EssentialTension

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='598582' date='Sep 14 2009, 07:35 PM']Jam nights are a bit like swinging parties..... I've never been, I don't *really* know what goes on, but I'm slightly intrigued. I personally can't think of anything worse than going up on stage and playing something I don't know and haven't practiced. Is that what you are supposed to do? Sounds terrifying!! Please explain [/quote] It can be nerve racking but there's really no need for it to be. The worst thing that can happen is that you won't want to go again. The best thing is you'll get better. If you go to one a few times to pick up on what songs get played, learn a couple of them, and then go back and ask to get up for those songs. You'll still need to adjust to how the song is played that night.

[quote name='YouMa' post='598679' date='Sep 14 2009, 08:49 PM']+1 unless you are jaco and have a very loud amp jam nights tend to be dominated by [b]A)Guitarists playing long solos.[/b] B)The people who organised the jam night.[/quote] Quite a long time ago I was the regular house bass player with my drummer mate at a blues night and if any the guitarists bored us we would just hit the turnaround three times and quit. Followed by the drummer shouting 'NEXT'.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='598675' date='Sep 14 2009, 08:44 PM']Cheers. Am I getting the impression here that Jam nights are really blues nights? (I think my band played a 12 bar blues song once!)[/quote] Not always blues. The one I was at yesterday had a 'NO 12 BARS IN E' rule and hardly any of it was blues. Mind you, I forced them into Got My Mojo Working in E. :brow:

I think these things can sometimes be more difficult as the bass player. If you're a lead instrument - guitar maybe but definitely, say, saxophone - you can hang around playing nothing and then come in with the odd line here or there and maybe take a few bars solo. However, as the bass player there's a kind of requirement to keep playing and lay down some groove with the drummer (if there is one). I usually don't look forward to going to these kinds of things to play but when I do I always enjoy it. I was at one with a mate from Leighton Buzzard only yesterday afternoon. Half the time I didn't know what I was doing, the other half I sounded good. Anyway, the audience seemed to like it. You have to accept in advance that you will play some not so good notes - the trick is not to play those notes a second or especially a third time. EDIT: Strangely, the half where I didn't know what I was doing was sometimes also the half where I sounded good.

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='598658' date='Sep 14 2009, 08:35 PM']Interesting.... at the risk of laboring the point.... I've never heard that song before. "It's in G" would have got me to the end of the first bar, then I'd be fumbling to work out what the next chord was [/quote] It's not always the case that anyone announces the key - sometimes the only clue is 'It goes like this -1-2-3-4' ..................

I'm down to one band at the moment and occasional deps for two others. I definitely want one more band though. Something interesting that I haven't done before - Egyptian hiphop (whatever that is) or some jazz folk (whatever that is)

Very nice thing to do, I'd say. I'm going to give all my gear to my son - when I'm dead.

[quote name='AndyTravis' post='597810' date='Sep 13 2009, 10:41 PM']Doubt they will be much dearer, if not cheaper with UK dealers, and if we/they have ordered quickly enough, they should be in stores in the UK sooner. Although with Epiphone don't expect too much accuracy with Delivery times. Be patient and every Tom, Dick and Harry will have them. If you buy from Germany and it arrives f***ed, or you decide you don't like it, you'll have to ship it back at your cost (initially), if you try it in a shop near you, you'll enjoy the experience a whole lot more. If it's £25 difference, it's £25 well spent.[/quote] I think I'll be looking out for a used one in about six months time.

Over on TB it says there will be an announcement from Lakland this week sometime.

[quote name='joegarcia' post='595632' date='Sep 11 2009, 01:06 PM'][url="http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotResultsDetailList.jsp?action=J&event_id=26007&sale_number=W03875&lots_per_page=100&page_number=1&show_lot_name=Y"]http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotRe...show_lot_name=Y[/url] Some really cool instruments in there.[/quote] Thanks - I did find it eventually.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='595813' date='Sep 11 2009, 04:34 PM']Simples*. [size=1]* Y'know, a year or two from now, we'll look back at all these posts that finish with "simples" and wonder what the f*** that was all about. [/size][/quote] I'm wondering that already.

I buy what I can afford that I like and can use. 'Expensive' would be what I can't afford. I don't buy that.

Mrs ET has started calling me Mr Alzheimer. Or so she says.

Sold Lee a DC Brick, fast payment, top man.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='595254' date='Sep 10 2009, 11:48 PM']Hello Mr. Far0n! Nah... I've just looked that one up, and it's reinforced my general feeling of 'money well spent'...[/quote] That's a nice feeling.

[quote name='RichB' post='595233' date='Sep 10 2009, 11:22 PM']Well just as I thought - I know FA about theory, back to playing roots. [/quote] If you knew FA about theory you wouldn't know they were roots.

[quote name='3below' post='595131' date='Sep 10 2009, 09:20 PM'].... 30 years ago ... At that time you could not give Hiwatts away - how times change ....[/quote] I had a Hiwatt 200w and Hiwatt 2x15 cab in the late seventies and remember selling the whole rig for about £90 - mind you that was about two weeks wages after tax. The £90 paid for a car.

Some more than others but yes.

[quote name='markdavid' post='595177' date='Sep 10 2009, 10:04 PM']you could rout a jazz pickup near the neck and have a JPJ configuration[/quote] Now JPJ I could go for but the neck J would need to be right up against the neck.

PJ for me, but you need to figure out what it is for you. What pleases me isn't going to help.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='595046' date='Sep 10 2009, 07:33 PM']Nah.....right up in Scotland! If they could guarantee it was actually brand new and not ex demo...id be more serious about it.[/quote] Even at that price it's a lot of money if you're not sure what you're getting. I'd wondered if it might be a return.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='594984' date='Sep 10 2009, 06:31 PM']Yeah you probably found it too. I asked on price on a new stock item and he said £1480, so I said no chance. I cant decide! They said I have a 7 day money back guarantee![/quote] Are you near enough to go and see it, try it, first?

My seller reckoned that the price you have found was less than the price they would pay.