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We are too edgy for this lot, Dad. Lightweights!!

Recommended. 'The Suitcase', a live Steve Khan 2cd featuring Anthony Jackson and Dennis Chambers. Jackson is ON FIRE!!! Check out this rare Anthony Jackson solo - it beats 99% of all other bass guitar solos for inventiveness and originality. And you never hear AJ solo!!. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4v4Zu-msnQ

Oranges and apples. Some music is for expressing angst, some is for expressing clearasil. My only concern (which I spend at least a second thinking about ever year) is that people who like liddy bands don't seem to grow out of it anymore. My office is chock full of 'old enough to know better/should have grown out of it by now' Robbie Williams fans. All a bit tragic, really.

This is a no brainer for me, I am afraid, and I apologise if my position offends anyone. It has to be a double bass. EUBs are not double basses and do not really sound much like a double bass; as zero says, a vertical fretless about sums it up. If you buy an EUB, you will still hanker for a double bass. If you buy a double bass, you will forget about EUBs in an instant and never consider the option again. All the convenience issues are shallow victories. You want a double bass and all that playing one brings. So buy a double bass. Everything else will leave you feeling that you have sold yourself short.

My brother is a one man operation and, be necessity, he has to leave his bike shop to pick parts up, mkae deliveries etc, all the normal stuff. I guess its a resilience thing. The more staff you have, the more you have to back you up if something needs doing. It doesn;t take much to screw it up if there are only a handful of people. One on leave, one goes sick, one on a delivery etc. Obviously, there is good and bad practice but, with mobile phones etc, no-one should be left hanging around for hours not knowing what is what.

My guess is, and I am not absolutely sure, that this indicates that the 4:4 to 9:8 ratio is that the first is 8 quavers and the second is 9 i.e. the crotchet count is the same even thought he note value has changed. In short, it has gone from 4:4 to 4.5:4 which doesn't exist so is written as 9:8. It is effectively saying that 'this is easier than it looks'!

I guess I am being ungrateful

Always a bridesmaid.....

'All the wrong reasons' is because it is shiny!!

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1414575662' post='2590764'] Its been in the shop for over a year though. [/quote] Do you reckon if I offered him a signed photo of me and a bag of toffees, he might let it go?

That Devil's intervals thing is a long established historical fact. The name 'diabolus in musica' ("the Devil in music") has been applied to the interval from at least the early 18th century if not earlier. Iommi would have just picked up on that.

I don't know about science but every time I hear 'Moondance', I want to vomit.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1414575276' post='2590752'] It is nice but do you not think its a little too... Erm... What's the word?... Flamboyant for the local WMC bingo bookend gigs? :-P [/quote] F*** 'em

I am not that enamoureed of the fish symbol either as I am an avid athiest but what a piece of kit

http://www.thebassgallery.com/product_details.cfm?ID=2344&type=Bass%20Guitar

Will certainly start there, Skol. Solutions are rarely more than a couple of clicks away!!

I cannot listen to them here but will do. The whole midi composing thing is something I wish I had time to explore more thoroughly. I have heard several incredibly convincing pieces using these methods and am astonished at what you can achieve with a good orchestral VST. I use Miroslav Philharmonik a lot (and many of my Composition Challenge pieces are entirely midi-based) but get frustrated by the apparent conflicts between the software and my Cubase SX platform. It always seems like the orchestration and levels etc I engineer are 'tweaked' during the exporting process and that some of the details in the audio mixdown are not as they were when I locked the recording. It's these sorts of things that I would love to get to the botton of but never have more than an hour or two twice a week to spend on it. The articulartion thing is very sophisticated, though. I find I often go into the midi editor to try and make things more 'real'. It's a laborious process but worth it in the end.

NO!! VOTE NOW!!! VOTE NOW!!!!

I got my first royalty cheque!!! It won't buy a house, it won't buy a car, it won't buy a bass ( ok, maybe one of those Sue Ryder ones) but it's real!! Have sold about 540 copies worldwide. Says I have sold none in Australia!!! Philistines!!!

Always makes me laugh. Like bass guitar scales are different to other instrument's scales.

Always

David Hungate?

Eric Dolphy!!!

I did a gig last Sunday with a UK pianist composer called Andrea Vicari (Streatham) and a Chelmsford based sax player called Zak Barrett (the geography is relevant). Myself and the drummer were local. Andrea turned up with charts for some rearranged standards and a couple of her own tunes. The standards were a mixture of dots and chord sheets but her own compositions were dots. One of them, which had an African Hi-Life vibe, was wall-to-wall dots. There was a 16-bar section which she referred to as ' the Weather Report' bit (gives you some idea of what it was like). No time to rehearse. She said we could leave it out if we wanted but Zak and I looked at each other and said 'let's do it'. Remember, the performance of this tune (and all of the others) was in front of an audience in a live situation. We hit about 90%. My point is, in no way on God's earth woudl that have been even near to possible with tab. This coming weeked, I am performing with a quartet featuring a guitarist from Oxford, a saxophonist from Brighton and a drummer from Gateshead. We are hoping to get an hours rehearsal in to 'top and tail' the charts. We will be playing a whole gig of Pat Metheny tunes (about 16 charts?). Dots and chords again. There is NO WAY this would be possible with tab. I know people will say 'I don't need to be able to do that in my situation'. Of course, that is true. But that also means that your situation will never change. Being able to read, even at my level (I am not as 'fluent' as a top pro), is a MASSIVE boon to playing the best music possible given the variables at play (travel, geography, time etc). Tab would just not deliver that level of flexibility. To me, it's a no-brainer.