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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1439591634' post='2844319'] At that point it's not really a band it's a guys basement social event. IMO Blue [/quote] I might agree with you if the music wasn't a priority. I'm not interested in just having a doss, the creation and playing of music is the most important part, and getting along with your band mates makes that process easier and more fun. When I say I don't care about the other stuff, I mean that I am flexible. That's the stuff I am prepared to compromise on to fit a band that gets me the things that are more important to me.

For me, my personal wants/needs are so specific that they are a real problem, or so vague that they're useless. The most important part is the music, there is no way I'd be interested in playing music I wasn't totally into. Running a very close second/joint first is the people. I don't want to play with knob'eads. There's no fun in constant arguments and butting of egos. If I could find both of those I wouldn't care if we never made any money, in fact I'd be quite prepared to lose money to enjoy it. As for gigs and recording and stuff, I don't really care. It'd be nice to have the extra stuff but getting together with some mates, having a laugh, writing tunes and playing them loudly would be enough for me.

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1438883656' post='2838427'] Not bass related but got up in the middle of the night for a widdle when i lived with my parents, pushed the bathroom door open ( it opened in to the bathroom) and it got pushed back onto me so hard i nearly went down the stairs, because of the force of it i thought its obviously my dad in there, after shouting and hollering for 5 minutes at him for nearly knocking me flying he came out of his bedroom door asking me who I'm shouting at, opened bathroom door and bathroom was empty... Ooh.. Shudder. I don't believe in all that but?? It weren't the wind. [/quote] I remember one time, back when we lived in the Midlands, starting from the front of the house and going through to the back, every window started to rattle and every door slammed shut. It scared the sh*t out of the dogs and the atmosphere felt really heavy and oppressive afterwards. It was just the air pressure outside changing, but I had never known it to go like that before. In this house we used to have to keep the bathroom door open when the air pressure was messing about else it used to lift the attic door out of its frame. We now have a better fitting attic door with a lock on it.

I see things moving about in the corners of my vision all the time, usually spiders that aren't actually there. They always freak me out, even though I know they're not there and I'm not even scared of spiders. The worst time was when I had gone to bed in the middle of the day (my sleep pattern was buggered again), so it was daylight and I could see perfectly well. I lay down and, looking towards my wife's side of the bed (she was at work), I could see a little man standing on her pillow. Think Chucky. He was about that height and build but his face was different, he looked both mean and sad. He was wearing blue jeans, black shoes, white t-shirt and a black leather jacket. And he had a small knife in each hand. He was looking right at me, I could see him breathing. I closed my eyes, but when I opened them he was still there. I tried looking away and back but he wouldn't go. In the end, and this was an incredibly difficult thing to do, even [i]knowing[/i] that he wasn't really there, I turned onto my other side and eventually went to sleep without looking over again. My problem is that I suffer with stress induced hallucinations. Which is bloomin scary, but not supernatural. What really is fascinating is the science behind what can cause supernatural seeming experiences. The things that happen internally, such as the brain filling in information to make up for the incredibly poor way that humans eyes actually work (or barely work). And the external things that can cause several people to experience the same thing, even though it isn't real.

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And why did the tiger get lost in the jungle? Because the jungle is massive! ...

The worst part of the Motorhead set was the tuning of Phil's guitars. It was fine until he came out with that Explorer, which sounded bloody awful. Then he went back to the white guitar he did the first song with, and that was out of tune as well.

The most disappointing part of the stuff the BBC showed was a rapper who came out with a string of at least a couple of dozen words that rhymed with sprouts, without actually using the word sprouts. It was probably quite a clever feat but I was disappointed.

[quote name='Bobthedog' timestamp='1435360431' post='2808201'] Interesting you say that because I actually thought he looked ill. Certainly when you see Lemmy the Movie, filmed in 2010/11(?) he has aged considerably. [/quote] He's had a pacemaker fitted since then. In fact, I think, internally, he's mostly mechanical by now.

I've been a motorhead fan since I was twelve. The best time I ever saw them was in 1994 at the Kentish Town Forum, that was a bloomin' brilliant gig. I've seen them a few times since and they were good, but I wouldn't go see them now. I can understand Lemmy not wanting to stop but... In the interview I saw about half an our before they showed them playing, he was shaking like a shitting dog and at one point he did a proper, full on, old man gurn.

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1435233796' post='2806764'] That's my setup - what gauge strings are you using? [/quote] I play in C standard and use the bottom four of a five string set, I have to tune up to it, rather than dropping, which helps stop it from being floppy, especially as it is a 34" scale. The C is a .130 but if you could get hold of a string between .118 and .125 that'd do it.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1434250298' post='2798018'] You did say 'sitting' didn't you? [/quote] Yes. I drape it over my shoulder to avoid any unpleasantries.

[quote name='jezzaboy' timestamp='1434305594' post='2798519'] Never mind the hair doo, it`s these bloomin eyebrows that get me. [attachment=194319:rowan276.jpg] You would think that someone would have said. [/quote] That's been happening to me for years. My wife thinks it's cute, but I still trim them.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1434285555' post='2798276'] D'oh! Five hours too late - was going to say 'Isn't that Aragorn, son of Arathorn on vocals?' ...but you beat me to it. Other news: I'm just happy to have hair and happier it hasn't gone grey yet. I was musing on whether to grow it long one last time... probably the last chance I'll get, but on the other hand doing that may well cause what I've got left to fall out! Young master discreet and myself have a good TV game - when any bald people appear on the screen we both point and shout 'HE'S BALD!', which is actually a lot more fun than it sounds. [/quote] When I was eighteen I had a Purple Ronnie book that had a Ten Commandments in it. One of them was "Thou shalt not point at baldies.". It might sound odd, but my brother (who was seventeen at the time) loved me reading that book to him. Anyway, one day, after being awake for about thirty hours and suffering sleep deprivation (we couldn't afford alcohol), my brother, a friend, my wife and I went into town. For some reason, it became the most hilarious thing ever to spot baldies and giggle like little schoolgirls while trying our hardest to not point at them. The second funniest thing ever (that we discovered that day) was a toy we found in Woolworths called a Jibber Jabber. We laughed until we cried that day.

I have official permission, from my wife, to keep my hair even if I go the full Terry Nutkins skullet. The other day she rather proudly pointed out that I was sitting on my hair. Which I wouldn't have minded if I'd have had pants on at the time...

V.V.Brown - Samson and Delilah. A couple of people mentioned her in the favourite vocalists thread and I have had this album on constant rotation ever since. I got her Travelling Like The Light album, too, but it isn't really my kind of thing, though there are a couple of songs that I like on it. Samson and Delilah is bloomin' brilliant, though.

I like the idea but they don't often look all that good. Even liberal use of LEDs doesn't seem to help, and I believe that [i]everything[/i] can be improved with the addition of pretty lights. Back in the 80s I really wanted a BC Rich Warlock with a clear body with a crackle design sandwiched in it. Kirk Hammett has a Telecaster in clear acrylic that is hollow and has a blue liquid in it, which is quite cool but I have thought of something better... (It's a living Ant farm)

That makes me think of when my wife started working for the police, she was amazed at the amount of people that would call to complain about music venues actually playing music. And not venues that had just opened up or started putting on music, or people that had just moved into houses near to the venue, but people that call every weekend year after year. Apparently the phones went nuts when Llanelli had the Eisteddfod last year, people expecting the police to go and tell them to turn it down!

I have to say, randomly hacking chunks of wood out of your bass is quite a novel way to make it light enough for a woman to lift...

Oh no, he owns other instruments too! Quick, someone call the RSPBG!

Both my actives came with vol/blend. I converted my passive P/J from vol/vol to vol/blend, just for an excuse to fiddle with it, not really thinking it would work that well, but I like it. I'd covert my Aria J/J too but I intend making it active at some point and the preamp will come with a blend anyway. Also considering doing it to my twin humbucker skinny stringer. I wonder how a blend with a tone pot for each pick up would work? Can you get blend pots that you can pull, that would work as a kill switch?

I got that book as a gift when I very first started. Didn't have much use for it back then, but it gets cracked out every now and then for inspiration.

I built my own and only have that to go on, but those controls are quite subtle, but they do make a difference. I did try a guitar (as opposed to a bass) through it when I first built it, but can't remember if they had a stronger effect with that or not.

I don't have the latest Guitar Pro 6, just 5, but all the online resources are now for 6. Which is a bit of a git. Anyway, I have started playing tuned to C# standard but occasionally dropping the C# down to C. I tend to prefer to play over the fifth and seventh frets for comfort. It is easy to transpose a first fret on one string to the sixth fret on the string below. However, it is throwing me slightly with that C string because that sixth fret should now be the seventh. It's not a huge problem, but it has always bugged me that when transposing in Guitar Pro it will always go for a first fret over moving to a lower string, ignoring the surrounding notes. A: --5----1-- ----------- B: --5------- -------6-- It will, seemingly, always choose example A over B. So, I am trying to find out if there is a way to keep its fingering together in a chosen area of the fretboard.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1432146143' post='2778654'] Also, Bass players = Royalty [/quote] Indeed...