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Anyone know where you can get bass related t-shirts etc from. I've got a t-shirt for an Ernie Ball Musicman off ebay but other than that, t-shirts are pretty thin on the ground.

I saw an anniversary Fender p-bass one and one in the States for Warwick.

It's a shame someone doesn't produce a WAL one.

[quote name='The Funk' post='61277' date='Sep 16 2007, 06:00 PM']Punch her anyway. Emotionally.[/quote]


Just say she has a fart arse...that should do it!

I made a concious descision to play the bass, I really don't have any interest in lead guitar and I'm not an extrovert so the bass suits me fine.

Plus the fact it looks way cooler also.

I've only been learning just under a year but I absoloutely love it...sadly the missues is getting a bit hacked off with the amount of time I play it!

I've already acquired two fretted and a fretless and promised there will be no more...but I still have a list of 'dream basses' i'd like if I won the lottery.
The aria pro sb1000 (just like the avatar) for openers, a proper fender p-bass and MM Stingray (only got a copy at the mo).

[quote name='ahpook' post='60285' date='Sep 14 2007, 10:33 AM']that kind of attitude says a lot more about the people expressing it than the actual role of a bass player in a band.

if someone's coming out with stuff like that i think you can pretty well ignore their opinion.[/quote]


TBH he is a loud mouth pratt

Just heard an incident in my office which made my blood boil.

Two guys im my office were talking about bands and the one phrase I overheard was "well it doesn't matter about the bass player, coz they don't do anything anyway".....


I also heard bass players described as being like an accountant becuase the job they do is pretty boring.

What attitude to do you live players get 'out in the field' so to speak, do people regard you as a poor mans guitarist?

It just sickens me that i'm investing a lot of time and effort to try and get to grips with playing the bass and people have this kind of perception.

I know drummers suffer the same type of predjudice

[quote name='elom' post='59601' date='Sep 13 2007, 12:03 AM']Fiction Plane is an anagram of 'Infant Police' - enough said?[/quote]


is that deliberate?...i notice 'baby sting' is also a bass player...ffs try and do you own thing

[quote name='The Funk' post='59193' date='Sep 12 2007, 12:06 PM']We were miles from the stage - could barely make out the images on the giant screens. Couldn't really hear any detail either.

Apart from that, it was a great gig. It shames me to say it but Sting was awesome as a frontman. Copeland and Summers were both very good too. Just would have been nice if we could hear some of the intricate stuff they were doing.

Skipped Maximo Park. Caught the second half of Fiction Plane - Sting's son definitely has it. He's too much a clone of his dad though (without the writing skills) and the rest of Fiction Plane are rubbish. He's not a good enough musician to carry the other two. He should find some better musicians and actually try experimenting a bit instead of just doing it how his dad showed him.[/quote]

When I saw Fiction Plane (rubbish name by the way), I did think that Sting's son was trying so hard to be his dad it was like a tribute act. You can just tell when a band is going to make it and they aren't.

Wasn't the Wallflowers band lead by Bob Dylan's son?...can't really think of any other bands fronted by offspring of famous singers....

[quote name='Scoop' post='58510' date='Sep 10 2007, 11:46 PM']nah, wasn't Music for Chameleons, was it? I thought it was Mick Karn & Japan. Well whaddya know!

learn summat new every day.[/quote]


No, Mr Numan 100%.

I'm a big fan of Pino & Mick Karn. I think Mick Karn played on the 'Dance' album (which he than proceded to slag off in a magazine interview afterwards) and Pino played on the album afterwards...err 'I Assassin' i think. Mick Karn's playing was much better IMHO.

If you like 'Music For Chameleons' it's worth checking out Japan's stuff and Dali's Car.

After putting out a request for a new track to learn the other day, someone suggested a Rush track.

Since then I have been discovering more Rush tracks I like (Geddy Lee is just brilliant)

I have the following tracks so far

Leave that thing alone
Far Cry
YYZ
Driven
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
The Spirit Of Radio.

Save me trawling through gazillions of albums, can anyone suggest any other tracks worth downloading (especially those that show off Geddy Lee's playing)

The only one gripe is that his voice tends to annoy after a while.

[quote name='punksoul257' post='57739' date='Sep 9 2007, 02:40 PM']Rush - YYZ

Not an intermediate song, but what a bassline.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iONLKn5VHY4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iONLKn5VHY4[/url][/quote]

I have to say i've been exploring a bit of Rush over the last couple of days and this song is pretty amazing...I knew Geddy Lee was good but this is just fabulous.

Check out the new single by a bass supergroup

[url="http://www.myspace.com/peterhookneworder"]Freebase[/url]

Considering this has Hooky, Andy Rourke & Mani playing bass on it i'm afraid I expected a lot more...it doesn't go anywhere.

[quote name='nik1093' post='58258' date='Sep 10 2007, 03:42 PM']try some of the easier jamerson stuff or some sly stone and some stu hamm songs[/quote]

I fancy some Sly Stone stuff...any particular tracks?

[quote name='cheddatom' post='58261' date='Sep 10 2007, 03:49 PM']I know this might seem stupid to those of you who know what i'm talking about, but, what the hell is that funky bassline that Alan's airbassing to? I really want a copy of that song/album.[/quote]

I tihnk you'll find that was 'Music For Chameleons' by Gary Numan....Pino Palladino was playing with him about that time, not sure if it was him playing

Why would anyone want to do this?...it looks more like a loom!

[quote name='Shaggy' post='57911' date='Sep 9 2007, 08:52 PM']Fair enough - you seemed to have just discovered Taste of Honey, so not sure what the "usual suspects" are to you. I'm in a covers band at the moment who do "Honk Tonk Woman" as an encore. As they've got male and female vocals I suggested "Gimme Shelter" as an ace Stones duet to do - they'd never heard of it. So you never can tell! OK, heard of these gems then;
Let's start the dance / Hamilton Bohannon
Shoot me with your love / Tasha Thomas
Love sensation / Loretta Hollway
Dance accross the floor / Jimmy "Bo" Hone
You can do it / Al Hudson & the partners
Delerium / Francine McGee
Let no man put asunder / First Choice
Contact / Edwin Starr
Me and baby brother / War
Blackwater Gold / The sunshine band
Rock me again & again / Lynn Collins
Starting too fast / Th HT's
Brick House / Commodores
Give up the Funk / Parliament
Get the funk out ma face / Brothers Johnson
Fire / Ohio Players
Slide / Slave[/quote]


that's just the sort of stuff i meant

Blimey are there legions of 'Bedroom Heroes' (always thought that was a great name for a band but already taken..grr), playing Thin Lizzy bass lines in West Sussex...lol.

By the way, good shout whoever mentioned the Rush Song, it's really good!

I'm gonna have a stab at the Rush track (far cry), not before i've slowed it down to about 85% of the speed first though!...I think attempting a Geddy Lee bass line 12 months in is a bit insane.

As someone once said to me..."to play fast, learn it slow and speed it up "

[quote name='parker_muse' post='57814' date='Sep 9 2007, 05:28 PM']Apparently they were terrible on the saturday night at twickenham[/quote]

I keep hearing conflicitng reports, I have to say that the bootlegs i've heard don't exactly blow me away, not when you see how good they were when they were touring the first time round.

[quote name='bnt' post='57520' date='Sep 8 2007, 08:45 PM']Can't go wrong with a bit of Rush, and there's plenty on YouTube e.g [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S9uNxUI9ng"]Far Cry[/url] (2007) is not their most gnarly work by a long shot, but it offers some fun time signature practice. Probably the most bass-visible track off of Snake & Arrows is [i]The Main Monkey Business[/i]: there are already videos up there or people making a Dog's Dinner out of it.

If you have a copy of Yes' 90125 handy, that has a song called [i]Our Song[/i], which I remember Bass Player magazine calling "a one-song electric bass primer". It's one piece that I learned quite early on in my bass studies... and have relearned several times since 1984. I think Chris Squire is playing his Mouradian "Green Fish" bass on that one.[/quote]


Don't really like Rush as a rule but that track is pretty good

[quote name='Super_Mario_Bass' post='57727' date='Sep 9 2007, 02:02 PM']push yourself, its the only way forward.

join a band, not every band is young.[/quote]

Sorry it's a hobby. too many comitments to able to put in the hours a band would need

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='57691' date='Sep 9 2007, 11:50 AM']Try and join a band. The material they do will dictate what you should learn. There are always bands looking for bass players - even if you dont get the gig straight away the experience of doing the auditions, learning the songs and playing with others will be worth much more than learning new songs just to play by yourself.[/quote]

I'd love to wife + kids + 20 years too late...say no

Just finised working on "one of these nights" by The Eagles & "Dancing In The Moonlight" by Thin Lizzy.

I seem to have hit a bit of a brickwall where my technique is rubbish but I can't seem to correct it. I know you shouldn't comapre yourself to other people but guys on Youtube etc seem to have brilliant hand shapes when they are fretting but mine still are a real struggle after a year

Hi Guys,

I've gone beyond learning easy stuff and i'm looking for intermidiate bass lines to learn but i'm struggling for ideas....any suggestions?

[quote name='Shaggy' date='Sep 6 2007, 09:56 PM' post='56717']
That wasn't obscure, I think it might been ave been No.1
Best "obscure" track for me would be "Do wht you wanna do" by T.Connection. Groovy bassline, baby!
I was recently in Disco/Funk band that refned its set-lit to what worked, and was;

Hot Stuff Donna Summer
Boogie Oogie Oogie Taste of honey
iAn't no stoppin us now McFadden & Whitehead (FAB!)
Blame it on the Boogie Jackson 5
Lost in music Sister Sledge
Ladies Night Kool & the gang
Boogi Wonderland Earth Wind & Fire
Bad Girls Donna Summer
Superstition Stevie Wonder
Lady Marmalade Labelle
Le Freak Chic
That's the way I like it KC & the sushine band
Disco Inferno Trammps
Get down on it Kool & the gang
Nutbush city limits Tina/Ike Turner
Boogie Nights Heatwave (nice bass intro)
Shame shame shame Shirley & Co
Carwash Rose Royce
Rock your baby George McCrae
Shake your body Jackson 5
We got the Funk George Clinton/Positive Force
Boogie on Reggae Woman Stevie Wonder (Marcus Miller did great take on original Moog bassline)
Streetlife Randy Crawford/Crusaders

Hope that helps - got tabs for most of above if u want! None techincally hard, but some tricky timings - you got to feel the groove! A MusicMan helps of course.
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When I said obscure...i meant stuff I wouldn't have heard before, not the ususal suspects like A taste of honey!

[quote name='Gazm' post='57172' date='Sep 7 2007, 07:46 PM']That list reminds me of why I like punk so much and why it came about [/quote]


I like both...why stick to one genre?