The Basschat Bands thread!

[peteb]

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

 

That sounds fab Pete! Not gonna deny that Led Zep are one of my all time fav bands and JPJ right up there with his bass lines. Am I right in thinking he only ever had one bass? If so, did anyone ever mention it's all in the fingers?!

 

 

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

No, he had several but he had a 62 jazz bass that he used for most of zeppelin recording and gigs.

 

Pretty much what @Woodinblack said. He mainly used the 62 sunburst Jazz that he bought as a teenager, but he also had a red jazz bass, a 50s precision and a fretless P bass. Towards the end of Zeppelin he had an 8 string Hagström and an Alembic. Post Zep, he generally used Manson basses, although I have seen him playing a more recent sunburst Fender Jazz. 

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/the-10-most-famous-bass-guitars-of-led-zeppelins-john-paul-jones

 

1 hour ago, Al Krow said:

Any clips / promo material of you guys?

 

Now that's a bit of a sore point! A couple of us have been on about that for ages, and it is one thing that is definitely stopping us getting more of the top gigs on the circuit. A guitar player that I play with in another band, also plays in a Police / Sting tribute who are very busy - basically some of the bigger places we play are some of the smaller gigs that they do. When they got a pretty serious agent behind them, the first thing he did was get some high quality promo videos done, which led to them getting bigger and better gigs. 

 

If you search on YouTube (and I would rather you didn't), you get all sorts of cr*p come up, mostly with a different singer and before I was in the band. The best of a bad lot is probably this clip that a punter did on a phone at the excellent Cluny in Newcastle (not too bad for a video on a mobile). This was the first gig that Didge (keys player) did with us, but he's hardly featured on the clip for some reason. 

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by peteb

[Al Krow]

3 minutes ago, peteb said:

... and it is one thing that is definitely stopping us getting more of the top gigs on the circuit. A guitar player that I play with in another band, also plays in a Police / Sting tribute who are very busy - basically some of the bigger places we play are some of the smaller gigs that they do. When they got a pretty serious agent behind them, the first thing he did was get some high quality promo videos done, which led to them getting bigger and better gigs. 

 

^^This 100% !

[Si600]

See what the BC Swear Aunty makes of this, it's not my fault!

I've been in a band called Firef***ers since February.  From what I understand the name comes from a song by Helge Schneider and was the result of needing a name but not being able to think of one beforehand.

 

They've been going for a while and were a typical rock covers party band but had a bit of a rethink over Covid, caused in part by the death of one of the founders, and they're now a Stranglers cover band, the long term plan is to include some originals as well once we have a solid ground to build on.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@MrPardoned

 

I'm not on any of those BTW, they're from before I joined, but maybe we'll do some more videos soon.  Our first gig is on the 18th of October.  I'm 50/50 excited/runnning around going "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

 

We're based on the nothern outskirts of Rendsburg in Schleswig Holstein, I doubt I'll see any of you at a gig anytime soon!

Edited 1 hour ago by Si600