BassTractor

Demn you, @Leonard Smalls! I'm too poor to read your posts!

Yes: The Fish My life ain't complete without it, and no list of bass instrumentals is either. 🙂

I seemed to remember playing through an Ohm with two footswitches in a plastic housing, but I needed Google to help me. Here's what its AI Overview opined: "One user on an online forum did recall a specific, otherwise generic-looking bass amp that inexplicably had a built-in flanger, which might be the one you are thinking of." Righto! We have our answer!

Yeah, for me too, but I do get worn out teaching 50,000 members all day.

Someone, don't remember who, explained this a few weeks ago: on people's profile page, there's a field for sending them a public message. I gather people have no idea whatsoever that this means the message becomes a status update (it doesn't say that it does), and that they also do not contemplate the meaning of the word "public".

Clicking the date or the "x replies" works for me in Chrome on Win 11, and in Chrome on an Android 16, so I guess it normally works.

Just reviving this necro-thread for a luvverly off-topic one: Mum: "John, soon you're gonna have a little brother, and you'll be his big brother!" John: "I dont want a little brother! I want a big brother!" Mum: "I understand, dear, but the baby can never be bigger than you." John: "We can abort him! From Africa!"

Yeah, ain't those things weird? I do those things too, to the point of playing tracks again and again in search of that element ... which then isn't there. On another note (no pun intended), to me, the essence of the theme is the tension created by the heavy chord under the syncopated high G. Tmight be totally different for other people, Idunno.

That's nothing! I even did play it through. My problem (apart from not remembering the track) was me being old and slow ... and taking the 180 tempo to mean something like 117. 😄

Yup, kicking BassTractor as we speak. 🙂 (Still dislike that theme, but do like the track.)

I hope they do and that you'll kick nekomatic. 🙂 Sticking me neck out here, but the tune doesn't give me any impression of having been written by one of the greats. Though maybe it's the development of the piece that does the trick ... and I'll have to kick BassTractor.

Don't recognise it, sorry. I tried Musipedia to not avail; have you tried any other online resources? I'm not knowledgeable about these sites, but do know one such site exists that lets you hum the tune.

Yup, though it might depend on the platform. In my laptop browser, I just go to the Feedback in Marketplace, and do a search for that someone's log-in name in the Search field in the top right. That has worked perfectly for me lately, without a need for specifying that the search must only be in thread titles. On my phone, in the Feedback, I have to click the magnifying glass (top right too) to get a search page, and on that page can specify to search in thread titles only. Dunno whether the latter bit is necessary, but it hardly hurts.

Bloody amateur! I bought a bloody white Van Halen bass from the off! 😁

This is what I would do: go one album forward and two albums backward at a time, and see where it ends. Now, I haven't listened to the albums today to check my impressions of them, but I think you can do worse than following this proposal. So first: - "Oranges & Lemons" for much of the same, and it's arguably a demn fine album in its own right - "Mummer" for a softer or mellower, maybe even slightly contemplative approach. If both are to your liking, you can then safely invest in "The Big Express" and start listening to: - "Nonsuch", which to me seems a bit like a more developed, less '60s Beat, continuation from "Oranges & Lemons" - either "Black Sea" or "Drums and Wires". Can't tell right now. What I can tell right now though is that D&W contains glorious and single-worthy, more poppy songs like "Making Plans for Nigel" and "Life Begins at the Hop" as well as the quite less poppy "Roads Girdle the Globe" and "Complicated Game". Whilst I love "Black Sea", it seems a bit less pronounced to me, and it has fewer Coiin Moulding songs, which normally complement Andy Partridge's ones. If you like "Nonsuch" muchly, then I think "Apple Venus" and "Wasp Star" are very safe, and I believe they are great. The ones I'd be most wary about from your experience are "White Music" and Go 2", as they are the earliest and most new wave ones. Now I love them, but I gather not everybody does. All IMHO of course, and from hazy memory.

IMHO, XTC are a fantastic band, and I'd expect you (with your Schubert and Magma sensitivities, a.o.) to to be more positive. 'That said, Roads Girdle the Globe', with its angularity and dissonance, may not be the best first song to hear - what do I know. How about a prettier song like 'The Loving' off 'Oranges & Lemons', which is a later album? or 'River of Orchids' off one of their last albums, 'Apple Venus Volume 1' ?

Aren't the stolen bits just the originals, then, run through some electronics? To which he mimics - sometimes badly? Must admit I haven't listened closely at all, but that was my initial impression.

In Holland they have or had a cultural heritage project in which they digitise(d) people's rare vinyl and up(ped) the quality through several processes and also through combining the best bits from different copies if available. You'd order a CD-R of a rare album, and would then receive their latest, best version. Methinks that if a tiny country can do it, so can a commonwealth.

Good, good. BTW, are you gonna keep a bass? For that noodle? (Me, I have only one bass right now, and am happy to have it available.)

Couldn't care less. Whether you play piano or bass, just make sure you keep the same telephone number, my friend. 😁

I found one yesterday that still seems to work - - a warning against him by Rockers Reunited: https://www.facebook.com/100057087835235/posts/dear-sir-madamsee-below-email-going-out-to-his-theatres-maybe-they-will-take-no-/1328868242359424/

Yeah, that seems fair too. Of course I'm aware that what went for me not necessarily goes for everybody else, and I don't want to make general laws out of my personal experiences, but I do still wish to show possible readers one of the different sides of the coin. In this, I thought my experiences could well resemble the experiences of similar niche shops. As to the offering of email as a method, indeed if it doesn't work for the shop, they shouldn't offer it. Also in this respect there is another side to the coin: if nearly everyone gets a good answer and a few do not, you can be sure that those few make a lot of noise about it. BTW, I've never blamed people for using email, and I'm sure neither do Bass Bros. As I said earlier: IME email has seen little in the way of revenue despite my quality answers. People talking with me, me analysing their needs and them "sittin' in that bote" has seen revenue. Me telling on BC that email is inefficient is not the same as my shop not offering it or me blaming people for using it. But yeah, after some years I did ask people to avoid it if possible.

Fair comment.

OK, I'll bite. So, I get up at 7AM and start my work for the day. It's gonna be a busy day, and, trying to cater for the customers' perceived (or preferably real) needs, I hardly have time for a coffee or lunch break, so my wife shoves food down my throat with a goose stick - at every opportunity. Customers even come from the extreme North of Norway to the extreme South where I live, specifically to talk with me and to try my boats. I sell hundreds of boats and do not have the capacity to sell even more, as that would detract from the level of quality that my customers wish for and that I think they need. After 7 or 8PM, the shop now closed, I'm having a few hours of administration. At 11PM, I start answering emails, and am not done before 2AM, after which I'll get five hours of sleep. Then, just as I'm to shut down the computer, an email arrives from someone who knows better, the email telling me for example that my website isn't good enough, to which I reply: "If my website had been any better, I could have sold even more kayaks, and that would mean less time spent with each individual customer. I don't wanna do that." That same email could also have been about my lacking email response. IOW: please do not curtly say that "ignoring your clientele is not a sensible way to do business". It's not certain that you're a better judge on this than the shop is. As I said: IME and IMHO, email is the least sensible way of communicating. It's detrimental to the customers' interests, whatever those customers might believe (of course depending on the nature of the emails).