Twigman

[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

We have a 5 piece: voice/guitar/drums/bass/keys......there is always in my mind a struggle to give space to each other. We're currently writing our next album and at a session on sunday the singer came in with this demo he'd made, gave out his parts for guitar/keys/bass/drums and we started to jam this new idea. After a few times through I started to leave great chunks of 'his' bass line out and also playing something 'more bass like' as we always do when we're playing with new ideas...he got a little upset until i pointed out to him that the bit I missed out was already (and more suitably) being played in the guitar part and that I was giving space to the other players....it actually sounded a lot better like this - and so the song evolves. It's not what you play but what you don't play that counts.

For looks: Ebony For playing: Rosewood I had a maple board on a bass once and it was pants...I hate the yellow look and the board was too 'hard'

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ANYvXP1hY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ANYvXP1hY[/url]

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1001374' date='Oct 26 2010, 05:05 PM']My local guitar shop sells individual bass strings, only they're £7 each [/quote] that's cheap - my strings are £42.50 a set of 4

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