Lord Sausage

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

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1472634157' post='3122730'] I have the same view, but use the lack of an imposed meaning to choose my own. Understanding the chemistry of the brain does not make it less wonderful. [/quote] well you tell him that!

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1472588609' post='3122446'] And yes. I think it's been proved that things are just a collection of electromagnetic waves. It's only when other electromagnetic waves interfere with them and then activate our visual cortex does anything actually become 'real'. Which is odd because then it's just a collection of electro-chemical impulses. [/quote] I have a friend who's whole attitude to life, emotions etc is that it's all just electro-chemical impulses. Therefore meaningless, so he pretty much gave up on trying to achieve anything in life.

[quote name='Trueno' timestamp='1472586045' post='3122423'] Have you thought about taking a degree in Philosophy? You may ponder such questions as: does something exist if no-one is looking at it. [/quote] That comes into quantum physics too!

I wouldn't care! Why can't people be cool about things? Why be a pain in the arse and make a problem? People need to lighten up!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1472303146' post='3120188'] Depends if those people can function after having a drink... I'd expect a couple of pints to have no effect at all.. [/quote][quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1472304447' post='3120200'] I'm very fond of a drink, but at gigs usually stick to water. Apart from the playing, it makes the drive home less stressful if you know you have nothing to fear from the breathalyser. I've never played with anyone who was better after a few drinks (or the dreaded pre-gig spliff). [/quote] I have a jack n coke before each set and I'm fine. Doesn't get me pissed! I know a couple of people who are better after a drink or two, not pissed tho!

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1472259202' post='3119933'] Exactly, like no drinking on the job. Blue [/quote] I prefer no job on the drinking!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472248794' post='3119883'] Can I have the past and future tenses please? [/quote] musicesters and musicendants!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472242602' post='3119822'] I'm no expert but something sounds a miss to me?, lol. I waiting for other nouns to be 'verbed' , any suggestions? [/quote]I'm struggling to say Musicianionizesers!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1472226718' post='3119664'] Musiced,musicing,musicer? Come on then let's hear the verb for musician. [/quote] I Musician You Musician He/She Musicians You (plural) Musicianers We Musician They musicianizes It Musicianionizeser