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I forgot to moan about the one from a week ago. Saturday night in Belper. This venue has it's own PA, but it's knackered and rubbish, and there's never a soundman. People have told me there's a soundman but I've never seen him. They ask us to get there for 7, we arrive on time, and there are just some old blokes standing around chatting, taking bits of the PA apart. I f*** off to the bar. When I come back later the first band are on (not bad, pretty good bassist actually, but I think the drummer tuned my toms higher while I was gone which was annoying) and it's way too loud. There's clearly no-one running the sound, I guess they set it up themselves. The 2nd act begged me to do his sound so I did the best I could but his guitar was distorting no matter what I did with the levels. All of this I expected, so it was fine, we played a good set, went down well, and I was pleased (and a bit pissed) at the end of the night. Our bassist was not pleased but I don't understand why, we've played this place 3 times now and it's always the same Anyway, this weekend, Warsop on Friday, it was OK but we seemed to make a hell of a lot of mistakes. Our frontman was a bit ill so maybe that put him off which put the rest of us off? It could have been the fact that the sound went to sh*t and then the soundman wandered off? Anyway, we did not play well, but as usual no-one noticed Saturday night in Hereford, great venue, good sound (if too loud as usual), and I love the headline band "Steve Ignorant's Slice Of Life" - they're just ace

I have loads of drum spares but no idea what an L-Rod is!!!

I love the pickguard shape! It's ace!

January was quiet for the folk/punk band, but my reggae and metal bands got a run out. The rest of the year is mental for the folk/punk. I think I have about 4 weekends off for the rest of the year, and there are a load of mid-week gigs and weekends with 2 or 3 gigs

new strings, cut the bass, play hard or lower the action, if you're not getting "clank" from that when DI'd I'd be surprised. Some compression or dirt on the high mids and highs should help too

never heard of Joe Tex, nice one!

yeh he's ace, great drumming too

I don't like that you have to blend the two pre-amps externally, why wouldn't they give a mixed output? There are level controls for each channel so it'd be easy enough

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1485006292' post='3220326'] There are three of them playing.That link is great. Thankyou. [/quote] At the very start, there's an instrument on one side (wah style keys?), then drums and bass kick in, and a wah guitar kicks in on the other side. It's probably more noticeable for me as I listen on headphones.

pretty cool! I feel like the drums could be a bit looser, and should maybe go to a ride for the run out, and the rhythm on the main keys part could be a bit more interesting. It's definitely in the style of Vulfpeck! Nice one

very cool

nice one, well impressed by the scratchplate!

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1484764212' post='3218268'] Shame about that widdling bass player.... everyone else is ON it and he is sorta along for the ride/showing his ass somewhat messily. But what do I know? Apparently it is her: [url="http://www.meshell.com/"]http://www.meshell.com/[/url] [/quote] I can't tell if you're joking? The way the bass is playing all over the beat is what I love about that track, I think it's incredible! I'd describe it as "greasy" which fits with the title of the song. To me that's way funkier than all the straight "on the one" James Brown stuff

1.2 seconds to delete an email? You need to speed up! I think it's fair enough to ask the question about opting in/out of different kinds of emails. I don't think anyone was that negative? What if a load of people paid full price for a ticket, got to the show, said hi to the guys at basschat and they said "Hi, did you get your 20% off? We posted about it in the site news section"... I'm pretty sure there'd be more people annoyed by that than those annoyed by the email

try it both ways, there are no rules, but yeh, keep the tuner at the start The only time I'd put a tuner at the end of a chain is if I was using it to mute noise produced by other pedals

ooops! Sorry, yes, don't buy that!! They do do one though [url="http://www.godlyke.com/power-all/power-all-cables/power-all-cable-black-right-angle-extension-jumper"]http://www.godlyke.com/power-all/power-all-cables/power-all-cable-black-right-angle-extension-jumper[/url] I'm sure there are some on ebay for £1 if you have a search

I can do your recordings at Riff Factory in Stoke, PM if you want any info

There are definitely more than 3 players at once. I wonder if it's overdubs or if there were more in the band? Great stuff anyway, thanks! EDIT: I got to here from the comments on youtube, funky! [url="https://www.mixcloud.com/audiolounge/prince-funk-from-the-vault-1976-1983/"]https://www.mixcloud.com/audiolounge/prince-funk-from-the-vault-1976-1983/[/url]

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I'm sure you can deal with the power socket at the side, just use a low profile extension or something? Or move the socket to the back? There must be room as it has a battery compartment

Honestly I thought I'd be able to find at least one James Brown song that isn't on the one but I can't! [quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1484650673' post='3217117'] A lot of what make funk 'funky' is playing slightly off the beat. David Garibaldi (drummer with Tower of Power) has an excellent clip on Youtube where he demonstrates moving the snare beat around in any given bar and where the bass drum beat can also be shifted around. It's worth a look. [/quote] I guess you mean this one? Interesting [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwFLqn-k7A"]http://www.youtube....h?v=jFwFLqn-k7A[/url]

I like to change my sound lots. I use a lot of effects pedals for that. I've managed to ditch 3 different EQ pedals (top boost, mid boost, bottom boost) by learning to use the pre-amp on my bass instead it'd be nice not to worry about batteries though

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1484589144' post='3216583'] The 'one' is surely the first quarter interval in a 4 beat bar (or other variations). Notes can be played on the beat or before or after, but the 'one' is always in the same place. Alternatively, I could be too thick to understand this thread. [/quote] It's a difficult one to explain. What you're saying is that "the one" is definitely on the first beat of the bar, and according to the discussion above, that is what James Brown meant when he coined the phrase I have personally been listening to and playing a lot of what I would describe as funky music, and a lot of the basslines and riffs I gravitate towards start on the offbeat before the first beat of the bar. As there are so many, I started to wonder whether what James Brown meant by "the one" was not in fact the first beat of the bar, but instead the first note of the bassline. Apparently not!

99% of my funky ideas don't feature "the one" and when I realised this after watching JB and Bootsy talk about it, I started to question whether my ideas were actually funky at all. I guess the whole idea of "the one" is pretty specific to those people and there's no need to take it so seriously

Sorry to drag this back up, I've been gigging all weekend ...so to conclude, if you subscribe to the theory that to be funky, everyone in the band needs to be "on the one", this means that all of your funk riffs must have a note on the first beat of the bar. The examples above are not funky in terms of JB's or Bootsy's definitions. Surely if these greats would not describe the above as funky, then they can't be? In which case, what is this kind of music which sounds like funk but isn't on the one?