BassTractor

Hey Mark, Welcome to BC! Many here are good. I'm not. But I won't hijack your introduction. Share some wisdom if you please, and some here are also very weak for pictures of original or beautiful gear. Anyway, enjoy! best, bert

Not much to do? NOT MUCH TO DO?? No lunch time gig, admittedly, but I'd drive down to Ayrshire, rent some sea kayaks in Coylton, paddle to Arran, buy som single cask Arran, paddle back, drive to Glasgow and have a great dinner at Wagamama in the city centre. Daytime activity sorted. After that I'd not even bother to drive to the house, but just mingle with the NEDs. Sorry, couldn't resist. best, bert

Hi Nobbly, Welcome to BC, and good luck with the sale. After that, feel free to prolong your stay, and learn and enjoy the chat. Cool avatar pic. Wow, is it already 40 years since I was there? best, bert

Hi 6v6, Welcome to BC, even though you used the G* word. There lotsa weasly, awolking defectors here. Me myself, I cowardly left a key post. Happily, the sgt never found me. Good luck with the search for a band. best, bert

Hey Woody, Welcome to BC! Teach us noobs some, if you care. F-105? Never heard about it. Let's just hope it's not pointy in any way. best, bert

Hi Igor, Welcome to BC, from Norway (not Sweden ;^) Enjoy the forum! best, bert

Hi and welcome! If you're anything like me, starting to record just means starting a love relationship with the bass. So be careful. Enjoy the site! best, bert

Hey, mol man, Welcome! Just look in the "For sale: Amps and cabs" forum, and shedloads of way too cheap amps will reveal themselves. It's buyers' market these days. Enjoy the site should you decide to stay. best, bert

So it [b]is[/b] true! I'd always assumed it was just and only me. Thanks for bringing this to the table. Off building leather then. best, bert

Hi Bassman, Welcome! After 25 years you'll know it's at least seven basses and five amps. Enjoy! best, bert

Hi Maude, Welcome and enjoy the banter. best, bert

Hi Ben, Welcome to BC, and good luck. Enjoy the site, should you decide to stick around. best, bert

Hi Cetus, What Bluejay said. Welcome and enjoy! Best, Bert

Hey Rammstein, Welcome to BC. John Glascock was good, wasn't he? I've also always loved his incredibly recognisable tone. Those three songs are surely a worthy start, and they're amongst my goals as a noob, especially HH and SftW. SftW must be one of their best songs. Enjoy the site! Best, Bert

Hey! You changed it! "You're no fun anymore" BTW, If I had any money, I'd be all over the bass, and sadly, so will many say. best, bert

Welcome to BC, Al. Sorry that you won't be able to blow your own trumpet anymore once you are the woman you want to be, in Germany. But I do wish you the best of luck with the operations and the hormone treatment. Anyway, maybe you can stay on BC anyway, and enjoy the banter. Good luck with the sale and the woman! Best, Bert

sh*t! Just remembered I'm a keyboard player.

This is just awesome! Finally a day off. I feel gratitude.

Congrats, Chili. Well done.

That's just because you have good relations with one of the mods. Us others here just get hurtful things thrown at us.

Just when you've used 40+ years carefully building up a career in music, somebody comes in and shatters the whole thing in the wink of an eye. Ah well, a sense a new career coming up in some decades. best, bert

From the concert in memory of the 77 people who died in the Oslo/Utoya terror, on July 22nd 2011. IMO it's also a fantastic song: Laleh - Some Die Young [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3h1_i2f7kY[/media] Or the official vid: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-bxuRKbFLk[/media]

Since you ask, here's my bit. I hope it translates, but my English is not as good as it may seem (do not underestimate this bit!!). When I have to choose in this type of situations, I have this set of questions that to a surprisingly little degree are about music, like: - If you decide to go for it, and if that in hindsight seems to have been the wrong decision, can you live with yourself? - If you decide to keep your job, or find a better one, can you live with the thought of never having tried living off music? - Have you really set up a really realistic budget that gives you real confidence you'll really survive? Really? - Have you taken a hard look at yourself and questioned your reasons and reasonability in this, as well as your realism? - Do you [b]know[/b] that you have all the resources to be able to make this work, or are you living in a bubble of hope? To me, this type of questions soon results in a feeling about whether the thing is nonsense or not. Many projects and ideas are dropped, but I did start a musical career once, and gave it up once. As a background carpet, here's my experience: Wanted to be a musician in classical and rock. Saw that way too many educated musicians struggled financially. Decided to have something to fall back on and took an education in the field of leadership, with subjects like law, economics, psychology and sociology (I thought that that would help me later, and it did). Then started studying classical music (rock education didn't exist yet in college then), and made sure I got a complete study in the pedagogical side so I also could fall back on teaching as well. Worked as a teacher and had many small jobs like depping, playing music to theatre plays, composing stuff for theatre, some recording, some marketing and some gear responsibility. Total income hardly worth mentioning, and most came from teaching. Then moved to Norway, and was forced to decide on a future. Worked as a teacher for two more years whilst thinking and discussing with the wife, and then decided it was best to live where I live, and that that was more important that hunting for a musical career (which in my case would mean to move to Oslo). This automatically meant my planned musical career was not to be. Since '86 I've only had regular jobs, and I've only depped sometimes. Personally, i got the best time not from music as I expected, but from having my own company within sales, and doing everything that needs to be done there - so much fun I was able to decline a great job offer in marketing a few years back, that would give a much better income, but where I would be someone else's slave again. YM [b]Will[/b] V best, bert

[quote name='spencer.b' timestamp='1342753987' post='1740474'] kids from a punk band calling me both gay and a fanny tickler for playing fingerstyle[/quote] Classic! I'm gonna use that! [quote name='oldslapper' timestamp='1342768671' post='1740532'] Pick, if in the car......Hanky, if in public.[/quote] Yes, I remember seeing Jeremy Clarkson driving your old car. This thread is especially inspiring seeing as the Dutch "pik" and the Norwegian "pikk" sometimes are pulled out of bass players' trousers. No, these are not roosters, and no, of course it's not the groupies pulling them out. best, bert

Hey Kiwi, Welcome to BC. +1 on StingRay, Jazz Bass, Jamiroquai and RHCP, and I apologise deeply for not knowing any better waterholes in or around Edinburgh. Enjoy the forum! all the best, bert