Marvin

I like to keep my gear safely cluttering up the dinning room...and as I haven't got a garage. The band I'm with now uses a private rehearsal space that is similar to a garage and other bands leave their gear there. I personally wouldn't as it looks it could get quite damp and the temp variation is very marked.

[quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1376176536' post='2170623'] I make a living playing music, and that often involves playing in a studio, often creating basslines for a song. My view is to start with the absolute bare minimum when routining songs, literally just marking out the chords, then when the producer asks for a bit more it legitimises my input. I always put the song first before any 'lick' I might want to play so I figure, if it isn't adding it's detracting, so drop it... I will listen back to the routine takes and when we are tracking for real I have worked out what I'm going to do where... It's also something that you work out with the other players. [/quote] Absolutely nailed it for me. At the amateur originals level I'm at more often than not I'm expected to instantly produce a whizzy bass line on one listen to the song (i.e whoever wrote it will say it goes like this, now play the bass line). Amateur in both senses

Couldn't resist the shinny shinny Cool.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1376170043' post='2170565'] Wildly - some of the 70s examples are real boat anchors. And some of them are not. [/quote] Boat anchor...that's a euphemism isn't it...

Absolutely great service from Dave. I enquired about two cables on Sunday (late), confirmed that evening, the cables arrived Tuesday. Great service and great cables.

[quote name='woodyratm' timestamp='1371406999' post='2113494'] The £20 is too much for me to justfy with the little items i'm selling now. And the one off fee is pretty high too IMO. I've found groups on facebook to be useful for the few items i've sold (grey stache etc) Which is a shame. just doesn't seem the same around here now - everyones either mega-clicky or seem more moody. Think that's why I'm spending much less time on BC. [/quote] Very similar sentiments from me. I don't sell enough to justify paying £20/year to do so on here. I've only a couple of items I wish to sell, both of which would be above the free limit, but not worth enough to pay the fees on basschat. The single ad fee is very high IMO. The single annual fee is fine if you're constantly buying or trading, I'm not. I've looked to other places to sell my gear, like Facebook and Gumtree. Only this afternoon I sold some gear to someone, albeit a basschatter, but then it didn't cost me anything. As Mr Foxen pointed out, if you time it right you can place an ad on eBay for free and if the item doesn't sell you've lost nothing, and it's a bigger audience. As for the site itself, this is the first week I've posted in 2 months and tbh I'll probably leave it at that. The forum has lost it's zing and humour. It's a pretty grumpy place and many of the opinions are almost embarrassing to read.

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1371394975' post='2113297'] That's one reason, so it's not exactly "nothing" [/quote] Weeeeell, not exactly inspired to play the bass, more lumped with it

Nothing. I wanted to be in a band with my mates and the bass was the only instrument left.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1371237616' post='2111701'] I honestly can't remember. Can we have an option for... ...an option for... ... ...what did I come in here for again? [/quote] Genuinely this. I can't bloody remember at all how I found this site/forum.

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1371235233' post='2111646'] Yeah I know. More than 4 strings. What are they thinking of? [/quote] And one hasn't got any frets! What's that all about?!?!?!?!?!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1371231603' post='2111563'] I know, green's disgusting on a guitar innit. [/quote] Look much better in red, with a different bridge, meatier looking pickups...actually a lot of things. :/

It's not really comparing like with like. There's, to my knowledge, a very limited number of authorised fEARFUL builders in the UK and essentially they are DIY cabs. Barefaced are the finished thing. I thought about building a fEARFUL, but when you work out the price of materials and factor in the that you have to spend the time building it the Barefaced look very very attractive on price

Guy Pratt likes his new bass...result I say.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1371088305' post='2109736'] Sorry mate I think you've come to the wrong place, 'The Smiths' live a few doors down from here. [/quote] Didn't like them either, for exactly the same reason...so the Stone Roses weren't even original at being unlikeable.

I've got 3 young boys and they've never touched my basses, they know better.

Didn't get them at the time, still don't now. I suppose if you're into catchy guitar riffs being spoilt by someone whining over the top of them....

Punk was like a large reorganisation of a huge and overly...something, company. It was like a fresh broom, sweeping away all the tired and whatever stuff.

I have nothing against the use of capo's per se. It's when I'm being told, insistently, that x chord is being played when it clearly isn't. Piss and boil etc etc.

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1370943851' post='2107663'] Oh that's clever, i see what you did there..... [/quote] I missed it to start with :/

Guitarists... put a capo on say the 3rd fret and play D shape, you're not playing a bloody D chord!!!!!! That's all.

Punk was musical art in its purest form. Unsullied by...whatever word it is I thought of just now and have instantly forgotten :/. Anyway, that's what it was, art.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1370803059' post='2105793'] How apt. [/quote] What do those two stand for then? You know...how and apt...as we're talking about 3 letter wot nots. Actually, I'll just get my light summer jacket now and be off.

IBTL Oh damn, that's a four letter thingy.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1370770006' post='2105217'] But.... if you see local bands the bass is more than likely going to be the weakest... either from a technical point of view or they don't know what the EQ section does or even what the notes are on the bass and what constitutes a scale or chord. [/quote] A statement that doesn't even come close to being a sweeping generalisation in that it is so wrong, it's actually embarrassing to read.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1370697137' post='2104527'] I answered an ad for a bass player and went along to audition. There was a few numbers for me to learn including some Lenny Kravitz and Foo Fighters stuff. I noticed the guitarist was playing the wrong chords in one song and I made the mistake of correcting him telling him it was E minor not major he needed to play. After the end they said to me "Well done! you really know your stuff, - why are you only playing the bass?" ....................Speechless!............................. [/quote] You're lucky he acknowledged you were you right. Last practice I attended with a covers band the guitarist/singer dropped the key half a step. Hence one would expect to just shift position...but no, apparently the B I was playing was all wrong, I should be playing a G. Hmmmm, really...coming from the man still struggling with Molly's Chambers...