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  1. Ampeg, I run a Shuttle 6 into a Barefaced Compact if you want to try it...Bristol's not too far away!
  2. [quote name='Doddy' post='1169483' date='Mar 20 2011, 01:56 PM']Or a C extension 5 string uprights have been around for years.[/quote] Doesn't surprise me for a minute but it's the first one I've seen in an orchestral setting!
  3. Just returned from a concert in Bristol. There, only feet in front of me, the one double bass in the orchestra - with 5 strings! I didn't know you could get them, but talking to the bass player afterwards he said they are quite common in Germany, but not the UK. (I'll bet someone on BC has one!!) This one was brand new and made in Frome (in Summerzet) and a very handsome instrument indeed. Fifth string was a low B by the way. We could re-run the whole 4 vs 5 debate again for DBs!
  4. I'm 99% definite for either day, but it is also Delivering-Offspring-To-University weekend (again!). This should be fixable to suit the owner/driver of the car but Offspring can sometimes be difficult!! Fix a day and I'll start manipulating my family!!!
  5. From any sort of performing art: There will always be someone in the audience with more experience than you, and someone else who thinks you're brilliant. Whilst the comments of the latter may help you play again, it is the comments of the former that help you play better! Cracking thread, Grommit!
  6. [quote name='bartelby' post='1092958' date='Jan 17 2011, 07:11 PM']If someone has an Orange Terror Bass they could bring then I'd love to try one out... (if I haven't said "sod it" and got one by then)[/quote] And if you have bring it - I'd love to have a go Yes Rich, it's still only half an hour down the road so count me in! Besides the Peavey Millennium I can offer a Sandown basic 5 and, of course, the Barefaced Bass Compact cab if anyone is interested.
  7. Don't be downhearted! You might like to ask him whether he meant that the music lacked feel or whether he thought it was your playing. I'm a very average (or worse!) bass player, and often in practice or when I'm nervous I'm focussed on the notes, the fingering, listening to the rest of the band and making sure my timing is right. In short doing my best to be good technically and support the rest. In a gig, which is going well, people up dancing - then the music just seems to flow and I start to do things with the beat and some of the runs that just doesn't come in a studio. I've listened to recordings of myself and the only word I have for the difference is 'feel'. Really good guys can turn it on at will. If it's the music he's talking about that's much more subjective and thank God we don't all like the same thing. I guess there are few of us that don't engage almost instantly with a pumping beat and bass groove, or soaring melodies, whether they come from a choir and orchestra or a wailing Les Paul at the hands of the Mr Top Hat!
  8. [quote name='hagguy' post='1079066' date='Jan 5 2011, 07:44 PM']bump[/quote] You have PM.
  9. [quote name='theosd' post='1066193' date='Dec 21 2010, 09:49 PM']Bumpitude. Feel free to make me an offer![/quote] You have PM.
  10. [quote name='EdwardHimself' post='952104' date='Sep 10 2010, 06:09 PM']Unfortunately i think in China the government are more bothered about covering the tianmen square massacre than preventing factories making knock offs of western branded products...[/quote] I thought I remembered some US-China deal from the past - [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3648653.stm"]BBC link[/url] Looks like 'cautious optimism' was well over optimistic!
  11. Apex

    OldGit

    I too have only just picked up on this sad, sad news. Si persuaded me to come to last year's Bash he organised in Cardiff and completely sucked me in to his sense of humour and infectious spirit. My sincerest condolences to all the family and close friends, who I suspect run into the hundreds. I had been completely misled by the original post, thinking that he was up to some prank or other and half expected him to turn up in a Wurzel band in X-factor or something. What a shock. Sadly I can't be at the Crematorium on Wednesday 1st as I am abroad, but I'll find a bottle and let the sun go dim for a while.
  12. Great posts guys! I could have written the OP myself. I like some things and dislike others - can't stand Motown for example, but I know [i]why[/i] I don't like it! Jazz, on the other hand, leaves me baffled. I'm obviously looking for a different resolution to the players and most of the audience. Marked this up in my favourites to have a long listen to all the links. I may end up not liking it but that isn't the point. I need to know [i]why[/i]!
  13. Thanks ff but IIRC the MU only provides individual cover, so for a 6-piece band this would be a pretty expensive option! Lots of other good reasons to do so I'm sure but for now I'm just looking for PL insurance.
  14. We need to sort out some public liability insurance for the band as a whole as we want to promote one or two gigs ourselves. Anyone have any advice on suppliers please? Also what would be an appropriate amount of cover (we're talking village halls here, not stadiums - sadly!)?
  15. [quote name='Clarky' post='929109' date='Aug 18 2010, 09:32 PM']Must be something in the air today or the moon is in Capricorn.[/quote] You're right! Just back from a rather good practice with our rapidly enlarging lead singer who will be doing her last gig in early October before 'pupping' in November. Quite reasonably she's taking time off and we had auditioned a couple of singers for maternity cover, chosen one and done several rehearsals. All very enthusiastic. Tonight comes the bombshell that she feels she's taken too much on and won't be able to start with us until December at the earliest! Was this a personal email of apology to us all, or an honest face-to-face? No, she sent a message with our keyboard player who works in the same office. We restart our search for a dep tomorrow...
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