TheRev

Nice one bloke! You deserve it - I've always enjoyed your gigs.

Dave

[quote name='iamapirate' post='592985' date='Sep 8 2009, 03:52 PM']not even sure which photo I uploaded...

ah, yes. the half-open mouth one.

Rev, you look like chris from muse [/quote]

Cheers mate!


Wish I could play like him.....

These are by no means the best ones. Apparently I pull some major 'jazz' faces but they've yet to be captured for posterity.

Ali Friend and Danny Thompson are the guys who got me playing double bass after 17 years of electric bass. Recently though, I've been really getting into Paul Chambers on Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue'


I can't let a mention of Danny Thompson pass without posting this absolute gem of a recording. His solo gets the hairs on the back of my neck standing up every single time I hear it.

Is the bassist actually Derek Smalls of Spinal Tap?

Everyone else played guitar so I wanted to be different, plus I thought it would be easier to get in a band if I was the only bass player in the village. The first bass players I took notice of were Neil Murray (Whitesnake) Bob Daisley (with Ozzy at the time), Andy Fraser and Jack Bruce but I'd been playing for at least six months before I started to really identify with individual basists.

I do, but I'm in Bristol.

I bought mine without trying it beforehand purely based on its reputation on the Talkbass EUB forum and I'm very happy with it. It feels like a double bass and sounds like an amped double bass and it's easy to carry around. The only thing to bear in mind is that, like all acoustic instruments, it's much more susceptible to feedback than solid stick style EUBs.

What colours are the silks (both ends)?

I remember these when they first came out and I'm sure they're a 34".

[quote name='1976fenderhead' post='555180' date='Jul 29 2009, 03:04 PM']I did try a bubinga bass there, but the only one they had was a fretted Thumb... The tone was a tiny bit better but I actually much preferred it switched on passive, and that's not a good sign! And then I have no tone controls! I doubt it would sound much more expressive for being bubinga? But where the hell am I gonna find that? Man you're really limited when you wanna try fretless basses![/quote]

The bubinga gives the bass a lot more lower mids which adds to the growl.... I liked it anyway!
There is a school of thought that says a good fretless tone is all in the set up (very low action at the nut), strings (roundwounds = more mwaah. flatwounds = more double bassyness) and left hand technique (vibrato) rather than the actual bass so you could just go for a fretless version of a bass you already like and then fettle til you get the sound you want.

When I was in the market for a new fretless, the bubinga Corvette was at the top of my list - it's a much nicer sounding bass than the ash one (IMHO) I recommend you try one out before you discount the Corvettes completely.

No worries mate. Let us know how you get on.

[quote name='ironside1966' post='540287' date='Jul 14 2009, 01:20 PM']Tax avoidance is a criminal offence.[/quote]

I'm a bit late to the party here, but I was under the impression that tax [i]avoidance[/i], i.e. not paying any more tax than you are legally required to do, is perfectly legal and there is a whole section of the legal profession whose sole job is to work out exactly what you or your company's minimum taxable income should be. Tax [i]evasion[/i], on the other hand is illegal.

I think I missed them...

D&L did some fine stuff at The Cooler on Park Street too. They had Mono playing a year or so back.

Certainly did mate. Great gig but I thought the films & images they used got a bit intense towards the end.

I missed 65daysofstatic at theKLA a few weeks ago - apparently they were on full form.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-rock"]Wikipeadia[/url] entry for post rock.

In a nutshell it's (usually) instrumental, slightly epic, sort of film-scoreish music. It's characterised by long band names (usuallywrittenlikethis) and song titles that are only surpassed in length by the length of the song itself (at least 6:30 for ant self respecting post-rock band).
Done correctly, the music can induce a trance like state in the listener. It's not unusual to see the entire crowd at an Explosions in the sky gig swaying back and forth in unison.

I loves it.

'Every Heart shines towards the red sun' is a fantastic album. The band are pretty intense live too - sometime a little too intense.

On the subject of new post rock stuff - check out Maybeshewill if you haven't already. 'Not for want of trying' (from the album of the same name) in particular is a brilliant track.

Hmm,

Up to now I'd have had no problem leaving my Eminence EUB in the back of my car as I'd have thought your typical chav/pikey wouldn't know what it was.

Looks like it's coming into the pub with me after rehearsals in future.

I have a Comfort Strapp and a top of the line Levys padded leather strap. The Levys is my favourite of the two - expensive (£50 I think) but worth it.

I thought about knocking up a case for my SWB from a section of plastic drainpipe but then I went and bought an Eminence EUB.

If you can find a pipe of a large enough diameter, you'd just need to cap the ends and add a couple of straps and you're away.

I had lessons from a guy in Bath who does exactly what you're looking for. If it's not too far a schlep for you from Gloucestershire I'll dig out his number.

Dave

:edit:
[url="http://www.contrabajista.com/"]website here[/url]

He's a really easy going guy and will teach you as much or as little as you want.

Another vote for Danny Thompson and a mention for Ali Friend (Red Snapper/Clayhill/Beth Orton).

Regarding your budget for a bass, I'm afraid £350 isn't going to get you a good beginners bass - you're looking at about £1500 for a good beginners bass, but you already knew that....

What £350 will get you is an all plywood bass from Gear4music or Thomann or that German place on ebay. They're not [i]good[/i], but they are somewhere to get you started as long as you bear in mind that they'll need a set up and some decent strings and then you still might not get the sound you're looking for. I seem to remember someone on here buying one of the Gear4music basses and being very happy with it so I suppose it's horses for courses.

If you can raise a budget of £850 or so, Thomann do some very reasonable sounding basses in this price range - [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_kontrabass_33_02.htm"]this one[/url] for instance.

Or, you could look into hiring a bass? I hired a very nice Stentor from a local music shop for £20 a month.

Hope this helps.

Dave

[quote name='JTUK' post='537760' date='Jul 11 2009, 10:41 AM']I would think most of Muse's bass parts are sampled and sequenced anyway but I guess anyone who has seen their live show would be able to
correct that, or not..

BIG sound from a 3 piece guitar unit last time I looked...[/quote]

I didn't catch them on the Black Holes tour but every time I've seen them before the bass was all live. The huge sound comes from the enormous amount of effects that Chris and especially Matt use.

They apparently approached the Black Holes recording sessions with no regard whatsoever to how the songs would be played live so that nothing would be off limits in the studio. All the previous albums were recorded with an eye on whether the three of them could reproduce the tracks live.

Blimey - that's one mother of a break angle!!

Very nice piece of wood - is it solid or have you got an acoustic chamber in there?

[quote name='steviedee' post='524759' date='Jun 26 2009, 12:07 PM']Yeah the bloke did that you know its quite a nice looking thing really...[/quote]


Yeah, of the cheapies it's the nicest looking one. I was tempted myself but the length of the modding thread on TB just put me off.