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[quote name='gafbass02' post='200586' date='May 16 2008, 05:27 PM']Ok, so since moving to Cheltenham i spend a lot of time in open mic nights waiting and hoping for a chance to play something i know, which is fairly rare having never spent much time doing covers, and quite often the guys who know the same songs as me are unavailable, etc.[/quote] Can't you jam along to stuff you don't know, or don't the guits like that?

[quote name='gypsymoth' post='200640' date='May 16 2008, 06:49 PM']if you want to do it at open mic's, I'd suggest not saying it's solo. tell them it's a simple tune in H, and invite them to follow.[/quote] Good idea - only the ones with enough musical knowledge to know that H is B will get up to play...

[quote name='neepheid' post='200231' date='May 16 2008, 10:29 AM']Plug up the end hole as I outlined (but unless you do something sneaky like finish the headstock face in a solid colour or layer a veneer over the top you'll see the plug).[/quote] Or chop the headstock end off between the G and D strings.

It's probably very non-PC of me, but both the future Mrs Zero and myself were rather tickled when the question for a programme featuring John Barrowman and Graham Norton was "Who will be my Nancy?" That, admittedly, is as far as we've ever watched...

[quote name='Buzz' post='198021' date='May 13 2008, 02:55 PM']Interesting idea, a bass one would probably have to be slightly larger due to the extra weight. I also wonder what it would do to your straplock screw holes, and if it fits around the different sized nubbins for Dunlop, Schaller etc...[/quote] It would work on Precisions and basses of that ilk. It wouldn't work on Jazzes or Warwick Thumbs or Thunderbirds or various BC Riches or two of my Tsais - it needs a fairly symmetrical and unslanty body to work. So for guitars it'll work on Les Pauls, Strats, Teles, all the Yamahas I can think of, in fact pretty much everything except Flying Vs.

For some reason, I've just been reminded of: What's the range of a six-string bass? About 50 metres with a good swing. Or how about naval battles on a local pond, with Dood, ARGH and me supplying the aircraft carriers?

Avoid "The Chronicles of Thomann Covenant the Unbeliever" whatever you do.

[quote name='trent900' post='197600' date='May 12 2008, 11:13 PM']Sometimes however things can be taken too far, may I draw the thread's attention to 'Dance the Night Away' by the Mavericks which [i]will[/i] give you carpal tunnel and is a criminal affront to all that is good and right in this world even at the best of times.[/quote] If played as the original, it's a straight walking bass so it's not going to give anyone CTS. The big challenge is to make it an interesting bassline because if I didn't mess around on it, I'd probably fall asleep, so I do little things like playing it over three octaves (this is where a 5-string comes in handy) to keep myself from flagging too much. And there's generally one or two fit burds on the dance floor to ogle. As far as the original post goes, with the original music I do, there's no conflict as obviously I like it and I do interesting bass lines. With covers, sometimes the bassline is predefined and inescapable and the challenge is playing it well. Where it's not predefined, there's the opportunity to make it as interesting as you like, providing it doesn't interfere with the song - so the challenge is to enhance the song.

[quote name='crez5150' post='197669' date='May 13 2008, 07:59 AM']Sounds good in theory.... I think it would get a bit messy after a while.... The band I play with have a minimum set fee.... lets say £2k per show.... out of that £2k each member then gets a set fee for their services. There is an 'owner' of our band as it is a brand effectively. The owner (keyboard player and manager) is employing the rest of the band, therefore we are each responsible for our own tax. The owner also has his cut and also there is money there for Marketing, expenses etc...[/quote] A band I auditioned for (didn't get the gig) operated that system. Seemed pretty reasonable. Our covers band has four core members who play every song, plus the drummer's wife plays keyboards on a few of the songs. We split the money four ways then give Sue a cut from each of us (normally 10%). With the barn dance band, we have four core band members plus caller who nominally play every gig, and two additional musicians who play the larger gigs (one of them also sometimes deps for the guitarist in the core band). We simply split the money equally between the members who play for any given gig. With both bands, the cost of merchandising (not much, we've got some t-shirts for the barn dance band) and websites comes from the core members equally.

[quote name='bremen' post='197212' date='May 12 2008, 03:25 PM']They want more for shipping than they do for the strings! Any European dealers? LordOfTheStrings don't do DR, unfortunately.[/quote] [url="http://saitenkatalog.de/shop1/"]Saitenkatalog[/url] do DR, including the Jonas Helborg ones (except they're marked as "not available").

[quote name='sticker' post='197126' date='May 12 2008, 01:28 PM']Singers who arrive for soundcheck late so avoid the carrying of weighty P.A gear in to the venue , still can't remember the words to songs we have rehearsed a hundred times and then always have an excuse to leave early and avoid the loading of the van ! [/quote] So you've met our singer too? The worst bit is when he says "Any requests?". He doesn't know the songs in the set, what chance has he of knowing some random song that someone asks for? And on the wild off-chance that he does, what chance is there of us knowing it too? The guitarist with the other band tries to sneak off without helping with the loading. We have taken to paying him after all the loading hasn't been done. This has proved a very successful system which I commend to the house.

[quote name='paul, the' post='197006' date='May 12 2008, 11:21 AM']It really annoys me when I hear bass in Bob Dylan songs.[/quote] My bass playing is the only thing that stops the audience collectively stringing itself up during "Desolation Row". I am a benefactor to humanity.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='196039' date='May 10 2008, 04:03 PM']I have NO IDEA what this is ... [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Royal-Artist-Bruno-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ280225860118QQihZ018QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Royal-Artist-Bruno-B...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url][/quote] The sunburst and hardware is reminiscent of the Woolies specials from the early 70s. Headstock has nice facing on it.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='197000' date='May 12 2008, 11:13 AM']Don't see many of them - but in a strange coincidence, here's what appears to be a Vester Argus [i]copy[/i]: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Active-custom-made-Bass-Guitar_W0QQitemZ300224115250"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Active-custom-made-B...emZ300224115250[/url][/quote] Funnily enough, Tony Tsai does them too: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310048130547"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=310048130547[/url]

A Zoom RFX2000 has just arrived courtesy of Mark - very smooth transaction, would buy from him again.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='193995' date='May 7 2008, 04:27 PM']Oooh really? We live just down the road! lol![/quote] And you're about 20 miles due west of me in Tamuff. But I don't play with a pick.

[quote name='Machines' post='188639' date='Apr 30 2008, 09:23 AM']I know it.. I live 2 miles from it and drive down it every day .[/quote] I used to live at number 26, up in the converted loft, an entirely different experience to living in a converted cellar in Austria. And I remember when the Sharman's Cross was a paddock in which a horse grazed. And it was all fields round here.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='194876' date='May 8 2008, 06:04 PM']get the bike out and have ride down, we can talk boll0x about bikes if nowt else....! [/quote] I've got to get it running first - it's been at my house with the SBFH for the last couple of years. Most irritating when the weather's so good and the commute so trafficy.

I'm really not sure whether I'm going to be able to make it after all. Work and a new house (well, it's my old house finally retrieved from the she-bitch from hell) are conspiring against me. I will if I can though.

[quote name='Beedster' post='191050' date='May 3 2008, 08:17 AM']With a good PUP and good rig,you don't need the J-PUP, trust me [/quote] With a good bass and good rig, you don't need the Fender.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='194104' date='May 7 2008, 06:30 PM']And of course Triumph owners dont have a stereotype do they......?[/quote] They haven't leaked oil since 1991, and neither has my Warwick.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='194450' date='May 8 2008, 09:25 AM']My Double bass is a 3/4 so I shall only play it 1.5 times, any requests for me to play it twice should be forwarded in writing to my manager as new clauses will apply.[/quote] I think you'll find that means you're only allowed to play waltzes on it.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='192006' date='May 5 2008, 07:40 AM']However its an interesting insturment ..... so would this class as ERB or just an odd ball hybrid?[/quote] ERG, perhaps? Effectively a 5-string guitar and 3-string bass stuck together.

[quote name='Leowasright' post='193284' date='May 6 2008, 08:35 PM']Automotive paralells miss the point. So much was right by 1960 (to quote me later on), why mess with it?[/quote] There is an automotive parallel that works pretty well, actually - Fender and Harley-Davidson. You get to pay lots of money for the badge, it's mainly made outside the US, you have to stick aftermarket stuff on it to make it perform somewhere round a tenth as well as other manufacturers' stuff, on the rare occasion when they bring out a radical departure from the original, all the current owners hate it, and the noise from them is really irritating. Oh, and the owners dress funny too.