Earbrass

[quote name='bubinga5' post='949037' date='Sep 8 2010, 01:30 AM']are you not in a band Golch.maybe try and get involved...[/quote] This. I also play a variety of instruments to different standards, and for me at least, bass guitar is the instrument I play [b]with other people[/b]. For solo playing, there are other instruments that I find more rewarding (in my case keyboards, accordion and melodeon), and for me the bass really only comes into its own when played as part of a group, but in that situation there's nothing I'd rather be playing.

[quote name='silddx' post='949155' date='Sep 8 2010, 09:35 AM']More lofty prejudice.[/quote] Kettle, kettle, come in kettle, this is pot. I wouldn't do it myself because I'm not nearly good enough, but listening to John Wetton improvising out of his skin with Crimson (LIVE) was one of the things that got me into bass. I'd cite the live version of Schizoid man recorded at the Concertgebouw in Nov 1973 as my fave example, but there's loads of others.

[b]The Tell[/b], London's very own female-fronted Pagan Rock band, continue their ‘It’s Thursday so this must be E1’ gruelling mega tour [b]THU SEPT 30th[/b]: The Rhythm Factory [url="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&g=&q=rhythm+factory+whitechapel+road&btnG=Search+Maps"]http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sour...tnG=Search+Maps[/url] (nr Aldgate East tube, on Whitechapel Rd) - due onstage @ 8.00 for a 30 mins set. SAT OCT 2nd: The Birds Nest (Deptford) [url="http://www.fancyapint.com/pubmaps/map_1586.php"]http://www.fancyapint.com/pubmaps/map_1586.php[/url] Think we're first on, but no idea what time. SAT NOV 13th: Roadtrip Bar, 243 Old Street EC1 - due onstage at 10.00 Thanks for you attention. As you were

[quote name='Rayman' post='938156' date='Aug 27 2010, 03:19 PM']Anyone else just have the one?[/quote] Very nearly. I have two, but they're the same make and model and they're usually kept about 100 miles apart. Having two is just a way of cutting down on the stuff I carry from place to place.

[quote name='skej21' post='946991' date='Sep 6 2010, 10:47 AM']Why? That is totally lost on me I'm afraid lol[/quote] There was some ermm, "spirited" discussion of whether any amp in the history of space could possibly compete with an Ampeg SVT.

[quote name='skej21' post='946909' date='Sep 6 2010, 09:10 AM']"Upgrading" to a heavier, bulkier amp with delicate valves that are more likely to break if i'm lugging it about 3 times a week, is not my idea of a good investment.[/quote] You should have been here last week.

[quote name='silddx' post='943631' date='Sep 2 2010, 04:42 PM']That's one of Dylan's better lyrics.[/quote] Wiki: "The Windmills of Your Mind" (Les moulins de mon cœur) is a song with music by Michel Legrand, as well as Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, and lyrics by the Bergmans, from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair.

Reading this thread has made me realise where I've been going wrong. I've been putting my amp on stage and using it to amplify my bass. I now realise I should have been stuffing it down the front of my trousers and using it to demonstrate my superior manhood. D'oh!

[quote name='throwoff' post='922465' date='Aug 12 2010, 11:00 AM']Right. I have been reading through this place for some time now and it seems to me that if we all HAD to play the same bass starting right now it would be the following - Squier VM Jazz Badass Bridge Wizzard Pickups John East Pre Who on BC would accept this bass as their one and only if forced to give up the rest of their gear? Also what is the BC amp? I was thinking little bastard but not so sure.[/quote] Bit posh for me, but as long as it weighed no more than 8.5 lbs, and I could remove or bypass the pre-amp, fine.

[quote name='charic' post='922464' date='Aug 12 2010, 11:00 AM']Im sure there was a difference when I looked at the freq response charts for each... Cant remember though![/quote] Maybe that's just down to the grill & foam linings, though? Agree that dynamic mics are better for miking cabs / drums, or screaming through at gigs. I'd go for a condenser every time for recording acoustic instruments.

I've just been A/B ing the two versions you linked to, and though I'm not really a good judge of this sort of music, I think your version sounds better - more full and heavy -though that may be partly down to whatever YouTube do to their audio.

Sorry, probably not what you want to hear, but spending money you don't have on stuff you don't need is a mug's game, imho.

[quote name='Stag' post='920018' date='Aug 9 2010, 08:28 PM']OK... my dream bass has turned up for sale at a dealership.[/quote] The thing about dreams is that, sooner or later, you wake up. [quote name='Stag' post='920018' date='Aug 9 2010, 08:28 PM']I know ill never ever want another bass after it ...[/quote] Of course not.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='919526' date='Aug 9 2010, 12:51 PM']Shushun frmmnt ssereo , pithic funch :snob:[/quote] "Pithic Funch" - is that 'name the cover band' thread still going? I think we might have a winner here.

"Free Wynton Marsalis"? Hmmm, that sounds like a good idea for a song....

[quote name='Dandelion' post='915085' date='Aug 4 2010, 04:06 PM']Rock Dysfunction.[/quote] Only just got that one!

- Borrowed And Blue (I used to be in a duo called this) - The Pre-nuptuals

- By Appointment - Gretna Green Groovers - Next Year In Reno (for the cynical wedding band )

[quote name='arsenic' post='914332' date='Aug 3 2010, 09:46 PM']I first met them in 2003, and the other half a few years before. Currently up to 12 studio albums and a best of. Hunt down a copy of the Vampyre Erotica and Beltaine albums - or better still get along to see them live, Candia has a great voice live - great band and great people.[/quote] Cheers, I'll try to do that.

[quote name='arsenic' post='912119' date='Aug 1 2010, 06:48 PM']By some friends of ours..... [/quote] Like it. I probably should know more of this stuff, as the band I play with describe themselves as Pagan, and we have lots of songs on similar themes to Inkubus Sukkubus.

[quote name='gjones' post='907759' date='Jul 28 2010, 12:10 AM']He's the dogs wotsits![/quote] Careful now...

When there's a thread in praise of a player or genre that I don't like or in which I am not interested, I generally don't bother posting to disagree with the general sentiment. There's no real point, as it's all just a matter of taste and opinion, and I've seen too many threads descend into pointless name-calling and bad feeling just because people like different things. However, when people start to take the absence of any dissent as a sign that the player or genre in question is unversally held in high esteem, it is perhaps worth reminding people that other points of view exist. I do understand that many people here find it surprising that a bassist could fail to rave over JJ's playing, but then again I was genuinely surprised, when I first came to this site some years ago, to find that Motown was taken even slightly seriously by people calling themselves musicians. I think that just shows how we can all get used to talking to people we agree with, and quietly forget that there are a lot of other people out there that think differently. I can't honestly say that I [b]don't[/b] rate JJ as a player, it's more that I've never really listened to him because I have no time at all for the kind of music he played. I don't think that makes me 'daft', just someone with a different opinion and different tastes. I think it just goes to show what a diverse bunch we are, with very diverse tastes, which is somehing we should probably celebrate rather than fight over. Just my 2p. OK, back to the JJ lurve-fest.

[quote name='Ajrt' post='905700' date='Jul 26 2010, 12:41 PM']Stop being a spoilsport.[/quote] Sorry.

There is simply no such thing as a bassline that everyone 'should' know.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='904665' date='Jul 25 2010, 12:20 PM']I just feel lucky to be able to play good music to people that appreciate it.[/quote] I just feel lucky to be able to play bad music to people that don't throw stuff. ps <only joking if my band read this>