Grooverjr

Love a graphite neck. The checking looks like a deliberate effect as well - lovely

21 hours ago, itu said:

@Grooverjr: Is Schönberg bad music, because I happen to like it or is it bad, because there are lots of others who don't? 

 

(By the way, I am not so keen on Bach, Pastorius, and Nirvana. But I have played or sang some of their work on gigs.) 

I understand that tastes differ wildly but I'm talking about accessibility rather than taste. If it 'goes over the head of people who have a general enjoyment of music - meaning that they do not understand it, not that they don't like it - and the technical aspects are all that recommend it then, IMO (and other opinions are obviously available), it is failing in some kind of fundamental way. It doesn't disqualify it as a form of expression but I don't think it fits in my understanding of 'good music'. Just as on the other side if soemthing is entirely vacuus but lots of people like iit (Rock DJ being a prime example of this) I also don't think it qualifies as 'good music'.  

If the music only works as musicianship and isn't something a non-musician can appreciate then is it good music, or just good technique? The best stuff works on both levels, with the musicianship adding a dimension but not getting in the way.

2 hours ago, Linus27 said:

I've got tickets and really can't wait. Not sure my wife is going to enjoy it though, I think the level of musicianship will go totally over her head 😆

7 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

No, silly!

It's obviously the Isabel Marant Shirred Paisley-Print Georgette Miniskirt! 

I always go topless at festivals!

 

 

 

 

(actually, it's the toothbrush. Good piece of kit!)

Well after dropping 600 quid on the skirt I'd asume you'll be going shoeless, pantless and everythign else-less! 

4 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

No room for cucumbers or baguettes because of the armadillo in my trousers. It's really quite frightening!

Lovely - I toss them up, you hit them out of the park! 😆 I'm overdue a watch of Tap, actually. I recently rewatched Fear of a Black Hat (the Hip Hop version of Tap - equally funny) so it's definitely time to smell the glove again. 

Wear the trousers and then you will at least have somewhere to keep a cucumber/ mini baguette in case you get peckish 😵‍💫

4 hours ago, Burns-bass said:

. But I sometimes write for the *** newspaper, so I don't have a leg to stand on.

I bought my first bass amp with cash made by stuffing stamped addressed envelopes (kids, ask your parents) with *** slimming section's diets, so I won't have a word said against that very fine publication. 

On topic, I have a number in my head where it becomes not worth selling and I would rather keep it, but generally I want it gone and am prepared to take quite a big hit on most stuff. There's only Fartbook here in Mexico, really, and I have been dealing with so many tyre kickers with bass stuff and  bike stuff I have been trying to move on before we up sticks again. I price stuff below market rate and clearly list prices etc. and all you get is people asking the price and if you will drop it to them half way across the city for free or take staggered payments. It's soul destroying but if that happens at a fair price I can sort of understand why people try to put a slice on top to cover the aggro. 

Are there dots on the side of the neck?

Yeah, I quite like them. Not into relics in general but these are quite cool in their way. I expect the novelty would wear off pretty quickly.

2 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

For almost every Precision with a Jazz neck, there is one of these unloved puppies looking for a home.

Just because most people have small hands or more advanced fine motor skills there's no need to discriminate 🤣

It's a thing. I did it. I have big hands and don't get on with the tight string bunching at the nut of a J neck, but I do like the J sound. It's great. When my fretless P neck gets here it will become a fretless P neck on a J body. I also, unlike the advertiser, have a bag or suitcase to hand in. It's a gator hardcase. 

1 hour ago, MacDaddy said:

 

And probably not for The Shamen as well 😉

Luckily I have 2 coats 🫣

4 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

He's a decent drummer, to be sure... But the ones I mentioned are probably at least as good as Mr. C, probably a lot better in some cases, and completely unknown outside of serious muso circles. So they're the ones who are the most under-rated in the history of history!

 

 

I'm pretty sure they are all way better than Mr C. He didn't even programme the drums for The Prodigy. 

I'll get my coat

If I was in the UK I'd bite your hand off for this. Quirky in all the right ways. 

Mexico City to York. For a Vigier (and a funeral, but that would spoil the story)

Went from mind-boggling when I read the thread title to ear-boggling when I clicked on the video. Great stuff, a rabbithole down which to disappear!

19 hours ago, Beedster said:

I love my current gig but man, I wanna do a Beck tribute act, I just love the basslines and the general madness of it all 👍

Nice idea. You could call it Feck 🤣

1 hour ago, AndyTravis said:

A lot of me just went “oooooh”

It is the bass equivalent of the Girl from Ipanema  ..... each one it passes goes 'aaaaah'

That is all sorts of lovely. If it ever goes on the block the little pants-off wrestling scene our Lancy friends have got going on might spread worldwide. Well, down South at the very least 🤣

8 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Probably some idiot stupidly frittering away his rainy day fund on something he doesn't really need. Or her, of course. 

Down with this sort of thing! I don't come on here for self-reflection! 😁 The buyer of the ebony neck, whoever that may be (ahem) might be in the same position. But it's just so lovely.....

3 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

2.

 

you know where they are. 
 

fight me…with no pants on.

Ah, the traditional Lancastrian free-dangle wrestling? Quite easy to see how that could result in one or both of the contestants ending up with a Badass.

Beck is a bit like Weller for me: not that into most of it but a couple of albums are among my absolute favourites. Sea Change is a stunningly beautiful and introspective record and given when he made it shows he has only ever been interested in the music and not the money. Modern Guilt is also amazing start to finish. Chemtrails is on my list of 'things to play when I am a grown up bassist'. A brilliant bassline but just too much for me to remember and some fingering changes that just don't move how I would want to move. 

32 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Do you remember Rock-a-Cha that was upstairs in Kensington Market on High St Ken?

Nope. I remember going to Kensington Market quite a lot in I'd guess about 87/88 but mainly trailing after industrial goth girls so we would have been looking at different stuff. Well, I was looking at them but they were looking at things in purple and black! I know American Classics because a mate of my dad's who was well into his clothes went in there sometimes on the way to Stamford Bridge but I was that bit too young to have any money to be looking properly. I grew up in Sidcup so Kensington was a bit of a trip and you had to pay for the tube. Covent Garden or the Soho were just a jumped train to Charing Cross so we spent more time up there. You've got me all misty-eyed now.

On 22/04/2025 at 12:05, Terry M. said:

I remember American Classics on the Kings Road very well. Just up from The Garage,an indoor market that always had a classic American car parked in the forecourt. 

Too cool for me. I was a devotee of Flip of Hollywood in Covent Garden. The jeans were expensive but they had some great old work shirts and I seem to remember getting some Carhartt trousers there (but the memory isn't what it was so I may have imagined that). I definitely bought my 6th form school 'suits' from there in 1989 - 50s sports jackets, shirts with absurd collars and some very interstingly-cut trousers. All for the price of a Fosters or Top Man shiny number. I must have looked an absolute case but I loved it. About 5 years ago I was in a micro-pub with a mate and some guy recognised me as ´that kid from school who had the crazy vintage gear' and said he had always thought I was really cool. So someone liked it. Admittedly that someone was drinking on his own on a Wednesday night, but you take what you can get, I suppose!

8 minutes ago, FugaziBomb said:

 

Do you want to get back to trashing Talkbass?  Carrots, tort, flats, yada yada yada

Not at all - I'm very happy to carry on with long stories with various plot twists about old basses. There's enough trash talking in the real world and I come here for a bit of a break.

And now this is much more like a BC thread - gone on a complete tangent! Interesting story, though.