BassTractor

Of course you aren't. You're a bass player! No, it's Jack who buys the pumps.

SWMBO never ever gave me any lip about any bass I bought - 16 in all. When I bought the first one, she remarked that it was a pretty bass, and after that she just didn't comment. Mind you, things were quite different when we were still married. 😄

This is what I wasn't able to write but would have wanted to write. Well done, and thanks!

Of course. We understood that much. 😃 ...but it was kinda like an open goal, and the goalkeeper being on holiday in New Zealand. 🙂 I just had to do something. No malice intended; just a bit of innocent fun. best, bert

Er... you like and want only the D and G strings? 😉

Zero 😮 , coz today I sold my last Bongo. 😥 Then again, when I get the money, I'm getting a new, cheaper, bass. Probably next week.

Another one that's not pretty, but still contains some design choices and fun stuff: "Kast alle papirene" by Norwegian band deLillos. Its title loosely means: "Throw away all the paperwork". The band "logo" BTW is printed on the jewel case, and for those people who just must have all the lyrics, the booklet was provided with another release. Still, with its design and colour scheme, I thought it a worthy contribution.

Too many fantastic covers in a thread about covers? Nah. I'd rather say you're now officially forgiven for your famous-album-covers-book faux pas! 🙂

Great, great stuff! Here's another rare one: the triangular cover for Willem Breuker and Leo Cuyper's "Live in Shaffy", IMHO beautifully designed by Ger van Elk. IMHO, sadly the pics don't do it justice. It's also about the quality of the materials and the inks used, just like in @bartelby's Ufomammut example. I've had this one on the wall for decades - as a piece of art.

That, dear sir, is as invigoratingly unacceptable as a good joke in a bad jokes thread! 😡 😂

@bartelby Wow. Just wow! Thanks!

Another special one where the idea seems to trump the demands on prettiness: "Pool" by Norwegian rock band Bever. This is how to design a cover when you're skint (though the iron was slightly warm for my tastes):

As per the title, I guess. Many record covers exist that are sublime in many ways, and many of these are also very well known. I was thinking we could delve into and post really unique covers that we love, but that are NOT very well known. Lemme start: Like Yes had Roger Dean, Swedish band Bob hund (stylised "bob hund") has their record cover designer in Martin Kann. For bob hund's officially untitled 1996 record, the cover read: "cover: Martin Kann" in Swedish, and indeed a photo of Martin Kann graced the cover. Ingenious, I though, and highly original. Of course, the record is now generally known as "Omslag: Martin Kann". I'll indulge in another one, also by bob hund: In 2011, their record "Det överexponerade gömstället" came with slightly different covers on CD and vinyl, one of them being of a yellow sticky note just stating: "I have no ideas for a cover. Sorry, Martin" 😁

A professional beggar, according to Wiktionary. Whoda thought! 🙂

Nice music. Cool thread title.

I'll never be able again to pull out my picture of a Daimler DS420 hearse when questions like this are asked. You won! 😊

We had a five piece ensemble and noticed a pattern: it would often be difficult to say yes to gigs due to prior obligations for some of us. We were all busy musicians with lots of commitments and depping. Our solution was to build a double quintet: two of each. If you hired us, you'd get a quintet consisting of the ones that were available on that night. Anyway, on most of our rehearsals, eight people turned up: two bassists, two keyboard players, etc... and... you guessed it... zero drummers. That very sadly was the end of our fantastic scheme.

My condolences to Colin's family and friends. He was an important BC member for me when I started on BC. I'd noticed he posted less the last couple of years, but had no idea it might be related to his health. A sad loss. Rest in peace, Colin.

🤣 (Though I didn't click on that link. Why? Didn't need to. Still have them in stock, five years after closing my kayaking firm. Very practical product, but nobody ever bought one - not online and not even from my wife, who to some degree resembled a woman.) As to GuitarChat, I think it would be a good idea if we all were to post there often, and show a particular interest in the B-string, especially when talking about fingering. ...which brings us nicely back to KazooChat.

Most people here can't play the bass for life, but that doesn't stop them. In fact, if they'd spent their 10,000 hours not on BC but on practising, all things would've been different many places. (Yes, I knooow what I'm talking about. 65,000 hours ago, I decided to read something on BC...) 😁

We wouldn't know, would we? It would be helpful though if someone could finally post a photograph of him. 😂

Yes, but with the caveat that the physical connector must be protected. It's not really made-for-live equipment like an XLR. Also, running newer software on older hardware has the same disadvantage as always, also on Apple gear.

🙂 You're not alone. Me, I sometimes have to check the initialism. That I remember for some reason. 😕 As to Chris Squire, I knew about him before I heard the first song. I read a lot back then, and bought NO albums coz I didn't have pocket money, and had read about a promising band called Yes with THE Chris Squire in it. Never having heard about the man or The Syn, I still was interested because of that article. "Yes", whilst nice to hear, contained too many lyrics for my young ears, but by "Time and a Word", I'd given up any hopes of only playing instrumental albums forever. Then "The Yes Album" removed all doubt. "Roundabout" was the first song that made me realise just how exquisite his bass parts were. The rest is history.

So is mine in a way. It's my cousin. Me, I'm blue and rusty.

Didn't know that, but then I always preferred James Newton Howard & Friends as a far better band than Toto. 😉 Back to Yes though, whilst I do love TfTO, it has many parts where it feels as if they have no clue as to where they're going. Also, the taking up themes from one movement in later ones never felt as making the unity strong on this one.