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My Dad didn't like The Beatles. He blamed them for starting the downfall of society as he knew it.

I don't knowingly use a compressor live but I suspect the Tech 21 VT Bass DI, which I use as a pre-amp / DI in live situations, compresses if that's what is meant by smoothing out the sound. I set it so I can still play dynamically but smoother. Does that make sense? In the studio, like Lozz, I let the injneers do what they have to do. What is compression anyway? Can't really get my head 'round the description, to be honest.

Limelight.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1447327017' post='2906675'] Hey Jude and Let it Be are on the list of "Classics That I Don't Much Like." I love the Beatles and I don't begrudge them their classic status. [/quote] +1

I like that, but a bit pricey methinks.

Wot Discreet said and take a big mate with you.

Like most others have said I would leave it be, you'll laugh about it anyway next week. If the customer books you again just up the fee by £15 to cover the cost of the broken stand. If not, just put it down to being one of them gigs.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1447076980' post='2904598'] Want that on a t-shirt!! [/quote] I'm working on it.

You bu88ers have made me get my 12 string out in order to try to learn, for the umpteenth time, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saAoTPXcPSg

Who said that? (swigs his tea and wishes for a ciggie....)

Just remember that you are a bass player. I found this quote on fretboard.co.uk which, as I'm really a bass player, made me smile. [size=5][color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif]"You do all the 'widdly widdly' bits, and just leave the hard stuff to me."[/font][/color][/size] [size=4]Anyone know who said it in the first place?[/size]

I have a foot on both paths and maybe a third as I try to play lap steel as well. Go for it and be damned, I say!

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1447011846' post='2904181'] I saw a great bass player Friday night who only used his index finger and maybe occasionally his pinky. Great sound and great feel. Who cares if the technique gets the job done. [/quote] Exactly my point.

Great idea, but where do I store the bass cases and gig bags? At the moment, my basses and guitars are in said cases stored vertically along one wall in my noisy room. I would take up more space with the drawers, I'm thinking.

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]As I posted in the other similar thread, 'cause it's something I feel quite strongly about regarding modern teaching methods and technique.[/font][/color] No apologies for being boring. [i][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"Great stuff.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]But he would have failed grade 1 with that technique today. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I wonder how many "Institute Taught" bass players are now going to fit pickup covers on their Precisions and adapt their right and left hand techniques after seeing that? [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] "[/font][/color][/i]

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1446811589' post='2902513'] I read somewhere it was also mixed low to stop pickup arms jumping out of the groove (but don't think that would apply to a Dansette! maybe to a more hi-fi radio station deck) scalpy, have you seen this? [url="http://www.jamersonanalysed.co.uk/2013/11/i-heard-it-through-grapevine-gladys.html"]http://www.jamersona...ine-gladys.html[/url] [/quote] You're partially right, but if the Dansette arm did jump out of the groove we would put a Ha'penny on the arm, just over the stylus, to prevent that happening.

Great stuff. But he would have failed grade 1 with that technique today. I wonder how many "Institute Taught" bass players are now going to fit pickup covers on their Precisions and adapt their right and left hand techniques after seeing that?

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1446914769' post='2903487'] Very good ... and that film [i]Downfall[/i] is very good without the editing. [/quote] Agreed,[i][b] Downfall[/b][/i] is an excellent film.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1446903815' post='2903370'] But did they like his music? [/quote] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9POOqxPBBaw

One of these. I've used both in anger and this one is better by far as it has the speaker sim feature - IMHO, of course. [url="http://www.tech21nyc.com/products/sansamp/vtbassdi.html"]http://www.tech21nyc...p/vtbassdi.html[/url]

I've used good old fashioned solvent based PS adhesive to refix mine. The problem is that the water based / aqueous adhesives, paints, pigments and lacquers that are allowed to be used today because of elf and safety and eco rules are just plain friggin useless in the real world. 40 years in the paper, print and packaging industry has taught me that.

One of these bridges: [attachment=204541:gibson-EB-0-Junior-1960-Cherry-BRIDGE.jpg]

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1446822625' post='2902676'] As for music I love but have to separate from the twats that made it, top of the list would be Cream. Everyone probably knows how unpleasant Ginger Baker can be, but I was genuinely disappointed to find out that Jack Bruce deserved some of Ginger's ire for being quite horrible himself a lot of the time. [/quote] Interesting commemt. Over the years I too had seen, first hand, Jack Bruce's twatishness in spades. I had also seen the absolutely charming and gentlemanly behaviour from the same man. I put it down to "artistic temperament" (what ever that may be) but he certainly wound up a lot of other people, too.

A Snark clip-on. An original first edition TU-2. Oh, and my mates harmonica.