gjones

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

In one of the bands I play in, the singer also plays guitar. She said to me that she taught herself guitar, as an adult, but was given formal piano lessons as a child and that she can only play piano when she has sheet music in front of her, as this is how she was taught. She can't improvise or play by memory, however simple the song is. She only needs the sheet music when she plays piano, by the way, not guitar. I've heard this many times from classically trained musicians and I always find it very, very weird.

On the back of your GK500, you have a DI out as well. You also have a little button marked post and pre (you'll see the button on the back). If you choose pre, the DI out acts just like a clean DI box and any fiddling with your EQ will not affect this signal. If you choose post, then all EQ adustments that you make will affect the signal. You need to choose post so that you can use both channels, boost effect etc and all changes, that you make to your on stage sound, will be sent to the desk.

All That Jazz and Diamonds Are Forever - an eclectic set.

GK mb500 and GK mb800 are very light, small and insanely loud. Great punchy tone and a boost knob that makes it go all growly wowly, if that's your thing (you can tell I've never used that particular knob). You can drown out any puny, guitarist with these boys.

I would have thought so?

I think a standard Japanese Jazz would go for about £350 to £450 today. That's based on previous sales I've seen on here and ebay. I sold my, non export CIJ Jazz,for £450 about 4 years ago.

I've owned : ashdown abm 500 T.C. electronic classic 450 Fender TV 15 Ashdown Mibass 550 GK mb500 Of them all I liked the GK mb500 best. It's clean,punchy and it's loud. It is also as light as a feather. A worthy mention should go to the Hartke ha550. Which I've never owned but always liked the sound I've got while playing through them. They are pretty cheap new and a steal second-hand.

[quote name='anzoid' timestamp='1496689605' post='3313255'] Hmmm, interesting, have honestly (in 27 years of bass playing) never seen frets like that. Do you notice much of a difference from your Fenders when you play the Mighty Mite? [/quote] Not really but it's a very comfortable neck with a nut size a little bit slimmer than a normal P bass. Probably 70's sized as it was made in the early 80s.

[quote name='anzoid' timestamp='1496665943' post='3313047'] Don't think I've ever seen a bass before that actually had flat frets... is that original or has it been done afterwards? [/quote] I checked mine, which are very fat, low, flat, frets. Very different to the frets on my Fenders which are high and narrow.

I'll check out the frets when I get back home. All I know is that 30 odd years after I bought it and 1000 gigs later, the frets still have plenty of life in them.

The last time somebody came up on stage, with some random song request, I just screamed at him to 'f*** off!'. Shouting 'f*** off!' at people is not, normally, in my character. But if you are so ignorant as to clamber on stage and shout in my face while I'm playing, you deserve everything you get. He turned around and tootled off with a downtrodden look and his tail between his legs. I felt so bad about it that, after we had finished our set, I tried to find him and apologise. unfortunately, by then he had left. I hope my response hadn't traumatised him too much.

I know your sax player, Peter, from years back. He used to offer the blues band, I was in at the time, gigs around the Edinburgh/Dalkeith area. The only stipulation was, that he played the gigs with us. Well we didn't need, or want, a sax player in the band.....but we did want to do those gigs. So we agreed to his terms and he tootled along on the sax while we played the gigs and he got his cut of the fee. I figured out that he had been going around bars, that put on live music, and getting gigs for a non existent blues band (he wasn't a member of a band at that time). Of course he then had the problem of finding a band he could do those gigs with.......which is when he called us (he may well have done these gigs with other bands when we weren't free, I don't know?). I think he has probably realised that ska bands have a limited attraction to music bars and what they really want is rockier bands with wailing guitar solos. The fact that rock bands don't have saxophones in them, is only a problem when the band is not your band, and you aren't the one getting the gigs (as in reality no rock band is going to hire a sax player) He will be doing that same with this new band, as he did with us way back when - i.e. if you want to do the gig, you have to have him playing sax.

These are few and far between. In the 1980s the original Mighty Mite (The US company) created these really nice basses. The US built parts were shipped over to the UK and assembled by Peter Cook (John Entwistle's bass builder/luthier). I own one that I bought back in 1984 and it's a really lovely bass. Mine has bound edges and is sunburst. The electronics are top notch and the pickups sound fantastic. The nut on mine is 42 mm and the neck has really nice rolled edges. I'd buy this myself if I didn't already have one. Definitely worth the £250 he's asking (they originally cost £425 in the 80s which wasn't cheap back then). [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Early-1980s-Mighty-Mite-Rock-II-Bass-Peter-Cook/311884030795?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D43782%26meid%3D42231d43f0d54b39997bcd3f6b1c4b71%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D162533219667"]http://www.ebay.co.u...%3D162533219667[/url] If you do buy it, I recommend asking the selling if the truss rod works ok as, after 30 odd years, mine has seized up.

I've been in a band where repeated rehearsals never got the band anywhere, due to lack of musical ability (except for me of course!). And I've been in a band who never rehearsed but managed to put on a decent show, because the individual members were talented and experienced. The second band irritated me the most, because we had the ability to be so much better if we just put a bit of work into the songs but the band leader was a lazy sod.

The original Ibanez Prometheans are rare beasts. I also remember the days when Barefaced Compacts were few and far between; they'd be sold, within about 10 seconds, after they were posted up for sale. But that was before Alex figured out, that creating 'The only cab you'll ever need', was an extremely bad business model.

Top of my list would probably be one of the new Fender Rumbles. They are cheap, loud and very light. I'm sure you could get a 500 watt one for £350 secondhand. I played through the 100 watt version and it kept up with a drumkit pretty well. I'm sure there are many satisfied Rumble owners on Basschat, who will agree.

I really like this version of Senor Blues, by Taj Mahal. The bassline was originally played on piano, in the Horace Silver version. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPXgjsjgAw[/media]

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1495732939' post='3306243'] If you have an old set of strings on, simply taking them off and putting then back on again can make them sound brighter. I guess it's the same phenomenon as this, just without the slapping! [media]http://youtu.be/s8OYeN9mAL4[/media] [/quote] I have been saying this for years but everybody thought I was just iNsANe! Edit: Well of course, I am insane......but it still works.

I left a band once because of the bar they played in. It was in 'Trainspotting' territory, full of hookers and junkies and someone threw a full pint at us just as we were about to start. I had a vision of myself being stabbed,and bleeding to death in the adjacent alley, if I ever played there again. The band went back for another gig the next week, without me. I asked the drummer how did it go and he said somebody got glassed for wearing the wrong football shirt and another guy got clubbed unconscious, with the heavy end of a pool cue. One of my better decisions I think.

The Kinky Jazz Kittens?

Many years ago my band auditioned a guitarist. He set his stuff up and we jammed along nicely but I noticed that he was playing just very fast, flashy lead guitar. So I said to him 'Your lead is great. Why don't you try out a bit of rhythm guitar now? This song is in E major.' He said 'How would I do that?'. I said ' Eh, play an E major chord?'. He said 'I don't know how to'. I looked at him in amazement and then, after lifting my jaw off the floor, showed him how to play an open E chord on his guitar. Just in case you were wondering............he didn't get the job.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1495329807' post='3303031'] You guys still have hippies? Blue [/quote] Crusties is the new term.