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Nice one mate! I agree 100% with steveO, it does you the world of good to look at where you're going wrong, but it feels a million times better to look at where you're going RIGHT!! Keep it up!

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='583398' date='Aug 28 2009, 10:33 AM']My beauty [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Roscoe_Sold_files/Bubinga%20copy.jpg"]http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_sp...inga%20copy.jpg[/url][/quote] That, my friend, is just. not. fair. Lucky man!!

Really cool man, thanks for posting this.

[quote name='High score' post='559353' date='Aug 3 2009, 04:13 PM']too true. needed an orginal foot pedal for an out of production mesa guitar amp (Nomad 55). Price in the US was $75, cost in the UK was £185 and this was when we were nearly 2 $ to the £. Land of the rip off.......what made it worse was that MESA will not deal directly with any punter outside the US meaning you have to use the distributor. winge over now[/quote] Don't think that qualifies as a winge mate, that's a genuine case of U.K. customers getting the unsanitary end of the stick once again. Did you end up buying one? If so, did you go daft expensive U.K. one, or less expensive but more complicated U.S. one?

[quote name='Doddy' post='547042' date='Jul 21 2009, 09:38 PM']Why not take lines that you play with your fingers and play them with the thumb instead? Too many people view slapping as a style of itself,when in actual fact it is just another way of hitting the string. If you approach the technique in this fashion you will be able to construct lines without the confines of alternating octave thumps and plucks. Don't let your plucking hand dictate what notes you play.[/quote] +1 on that, I'm no kind of slap demon, but when I got to a certain point, I found I'd hit a wall, just ran out of ideas, so that's exactly what I did, I learned to play everything with my thumb as well, once you get into that, you'll be amazed how quickly things start opening up.

I've always loved Juan Nelson's solo from the live version of 'Steal my kisses' on Ben Hrper and the Innocent criminals [u]live from mars[/u] really cool! Also any Renaud Garcia-Fons, the man's a monster!

gotcha on Facebook, don't have a myspace though. I like the revised logo, it definitely is easier to read.

That's one fine piece of errrrr... assorted fancy woods! Looks crackin', bet it's gonna sound like a big pile of loveliness too! Congratulations on the new addition to the family!

My mates, The Pilots, friends of mine from college and Uni. The bass player, Luke, is really bloody good! He sings sometimes too. Not a famous band, but new, young, and good. [url="http://www.myspace.com/thepilotsband"]http://www.myspace.com/thepilotsband[/url]

It's really weird over here, everytime I go into a shop, normally with my girlfriend, one of the assistants will say to her, "he's really tall so any bass would look good on him"... I'm 5'10"! Customers in Japanese shops do one of two things when I pick up a bass, either stare in awe at the foreigner, or get the fear and bugger off, I don't think anyone has heard a single note I've played since I got here! That's lucky for me though, unfortunately, one of the things I've inherited from my Dad, is a complete inability to remember any piece of music, so I go for the random blues-scale-based riffing!

It's funny, I have always used the same strings on all my basses! Fretted, fretless, active, passive... but I never liked the sound of my active basses, it honestly never occurred to me that maybe it was because of the strings, I feel like such an utter tit! :blush:

Absolutely, the band thing is without a shadow of a doubt, the best practice available! Find some people to jam with and just have fun with it! You mentioned Ratm earlier, there's a real wealth of stuff to be learned from Timmy C mate, in terms of stamina, dexterity note placement etc. Go back over their music and listen for stuff you've missed. They seriously formed my playing for about the first 4 or 5 years! Someone mentioned Jamiroquai too, loadsa awesome stuff to learn there! This is one of those 'can't see the wood for the trees' type situations, there's so much stuff around you just waiting to be tapped into! Another good band for basslines, is 'Robert Randolph and the Family Band' The bass player is daft good! His lines are pretty simple, but trying to keep them going for a whole song is another matter all together!

Horrendously sad, for anyone to lose their life at such a young age is a true tragedy. My thoughts are with his family and friends (including you guys) Dan

7 at the moment, brings us up to [b]1736[/b]

Carles Benavente, I know he's already been mentioned, but he deserves to be mentioned as many times as we can fit him into this thread!! Because he's awesome! Flea has also done some cool picky stuff, like that one off californication, ye know the one that goes dedededededededededededudududududududadadadadadadadadadididididididididodododododododo Also, a lot of people are pissy about people playing with a pick and we all know it, James was just stating that fact, so stop picking on him, ya mean buggers. edit for the fact that I couldn't remember James' name when I wrote the post originally.

Ello all, I need some advice, I'm planning to move back to the U.K. in the next few months or so and I'm wondering about the possibility of getting my basses back with me. Has anyone on here got any experience of this kind of thing? What would be the best thing to do, or am I kidding myself? Would it be better to just grit my teeth and sell them before I leave? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Dan

[quote name='chris_b' post='506751' date='Jun 6 2009, 12:45 AM']Useless info time: Canned Heat was a cheap and lethal alcoholic drink made by adding water to Sterno, a barbeque cooking fuel containing methanol. A lot of the old blues players drank it, which is where the band got the name.[/quote] Well that can't be sensible now can it. Don't know much about canned heat, but yer man Taylor, now plays for Tom Waits on a fairly regular basis, right crackin' he is too!

Alreet, Fretless eh? Good move, they are the mutts knees, or the bees nuts, or summink. I reckon one good thing you should remember is, if you buy an unlined fretless, the the side dots, will almost certainly be at the fret line, rather than in the middle like they are on a fretted bass. It's a small detail, but it can really confuse you if you're not careful!lol If you've been playing for 17 years, I can't see you having too much trouble with it like, the thing is muscle memory is more important on fretless (in my humble opinion of course!) Just experiment and see how you go. One thing I used to do when I first started playing fretless, was practice in the dark. That way, you really have to rely on your ears to get you around. Try it, it's fun, you may go bald though, I think that's why it's happening to me.

This is a really cool thread! I kinda like the fact that he charges like 3 or 4 grand for a bass and still works in a tiny little workshop like that, gives the impression that he spends most of his money on gear and cool woods for making geet class basses! Also, I've often wondered what it's like playing a bass with an epoxy coated fingerboard? I play a lot of fretless and upright, so I've always been intrigued, but never had the opportunity to try one out. (Only time I ever saw a pentabuzz was in Tokyo, and the guy in the shop wasn't too forthcoming with the tryouts like! But then, who can blame him!) Anyway, just intrigued, really interesting stuff cheers for that Kiwi. Dan

My first vote goes for, 'cutie honey' by Kumi Koda, the song's right cack, but the video is worth a watch... only in a 'hot Japanese girl waving her bits around' kind of way, but still. Oh yeah, great bassline too innit.

I used to use them for my Yamaha 6 before I sold it, and I still use one for my other 6, which actually has quite a wide neck, so I think you should be alreet. I always found them to be good (after I got over the initial terror at the prospect of actually hanging them on the wall anyway!!) Dan

[quote name='dlloyd' post='486720' date='May 13 2009, 10:40 AM']Is that this one? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgK5VygLxbc&feature=PlayList&p=3B99A426A70E2492&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=96"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgK5VygLxbc...PL&index=96[/url][/quote] That's the fella, it's in part two at about 5:45, it's based around the major scale pattern. I found it amazingly useful. The whole dvd is great like, I really like it. Get it watched!

Areet, time for my two pence worth, there's a finger exercise off a Jaco dvd that I found immensely helpful with the kind of thing you were talking about (flailing fingers etc.) which, if you aren't already aware of it, I would be happy to write it down and send it to you. Again, it's not mine, it's Jaco's, but it helped me absolutely no-end, still does. Let me know if you want it.

Welcome to the forum matey, don't worry about the band name, I was in a band called 'The love plums' for a while, which then became 'Eponymous' what the hell that was all about I'll never know!!

[quote name='steve-soar' post='484484' date='May 10 2009, 06:56 PM']I was being very harsh there. Victor, I apologise.[/quote] I don't think you were being harsh actually, I think in the context that he's most often seen (being clinics and the like) that's exactly what he's doing. He's just showing off techniques a lot of the time, so what you said about building a platform is not wrong, when applied to that context. I would have to say I disagree with the statement that there's no soul in his playing, I'm no fan of the old 'octopus on a typewriter' thing, but if you listen to stuff like [i]amazing grace[/i] or [i]Norwegian wood[/i] the man can groove. I think too often, not liking something is misconstrued as that thing being bad, I personally don't get Billy Sheehan or Stu Hamm, that doesn't make them bad players any more than my liking Juan Nelson or Larry Taylor makes them good players. As for the baldness, Victa is clearly going a bit thin on top! But then... so am I and I'm not even 24 yet! Sad times, but it doesn't make us any less manly! *shuffles away repeating "no less of a man" to himself*