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[quote name='Biglump' timestamp='1437744475' post='2828738'] Hoping to train her up to be deputy bass in our Uke orchestra. But U basses are too pricey. Also the ambition lies in playing a giant bass a'la Suzi Quattro for limited standing up and posing. (don't we all start wanting to be playing and posing?) [/quote] U-basses are pricey but there's a Harley Benton equivalent (FSVO equivalent), or there's Ashbories, which tend to crop up occasionally for about £150, although these don't meet the "giant posey bass" criterion. If she can fold the chair arms down then almost anything will do, except Buzzards and anything that doesn't have a little bit sticking out to catch on the leg.

While "complex" is probably overstating it, I have noticed that there's something of a tendency for songs to have a not-quite-repeating structure - so in the old days you'd learn intro, verse, chorus, clever bit, and outro, and mix and match the verse, chorus, and clever bit as required, but songs like "Riverboat Song" or "Last Nite" have a not-quite-repeating structure that means you have to learn the whole song in a linear fashion.

Saves having to buy a new set of strings. Wonder if the bandage round the C string at the nut is to stop the string moving around in the nut or to conceal the end of the nut having fallen off?

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1437643111' post='2827738'] Ordered a new tweeter diaphragm for a SRM450 [1] a couple of days ago, using click and collect. Estimated to be ready for collection on 23rd July. So I was wondering whether it was ready for collection yet, and checked on the item, and found it's now been pushed back to 28th July! [/quote] And I've just had a message that it's ready for click-and-collection. Well, that's a relief, but it would have been nice not to be given the wrong info.

Ordered a new tweeter diaphragm for a SRM450 [1] a couple of days ago, using click and collect. Estimated to be ready for collection on 23rd July. So I was wondering whether it was ready for collection yet, and checked on the item, and found it's now been pushed back to 28th July! Not at all happy as we've got a gig on 31st and I have a dismantled SRM450 sitting in the lounge - and they are a pain in the bum to dismantle, so I really don't want to put it back together with a non-functioning tweeter, only to have to do all this again, if the new delivery date also slips. [1] That should stop it getting pregnant

It looks something like a Les Paul. In fact, if I was selling it, I'd describe it as "like a Les Paul".

I have a couple of 5-instrument stands similar to the ones above (two parallel bars at the bottom, stubby bars at the top for the necks). You have to get the angle just right when putting asymmetrical basses like Thumbs and Jazzes on them, otherwise they don't sit on both of the bottom bars and swivel round.

Hartke Kickback 12 is another possibility. Reasonable sound and the kickback shape means that for close-range listening it can be aimed at his head.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1437591826' post='2827426'] For about 4 years I played in a band with no guitarist - just bass, drums, keys and vocals. It was like a Utopian dream. No ego bullshit or toddler, temper tantrums. [/quote] Are you sure you had a vocalist?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1437590772' post='2827412'] And while I'm on, can anyone explain why The Hubble Telescope can't see the geography of Pluto (7.5 billion km away) when it can provide a marvellously sharp image of the Horsehead Nebula (155 light years away)? It is a simple 'Father Ted' explanation, i.e. Pluto is [i]small[/i], whereas the Horsehead Nebula is [i]far away[/i]? [/quote] [url="http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/02141014-hubble-galaxy-pluto.html"]http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/02141014-hubble-galaxy-pluto.html[/url]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1437588360' post='2827372'] You can't argue with that. [/quote] You seem to have forgotten where you are.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1437580274' post='2827261'] Let's take an artist, painting a picture. He can sell it, as a finished original, to anyone who wants to buy it. He charges the time (including his instruction and apprenticeship needed to become good...). Someone buys it. The artist carries on painting further works. The buyer of the painting could have been an individual, looking to decorate his salon, but is, instead, a buyer for a manufacture of jigsaw puzzles. The painting he had bought is to be copied, reproduced several thousand times, cut into pieces and sold as jigsaw puzzles. The buyer (or,in this case, his company...) have taken on the 'risk', and hope to get their money back from puzzle sales. Maybe they will. [/quote] Do you count a jigsaw of the Mona Lisa as the Mona Lisa?

The tweeter in one of my Mackie SRM450s has ceased emanating sound. It still shows a resistance of around 8 ohms so I went on a quest to find out whether I should expect it to be open circuit. On that quest, I found a couple of very interesting articles which, while focussed on hi-fi, very much apply in the bass world. [url="http://sound.westhost.com/articles/speaker-failure.html"]http://sound.westhost.com/articles/speaker-failure.html[/url] - general article on speaker failure [url="http://sound.westhost.com/tweeters.htm"]http://sound.westhost.com/tweeters.htm[/url] - why tweeters blow, plus interesting bits on the trend to heavy compression in the recording industry and why using a bigger amp isn't the answer.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1437407561' post='2825732'] Let's take the case of a sculptor, who spends a certain amount of time, firstly learning his (implied: 'or her'...) craft, then in producing sculptures. If they're for sale, he'll have to fix a price; I'd suggest costing up the time spent and dividing that up amongst the pieces created. If someone buys his work, that's fine. If his client is an interior designer, the pieces may be sold on to individuals, or offices; even museums. It matters little; as long as the artist has had his work recompensed, all is well. If asked (commissioned...) to create a piece, he'll estimate the cost on a similar basis. Once delivered, he's paid; again, all is well. Can this not hold true of a composer..? He'll sell the piece to someone wanting his work, for the cost of having produced it. If it's then sold on to others, that doesn't prevent the songster from creating further works, or accepting commissions, which should equally generate payment. [/quote] You seem to be overlooking the elephant in the room. The sculpture is a unique object of which ownership can be transferred, and once the new owner has it, the previous owner is deprived of it. A musical work can have its rights transferred, but can be readily copied, either the idea or the recorded sound. How many Mona Lisas are there? And how many "Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole are there?

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1437402604' post='2825673'] ... and I hold that music has no intrinsic worth, it's the production of music that needs paying for. A loaf of bread costs the labour and raw materials involved in its manufacture. Carrots cost what it takes to get thel to grow, and thence to market. The value of these is the effort that's gone into them, not the item itself. One pays a waiter a salary for serving in a restaurant. If he's at home, resting, he's not providing that service, and so doesn't get paid. An actor in the theatre play gets his/her salary, and rightly, too. A musician, playing music, deserves pay, also. I have no problem with folks getting paid for their work. I advocate limiting revenue to that, that's all. [/quote] What happens to record labels then? Record label puts money into production of a record, then how do they recoup the money? They provide the masters to whoever will burn the CDs for them, sort out whoever will do the artwork, and provide the record to Spotify et al. That's it then, isn't it? They're not doing anything further, so they don't get any more money. Presumably the money flow now moves to the CD factory, where they'll churn out as many CDs as they want to and when they don't sell any more, they stop, and to Spotify, who keep supplying the music stream until no-one wants it any more. So where will the risk move to? Who will decide the value of the record? Do all records have the same value? You perhaps need to consider composition and production of material as an IP version of capitalism, insofar as one invests one's efforts in the production of something in the hope of future reward.

[quote name='Raymondo' timestamp='1437562377' post='2827012'] I am assuming that this is a wind up....in the nicest possible way ColinB....As I had to play these virtually every night of the week when I was earning a living in Tenerife. I hated them both but they did make the tourists happy! [/quote] Context is all. Build me up, Buttercup and Sweet Caroline are songs that have taken up residence in social clubs, not in many pub band sets. Don't think I'd want to do Buttercup in a pub but Sweet Caroline would be worth a shot.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1436886562' post='2821726'] I remember seeing Jimmy Lea just mingling with all the other regulars in the bar at a gig in Wolverhampton in the 90's, I think I was a bit too starstruck to approach him but it sounds like he'd have been alright with it. I couldn't stop myself thanking Roy Wood for all the great music through the years when he sometimes used to pop down to Rock City in Nottingham for the Sat night rock nights. I didn't take up much of his time and he was very down to earth and rather humble. [/quote] Roy Wood used to push Mrs Zero in her pram, when they both lived in Brum. He probably wouldn't recognise her now.

Keep the boxes, you might be able to post a couple of 1x12s in them

It's easy to find where I took my username from. And there's no pictures of me or pictures I've taken anywhere in the first several hundred.

Thinking about it, I'd want to be in a band with Mrs Zero, so there's a few - Fleetwood Mike, Silvery, or perhaps Mrs Zero and the Machine.

I'm booked in to Birmingham, along with Mrs Zero. Anyone else going?

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1437498106' post='2826597'] I have never heard a band doing boys of summer. Superstition though, I don't think I have heard a band that doesn't do it.. including mine! [/quote] Previous drummer's current band does it, and I want to do it (not because they do it though). Have never played Superstition in any band.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1437552322' post='2826909'] I take it you own a dog [/quote] A good point. Just get a water pistol and squirt him with water every time he indulges in unacceptable behaviour. If this fails, escalate to bleach, and if you still get the same problems, petrol, and apply a lighted match.

[quote name='CHW' timestamp='1437558171' post='2826965'] Re Mustang Sally Alongside my band stuff I also play for my local tennis club. At our NYE do I was asked to bring along a guitar and mic and do a quick spot. After doing an old blues song and a Johnny Cash number I got asked for Mustang Sally. Instantly I had a dance floor full of people, and 3 of the female members doing their best Commitmentettes "Roid, Sally Roid" BV behind me. People just like it [/quote] Of the last four bands (three rock covers, one social club): Sex on fire - all four bands Sweet Home Alabama - all three rock covers Dakota - all three rock covers Mustang Sally - one rock covers, social club All Right Now - one rock covers (the current one, and I'm not that fond of the song) So perhaps Mustang Sally isn't as overplayed as it's made out to be.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1437492462' post='2826502'] And, tauzero, re: dancing to 7:4; there are more ways to enjoy a gig than dancing and I suspect (although I have no evidence for this) that, overall, more people DON'T dance at gigs than do. There are also other varables. Having done many wedding/party gigs with the same band, I am often amazed at the way in which the same songs/set can get everyone dancing at one gig and hardly anyone dancing at the next. [/quote] I think you should go back and re-read what I wrote. I said that it was entertaining watching people attempting to linedance to 7/4. How you read anything further into that is beyond my comprehension. I quite agree with you (well, somebody has to) that more people don't dance than do.