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[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='1320168' date='Jul 29 2011, 10:40 AM']G&L dont sound aggressive to me at all, they've sounded woolly if anything...but I've only tried them in music shops and haven't actually owned one.[/quote] Isn't that what he's after, to some extent?

Brilliant, I used to love Pitchshifter - would be good to see more of this.

I'd sell them to me. For a fiver. I'll lend you a Vespa

[quote name='skej21' post='1315833' date='Jul 25 2011, 03:33 PM']Having read through the thread, this is the part that sticks out. You appear to be putting in the practice time, but if your pinky is "dead weight" and you need to go out of your way to focus your practice to include it, I would suggest your technique is not good enough to allow you to get what's in your head out on to your fingers. If I was you, I'd practice technical/fingering exercises and get a teacher to help you rectify your technique. If your technique was right, you'd be using your pinky all the time when playing and once you get this sorted out, you'll be flying! Like you said, some days you'll nail it and some days it feels like you're making it difficult for yourself. The chances are that if your technique isn't great and you're not using your pinky, you actually are making it more difficult for yourself.[/quote] But them, if you don't need it, you're just making fuss for yourself? If you find yourself having to consciously go out of your way to use your pinky, then it sounds like you don't really need it... Just my thoughts. I've got about two tracks where I use my pinky for reach; thus lots of fingering exercise would be wasted on me, if I was focused on improving what I'm playing with the band. No? Could just be me, Marion, but I feel our princess is in another castle.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='1315296' date='Jul 25 2011, 12:24 AM']After recording session over the weekend, I realise how crap I am. Even the singer noted "you are one of the best bassists I've seen, but you are also the most inconsistent".... In terms of pulling it off and not that is.[/quote] I listened and didn't like the singer. Horses for courses, eh? That's some hard feedback to take, all told. I know how touchy-feely bands can be - you never really want to be overly critical of someone else's efforts, so you get the sh*t sandwich. Some nice bread and sweet promises to pad it all out, with a thin smear of sh*te in the middle, for taste. "You're the best, but..." Did he say any more about what it is he finds inconsistent? That would be a quick route to any problems - either with your playing or his hearing. For the rest of it, don't be so hard on yourself. Do what the track requires, and regard that as the ultimate arbiter. Practice where necessary, but don't wear yourself out or try and up the technical ante if it's satisfying a whim only. Sorry to hear you sounding down about this

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1298766' date='Jul 10 2011, 09:04 AM']I'd expect the guitarist to make it to the end of the song with a missing string and then change strings in about one minute between songs.[/quote] This. Mine stopped once and I nearly kicked him off the stage. We did arrange a small slow clap, for encouragement, mind.

[quote name='Shambo' post='1301088' date='Jul 12 2011, 02:37 PM']Y'know I think he'd love that. He's got this tortured genius thing in his head already and loves the tales of band implosions, epic drug taking overdoses and suicides. If I told him that's exactly what I'm going to do he'd throw himself into it with gusto and probably be dead by Christmas.[/quote] He's not coming with me, he isn't!

[quote name='Delberthot' post='1255440' date='Jun 3 2011, 01:45 PM']probably nowhere near it but my G&L L2000 had a Jazz width neck It does give me an excuse to post pics of it though cos I don;t know if I ever did when I had it[/quote] Crikey, Delber - that was/is stunning! Why did you let that one go?

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='1310162' date='Jul 20 2011, 11:49 AM']I'd have sacked them a long time ago. Any wasted time spent with the band is time that I'm [i]not[/i] spending with my family.[/quote] I suspect that might bring out a bad case of "this is my band", which would be rather ridiculous between the three of us, but there you go. On the bright side, he had rehearsed after my grumble yesterday - and the whole session was a definite improvement. I gave a bit of the old "I told you so" on the way out

I hurt my hand in the gym, so I was not pleased to find my Spector in my gig bag... not when I'd been thinking it would have my Lakland Jazz inside. Bit more of a reach on the Spector, which started to show in the third hour of rehearsal. Still, what a sound!

[quote name='robocorpse' post='1309856' date='Jul 20 2011, 12:17 AM']Oh you utter utter bastard! . . . . . waaanntttttttt!!!!!![/quote] ^This.