WalMan

[quote name='Marvin' post='794480' date='Apr 2 2010, 05:35 PM']I will sit in the corner with the dunces hat if someone would please tell me what this thread is about. Yes I am thick. Just pleeeeeaaaaaassssse tell me. [/quote] It's Donna Lee farce about ace as the Rev Spooner would say

Back at the Fountain Sat 10 April. It'll be interesting to see how things have changed with the change of management. Rumour has it the money's changed for the worse - not that anyone's bothered to tell the band formally so a check on that when we arrive determines how long we do. Looks like probably a normal 2 x 1 hour rather than the 3 hour mega gigs of old. Ah well......... This followed by the Swan in Woolston on 16 April then out for another month for Op #2 and a dep for me this time. Question is whether to still try to go and do some backing vox or not? It could be difficult transport wise so we'll have to see.

[quote name='acidbass' post='789740' date='Mar 29 2010, 06:40 PM']There's actually a really good version of Brown Sugar on Spotify which has been digitally remastered, you can hear the bass a LOT clearer than the original mix. [url="http://open.spotify.com/track/2e9nyf96XvpCrloFmQLf7v"]LINK[/url][/quote] Sounds pretty much like I'd have guessed/improvised anyway

The Budget What a sad person I am

[quote name='Spoombung' post='783635' date='Mar 23 2010, 04:28 PM']Some of you may have seen this already but here goes: [i]Martin Taylor's contract rider _____________________________________________________________ [/i][/quote] Marvellous. That cheered me up for the drive home

By George I think I've got it!!!!!

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='779030' date='Mar 18 2010, 07:28 PM']Hmm raffle. I'll ask someone about that one and see if they're still up for helping out get back to you all on this one T[/quote] At the SE Bash it was a £10 donation towards the cost of the venue and any excess went to charidee - I forget quite how much we made in the end. The raffle was a selection of items donated by members plus a combo & some sets of strings very kindly put up by HartkeUK and a few subs to BGM - we even had a photo and short note in the BGM News section. Perhaps PM Silverfoxnik for ideas as he was one of the driving forces behind the SEBB (along with Hamster, Johnnylager and a few others. Good ideas from that were three rooms, loud, quiet/seminar room and a jamming room with a kit & a couple of drummers who came along on the day

[quote name='phil.i.stein' post='766730' date='Mar 7 2010, 10:18 AM']i've been looking at getting an octave pedal recently. after being very pleased mith my compressore, i thought i'd take a look at what mb have to offer. it looks good on paper, with separate octave outputs and a 'dub' switch to just play the affected sound. nobody has had them yet, despite being advertised on their websites. has anybody heard one yet, or does anyone know why they are not available yet ? i have sent a message to markbass, and am awaiting a reply. ta..[/quote] Saw the Octave/Synth in action last night at the demo at GAK. It seemed to lock and hold in a pretty solid fashion, certainly a whole lot better than my old BOSS octaver ever did. Quite fancy the Chorus/Flanger too

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='777353' date='Mar 17 2010, 01:32 PM']Yeh - oh well, 46 doesn't feel quite like I'm tottering on the edge of my grave. Well, not every day anyway [/quote] 46!! TCHAH a mere whippersnapper!! Presumably this was guitards talking. I did a r/h for a dep with a three piece band where I was the baby by a good 20 years a while back & I'll be 51 this year. Your as old as you feel. My lot run up to mid 50's plus and we're still going out giving it some welly. Bit of G'n'R, Whitesnake, Foofighters - anything rawkus really.

Trying to get the fills sorted. No probs once it gets into the song,but the fills at the beginning I can't quite get no matter how I slow it (which doesn't help digitally as it goes wierd & glitchy to slow it down so screws with my ears) Sort of go it but all the tabs I have found (and actually they all seem to be the same one in all the google hits) just doesn't look right to me. Gissaclue someone. It's driving me mad and I've other stuff to 'shed before the w/e as well as this

[quote name='molan' post='768007' date='Mar 8 2010, 02:21 PM']more details [url="http://www.dawsons.co.uk/news/2010/03/bass-legend-stu-hamm-at-dawsons-music-reading/"]here[/url] anyone going?[/quote] I wish I could, but apart from anything else it's my first gig back since the op (on my wrist ) I would recommend it to anyone who can make it having been to one of his clinics a few years back. Stu puts on a good show with a mix of chat, tales from the road and playing, added to which he was very approachable after the show.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='761672' date='Mar 2 2010, 11:39 AM']IIRC from lectures on music business/management and all that, if you're playing and earning money together from gigs, you're assumed to be in a [i]de facto[/i] business partnership. That means (among many, many other things) that you're jointly and severally liable for each other's debts until you draw up a partnership agreement that dictates otherwise. If you're talking significant investments -- and it looks like you are -- you should draw up a partnership agreement ASAP. And of course, the partnership and all its members should be submitting an annual tax return.[/quote] As above if you are getting to that stage it really is worth getting a partnership agreement set up sooner rather than later. If not you will end up covered by legislation that is over 100 years old. I'm sure everyone has heard of royalties cases like The Smiths, and more recently for A Whiter Shade of Pale, that have rumbled on for years and where probably the only winners are the lawyers. Get everything agreed now while you're all talking, 'cos a few years down the line when the singer has been through the rest of the bands g/f's, the guitarist says he wrote all the songs when everyone elses recollection is that is was a group effort, and none of you are talking except through lawyers a bit of paper that covers the business aspects and was agreed in the good times will be a godsend.

[list=1] [*]Not snapping up the Wal Pro/Custom in GAK last year (or possibly the year before) [*]Letting a load of spare covers and inserts to the single my band produced years ago go I know not where when my parents moved from their old house. I've seen them go on Fleabay and advertised elsewhere for £40+ in the past and I still have about 150 in paper sleeves in my garage to drip feed to the market [/list]

[quote name='karlfer' post='757328' date='Feb 25 2010, 05:27 PM']Faith in human nature restored.[/quote] or did he just think he'd been sussed and get cold feet? I've become such a cynic in my old age

[quote name='RIM Basses' post='751396' date='Feb 19 2010, 09:36 PM']Hi Guys, Just wanted to post up a small clip of Ron Richardson ( West end Session player) playing his Custom Marseer fretless 5. [url="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=702454704#!/video/video.php?v=326631689704&ref=mf"]http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=702...9704&ref=mf[/url] Enjoy, Robbie.[/quote] This would probably be better in General Bass or perhaps Bass guitars. The Groove Library is for clips to play along to, so the link may not get seen.

[quote name='owen' post='627742' date='Oct 16 2009, 11:14 AM']If you join the Musicians Union they have free cover up to £2000.[/quote] [quote name='Mateybass' post='631020' date='Oct 20 2009, 12:13 AM']... and don't forget the with the MU you also get free public liability cover in case anyone sues you for damaging their hearing or dropping a bass cab on their foot [/quote] Just renewed my MU top up with Hencilla for around £90 on about £8k valuation. Might have to look at others, but I need to check how the Hencilla tie in with the MU £2k works and what to do if I go elsewhere - presumably just put a £2k excess on. As for valuation it depends what it is. [list] [*]MarkBass combo - I just upped the value based on new shop price as they have jumped recently. [*]L2500 - is on for what I paid for it and just keep a look out for the sort of price they might go for here [*]Wal - would be almost impossible to replace so I keep an eye on the prices they are going for on fleBay and add a bit. Probably overvalued, but... [*]pedals & assorted covers & cases I just go with list [/list] It's possibly worth setting up automated searches of eBay for each bit of kit and watch the end prices of rarer/more difficult items to source in the UK (like the Wal & L2500 for me) throughout the year and use that as a guide.

This months BGM has details of a new John East preamp for P basses. Looked interesting, just need a P bass to put one in Actually checking a different sub forum on here there is a long thread on it [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13343"]HERE[/url]