Dave Vader

also see this [url="http://davedoesntwriteanythingever.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/why-i-decided-not-to-go-and-see-kate_28.html"]http://davedoesntwriteanythingever.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/why-i-decided-not-to-go-and-see-kate_28.html[/url] Slight spammage, as I've now linked to my blog from 2 pages here. I apologise if this is bad form, but it is of interest to kate bush fans.

[quote name='Mark Dyer' timestamp='1396005795' post='2408869'] How many people here who complain about Smartphones at gigs have watched footage shot by people with smartphones at gigs on YouTube? ...thought so. [/quote] Absolutely never. Nor any other footage of gigs on youtube, it is invariably unlistenable, unwatchable and not good.

Ok, I realised it was a very complex issue and attempted to explain it all on my blog, if you have time, do have a read... [url="http://davedoesntwriteanythingever.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/why-i-decided-not-to-go-and-see-kate_28.html"]http://davedoesntwriteanythingever.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/why-i-decided-not-to-go-and-see-kate_28.html[/url]

[quote name='skychaserhigh' timestamp='1395995276' post='2408674'] A bunch of musicians who don't like live gigs ? What a depressing thought. No wonder live music venues are on their arses if even the musicians cant be bothered turning out ! [/quote] Luckily, there are loads of others who do. Takes all sorts to make a world, YMMV etc. etc. People are different. This is good.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1395954590' post='2408424'] I've seen pro players with Squiers... I suppose technically they're not cheap copies, though. [/quote] Jeff Healey. And they are Also good.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1395939261' post='2408234'] What - the frets, you mean? [/quote] You say Tomato, I say aubergine

Ah, you've ruined it..... I told you not to put those nasty speed bumps in it (Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone, Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone, Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone, Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone ,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone ,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,Idon'twantone,) I do a bit (edited for linebreaks, muppet)

Bugger, two of those are on my GAS list... not helping

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1395924140' post='2407949'] More to the point, how are you all getting tickets for KB before the official release date?! [/quote] Those who have been registered as fans on the official fan site (like my good self) were given a code to book early. resulting in yesterdays announcement that there are now 7 more dates.

Since Gibson seem to refuse to make an SG with P90s anymore, i had a peek at the Gordon Smith website. Those are reasonable priced, and selling GS-1 back in the 90s cos i needed to eat has always been a regret.... Oh dear god, I need one.

[quote name='miles'tone' timestamp='1395858158' post='2407291'] Nah, rock n roll is all about doing what you want and not compromising for anyone. So, you don't want to go out and be herded like cattle? Dude, you rock!! [/quote] Thank you, from the bottom of my big warm fluffy slippers [quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1395906745' post='2407703'] I actually don't like going to any gigs. At all. I don't want to watch someone else playing - I want to be gigging! [/quote] I do get this, very much. However, every now and then I see someone who does something really interesting that I would never have thought of, and it sends my writing off into wholly new directions. But it's always a weird support act, or some guy in an obscure tent at a festival. Never someone whose records i own already. This is the thing I like best about playing in an originals act, the multiband gigs where I get to see something I would never in a million years have bought a ticket for, or looked up online.

Rather than YOB, I always thought it would make more sense to buy yourself the dream bass you used to gaze at in fondness through music shop windows when you were about 13, and couldn't afford then. I was still just a guitarist then, and have really gone off Les Pauls since 1990. Also, Gibson made sh*te guitars in 1990... Am hunting down a P-90ed SG though, any year will do, but must be cheapish and say Gibson on the headstock.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1395828513' post='2406708'] *Waits for inevitable proof to the contrary* [/quote] I don't think there is any this time.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1395841699' post='2406951'] But the Hammersmith Apollo is not really a big venue is it? Unless it has changed since I was last there to see Suzanne Vega. [/quote] It's not about the venue size, it's the length of the sets, I rarely even listen to side 2 of a record i've put on these days. It reminds me of something else i like, and I put that on instead. And the adoring "this act can do no wrong" fans who would probably slice me up into little pieces if I were to say "oh i hate this song, it's a bit pony" who keep on cheering til the 6th encore, by which point, I want to make for the doors, but am worried that the 7th encore might be that weird b-side that never gets played ever, and that I love more than anything. I like festivals, because you can go to the back, and there is space, and a bit of sky. Plus, if you get bored after 15 minutes, there are at least 5 other stages with stuff you've never heard before playing. I prefer to hear things I have never heard before in a live context. Not some old duffer churning out the same old stuff I've heard a million times before. No sets over 45 minutes please. Ever.

See this topic..... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/233118-i-dont-like-watching-gigs/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/233118-i-dont-like-watching-gigs/page__fromsearch__1[/url] I know right?

Brought on by the rush of excitement at the delectable Kate Bush doing some live shows, I sat this morning with my fan's early release pass code to buy tickets, and then didn't use it. I know, in a sudden moment of clarity, I remembered that nearly every gig I have been to (big acts that is, not the down and dirty new bands in clubs and pubs, love those still) I have mostly been waiting for them to stop so I can go home and tell people I saw it. Usually I prefer the support bands, I don't think i can take listening to more than 45 minutes of any one artists music, or even the same genre. I also remembered that while I utterly adore about 35% of Kate Bush's stuff, the rest is a bit tepid, especially to stand up and listen to after driving all the way to London and paying for a hotel. But that's by the by. So I didn't buy a ticket, don't want to stand in a room where doubtlessly drinks are not allowed, wait years at the bar if they are, surrounded by people I neither know nor like, to squint for a decent view of kate, and not hear it properly due to some weird acoustic bouncing round my deaf ear, and being blinded by smartphone screens from all sides. No doubt I may regret it, but I for one am looking forward to hearing the final mixed version, while watching it on my TV with a bottle next to me, and my feet up. Middle age is fast approaching, and rock and roll is dead.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395835212' post='2406825'] So your guitarist looks at your new bass and asks: "What is it?". And you reply: "It's a [color=#333333][font=Calibri, sans-serif]Maelstrom Black Belemnite Concept Symetry Bass Guitar.".[/font][/color] [size=2][color=#333333][font=Calibri, sans-serif](Although you probably spell [i]symmetry [/i]correctly. Unlike this vendor.)[/font][/color][/size] [color=#333333][font=Calibri, sans-serif]And then, once everyone has finished laughing at you, you put it back in the rack and pick up your Precision again.[/font][/color] [/quote] No, you say it is clearly a Gretsch Electromatic, like it says on the headstock, he says, it looks like a hondo. And then proceed to the last step outlined above....

Paranoia. Please?

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/214884-fsft-greco-thunderbird-price-drop/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/214884-fsft-greco-thunderbird-price-drop/page__fromsearch__1[/url] if you really want an old school kick arse T-bird, get this from Cosmo (of this parish) it looks bloody marvellous.

I think they got slung somewhere, or left in one of his many house moves. I didn't like the gauge, he didn't like flats. We didn't use them, they are just strings, and a bit sweaty and nasty with it. Sorry to all those who would like them.

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1395000330' post='2397657'] That's a lot of strings, does he throw them away dya reckon? [/quote] Friend of mine had a massive bag of ex-steve harris flatwounds somewhere. Sadly i didn't get on with them, as they would have lasted me for the rest of my playing career I reckon.

[quote name='Sara SG' timestamp='1394810024' post='2395501'] Are you based in London? any pics of the bass? [/quote] I'm right down in deepest Devon, and might have pics somewhere.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1394739889' post='2394707'] It beats me why anyone takes so long chosing a bass. Just pick up an Argos catalogue. Less than £90. Job done. You can even chose black or red. [url="http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/039186.htm?cmpid=APPSOCIAL01"]http://www.argos.co....pid=APPSOCIAL01[/url] [/quote] This shows how much cheaper this stuff has become. My £30 Mustang, originally came from the Argos Catalogue in 1989, for £90. Same price 25 years later for the cheapest bass in there. Basses defy inflation shocker!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1394650406' post='2393751'] This is the key part. It's nothing to do with wanting a flash bass to show off with. As you mature as a player, you find out what it is you want. I wonder how many players would just go back and be happy playing that first bass that they learned on. [/quote] If they gave it a proper set-up and played it through a better rig than they undoubtedly started on, a fairly high proportion. Though few of them would admit it.

I have a black and maple fretless P I am thinking of moving on at some point, I defretted it myself a few years ago, and would shift it for peanuts if it went. It does weight roughly the same as a small island however, since it's an old Hondo, and made of plywood (possibly ply-lead) used to get a fairly decent Pino-esque noise with it in an 80s trib band I was in for a bit. Point being, defretting is very easy, and cheap basses are very cheap.