Earbrass

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1328283636' post='1524982']
How much??!!!
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[size=4]Those "[/size][font=Arial][size=2][size=4]MONYGRAMED GIG BAG"s don't come cheap you know.[/size] [/size][/font]

^^^^^^^^^

What he said.

Love the way it goes from huge growl to sweet round tones and back on this one:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8zbPRvVIwA[/media]

And, featuring the most tasteful ten second bass solo ever at 3:30 -
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8R6T60fb0[/media]

PM'd

[quote name='The Funk' timestamp='1267623042' post='762919']
It's worth knocking one out just to counteract the unfavourable rules for partnerships.
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[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1327572805' post='1513430']
My current guitar fondler use a line 6 amp and pedal combo.
It worries me.
I`m already making plans for when it goes down during a show.
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http://basschat.co.uk/topic/165521-crate-cpb150-power-block-150w-amplifier-l120-posted-to-within-uk/

I thought the address for this gig looked familiar - we played there a year or so ago - in fact, that was our last (ever?) gig. I remember that the kick drum was galloping accross the floor at a rate of knots - our drummer was continually having to grab it and drag it back. There were too many mic stands and stuff in the way for us to get our feet properly in front to stop it moving. Ah, happy days....ish.

Thanks for that CyberBass. It is indeed a nice little thing.

[b]SOLD: CRATE CPB150 POWER BLOCK: 150W Stereo/Mono Guitar Amplifier: £95 posted to within UK (£85 collected from SE London)[/b]

Really nice example of this amp, in excellent condition. Complete with original box, User Manual, carrying case and power lead.
Great little back-up amp. The secret of using with bass guitar is not to use the pre-amp, which is designed for guitar and set to distort at quite low levels, so that if you want a clean tone you can't have much volume. Thanks to the flexible routing options, though, it's dead easy to bypass the pre-amp, and feed a line from your SansAmp or whatever straight into the power amp section, which works a treat.

- headphone out
- 3 band eq
- mono/stereo power amp input / fx loop
- DI out on XLR
- cd/mp3 input

Cute as a kitten and with a very cool blue light. How could you resist?

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[b]Stuff on-line:[/b]
[url="http://www.zzounds.com/item--CRACPB150"]http://www.zzounds.com/item--CRACPB150[/url]
[url="http://www.harmonycentral.com/reviews/345826"]http://www.harmonyce.../reviews/345826[/url]
[url="http://www.harmonycentral.com/products/39171"]http://www.harmonyce.../products/39171[/url]

[b]Specs:[/b]
CRATE CPB150 POWER BLOCK: 150W Stereo Guitar Amplifier
Output: Mono: 150W RMS @8 ohms
Stereo: 75W RMS per side @4 ohms
Tone Controls: Low 20db range @ 110 Hz
Mid 15db range @ 1kHz
High 20db range @ 10kHz
Dimensions: H 3.2 ins
W 10 ins
D 5.6 ins
Weight: 4.6 lbs

[b]My feedback[/b] : [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/40763-feedback-for-earbrass"]http://basschat.co.u...ck-for-earbrass[/url]

How about basschat+1, so we can join in with particularly heated exchanges we just missed out on?

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1326282315' post='1494810']
The fun is in between these far out styles, more towards the center where right of centre the manager is in control with a lot of input from his team and left of centre the team members have the majority of ideas and input into the outfit.
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Can I just add, as someone who has spent nearly 30 on the receiving end of management of varying quality, that in my experience the most important rule of being managed is to avoid dispelling the illusion managers have that they are in control.

[quote name='janmaat' timestamp='1325837332' post='1488408']
Diatonic squeezebox: family tradition (Plattdeutsch shanties & stuff)
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Wow - another one! What box(es) do you play, and what keys? Have you checked out [url="http://forum.melodeon.net/index.php"]melodeon.net[/url] - (there's plenty of interest there in continental music) ?
I have a (Chinese) Hohner pokerwork in D/G that I play for morris. [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmarksteele/6163445607/in/photostream/"]That's me on the left.[/url]

Other instruments I play:
Piano - from early childhood - I did Grade VI, and O and A level music, but I'm mostly a blues / jazz player.
Guitar - from age 12, but I never really mastered it - still can't do barre chords!
Bass - from age 17, but with a big gap (about 20 years) - started again about 6 or 7 years ago
Piano accordion - got this a few years ago, but it doesn't get much use now as I'm much more focused on the melodeon.

Piano, bass and melodeon are the only instruments I've gigged in public.

[quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1325751694' post='1486939']
One of the marks of a properly professional musical approach is that you show some respect for your fellow musicians. Instance the number of people on here who routinely use the term 'guitard'. Many will no doubt protest that it isn't really intended as an insult, or that they don't really mean anything by it. Really? So it's ok to demean guitar players as long as you don't really mean anything by it? Is that how it works?

As a relatively (i.e. last 5 years or so) bass convert and former lead guitarist who worked f***ing hard to get as good as I did, I'm constantly dismayed by the level of snobbery on the part of some members.

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IMHO it's a classic "cultural cringe" response - bassists are for the most part used to being less noticed and less admired than guitarists, and so form a kind of defensive anti-guitarist snobbery in response. It's a bit like the stereotypical Scottish and Welsh attitudes to England (especially with regard to sports). Don't waste your energy worrying about it.

[quote name='nick' timestamp='1324412099' post='1474019']
I paid £20 for this 70's Kimbara a while ago.
Initially bought it, just to sell on, but I loved the U-profile neck so much, I decided to keep it. Had the pickups rewound by Wizard, rewired it & changed the bridge. Frequently take it out & no issues gigging it, when I fancy a change from P-Bass.
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My first ever bass was a blonde one of those. Lovely tone, as I recall, but weighed a ton!

I love the look, sound and feel of my £50 s/h Peavey Milestone III (red). I can't imagine wanting or "needing" another bass.

...and while the teams are doing that, Samantha's going to pop out to the local Museum of Door Furniture to have her own small collection valued. Apparently the curator has promised her that she can try out a selection of knobs while he evaluates her knockers...

[quote name='janmaat' timestamp='1324036100' post='1470004']
On that audition the other night, somebody suggested I tune my bass.

Hell no, I thought, I could damage the machine heads
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Or stretch the strings.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1323949526' post='1468972']
Actually, if you want to be picky, the version being played is the one off Shadows and Light with Jaco, Pat Metheny on guitar, Lyle Mays (kyb), Don Alias (dr) and Mike Brecker.
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Oops! I probably should have watched the video before posting.

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1323945209' post='1468894']
Ta for that - I consider myself edumacated.
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I'm afraid I think you've been slightly [b]mis[/b]-educated: the bass vioin was a historical precursor of the cello, rather than a cello [i]per se[/i].

[i]Bass violins were usually somewhat larger than the modern cello, but tuned the same or sometimes just one step lower than it. Contemporary names for these instruments include "basso de viola da braccio," "basso da braccio," or the generic term "[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violone"]violone[/url]," which simply meant "large fiddle."[/i] ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_violin"]bass violin wiki[/url])

Unless it's just a language issue, it may be that this instrument is a modern reproduction of one of these historical instruments.

According to [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hissing_of_Summer_Lawns"]Wiki[/url], it was [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bennett_%28musician%29"]Max Bennett[/url] playing bass on this track - Wilton Felder plays on a couple of others.

[quote name='lonestar' timestamp='1323730748' post='1466448']
I love Jaco's stuff on Hejira
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[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1323734572' post='1466499']
I agree with the comment on Hejira.[/quote]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1323894749' post='1468535']
(my favourite LP also).
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Isn't this off [i]The Hissing Of Summer Lawns[/i]?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1322747693' post='1455285']
Just had a pleasant surprise. In an effort to plug some aesthetic/historical gaps in my listening, I down loaded Carla Bely's legendary 'Escalator Over The Hill'. I was kind of expecting to be confronted with a bizarre mixture of free jazz and Kurt Weill (and I guess I did a bit) but its really good stuff; eclectic but interesting. And I had forgotten how good Jack Bruce's voice is.
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Ah yes, Carla Bley. If you haven't already heard it, you should check out the Hapless Child album, in which Robert Wyatt sings some of the stories of Edward Gorey. Fab band, including Bley and some of her regular companions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XDS8W3eu-I&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtRqUEtMsDg&feature=related

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1322478873' post='1451173']
The freedom of the market is sacrosanct. .... Don't stand on a soapbox with a megaphone outside someone's shop complaining about the prices.
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The freedom to complain about prices is as much a part of the "sacrosanct" free market as the freedom to price an item as you choose.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1322269032' post='1448900']
The whole thing was perverting and corrupting me.
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Now you're just making me nostalgic.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1322221418' post='1448088']
Did someone say something about Morris Dancing? Where did that go? Did I imagine it?
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Wasn't me.

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