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[quote name='stevie' post='1199296' date='Apr 14 2011, 12:36 PM']Still, I find it quite wonderful that little Tommy Tucker is threatening to sue you! You'll be able to tell that story to your grandchildren.[/quote] You shouldn't mock - he was a true pro of the old school, having to sing for his supper if the reports are to be believed. Further, his efforts would often secure him only a very modest meal of white bread and butter. Unable to afford even a knife with which to cut said meal, it is possible that his poor financial prospects were responsible for his failure to find a wife.

[quote name='flyfisher' post='1198835' date='Apr 13 2011, 10:37 PM']Amen to that. Each to their own, of course, but hi-fi is just a tool I use to listen to music, not a hobby in its own right.[/quote] I think the same could be said about bass gear, but I get the impression that it is a "hobby in its own right" for quite a few people on here.

Sound is vibration in air, or other medium. It's well known that the nature of that medium has a huge impact on the quality of the sound - try speaking with a lungful of helium if you have any doubts on this score. What is less well known is that adding a small percentage of methane to ordinary air will have a huge impact on bass response, giving extra punch and definition to the lower-mids. In order to guarantee a good level of methane in the atmosphere at your gigs, eat plenty of [b][i]Windhawks Patented Sprout'n'Beans Bassmix[/i][/b] an hour or two before you're due on. You'll be amazed at the difference.

I've heard of "coffee table" basses, but that one looks as if it might still have the fittings for the screw-in legs on the back - "picnic table" bass perhaps?.

[quote name='Musky' post='1194294' date='Apr 10 2011, 08:48 AM']They're an amazing prospect live - chaotic, frenzied and exhilarating.[/quote] Who knows, if they ever decide to try adding music to that heady mix, they could really be onto something.

[quote name='Hobbayne' post='1189448' date='Apr 5 2011, 06:36 PM']Good question! I cant remember anything twangy on the bass on records before 1976. Thin Lizzy and The Stranglers/Jam 1977? but 1975 and before I have no recollection of the twang [/quote] Check out Chris Squire's sound on the Yes albums of the early 70's, or John Wetton with Crimson from the same period.

[quote name='chaypup' post='1177940' date='Mar 27 2011, 09:04 AM']Guess the song! [b]Yn ac o amgylch y llyn, mynyddoedd yn dod allan o'r awyr, ac maent yn sefyll yno. Un filltir dros ac mi fyddwn ni yno ac fe wnawn ni eich gweld. Deg hafau a byddwn yn dychwelyd ac yn chwerthin hefyd. ar dau deg pedwar cyn fy nghariad i Mi fyddai yno i chi![/b][/quote] I didn't think I knew any Welsh, but I realised I knew that "llyn" was lake, and I recognised "mynydd" was to do with mountains...so it was easy from there! (now I come to think of it, both those pieces of information were gleaned from reading Alan Garner books as a child) Incidentally, I'm sure I won't be the only one to notice that translating the lyrics into Welsh makes them no less comprehensible.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1172980' date='Mar 23 2011, 09:43 AM']If you can afford nine months of instalment payments, then you can afford to save up for nine months and never need to take on the debt in the first place. Am I missing something?[/quote] No, you're spot on. If the scheme didn't make people buy more (or more costly) stuff than they would if they had to save up for it, there would be no incentive to run it.

[quote name='The Fly' post='1153686' date='Mar 8 2011, 12:38 PM']Bottom horn looks like a stray peice from a jigsaw!![/quote] That was my first thought. Perhaps if you buy the whole range they fit together to make a picture of a kitten or something.

[quote name='SteveK' post='1170642' date='Mar 21 2011, 01:39 PM']Cos without it my Precision wouldn't look like a proper Precision, and the knobs and socket would be dangling by their wires It was probably easier and cheaper to mass produce Fenders that way, and being as Fenders are the most copied...[/quote] So it should really be called a "gubbins-hider".

This kind of thing makes me sick. It's just pure snobbery. How many millions of people have you made happy today? Well?? Have you??? I answered "because".

Being 'cool' is [b]so[/b] noughties...

Major Bummer? Adjutant to General Dismay?

Is she in fact Holly Harper, Agony Aunt? [url="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/agony-aunt/your-problems-solved%2c-with-holly-harper-201103093612/"]http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/ago...r-201103093612/[/url]

I have a Roland Sonic Cell. [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell"]http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell[/url] It's a multi-function box - MIDI sound module, audio/MIDI interface, and most relevant for your purposes, a live performance box capable of replaying mp3s or standard MIDI files from a connected USB memory stick. Now, I've never used this last function, but it might offer a pc-less solution to your problem. The internal MIDI module is superb, but you should be able to connect other modules via the MIDI out and play those from the MIDI file too, I should imagine. Have a look here: [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell/live-performance.php"]http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell/live-performance.php[/url]

At 50, with no kids, debts or mortgage, I can afford pretty much any gear I want (except the "silly money" collectors' items), but I've also grown up enough to realise that having more 'stuff' doesn't make me happier (or a better musician), so I don't bother.

I'm guessing the seller thinks they'll get more by inviting offers than by a regular auction - hence the starting price which makes the auction a non-starter.

[quote name='Bezbass' post='1143275' date='Feb 27 2011, 01:29 PM']400 w would be amazing but [b]anything to tie me over[/b] would be great.[/quote] you might want to think about correcting that typo

[quote name='endorka' post='1156364' date='Mar 10 2011, 10:53 AM']However, as others have pointed out, it may not work as well as you think. If you are playing chords, typically someone really still needs to be playing bass.[/quote] Might one way round this be to use guitar-style fingerpicking, with the thumb plucking bass notes and the other fingers picking chords? (Painful till you get the thumb callouses though!)

The original thread on this topic was awesome. Not so keen on these "tribute" threads.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1155449' date='Mar 9 2011, 03:36 PM']Personally I don't pay attention to what cover bands are doing, what audiences they're playing to or what money they're making because it doesn't affect me at all. Our audience isn't going to go see them and their audience isn't going to come and see us, they're two completely different kinds of entertainment.[/quote] Absolutely. Saying that tribute bands are killing the market for interesting new music is a bit like saying that if it weren't for X-Factor and the like, primetime TV would be full of challenging new drama and intelligent documentaries.

There is a huge amount of folk tunes available on-line, mostly in ABC format (this is the [i]lingua franca [/i]of the folk world). This is a very useful format that allows tunes to be posted/stored in ASCII format, and there are free on-line programs that will convert ABC into standard musical notation and/or MIDI files( so there is actually no need to learn ABC notation unless you want to create your own ABC files). Typically, these will be melody only, though sometimes lyrics are included. A good starting point is here: [url="http://info.melodeon.net/index.php/page,abc.html"]http://info.melodeon.net/index.php/page,abc.html[/url] A good site for finding tunes you know the name of is here: [url="http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind"]http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind[/url] An excellent book for English folk tunes is : [url="http://folkshop.efdss.org/Combined+Sets/Hardcore+English+Set.html"]http://folkshop.efdss.org/Combined+Sets/Ha...nglish+Set.html[/url] which contains 300 tunes in standard notation and there is a CD to go with it. Hope this helps.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1152523' date='Mar 7 2011, 02:28 PM']I think what your saying ( and I agree with ) is that as long as the artist puts something of themselves into it then it could be considered creative so creativity comes as much through the performance as it does through the creation of the work. Which I suppose is what classical musicans would use to argue that they are not just playing covers[/quote] Yup, I think that's pretty much spot on. The idea of a band trying to copy a famous recording as closely as possible seems to be pretty much restricted to the pop/rock world. It's not what (decent) classical, folk or jazz players do, even when they are playing other people's music (and of course there are many pop/rock performers who do "creative" covers too!).

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1152419' date='Mar 7 2011, 12:56 PM']I went to see a play last night and all the actors did was walk around the stage speaking words that they did nt write and pretending that there were things on the stage that I couldnt see. I wish that these people would keep their childish playacting to themselves - unless actors only speak words which they wrote themselves then their not real artists [/quote] This is just silly. If the actors you saw were trying to reproduce, say, a well-known TV show, and slavishly copying the voices, mannerisms and actions of the more famous set of actors known for that show, then [b]that[/b] would be the theatrical equivalent to a tribute band.