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That's your choice Blue, we all know you play for living and I respect you for it, but for a lot of us, that ad is really appealing
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Trusty old P bass is the one, the Squier VM has a dark tone and can often be had on here for around £200, and you should be able to find a Mexican one for well under £500, and if you are really lucky, maybe an American model for around £500/600. A Jazz is often used in ska bands as well, and the same criteria as above applies too.
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Taylor 214e 6-String Grand Auditorium Electro Acoustic Guitar This guitar is approximately 8 year's old and has been virtually unplayed in all that time, this is mainly because I bought it thinking that I will learn to play it properly, but I soon discovered that I am a bass player, not a guitarist, so therefore it has been on display along with my other acoustic on the living room wall ever since. I purchased this lovely guitar brand new and it includes the original Taylor hard-case. The guitar is unmarked and wouldn’t look out of place in a shop amongst all the other new guitars on display, it has new strings and battery, and all works as it should. Collection preferred, but I will ship at the buyer's expense. Edited to say that I am based in Shropshire. Body Style: Grand Auditorium with forward shifted bracing pattern and Venetian cutaway Wood Composition: Rosewood Laminate back and sides, Sitka Spruce top, Tropical American Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard Design Elements: Tortoise pickguard, black binding, die-cast chrome tuners, pearloid dot inlays Body Style: Grand Auditorium with forward shifted bracing pattern and Venetian cutaway Wood Composition: Rosewood Laminate back and sides, Sitka Spruce top, Tropical American Mahogany neck, Ebony fingerboard Design Elements: Tortoise pickguard, black binding, die-cast chrome tuners, pearloid dot inlays -
Takamine EG523SC 12-String G Series Jumbo Electro Acoustic Guitar This guitar is approximately 8 year’s old and has been virtually unplayed in all that time, this is mainly because I bought it thinking that I will learn to play it properly, but I soon discovered that I am a bass player, not a guitarist, so therefore it has been on display along with my other acoustic on the living room wall ever since. I purchased this lovely guitar brand new and it includes the original Takamine hard-case. The guitar is unmarked and wouldn’t look out of place in a shop amongst all the other new guitars on display, it has new strings and battery, and all works as it should. Collection preferred, but I will ship at the buyer's expense. Edited to say that I am based in Shropshire. Rosette Abalone Top Solid Spruce Inlays Block MOP and Abalone Back Flamed Maple Sides Flamed Maple Fingerboard Rosewood Electronics TK40 Tuners Chrome -
I was around 15/16 when Substitute was released in 1966, and in those days a large percentage of the older generation were still racist, or would make racist comments about black people. But at this time, young white people were starting to ignore the ignorant older generation and started to see through the colour thing, this was the original "mod" era in which the Who were a big part of, and whenever you look back at old footage of groups of mods, you will see quite a lot of black youngsters in amongst them, and when we heard that particular line, we just thought it was mean't to say, "so what? if my dad was black", we certainly didn't care, including our black friends. The music of the sixties really helped to bring us all together imo, with Ska, Reggae, Soul, Motown, Blues, etc, being listened to by all of us black or white.
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Yes, he played many of the local venues/pubs around St Albans, and the last time I saw him play was in The Bull in London Colney which is just outside St Albans, and if I remember correctly, he had his sons Pete and Steve on drums and guitar, great music on what was then my local doorstep.
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Brilliant musicianship, but I have to agree, it does nothing for me.. I certainly wouldn't want to listen to it again
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Start-up bands, how long does it take to start gigging?
thebrig replied to thebrig's topic in General Discussion
Most of the organising and gig getting is usually down to me, and trying to get the songs up to gigging standard is also down to me, I'd rather not do it because I know that band members less committed, think that I'm getting on their case all the time, and I'm wary of booking gigs until I'm happy that we are ready because if it all goes pear shaped, then its me who has to cancel them. -
Start-up bands, how long does it take to start gigging?
thebrig posted a topic in General Discussion
For the third time in as many years, the band that myself and the guitarist who I’ve been with for a number of years has imploded due to a lack of commitment, so we are now in the process of getting yet another band together. Give us a set of songs to learn and we will get on and learn them, but it seems that most of the musicians that we’ve played with over the past few years just don’t seem to have the drive and commitment to get the songs sorted, I find it so frustrating and wonder if we are ever going to find a bunch of muso’s who all want the same thing as us, all we want is to get a set of songs tight enough to go out and play live on a regular basis. My question is: Is this a common thing with start-up bands, or are we just unlucky? And how long did it take your band to start gigging? Edited to add: we are both experienced musicians who have played in bands and gigged for a number of years, its just these last few years where we've had problems finding committed people who are prepared to get a band off the ground. -
So Sad, aged just 46
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Brilliant!!!
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I was watching glam rock at the BBC the other night, and I couldn’t help noticing just how bad the miming on Top Of The Pops was, most bands never even tried to make it look like anything other than blatent miming, just look at the bass player in this clip of Chicory Tip, his right hand is moving as if he is playing rhythm, and his left hand just doesn’t move at all. Don’t know why I’m posting this, I guess I just needed to mention it I suppose.
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Tell her that you are also working from home, because if you play for a living, either part-time or full-time, then practising is part of your job, even if it's just a hobby, you are still entitled to practise.
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Ok, I thought maybe it was my browser or something. I actually prefer it this way, like you say, it's cleaner and it cuts down on the amount of pages due to numerous bumping.
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Not sure if this has been raised by anyone else, but when I click on a "Bass for sale" item on the first page, where it says the latest post was for example 30 minutes ago, the page actually shows that the latest post was something like a week ago and yet the item is on the first page, is it just me who's having this problem, or are others experiencing this as well? I can take screenshots to show what's happening if necessary.
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Thanks again. Oh dear, I really really don't need it, but...
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Sorry, but one last question: What's the B string like?
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Thanks, that's quite narrow for a fiver, is it comfortable to play? Not sure whether I need it, but I'm so tempted!!!
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Anyone know what the nut width is?
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I can see that it might help those of us with back and shoulder problems.
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Open A for me on Whole Lotta Rosie, much easier than going from the fretted 5th fret on the E string and back like a lot of players do
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Thought it was just me who is finding the wider layout difficult, it's like watching a tennis match because I'm constantly turning my head left and right to read the posts, lol And the quotes all over the page are driving me mad as its making it hard to make any sense of the posts. The only reason I've logged on today is to see if others are experiencing the same problems, it's taken ages to get past all the "fatal error" messages to get this far. Please don't think I am having a moan, I really do appreciate all the hard work that goes into running this forum, but I think its important to point out any problems we are experiencing our end so they can be fixed. Below are a couple of screenshots of what I am seeing:
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