EssentialTension

I was losing the will to live even when that woman was introducing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz6g8zTG-pc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsDpc-8iR8g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaqn8_gMR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tILEQ5dDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFVPBvF37_Q

Here we go .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1A3tew97ng

On a more serious note, yes ... do it a lot because when you are mixing ukulele and lapsteel and piano and guitar and harmonica and bass and percussion the only successful way to pay a Gloria Gaynor song is by rearranging it. A song is just a melody line and some words, other than that do what you want.

Yes .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAbAp5tbU0

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1384902783' post='2282266'] I'm arresting you on suspicion.... [/quote] ... or, by phone from lead singer, 'I've been arrested for non-payment of busking fines and my guitar has been confiscated. Can you come and get me out?'.

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1384896032' post='2282113'] Running through the changes about to jam with a guitarist who says he plays in a 'jazzy style' "what do you mean Fm7 is F [u][b]'minor'[/b][/u] 7 ? ....its not, Fm7 is F [u][b]'major'[/b][/u] 7 ...bloody bassists what the hell do you guys know about music!" [/quote] So, he does play ina 'jazzy style'.

Yes, as already said, those are well over priced and you may not like them anyway. And at 1mm they are not extra hard, I am sometimes using 2mm and even 3mm. Get a bag of picks of different shapes, thicknesses, materials etc. and find out which works for you.

'Do you need a private and personal toilet?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1384716550' post='2279917'] Sorry to hijack here, but I'm going to put some flats on the Christmas list. Not had them before, do I need to order any specific length for through body stringing? I'll prob give Fender ago to see how I like them. Thanks! Edit: another noob question; Do they not do 45-110s? I need to do some more homework here... [/quote] Many people do successfully string flats through bodies but it's not always recommended. There is a greater likelihood of breakage. La Bella do some specifically through body flats. I expect someone does 45-110s but I pay little attention to gauges, it's how the string is constructed that matters and two strings can be the very same gauge and yet nothing at all like each other.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384714057' post='2279859'] I presume that's a joke as it did make me laugh. [/quote] I'm with you on that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W146Z_-O0J0

But there'll be disagreement about what counts as playable.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1384682252' post='2279336'] But Rickenbacker "stereo" isn't stereo at all. It's two channel mono. IMO stereo is 2 connected channels that are arranged in such a way that sound sources are capable of being positioned anywhere between the two. Rickenbacker simply connect each pickup to it's own output with no provision to be able to pan from one out put to the other. THIS IS NOT STEREO. [/quote] I always knew there was a catch.

I'd never have any expectations of a bass, in a shop, being setup as I would like it. The strings would be the wrong kind for me. The action would be wrong for me. I don't understand why you would expect a shop to setup a bass just for you.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384630535' post='2278992'] I really did think it was awful. It happens to the best though. Sinatra had to choose his material very carefully in his latter years but was fortunate in having more material to draw from compared with Macca. [/quote] It does commonly happen. It happened to me. I couldn't sing and now I have got worse.

McCartney's voice is certainly not what it was. But is it 'awful'? I think not. Two guys from one of my bands were in the audience and I wish I had been too. They won the tickets in a competition.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384625073' post='2278916'] ... Awful. [/quote] So you did watch it then?

I found this one accidentally - Uxia Martinez Botana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93WcrvtVj4

[quote name='sarah thomas' timestamp='1384594746' post='2278433'] Thanks to both! Arvell Shaw is just amazing. And while Leroy Vinnegar's 'Leroy Walks Again' is difficult to find, his quartet's 'Leroy Walks' is on amazon as an mp3 download for £2.59. That's my Saturday morning sorted then. [/quote] [i]Leroy Walks Again[/i] is available at eMusic for £3.36

[quote name='CMR Bass' timestamp='1383952057' post='2271319'] The problem with the neck bolts loosening off must be a common problem. [/quote] I have never, in any way whatsoever, experienced this in forty years of playing bolt-on basses.

Red Mitchell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoKMYdP3dM