Grassie

"Shame" by Brad.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1441175378' post='2856574'] No, I have none of the issues you have described. I am a working bass player , I do this for a living. The things your describing sound like things that use to happen in High School bands. I advise all those that only want to play music they like to forget about bands, at least working bands. I don't play music I like, but I'm gigging constantly. I play in a band with good musicians that are smart knowledgeable trustworthy people and have a solid book of good paying business. To be honest, it's sounds like you would be happier doing the bedroom home recording thing. Blue [/quote]Well, I'm not a working musician (unfortunately), it has always been a hobby for me, but one that brings in a little extra cash that comes in handy for holidays and things like that. If it was a full time job, well, I'd be taking whatever came my way and enjoying a lot more because doing something you love for a living is the ultimate aim isn't it? My attitude to my current situation is one of not having to put up with certain elements that go hand in hand with playing in a weekend pub band (I won't go into the gory details, but I'm sure you can use your imagination). I certainly wouldn't be so churlish to bite the hand that feeds, especially in the company of professional musicians on a public internet forum if I was a professional musician myself. As it's my free time I'm giving up every weekend I feel I have a right to make that free time as enjoyable as possible, as I'm sure you'd agree. 😊

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1441116969' post='2856149'] Well, hopefully you'll feel a little less ignored now EDIT: not a sympathy purchase BTW - I enjoyed the tunes, they reminded me of my old ProTracker days, only more polished with better samples and effects. [/quote]Thank you mate, I wasn't fishing for a sale, honest! Currently working on new stuff, motivation permitting, watch this space. 😁

[quote name='Chadwick35' timestamp='1441092298' post='2855899'] Hey Grassie, I usually just enjoy everyones great stories and knowledge vicariously without uttering a word but I felt compelled to answer you due to the fact you just described myself from music taste to current band situation, I found it uncanny, we are the same age as well, bizarre,lol. I had no idea I had a twin brother in the Isle of Wight! and I was just watching a Level 42 documentary the other night. You have impeccable music taste of which I would like to add Duran Duran, +1 on the Jamiroquai big Zender and Paul Turner fan, and of course Tom Jenkinson who makes me weep with musical impotence,lol. I thought I was the only bassist that was heavy into music production for electronic music, very into warp,hyperdub, hessle audio and ninjatune artists. It would be great to visit the Isle of wight and jam out on bass, get crazy pedantic about gear, grab a pint and look at pretty girls, alas while I have lived in Germany for ten years I am currently in a backwards, illiterate, cultural black hole in the United States, oh well, dare to dream anyways Grassie my bass brother take care! [/quote]Hey, thank you! I keep meaning to check out some Squarepusher, you've got me on it! As for your current location - your "cultural black hole in the United States" - well, dig deep my friend. There's always something under all the ultra-corporate, MTV-endorsed, flimsy, unoriginal nonsense that seems to be omnipotent at the moment. Hoping for a musical revolution, but not holding my breath...

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441044593' post='2855620'] 'Drinking My Own Sperm' By [url="http://www.don-alvaro.net/"]Alvaro The Chilean With The Singing Nose[/url][/quote]This thread should have ended right here. The rest of you have nothing to add.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1441048713' post='2855700'] Well, I enjoyed it [/quote]Thank you! 😁

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1441048303' post='2855693'] Oh you had roads then. We would ride the half hour round one way, then the half hour back, and have the thrill and excitement of avoiding the motorcycle sized potholes! [/quote]We still have potholes! They are now the size of small family cars.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1441047330' post='2855676'] Its fine there, they don't really have any form of language. [/quote]Ahem...! [url="http://h2g2.com/entry/A62441507/conversation/view/F15914705/T7272057"]http://h2g2.com/entr...914705/T7272057[/url] Edit: Just noticed you're from Somerset... glass houses and all that...

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1441047158' post='2855670'] I spent many days there. In the summer we tended to get the bikes, go across on the ferry and spend a long weekend there camped in a field getting stoned. Although, tbh, it could have been anywhere, but it wasn't like a real place where they had police and people, and any form of society, so it was ok. [/quote]Oh, we have police now... And roads.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1441046771' post='2855662'] I think for a lot of people it is a compromise, but like any compromise, you have to be getting something out of it. In the group I am in, there are some really dull songs that i go through the motions (or get carried away and add too much), but at the same time, there are songs I really enjoy doing that are a challenge and do get my blood pumping, so its worth it. If you couldn't persuade them to throw some stuff in you liked, then you made the right choice. I am sure someone in the isle of [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Wight[/font][/color] wants some other music playing, I mean there is absolutely nothing else to do there, so there must be lots of groups! [/quote]There are loads of groups! Loads of rock groups and acoustic groups! And that's it... Bottom line is - I have handed my notice in with my band (end of the year is my cut-off point), and as great a bunch of chaps you're ever likely to meet, they are extremely unlikely to agree to putting "Black Cherry" in the setlist any time soon. I can't really see myself in another pub-rock band again.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441046576' post='2855653'] I suppose one could say, 'Well done for quitting a band because you didn't like the music,' and then 'Now find a band that plays a varied and interesting set that corresponds more with your personal taste.' Is that too obvious? Edit: Missed the bit about you living on the Isle of Wight. How far would you travel for the right band? [/quote]I think it's going to be more a case of doing something on my own. That's not to say I wouldn't in the future, but as far as travelling off the island to do something with a band... well, have you seen the ferry prices? Seriously though, I have a full time job here involving shift work, I have a family and all that entails, so to be off spending £50+ a time with sh*telink or Shed Funnel is really not part of my very complicated musical equation.

Evening all, thought I'd share my thoughts with you on this, it's not the usual "arrgghh! I want to kill the guitarist so I've quit!" kind of rant, more of a realization. I've been with this band (pubs/clubs, classic rock/pop covers) for just over two and a half years and it dawned on me toward the end of last year that I really didn't want to play that kind of music any more. Nothing wrong with it as such, but the stuff we have been playing is (for want of a better phrase) "old hat". Now, I'm no spring chicken (turned 40 this year), but songs like "Summer Of '69", "Are You Gonna Go My Way?", "Day Tripper", [i]plus many more classic hits from a bygone era[/i]... are stuff that, from my point of view, does not get my blood pumping, nor does it give me anything more to do (for the most part) than plodding eighth notes. So why did I join in the first place I hear you shout.... I've always loved playing - that's the simple answer, but my taste in music is quite varied. I love stuff by RHCP, Stone Temple Pilots, Faith No More, INXS, Level 42, Jamiroquai, Bernhoft, Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Boards Of Canada, Goldfrapp, Mr Scruff, Stone Roses - I could go on, and sometimes do... but my tastes have resulted in me not being able to make my mind up about what it is I really want to do (and could do [i]well)[/i] in terms of playing the bass guitar in a live situation. Finding like-minded souls here on the Isle of Wight to work with is not happening (unless I suddenly find myself enraptured with the acoustic sounds of Donovan, Fairport Convention etc. cos everyone here seems to be on some flowered up folky love trip). I recently bought myself a stratocaster to try to widen my musical palette a little more in terms of playing instruments, but I'm now considering selling it and my recently modified VM Squier P/J bass to buy a 5 string bass of some quality so that I can concentrate on the instrument I fell in love with more than 20 years ago, and make some noise that is fulfilling both artistically and for the listener. At least that's what I [i]think [/i]I want to do. Or maybe I'll carry on making instrumental electronica, putting out on Bandcamp to have it routinely ignored by the global internet community (www.bonnevillemusic.bandcamp.com if any of you are slightly curious) as I have been doing for some time now. Who knows? I don't, that's for sure... Does anyone else have these issues? Surely I can't be the only one? Am I mad? What bass should I buy next? Should I go fretless? Should I flog the lot and take up painting instead? Nurse! The screens!

Status Streamline. I have no idea why. Perhaps its because they're unlike anything else out there. I quite fancy rocking one of those in my sh*te pub band, just to be a little perverse...

Oh my. I NEED one of these. 😁

We play AYGGMW, and it seems to go down quite well. I don't mind playing that, it bloody Highway to bloody Hell that bores the living $hit out of me. Eff all in the verses, so I have to stand there like a pork pie at a vegan wedding,then plodding quarter notes in the chorus. Hate it with a passion. Complete and utter rubbish.

I'm going, it will be my first. I'm not ashamed to say I'm looking forward to seeing Duran Duran. 😁

The New Mastersounds. 😁

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1436925676' post='2822132'] I'm late to the party as usual. I want to do this to my MIM P. Could you PM me the details and the costs. Nice to hear that I can put some work KiOgon's way and have the kit I want. [/quote]PM'd 😊

I added a J to my VM Squier P bass last year. I had always played jazzes but a few years ago got serious unexplained GAS for a Precision, so I plumped for the Squier. Once I had replaced the rather rubbish Duncan Designed pickup (very low output from the G string) with a Tonerider, I really enjoyed that classic low end you get from a p-bass. But not long after that I realised I was missing that "bite" you get from a jazz pickup at the bridge, so I got a local tech to route a hole for one, but 5mm closer to the bridge than on a standard jazz bass and added a Tonerider jazz pickup. This, combined with a custom stack-knob wiring kit from KiOgon has given me the best of both worlds - I can have that thunder from the P pup, plus the crack of lightning from the J pup, all at once or on their own or however I want it really. 😊

Not a fan of Yes particularly, but I certainly recognise his influence on so many players. Yet another low end hero taken too soon - there's going to be one hell of a thunderstorm up there soon. RIP.

We're booked at V-Dub Island at the end of July - a weekend of all things Volkswagen, mainly classic vans and beetles. Quite literally a 2 minute walk from my house, so looking forward to strolling up the road with just my bass on my back and not having to worry about setting gear up... 😊

I see Reeves and Mortimer are members of BC now...

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1434973483' post='2804240'] Apparently , they were after Jeff Berlin who is awesome . Whether it would've worked is another thing [/quote]Oh god no! That would've been too much widdling, even for my ears! Plus Jeff's 'tache just wouldn't look right. Maybe if he had joined Toto...

What I want to know is, if Michael Anthony was/is as useless as EVH claims, why did he let him stay in his band for nearly 30 years? Why not get some hungry young hotshot in to replace him? I'm sure there must have been hundreds of bassists willing to sell their grandmothers in order to play in that band. I think I read something once where DLR claimed that EVH had auditioned Billy Sheehan behind MA's back, with a view to sacking him...

I have always admired EVH's playing, but I'm really disappointed with this interview. Does anyone actually believe anything he says anymore? Sammy's reaction says more to me about Michael Anthony than any anything Eddie has said, ever. MA is a great rock bassist IMO. Big influence on my early playing days.