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[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1479321983' post='3175672'] If you were ever in doubt that they are works of art: https://ritter-instruments.com/newsletter.php [/quote] Holy moly that's a crazy bass!

[quote name='Marsik' timestamp='1479248807' post='3175131'] Tweed is great when it's new! I felt in love with White Hot finish. [/quote] The tweed's holding up fine, I don't think it's the same stuff as old fenders for example. However I am getting footprints on the top of the tweeterless cab, which goes underneath. I'd suspect the white hot finish may be even more susceptible, so careful! Enjoy the cabs though, can't part with mine.

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1479243121' post='3175060'] I could swear that my DB112's used to have a 'pair' of Speakon connectors... are these very old or very new versions? [/quote] Mine are getting on a bit but have the same panel. Still swear the tweed improves the tone too.

There's a really useful video by Scott Devine on this one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VmBy7XA0ceI For me it boils down to- reach pinky, slide to next note, cross string and repeat. Reverse for descending. As to why, it's always useful to be over capacity in terms of technique, it affords a degree of grace that is more pleasant to listen to. Think Ferrari doing 100 miles an hour rather than a Ford Focus. You cover the same amount of ground but i believe the former would be more graceful! If you want to hear this in action have a listen to the numerous play along videos springing up to Vulfpeck's Dean Town. They can play it, but Joe Dart's over capacity technique affords him the opportunity to put more inflection and style into the lines which gives it so much more life. (At least to the plays alongs I've watched so far, and if I did one I'd view my own playing the same way!)

On guitar duties I always preferred a compact valvestate 412 over the regular 1960a/b jobs. Nowadays I cringe at the thought of using a 412 full stop!

Seen the Demeter in the for sale section?

Never played 'cool' the same way twice on a show. Even if I've got it right someone else is out!

Someone on here said the formula for playing country was play as little as possible then halve it.

Try let's have lunch from sunset boulevard. Sounds like a simple walking part then you twig it's changing key and time signature all the time and it's nearly 10 minutes long!

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1478631059' post='3170485'] It's such a shame they are playing at Cheltenham town hall again, the sound in there is terrible for loud amplified music. Last year it took most of the gig to get the sound half decent. I'd rather see them in the big tent thing, but I suppose they can't cram as many people in it [/quote] Fingers crossed for desk recall then!

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1478286617' post='3168242'] Here you go - lots in Swedish, but looks like there is some cool old footage in there. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iuOXQaKo8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iuOXQaKo8[/url] [/quote] The most fun I've had watching a Swedish documentary with my clothes on. (I blooming love Tommy Cogbill too)

Cheltenham jazz festival tickets purchased. Very excited.

Based on Friday nights gig, better than the guitarist.

Had great fun doing Grease. The guitarists and I had a running bet on how many Zep quotes we could fit in. Guitar 1 took the prize when he opened his solo in Grease Lightening on the final night with a perfectly executed Black Dog riff.

Know it inside and out, apart from the bass lines! I do all the arrangements for the keys, horns and lots of the guitar parts, so write them all out by ear mostly. By that point it's normally time to go to rehearsal and the only part I haven't learnt is mine....

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1477642429' post='3163479'] Playing with a really good drummer is, for me, the most liberating experience as a bass player. Everything just seems to fall into place. [/quote] A blessing and a curse. Once you've played with one who's really got it, you never feel like you play as well with anybody else, even if they're good time keepers etc.

Been Prince.

[quote name='Cuzzie' timestamp='1476737371' post='3156888'] Well this is an LH1000 with a Barefaced Supertwin. It's plain Evil! [/quote] 2 asats! Monster!

Never mind the guitarist what about sax and trumpet players? Ours are lovely but one doesn't realise temperature and humidity make a massive difference and the other looks at the tuning pipe and goes, it's never been set there before, can't be right.

Turned up for a pit gig band call in the sticks. Drummer dumps his kit in a big pile, scratches his chin and says, 'Now let me see if I can remember how all this goes together.....' Was a long week.

Willie Weeks- just the perfect halfway point between virtuoso and band member. And if Joe Dart had been around in the 90s when I was starting out I would have lapped it up.

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1476429589' post='3154141'] My advice would be to practise reading as often as you can. Certain rhythms and note groupings crop up quite regularly, so once you learn to spot them, then it's all stuff that you've played before, so there aren't really any surprises. If it's a 'sight reading' gig, then I'd echo what's been said on here already; take a couple of minutes to read through the score to see if there are any complicated rhythms or fast runs that need a bit of prep and play them through in your head (visualise where your hands will be on the fingerboard) to mentally prepare yourself for playing them. Other than that, just relax and have fun with it. [/quote] This is a great tip. Have a rhythmic vocabulary as well as a harmonic vocabulary. I was taught at uni its better to play a wrong note in time than a right one out of time! Which has got me out of a pickle on many an occasion.

[quote name='TorVic' timestamp='1476457959' post='3154535'] Thank you for that. [/quote] Here here

[quote name='AdamWoodBass' timestamp='1476411291' post='3154086'] Just finished a transcription of the bass part if anyone wants a copy? Bit ropey as I have't transcribed for about 10 years but it'll do! [/quote] Why not? Yes please.

Joe. Dart. On. The. Fen. Der. Bass