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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452030433' post='2945786'] That clip is crazy, if anything it tells me more about how far reaching James Brown's music was and still is. Blue [/quote] Yep.. He da man..... i love JB music, . . . aint nuthin tha sits in the pocket better. Have you seen the film Blue ? watch it, its Epic Chadwick Boseman was Awsome [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXnIz63pdlI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=vXnIz63pdlI[/url] i started to realise when i started writing songs how much JB is in my writing/playing i use to think, tell people its Maceo, as i have i think evething maceo has ever recorded. but no, its all roots JB ( with more than a peppering of T.O.Power)... ah,,,,, another Topic i think.

hi skol has your lava lamp leaked up there? It could just be the case, I had an old railway leather trunk that went moldy yet every thing else was ok. but just incase... A good check of any dampness, which you say you have done, but just damp air is enough this could be a tear in the felt or a ridge tile misplaced cracking the joint or led flashing maybe surrounding the chimney stack or bathroom vent fan etc. worth a quick check

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1452002384' post='2945363'] I think the difference here is he is stuck somewhere between originals and a covers band. The songs aren't going to be original, the audience will have heard them before. But they're not going to be the usual covers that people request. So, he won't be playing to people who aren't expecting to know the tunes like you do when you play originals. He will be playing to the "Play something we know" crowd. That's a very hard audience to play 'your favourite' tunes to. [/quote] [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1452003225' post='2945376'] Most entertaining band of recent times was an Italian band doing everything in the style of Johnny Cash. They were so good...but can understand you wouldn't want to see it too often... [/quote] Hi tim yea take your point even if it is their version of a song, that to me is in the same ball park as evolution, some times maybe if your sound is so diverse its prob the best way to do it, just to get people use to hearing your sound, then slip in originals. JTUK yep again good to see/hear these bands, but as you say once you have seen it then what? " in the style of" bands to me are not really ground breaking rather than cashing in on someone elses hard work, tho sometimes it works and worth watching, take "Osaka Monaurail" its original stuff in a jap james brown band, just a clone of everything james brown did sound, moves, suits, style, looks,everything.... would he have got the work he is getting without that assocation ? but his songs are good and i like it and yep payed to watch it, even tho i know its JB. all in all to me if you doing a cover or an original in your own style no matter how diverse you think it is some will like it some will hate it this is all a part of creating YOUR audience, but you will never know unless you try. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1QFLzBan30"]https://www.youtube....h?v=R1QFLzBan30[/url]

this is a good question, and sums up what i have loved doing for years. Regards..."knowing it wont have an easy audience to target" i wonder if the Sex pistols or gong thought this when they started ? I think if you take time out to create something new you are in breaking boundaries territory, which is apart of the fantastic evolution of music if you you have faith in what you do and surround your self with like minded players then the world is your oyster and people will respect that may even credit you to that style before someone else robs it ( if they see milage in it). there are a fair few players on here that do just that look at The Destroyers i would never have looked at them because what category do you put them ? but i love them, I have always tried to do this start bands that push it abit, im doing a 12 piece funk band at mo creating something what i think is new... we will see. So i think go for it, create, evolve, then cut out your piece of pie you will have rightly deserved

[quote name='oldslapper' timestamp='1451756628' post='2943160'] [URL=http://s1000.photobucket.com/user/basscoach/media/Hollywood%20killers/FB_IMG_1450554924594_1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1000.photobucket.com/albums/af124/basscoach/Hollywood%20killers/FB_IMG_1450554924594_1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/quote] To mime to night fever effectively A..... dont look where your pointing B......put strings on the bass great photo

"guess the artist..." teddy Pandon-gas ??? Pete Burns ( peter rabbit)?? "How do you know if it's their version or they are doing it wrong? " by the killer glances from the other players I.E... this i think is wrong... at a guess [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVoEb5Rm5eo"]https://www.youtube....h?v=SVoEb5Rm5eo[/url]

I cringe a bit at really bad overplayed pub blues, but on the whole i really dont mind as long as its played right, or at least about right like some effort has gone into it. so many bands play loads of the above wrong. take some of the examples All right now.... i rearly hear the bass played right in almost all of the bands i have heard doing this get lucky... same again, sounds simple but the bass hardly plays the same line , for alot of it its always changed in some way, players learn the same bit and play it over and over Superstition is another taken for granted Sweet Home Alabama, i think bands always play it too fast and never get the chorus right, the off beat feel, the chord change in the mid of the second set of off beats also bass kills it by playing all the octaves all the time... i want to shout..STOP IT. I think a good band who take time out to nail all the bits right ( as a cover) will always go down well no matter what they do because it will feel right and kudos for them taking the time to do that no matter what they do. I see songs as a jigsaw puzzle, as they are original all the parts slot together and mesh right, when you get only 1 band member who "wants to do it his way" it will never sound right, because they have changed their part of the jigsaw to another shape, and so i think people hear this and can tell it does not fit. it just means they cant be arsed to learn the original and want to jam on everybody elses hard work..... drummers are king at this, i have never seen one drummer ( local bands) play the zutons valerie right, the bass drum is right under the bass line and the song sounds naff unless that bass drum is underpinning the bass. If one person changes it then ok lets all change it and do another version of it. simples When i hear a band doing their version of a song... great, i want to hear that. but when i hear a band doing covers wrong,,,,thats when i want to run away.

i love marks playing, i like his no bull@hit approach to people as well come to that, like it or not he is one of the worlds best bass players and im not talking about just speed slapping but his finger playing is top draw, tight thoughtfull and catchy as hell and more to the point as a total package i dont know anyone who comes close to him, he has dedicated his life to attaining that with more than his fair share of personal loss and bumps along the way, but he never lost sight, strived on and is still at it ,101% respect, keep going mark you are inspirational. but as you say bub, yes i would like to see him more in other feilds using all his knowledge for other things which i know he does. in fact thinking about it i cant think of anyone else i would like more to produce my soon to be out funk cd, what a buzz....... hold on...i think iv just inspired myself to dare an email.

Jaco, got the music, read the book, wouldn't really want to watch the film. funny enough... james jamerson got the music, read the book... would love to watch the film. James Brown... got the music, read the books... loved the film.

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1449930639' post='2928103'] I sing (mainly backing and harmonies) and play and have done for nearly 20 years now but the first song I ever learned to sing and play together was Lady Madonna! The fairly busy riff and then all those octaves jumping around all over the neck was challenging enough for me to play at the standard I was at at the time but singing along was a whole new level of difficulty. I've had a certain amount of respect for him ever since. [/quote] you already sound way ahead of me, I find it hard, i feel if i had sang as i was learning rather than putting all the effort in just playing the bass i would be better now.. its so much harder later on trying to do it. sorry.. thats sort of obvious. with me it depends on what im playing if for eg playing rock n roll lines then its not so bad as you dont really think about what your playing, fingers just land in the right places, but lines where more thought goes in, rhythmic lines say i got no chance. same rules apply with backing vocals. my hat off to all those who can.

Yep i liked his playing also and lets not forget singing as well, how many of you can do that ??? its not easy. but he does have his short comings now and again i find funny. for eg ( not faulting here i just think its funny) he made a point of telling the guys its work and stop goofin but in this 10 bar song "That's alright mama" from 2:07 looses a whole bar [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWfOSKccLM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=tDWfOSKccLM[/url] for the fun ...here is a great clip of Elvis in the studio with a great feel on the bass. ( clearly showing how it should be done, no doubt the guy was contagious) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKOjcoJMyXw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=DKOjcoJMyXw[/url]

i got a strat from china, a "chat" paint finish was a very bad orange peel finish. nut was very cheap soft plastic neck finish was good but one dot off centre tuners look good with the f***** logo but were just sh*t, sorry but thats the only word for them. there must be 1/8 play in them pickups were weak. set up good gold hardware, good wood body too light, when you tap the body at what should be the solid wood parts it sounds hollow ! !. overall finish ? pants ...there is a hole that goes from the trem spring cavity through to the pickup cavity. neck joint ?... well you could store your spare picks in it if you use them. sound.... thin but the humbucker alone at the bridge was good. my squier strat is far far better, in every way. this put me right off ordering a bass. and the import duty alone with handling fees was £50ish Overall ?.......A "You buy cheap... you buy twice" feeling

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1444233990' post='2881442'] Sickeningly large number, and really don't need them at all. I need one bass. Why this number then? Because of huge curiosity combined with the wish to learn about basses - the feel, the sound, the this, the that... When I'm done learning (insert shrewd smiley here), then I'll bring back the number to one or a few at most. [/quote] Yep, some people collect stamps some people collect blow lamps, i met a guy this week who collected Jazz figures ! his house was full of the new and old, amazing. I wonder if the same question has been asked on a spoon forum?,,,, for me tho they offer far more than a spoon, they are functional to what i do and enjoy, as bass tractor says they all have a voice, another reason is they are an investment, for the most they are money in the bank !! some people collect money, i like to have a bit of fun with my money rather than it sitting in the bank, its good to try new things, but i cant get rid of the old incase,,,,iv heard it a 1000 times "sorry i got rid of XXXXX" .... when i retire i will have a great collection to sell and its been a fun ride.... but for now i cant bring it back to one even if i had to,

two if i may,,,,,, I dont know why, but i always thought that Lyrics was just poetry added to music, and the music was always the biggest catchment of my attention, from the best album on the planet.... (me thinks.. ) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJH0x1CTho"]https://www.youtube....h?v=pvJH0x1CTho[/url] And the Beautifully Crafted and mesmerizing. headphones and eeerrr ....."chill" time. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oprWZttVhCE"]https://www.youtube....h?v=oprWZttVhCE[/url] And to add an equal... L42 The Pursuit of Accidents i only got the early stuff because of this one.

how can you tell if a stage is level ? The drummer drools from both sides of his mouth

[quote name='BassBod' timestamp='1441539270' post='2859579'] SWR Baby Blue or Electric Blue (head). Lovely stuff. Phil Jones CUB..but the one I owned had a bit of electrical fizz in the background (probably fixed a long time ago...but be aware). [/quote] good shout the swr studio pre is great as well, and can be found quite cheap on ebay now and again, i have a super redhead permanently set up in my little studio, and use that now and again for getting the best of both worlds.. mic and di, So here is a great little tip, if you want that speaker miked up sound as well, then di the amp out and also put a mic infront of the speaker, but then throw a heavy curtain or quilt over it all to cut the volume, you will then have a warm miked "dead" no reflection sound to mix with your now clear DI sound. works well. worth a go to see if you like it But yep, as simon says, get sorted with some good monitors first, or you wont hear what you have strived to achieved.

"[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Seven days" was all she wrote, [/font] [font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif] A kind of ultimatum note[/font].

[quote name='roman_sub' timestamp='1442868349' post='2870179'] Looks like a Neve 1073 clone, minus the EQ. BAE is very good but $$$, Golden Age Project does a something that gets you most of the way there but more affordable. [/quote] Hi Roman, yep a tad too expensive, but on saying that i dont mind if it does the job well enough to warrant it. i have been using Neve design, Amek 9098 which is a mic pre amp but has such a large useable eq field, i just thought i would try it one day and was very surprised at how much more detail you can get from a bass using it same sort of thing as sheehan says in the vid, it does suck all the information from your bass, and then some stuff you have to maybe tame abit and you can get that donald fagin nightfly clarity from it if needed. that has inspired me to try a dedicated one like the BAE just to see if it works any better for me. I have just been looking at the Golden Age one, it does seem to be doing well with great reports, so if i can find one i will put that on my list also to try out, thanks for that, have you tried one ?? i did find this shoot out with one... not the best way of judging as through PC speakers and also the settings on the amps could be vastly different for me it sounds almost the same as the John East a little more compressed maybe ?? [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAObBK9-iS8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=HAObBK9-iS8[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgLclpw6n5M"]https://www.youtube....h?v=dgLclpw6n5M[/url]

just wondered if there is anyone who has tried these and there thoughts ? about 5:03 of this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ya71JSygA

I had 8 fender jazz basses, of them ... 4 were mex, 2 usa, a highway, and an 80s std 1 was a jap aero 1 is a jap fotoflame, 62 reissue i also have a fair number of other basses to compare them to, If i can compare the jazz bass against any of them, i can say this.... its not the make of the bass that has anything at all to do with making it better. Its the bass its self in its own right for a collection of reasons. for example, of the 8 jazz basses by far the best one is, in my hands, the jap fotoflame 62, for all the reasons that would make it a perfect bass, 1) it feels and plays fantastic 2) it sounds fantastic ( once the pickups were changed) 3) in its self all the notes are even volume, and even tone at bass and treb ends on all notes. 4) rear pick up slapped could cut you in half, the neck with treb down is warm and deep enough for reggae 5) Its battered so im not too precious about it getting bumped at a gig 6) is now my main recording bass as it cuts through with out it being too wooly. 7) and on top of all that it looks the bizz. What more can i ask for, of the other jazz basses i have/had the worst was the highway one, which was awfull talk about dead neck and boomey i hated it, so that went, but... one of my friends has a highway one and its great, nothing like in terms of sound and playability to my old one. the usa std was not good at all, the neck was horrid which had a bow in it that i could not get out, and was a struggle to play, so that went also, i still have all the rest. One of the mex jazz basses is light, feels cheap and does not project the sound very well, with a weak output, but plays ok. but i have a burnt tangerine mex one which you would never believe came from the same place, everything about it is just better. I tend now to look at basses on their own merrit after playing them and not what it says on the headstock A good jazz bass in its basic form can be as good as anything else, its no good having a bad sounding/playing alembic ( and there are) just because it looks good. I have a friend who uses a cheap 70s Antoria jazz star bass, has had it since 81, its the only one i have ever seen and it really does sounds great and he would not swap it for anything, All in all ..some basses have it, some dont, no matter what the make is. oowwww go on then.. meet tango and jap best two fender basses i have ever had. [attachment=201177:PIC_0125.JPG] [attachment=201178:PIC_0133.JPG] [attachment=201179:PIC_0132.JPG]

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1441111854' post='2856098'] Not really bothered, I'll play owt! [/quote] yep, if they like it, then i like it twice as much.

I played in one well known local band for 15 years, was out all the time set hardly changed, in the end the reason i left it had become so boring, you just become numb to it all, then went to a jam night.... What a BUZZ.. i had forgoten what that felt like, it was the reason i started playing, it catapulted me right back to when i started like a wake up slap in the face

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1441292954' post='2857667'] Yup, they are particularly useful for newbs. You get stage time in a relatively friendly atmosphere, you get to play with a variety of different musicians, you get exposed to a much wider range of music than perhaps you expect. Above all, you learn to pay attention to what other musicians are doing and playing so that you don't get left behind by an unexpected change or repeat, so that you can spot when the guitarist has decided to take a second solo, etc. And you learn to wing it, to busk a tune you've never played before, to vamp on a chord while the singer tries to remember the next verse, to recover from mistakes (yours, and those of others). I've never once regretted learning these things. Yes, you can make useful connections too. Not always, but sometimes. My main band (Junkyard Dogs) still has as its core me plus two guys who met at a regular jam session, while another band (Sapphire Grooves) has as its core me plus two other guys who met at a regular jam session. [/quote] All that. Reading some of the other posts, i think It is good for pro's also to do this, nothing worse than arsey pros that cant be arsed to let their hair down have a laugh and give others the benifit of what you can offer them, its unbuyable pr, Reading Rick wakemans book there is a great bit where he regularly goes down to the jam night and mucks in ( then hired the jam night band to do the whole king Arthur shows, like it was nothing..... "what you doin on friday bob,,, eeerrr playin a gig at the mucky duck,,,,,,, Oh fancy a gig on sat then !!!) Also i know so called pro players that as good as they are they would not dare do a jam night, it takes them out of their confort zone, to scared to be seen making a mistake. Turn up muck in and enjoy, a learning curve for all levels

Going to have to do two here if you dont mind... Alan Whites solo Album "Ramshackled" of all the yes spin offs and solo stuff this was by far the best. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi60D3fms2M"]https://www.youtube....h?v=hi60D3fms2M[/url] And one of the biggest ripped influences check out Labi siffre, Remember my song.. everyone had a piece of Labi, Madness, it must be love, eminm, i got the. And hold on is that JK i hear in the vulture ? phrasing, tone, style, could almost be a jamiroquai blue print. anyway a great album [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn0EaB4pXPs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=yn0EaB4pXPs[/url]