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[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1361061136' post='1980639'] I used to play rugby at uni, and would be taking regular breaks with broken fingers. I can empathises with the taping up. Those old ice lolly sticks make great DIY splints! Initially, the biggest time off with injury was early in 2003 - I punched a knuckle off my right hand, and breaking a bone. That never quite came good, and I had a couple of months off. Then at the end of 2003, I had a bad car crash - which broke my right arm in 3 places. I had some nerve damage from that, and that gave me six years off I started playing regularly again not long before joining here. Haven't broken much since, thankfully, but the nerves aren't right - and I now have carpal tunnel, which gives me the odd issue. I tend to play with strapping on now. I would agree, injuries are a sod! [/quote] Bloody hell! i'l stop moaning now! I thought i was pretty hardcore for when i cut deep into the side of my left index finger the day before i did Grease. The plaster kept falling off and then this big thick flap of skin would drop down pouring blood everywhere. The guitar player nearly threw up But what you had makes it pale by comparison.

It's quite simple really, it's whether they are wearing a cool hat or not!

[quote name='Ashborygirl' timestamp='1361010248' post='1979650'] Ok, you pick up a bass in front of a few friends, which song do you launch in to to really impress everyone? [/quote]A triple back flip somersault!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1361024152' post='1979926'] Nope, Ian. [/quote]

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1361048803' post='1980468'] Some very tasteful runs around 2:30 onwards, would love to hear this live. [/quote] Cheers pal! Had a listen to that Honeykill. You do as you say regards the put a groove in your playing. I like the slight reggae ish nature of it and there'a a good dimishedy/harmonic minor classical type run early doors that i like.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1361027689' post='1980009'] I used to work in a coffee shop and I have an alergic reaction to anti-bacterial cleaners, that we used all the time. The constant hand washing and drying didn't help either. In terms of softness I can't suggest anything (skin hardening never happens for me) but you know the annoying splits in your fingers which make it too painful to play? Try electrical tape. It keeps the wound shut and plays just like skin. Many a time I used to turn up to play at church with half my fingers taped up! [/quote]will try elecy tape!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1361027344' post='1980000'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/192248-which-idiot-has-broken-his-left-wrist/page__hl__broken%20wrist"]http://basschat.co.u..._broken%20wrist[/url] [/quote]Aye carumba!

Ok, here's mine. I wouldn't say it's my best, but it's my favourite just for it's simplicity. It copies the geets in the heavier bits. But in the one verse the bass is in it starts off slow and real simple and develops melodically as the verse progresses until it's playing a similar sympathetic line to the vocal. Then in the guitar solo its starts off with little staccato burst mixed with the occasional longer note then picks up into a heavy 16th phrase. I used to love playing this song. It's pretty old and we don't anymore! https://soundcloud.com/dreaded-ted/losin-control

There's too much stuff to comment on all of it. A real variety and enjoyed quite a lot. Nige, that first Kit one i started listening to the bass but then got carried away by the song but what i remember was good! I remember the demon fiddler one, it was pretty intense.

I've not bee able to play for the last months as i've had dermititis on my hands due to an allergic reaction. It's messed up back of my hands and all my fingers split open on my right hand. Also, the creams i've had to use have softened my fingers up. I'm just coming out of it now but my fingertips are like a childs, proper soft. Then last week i put my back out so, it's been a nightmare. Any one else suffered due to lame injuries! Oh yeah about 2 days before a theatre show i did when i was 18 i got bloody tendonitis in my my right wrist. the doctor said don't play for two weeks, but i had to. Agony!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1360932897' post='1978500'] Depends on where the word 'good' is coming from. If it's from the bass player then, in my experience, they're not. If it comes from the musicians that play with the bass player, then they probably are. Never trust self proclaimed excellence. [/quote]Jaco?

http://youtu.be/8kGzQav6FJo

[quote name='swanbrook' timestamp='1360915829' post='1978195'] Lol ur kool it's d other guys who do dat im talkin bout [/quote]

[quote name='swanbrook' timestamp='1360913353' post='1978171'] Please I am not having a go at anybody but just raising a point. Surely the posts that pop up about people giving out on forums are doing exactly just what they are giving out about ? You could call it arm chair mods. Nobody is forcing you to read it. When I find a thread I don't like I simply don't look at it end of story. I don't understand why you would stick up a long post about how this forum is being dragged down when all you have to do is move on. I shared a very different view on a post made by a member and I brought it up. We had a few post back and forth and then it went to pm's where after a few messages we both came to the conclusion that neither of us was being pricks and had a very nice civil chat about music. To be honest I am here to chat about music and bass and meet other people who are the same which is what happened in the end with the two of us. It's a pity that because of the attitude about "bringing the forum down" that we felt it had to go to pm's and you all missed the end result. What is one persons drival is another's entertainment but if you don't like it move on to another thread. Now don't get me started on grammar police, I really feel the biggest insult to a person is to correct their grammar. You have no idea where they grew up or even if they went to school. For some even having the ability to type a post on a forum is a major achievement and to have to be corrected on grammar is fear and should never be lorded over them by a school teacher wannabe. Again I am not having a go at anybody I am just saying spare a thought for the guy and how the might feel by being pulled up on when to use a full stop. Anybody who types 'u' instead of 'you' however should get a good stuff kick in the bollix ..... That's just lazy [/quote]Don't u have a go at me or i''ll kick u in the bollucks!

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360883713' post='1978030'] Also, no need to be snotty bro. We're just talking. Okay, I think what you're missing is that the minor 2 would have to be contain a b5 to be a sub for the 5. ( D with a b5 which contains the Ab) D mag contains an A natural which is dissonant (a #5) to the key of Db. [/quote] Ya know what the i wasn't being snotty. The patronising 'MMMMM not quite' like you were superior or my teacher, made me adopt the same tone. 'Okay, I think what you're missing is that the minor 2 would have to be contain a b5 to be a sub for the 5. ( D with a b5 which contains the Ab) D mag contains an A natural which is dissonant (a #5) to the key of Db.'- This bit is wrong. When you do a sub all that matters that the 3rd and 7th of both cors are the same but in reverse. It creates tension the irrelevant tones like the fifth being different. The E min isn't clever. I feel slightly ashamed i didn't notice it first time. The next section starts on a Dmaj and is in Dmaj. So, the last two chords of the intro, E min and A, are the 2 and 5 of D. This is a common composition and songwriting tool. Know matter what key you are in if you want to modulate to another you use the 2 and 5 of the key you are going to to get there. Pretty basic really. BTW i love the beatles, i just don't need to feel that they are magicians musically.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360880149' post='1977954'] Again, saying people did stuff LIKE this is not quite the same. I've studied and played quite a bit of jazz and never came across and intro verse with like that one, but of course, how "good" something is , is subjective. The minor ii would a sub for the V because it contains the V of the 1. (In this case the tonal center being Eb -- the Bb being the 5). But here, the ii chord is a D major -- no Bb, plus a dissonent B natural. That first part is actually a decepetive cadence because it shifts seamlessly up a half step to the key of D without any sense of modulating. It's fricking brilliant. [/quote]No! The (f*** numerals) 2-5-1, a common jazz device, is ebm (2 from Db), 5 would be abmaj, but is subbed with a Dmaj (common 3rd and 7th) to Ab (1 the root).And unlike what's 'good', this isn't subjective. If you've never come across this i suggest studying a little more. Thank you and Goodnight, I'm here all week! Try the veal! (I knew it was here..you read it yet son) 26/11/2013

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1360876076' post='1977872'] You're quite right (although I'm not sure of your description of the Bbm). Chord substitutions are commonplace in jazz, but, I would argue, not so common in pop music of the early 60s... and coming from a 24 year old pop star. Maybe 'extraordinary' is a little ott [/quote]The Bbm is a bit hazy i think it's just there to create the push and pull back to the next eb (and referenceing the first chord tho it is a ll) it being a fifth away and all that.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360876826' post='1977883'] Mmmm, not quite. First of all, there's a difference between a major minor second chord (in this case a Dmaj) and a tritone sub for the 5. Secondly, just describing the chord sequence doesn't explain the abstract beauty and uniqueness of the melodic movement. Yeah, THEY did stuff like that in other tunes, but there aren't too many examples of that kind of movement anywhere else in popular music prior to their doing it. [/quote]I'd say Jazz was popular music and there are quite a lot of examples of this in jazz. Popular music existed before the 1950's. Also people seem to act like songs weren't written before this period. It's commonly known they lifted chord sequences. Even macca admitted it. 'First of all, there's a difference between a major minor second chord (in this case a Dmaj) and a tritone sub for the 5'- describe this better it doesn't make sense.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360854222' post='1977461'] Everyone who understands music wilh any depth and education also understands that the introduction to "If I Fell" is an masterful musical impossibility . There's no way that movement cannot come off as clumsy, yet Lennon somehow makes it a brilliant melody. Anyone who thinks they can do that if they just had a good recording studio is hopelessly oblivious. But...carry on. [/quote] [quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1360855991' post='1977502'] Lowender, I was going to make post about that very song. Chordaly, the intro to If I Fell is quite extraordinary: Ebm / D / Db / Bbm / Ebm / D / Em / A But as with many of The Beatles songs, they make the oddest chord changes sound perfectly natural. BTW Fat Rich, nice find with the documentary. I hadn't seen it before. [/quote] It's not that extraordinary or impossible. First three chords are essentially a ll-V-l with a tritone substitution on the V. The 4th chord is the dominant of the home chord to start the sequence again on eb. Half do the ll-V-l then come out of it on a basic, tho altered, lV-minV-l. Which crops up loads in beatles tunes.

[quote name='Lowender' timestamp='1360769148' post='1976174'] I hate to admit it but I agree on Geddy. He can play. He 's good, but nothing particularly original or amazing. In other words, nothing Entwistle and Squire and their imitators hadn't already done. As for Mac -- this is what you're missing. It isn't his technical skill. Anybody playing for 2 years can play pretty much any of his bass lines. It's the COMPOSITIONAL skill. His ideas, voiceleading, phrasing, harmonic sense are all brilliant. Now if you don't get it, you don't get it and it can't be explained so you do. It's a little like the intro to Beethoven's 5th . It's one of the most powerful musical statements the world has ever known. But somebody can say, "Eh, it's only 4 notes. I CAN DO THAT." [/quote] I'm a big Beatles and Macca fan, with regards to his bass playing I wouldn't say his voiceleading etc are brilliant. They are just good. In relation to what was going on in White Pop it was brilliant but with regards to bass in a musical sense it's pretty basic, good, but basic. He was a cute player and i don't mean cos of his chubby cheeks and floppy hair! With regards to this thread will it ever end..............tomorrow never knows.....wahay...see what i did there!

We decided on another thread that Disposable Penis is the ultimate band name.

Disposable Penis has to be the best band name ever!

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1360771474' post='1976219'] What phenolic is best for metal? [/quote]Right!....so we're back to talking about cocks! This is more my area!

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1360762779' post='1976010'] What I love about the Basschat community is that no matter how heated or even childish the arguments get on here, they pale in comparison to the abuse I've seen hurled around on other music forums. Maybe it has something to do with the average age of most folks here. Or maybe it's a product of the easy going psyche common among bass players But the BC community is undoubtedly a very inclusive, friendly and accepting bunch of people - and that's a rare thing on the Interweb. [/quote] f*** off you P£$%K **** arse t!"T &^% 8*(() b%£$%&^&d *&^ll(9ks. Mutha F%^&^&*, Sh&^ wipe!

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360760732' post='1975941'] I agree, can't see what the problem is. Your post was perfectly reasonable and a point of view I agree with. [/quote]Word!