tauzero

Not longer? Mazeti?

I've recently joined a Marillion tribute band, doing both Fish and H era material. Not that I look a lot like Pete Trewavas, but I do play a Warwick Thumb. Now I just have to try and play more stuff with a plectrum. We're still looking for a singer though - based in Nottingham, if anyone should know somebody who might be interested.

God, what an awful song.

I can't play slap. I'd like to be able to but have never managed to get my fingers to co-operate, and can't see a real use for it in any band situation I'm ever likely to be in. I'm not averse to others using it and it's not mandatory for me to watch any Youtube videos with it on. If thine Youtube offends thee, turn it off. However, if someone intends to demonstrate the capabilities of a bass and does nothing but slap on it, that's not a good demonstration. I thought that slap interplay between the two street bassists was rather good. Couldn't have coped with two 45 minute sets of it though. And a while ago, in a prog rock covers band that never fled the nest, we did a couple of King Crimson numbers, Epitaph and Court of the Crimson King. For one of them, there's a video somewhere on Youtube with a post-Greg Lake incarnation of KC performing it, in which the bassist at one point plays some slap and demonstrates why you should never play slap in prog rock.

Her music stand is just out of shot.

Headless Sei Flamboyant 5-string with hexaphonic pickup (either magnetic or bridge saddle) and magnetic pickups in Warwick Thumb position.

Jules McHolland?

No, but I can't remember what it was.

This was actually rather sad. We'd been asked to play at the wake of a member of a bike club - Mrs Zero and I knew quite a few members of the club from my outlaw days but not the guest of honour. Anyroadup, pretty near the end, the son of the recently departed asked us for a particular AC/DC/song which none of us knew. We explained that we didn't know it. He kept asking, offering us £50 if we played it. I think we finally played another AC/DC song that was in our repertoire.

That's subtle but very telling criticism.

I thought it lost its way part way through and got rather incoherent, and unable to decide whether it was a history of bass or a Tina Weymouth autobiography. Disappointing compared to the Copeland episode. It seemed there might be something on the evolution of bass styles, but that petered out.

Could you mount wireless and Helix onto a single board, in something like a Stagg pedalboard case?

I thought it was the size of a Status Bulging Pole Streamliner until I saw the photo of it outside the case. Cracking idea, taking photos of a black bass when it's in a black case... Much better looking than that horrible Surfcaster.

Looks like someone on one knee with their hands up. Jesus surrendering to the Romans at Gethsemane as they stood pointing their guns at him?

Do you mean new products that don't look exactly like old products? The aesthetics of the Richard Bona one don't appeal to me, but the Squier Standard clone isn't innovative. So they're pushing the boat out stylistically on one, and mooring it firmly to the jetty and dropping a few concrete blocks in it for the other one. And it's difficult to know what the average bass player can do other than praise or snipe, because most of us aren't actually in a position to bring out our own range of basses.

It appears it's dual voice coils - there was a TB thread about this: https://www.talkbass.com/threads/hartke-hydrive-112-w-switchable-ohms.852845/

Steel board, neodymium magnets glued to the pedals. What could possibly go wrong?

But it's not a "next line", is it? It's a 15-year-old line and Markbass are trying to do something with the raddled corpse, looking firmly back towards the future. Are Samsung about to bring out a clone of the third generation iPhone?

I'm not sure what the point of the second one is. Does the world really need another Fender/Squier clone? The first one seems an attempt to make a double-cut as ugly as a single-cut. Richard Bona had a huge mudslinging fest at Tecamp when he parted company with them, it may be worth getting the popcorn in now for the same thing happening with him and Fodera.

Perhaps by extracting the plastic inlays and using a light coloured wood filler to refill the slots?

Ah yes, the things we moved away from when I was 15, in 1972. How quaint.

What are these lb things that people speak of?

I used to enjoy playing She Sells Sanctuary, not for the technicality but for the energy.

I had exactly the same feelings about that song as you. In fact, I still have them, but at least I no longer have to play it.

I've only hated one bass - my first, a Rosetti 7 hollow-body which I bought in about 1971 for £2. It was overpriced. Papier-mache body, crap neck.