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[quote name='Dread Bass' timestamp='1345401760' post='1777128'] Here is my bands first video [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsv2cApSGLA[/media] [/quote] Monster.....

Reminds me of It Bites but not..... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwzBJ3Lx7Q&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwzBJ3Lx7Q&feature=related[/url]

I never speak to any other bass players about gear so never feel any pressure to 'conform' to any stereotypes. Jazz musicians are also completely unaffected by gear-anoraks; its a known fact that the best players make bad gear sound better than great gear owned by the worst players. It is rarely discussed. I have heard Yamaha drums kits sounding awful and kits stuck together with sellotape sound marvellous. The best/most expensive guitars I have ever seen have been owned by amateurs not professionals. We all talk about the music rather than the gear so the gear becomes a peripheral issue.

I don't care

Jazzer so it tends to be black suit with black or white shirts for formal functions. Same with my function band. If its less formal, nice, smart/colourful shirt, jacket and clean trousers. I always think jeans look a bit naff, like you've just come off your allotment and t-shirts and hoodies make 50-year olds look a bit sad!

It's one of the issues with a five-string double bass; a massive percentage of your playing is in first/second position (you have alomst two octaves under your fingers without moving). This is not a problem intonation/execution wise but your arm is above your head almost all of the time which can wear you down a little on longer tunes!

Writing/Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Suffice to say, it has its limitations!

Love the tympani sample. I have the kit to do this kind of thing but can't play keyboards so would have to programme it in. Too ambitious for me!!

Been working with Cubase Se for years now and feel no urge to up-grade. It records stuff. What more do we want from our machines!!?

I did a transcription off Gary Willis's Bent Cd (was it It's Only Music? It wasa waltz). Not heard No Sweat, I don't think. Probably not Jazz anyway and mostly that fusion muck ;)I downloaded 5 Coltrane cds on Monday; 36 tracks of Cotrane magic (I am on a Jimmy Garrison buzz at the moment).

I just bought the Deluxe version of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane which features the original LP (I had it on cassette, hence the 'ugrade'), the only live recording ever made and a version recorded with two basses and an additional tenor sax (Art Davis bass and Archie Shepp on tenor). Massive value for money and one of the absolutely greatest recordings ever made. Another recommendation and available at bargain basement prices on Amazon Marketplace.

I got my Wal before 5s and 6s were de rigeur. I dipped my toe in with Staus Energy 6 and a similar 5 but didn't see any major benefits for the music I prefer to play. In fact, the only gig I did that needed a low B was cheesy pop and I didn't really like the gig (it was a good band, just the material was a bit bland and the MD wanted to make it blander (I said he wanted to stamp his lack of personality all over the music' ). After that episode, I've never really seen the point, much as I love AJ, Patitucci, Jimmy Johnson etc. I woudl liek to own a Fodera ANJ Presentation before I die (because it's there) but can't see it happening anytime soon. In the meantime, I am happy with what I have.

I only use a 4 string electric and a 5 string double because that is all I have and I have no GAS for anything else. I can see why people want 5s and 6s but I have no real use for them (I have ownded both but they hung on the wall gathering dust). For a long time now, for me, it has been about the music not the bass and my relationship with the instrument has changed as a result. I consequently don't drool over new gear and don't really play musics where a low B or high C (i.e. the top 5 notes) are that relevant.

[quote name='yamahabass' timestamp='1346971552' post='1795655'] i think is a Miles Davis tune, dont have the music at hand so cant see who wrote this..... [/quote] Tadd Dameron

It's a useful read and I can confirm that you will revisit the ideas Green espouses for years to come.

When you think about it, it was no wonder I left the band!!!

The image didn't say 'bebop head' to me so it forced me to think outside the box. I didn't want to do anything 'pretty' because that was not how I saw the image. I went for a minor feel but every time I tried to add any harmonic movement, I lost the connection between the piece and the image it is supposed to represent. In my head, the drone creates the tension, the voices are meant to represent the dead corpses in the water and the melody line is simply the thoughts and feelings of whoever is viewing of the scene. Not particularly sophisticated but I didn't have a great deal of time.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v55g-5slQCs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v55g-5slQCs[/url]

I did one! I was thinking ambient and ended up with this recording of 19 basses (18 playing the same note) and voices. The production is a bit 'low-brow' but I was not inclinded to spend too long on it because it is crap! It reminds me a bit of Bo Hannson! The working to an image thing was a new thing for me and an interesting challege. Great fun. [url="http://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/the-dead-marshes"]http://soundcloud.co...he-dead-marshes[/url] I am not expecting a Grammy

Sell a kidney and do both (www.kidneys4u.com) Seriously, though, I love the idea that owners of old instruments are merely 'temporary custodians' and have a duty to do the right thing. We will soon start seeing electric players starting to have the same dilemmas as their basses reach 50- 60 -70 years old etc (My Wal is 26 this year, a baby compared to yours but gettin older every day), Good to see it working out.

Actually, I think of the two things as the same part on a chart and learn what I play with the bass and what I play against it (like the r/h and l/h on a piano). The only time I struggle is singing three beats when I am playing four on the bass (or vice versa). Fortunately, that is rare.

Ya just gotta do it. Again and again and again and again until you get it right.

I did a trio last night with two guitarists from Essex; Andy WAtson and Simon Hurley. Absolutely beautiful and, for me, one of the most musical gigs I have done on double bass since I got it. I got a good sound and these two guys are musicality personified so I was in heaven. Was ablet o move up to thumb position without losing impetus or depth of tone etc. Really gave me space to [i]play[/i]. What was really lovely, though, was the revelation in passing that Andy went to Leeds to study music in the early 1970s and was very close friends with a guy called Dick Hamer, the sax player who gave me my first jazz gigs in Cardiff in the late 1980s. They had lost touch and I can now connect them up. How cool is that?

Originals bands need music stands too! It's hard enough to play my s*** without having to [i]remember[/i] it as well