Twigman

12 hours ago, boroman said:

"C" stands for width at nut, 66 did not have a chunky/baseball bat necks. They have very comfortable necks. Think of later p-basses but wider at nut. "B"-widths came in 1968. 

Anything wider than a jazz is too big for me

It's awful - it needs a much hotter iron to even get close.

I bought a huge reel (probably a lifetime's supply) of the leaded stuff a few years ago.

so many covers - am I the only one in a non-cover band that posts video?

On 17/10/2019 at 14:35, mattbass6 said:

 beautiful Strandberg Guitars Bass

 

Should've gone to Specsavers

the bass gallery did one for me

4 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 the venue kit was literally held together with Gaffa tape.

We've come across a few of those - a festival in Berlin a few years ago provided a kit with only 1 leg on the kick drum and no drum stool......we worked around it!

3 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 I shudder at the amount of money I would have hemorrhaged on drum kits and hardware. 

Our drummer has no kit.

He has cymbals, a snare and a snare pedal.

He uses the kit provided in the rehearsal studio and borrows this if we have a UK gig - and we rent his kit with the backline locally for the non-UK gigs.

I suspect he's parted with the least amount of gear cash over the years out of all 5 of us.

Why do i get the impression you're building up to something?

Perhaps an exposé of a Basschat member?

2 minutes ago, Cat Burrito said:

I'll let you know how I get on... I should be old enough to know better!

We need a video in the gigs forum........to use a cliché :  this thread is useless without pics

1 minute ago, Cat Burrito said:

It's where I get my moves from NOW!!!

If I move much at all I flip it up

Ah so that's where Simon Gallup gets his moves from

1 minute ago, Trueno said:

 

I also played fretless for a while... that's just asking for trouble.

Tell me about it!!!

I made a Warmoth PJ lined fretless a few years back.....it's been played probably for a total of about 10 minutes.

I'm clearly no Jaco

3 minutes ago, Trueno said:

I can only play instruments where you play one note at a time.

Do you never play chords* on your bass?

By chords I mean notes on the D string and G string at the same time - 2 note 'chords'

I would still have chosen bass but, having dabbled with synths and computers that might've got a look in.

I had many ideas of how synths and samplers could be used but I didn't have the funds at the time to invest in all the frighteningly expensive gear that I needed - back in the early days of midi and using CV as well....many of 'my ideas' have subsequently been done - I'm pretty sure I invented psy-trance in about 1983 (in my mind)......the money required for the gear was what kept me on bass - it probably still would if I went back in time now, unless I could take a stinky poo load of cash with me.

I know I've gone way off topic and the genre but one of my favourite meaningless lyrics is Numbers by Kraftwerk:

Eins, zwei, drei, vier
Fünf, sechs, sieben, acht
Uno, dos
Três, quatro
One, two
Ichi, ni, san, shi
Adjin, dva, tri
Li, tva, tri

3 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

Insufferable and pretentious as he often comes across (especially in more recent years...), you couldn't really accuse him of grinding through the usually cliches

 

Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge Smiths fan - I'm not so keen on Mr Morrissey, the man, he's a silly billy but I did enjoy a Smiths lyric:

His take on first love is great too: 

19 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

 

I return to my contention that Mr James Blunt and his ilk feigned their pathetic uselessness

Whereas Mr Steven Patrick Morrissey was, I'm sure, 100% genuine in his :

I go and I stand on my own, and I leave on my own, and I go home and I cry and I want to die - How Soon Is Now? 1984 The Smiths

13 hours ago, 4000 said:

hard rock and metal are targeted mainly at introverted spotty teenagers.  

 

I thought that was more Shoegaze territory

I know we don't fit the genre but on the topic of 'meaningless' lyrics let me present to you verse 1 and 2 of the SL&G song Close to the Sea - see if you can work out what inspired the lyric:

Pinned to a day
Striped like a cage
Suits you in grey

Made to withstand
Too many plans
Measured in sand

YOB bass right there.....rarely seen a 65 for sale - out of my price range (and I don't like chunky C necks)

It looks almost as battered as me too - perhaps we've lived similar lives?

GLWTS

23 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

I’m a newcomer to Richard Dawson, his new album 2020 is... well, it just is. Best thing I’ve heard for months. Here’s the opening track.

 

If I worked in the benefits office I’d do too many drugs too

sounds like an English Zappa crossed with 70s children’s TV themes to me

Thought I’d add another one - this song always leaves me feeling a little exposed and that it will all fall apart any second - I love playing it though. This rendition in a converted barn on an old dairy farm in the plains of Emilia Romagna Italy earlier this year....I give you 3 Lines

49 minutes ago, greghagger said:

I agree, I have yet to find someone who reads music, say that it isn’t a worthy skill to have. 

It may be a worthy skill but I'm convinced it would be of little value in my band.

We communicate ideas by playing them to each other, yes we'll tell each other what key something might be in or as is more likely they'll ask me as they won't know (even their own ideas)......the conventions of music theory are not at the forefront of our minds, the overall aural effect is.

5 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Or drunk/stoned 🤣

We have a zero intoxication before the show rule

2 minutes ago, caitlin said:

Hmm, I guess I've not noticed other people's processes in my bands but I've always listened to covers, charted it, compressed the chart till it fits on one page, then played it till it's committed to muscle memory.

 

We don't do covers - none of the bands I've ever been in have been covers bands.