The Funk

Once you have a mother-in-law you'll never be the same again.

What kind of money are after and what kind of material are you playing?

I don't understand the smiley face EQ. The detail is in the mids.

Basil Fawlty: Just... doing it... DEAR!

As a married man you get one room in the house for your stuff [always the smallest room, and one that you have to do some DIY on to make usable]. The wife will always complain about you getting this room [after she assigned it to you and you brought it up to spec] BUT the truth is that they have all of the rest of the house to do whatever they want with! [edited]

[quote name='cetera' post='46308' date='Aug 16 2007, 11:43 AM']As a band we all turned up together on the night, loaded our gear in and when the landlord told us we weren't playing we refused to leave until we were all paid our travel/petrol expenses. The landlord threatened to call the police if we didn't leave.... so we invited him to do so. After a couple of minutes of umm-ing and ah-ing he decided it wasn't worth the hassle & gave us £60, so we loaded up the van and went for a beer 'on him' next door at his 'competitor' pub'!! [/quote] Nice one!

I think in the '80s there was a preference for mid-cut for a 'good' slap sound.

There never seems to be much of a difference in price between rival sales.

I always emphasise the mids.

Name and shame. It doesn't matter who booked it from the pub - get them to pay you back the costs of publishing your posters.

You can access my band's page by clicking the BANDS tab at the top of the main page. There are links to our tunes and page at the bottom of the main bands page under Latest Tracks. Thanks. EDIT: Just to let you guys know that I won't keep bumping this. Just this once.

Very interesting. Looks pretty spectacular. What was wrong with the Eden btw? I think there was some rivalry not too long ago between Eden users and Genz Benz users on those American forums.

Did Ampeg's first bass guitar model predate the Fender Precision?

T. B. Player! Like in That Thing You Do.

For £68 you could get a half-rack Samson C-Valve. Valve mic preamp with built-in AD converter. Only downside is the bleedin' wall wart. Still, you could get two of them and the rack kit for just over £150. Fairly good quality instrument input.

Yeah, you're right. It is a tough one. Having good feel and phrasing will probably get you more gigs than anything else. There's nothing wrong with joining a band when you're just starting out too. Practice all those things out in the real world.

Passive-aggressive show-off, 4 string Fender Jazzes or 5 string Warwicks. I write all the tunes, so my bass parts are fun - but it's not a bass-led band. (Edit: 28 years old, slap/fingerstyle - often riff-based).

It's probably a bit too early to start thinking about playing ahead or behind the beat. Get it bang on first. Then much later see if your teacher can explain about playing in front of or behind the beat.

Van Morrison - Dancing In The Moonlight. Not the note for note but utterly rubbish cover by whatever-they-were-called.

I've been thinking about it more and more - 40bpm is slow and more difficult than 60bpm. I think you should try 60bpm instead of 40bpm. It should improve your accuracy. If you don't like it, go back to 40.

[quote name='OldGit' post='45536' date='Aug 14 2007, 11:52 PM']You generally get a traffic light indicator. Green is OK (total silence, usually) orange is "watch it guys" and light the orange for, say 10 seconds, and red comes on. 5 seconds on red and poooooooft! off goes the power.[/quote] Oh, I think I've seen one of those. They have one in the Spice of Life in Soho. It must be bypassed because it's permanently on full red.

I'd never heard of sound limiters before reading this thread. I'm going to have nightmares.

In a previous band, at the end of a 3 hour set we got asked to play Green Onions repeatedly by a friendly drunk in the crowd. I told the audience to hush and then we went straight into a latin-type jam using an adapted form of the bassline/riff from Green Onions. The audience kind of liked it. If we all knew the song properly we probably would have just played it.