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[quote name='Noah Deere' timestamp='1321777965' post='1442855'] I like the melody and laid back feel of Wals Waltz a lot. [/quote]Ta. Like I said before at one point it had a drum track - mainly put there for a bit of feel to work to - and acoustic guitar & keys, but I actually preferred it stripped back to three tracks of bass

Just added an assortment of bits, mostly stuff put together in recent years that all need something in the way of words & a vocal. Noise Annoys may be here previously along with the selection of guitar breaks for it [url="http://soundcloud.com/aka_walman"]http://soundcloud.com/aka_walman[/url]

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1321697259' post='1442001'] i think hi ho silver lining should be a lawful excuse for GBH [/quote]I know/knew a guitarist who would turn down & mime to that

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1321634721' post='1441515'] [size=4][font=Arial][color=#222222][color=#222222][font=Arial]Is the keyboard player giving an order or is he giving an opinion? [/font][/color][/color][/font][/size] [size=4][font=Arial][color=#222222][color=#222222][font=Arial]I have not had this in a band before, but would probably say lump it or fire me! I would get into some aggressive EQing before I gave up the fight though. What gear are you using?[/font][/color][/color][/font][/size] [size=4][font=Arial][color=#222222][color=#222222][font=Arial]I'm sure I've seen Roger Glover, Nick Simper and many of the early rock players using finger style. What about "the Hulk" in Metallica? He doesn’t use a pick! [/font][/color][/color][/font][/size] [/quote] [quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1321635112' post='1441527'] When I played some fingerstyle in my covers band this week instead of my normal pick, I asked the band at the end what they thought about the change in tone, and how it sounded within the group. All four replied the same - 'didn't realise you were doing anything different'! I'd go with the school of thought that the bass is your business - do what sounds good, and what you feel comfy doing. [/quote] But why is it necessary to make a big deal. You are a GROUP working towards a common goal surely. Adopting a "like it or lump it" attitude helps no one. Where does it leave you when the keyboard player chooses an inappropriate patch or style for a number and you want to say "are you sure about that?" other than painted into a corner. As before try it both ways and see if they can actually tell the difference

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1321633572' post='1441495'] Valid point. I think a lot of it is my ego. A lot of it is also the fact that I'm not sure if i would enjoy starting over again with a pick. Literally haven't used one since my first few yrs playing over 30yrs ago so its a major undertaking to relearn and not sure i would be as competent or comfortable. Might give it a try though and put my ego to one side. Dave [/quote]It is a swine if you are used to one style and need to re learn another. I know when my lot were doing more bluesy stuff I started playing finger style as I felt the tone suited the style better. Took a while but I got to a point where I was happy with the style, and managed to work in things that I could not do with a pick.

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1321632734' post='1441479'] Should i ask him to start playing with his toes. Should the drummer become a percussionist using only his hands and no sticks. Should the guitarist try classical finger style only. Singer was ok with my sound and if anything preferred it. [/quote]They are rather different things to using a pick. I hear what you are saying about being fingerstyle for years but as others have said for the style of music you are talking about it is more often the norm (please note I said "[i]more often[/i]"). I know there are plenty that say and do use finger style in classic rock - Billy Sheehan for example - and it can work, but I prefer a pick for this style for the attack it gives. Why not give it a try and see how the two compare, and how the others feel about the difference, and by all means re EQ for fingers if necessary to prove that you can achieve the same tone either way, but I would not just say NO. Horses for courses etc

Try putting it in the BC Soundcloud group

[quote name='Booooooom' timestamp='1321448430' post='1439221'] Me too. That's what sets us bass players apart! [/quote]I'm also the band battery fairy As for floor cans, possibly at the back it there's space, though Wash Panels might be better for that. More stuff at the front is just another trip hazard IMV, it'll also cast odd shadows especially without anything flown to fill in

[quote name='Dave D' timestamp='1321167241' post='1435975'] I particularly like the Hand Made Tibetan Gong. Shame it wasn't handmade by an actual Tibetan! It looks like a piece of scrap metal hanging from a B@Q shelf bracket with green garden twine. They say 'where there's muck, there's brass', although i doubt its real brass !!! [/quote]and below that the "[size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]VERY LARGE GONG MALLET[/font][/size]" that would seem to be a croquet mallet with a bit of a charity shop leather jacket hammered onto the end

[size=6]AHHHHHHHHH CR@P[/size] Forgot to order my early bird ticket

I just wish I could get my lot a bit more proactive. Sound guy does have the full LED par can rig but doesn't bring it to our gigs - as he frankly carries too much PA about but that's another story I bought the digital recorder to do gigs, and more recently the camcorder to try and get the odd (very odd) video, and it was me that got sick of playing under a 30W bulb and originally put together some light boxes, then more recently the two LED panels. To be fair the vocalist does put the set them up and the sound guy has fashioned some T bar poles that fix to the back of the PA to save floorspace, but other than that I get the feeling it is down to me sometimes I wish the others would show [i]some[/i] interest in adding to the show sometimes Anyway, rant over

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1289331403' post='1018024'] Surrender is an awesome tune [/quote] Suggested that to my lot....received deathly silence to that suggestion. Ah well, probably not really us anyway . Love a bit of Cheap Trick me

I have a nice [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/81357-boss-ce20-chorus/"]Boss CE-20 for sale[/url] that has a selection of chorus options and four memory slots if that were of any interest

I bought a couple of American DJ wash panels a while back and may get a couple more, thoug the two are fine for small places to add a bit of colour. Still working out the best setting for them. The biggest peoblem we had was a dreadful buzzing through one guitarists gear in particular. One went back for that and another apparent problem but came back with a clean bill of health - though iI was still not entirely convinced. Ultimately we seem to have killed off the buzzing with a couple of hefty mains filters

Get the "different key" version regularly with the band I dep for. Generally just a tone difference, but it keeps me on my toes as muscle memory for the other key slips in if my mind wanders. The the proggy lot I am with do the full Wayward Son in A whilst my main lot do it in E and a shortened version. DOH!

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1321012747' post='1434327'] it's one for the "we thought this was all sh*te when he was alive, but now he's dead and we still need to recoup" album that'll be released 'post mortem'.[/quote] Got hard disks full of those

Just added the result of a couple of nights noodling - well I started at the weekend, then created a new edit in Tracktion. There is/was a drum track of sorts (mainly for timing), and earlier edits had synth pads and some acoustic guitar, but three tracks of bass and a smidge of reverb seems adequate [url="http://soundcloud.com/user6729400/wals-waltz"]Wal's Waltz[/url]

<p>[quote name=&#39;dmccombe7&#39; timestamp=&#39;1320671366&#39; post=&#39;1429670&#39;] Playing a multi-band event with 4 other bands supporting on Boxing Day Bash sort of thing back in 80&#39;s we went for our gtr intro &quot;Run Like Hell&quot; from Floyd and would go straight into Time with the lighting set up to provide pin spots during gtr intro and a one button hit for halogen floods behind our 3 piece band when we came in on start of Time. Only problem was the engineers had connected the floods into the same socket as the backline. Lights went off along with all the backline including Simmons drumkit. Being an elec engineer i had to put bass down and scramble about trying to locate the fault. Sorted and carried on regardless. Was still a great night and no-one gave any negative feedback. I guess at £2 a ticket for 5 bands is such great value for money that they simply accepted the odd hiccup. Dave [/quote]Not my lot - we fired flash pots with a 12v battery, but we stall talk of the night a band at the local music venue came on with the big intro for Rosalie. Dry Ice &amp; darkness. The guitar starts Blang everyone comes in on the first splat. Poof the lights come on and the flash pots go off Ping the main fuse blows and the pub descends into darkness Boom splat boom boom splat .........boom...................splat..............crash The drummer realises he's on his own and stops.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1320868960' post='1432628'] I recently auditioned (and got the job) as a bassist in a Blues/Rock band. Had a rehearsal the other night and jammed a version of Red House. The first guitarist soloed away for a bit, and then played rhythm while thesecond bod had a go. I couldnt believe my ears when they asked me to do a bass solo! After fumbling about for a bit in the upper regions of an E major scale they seemed quite happy. I hope its not going to be a regular thing!! [/quote]At least you didn't do what I did at an audition many years ago for the Climax Blues Band - for which I was frankly wholly underprepared. Similar scenario, but I was plugged into the supplied bass rig with a similarly supplied curly lead. They turned to me and said "take a solo" I took a pace forwards..... and the lead pinged out of the bass and back towards the amp, so my "solo" consisted of me scrabbling around for the lead and trying to get plugged back in DOH!!! Funnily enough I didn't get it More recently have had the bass solo dropped on me on a fairly regular dep I do. Just keep it basic & simple ([i]buzz: tautology[/i]). My main band know not to bother, though I do get to play around the sequence on a broken down section of one song, but never do much more than mess with the feel and add a few passing notes/double stops. With the proggy lot it is only really a moody background fill to another broken down guitar solo section. I am no great fan of the "bass solo" and untill such time as I have sorted out a couple of review/suggestion sessions with JakesBass and perhaps have picked up a different slant on things (and probably even then) that's the way it'll stay.

Just started working on Slow Crash Landing Man by Spocks Beard. Not a technically demanding song at all, and live Dave Meros plays a lot of the bass on a keyboard, but getting light & shade and everyone to play it slow enoughand together is a real trial. There's a lot of racing away and even with the drummer trying to use a click it had been dragged away from what I have calculated at around 45 BPM. All that said, if it comes together (and the keyboard player is muttering about not being an octopus to cover all the keys) it will make a great set closer.