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[quote name='iain1985' post='202351' date='May 19 2008, 06:18 PM']Its all originals and they have stuff recorded. What do I do ? Do i figure it out note for note or work out my own parts for it? If anyone could give me any advice it would be much apprecieated, not just on playing the songs, but on anything else i might come across. cheers.[/quote] If they're still gigging with the old bassist, try and get to a gig. Go through the recorded stuff and work out which bits (if any) need to be note for note and also if there's any nice licks you'd like to copy anyway. Make sure you've got everything you'll need for the audition before you set out. Write out a checklist if you've got a memory like mine.

Duracells definitely make the best sound - due to their heavier weight, they produce a far more satisfying "thump" when they hit our vocalist. I put a Procell into my wireless (an AT 1400 IIRC) because I'd forgotten my rechargeable PP3s. It's done three gigs so far (about 7 hours on time).

[quote name='Jase' post='202630' date='May 20 2008, 09:35 AM']......so it's basically the look rather than the tone difference?[/quote] There's a slight difference in the way they play, too - more noticeable on a g*itar though. If you use side-to-side vibrato, a rosewood board is generally rougher than a maple board and less smooth doing the side-to-side (or string bending generally). I've had one bass with a maple fretboard, a Hayman 40/40, and that sounded really dull. Of course that would have been the fretboard and not the five year old flatwound Rotosounds then...

[quote name='thinman' post='201105' date='May 17 2008, 04:21 PM']Who are the biggest bas talents you know of with the worst gear? (Or the reverse! My vote would go to some of the people at a Hedge Fund manager's "Hedgestock" event.)[/quote] For the reverse, I'd have said Adam Clayton if he used decent basses, but he uses Fenders so that's OK.

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='201797' date='May 18 2008, 10:17 PM']And I Was Made To Love Her that even Stevie Wonder says was Jamerson.[/quote] I'm not sure I'd want to call Stevie Wonder as an eye witness though...

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='201012' date='May 17 2008, 01:22 PM']Kismet intervenes and by tomorrow your current band is massive , you're a multi squillionaire and about to do a world stadium tour. ... My Shukerised Status 3000 another Shukerised Status 3000 just in case One of Jon Shukers Artist fretless jobbies with the 'Shirtlifter' pickup system.[/quote] Erm, two new Shukers by tomorrow? You're having a giraffe. Either that, or paying him an awful lot of money... For me, the Tsai 7-string and 5-string fretted, and the two Thumbs. And a Tsai 5-string fretless the same as the 5-string fretted.

[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.