Rich

You can never have too much sneed or too many underpants.

Dave, you might find this interesting/useful. Scoll down to 'Dystonia Debilitation'. [Url]http://www.thehamsters.co.uk/interviews/bassist.php[/url]

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1459941339' post='3021036'] People buy Ferraris to drive around London at 9 MPH, same principle. They can afford it and want it. [/quote][quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1459941763' post='3021043'] Can you get a Road Worn Ferrari? [/quote] [/thread]

The best playing I have ever actually seen, ie witnessed first hand, was Alain Caron playing with Mike Stern. My god, he was blistering. Fantastic pocket playing and incredible soloing -- the only guy ive seen whose solos were so melodic, i found myself whistling their tunes on the way home. And he made it look soooooo easy. And he was having fun.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1459802524' post='3019889'] Remember, when I'm talking about gigging, I'm talking about gigging every week. Not the occasional gig that comes along or gigging once a month. [/quote] What, not even if they pay?

Did you mean "naughty-bottomed"?

Definitely skinny for me. I have stupid stubby little fingers.

Playability for me, every time. No point having a bass that sounds like heaven if it's hell to play.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1459764715' post='3019248'] Colaiuta is at #49 [/quote] Damn. And I did a 'find on this page' too. I blame google

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1459770038' post='3019336'] We're of the opinion that rehearsal is a time to try out songs for the first time as a band, tweak the arrangements and such. It's not a time to be learning material from scratch. [/quote] We have the same outlook regarding the difference between practice and rehearsal. I mean there's 12 of us for god's sake... if we all turned to rehearse a song having not played a note or studied a dot beforehand, well you can imagine the car crash.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1459623645' post='3018199'] Getting paid is an important part of [s]being[/s] [b]making a living as[/b] a musician. [/quote] Fixed.

Meg White is on the list, Dave Weckl isn't. Neither is Vinnie Colaiuiaueiauta. Pointless.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1455362565' post='2978384'] And here's the filth and mess under the bonnet: [url="http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/LanterneRouge/media/Daion%20Precision%20Copy/guts_zps6el99imo.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Oh my giddy aunt you could grow potatoes in that lot Belting instrument though, the truss adjuster is such a neat idea. Good score.

Welcome back 👍 I use a Korg Pandora PX4B for all my headphone practice. Ok so it's a bit long in the tooth, but it does the job and has loads of amp sims and FX built in. Doesn't eat batteries either.

There's enough meat on a later P headstock to allow your mate's friendly neighbourhood Luther to reshape it? Worth bearing in mind as an alternative. [url]https://www.talkbass.com/threads/tele-bass-headstock-template.773438/[/url]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1459291001' post='3015279'] My band is working and getting paid. I'm musically fulfilled. Blue [/quote] Sounds more like fiscally fulfilled if you ask me.

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1459234733' post='3014556'] This is also my view. Bands playing for nothing is entirely up to them but I have found that organisers/promoters often take advantage as a result. [/quote] We've done a smattering of charidee gigs in the past, usually for causes close to our hearts -- Parkinsons, Alzheimer's, cancer etc. We're savvy enough not to get taken for a ride.

[quote name='keefbaker' timestamp='1459286793' post='3015224'] There's a general active passive switch and the humbucker has a coil tap. Also I was really impressed by the noll preamp. Really tasty bass and treble boost. [/quote] Do find that every time you flick the little black switch that is labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to tell you you've done it?

We do our band intros during a break-it-down in the middle of Cold Sweat. Singer introduces us one by one, we each do a tiny 5 second solo-ette. For my 'solo' I play the same groove, but slapped with a few popped accents -- I hate groove-busting. I then introduce the singer ("the lady with the platinum tonsils") and it's really helping me to practice *talking* while playing. Singing+playing is easy, but I've always found talking well nigh impossible.

Michael McDonald Nat 'King' Cole Joe Cocker Sting Karen Carpenter Judie Tzuke Kate Bush Sam Brown

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1458916773' post='3012107'] A long time ago I read a thread about a guy who converted an OLP Stingray 5 to a 12-string; it looked pretty good, so would work for an eight string. The main work was plugging the machine head holes/redrilling and cutting a new nut. The bridge was a stock Schaller thing. [/quote] Ooh yes, I can see that working well. Wider than a 4 string neck but not as wide as a normal 5. Bloody hell. Just when I didn't want another project...

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1458923474' post='3012173'] Lovely. I think you got the better end of that swap. [/quote] I wholeheartedly concur on both points.

[quote name='DarkHeart' timestamp='1458257175' post='3006164'] I`ll add Take Thats `Rule the World` it was out when my last dog passed and we had a star named after her (probably not really but I have a certificate) and the lyrics get me thinking about her everytime I hear it cos Im such a softy! [/quote] This song gets to me too -- at around about the time it came out, my mum was in the protracted process of closing her eyes and fading away, so for me the first verse is forever associated with that. It's a good song but no, I just can't listen to it.

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