Gamble

Title says it all really, I've got a pair of 17" CRT monitors I have no use for but as far as I'm aware there's not a problem with either of them so I don't really want to just bung them in a skip. One's a Compaq S710 and the other's an Eizo FlexScan F56 All yours if you want them, preferably collected from my gaf (Norwich) but depending on where you are we might be able to sort something out. Cheers!

I bought an OLP Tony Levin sig bass from Nick at the start of August 2009. It was a bargain price and I would never have spotted the faults he mentioned (a small impression mark on the fretboard and a hardly noticable scratch in one of the pots) if he hadn't told me about them. So to sum up, he seems to me a very honest, accomodating and all round nice guy to deal with. All the best Nick, Matt

Traded a OLP Tony Levin Singnature for a Spear Single Cut 5 with Ruairidh, top chap to deal with. Many thanks!

2 cases of beer and a ride to the Download festival bought me a fretless Tanglewood from Peted, but long before that I bought an SG bass copy (fully playable) from a guy at work for £15

Chainsaw-wah cello and saw solo's are the future Jerry, I've tasted it!

I'd forgotten how much I wanted one of the Spears. DAMNIT!!!

What are you lot on about? I could barely hear the bass on the first video, but what I did pick out sounded groovy enough to me. How exactly do you judge how much soul he's playing with when there's that kind of sound quality on a clip? Looked like he was into it to me. In that build up clip, I like the bit where he cocks up about the 4th note, shakes his head to himself and noticably stops trying to look cool and pays attention to what he's doing. That's a move he got from me!!!

Gotta love Bowling For Soup, and I'm a metaller! Sorry for the blatant plug, but if that's your kinda thing check this out: [url="http://www.myspace.com/thestanton"]www.myspace.com/thestanton[/url]

Sounds like quite a ride mate, good work getting as far as you did! Just remember the good times......

[quote name='WalMan' post='401148' date='Feb 5 2009, 03:51 PM']Good lord!! What's the world coming to!? Not a pair of sentences I would have expected to see together, but I suppose time & method moves on for everything. You'll be doing D'n'B/Folk mashups next [/quote] I was really suprised that a couple of folkies would be into recording that way, but it meant that I could play loads of mistakes and try stuff out on the fly and it wouldn't matter! On a couple of tracks I'd play a really simple bassline just following the rootnotes, then they'd say go to town and I'd just try stuff out. If it didn't work they just wont use it, if there was a nice lick they'll just put it where they want it. Seemed a bit G.M. to me..... The only slight problem I have is that I'm not going to have a say in the editing, so they might keep some stuff that really makes me cringe, but I'll just have to wait and see. The producer they work with seemed to have a really good handle on things, so I'm sure he'll do me proud!

This was just £20 cash in hand to cover petrol etc, I even tried to give it back as I was only doing it for laughs. I did think about declaring to the tax man back when i was playing covers as I used to earn a fair bit through that. It even looked like I might have even come out better off for claiming mileage, but I never got round to it. I'd certainly think about it now if I was going to be earning much money from playing.

[quote name='dood' post='400710' date='Feb 5 2009, 09:51 AM']Nice one dude!!!! And for anyone who doesn't know the area... getting proper session work around Norfolk is a bit like finding a unicorn....... that plays piano.... and talks .... and likes Metallica.... So good on ya chap![/quote] Interestingly enough, I nearly decided not to ride my Metallica loving, piano playing, talking Unicorn to the studio that day because of the snow. Glad I did now!! Cheers Dood!

[quote name='mathewsanchez' post='400365' date='Feb 4 2009, 08:03 PM']Just wondering, are there any full-time session players on the forum? If so I just have few Q's:[/quote] I believe Jakesbass makes a living from playing, although I think he's in function bands and allsorts too. [quote name='mathewsanchez' post='400365' date='Feb 4 2009, 08:03 PM']Just a few things i'd like to know as i'm 16 and [b]considering[/b] a career in music, possibly session playing.[/quote] I wish I'd committed sooner, good luck if you go for it!

Nice one Chrisdabass, got much more work coming up?

[quote name='largo' post='399838' date='Feb 4 2009, 11:59 AM']Mmmm, is being a dep the same as playing a session?[/quote] I'd have said that being a dep meant playing gigs when someone else couldn't make it, I only spent a day in the studio (or a session, if you will) recording tracks for them. I was kinda joking anyways, I'm not going to be making any real money out of playing anytime soon. Just thought I'd share my chuffed-ness!