Linus27

Any fretless bass that has a lined fretboard Rickenbacker's Single Cut Basses Danelectro Longhorn Fan Fretted Basses Anything pointy like Jackson's, Hamer etc.

Just don't get a fretless, it's so much more prone and noticeable on a fretless. My fretless Fender Precision and Stingray both have it but my fretless Jazz and maple neck Precision don't. Interesting that the two necks that don't were both custom made necks by Jon Shuker. A fretless Ibanez Musician that I'm borrowing also doesn't.

Something I got send a while back which does have some truth about it. "In 100 years, say 2124, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends. Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, or preferably in the hands of an unknown collector. Our descendants will hardly or hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father? After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories. If we paused one day to analyze these questions, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was. If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy. And we waste it day after day with greed, greed and intolerance."

We played a special gig in Camden last year. Very much out of our area and not something we would normally do but our singer worked in London, he booked a back room in a pub, put on a few other acts and made a special night of it as a lot of his work colleagues said they are interested in the band and would love to come and see him play. Guess how many turned up? Just 1. Sadly, as we all get older, people get other commitments like jobs, mortgages, holidays, kids etc. so everyone has less time, money or energy or even interest to leave the house.

Wow, absolutely stunning and so very special. I didn't even know that Stingray's came with binding either but it certainly adds to the look. Do you run it with flats or rounds?

With Blur it's pretty much most songs. I don't think Damon Albarn can hold a tune and the music sounds like a 6th form student band. Alex James is a great bassist though. As for the rest then yes, you are right about those songs but I have heard other songs by all of those groups/artist and was equally unimpressed.

Meatloaf. Blur Royal Blood The Kaiser Chiefs The White Stripes Artic Monkey The Strokes

Nickleback I get but Keane????

I see you bought @obbm one. Dave's a great guy and you'll get an awesome little head that will have been well looked after. Enjoy and let us know how you get on.

I'm using a Warwick Gnome through a TC Electronic BC208 with my Ibanez EUB and it sounds great.

Not a huge Incognito fan but I do like a handful of track. This is definitely one of them and that Jazz bass tone is phenomenal.

What sort of time period are we talking about and what sort of genre? Was it a song in the charts or a Jazz record etc.?

Red Red Wine by UB40.

Sadly it's the world we live in. There are some wonderful, amazing human beings out there but there are equally some complete and utter tool's with toilet paper for brains. They walk among us and we sadly come in contact with them now and again.

I really like those guys, great music.

Really sorry to read this Ray and Lewis. As others have said, Basschat is the best place to sell.

I just remembered that whilst mixing an album back around 1999, I went to make coffee in the kitchen and The Corrs were in there making drinks. I think they were in the studio doing a song for a Pepsi advert. Also, when we then went to master the album at Metropolis Studios, OMD were in the next studio along.

That must have been awesome, were you All Shook Up about it 🤣

I've been a TV a few times. The first was a music show that Garry Crowley presented. He interviewed us and then we played a few live tracks. Be kind, its 27 years ago and we had no idea but we got signed after this TV show. A lot of our music also got features of extreme sports shows on Eurosport etc. for stuff like snowboarding, water skiing etc. so they then did a special feature on us. Be kind, this was 26 years ago I was a little wasted on various substances. We then had one of our tracks used in a Casio advert to advertise Casio G-Shock watches in Spanish cinema's. We got paid £500 for this and I actually wrote this track on an acoustic guitar that only had 2 strings on it whilst sitting on the landing of some ones house in Farnborough. The main part is just the bass line which is used here with the drums and feeding back guitar.

I have always sung my own original bass lines in my head when writing for new songs. I am a very melodic player so they are usually way too hard to play at first but I get there in the end once the muscle memory kicks in and I've worked out what the correct notes and phrasing is. Either way, everything is in my head singing along when I write bass lines. I'm also not the greatest at coming up with the initial song idea but for some reason, once I hear the rough version, be it just a voice and guitar, I can then hear the entire song in my head and I then go away and arrange the whole song. Its just something I've been able to do all the time, I can just hear the finished song from a very basic idea. Another thing I can do sometimes is hear a note by looking at it on the fretboard before I've got there. So I may be playing a phrase and I hear the next note in my head and then looking at the fretboard, I see the note I'm hearing on the fretboard so I know where to play it. I guess as musicians we all have music constantly running through our heads 24/7 right? It's like a constant noise all the time and certainly keeps me awake at night. It drives my wife crazy sometimes as if the music is very loud in my head, I end up tapping away or playing along but there's always something being played in my head, be it a song, melody, new bass line, drum beat.

I played with a few classically trained musicians in the past and they were exactly the same. Everything for them was in a box so improvisation or writing something unusual just caused absolute meltdown. What made it even more frustrating is whatever they were taught is the right way and there was an inability to compromise or even accept there are other ways, for example saying One-E-And, 2-E-And, Three-E-And etc. which I'd been taught and seen others musicians taught when reading music was absolute jibberish to one classically trained musician and their way was the only right way to count notes.

Mmmm, that's interesting. Does go into much details why, does he compare like for like and there's a noticeable difference?

I have a MS-60B which I love but I only use it for reverb. I'll be going for the MS-70CDR+ when it comes out as reverb, chorus, flanger etc. are my main effects for fretless along with my Boss OC5. I use a Sansamp as well which us ace so no need for the cab sim stuff either.

My rig from last night. MarkBass Little Mark IV Barefaced Two10 Fender Japan 62 RI Fretless Jazz Fender Japan 62 RI Fretless Precision Ibanez UB804 EUB