Rich

Die You Bastard - Motörhead

After depping for them last year in the US, Becky has now joined the legendary Danes on a permanent basis. It's fabulous news and I'm totally made up for her -- she actually depped for me in the Destroyers once about a thousand years ago, and since then I've watched her star rising higher and higher, with bands like Hands Off Gretel and Fury. She's a superb, hardworking musician and a tremendous advocate for women in music.  

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=927991258690357&set=a.267725878050235

Sad news. 

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

 

When did "hate" get redefined to "opinion I disagree with"?

2 hours ago, ahpook said:

 

No 'hate' though, just the sound of me walking by.

Precisely. I've seen no "hate" here, just differences of opinion. 'Not to my taste' is a million miles from 'hate', and as for "especially on BC", that sound you can hear is me laughing. 

Grandad - Clive (been and gone and) Dunn (it)

12 minutes ago, TimR said:

Damn, you beat me to it.

He could have been in a thrash band.

1 minute ago, Kev said:

with that ridiculous knob

 

 

Oh that's a bit harsh, Joe seems like a nice enough bloke.

2400 bucks and this is the best they could do. That's somewhere between a joke and an insult.

Ah well, I'm sure it won't bother the dentists and lawyers who will be the ones buying it to hang on their walls or stick in their vaults.

16 hours ago, BassApprentice said:

So that's now a Stingray shaped short scale.

 

30 sold already....wow.

 

Well you know what they say about a fool and his money.

@toneknob, is this your band? 

Bloody hell. This is stunning.

https://fb.watch/pEGsneG2Qd/

I saw a touring Italian Rush trib called 'La Villa Strangiato' last year, they were excellent right up until the guitarist's rig completely went on the fritz. These guys are just as good in every way. If they come to my neck of the woods, I'd definitely go check them out. Hopefully by then the vocalist won't need to crib the lyrics off a tablet. That bass tone is absolutely spot on.

As an aside, my first band at school was called 'Emotional Feedback'. We weren't a Rush trib, we just liked the name. I suspect this bunch are rather better than we were.

13 minutes ago, JPJ said:

unfortunately life got in the way 

Oh god, it keeps doing that.  Hope you manage to get back to it at some point.

1 hour ago, martthebass said:

to me Rio will always be an Aria SB1000....

To me also.

People who have inspired or made an impact on me over the years...

Horace Panter

Mark King

Tony Butler

John Taylor

Nick Beggs

Geddy

Jaco

Jamerson

Pino

Marcus Miller

Jonas Hellborg

John Giblin

Mo Foster

Michael Manring

4 hours ago, Mudpup said:

Excellent thread!

 

Here's mine...

 

Queensryche Empire - Jet City Woman, Della Brown, Another Rainy Night

 

Dan Reed Network - Forgot to Make her Mine, Taming the Wild Nights, I'm so Sorry

Oh good choice, sir. What a superb album. Bass tones to die for.

My band's Farcebook page is being inundated with things like this... 

The scammers get a temporary guest account from FB (Guest 4756 in this case); the temp account lasts for 24 hours, then disappears. If you click on the link, they gain access to control your FB account. Not much you can do about it as the guest account, now with access to your account, has gone.

It's happening to loads of bands that we know, apparently it has been relentless this whole weekend. There are some absolute wucking fankers out there.

Having read this, I've realised that my signature is/was possibly a bijou bit on the, errm shall we say substantial side, so I've truncated it a bit. 

Song of Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson 

Oh blige, those string angles are making me itch. I bet it gets through a lot of G strings. 

On 13/01/2024 at 09:56, hisham farouq said:

 I wanted the amp on its own which the buyer wont sell separately. 

 

And the reason for that is that he knows he'd have the devil's own job selling that cab. People generally just aren't buying huge heavy cabs any more, not like they used to. 

In terms of your actual query, yes, maHOOsive overkill. You can get perfectly good recorded results using amp and cab modelling. 

I would far, far rather do three properly than 10 in a slapdash fashion. Obvs a lot depends on what the songs are, how familiar with them you all are, etc.

I'm in a fledgling prog project, we've agreed to work on 3 songs with the first rehearsal two weeks from today, one of the songs is ten minutes long. 

Gimme Some Money - Spinal Tap 

1 hour ago, Risk101 said:

So this was today’s set up, as I still have the pins in my left hand where I severely damaged my thumb. Actually quite fun to try and convert bass fills that are second nature on the bass into something similar on the Moog!!

Get thee to a prog band!