Mykesbass

A gizmo to measure heft?

Slightly classier than my last cheese offering, showing that the genre had a very wide range of influences - Brass Construction [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzsUd37xPXo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzsUd37xPXo[/url]

[quote name='Ghost_Bass' timestamp='1474025922' post='3135061'] All things failling then it's time to take it to a technician for repair. [/quote] Had one of these amps which developed a power problem. Three separate techs, all with decent reputations, were completely stumped by it as everything inside was modular, with no repairable parts. Yamaha also stopped any tech support years ago for these.

Turn your bass down while he's setting everyone up, then when you start playing as a band turn yourself up.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1473774841' post='3133010'] If the tone of a bass is simply determined by strings vibrating in the magnetic flux of a pickup; and that's it. Nothing more to it... Then why buy anything better than a Harley Benton PB50? Surely nothing there's nothing more to add to a Harley B, to make it as good as a Wal or All-singing-Fender is a good setup and better pups and tuners? [/quote] Marketing

Played some Skiffle sessions at the social club my parents used to go to. Bit of guitar, bit of tea chest bass. Would have been 12 when I started so 40 years for me.

BEAD tuning won't harm your 4 string. New nut and a tweak of the trussrod is all it will be.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1473586280' post='3131323'] Need some Barry White and those sexy lush arrangements. [/quote] [quote name='ians' timestamp='1473587548' post='3131338'] Its all in the writing...just love the way the arrangement flows in the second tune. Rare to hear P soup on the hi hat so loud against flowing strings..fantastic arrangement, guy was very talented indeed. [/quote] I think this may be the key to this stuff sounding great all these years on - arrangements. Possibly the last popular music style where arrangements were a crucial part of the music, and what, to a certain extent, is missing in later dance music.

Had a quick search and am surprised this hasn't been posted already - bass intro, cowbell, horns, cracking arrangement, OK, slightly dubious quality vocals, but this was HUGE! (oops, sorry, forgot handclaps in my disco essentials listing) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za1mCTWQo3A[/media]

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1473238946' post='3128176'] Try and get to see some of the local bands playing actual Balkan music. It will scare the pants off you! I got to jam with a band from Croatia a couple of years back. Closest thing I could think of was the yddish dance music I grew up with in north west London in the fifties. Great stuff but for yer average rock and roller it was like falling into a vat of boiling pea soup! Big fun though..... [/quote] Saw Davy Graham in a tiny folk club playing loads of Baltic style music (he spent a lot of time working with musicians over there). Some crazy time signatures and forms! Hope you catch some out there.

[quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1473093990' post='3126876'] Aside from the trust issue, there is an implied business agreement here which, for me, goes something like: We pay you money. In return, you allow us to use your premises and equipment, you look after us while we're there and you lock up your own premises when we leave. [/quote] I don't see why the second part of this should be part of the transaction. Owner is trying to keep your costs down. If you want to be looked after offer some more money and ask for someone to be there. I've used a place like this, leaving the key under a brick! Mad, yes, but not a problem.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1473021107' post='3126195'] At that point, guitar guitar bass drum-machine vox. Originals, and a few covers which weren't like their originals at all. When we started recording stuff I had a serious rethink; it just didn't sit well with what we were doing. Why nobody else said that to me I don't know. [/quote] Interesting especially with two guitars you found that.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1473018693' post='3126159'] I stopped using a five because I tended to play low notes too much. If I got another it would probably be tuned E-C. [/quote] ??? Sorry, genuinely baffled by this. What line-up do you play with?

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1473006449' post='3125977'] I thin k you are probably correct on this, we do accept that age is against us and to be fair this project was based around recording the best music we could [/quote] Did you see the recent BBC 4 show - Britain's Best Unsigned Band/ There was a band on there that had been playing together for years, perfecting their own brand of Prog rock. The show was the first time the had ever performed on stage, so yes, sometimes the reward for all this effort may well be your own, personal enjoyment.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1473001351' post='3125905'] Not strictly disco, but groovy all the same! [/quote] Not strictly disco? Good enough for me - great call

They use Nordstrand Big Singles in some of the prestige models which sound amazing. Not sure if they would be a direct fit for this model though.

Different model but I had a GB75. Excellent build quality but had far too complex electronics for my liking (active tone, blend & selector switch, mid boost switch, push pull coil tap - I only wanted to play the blues )

[quote name='Burrito' timestamp='1472374076' post='3120583'] I always found it was better to say "we are" rather than "what we want" - I never got why more ads don't do this. An ad looking for 20-25yr olds could miss out on a perfect 28yr old. But yes, I immediately switch off when I read really specific criteria, even if I happen to meet it. And no band is ever going to dictate to me what shoes I wear! [/quote] There have been plenty of similar threads on here, with many arguing, correctly IMO, that image can be very important. I think this response answers that perfectly.

Of course, forgetting James Brown - I know, he didn't play pubs, but he did do the Chichester Beer Festival in the early 2000s!