tauzero

Mrs Zero keeps telling me I should look like I'm enjoying it. I am really, I'm just a naturally miserable looking person. Incidentally, at the Moffat bass bash, the drummer who works with Colin Cunningham and also played with Dave Swift for the afternoon session looked like he's swallowed a whole bottle of Prozac.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1458529147' post='3008333'] I always look like I'm bored, hating every second of it, and would rather be drinking the contents of my own bladder, than be on a stage playing bass. Mainly because I find it boring and I hate every second of it.... Seriously, I hate playing most gigs..... [/quote] Perhaps you should try a 5-string?

And after being reminded of one hit wonders by seeing John Williams, how could I forget the double album Sky 2?

We do it. I like it, in fact I suggested it.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1458205735' post='3005496'] I like Ritters but that's pretty awful.... [/quote] That's lovely apart from the gold icing on the pickups. Although I wouldn't bother with the black diamonds and mammoth tusk, perhaps he'd do one for me without those bits for £100.

Watching a BBC4 programme on John Williams at the BBC reminds me: Cavatina - John Williams Toccata - Sky I think those both pass the Big Red X test.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1458286284' post='3006218'] Their follow-up single "Power Of Love" also made the top 40. [/quote] Where do you draw the line for 'hit'? Personally, I'd say something should be at least top 20 to be a hit, you see it as top 40.

[quote name='Muzz' timestamp='1458217232' post='3005662'] If there's a 'moshing community', I for one would like to see some footage of their AGM...tea and buns everywhere... [/quote] If there's a community, I believe it's mandatory to have a community leader, though I've never been sure how they get elected.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1458134915' post='3004997'] Back to the source for me - you can't beat the simple brilliance of Leo's 51 and 57 P Basses. Anything you can't play on a P isn't worth playing, IMHO. [/quote] And anything you can play on a P, you might as well play on a decent bass instead.

Another vote for the Peavey Grind. Also there was the Peavey Zephyr - if you can get on with a slightly fatter neck than the Grind, it's a great bass which oozes quality. I couldn't so I haven't got mine any more.

Focus 3 - just drop Anonymous II. Then package it as a double album with Moving Waves.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1457738650' post='3001559'] 0.3mm is way too much twice to three times to much on average. [/quote] 3mm is too much, 0.3mm isn't. One is ten times the other. That's for relief, not 12th fret string height.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1458130336' post='3004933'] In the 70s though, if you were a "serious" rock band you didn't really do singles. Your audience were all album buyers. ... And I thought that Led Zeppelin had a strict no singles policy? [/quote] I thought as you did on both these, but look at the number of singles Sabbath, Floyd, Zep, and Genesis released. Zep released 15 singles. And Jethro Tull released 33, with two making it into the top 40 (in fact the top 20).

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1458125413' post='3004866'] I'm not denying that it was a one-hit wonder. It was posted more as a piece of pop trivia. Most artists achieve one-hit wonder status because they only have a single song worthy of being a hit. [/quote] I did a little digging around for surprise one hit wonders - I mentioned Black Sabbath who did have another couple of top 40 charting singles, but released a whole lot more. Pink Floyd were another surprise as though I knew they had at least two and possibly three hits (Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, Another Brick in the Wall), they've actually released 27 singles. And Led Zeppelin have a rather pathetic one song getting to number 21.

[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1458126014' post='3004874'] There's a famous Niro and a famous Nero. Dammit, I'm too well educated for this place. [/quote] PS. Nero, of course, didn't actually Fiddle as the violin hadn't been invented at that point, not was he actually in Rome when the fire broke out though one might implicitly think he was. He did perform on the lyre, however. Exactly how well is impossible to say as he is unlikely to have had any critics.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1458064942' post='3004377'] My guess was there's two famous Niros - One's "Bob D.", the other one did a violin solo while Rome burned allegedly. Laugh? I nearly bought a round in! [/quote] There's a famous Niro and a famous Nero. Dammit, I'm too well educated for this place.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1458078937' post='3004600'] Pedant alert: the Goons' tune was called the 'Ying Tong Song' and the Sputniks' was 'Love Missile F1-11'. And yes, it was very definitely truly dreadful. [/quote] Bloody autocorrect, why does it want to change 'tong' to 'Ying'? Bah.

Paranoid - Black Sabbath 30 other singles of which two almost scraped into the top 20. I think they probably qualify.

At home, for my infrequent listening, I use a separates system with either CDs or mp3s. I also have an Interphone F3MC Bluetooth intercom system on my bike helmet that I can play mp3s from my phone to but it's disappointingly quiet (I wear earplugs on the bike).

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1458050272' post='3004186'] Robert De Nero? [/quote] Fiddling while Specsavers burnt?

I should really have remembered this as we do it - "One of us" by Joan Osborne. Despite the film, I still like "Take my breath away" by Berlin.

I used to read and post to agb. I revisited it fairly recently and gave up on it pretty much straight away.

I've been beaten to a few. Still: Birdhouse in your soul - They might be giants Satellite - Hooters Bennie Hill - Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) Goons - Ying Ying Song And for rubbish, as well as the grandparent songs, there's Sigue Sigue Sputnik's truly dreadful Love Missile F1-1.

[quote name='Osiris' timestamp='1457783423' post='3001743'] I asked a similar question a few weeks ago too, [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/278725-bypassing-a-b3-in-the-fx-loop-will-it-mute-the-amp/"]the thread is here[/url]. In summary, I have run my B3 through the fx loop of my TC Electronics RH450 and it seemed happy enough. No nasty digital type distortion issues. According to one of the responses on my thread, the pedal will not get damaged by running it in the loop, it will just distort. [/quote] I mentioned having done it and got distortion, but thinking back, I believe it was actually my Korg AX3000B that did that, and I never repeated the experiment with the B3.

[quote name='linear' timestamp='1456923748' post='2993545'] I picked up a B3 a few years ago. Just discovered that the whole time I've had the effects order the opposite way round from what I thought it was I've often struggled getting my created patches to behave the way I expected them to, assumed it was down to limitations of the device. I did wonder why so many of the built-in patches had reverb at the start of the chain What a muppet. [/quote] You can switch the direction of the signal flow - see page 19 of the manual.