BassTractor

After "Two Weeks in Spain", we need some antidote: 😊

Innit. The whole thing originated in the On-Reflection e-mail list. We started to organise gatherings roughly 25 years ago, after an attempt at a reunion, and the band members became interested in this 20 years ago. Part of the success is in people most of the time not behaving like fans but like adults. Most of the time. 🙂 Amongst the regular fans are some professional musicians, but AFAIK there were no rehearsals, and no interaction about timing. I gather everyone just played along to a CD and sent the vid.

Can't we just all call that number and ask them to not do this? I'm sure they're kind and considerate.

Gentle Giant reunited of sorts forty years after disbanding, in that seven of its eight past members contributed to a fan initiative where a 100 or so people sent in a vid of themselves playing "Proclamation", and Noah Shulman (son of GG member Derek Shulman) edited those into one vid. I'd say: awesome within its scope and limitations. article with video: https://www.loudersound.com/news/gentle-giant-premiere-fan-video-of-proclamation video only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjFP8gildU

Have you contemplated building them yourself? Many moons ago I saw a DIY project on ze innerwebz, and guess there's a lot of it about these days. Some building experience and some soldering experience, and it should be a fairly simple and cheap project.

Bought 4 or 5 basses on eBay, all from existing shops that sell through there. Some of these basses cost nearly 3,000 quid. All deals were perfect. In this I've assumed the shop is not nearly broke, and will still be there when there's a warranty issue. Back then I'd not throw 3,000 quid towards a person I don't know. Their feedback might have been carefully built up just to scam their last customer. Though of course these days PayPal protection is my friend (and making some buyers the scammers).

Poppy rock from XTC. I don't have speakers ATM, but seem to remember this is one of their 5/4 tracks. They also had a 6/8 or something in one track, cleverly written so it sounded odd, but my brain can't remember the exact song. May come up with it later.

😀 That said, a question like this will bring them out. Who knows, maybe a better question would have been: "Name some music with odd time signatures and long, multi-part songs that draw on many musical styles, with lyrics about fairies and gnomes or Tolkien, and preferably played by a band whose keyboard player wears a long goldy-silvery cape. NB NO PROG!" 😁

"Jesus' love never failed me yet, never failed me yet. Jesus' love never failed me yet." Really? The other homeless people seem to opine that that's not really a fact.

The link works for me too, but: It just downloads as a file and is stored in Downloads on my Win10 laptop, without showing its contents on the screen. Anyway, here's the text I got: Verse (play twice): G-----------6-4-6-4-----2-1---------------- D-------1-4------------------4--2---------- A--2--2------------------------------------ E---------------------------------0-------- G------------------------------------------ D-----------------------------2------------ A--4---4-4-2--4--4------2-0-4---0---0------ E---------------------------------3-------- Pre-chorus: G------------------------------------------ D--------2--------------------------------- A--2-0-4---0---0-2-0----------------------- E------------3----------------------------- Chorus (play twice), end on an E G------------------------------------------ D------------------------------------------ A---------2-4-2-----0----------------0-2--- E--0--0-4--------4----4-2--0-2-4---0------- G----------------------2------------------- D-----------------5--------0-0-2--0-0-2---- A---------2-4-2------3--------------------- E--0--0-4---------------------------------- Outro, variations on this: G------------------------------------------ D----------------------------------------0- A-----2-2----0-0------------------0-0------ E--0-------0-----3-0---0-3-3---------3-0---

Ah! Make that an MS-20 instead of the MS-10 and you've described my lack of success to the dot - - even though our band name, Quaars-Liebrechts, promised large amounts of LPs sold.

You simply forgot to cast occult magic on the market - an oft-occurring beginners' mistake, and easily forgiven.

@Swaffle88, I now read the new Korg G1 Air and G1B Air are good competitors in their price bracket. My remarks about Korg were based on older models like the LP-380. Just a heads up in case their price bracket is yours too. Apparently, they do not offer ivory feel though. You be the judge.

Good point. Norse band Pope was untraceable. When they finally changed their name, it was to the title of a Doors album IMS. Still untraceable. One shakes one's head in disbelief. Edit: yup! Strange Days.

Of this one, a particular version I just love is: "Wood makes no difference. It's physics, you know!"

Agent Orange I like it

First one's true though. A fact often missed is that necks come from trees that have the strings already attached.

Not a musical moment, but a memorable moment to me, which I may have told about earlier: I received some teaching in composition from Krzysztof Penderecki, and one day shared a table with him when drinking coffee. Now he wasn't the most easy going guy, so I just had to try to defreeze him a bit: - "Mr Penderecki, do you ever listen to jazz - or rock like Frank Zappa?". - "Not interested. Shallow music." - "C'mon. I love your music, and I love jazz and Zappa. Gimme some credit!" - "I am more musical than you are." 🤣 (He was right about me, but that kinda is not the point. 😀 )

Focus: "Sylvia" (with a "y" this one time, never on the rest of BassChat unless it's not about Silvia). Oh, and Waldo de los Rios: "Mozart Symphony no 40". 🤣🤣🤣 (don't check this out if you wanna live your protected life some more).

I assume many people on here do. For me personally, this is often about certain chord changes I not only dreamt up there and then but even got out of my fingers - something I knew I couldn't do but then did inexplicably. There were other moments too that take too many words, but the most stellar moment was the day I played a Bach piece on the pipe organ, and exactly that day I played better, deeper and with more musical expression than I've done before or after. It became very hard to even finish the piece, and I was exhausted. That was not the moment. The moment was: unbeknownst to me, a young soprano had entered, and rather than making herself known she'd waited and listened before approaching me. When the piece was done, she came up and said: - "You know, I've always hated the pipe organ, but you just explained it to me."

Ha. This sounds extra intriguing. Just a few days ago, eBay started badgering me about updating my card for payments, and telling me I had to update to a seller account to be able to update the card for receiving payments (which is not what I need at all) - which I thought was very stupid, so I delved and delved for hours before giving in and changing to a seller account. In the process I was also led to PayPal (I somehow doubted why eBay should be worried about my relationship with PayPal, but given their history together I concluded it was just a thing they do) before I finally could update my card on eBay. I guess I haven't done everything in the most streamlined fashion, but I did get a strong feeling they're deliberately making some stuff difficult so as to lead you on the path they've set out for you. Trying to use their help pages was to no avail either, which strengthens that feeling. Anyway, now I'm looking forward to the day when I'm to leave a feedback for a seller. Maybe the option is blocked even though it's visible for me. Sorry for the length.

Yeah, that seems to make sense. I'm still wondering though, as a few weeks ago I gave feedback to a business with well over 200,000 positive feedbacks. Maybe you and I have different types of accounts, or the sellers do. Well, live and learn.

The graphics opine that you've already given feedback; are you positive you haven't? FWIW, I've given feedback to businesses up to and including yesterday, and the option is also open for a package I'm waiting for right now.

Yeah, basically the same as to electronics, but there's a difference in the speakers and their surroundings. In a shop you'll probably hear the difference between an F-140R and an RP501R, the F-140R probably being more full and striking, but I don't expect that the difference is important once it's in your home. After all, at home you're not comparing. The feel of the keys will be the same with the mentioned two Rolands. It's the same keyboard, the PHA-4, so I expect the surface ivory feel to be identical too. I probably underestimated your will to really compare live. If you indeed go to a good shop, then do compare Roland with Yamaha, Kawai and Casio. They're all good, even Casio, just a bit different. Me, I also looked at Korg, Kurzweil and Orla, but they fell through for me personally. The Casio series that basically has the same set-up as the Rolands we talk about is the Privia. Their Celviano has a more luxurious cabinet at a cost. A Privia 8-series will probably be nicer to your ears than a Celviano 4-series. Do not underestimate Casio. Yes, Kawai is the better brand, but in this price bracket I'd personally buy the Casio over the Kawai due to the keybed and the ivory feel, whilst its sound is more than good enough. That said, it's 2020 now, and my investigations date to 2018. When comparing, do remember the difference between a shop and your room - especially a hard floor versus carpets. Easy to forget, but important. The piano that sounds warm and full on a hard shop floor will probably sound muffled on thick carpets at home, etc etc. An important aspect for me personally is in the noise of the key action itself. Twice! Often the release is a lot noisier than the attack. I hate release noise. Your mileage may vary. Oh, and don't forget what I said about sequential access to the different presets. It might put you off. Me, I can live with it... begrudgingly. In everyday life it's really not a problem to me, but I'm a stickler for people using their brains, so what annoys me is that Roland make OS apps (one connects the iPad through Bluetooth), but don't seem to provide an app so you can quickly choose presets. Also, with 88 keys on the piano, they could've used those so one could choose presets by holding a button and pressing a key. 4 buttons, and you have 354 presets. Presto, and it's really not like rocket surgery. Yamaha OTOH had an app where you could store your own presets after editing the built-in sounds. Neat idea, but I don't remember how well it worked. Earlier, I mentioned connectivity. This may be unimportant to you, or it may be central. There are vast differences between different brands and model series in this regard, so be aware in case it's important. For example an Orla I tried was good in this regard, IMS with MIDI, but its sound and keyboard were below par. Yes, go to a shop and be confused. 🙂 Good luck, and enjoy!