Lord Sausage

Got it....how do you get funk from that!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1478266024' post='3168022'] It's disappeared for now; I don't know why (but it's surely Skol's fault..!). Here it is, until it comes back in its rightful place... [/quote] there is no image there for me again

I can't see an image on my I pad

never felt the need to keep track. i have broken them all, even a couple of B's!

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1478120718' post='3166967'] I'm with Sausage, but given a choice between the two I'd plump for 5/4 every time [/quote] Yeah i guess it flows a little better!

Lets face it, he sang one of the best rock songs of all time! http://youtu.be/NTp_Yy9QHBw

http://youtu.be/LVPAP62TvRY

7/8 or 5/4

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1477346060' post='3161674'] No. I agree. Dead or Alive had a few hits in the mid 80s but he wasn't exactly a household name and not one of the big 60s/70s artists now in their 70s who will now be regularly appearing in the obits. Even as a teenager in the 80s I only know his name because he was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks a couple of times. [/quote] They must have been strong drugs you were on it the 80s. Buzzcocks only started in 96

I used to play by ear but then it started chafing!

Think the pickguard is a great contrast to the green

It's a cliche but the chorus lines in come on come over by jaco. When I first heard it, it opened a new world of playing to me. Plus it's funky as hell.

I remember , whilst at college, a drummer struggling with the snare bit that comes in at around 2mins......turns out it's overdubbed! Vinnie just kicks the sh*t out of this tune tho. great drumming!

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1475844921' post='3149175'] I have no interest in musical theory for any instrument. I am from the old school. Listen, try to play,listen again. Modify, adapt, use happy accidents. Dont copy or "Study" anyone, enjoy there playing personality and absorb a little of it into your playing. Try to be a little different and have your own playing personality/sound. Its Rock and Roll, there are no rules. [/quote] That sounds like a list of rules!

We do this and it kills everytime! [media]http://youtu.be/JgffRW1fKDk[/media]

f***in incredible. I used to be a genius but I've calmed down a bit.

what's got three legs and a **** (c word) on top? A drum stool!

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1473773488' post='3132997'] Genuine question (maybe slightly on & off topic!)... Ive worked in music retail for a few years now and I can hear the difference between wood types used, body shapes and how they change resonance and other elements discussed with an acoustic guitar, a violin, a double bass etc. One of the guys I work with can hear the type of pick that's been used if we blind test him! So I understand that these factors are important for projection of an acoustic instrument's tonal character. However, I'm really struggling to see how any of those tonal factors can be picked up by a magnetic pickup? Surely it's actually not possible without using a microphone that has the technology to translate actual waveforms into an electrical signal? I can understand the sustain maybe would be picked up as the quality of the instrument would increase sustain which would be carried through to the amplifier but I can't see how any of the other factors could affect it. I was under the impression that the strings interrupt the magnetic field of the pickup and create the signal? So surely the characteristics of an alder body would not interrupt the magnetic field at all, let alone in a different manner to a walnut body or a mahogany body? [/quote] You guys need to get out more😀

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1473513415' post='3130904'] Well, a recent Basschat thread decided that Vic was rubbish (along with quite a few other players). So why over expose him? Just hide him in the background. [/quote]I thought everybody was sh*t!

Of course, now the England Football Team Manager!

I'd say watch Best of Enemies. Its about US intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F Buckley clashing on tv debates. Then watch United States of Amnesia, essentially about Gore Vidals life. Entertaining, thought provoking and funny.

For me it was 1998. Being a 19 yr old bass player in a band bagged me a 26 yr old lap dancer as a girlfriend. That was the definite golden age of Bass for me!

[quote name='KingBollock' timestamp='1472921031' post='3125379'] Is it bad that, while listening to that, I kept thinking that he'd get a more consistent sound if he used a pick? [/quote] The sound would be the least of my worries!

http://youtu.be/NrHnerXEx5M

[quote name='JonesTheCat' timestamp='1472666958' post='3123138'] Flea, apparently. I mean, I like his playing on Jagged Little Pill so I'll take it. [/quote]Isn't he only on one song? I maybe wrong