Lord Sausage

If you can't reach the notes i guess singin octave lower, but it may sound lame. If its just two part harmony if you sing a third or sixth below (standard harmony) it should sound ok

Rediscovering Moloko at the min. Unique!

I just don't rate Sheehan. Sounds like a guitarist on Bass. Apart from his widdling his lines bore me

Depends on your personality and how pedantic you are to whether its annoying or not. I know tonnes of theory (college/uni), infact i'm a nerd for it. I've just bought Schoenbergs book which is immense. I have notice the trends and it doesn't bother me. I probably indulge in it to. It is irrelevant really unless you are scoring something for someone else to play. I don' think there needs to be condescension for people who do it!

[quote name='discreet' post='875490' date='Jun 23 2010, 03:11 PM']Definitely not flats. Looks like you just have to be really [i]relaxed[/i].
And you probably don't need Slash to do the guitar solo.

[/quote]
What a dull and lifeless version. Until Slash showed up!

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='966847' date='Sep 24 2010, 04:01 PM']Stuff the band have wrote, nothing cool about being in a covers band.


[spoiler]RUNS[/spoiler][/quote]
Nothing cool about being cool!

Can't stand losing you-The police
Need You tonight- INXS
Whole Lotta love- Led Zep
Pretty Vacant-Sex Pistols

Sorry i wasn't listening, i was to busy staring!

In terms of covers bands my list is:-

Living on a Prayer
Black Night
Wishing Well
Jump
You Really got me
Smoke on the water
Sweet Child o' Mine
Angels
Can't get enough

i'm currently at war with my band about not doing Superstition.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='954646' date='Sep 13 2010, 12:52 PM']Last time i saw RW he also had Trevor Horn playing bass on some songs. I think it was Robbie's comeback gig a few months ago at the Electric Proms.
Bloody dreadful version of Video killed the radio star at the end of the night.


He also looked like he had Clarky on guitar lol.

EDIT: Seems like it was a year ago so im a bit behind the times. Never really paid much attention to him since he split with Guy.[/quote]
Never paid any attention to him!

[quote name='dood' post='953708' date='Sep 12 2010, 05:02 PM']Does the head look like this little chap?



If it is, then here's some information:[/quote]
Thanks a lot pal. You are a legend good sir!

Someone has just given me a little Marshall head call a Lead 12. I have no speakers at home to try it out(All at fellow band members). Anyone know anything about them?

I would have bought it if he hadn't unscrewed it all to show its bits. Shame!

Groupies for me! Hurrah! However this is because I always make sure I join bands full of ugly bastards!


Saying this the best one i had was when i was 18. I was playing bass in a big production of Jesus Christ Superstar. At the time i had very long hair and a bit of beard. The guy playing jesus had short ginger hair so was wearing a wig and wig beard. After all the shows in the bar area after i got all the attention. Loads of people came over saying what a great singer and performer i was....i took all the plaudits and said thanks. It use to really piss the Jesus actor off. Ha ha. One back for the bass players.

[quote name='silddx' post='951512' date='Sep 10 2010, 09:32 AM']Quite. That's why I keep coming back.[/quote]
agreed!

There's loads, but at the moment its Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Rediscovered it recently and can't get enough of it. Its that riff and vocal delivery. Cool as ya like!!

Not very free when it costs a tenner. Also i think it would have been about £15 too much to watch that shower!

When i was younger i got tendonitis (sic) a couple of times thru over playing, and probably bad technique at the time( i used to proper twat the the strings). It bloody hurt and made me sort it out!

[quote name='leschirons' post='679815' date='Dec 10 2009, 02:17 AM']Yeah, he's different, and not as weird as some of you lot. He's just having a good time. Good luck to him.[/quote]
Right on

[quote name='skej21' post='950574' date='Sep 9 2010, 01:24 PM']I do read, but when you get sat infront of a piece of music that is written in treble clef, above the maximum range of the standard bass guitar because the "composer" thought that is how bass is notated past the 12th fret, you have to act pretty fast.

In this case, it was an emergency session which i was called to do the day before the gig (i imagine the other guy dropped out when he saw the bass part!) but luckily the MD just told me to follow the style directions and play along to the chords written above.

Needless to say, the ability to improvise stylistically came in VERY useful on that gig, and a few others like it.

All I'm saying is, it's not as black and white as IT'S COMPLETELY POINTLESS, or IT'S BLOODY BRILLIANT.

I imagine you already know this though, and are just winding people up for the fun of it [/quote]
Couldn't agree more! The amount of session gigs were i've been given friggin PVG or piano parts or parts written in treble clef is unreal. This is for proper gigs aswell playing theatres like manchester opera house and venues of the like. You do have to adjust. Luckily for me i'm arrogant and single minded and do what i want including the dreaded improvisation, but use my skills and experience to fuse it so it fits. (apart from on one occasion where i kept slipping the welcome to the jungle riff into a song).

[quote name='silddx' post='950382' date='Sep 9 2010, 10:55 AM']Thanks Ched.[/quote]
I think the irony in my post has has been missed!

For me, playing devils advocate is for pompous tits who convince themselves its entertaining!

[quote name='silddx' post='948783' date='Sep 7 2010, 08:50 PM']Is there a point? Unless you play jazz I can't see one. The occasional inspired extra note here and there, sure, but studying improvisation on a bass!?! It seems ridiculous. Learn to cook instead, it's much more useful and pleasing for other people.

It sounds like a recipe for cheating your audience to me. Only musicians will feel any "magic" happening, and that magic will be VERY rare. The audience won't get it anyway, and why not compose something beautiful in the first place.

For me, improvisation on a bass is for jazz and pompous tits who convince themselves it's entertaining. I wish they would realise NO-ONE GIVES A sh*t.

EDIT: I mean in a live setting.[/quote]
Surely the majority of the audience won't be listening to the bass anyway, unless there are bass players there, so its irrelevant as long as you're not ruining the tune.

I think the whole less is more/ restraint argument is a load of old bollocks. It completely depends on what you are playing. Sometimes stuff needs more not less and if you don't play it you are compromising the music. Conversely, if you are shredding over a piece that doesn't need it you are a tosser and ruining the music! obvious i know, but when people say less is more its like a mantra but it don't apply to everything!

I like listening to the sound of cats in wheelie bins!