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[quote name='Swedebass' timestamp='1450216721' post='2930722'] "Hej" is looking good though! Thank you! [/quote] I spend a lot of time watching Swedish crime drama !

Hej Pelle Welcome to Basschat. Your English is far better then my Swedish

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1449770350' post='2926718'] The forum is very entertaining at the moment. I'm thinking of starting a thread asking if the bass player from The White Stripes is really all that good and see what reactions I get [/quote] Not as good as the one in the Doors

[quote name='neilp' timestamp='1449773432' post='2926746'] Mr Blue, whoever you are, you're really getting a bit tiresome about all of this. I studied at the Royal College of Music. If I can write sensibly about Stockhausen and tone-rows, then I think my tiny brain can just about cope with Jaco's noodling and Macca's rather naive use of passing notes and modalities. Your opinion is no more valid than mine or anyone else's. How do you know how long I've spent listening to MCartney or Pastorius (or Jamerson, Berlin, East, Levin, John Paul Jones, Bruce, Squire.......)? John Deacon stopped for the greater good. We should praise him... [/quote] Like button

I saw them a couple of years ago at Brentwood sports centre with Kiki Dee supporting. Brilliant show and they sounded great.

SX basses

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1449226763' post='2921689'] In that case, what's a "guitrist"? [/quote] Like a guitard but more stupider

Baba o riley

I need one! Second year with no gig in the diary yet. I'd much rather be gigging than sitting at home watching Jools Holland.

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1331504340' post='1573984'] Don Henley - New York Minute. Cheesy, cheesy as anything, massive guilty pleasure but one of the best fretless bass parts on record. Pino Palladino at his finest. I don't tell anyone that I listen to it though [/quote] Here here

Thats very nice.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1446842481' post='2902918'] I was mesmerised by the optical illusion making his drumsticks look bendy. [/quote] Rolling shutter effect

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1445619707' post='2892908'] Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson [/quote] Definitely. Love Nigel Olsson's drumming

[quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1445599373' post='2892689'] +1 So many great grooves from these guys down the years it's almost impossible to choose a favourite. How about Vinnie Colaiuta and Arthur Barrow? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONROSWCi2Uo[/media] [/quote] Listening to a bit of Joes Garage today I couldn't agree more. I'd also nominate Chad wackerman and Scott Thunes

[quote name='Jazzjames' timestamp='1445082333' post='2888664'] I haven't read all the thread, but my advice to people who are depping in function bands is, learn the music. Many function bands don't use charts as it looks a bit lame, and then everyone's heads are out of the music stands and playing more together. When I first started getting asked to dep for a couple of bands, I got sent a list of tunes, and I didn't know say 30 of them, now, I only need to learn maybe 2 or 3. You just accumulate tunes as you get more experienced, and it gets easier. If you want to get asked back, do your homework. It may seem like a lot of work for only a £150 gig or whatever, but in the long run it will be noted that you're a reliable guy who cares the gig. I wholeheartedly disagree with the sentiment present in some posts that 'punters' (hate that word) don't care about the music, as long as it's recognisable. You never know who's in the audience. I'm glad on several occasions that I've done my homework on a gig that didn't look very promising, and has resulted in some very cool gigs. Worth thinking the long game. Obviously, use your common sense, if you live in London and you're getting asked to learn 40 obscure tunes for a £80 gig in Skegness, finishing at midnight, no expenses, you can tell them 'no thanks!'. [/quote] Couldn't agree more with this or the comment above analogy about hiring a band. As a regular dep fir several bans this is what i aim for, whether it'ts £150 for a function or a 60 quid pub gig.

I use feeler gauges and an engineers rule. Generally i just use fender specs us/imperial measurements: Neck relief 12 thou at 8th fret with capo on fret 1 and finger on the last fret 3/32" from bottom of string at 14th fret.

None. They'll get a professional qualified electrician in and tell him that he's not doing it properly or using the wrong kind of stepladder.

Ivor Cutler

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1442225903' post='2865238'] take the 's' out of https (i have no idea why that works by the way) [/quote] I see that you are in Kingston. Is this a local thing as it was always a regular on the juke box in the Clarence after work when I worked in Teddington. Very nostalgic!

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1442137616' post='2864551'] Kissing with Confidence - Will Powers MMmmm Mmmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies Oh Superman - Lori Anderson Everybody's Free to wear Sunscreen - Baz Luhrman [/quote] All of the above

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1437056742' post='2823250'] Totally off my normal radar. Not just because it makes me think of the film. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1YkHJJi-tc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=x1YkHJJi-tc[/url] [/quote] This a good collection with a great version of the above https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinemage

[quote name='hubrad' timestamp='1437060289' post='2823288'] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_RGgFSN3M"]https://www.youtube....h?v=iT_RGgFSN3M[/url] "Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette" by [url="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl0RQCmYWfONupuEJodHt2Q"]Moving Hearts[/url] stopped me in my tracks.. I'd heard a few people rave about them to the extant I thought it was hype. The whole album is brilliant to this day, with amazing interplay between pipes, guitar and sax. Eoghan O'Neill on bass.. went on to be in Van Morrison's band, also has played with many in the upper echelon of the Irish scene. [/quote] Great album. First time I've heard them mentioned anywhere for ages.

https://youtu.be/vt1Pwfnh5pc Had to pull over to the side of the road when I heard this on the car radio for the first time

I dep paid gigs at weddings functions parties etc for several well paid "semi pro bands". I wouldn't dream of turning up at a gig with one bass. My reason ? A year or so at a rehearsal the nut on my p bas just broke for no apparent reason leaving the G string flat on the board and unusable. I muddled through but it was a real pain. If that was someone's wedding where we had 3 45 min sets ahead of us I could struggle on through the song, swap basses and carry on. Without a spare Id be buggered especially if. I only had my peavey active bass which was expensive once but getting on a bit. I see that as professional and being prepared. Electrical things break. I carry spare everythings except an amp. Cant afford two and there is always just going through the PA contingency. Recent pub gig and the guitard's speaker lead failed on setting up. I had a spare she didn't gig saved. I buy the best instruments that I can afford when I feel the need and have the means. How is that self indulgent ?

Old vintage metal is obviously best for building a wooden bass. Inwas only having a pleasant exchange of woodshed tales with Milty, if digressing slightly off topic. Hadn't realised that It'd spark a controversy.