Low End Bee

Anybody who says 'no offence' actually means to give offence. I would be deeply offended if I actually gave a damn about what saddo finger jockeys thought

Have a good one Mr C. When you play a part of London I'm comfortable with I'll be there.

It's all about the shoes. I'm using a triangular composite pick with a cast at each corner made from: Dee Dee Ramones fingernail. Mark Kings Thumb and James Jamersons index finger. It's difficult to hold so I put a big groove in it.

BRX is right. Call in favours. Take lots of video. Spend a looooooong time editing. The band did everything with ours. If you can arrange a song you can edit a video. I would say adding a bit of humour can really help. If you go for intense and moody you can just come across as miserable and poor with a low budget.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMgQSWk4ug&feature=g-all-u[/media] Cost = 0p I think it's cool.

I hope he had to hang around for ages trying to find the promoter for his fee just to make it a proper English gig night.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1342096138' post='1729465'] I know it's a long way off still, but I'm thinking of going to see Europe at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 1st December. You have been warned And if anyone's up for it, give me a shout. All those I've spoken to who have seen the band play live say they are excellent. [/quote] I'm washing my hair that night.....

Go Kart Mozart - On The Hot Dog Streets LP Gloriously mental music.

The fixture gods are kind. Tranmere away. Could possibly be my first bash....

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' timestamp='1341498603' post='1720084'] aaahhh the Saturday Night Suit! [/quote] Spot on. I might nick that for a song title.

We've gone for the John Collier look these days.

Done.

Here's one of mine. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeAUhTzuKq4&feature=g-all-u"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeAUhTzuKq4&feature=g-all-u[/url] We don't play it any more but it was fun to play live. All done with a plastic triangle. No right hand fingers were harmed. Any similarity between this and a bit of Atomic was only realised too late....

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3DbO6mRcy0&feature=fvst[/media]

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1304520501' post='1219988'] Hamer basses are completely uncool - never ever met anyone else in the UK with one. Despite the cruise bass (being the first bass) getting a perfect score in Bass Player Mag. [/quote] [url="http://retroman65.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/members-jetsonics-live-at-tropic.html"]http://retroman65.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/members-jetsonics-live-at-tropic.html[/url] Chris Payne from the Members uses a Hamer bass. I'm not sure what it's called though? 1980s vintage? The strings are probably only slightly newer too.

Warhead - UK Subs Brown vinyl version.

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1341388488' post='1717981'] Interesting read. I am 48 and have now been playing in bands solidly for 7 years, starting in a death/thrash band, then a punk band, then a voodoo blues band (when I switched to double bass) and now my folk/country/flamenco outfit (still playing double bass). Throughout all of this I have struggled badly with any thing theoretical. I play patterns and learn bass lines by position on the board. I really have very little understanding of what I am playing. Thankfully I am quite good at learning lines and patterns and reasonably dexterous. However, I would dearly love to actualy understand what it is that I am doing on a bass. Reading BassChat does give me some major feelings of inadequacy as other BC'ers reel off theory, whether basic or complex, and I just don't get it. And I have yet to find a book that makes it any simpler. [/quote] I'm in the pretty much the same boat Mr C. 48 and I used to get really hung up about not knowing any theory. To be honest I'm not bothered now. I can hear when a note sounds wrong so I don't play those ones. I've also just come to terms with not trying to over play. If for instance a chorus sounds better with me just bashing out the roots I will do it happily now. I'd rather spend the time I'd need to learn theory writing lyrics, getting gigs or doing band admin. That said if I was 28 now I'd probably be up for a bit of learnin'. But then again I'd probably do what I did when I was 28 so that wouldn't work.

We are but days away from a moan about guitarists and volume Excellent news.Get a gig booked as soon as possible. Nothing sorts out a band quicker.

I get plenty from my Classic450. I boost the low mids and treble and leave the bass and hi mid flat. You can't hear the 'clank' that much stood next to the cabs but get 15-20 feet away it's all there. I'm using a Precision through an RS210 and RS112. I use the tone controls differently on this amp to any others I've used. It took a long time to get used to how they affect the sound.

Great craic supporting the Members on Saturday and then watching Rat Scabies attempting to demolish our kit. Confuse your guitarist by hitting the Synth Wah on the outro What genre is this then? Crappy video - pretty good audio. Courtesy of a Zoom Q3. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ3InSPjZ6Y&feature=relmfu[/media]

That'd be nice Mr Apple. Image change again or this one

Thanks Nigel. That's the nicest response to our three chord tricks I've ever had.

Should be a lot of fun. We're on in the middle between 9 and 10pm. Last gig with them was a hoot.

I can see how they're very useful to the right player in the right circumstances. No good for me though as I really have no need or want for those five extra notes in the music I play or write. The neck size and spacing feels very inhibiting for me. I can't even make the tiny switch from a Precision to a Jazz. Too big a difference to feel comfortable with. Besides I haven't learnt how to play or make use of 4 strings properly yet.