Twigman

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1317224566' post='1388351'] Steve Greetham (Annabel Lamb)..such a great fretless bassplayer [/quote] I see Steve almost every day. We work for the same company in our day jobs. he's in a band with Paul Young now called Los pacaminos - a sort of comedy c/w band: In this track he is playing a 6 string acoustic guitar - not a bass: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHU8454cSmk[/media]

I have had a problem with my neck which has resulted in numbness from the elbow to the finger tips of my right hand for the 3rd and 4th finger. It has been like this for over 2 years now. It was caused by a temporarily slipped disc in my neck which damaged the nerve. The quack offered my an operation but warned that it carried a significant risk of quadraplegia - so I passed. I have very little grip strength in my right hand now (it's amazing how much you need yor little finger!!). i cannot hold a plectrum firmly enough to pluck a bass string! I used to play a mix of fingers and pick but have had to relearn the entire catalogue (6 or 7 albums worth) so that it's all played with fingers! As a result there are a couple of tracks which we will never play again...and strumming bass chords is interesting without a plectrum.

We [Sad Lovers & Giants] will be playing at Slaughterhouse Kulturfabrik Moabit Berlin on Saturday March 12th

[quote name='Tinman' post='1038627' date='Nov 27 2010, 10:27 AM']I'm guessing you won't like mine then [attachment=65093:boelite4full.jpg][/quote] that is f*****g orrible I almost brought up my tea

New years Day U2

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1038053' date='Nov 26 2010, 05:56 PM']Don't know if it's been mentioned, but that one by The Cure played on double bass.[/quote] Lovecats

I carry my bass through customs regularly in its full flight case. If I was going to the states and knew I wanted to buy a bass, I'd take my full flight case out empty [or even with a cheap throw away bass off ebay in it] and just stroll through with it full of delicious bass on the way home. Chance of getting caught = 0 IMO

I can't stand finishes which show the grain at all on the body. I gotta have a solid/metallic/flake finish.....bursts make me puke/and wood is just pony...... I suspect I'm in the minority

[quote name='JimH' post='1037924' date='Nov 26 2010, 04:11 PM']Papas Got A Brand New Pigbag - PigBag (!!!)[/quote] ...but it's the sax/horn line that people recognise there isn't it? I was just trying to think what how the bassline went and all I can hear in my head are those damn horns...or does the bass play along with the horns? do you know I can't remember...must dust off the 12" when I get home

Guns Of Brixton. Yeah I know the kids here reckon most people ain't even heard of The Clash. If you ain't heard of The Clash your opinion isn't worth having.

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Personally I'd go for a PC over a Mac in a studio any day. An i7 PC running Win7x64 with as much RAM as you can get in there 24 or 48 Gb is possible on current motherboards. Why? 1 PCs can evolve and are easy to upgrade without changing everything. 2 My DAW of choice is PC only - currently Sonar 8.5 soon to be Sonar X1 I currently run Sonar 8.5.3 on a W7x64Pro Q9550 machine with 8Gb RAM with an RME HDSP9632 on my bedroom studio PC. It is as solid as a rock.

I bought my 83 JV new and I still use it today - I love it. it cost £129 from a shop in Romford.....would i sell it? Never. My entry in the JV register here: [url="http://www.21frets.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236979686/"]http://www.21frets.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236979686/[/url]

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1009825' date='Nov 2 2010, 05:33 PM']I also love comments on the good intonation on a fretless.[/quote] I was wondering about that.......I get the impression the seller knows nothing about what he's trying to sell!

Cured (for today) - the boss e-mailed from belgium wanting an impossible job doing before end of play today.....

If this 'skint' chap bought this bass for £1000 and now wants rid of it...I'd be asking myself wtf was wrong with it and be leaving well alone.

I felt a bout of GAS coming on last week. Desperate I was to spec up my own Warmouth parts bass and drop many $$$ that I didn't have on a bass that probably wouldn't have worked properly had I done it. After speccing up 2 or 3 different possibilities I quashed this episode of GAS by upgrading my home studio's software from Sonar 7PE to Sonar 8.5PE (at a fraction of the cost) so that it might now run on W7x64. But the GAS is back and today my mouse is hovering over the 'Add to Basket' button on a MIM Fender Deluxe Precision Special...........now I know I should go to the shops and sit and play the actual guitar I plan to buy but the urge is strong.. Oh and a Hartke head and 4.5XP cab is pulling my credit card out of my wallet this week too... AAAAARGHH!! Give me a painless cure!!

Happy with my Beyers

I remember the days of getting down the front and sticking my head in the bass bin so that my brain was vibrating in my skulll.... I only ever wear earplugs when I'm motorcycling. Tinnutus? Who said that?

I'd rather pull my toenails out with pliers.

[quote name='silddx' post='1004968' date='Oct 29 2010, 11:51 AM']I just hope you don't have a trumpet player in your band, you could be in SERIOUS trouble if you can't read music.[/quote] Did you see my edit in my post above about the sax and the cornet players ?

[quote name='silddx' post='1004950' date='Oct 29 2010, 11:41 AM']So you are not a SERIOUS musician then [/quote] SERIOUS? No not me - I like to have fun when playing music - don't want to be getting all SERIOUS now do we?

In 30+ years of playing in bands I've never once had to learn to read notation. I can read a treble clef but that's of little use to a bass player. LOL I've found it useful to learn some of the theory and understand how intervals work (minor 3rd etc) and I'd have problems if I didn't understand my scales and be able to name all notes in a certain key (and find them on the fretboard) but not being able to read notation has never been an issue. I'm not a Spitfire pilot but probably not quite me109 pilot....I think I'm flying a FW190 oh and whoever said they'd never met a non-reading horn player....I have - I worked with a sax player who could only blow 4 notes and didn't even know the notes' names - or even if they were 'legitimate notes' - he was great and recorded on some records! I also played once with a chap who had a cornet (I think he'd inherited it from his dead granddad) - he could blow a few notes, had no idea what he was doing but still played in a band.

I use Ernie ball Custom groupIII flats (.045-.100) on my p-bass........bloody luvverley they are

My favourite album of all time is Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue Title track: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAmxuHt5nw&feature=fvw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wAmxuHt5nw&feature=fvw[/url] Chitlins con carne: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5m92TwKKA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5m92TwKKA...feature=related[/url] probably more blues than jazz per se but you'll still find it in the jazz section