SimonK so that’s why we don’t have similar issues with other old and unused sockets on the same amp?

Agreed, but sometimes it’s just poor communication and/or misunderstanding 👍

We’ve played the same set twice the same evening in the same pub, lot of people leave and arrive, those that don’t often too pissed to notice 🙂

Indeed! So is it simply a function of unused sockets, I’m still a little unclear on the actual cause? For example if it were simply an unused socket problem you’d not need to link send and return with a cable, just insert a plug? Am I being daft?

….. by which I mean …. First, have you said in clear terms what you’ve said here, that to all intents you’ve been fired and given no reason, and Second, that as you are friends you are understandably quite upset about this I’ve been here before myself and with friends, the inability of musicians who on stage or in the studio are able to communicate effectively and authentically to do the same when it comes to pragmatics and politics has been a constant theme

Thank you guys 🙏

….painful but not impossible 👍

A swap might be in order 👍

Holiday reading kids permitting 👍

Thanks @SimonK but why does simply inserting a cable and then removing it do the trick?

Have you discussed where your band stands? You suggested a hiatus, might be they’re just keeping busy assuming you’re not wanting to be involved? It’s really easy to feel excluded when bandmates start new projects, but feeling excluded is not the same thing as being excluded

Have you discussed this with them? There might be a less apparently cynical explanation?

Just tried this with a rather perplexing problem and it did the tirck. So, why does this work?

IMO 4mm is too much to risk taking off a vintage neck. There's another thread here somewhere in which people were describing the occasional 'banana' neck that came off the Fender production line in the 70's. I'm not sure what the reasons for those would be, but if I were you I'd be worried that removing 4mm of wood would reduce the structural integrity of the neck with the associated risk of fruit-like outcomes

I came here assuming this thread was about recording and compression But that sounds like a good app as long as it's accurate, which if it's based on the information on most courier delivery tracking websites, probably won't be the case

His first album still takes my breath away 30 years after I heard it. Electric bass playing was changed forever by it, from expectations of what was possible technically to the idea that bass guitar can be a legitimate lead instrument. He and his style are cliches for a reason

Agreed

By which I mean that at 36 - and despite all he achieved - he was still a young man, and died at a time when addiction was not understood and treated in the same was as it is today RIP Jaco 🙏