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  1. Earbrass
    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.
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    ...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...
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    [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 [/quote] Or stretch the strings.
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    [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. [/quote] Oops! I probably should have watched the video before posting.
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    [quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1323945209' post='1468894'] Ta for that - I consider myself edumacated. [/quote] 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.
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    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.
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    [quote name='lonestar' timestamp='1323730748' post='1466448'] I love Jaco's stuff on Hejira [/quote] [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). [/quote] Isn't this off [i]The Hissing Of Summer Lawns[/i]?
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    [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. [/quote] 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
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    [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. [/quote] 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.
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1322269032' post='1448900'] The whole thing was perverting and corrupting me. [/quote] Now you're just making me nostalgic.
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1322221418' post='1448088'] Did someone say something about Morris Dancing? Where did that go? Did I imagine it? [/quote] Wasn't me. [attachment=93835:aemo_squeezeyellow2.gif] [attachment=93834:aemo_morris.gif] [attachment=93834:aemo_morris.gif] [attachment=93834:aemo_morris.gif] [attachment=93834:aemo_morris.gif] [attachment=93834:aemo_morris.gif] [attachment=93834:aemo_morris.gif]
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    [quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1322146348' post='1447197'] The brain's memory capaicity is currently estimated at 2.5 petabytes (according to The Scientific American magazine) anyone know how many songs that is???? Edit: About 800 million! [/quote] [quote name='bremen' timestamp='1322146614' post='1447203'] That's at what compression ratio/bitrate? [/quote] Note too that you can remember more lyrics if you learn them in a smaller font.
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    I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this point has already been made, but the big problem for me with the 'dislike' facility is that it is unclear what it means. It may mean that one disapproves of a post, because it is rude or aggressive in nature, or simply that one disagrees with it. A member with a net negative score, and hence a 'bad' reputation, may have acquired it through persistent boorishness, or by consistently defending, however politely and reasonably, unpopular views. This seems unfair to me.
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    English, Irish or Scottish? If it's English, you might want to check out [i]The Bismarcks[/i] (bass parts played by piano left hand, but you'll get the idea). [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/Irenesinger?blend=15&ob=5#p/u/0/KHIT0svI4C4"]http://www.youtube.c...u/0/KHIT0svI4C4[/url] There's also the great compilation from the EFDSS "Hardcore English" [url="http://folkshop.efdss.org/Combined+Sets/Hardcore+English+Set.html"]http://folkshop.efds...nglish+Set.html[/url] You can buy the book, the double CD or both together.
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    Interesting. I remember seeing photos of a (presumably) home-made instrument with an electric bass guitar neck attached to a kick-drum as the resonating body. No idea what it sounded like, but it looked quite awkward to play.
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    Perhaps because I am a keyboard player first and foremost, or perhaps because I spent years "knobbing about with sequencers etc" producing soundtracks, I tend to start off by sketching everything out in MIDI. This means I can tinker with the tempo, the key, the instrumentation and the structure very simply and quickly, until I find a version that works. I then record the MIDI tracks to audio, and then use this a kind of guide scaffolding to record the real tracks round. Most of the MIDI stuff usually ends up being replaced by real instruments, but not all - drums and percussion I tend not to try recording for real, and MIDI piano / keyboard / tuned-percussion lines can sound very convincing (and I don't have a real piano / organ / vibraphone etc).
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    [quote name='blackmn90' timestamp='1320883522' post='1432883'] its funny how a lot of people panic when they get into the upper register. [/quote] ...or is it the other way round?
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    Can't decide which version I prefer... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cWq3mIp4cU
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66obirsT8hI&feature=related [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oor5C_JVdCQ&feature=fvst[/media]
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    I've posted these before, but what the heck... Mari Boine: Sami music from the far north of Norway [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kprl0CECykA[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5-q5oHtbg&feature=player_embedded[/media]
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    Big Gong fan here. My favourite album is Angels Egg, with I Never Glid Befoa as probably my all-time favourite Gong track. Very fond of side 2 of Camembert Electrique too. I first saw them in 1975, just after Shamal had come out. I also saw Hillage a couple of times - once soon after Fish Rising and again a year or so later. I saw Daevid Allen with Euterpe for the Good Morning album promotion tour, and then saw him again teamed up with Here and Now, who I used to go see fairly regularly round Essex in the late 70s. Happy daze.
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    [quote name='bottomfeed' timestamp='1274621172' post='845765'] Lemmy on Space Ritual was the main reason I took up the bass.... It was by far the best Hawkwind line up & sound, in my view. [/quote] +1
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    Wow. That's very nicely done indeed, and lots of fun to listen to. Thanks for sharing.
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    [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1319126219' post='1410337'] Oops, I didn't mean to dis the follicly challenged, who can also be quite distinguished [/quote] I have long hair AND am increasingly follicly challenged - slowly developing a sort of clean-shaven Bill Bailey look
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    It's just a site that hosts audio - a bit like flickr does for photos. There's some nice features like being able to leave comments on people's tracks, joining groups etc tacked on.
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