KingBollock

I know it's not a Bass, but I love this: Would love to get a Bass done in this design. Half my clothes have this pattern, be cool to have a matching Bass!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1347622267' post='1803121'] unless the aim of the helium was to make it lighter and ive got the wrong end of the stick! [/quote] That's what I assumed, that it was to make them lighter, but I was wondering about other, unplanned for effects.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1347618542' post='1803063'] A sealed 8x10 filled with helium ;-) [/quote] It would be interesting to hear what effect the Helium would have considering sound travels faster through it then normal air. Even in a sealed cab it's got to make a difference I would imagine.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1347619301' post='1803072'] Is the the topic question limited to bass gear? If not, I want to know about those hover bike things they had in Star Wars. [/quote] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2012/aug/23/star-wars-hover-bike-float-video

[quote name='MarkWJenkins' timestamp='1347458005' post='1801080'] Diolch yn fawr =) Not from the Valleys butty, Llanelli area [/quote] Welcome! (I'm an Englishman in Wales...) Not far from you, I'm in Cross Hands.

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1347482620' post='1801558'] It's just about the most fun you can have playing a bass! Freedom to do you own thing from pounding root to playing insane harmonies. No-one to complain that "you didn't play that Entwhistle" or whoever. Folk music is such a wide field that you can find kindred spirits to play just about anything in any style. Steve [/quote] To be honest, I'd rather grab my Banjo, Penny Whistle or Bodhran than my Bass for Folk or Country. Which is a bit odd as I love both genres and I also love the Bass. Bass is my first and main instrument, it's what I'm best at and I love playing it.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1347437295' post='1800663'] Few good points there. The first is flaky people who don't have a great deal of drive or are busy doing life stuff. I know plenty of musicians, but tying them down to play is hard. I think if the gigs are there and you know what market to aim at you're sorted. If there is no market for the music you are into then you either have to broaden your musical aspirations or never play. I'm not sure which direction the latest project I'm in will go. It's not lacking in drive, not sure if the genre is right, not sure if all the musicians can commit to regular gigs (or even want to). Meanwhile I'm thinking time for a jam night. Although last nights rehearsal with my other band was smoking. Go figure! [/quote] I have to say, I'm not [i]quite[/i] so restrictive in what I'd like to play as I made out. I want to play Rock/Metal, but I really, really don't want to do the bog standard Rock covers band thing. I don't mind doing some covers, but I'd rather work on original stuff. To be able to do the Blackened Death Metal thing would be ace, in a 6 piece band including keyboards. But I'd quite happily do something Thrashy/Megadethy/Slayery. Or even a 3 piece type thing in a Motorheady kind of way. I never know what genre to put W.A.S.P. in, they seem to be one all by themselves, but something like that would be ace too. Other problems for me include living in the middle of nowhere and being unable to drive. We have a Mazda Bongo, which would be great for shifting gear, but my wife works odd shifts and pinning her down to a certain time each week to give me a lift to rehearsals just couldn't happen. Also, I'm not bothered if it never leaves the garage, I'm not bothered about gigging or making any money at it. I just want to get together with friendly people and write/play heavy music. There was a time when I would have considered Country or Folk music, but, while I enjoy listening to them, I don't enjoy playing them.

[quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1347369728' post='1799859'] Its all very well if you have lived in an area for ages, and grown into the music scene there, but if you move somewhere new or are just getting started it can be quite hard to find a good band to play with! I used to live in Manchester and had no trouble getting in bands and getting gigs around the city, I had a little black book full of numbers if I needed someone too. but then I moved down to brighton and after 3 years I'm just starting to get connected with a few people. Gumtree has been good, but turning up to jam nights even just to watch at first before joining in (when you're confident enough) can work well to get you known. Lots of people turn up to these things when they need a bass player.. drummer etc. There seems to be a larger percentage of muppets down here, or maybe I was just lucky in manchester... [/quote] I know the feeling! I got into my first proper band when I was 13. After that I was never without a band for more than a fortnight, and I never had to call anyone, everyone seemed to have my number and I'd get people I'd never met turning up at my door asking if I'd be in their band. At the age of 17, after a lot of family trouble, I had to move away and I couldn't tell anyone where I was going, including the band I was in. I loved that band, it was fantastic, with talented musicians and really good people. Since then I have only had a few approaches from people who'd heard I played and got the occasional "We should totally do something, dude!", but nothing's ever worked out. 20 years later and I'd still love to play with other people. But 4 years ago I moved 160 miles away from everyone I knew (except my wife, she's the one that dragged me here), to the middle of nowhere, and I don't know anyone as I never bloomin' go out. Jam nights are no good because what I'd really like to do is Blackened Death Metal... At my age! I've got a pretty big rig sitting here in my music/computer room and it's never been used in anger, such a waste (but it [i]was[/i] cheap). There's no hope for me.

The worst is the Dean Blue Burst. This one is mine but it doesn't show the colour up so well (badly...): Unfortunately, this is what happens when you let your wife buy a Guitar...

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/186161-is-peavey-gear-any-good/

Son of a Preacher Man was Dusty Springfield, not Janis Joplin.

Just read an interesting article about piracy. Anyone who has watched a DVD since 2006 has seen that advert/warning about piracy being a crime. You know, the one that says "You wouldn't steal a Car..." etc. The man who made the music for it was told it was for a one off job for a music festival and was paid a token sum for it. Apparently the composer (Melchior Rietveldt) doesn't watch many DVDs because it wasn't until a few years later that he actually saw the ad and realised that they had used his music. He sent a collection agency to the company to get the $1.2 million that they actually owed him. He was contacted by one of the company's board members, who offered to help him get his money, as long as he paid him 33%! Rietveldt had had enough and went to court instead. It finally looks, after all this time, that he might actually get some compensation for his effort.

I've had my Peavey T-Max 500 for about 10 years, I think, I paid £165 for it second hand. It has a Tube pre-amp and a solid state preamp, which are switchable or even combinable. I adore it. Last year I bought a Peavey 410TX to go with it, which I paid £45 for. Would like to get a Peavey 2x15 one day too. They're heavy but, the way I see it, my back is already buggered, I probably couldn't lift a lightweight cab on my own anyway, without risking further damage, so if I'm going to have to have help I might as well get something that sounds just as good but is a hell of a lot cheaper.

Want one! It actually looks really nice.

I'm starting to get worried now. All but one of the Torrent sites that I use has been closed down now and I worry that they have my details. The thing is that I only really download TV programs, TV programs that we actually pay for and get on the Sky box, but, me being me, I don't record them on the TV and watch them downstairs. On the occasions that I do actually sit and watch the TV, it's to watch stuff that my wife likes. I never use the TV or even go downstairs when she's not in the house (due to health issues, so telling me to just go downstairs and watch them isn't an option), so I would never get to see those programs. It's far easier for me to download them from EZTV and watch them on my PC. EZTV has been having problems lately and I have a feeling it's not going to last much longer, what the hell am I going to do then?

[quote name='the_skezz' timestamp='1346628486' post='1791448'] There's this, but it actually works surprisingly well. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxxmku06pU[/media] [/quote] The Do Di Do Di backing had me in stitches!

I was once asked to audition for one of the bands on that roster. If I could drive I would have done, too, as it was it was too far for me to expect my wife to drive me for every rehearsal, so I had to turn it down. Bloody glad I did now as I'm a mahoosively gre't big fatty. The first proper band I was ever in packed up after I'd only been with them for a few months, they'd been going for years previously. The next thing I know I'm getting invited to join them again but without the lead Guitarist and the Singer... I was too young and naive to twig what was happening (they were all 4 or 5 years older than me and I was too young to go to the pub with them, so I had no idea of the background stuff, I just turned up and played). A little while later the old lead Guitarist asked me to join him and a new Drummer, but I turned him down because it hadn't occurred to me that I could be in two bands at once. That Guitarist is doing rather well for himself now and is in a band that plays a lot of Rock festivals all around the UK.

I've only seen two. One was High-on Maiden, who I've seen twice, and the other was a Beatles tribute. Both were really good. I used to be a massive Iron Maiden fan but I was too young to see them when I really wanted to, so I have never seen them. The tribute act was really good though, and meant I was able to hear the songs in a live setting. The "banter" in between songs by the Beatles tribute (can't remember what they were called) wasn't so good, it consisted of the one line that the singer could say in a Liverpudlian accent, but the music was very good.

There are probably several good reasons why it's not a good idea, but when I did my 1x15 I used the innards of some old bed pillows. It looked like the stuff that's in my 4x10 so I thought I'd give it a try.

Conflict at Edward's Number 8 in Birmingham, in 1993. It was also the only time I have ever hitch-hiked.

[quote name='zero9' timestamp='1346329273' post='1787903'] Burton Lazars, not far from me. Suppose I could go under the name Peter Borough. Not madly keen on 'Peter' though . [/quote] Dad?!

[quote name='zero9' timestamp='1346263605' post='1787223'] It would be great to have been born with a 'cool' name already. If I had to choose, 'Pino Palladino' would be high on the list. Great name (and it rhymes, what could be more memorable than that?). Pity I can't play like him [/quote] When I was a kid I desperately wished I had been named John. My real name isn't funny or offensive in any way, it's actually really boring, but I hate it. I think I caught that from my Dad, he hates his name and no one has called him it in well over 40 years, his name is Peter. My parents had a friend whose baby had died just before I was born, so they named me after that baby. I think they were hoping I'd got he same way...

What about adding piezo tweeters to the current cabs? I did this to a 1x15, I added 2 piezos in series with a resistor (in series for better power handling and the resistor for protection) and added a switch so that I could turn them off. It made a huge difference and cost about £20.

There are plenty of people, who I met online, who call me KB in real life, mainly because I won't tell them my real name... (I hate my real name, even friends who I didn't meet online don't call me by my real name). I've been using this name since 1998, so I would quite happily use it as a stage name. I always thought [b]KingBollock and the Danglies[/b] would make a good name for a punk band.