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Brilliant work! Really enjoying this thread

At his solo show, towards the end of the set he was playing a guitar solo, and it was already awesome, he really sings through the guitar, very melodic even though some of the notes were really "out there", but then he did his sing-along-with-the-guitar trick, which took it to the next level, but THEN he started singing harmonies over the top of his guitar solo, and he was right up the end of the neck on a strat. Honestly I got shivers down my spine.

He wasn't this year but whoever it was did a fine job. I'd highly recommend his live show, very funny, and very funky Also check out his solo album. I think he might have a 2nd one out that I've not listened to but the first one is great. There's some brilliant bass playing (no Joe) and one of my favourite bass envelope filter sounds ever!

not a massive fan of the sound but the playing on this is awesome! Thanks!

I'm still a bit obsessed. I've been following this Irish band called The Ollam because he plays with them occasionally. I watched every video I could of his bass solos from their tour this year

I think I just over-indulged in Joe - I'm pretty sure I watched every available video of Vulfpeck, Vulfpeck live, and Joe Dart's solos, multiple times, the whole time obsessing over his playing. That phase ended after I saw Vulfpeck live last year, and it's nice to have some of my life back

They are brilliant. I saw Vulfpeck live last year, Cory Wong's hilarious solo show this year, and Theo Katzman's solo show with Joe Dart on bass this year too. Although obviously I adore Joe's playing, Theo is the star for me. His drumming, guitar playing, and singing are breathtaking.

ah, cool, thanks! The cat is one of two kittens I adopted with my better half recently. His name is Tiny as he's half the size of his brother

Thanks PawelG! I knocked it up waiting for a mate of mine to come to the studio for a jam. He never turned up but I'd done this in the mean time. I didn't actually realise it was a weird time signature until I played it to a friend a few days later

not sure what you mean? The bassline?

Just going to bump this as I'm wondering if anyone knows how Rocco Palladino got that tone? Is it an octaver? Anyone know which one?

take it to Twitter like Geek99 did

Friday night I was just tickling my snare while the soundman messed about with his dodgy DIs. He didn't ask me to stop playing but at one point I noticed he was just glaring at me. I stopped and he went back to work. What's wrong with a "could you stop that please?", surely that's much more polite than just glaring?

I was watching the headline band one night and the bass was inaudible. My mate, who's the nicest, most gentle guy I know, went and very politely asked him if he could turn up the bass and he screamed F OFF

Hah, it's not rock music he hates, it's the human race

Friday night we played a small local festival. Our guitarist did a quick line check on both his DIs (one acoustic, one electric through a Pod) and everything sounded fine. Half way through the first song his acoustic started cutting out. He swapped all of his cables for spares but it kept happening. Despite that the soundman refused to believe it could be anything to do with him. We figured as the electric had been fine at the line check we'd just abandon the acoustic and do the whole set electric. Nothing came out of the monitors. Again the soundman was no help at all. We plugged his Pod into the guitar amp on stage to get some sound. It worked but we couldn't hear him properly at all. Despite all this, we seemed to go down very well, loads of people singing and dancing etc. Saturday night was an even smaller festival, but this time without any of the technical problems. We all played really well and loved it so much more, despite a rather lukewarm reaction from the crowd!

I saw this last night as I follow Yussef Dayes on Facebook, it's well worth a watch

yeh, brilliant album!

I'm in 6 bands. It's just first come, first served, however one of my bands is pretty successful and the band leader books gigs months in advance. We have bookings up to November 2019. This means the other 5 get to pick from my very meagre list of free dates, and they turn a lot of stuff down. I wouldn't mind if they replaced me or got deps or whatever but they don't seem bothered

I started playing guitar when I was 8, picked up bass when I was about 15 and loved it, played bass in bands for 5 years until our drummer went home to Ireland, then played drums since. In the last few years I've really got back into guitar and started playing in a band. I find that years on bass and drums has really tightened up my sense of rhythm. I wish every guitarist would do it! So many can fret womble but few can really groove

I played (drums) with CreepJoint on Friday. It was our first gig for over 2 years and it felt so good. Our new material is IMHO brilliant. Hopefully plenty of people will check out our new album off the back of it I then played bass and made weird noises for my crazy heavy band Heavy As Balls. I don't know what it is about this band but it always goes down so well. We're basically a jam band but we've just put an album out. The idea is that we jam until one of us plays a riff that makes us all go AEEEUUUUUUGH, due to it's heaviness. Then we base a "song" around that, the idea being that we have to either come up with a heavier riff that fits with the first idea, or somehow make the first idea heavier. It's supposed to be so ridiculously heavy that it's funny. It's heavy as balls. Oh, and we wear masks and robes and have lights on our guitars and on the sides of our faces. We gave out a load of masks before we played and most of the people I could see from stage were wearing them and either head banging, or laughing, which is the desired reaction. It's a shame our drummer's going away travelling for 9 months as it'd be ace to do a run of gigs.