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Love that she is using a 441. My all time fave dynamic vocal mic. Bass players not bad either....

too many recent players for me - 12/15 but I did get that sonic youth one! (much to my surprise) Was undecided between Ray Brown and Mingus though.... thats the problem with black and white pics....

I was once in one of those New Faces bands & had to do their stuff off sheet music after about a couple of hours rehearsal at the venue. Which would have been fine if I could read worth a damn. At the time I bluffed the audition. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (the Elton John version) has a pretty straightforward pause which the bass leads back in starting on the "and" of two. I of course foolishly tried to read/count it like a proper player & fluffed it totally. Sat in the hotel room that night and worked it out in two minutes! Sometimes it is more about the pressure you are under at the time than how difficult it really is.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the biannual "free" plugin clean out!

on the money, louis. But if this presents a problem, OP, don't be afraid to use the bottom end of the fretboard. B on the A string again with 2nd finger, open D string then E on the D string with 3rd finger and drop naturally back onto the A string for that last B. I take a fiendish delight in bashing away on open strings when "the rules" say you should be fretting stuff. Works for me.

Dyslexic/dyspraxic daughter has the same issues but managed to overcome them largely, but mostly because she was singing and found most of the guys she auditioned to join her in a band were crap players. She forced herself to learn in self-defence. Did it mostly by just plodding away on simple stuff and asking me or her partner ( a pro guitarist) if it sounded "right". She says there is no easy answer for everyone & admits that her sense of rhythm is still pretty poor.

Tee bloody Hee! First smile on my face so far this morning! Thanks. Actually, if that smiley had hair on top it would be fairly close....

Just listened to this for thge first time. Do you lot have tiny hands or something? Without actually dragging my bass out, even my asrthritic old pasws could do this dead easy BD& E up round the 7th fret should be a piecve of cake, surely? if I am missing something I would really like to know, btw.

I on the other hand have been on statins etc for ywears & havent really noticed any difference health and energy-wise. It really does seem to be the arthritis that is clobbering me worst. I am now in almost constant pain especially in my thumbs. Trying not to over do the pain meds as the ones I take are predominantly opiate based. The docs dont seem to have anything different to offer. As probably tell this has been a particularly bad week and I am getting pretty pissed off with the whole thing. Sympathies to all of you reaping the rewards of our chosen profession! *if I could figure out where to find them there would be a smiley thingy about here... Aha! The old-fashioned way apparently works now!!!

Heh - I'm an injecting type 2 and had major issues with trigger finger in my right index and middle fingers some years back. Was advised not to risk steroid injections & given some LIGHT exercises to do plus told to "just play guitar instead of bass" which I did - for several years. Finally started easing myself back into bass and religiously doing the warmup exercises before I played. Touch wood, I have been back gigging regularly on bass for a number of years with no recurrence, but DO baby that finger up! Incidentally - had a bone scan recently and the consultant asked me what sort of heavy labouring job I had had before I retired. He was quite surprised when I told him "bass playing" but once I explained the loads involved and the strain on your tendons he agreed that was probably why I had really bad arthritic bone growth in both thumbs, both shoulders, both elbows and the right side of my neck. And I thought going deaf due to loud rock and roll was going to be as bad as it got!

I gigged at the Dorothy Ballroom in Cambridge with Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers a number of times. Most memorable night was when we were all fooling around before showtime and one of the sax players took a header into one of my knees and broke his glasses in half. Just as well they werent reading their parts! Nice guys. Also had a decent sized hit with "one way love". Just looked them up on Wiki & saw that that sax player - Sid Phillips - had died a couple of years ago. Damn! Just followed another link and discovered that our old drummer Rick Winters played drums for a later incarnation of Cliffs Band! Small world.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1509346421' post='3398146'] I think gigging a lot, 3-4 times a week is only truely fun for those that have it in their blood Blue [/quote] Yeah - I got infected at a very early age. I keep saying I am retired but keep gigging...

I have a well-stocked Kindle. Get yourselves organised make sure the person running things knows exactly what you have been hired to do and look after yourselves. Last one I did paid 200 a man & we wound up playing 2 spots an hour each. Not too shabby & I was at home by 11:00PM

Dr Dave - I completely lost my voice for eight months last year after struggling with if for some time prior to that. A friend suggested giving up dairy and it worked within 2 weeks. No trouble since. Worth a try....

It just demonstrates how far we have moved on from the days when actual music had any relevance to the mainstream population. I think they are just grasping at straws, booking whatever the pundits say is the next big thing and keeping their corporate fingers crossed.... Reminds me of back when A&R men actually made decisions.....

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Its a long road from turn of the century country blues and traditional irish folk music to RAWK and FONK and all the currently popular niches. I was playing to audience in the mid fifties in the UK and even then the lines were incredibly blurred. Remember this was around the time the first stirrings of rock and roll were heard. The only thing that I find a little sad is the way people who weren't even alive when a particular style of music was really popular lay claim to knowing who influenced whom and what were the most influential STYLES (let alone acts) with regard to the development of modern music. The whole thing is so broad and stretches over so many years and so many countries and so many ethnic groups, who the hell knows?

Weddings parties etc it really is about what you can get in your area. I recently got £200 for playing a wedding in what was frankly a lashed up not very good band! Go figure... Round here typical biggish weddings pay anywhere from £500 to £1k, but at the top end they expect a pro show and a disco-style "between sets" music setup. Parties again depend on how big and how fancy, I have played solo to backing tracks at a load of 21st birthdays that paid between £200 and £300 but have also done trio & in one case full band gigs that paid the same. Its a lottery.

Forgot to add earlier I too was told you could only have so many steroid injections in the same site before you risked getting tissue damage or something. But that was back in the 80s and I suspect thing may have moved on a bit since then.

Where can I hire that chimp, then?

Use a pinched harmonic using right hand only and your left had is free to do all the sliding you want.

The other side of this one - I just had a bone scan at the local nuclear medicine department and although the scan was clear in terms of any spreading of my already-diagnosed cancer, the consultant asked me if I had been doing really heavy physical work for a long time, because of the calcium deposits they found, which are of course a side effect of arthritis. Left shoulder, right side of neck, both thumbs, both elbows.... so as well as telling us to wear hearing protectors they should also have told us to use lighter strings and play gently! Oh and he also said "I bet you have broken both your big toes at some time, haven't you? Yup - right again.

Laney amps... Carlsboro amps.... Horrid things.

Had been playing banjo and an acoutsic guitar with a WW2 pilots throat mic dangled inside, feeding a converted portable rtadio with a pair of KT 66s, in turn powering an original RAF camp Tannoy 8 or 10" open backed speaker. Replaced when we moved to Cambridge in 1961 by an Italian valve amp with two 6x9" ellioptical speakers and a magic eye tremolo! Fast forward to 1963 and I bought a 1962 Precision bass second hand. First bass rig was a Pye 50 watt mono valve hifi amp feeding an ex-jukebox 22" speaker in an open backed cabinet made out of 3/8" plywood! Not the greatest combination, but when I dropped the speaker down a flight of concrete stairs it was replaced with a pair of 18" Goodmans axiom (or was it audiom) 90s in huge home made cabinets. My gear nowadays is somewhat smaller lighter and more powerful....

Maybe a euphemism? UMS??? Ugly Mood Swings.....