the boy

I've had a few dalliances with fretless in the last year or so. It's great fun. I love the liquidity and flow it brings to music. However it's not suitable for all sounds or more specifically all songs. For me I simply can't resist sliding into or out of notes and everything ends up sounding the same. Im weak. "JesuCristo me ayude".

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1390781687' post='2349559'] RE: this show, I've wondered ever since it started - if it's all about the voice, why isn't it on radio? [/quote] Fair point. I thought the same thing myself.

[quote name='oggiesnr' timestamp='1389655156' post='2336737'] Open G tuning and a bottleneck! Three chord trick sorted in about sixty seconds Steve [/quote] Good advice

There's a pic up

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1390428900' post='2345480'] I don't care if I get any votes, just glad to get back on the horse. [/quote] That sounds like Burt Reynolds talk right there, boy. I listened to and liked your entry. Well done.

Ok so I've ordered a new mic. I won't get this finished by Friday. Maybe Monday or Tuesday but that's too late. Thanks for all your advice mic wise. Good luck to all the entrants and I can't wait to hear them over the weekend.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1390332626' post='2344193'] Weird... mine definitely cost around £30 (new) and that was a couple of years ago. I must have got lucky! Or maybe prices have gone up. £80 sounds steep. Here are a couple of options for C-3s at around £50... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B000KUA8EI http://www.gak.co.uk/en/behringer-c-3-studio-condenser/1066 [/quote] Thanks for that.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1390318329' post='2343972'] Behringer C-3. Cheap and very cheerful for around £30 [/quote] I found some but they are about £80 and not £30. What else do you reckon.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1390318329' post='2343972'] Behringer C-3. Cheap and very cheerful for around £30 [/quote] Thanks I will check it out. I want it for recording vocals.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1390230388' post='2342869'] Got something. Will upload to soundcloud later!! [/quote] Me too but the vocal sounds crap through my new interface. (It's the interfaces fault)...... I'm gonna take a break from it and come back to it later. Anybody recommend an affordable but deasent condenser microphone.

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1390207390' post='2342492'] I forgot to add - never take an easy road by not telling others when they are wrong. [/quote] Good lord..... Where Have you been?

I don't understand....... What are you saying.

Learn how to play U2 "with or without you" it's 4 notes with an excellent rhythm. It's a great confidence builder and really easy to play and sound good. Take it from there. Move on to nirvana smells like teen spirit. Again 4 notes with rhythm. Build up your confidence slowly you could learn these over the course of a week or less. Download a scale app and learn some simple scales. Play them over and over and over. Pretty quickly you will be playing quite well and your confidence will grow. Get rhythm, constantly tap out beats on your fingers ie tap the index finger and thumb on your right hand to play the bass drum of a beat while simultaneously tapping out the snare part with you left hand. This is a great way of making that association between your hands which is key for success as a player. Join a band.

I heard of people pulling their wire in the bath..... But this is ridiculous.

Its like everything, some people are good and some people are not so good. The reasons for this vary from person to person. There is no satisfying answer to this question but I promise you this, if you choose to play the bass well it's not beyond the grasp of even the most talentless moron. Get rhythm, if you don't already got some, without it you are wasting your time. Good luck.

[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1389829136' post='2338535'] Hi Fraser, 10 years ago to you sounds like forever but to many on here it's only last week! James [/quote] Makes sense........ Indeed....... I gotcha....... Actually I'm lost. Are these people in some kind of suspended animation or something. Am I one of them. If so I'm suing somebody. lol

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1389736463' post='2337437'] Sold for £425.25. [/quote] £200 too much..... I would pay £450 for a fender headstock jv in good nick. Maybe that's why I don't have one.

All very Burt inspired so far. I may bow out this month as I can't seem to get inspired at all. Every idea keeps reverting to some kind of honky tonk repetitive ensemble. I will give it another week.

[quote name='wriggers' timestamp='1389184780' post='2330982'] Just don't get it, sorry. [/quote] Don't get what?

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1389139820' post='2330673'] £385 for a mid-70s Aria J copy? Dream on. Jon. [/quote] I did say "some"......

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1389136531' post='2330638'] http://cotswoldbassguitars.co.uk/index.htm [/quote] There are some nice guitars there.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1389113671' post='2330185'] I am struggling because, for some irrational reason that has no basis in any reality that I am aware of, I 'kin hate Burt Reynolds and every film he has ever done [/quote] He was good in boogie nights.

I forgot to mention, his bridge was honed and his nut demagnetised to reduce flux capacitance, so all in all it was a sweet deal.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1388845142' post='2326755'] [Pedant] It's actually quite an achievement to tow [i][b]anything [/b][/i]300 miles up the M6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_motorway [/Pedant] [/quote] Lol.....

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1388696883' post='2325088'] Oh dear, l feel like I've wandered along to the waterhole and scared away that wounded wildebeest you'd all planned to have for your tea. [/quote] No no no...... Don't be like that. I think it's fairer to say you ran to the watering hole screaming run for your life..........