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[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>

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='903075' date='Jul 23 2010, 12:24 PM']Nonetheless, no doubt, someone is thinking 'Motown? Jamerson? It's s**t'.[/quote]


[quote name='purpleblob' post='903086' date='Jul 23 2010, 12:31 PM']No doubt [/quote]

+1

[quote name='dougal' post='901697' date='Jul 22 2010, 10:22 AM']Give a guitarist, any guitarist, a bass guitar, and he can play Mustang Sally in five minutes.

Give a guitarist a proper bass and... it wouldn't be pretty.

It's a guitar.[/quote]

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='901729' date='Jul 22 2010, 11:05 AM']In construction, the double bass is the bass instrument of the violin family - violin, viola, violincello, and bass viol.

In construction, the bass guitar is the bass instrument of the guitar family - tenor guitar, guitar, baritone guitar, bass guitar.

However, it doesn't really matter.[/quote]

These.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='900194' date='Jul 20 2010, 03:52 PM']I expect Doddy will be wearing his hat in Germany this Friday at the Formula One gig, helping himself to free food and booze, whilst ogling gorgeous women and pocketing a great wage to boot.

Who's laughing now? [/quote]

Not you apparently.

PM'd.

[quote name='Lozz196' post='896253' date='Jul 16 2010, 08:53 AM']... and whats more rock n roll than a Marshall?[/quote]

...[b]not[/b] having a double hernia and chronic lumbago?

That's really beautiful. Good job.

How did you get into playing the viola da gamba? Do you use it a lot for modern music like this, or mainly for baroque and earlier?

[quote name='Spoombung' post='889566' date='Jul 8 2010, 02:46 PM']Singing suits. Money. Pomp. Awful lyrics. Yuk! [/quote]

+10000

[quote name='TomKent' post='888031' date='Jul 7 2010, 01:22 AM']These are fantastic musicians, fantastic sings and brilliant production![/quote]

You can't beat fantastic sings.

For a definitive and authorative explanation....

I've never really thought about it before, but I think it depends on which string I'm hitting. I use 3 fingers, and being a pianist by training, I think of them as 2(index), 3(middle) & 4(ring??). I think I mainly use 4 on the beat when the note is on the G or D string. Either of the others is more likely on the E & A. No idea why - I've never set out to play like that, it's just what comes naturally.

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' post='886372' date='Jul 5 2010, 03:40 PM']Rather wonderful and quite safe for work.
[url="http://vimeo.com/12658207"]http://vimeo.com/12658207[/url][/quote]

Excellent! Thanks for posting.

Never get tired of listening to this. Definitely in my all-time top 5. Maybe 3.



"...and though each little song
Was less than three minutes long,
Mike squeezed a solo in, somehow...."

[quote name='machinehead' post='876517' date='Jun 24 2010, 03:42 PM']If you listened to a rig with your eyes closed, could you tell its weight?[/quote]

Sounds like an idea for a tombola-style stall at the next Bass Bash. Bit like guessing how many pennies are in the jar.

[quote name='Shacky' post='865652' date='Jun 13 2010, 12:37 AM']A MIDI controlled Circuit-Bent Pikachu
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjO5PtxaNuA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjO5PtxaNuA[/url][/quote]


... and furthermore:

[quote name='RhysP' post='862241' date='Jun 9 2010, 03:56 PM']His solo stuff is great too - "Captain Lockheed & the Starfighters" is a long-time favourite of mine.[/quote]

Funnily enough I dug out my old vinyl copy of this the other day to play 'Ejection' to the rest of my band - one of our new tunes has a similar kind of feel.

Hawkwind were the first band I ever went to see play live - Harlow Town Park, summer 1974. I fear they were already past their best - would have loved to have seen them on the Space Ritual tour (as my elder brother did!).

[quote name='bumfrog' post='860952' date='Jun 8 2010, 01:19 PM']It's not too bad as I'm not playing against a guitar[/quote]

In an ideal world, of course, one would play bass [b]with[/b] a guitar rather than [b]against[/b] it, but how often do things work out that way?

I can do it in 4, using only "played with" as a link

1) Back in the late 1970s/early 80s I played in a "free jazz collective" with [b]Hugh Metcalfe [/b] (guitarist)
2) Hugh Metcalfe has played a lot with [b]Tony Oxley [/b](drummer)
3) Tony Oxley has played with [b]Bill Evans[/b]
4) Bill Evans has played with [b]Charles Mingus[/b]

I sold Mike a Gator case. Prompt payment, no problems, would gladly deal again.

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='854258' date='Jun 1 2010, 10:25 PM']The Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells.[/quote]

Fixed

[quote name='davidmpires' post='850094' date='May 28 2010, 09:45 AM']Hi Tim

Because I want to use my F1 more while i'm bandless and try some settings. But I might try your suggestion and connect the jamman to the H4 and to the pc.

I'm experimenting at the moment really.[/quote]

If I remember correctly, when using my MarkBass combo to record, I took a line from the DI out socket to the desk. This is before the main volume in the signal chain, so I could use the gain control to set the DI out level, and have the main volume at zero, hence no sound from the speaker, and no driving the power amp with no output load. Don't know if the F1 works the same way.

Started on piano at <6.
Acoustic guitar at 12(??) (I had initially wanted a bass, but had been talked out of it)
Electric guitar at 14(??)
Bass at 17
Piano Accordion at 48
D/G Melodeon at 49

Never really regarded myself as much of a guitarist - it's a poor third (jointly with PA?) behind piano and bass. I have only ever played in bands (excluding schoolboy "jam-sessions") as a pianist or bassist. Mind you, my guitar playing is brilliant compared to my efforts on the D/G melodeon (an instrument, for those unfamiliar with its quirks, with quite a few notes "missing", and which plays different notes on the same keys depending on whether you're pushing or pulling the bellows!)

[quote name='Bilbo' post='849348' date='May 27 2010, 12:46 PM']Most of all, you need to be the best musician you can possibly be.[/quote]

Without wishing to court undue controversy, I'm going to disagree with this a bit. Not that I've got anything against people being the best musician they can possibly be, you understand. It's just that I suspect that the most important qualities in a bass player have little to do with musicianship. Like being reliable - turning up when you're supposed to, with whatever gear you're going to need; doing stuff you've agreed to do when you said you'd do it, whether that's learning songs or printing off flyers. Being honest, friendly and constructive in your dealings with fellow band-members and others (fans, promoters, other bands, sound-people, bar-staff etc). Not having an over-inflated ego. Stuff like that.

OK, if you have all that in spades and no musical ability, you're still going to be a sh*t bass player. On the other hand, if you have none of those qualities, you can be the greatest musician on earth and still be a sh*t bass player. If I had to recruit a bassist, I'd be inclined to pick the reliable, friendly plodder with limited abilities over the super musician who's a nightmare to work with.

Just my 2p.