rwillett Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 3 minutes ago, asingardenof said: First thread I've seen on here being Godwin'd! Damm, beat me to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzJzF Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 54 minutes ago, rwillett said: Damm, beat me to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law) Well playing an old jazz tune on a uke bass is obviously a crime against humanity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 2 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said: From what I've seen over the years, any sort of music beyond the simplest boy/girl band stuff is a minority interest! The majority of people I know, as opposed to actual friends, don't seek music out; they quite like a tune that's easy to hum but if they find one they won't necessarily look for more by that artist, they'd be happier with a "Now That's What I Call Music" comp as they will often conjure for them a mood of the time. They don't really want to sit there listening to great playing, or to seek out what's "advancing" music - music is largely a background thing. As a result of this, the majority of mainstream music follows a simple formula and is musically inoffensive. All of which I think is a shame, and is probably the fault of a decline in music education in schools. Funnily enough though, if you go to the continent there's a large market for more challenging music; frinstance I was in the tiny town of Marciac in the south of France a couple of weeks ago. It's got a population of just 1200, but has a dedicated music venue - the night we were there was a "slam poetry" show, following night was a Colombian folk group and the next was an electronic noise duo. But more importantly, it has a world-renowned jazz festival which is hugely popular and has far more experimental out-there stuff than we'd get at Cheltenham of Birmingham's alleged jazz fests! Frinstance, last year had Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog playing; they also played in Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Norway, all to great acclaim, though London only got a night of Ribot solo. However, the previous 4 European dates had no UK dates... Similarly, Suicidal Tendencies haven't played the UK since 2018 with 1 date then and 1 in 2017. But on those same visits to Europe there were gigs all over France and Germany. And I don't think it's all to do with The B Word (!) as their last UK tour was 2016, but very little before that despite tons of European dates every year. Much of the same unfortunately apply to Denmark where I live, much unlike our Scandinavian brothers/sisters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwillett Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 15 minutes ago, OzJzF said: Well playing an old jazz tune on a uke bass is obviously a crime against humanity... I am just watching the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain on YouTube playing "Smells like Teen Spirit" as we speak. I suppose (hope) satire is excused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickyDBRmf Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Charlie Parker wrote that tune over "changes" of an older tune (I have no idea) to "scare away" the "amateurs" from getting on the bandstand. It was a whole "thing" called Be-bop. Cab Calloway, a band-leader of the time, called it "Chinese music". It was an intellectual masturbation process that jazz went thru. So these many many many (many) years later, it's still a "standard" to show your chops. Wowie Zowie. But I listened to it. I wish the camera was on her for the whole "head" of the tune, it is one acrobatic romp. I am of a certain age where that guy with the de-fretted Fender was rouging around & I was at Berklee and I had a Real Book. I tried. My chops were never THAT good. The tune has interesting chord changes and turn-arounds. It's a good study. At that precise time I was venturing into "other musics", and having a hard time with the educators @ Berklee so I left, formed a band with other Berklee Outcasts (now that would be a good name for a band), and got a job as a dishwasher, which eventually brought me to food preparation skills of the caliber to run a successful restaurant with my name on it. But never any $$$$$ doing the music I love. So it was cool to listen to. Once. Made me think, Maybe I should check one of those Kala basses out. It's nice and small and my back might not hurt when I play it sitting down and it's a lot smaller than the Stick... Then I picked the Stick up. Mumbled along on Donna Lee, and said, "Hey this stick is pretty cool. F*ck the pain..." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, StickyDBRmf said: ...got a job as a dishwasher, which eventually brought me to food preparation skills of the caliber to run a successful restaurant with my name on it... StickyDBRmf is a curious name for a restaurant... Edited June 19, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash restaurant is spelled restaurant, not returant 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickyDBRmf Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 21 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said: StickyDBRmf is a curious name for a returant... My name is Marty and the restaurant was called Martys Marvelous Mexican Chow. My nom de plume here @ BassChat comes from I'm a "Stick" player who tunes Dual Bass Reciprocal and the little "mf" is, just because. I'm known by many names... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 29 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said: StickyDBRmf is a curious name for a returant... As is returant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Beedster said: As is returant Fixed... And I see we don't share the same sense of humor. I just thought I would find it curious if I actually encountered a restaurant with that name, especially a successful one, but apparently I am the only one who finds that thought amusing. Edited June 19, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickyDBRmf Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 I actually have a hard time spelling restaurant. I occasionally spell it reastraunt or restaraunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 13 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said: Fixed... And I see we don't share the same sense of humor. I just thought I would find it curious if I actually encountered a restaurant with that name, especially a successful one, but apparently I am the only one who finds that thought amusing. He'll probably start a franchise now and make millions, then you can do him for having the idea..😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickyDBRmf Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 Ok now I gotta ask, being a Yank. Is DBM an acronym I don't know about? BM. Oh. What about the "D"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) 7 minutes ago, StickyDBRmf said: Ok now I gotta ask, being a Yank. Is DBM an acronym I don't know about? BM. Oh. What about the "D"? I honestly wouldn't know, I guess I focused more on the first part of the name "Sticky", and just overall though it would be a rather absurd name for a restaurant, even with the rest of the letters being nothing but a meaningless random combination of lower case and capital letters. But just looked it up, and this is what Wikipedia says: "dBm or dBmW is a unit of level used to indicate that a power level is expressed in decibels with reference to one milliwatt." Still absurd, if not particularly funny. Edited June 19, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickyDBRmf Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 DBR. DBR. What's wrong with me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkgod Posted June 20, 2023 Author Share Posted June 20, 2023 (edited) content aside, either it works for you or not, but just the fact shes playing it on a kala bass ! cant be easy that. i did try one once it just felt awfull, the rubbery strings felt all baggy and fat, .. i knew a girl like that once, couldn't get on with that either 🙂 Edited June 20, 2023 by funkgod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Seems to be some consensus that the girl isn't much cop... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 She is much cop though. Whether anyone likes her playing and/or the music is something else. Dont like the the horrid rubbery , elastic band in bowl of custard tone, but she can play, as can the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Mark Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 On 20/06/2023 at 22:29, funkgod said: content aside, either it works for you or not, but just the fact shes playing it on a kala bass ! cant be easy that. i did try one once it just felt awfull, the rubbery strings felt all baggy and fat, .. i knew a girl like that once, couldn't get on with that either 🙂 Because of the speed in certain sections, she could probably only play it on a U bass with such small fret spacings. The rubbery feel and low string tension is relatively easy to adjust to and I agree that tone isn't best suited to up front bass solos like that. For me a U bass is great for approximating a double bass playing more traditional low register lines not shredding just for the sake of producing a spectacle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfoundfreedom Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 I'm sure it's very clever from a playing perspective. But from a musical perspective, it's just noise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petebassist Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 I love this. Appreciate the mini-bass tone isn't to everyone's taste. Ditto jazz in general. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 "The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes." – Thomas Beecham 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasman Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 She does look very pleased with herself for getting through it with only one wrong note - did anyone else spot it? Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorkie635 Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 42 minutes ago, Gasman said: She does look very pleased with herself for getting through it with only one wrong note - did anyone else spot it? Nice! Was it the twenty sixth millionth, three thousandth, eight hundredth and ninety second one before the piano break? 🤔 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyd Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 I like her playing and the band in general but the bass seemed to get a bit lost when she started walking (but then this also often happens with bass guitar playing in a "straightahead" jazz setting). I have a U-bass and it's a great "noodling about on the sofa" instrument - good for working out tunes when I can't be bothered to play the DB, but the tone can be a bit suspect alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meterman Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 I think she’s a great player and having done sessions on bass, keys, drums and guitar I know that Donna Lee isn’t the easiest tune to negotiate on any instrument. Having said that, all I’m hearing here is muso show off dry w@nk business. But she rocks it nonetheless. I couldn’t play it ever, so full respect from me for having a go 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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