Mykesbass

13 hours ago, TimR said:

QReminds me we had to play Moon River for a 50th wedding anniversary.

 

Rock drummer with no concept of 6/8. "That's 2/4 init?"

 

Anyway, he bought us in in 4/4, and the guitarist somehow managed to play it in 4/4 as well. Car crash, how they managed to dance to it I'll never know. 

Doesn't need to know 6/8 as it is in 3/4. 

3 minutes ago, mcnach said:

 

Whenever I see a "singer songwriter" type with their acoustic guitar my spidey sense tingles, because far too many just spew "deep" dirge song after song and it would definitely make me want to relocate to happier venue for my libations.

 

As soon as they start the chat between songs, why they wrote it, what it means to them - I'm off. Why do they ALL do that?

+1 for the visible veneer. See-through blond would be my take.

59 minutes ago, Mykesbass said:

Just an educated guess, @taunton-hobbit may know.

24 minutes ago, taunton-hobbit said:

Aah, not quite that simple - I lived in a basement flat in a village a bit outside Taunton for a while (hence 'hobbit'), & I now live on the coast in West Somerset, but kept the name.

 

I don't know any of the pubs in Taunton - sorry !

 

😎

Ah, an uneducated guess then 🫤

Just an educated guess, @taunton-hobbit may know.

2 hours ago, ped said:

On mobile there’s a ‘follow’ box at the bottom; on desktop it’s at the top of the page. Let me know if you can’t find it. 

No luck - in fact makes it even odder. I am already marked as following the thread. 

Or a little reminiscent of this: 

I no longer have a star next to a thread I have contributed to, and therefore no longer get notifications. Don't think I manually unsubscribed. How do I re-subscribe please? Thread is Damn Right I've Got the Blues in General Discussion.

Thanks,

Mike

Does 'Dead Flowers' by the Stones count?

49 minutes ago, Misdee said:

Very true, but I've got good taste too.

I do hope this is tongue in cheek. Online is terrible for nuance 🤨

7 hours ago, EJWW said:

I know I am probably out of my mind even considering this but is it possible that one-time Bowie bassman (according to Wikipedia 🤔) Richard Fairbrass,

Well that was a nasty shock for a moment (although it might have explained Bowie's rather unpleasant dabblings as the Thin White Duke). Fortunately, a slightly deeper dive into Wikipedia shows that Fairbrass appeared playing bass on the video of Blue Jean, but wasn't on the record. So just an ever so slightly spurious claim on his own page.

18 minutes ago, Misdee said:

When it comes to basses, I'm one of those people who have been cursed with good taste to the extent that the vast majority of basses I would consider owning are pretty expensive.

 

Expensive doesn't  necessarily equate to good taste.  

Cm. When it hits the G you can hear it hasn't resolved, whereas when it hits both Cm or Eb in that chord chart it does resolve.

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

Looking at the video, if it's not possible to make the back and front joint up, then I wouldn't both with the back at all. Leave it plain white and maybe extend the checks from the front a bit further around the sides.

I agree - it did seem a bit pointless with the gap between the two.

Don't know if this video will be of any use, but looks like Sims Custom Shop didn't attempt to cover the entire body of this Strat: 

Nice to see the Chronicle liked it. Story and review came up on my Google news feed this morning. Congratulations.

13 minutes ago, jay-syncro said:

That'll be mine 🙋🏻‍♂️

 

You're welcome to come and try it if you can get to Margate? It's a lovely bass and a very reluctant sale. 

Yes, didn't see it on here, but commented on FB. I'm not in the market but was absolutely bowled over by the looks. I hope someone snatches it up soon for you.

1 hour ago, AlexDelores said:

I saw that on Facebook too and I’m fairly sure it’s the same Bass/Seller as the one in the Basschat classifieds. 
 

No experience with them personally but lots of folk seem to sing their praises quite highly. 

 

 

I deliberately avoid the BC for sale section 😎

One of these came up on Facebook, and I must say it is the first bass I have seen in a long time that made me go WOW!  Anyone own/owned one? Do they sound/play anywhere near as amazing as they look?

Have a great one!

31 minutes ago, Skybone said:

Saw a good one the other night, Mark Knopfler & Brian Johnston interviewing Sam Fender.

Sam Fender was great on the Lindisfarne documentary not so long ago. Pretty sure @wateroftyne appeared on that one too.

48 minutes ago, pete.young said:

Alexei Sayle already nailed that one. "There are two kinds of jazz, and they're both crap!"

Love Alexei. Also love Jazz 🤨

31 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

https://americana-uk.com/interview-ralph-brookfield-on-the-trail-of-americana-music

 

I played bass for Ralph for years - in fact he was the guy who persuaded me to learn to play DB precisely so that I could accompany him.

 

Some time after I left his band (King Ralph) he brought out this book. It's not a coffee table jobby or a piece of "rock journalism", it's a pretty serious attempt to work out WTF this music really is. 

 

After a couple of hundred pages I was no wiser, and I rather suspect that's also true of Ralph. 😉

 

Final analysis = Americana means precisely whatever you want it to.

And once it's been worked out we can start on RnB.

9 hours ago, Piers_Williamson said:

How did they keep an upright piano in tune?  What an amazing piece of Vid!

9 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

 

Not much wrong with an upright piano, as long as it has a metal frame. Many (most..?) had wooden frames; they're the ones that can't hold their tuning. They are not, nowadays, considered as 'musical instruments', but as 'furniture'. 

This. 

Plus, back in the day, companies like Granada and the BBC had large teams of technicians. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a piano tuner on the payroll.

1 hour ago, Cat Burrito said:

I spent several years from the early noughties until about 5yrs ago playing on the UK Americana circuit. We did 4 albums, got on prime time CBS TV in the USA and did a few UK tours and festivals. There was definitely a scene but I thought it kind of fizzled out. Looking at Basschat over the last couple of days, it seems much like everything else, like it might be coming back. I enjoyed it at the time but I think having done it for so long in a really good band, it's something that I have a passing curiosity in, rather than wanting to return to it. Definitely loads of fun and I would recommend it to anyone. 

You were ahead of your time! Oh well, Goth mandocello bands will be all the rage in 2029!

Still got the Case Hardin CD.