hairyhatman

Bass Brothers and Sisters

Absolutely essential that I draw your attention to an upcoming book from Stuart Clayton's Bass Publishing company on the extremely cool and much missed Bernard Edwards.

He often came off stage with bleeding fingers due to his playing style. He played with an index finger/thumb plectrum action .... but didn't actually use a plectrum if you see what I mean. Now that's committment to your art. Try it out and see how far you get.

Good call Stuart. Come out of the closet all you funkdisco disciples and pay homage to the great man.

[url="http://www.basslinepublishing.com/ultimatefunkdisco.htm"]http://www.basslinepublishing.com/ultimatefunkdisco.htm[/url]

Al

PS

[i] “Bernard never changed strings,” says Nile Rodgers. “Bernard was asked, ‘So, what kind of strings do you use?’ He looked at his bass and went, ‘I don’t know; what kind of strings come on a Music Man bass?’”[/i]

Hey guys

Thanks for the welcome

Catch you soon

Al

[quote name='TheBigBeefChief' post='121123' date='Jan 15 2008, 09:14 PM']Welcome.

Letterland. Good call.

"When 2 vowels go out walking, the first one does the talking".[/quote]


Yeah Good Stuff old Letterland. When my daughter was 4 she reckoned I looked like hairyhatman ... so it stuck!

Hellooooo Bass Brothers and Sisters

I've been kicking around BC for a while so about time I said howareyez!

Al here. Living here in Esher in darkest Surrey. Originally from Dublin's fair city, I came to London for six months and I'm still here twenty years later. I've been plunking around on planks since I was a kid. Love Blues/Soul/Funk (who doesn't!)

Love BC. The finest upstanding citizens of bottom-enders I've (n)ever met. Good honest opinions, chat, humour, and straight up bass business all being cooked up here in a great atmosphere of mutual support (a rare commodity these days)

Keep up the good work one and all.

Shalom

Al

Hi. Interested in a Boss ME6B Bass multi-effects board?

Pic attached is not actual board. I just got it from t'internet. But the board is in good working order.

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Yep. Ditto with my HA3500. Noisy bugger. Its OK when gigging but you can really hear it otherwise. Good idea to give it a clean. Thanks.

Mind you at gigs it breaks the silence at the end of the number caused by the distinct lack of applause!

Hope the Dominican Republique Brothel gig was a good payer ... or did you spend it all on something!

I've been gigging one of these for about four years with the HA3500 head. Love it. Great punch, tone and all round attitude. Yep ... its a weighty bugger, but hey ..... put some decent castors on it and unless you're playing solo Jaco tributes then your drummer can help you carry it in and out .... Well you have to make some use of them !!

Take a bump !