Mykesbass

I'm no expert but this interseted me so had a quick surf - apparently you should avoid magnetic fields greater than 5 gauss - Seymour Duncan pickups are around 25 gauss! I would check with your consultant - hope all goes well!

Ahhhh! Sunday morning working in my local record shop - The Poet (1 more than 2, but great choice all the same), Teddy Pendergrass, Lou Rawls, or, the sure fire winner, Maze Live in New Orleans - I'm getting all nostalgic now.....

[quote name='teej' post='847882' date='May 25 2010, 08:23 PM']Red Jackson in Brighton... [/quote] Typical - bass solo - cut to pictures of the kids dancing I've seen you guys there - excellent stuff!

Just played through the version Chris kindly supplied - works a treat. Many thanks.

[quote name='cetera' post='847523' date='May 25 2010, 02:24 PM']I'd personally be a lot happier if people didn't use poor English like "a big ask".... Just sayin' like.... [/quote] Probably the best quote on which to bow out of a debate that has gone on far too long and is getting nowhere

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='847496' date='May 25 2010, 01:49 PM']Is it just me that thinks if we'd just get over ourselves, be a bit more relaxed about stuff, and have a bit more of a laugh at each other, the world would be a far less tense, much happier place? Just wonderin'.[/quote] Alternatively, is it just me? if we all used a little more consideration and didn't use terms that might cause offense that may have the same effect - didn't seem like a big ask to me.

[quote name='tauzero' post='847414' date='May 25 2010, 12:42 PM']The word "cack" or "keck" (in cack-handed) is an old English word meaning "clumsy". The excremental meaning has been absorbed into the language more recently.[/quote] cack British informal - noun: excrement, dung. verb - defecate in (one's clothes). Origin Old English as cachus - privy. The verb dates from Late Middle English and is related to Middle Dutch cacken; based on Latin cacare - to defecate. Cack handed has come to mean clumsy but the origin lies deep in excrement!

Agreed on the Hercules - used to use them when I had a shop - nice and secure and a great release mechanism. Just don't use on Nitro-cellulose finished necks (oh, and they're not great on vintage style tele headstocks if you have any instruments from the dark side)!

Had an SG 2000 30th Anniversary for a while - incredible guitar but just had no use for it. Amazing piece of kit - hardly ever plugged it in, it had so much tone I didn't need to! Hope you enjoy it.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='846960' date='May 24 2010, 10:23 PM']Crusaders. No-one should be made to feel ashamed of the history that forged their culture.[/quote] Thank goodness for that - I can happilly defend my love for those guys - it was the Jewish, Black, Foundling background I was going to struggle with!

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='846950' date='May 24 2010, 10:12 PM']I'm all for freedom of speech me. I'm not ashamed of your history.[/quote] We all have lines over which we would rather people didn't cross (as seen on the Ginger thread). When I discovered the origin of the phrase I personally felt it was an insult so chose not to use it. As for my history - which bit?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='846941' date='May 24 2010, 10:05 PM'][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=86109&hl=ginger"]If you aren't brown or homosexual, no-one has any sympathy.[/url] There isn't a link between the beating and the sh1t hand thing. Conformism makes life easier for the majority. The dirty left hand is middle eastern culture with a fairly sensible reasoning behind it, the beating in schools is a Christian thing, being a mark of the devil, as I was hinting at.[/quote] Probably from the Crusaders then (no, not those cool jazz funk dudes) so all the more reason not to use it!

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='846820' date='May 24 2010, 08:10 PM']Made me laugh to be honest as I saw the humour in the title straight away, but others may not I guess - but yeah, the term Spaz is quite a lot out of order, but cack handed is hardly offensive, not really... is it?[/quote] Apparently (at least from the Turkish kids I went to school with 30 years ago) Cack means sh1t. In Middle eastern cultures, the left hand was reserved for wiping one's ar$e, and to offer the left hand to shake hands was a huge insult. Therefore, to call a left hander cack handed I would have thought fairly insulting. Sorry to seem pious, but when you have heard of the predjudice that left handers have faced - my mum (back in the 30's) was regularly beaten at school to get her to use her right hand then all of a sudden calling it sh1t handed doesn't seem so mild and meaningless after all.

Just reported this as offensive to E-bay. I'm not left handed but to use the term cack handed imho is very offensive, as for the use of the term Spaz, I thought that went out with the likes of Gene Hunt!

[quote name='chris_b' post='846399' date='May 24 2010, 12:01 PM']These are the bass notes. Some of these are root and some are a harmony to the chord ie 4th. This was a quickie, so there may be errors! Verse 2 and second chorus vary slightly. Hutch Hutchinson (bass) adds passing notes in the second verse and stretches out in the last chorus and the outro. Harping back to some previous BC topics; songs like this are why you need a bass with very good tone and sustain! Intro: Eb G | G Eb | Eb D | G C | Eb G | G Eb | Eb D | C || Verse 1: Eb G | G Eb | Eb D | G C | Eb G | G Eb | Eb D | G C | 2/4 C | 4/4 F | F D | Chorus: Eb Bb | Eb | Eb Bb | D Eb | G Eb | A G | G Eb | A G | C | F | Eb Bb | Eb | 1st Eb G | G Eb | Eb D | C || Verse 2: Same Chorus: same 2nd Rpt Intro End on Ab[/quote] Thanks Chris, will work on this tonight - the beauty of this is that he doesn't stick to the chord progression (certainly not the roots). Yes, will test the mettle of both me and my new vmj fretless to see if the sustain holds up!

OK, I know a lot of tab requests on here get met with "listen to the track & work it out for yourself" type comments, well, I've tried and I've failed so I'm asking for help. I'm trying to work out the bass line for "I Can't Make You Love Me" - I've got the intro and verse where the bass is quite distinct, but I just can't hear all of the chorus. Anyone with better ears than me already worked it out? Thanks, Mike

[quote name='silddx' post='845615' date='May 23 2010, 11:41 AM']We are bass players, we do what is right for the songs and the singers. That is where our pride should lie, not going rilly rilly ree like the guitar players.[/quote] Silddx is absolutely on the money here - except for one really important point - it's "widdly widdly woo"

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='838482' date='May 15 2010, 09:54 PM']Whatever it's called, you just did it... in style. [/quote] I salute you Happy Jack - you have outclassed both of us.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='838464' date='May 15 2010, 09:37 PM']I suppose those lines are "finger-markers". [/quote] Come on, accept you've been out-pedanted (if there is such a term)

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='838456' date='May 15 2010, 09:26 PM']See that black plank glued to the front of the maple neck? It's called a fretboard. :ph34r:[/quote] Like on a violin or double bass? Surely without frets it is called a fingerboard.

Sorry, but for an expensive item such as this, you'd like to think the details were correct - or am I just being picky as I can't afford it [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-NEW-FRETLESS-G-L-L2000-USA-BASS-GUITAR-EBONY-/320522541933?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4aa0a1db6d"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-NEW-FRETLESS-G-...=item4aa0a1db6d[/url]

[quote name='urb' post='715000' date='Jan 16 2010, 06:09 PM']I think this is what you might be lookng for... - er, don't try this at home or on stage: Epic fail... PS I think it's actually a Sei bass that gets trashed... doh! M[/quote] I love the fact that this clip is now sponsored by an instrument insurance company - bet they wouldn't pay out on this!

Henry Lowther and Jim Mullen - used to do a regular pub gig in Catford together. Two great muso's both with amazing histories, playing a free boozer gig in South London - now that's British Jazz for you!