The Funk

[quote name='4 candles' post='631750' date='Oct 20 2009, 08:19 PM']Howdy, A hypathetical question. If your wife(a non musician) gave you an ultimatum. Stop doing your gigs or we will have to part company.[/quote] I'm divorced. I started playing before I met her (and we met when we were both pretty young). In general if your wife isn't supportive of things that really matter to you and if she's the ultimatum-giving type, then you need to have a serious conversation with her and explain that this is [i]her[/i] last chance. There are plenty of great women out there. And if 2 in 3 marriages end in divorce, the stats say to me that by your third marriage you should be fine!

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=63905"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=63905[/url] QSC power amp, 450W a side at 4ohms. £cheap.

Come on, you didn't exactly attempt to fix it - you attempted to take off the bloody packaging!

16th note pushes are your friend.

Well done, Andertons.

Chris, do you run that jam in Kingston? I may pop down one Tuesday then!

Depending on what the guitarists are doing, you [i]can[/i] play every chord as a dominant 7 chord. It's best to listen out for the 3rds though and adjust accordingly.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='629564' date='Oct 18 2009, 04:10 PM']Uhh?[/quote] Joke about Stevie's blindness He is a very cool drummer.

I emailed someone at Mesa about this a while ago and got the response that while it would technically work it might not sound all that great. From what I've read on here it seems to be that the output transformer would be too small for bass (or something along those lines) and that 100W will probably not give enough headroom for a loud, clean tone.

So it's all fake? Like professional wrestling, Santa Claus and WMDs? How disappointing. His myspace: [url="http://www.myspace.com/joshward84"]http://www.myspace.com/joshward84[/url]

Anything by Bernard Purdie

Does anyone know this fella? Is he a member of the forums? Nice to see a bassist featured in a mainstream ad campaign.

Yes, good luck with your operation. That kind of service sounds pretty standard these days. Someone actually talked to you - that doesn't even happen in the Bass Cellar.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='628087' date='Oct 16 2009, 04:46 PM']They look ace, i want one![/quote] Yeah, details please! They look a bit like the tiny ZVex valve amp.

I have a Cornell Romany w/ a Jensen P10R speaker. It sounds great for guitar, bass, clavi, rhodes, wurli etc. If you ask Mr Cornell he'll build a bass practice combo for you. Not cheap though!

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='626994' date='Oct 15 2009, 03:16 PM']Leaving him with a lead guitarist and a kitless drummer. Might not be worth the bother.[/quote] Good point. Maybe take the guitarist along and start a new band?

My advice would be to sack the singer and percussionist and treat it as your band now.

I've had to drop out of playing for a London-based Welsh girl with a big voice. She has a soul thing happening but she's looking to add some funk-rock to it. She's a very nice girl and the guitarist/MD is a good friend of mine. [url="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=115360764"]http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=115360764[/url]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='625015' date='Oct 13 2009, 02:29 PM']why isn't a Jazz/Precision/Wal/Warwick/Alembic/whatever etc good enough? Double bass players tend to get a bass and stick to it (Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Marc Johnson, Scott LaFaro, Mingus etc all played one bass through most of their careers and only replaced them if they were damaged or stolen). Same with sax players, trumpeters etc. Many pianists play a different instrument every night. So what's it all about, peeps?[/quote] 1. Double basses cost a huge amount of money - you normally check you have the right one for you and then stick to it. It's also a quiet, muffled and indistinct instrument (even though I love it). 2. A piano is a piano - a lot of pianists complain about the keys on unweighted and semi-weighted keyboard instruments. They also don't have to carry theirs from gig to gig on their back. 3. Sax players are some of the fussiest I've ever seen when it comes to particular reeds/mouthpieces etc - an old bandmate of mine GASed for a Selmer Mark VI and a Michael Brecker mouthpiece. There are three reasons I'd go custom: 1. aesthetics - I can't find a walnut Jazz with bullet truss rod, rosewood 'board, white blocks/binding 2. tone - I want to take advantage of Delano's Hybrid pick-up system, which combines a J and MM pick-up in the same unit 3. scale length/tuning - for the Doom side project, the band would like me to tune down to a low A (ie. a tone below low B ), but I'd still like to be able to play a traditional looking 4 string, so a 35" or 36" custom bass seems like the best option.

I think they're actually cease and desist letters, not orders, ie. forceful requests from a possible party to future litigation as opposed to an order of a court.

There are different ways. Two to get you started. 1. Ghost notes - where you dampen/mute with the fretting hand, by not actually fretting a note, but play normally with your plucking hand. 2. Left hand hammer-on slaps - where you hammer on a note in amongst other slapped/ghost notes.

[quote name='woolz' post='624560' date='Oct 12 2009, 11:16 PM']does anyone here do this? to me it sounds better- dont know if its just the huge increase in db but it sounds clearer to me. not sure on the damages either to the amp by doing this?[/quote] The only thing the other input does is apply a -10db or -20db pad. I'm not quite sure if the pad affects the signal in any way other than just reducing the overall level but I have a funny feeling it does.

I love that tune but I don't think it's one instrument giving you the sound you're talking about. There's bass, clavi, synths and all sorts on that track. I like the fact that Jonathan Ross hinted at Lionel Richie in that interview a couple of years ago that it's a shame that he no longer unleashes the funk.