Waddo Soqable

1 minute ago, snorkie635 said:

You promised you wouldn't tell (and after I'd bought you a smoked sausage supper as well!)

Mmm.. smoked sausage, I'm going to have go out in search of some now you know.... 

5 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

45 years ago, with that lot, I'd have married you. 😂

You're just "easy" though Snorks.... 😉

55 minutes ago, JottoSW1 said:

Allelujah - Leonard Cohen...?

What, he did a cover of alleluja by Handel ?? 

Just had a look at the video, though I confess I pretty much jumped straight thru to the playing section. As regards the "verbal" part my immediate thought was..why?.. you certainly don't have to justify anything about what you do or what you look like, who you are, etc etc..

The music section.. sounds bloody good to me, end of.

I've got a number of pedals that are probably more what you'd think a "guitarist" would use ( I'm likely to be doing more soundscape type stuff ongoing nowadays).. pedals are great, you can't have "too many pedals" 😁

Loads of people begin on a musical instrument at that age, I wish I'd started at 8 tbh.. a short scale bass would be advisable of course 😁

The Steinberger licensed bridge/tuner is also a very decent quality unit on these too, unlike many copies of this system out there. I remember it held tuning very well even when I did various down tuned malarkey with it (just using the regular strings ) 

The Jacks are excellent basses and sound great, I had a black one and always used active, though it had a useful switch to kill the active elecs if your battery died so you could carry on! 

Glue a bit of sandpaper on either side of the bit you hold (if you see what I mean) 

Yankee Doodle Dandy... 

That's what the one here plays (at a rather brisk tempo) 

10 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I wonder what it would sound like to use the case as a plecky. It must be plecky-shaped for a reason.

It's obviously for one of those double- double basses 10ft high that you stand on a step ladder to play... 

40 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

Never come across any to be honest with my own bands. If they've been there they were never triggered.

 

Dave

 

You're v. lucky to have avoided them, they're a proper pain in the arrse. 

One place, where it went off literally as soon as you touched a guitar, we said we'll either plug into a "non trip" set of power sockets, or we pack up and go home now.   

We played in the end after a bit of cable running argy - bargey. 

1 minute ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I decided to string my Ibanez Mikro Bass with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings, threated through cut off ball ends of old bass strings to not fall through the bridge string mounting holes, of the gauges .068 - .052 - .038 - .028, and tune it to regular tenor bass tuning, which as said Stanley Clarke makes wide use of, the is A standard tuning, as the 4 upper strings of a regular B standard tuning tuned 5 string bass.

 

And I love it!

 

Obviously useless for filling out a traditional bass role in a band, but as solo or melodic instrument, that is also viable to play chords on, it is pretty amazing, and you can still play regular bass lines on it and sound good. 

 

 

With the "baritone" Vl I'm tuned to what you could  call A standard (but obv have the 2 higher strings in addition)  my lowest is circa .071 btw

17 minutes ago, Jackroadkill said:

Way back in my youth I left a band by climbing out of the toilet window and running away.  

That's absolutely Epic...top, top quality "resignation"  🤣

What about Rigger Boots then? 

Smells are another very potent memory trigger, I seem to remember reading somewhere that smell was supposed to be the most profound of these. 

The 6 string one with the Bigsby? That's the same seller"Alexander" wonder if he's a Russian, or a Meerkat, or both😁

9 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Came across this rather nicely proportioned vintage bass on Gumtree. I really like the proportions. I've never seen or heard of these basses - though there's a brief history on the ad I'm still wondering why.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/1960-s-vintage-melodija-4-string-hollow-body-bass-restoration-project-/1464380597

 

 

Historical facts about Melodija:

Some of Melodija guitars were Hofner guitars made under licence. As well as at golden guitar making era when Hofner experienced extremely high demand for their instruments to be made, as a sequence some necks for their models were made in Megnes Melodija Guitar Factory in Slovenia.

Italian guitar brand Giemmei Guitars (Giocattoli Musicali Italiani) sold their particular guitar models on order, made by “Melodija” although instruments were sold under “Giemmei” guitar brand name.

 

Does anybody know any more?

Lewisham is gettable for me but I wouldn't pay 190 quid for it, knock 100 off then maybe.. 

Heard "Shallow Then Halo" earlier

...that had me back in a crumbling flat at the Elephant and castle 1983...

1 minute ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

That’s a great idea. I should get a t-shirt with the band name, date, venue and time I need to be there for each gig 😂

I just write that stuff on the back of my hand in felt pen

I wouldn't be wearing a tshirt on its own anyway, I'd generally have a shirt or jacket over it, so what it says is mostly obscured. 

I'd Rather Jack, Reynolds Girls

I've sometimes messed with different tunings, (rather than just down or drop tuning) but this would be for inventing stuff myself rather than being in a "genre" as such.. 

Interesting to experiment with and create ideas you wouldn't otherwise have. 

7 hours ago, nilorius said:

I would stay around until better project came up. Then correctly explain the situation and say good buy. I would not call it a "let down" from Your side. Just...time goes on and things changes.

Nilo the thing to do is borrow lots of money from them individually, then do a runner.. ( & get another "burner" phone obviously) 👍

3 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Only in the US of A, I suppose. Elsewhere, they're a delicacy, especially in Northern UK. 

Faggotts used to be bundles of sticks too.. 

I had Brain's Faggotts last week as it happens, very nice too, though you have to eat the whole half dozen in the packet I find.. 

If its a solid electric bass, and it sounds good plugged in.. that'd do for me ! 😁