daz

Ah come on. One of you clever musical buggers must know the answer to it ?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1316531977' post='1379285'] Roath Park Lake in Cardiff is full of them & they're all bloody massive! [/quote] dont they die off in the winter? I know last winter the avarage temperature was below freezing for 31 days on the run!! (well in the north West anyway.)

[url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dragnet-Fall/dp/B00012PMQO/ref=pd_sim_m_h_1"]Dragnet[/url] by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(band)"]The Fall [/url](yet again)

This is no problem, im just wondering why on my avatar is says below it 806 posts (seems to have stuck on this all night) and on my profile the number is 1,332 posts ? like i said not complaining just wondering ?

[quote name='paul torch' timestamp='1316436062' post='1377933'] Steve Coogan once asked me if he could play my bass once ( he was "inspired" I said no ) proof: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM[/media] [/quote] brilliant. have to view it all on dvd now.

welcome Leeds person. [i]Now then [/i]to yourself.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1310666746' post='1303878'] Good question! And permit me to direct you to this gem; [url="http://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm"]http://www.liutaiomo.../perception.htm[/url] Makes for good reading about "tension/compliance". Others here have posted it before, and the consensus seems to be that it's accurate enough. [/quote] cheers for that.

Its FREE. get down there and pick it up you ungrateful south welshies

It seems the 'deeper' i go into the site the slower it gets. ie: forum /sub forum /sub sub forum /topic/page 2. etc etc

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1316377584' post='1377281'] It's more about knowing what I'm doing. I would feel a lot more confident and I'm fairly sure I would play more fluently and with less mistakes if I didn't rely on what little knowledge I have right now. It would also make it easier to communicate ideas with other musicians especially non-guitarists, and it would make songwriting easier too, and also working out harmony parts and stuff. Generally I think it would be beneficial to everything I do. I think fingering is something that is best decided by the instrumentalist according to their own physical ability. You are also assuming I am talking about bass guitar. I play double bass too, and all the accepted wisdom states that I [i]shouldn't[/i] be using 4 fingers as a matter of course. [/quote] well said that man.

I seem to have notifications of someone quoting a post of mine when they didnt. Dunno what thats about ? Is there any way to turn that notification feature off ?

I dont know if this is related, but my [b]topics[/b] and [b]posts [/b]catogories seem to have shrunk to the last few days posts, but even then i seem to have at least one topic and post missing ?

...[b]Red Indians [/b]? like on the old Westerns ? Is it just the drumming, [i]or[/i] is it a particular scale from that sort of music ? ( like the Arabic scale can be used to easily bring that area of the world and its people to mind) I dont suppose Native American music scale exsists ? (yes i did actually Google it. It was rather vague) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Ikdsr2bJs[/media]

I have made a small pocket booklet by folding a piece of A4 four times. On this i write down the scales, so i can whip it out and learn it whever i have a spare five. [b]Doddy [/b]made me realise it is important to know the scales and chord tones properly, in as much as with learning shapes if I am not concentrating I might name of the minor third of G minor is A# instead of Bb, etc.

I have seen him in old magazine adverts with a stingray.

[quote name='silddx' post='1375702' date='Sep 16 2011, 04:38 PM']I have yet to see a 70s three bolt Fender for sale that didn't have a wonky neck pocket and the strings well out of alignment due to the neck being out of wack. Have a look at any that come up for sale and you'll almost certainly find the G almost falling off the neck edge and the E half an inch in from the edge. That would piss me off so much I could never buy one. You can of course yank the neck back into place like the Fender reps used to do [/quote] Oh Fender reps would never do that would they? Of course they would. But its the first I have heard of it How did this come about then. Do tell ?

[quote name='Coilte' post='1375378' date='Sep 16 2011, 12:17 PM']This is a great all round site for bass. It deals with intervals here : [url="http://www.studybass.com/lessons/intervals/basic-intervals/"]http://www.studybass.com/lessons/intervals/basic-intervals/[/url][/quote] + 1 on that Its a quality website for learning bass theory. I learned my shapes from there very quickly, that was the easy part. Then you realise you need to know the neck, so that you can make it easier for yourself to get around quicker ie: on a C minor triad maybe its easier for you to pick/pluck your flatted third E on the 6th fret of the A string rather than the 1st fret of the G string. and so on. There is no getting around knowing the neck really. It needs to be known so you can look at a fret and know straight away what note it is (not that I can yet. Its taking an annoyingly long time. ) The first five fretts may be the [i]"money makers" [/i]as victor Bailey's dad says. But you still need to know the rest, as he actually proved on stage as Manchester Bass day last year, by reciting fret and string numbers and naming the notes.

[b]Scorchio[/b] !!

In the car and motorbike world; A 'Classic car' is anything pre 1973. A 'Vintage car' is anything pre 1930 (and 'Veteran' is pre 1914) So if we [i]losely[/i] apply this to the guitar world (or any instrument) Then, using those years, but with different classes I would say the [b]1973[/b] cut off point might be a valid place for the .Vintage class. So lets say from now [size=4][font="Verdana"] 'A [i]vintage bass [/i]is anything pre 1973'[/font][/size]. [Daz has spoken. Let it be thus. Report anyone to me who says differently and I will fine them (im saving for an EAD cab, so I need the money ]

Thanks for keeping us informed BB. Things are looking a little brighter then. But like i mentioned before, I would go [i]wherever[/i] it was held, and whatever the price (within reason) as i enjoyed last years so much, and was one of the faithfull few who stayed the entire day ( I left after Billy did his bit, just before the draw was made. Had to catch a train) Being as he is now on the schedule I would be a fool not to go and see MM with anything less than an open mind. My only annoyance was the date being chaged seemingly to just put MM on the bill. (which obviously made the RNCM unavailable as it probably already had something booked for that date ??) But its done now, so thats that. I hope to make the aquaintance of some of you there. The only one i recognized last year was DooD.

[quote name='deanovw' post='1373754' date='Sep 14 2011, 09:11 PM']thanks Daz. Do you know who to email? These are all the pics I have.[/quote] There is this guy whos supposed to be good: [url="http://www.chambonino.com/"]http://www.chambonino.com/[/url]. But i have never personally used him. A personal recomendation is worth a ton of advertising, in my book. So hopefully someone here can give you a pointer. I would put up a seperate message here asking for someone to recomend a vintage amp repair guy who really knows what hes doing, that they know or have used themselves.

Im sure someone here can give a [i]personal[/i] recomendation for a [i]trusted[/i] old school amp repair guy. Hopefully all he would need is several detailed pics emailed to him, to give you a ballpark repair quote. Maybe you could get the quote before making an offer on the amp. Dont know much about them but i do belive that Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys is using one at the moment for live work. ( After kicking these into touch for it: Orange AD30TC -Vox AC30 -Blackface Fender Twin Reverb ) So they must have something, im sure he could have whatever he wanted.

[quote name='charic' post='1373735' date='Sep 14 2011, 09:02 PM']I prefer Bill [/quote] Me too. I prefer Bills Yamaha bass as well. But a guy who is not afraid to go head to head with Victor Wooten, must have something other than balls and ego