BassTractor

To really, really, really ruin the band's name: Ye

I've just looked it up, and indeed his 2020 conviction was suspended with a two-year time frame. This guy has been at it for more than 35 years, spent six months in prison in '89, and already in 2020 had roughly ten convictions - maybe more in the mean time. He's not gonna stop.

Aye, "within the time frame". I'd be surprised if our man Mick's suspended sentence, from years back, hasn't passed its Sell-By date. One can only hope the prosecutor knows their stuff, and can draw the complete picture for the judge.

My sister and I both had similar experiences: You don't wanna shove these people right into the arms of the other racists, homophobes etc, and you try to talk to them. Then you don't make this a full-time job, and you see that nothing happens. Then you give up and walk away. My sister stopped giving work to such a person; I stopped having contact with such a neighbour. The latter lost about eight friends in just two years. 😱 I see the user manuals online that teach you how to deal with these people, and it's always about keeping the communication open and about asking them questions and about letting them talk until they understand something isn't quite right in what they say. I've not seen that happen, and do feel I've not tried hard enough. That said, when I worked in child protection services, we saw the sweetest boy in town being shaped by a politically extreme group, and we did manage to get him out of there. Sometimes your work comes with a positive achievement.

Dunno how much the Hohners differ, but in the case of my B2B, I found that the length of the strap was essential - and the B2B has been the only bass I've had that was that particular about it. With that bit out of the way, however, the B2B worked perfectly for my body. Of course different bodies have different measurements, angles etc. I'm guessing maybe the L2 likewise is particular. As to sitting, I missed that Steinberger fold-out thingie, but even better solutions should be easy fixes.

You can't know if music is A.I. A.I. has no idea whatsoever as to the underlying forces in musical composition, and its music is just as bad as music made by most humans. 😁

Only had two flawed gigs as "bass player", so this is about my classical "career" as a pipe organ player: An ideal gig is one where I deliver the goods, or better, and afterwards someone comes over and says something along the lines of "I just learned something new about Bach".

Weird thing (to me) is that we have the same in the classical music world: some young people with enormous online presence and Wikipedia articles about them, and who travel the planet to give concerts ... and ... they can't play for the life of them. Sophomoric at best, and in fact I've had 1st year students play better than these. I think their visual appearances have something to say in this.

Whilst I shamefully must admit to speeding up the playback for bass parts, I can now see how slowing down could work: Just slow down by a factor 128, and use tally marks on a sheet of paper for the individual hertzes. 👍😐

Rob answered that one on fb, as seen in @Linus27' excellent post: "I only met John in later life but we instantly hit it off."

That's exactly what we did in basso continuo: longstrings person and keys person got together for a little chat before playing the piece. Ha. I'd never known that modern bands are just like baroque orchestras! 🙂

Can't provide you all you need to know, sorry, as I don't know everything, but I do see that, currently, you're not a paying member, which means you can not have a jazz for sale. Maybe this in part explains your editing troubles (not that I understood everything you wrote). Did you put the ad up when you were a paying member previously?

Year started "playing": 10 (yup! 1980 was that good; the playing not so, though) Number of basses: 2 (down from 16, but up from 0) Music theory: 10 (but some of my teachers have 100) Technique: 0 Groove: 0

As to takes, also the Guitar Hero III version of "Cult of Personality" is different than the album version.