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[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1408661665' post='2532409'] If this isn't a slower process then your band is either soaking in talent or isn't very good. [/quote] :-D

All of that is totally of no importance whatsoever. :-( What we need to know is whether that thing is your Blower Bentley! Oh, and will you be racing Miles'tones of this parish in his General Lee Dodge Charger? ;-) Welcome, Phil! I hope you'll thrive here. best, bert

Welcome, Gerry! I trust you will thrive with being more involved. Some of us are nice people. Some even play the bass - no kidding! Pro tip: As you've responded to someone else's intro, few people may read this, as they've already been looking at the thread. You might wish to start your own thread instead. Anyway, enjoy! bert

Welcome, Papa J! Enjoy the bass as well as BC, and good luck with the hunt. bert

I'm sure Gub really meant "cojon", as in "keyboard player". ;-)

Welcome, Gaz! Enjoy your being here! Oh, and good luck with upgrading your Hondo. Just don't go for the cheap kid racer stuff from Halford's, and especially not those Cosworth wings or those blue neons underneath! Just make it a nice, conservative Hondo Grand Luxe 840. best, bert WAIT!!! Aerodeck! That's what you need! Hondo Aerodeck 840. Sounds great, huh?

Hey _Birdy_ , or may I be informal and simply call you Birdy? Welcome to BC! best, bert

Welcome, Streather! You're not the first one to return to music after a longer or shorter hiatus. BC is filled to the rim with folks who have returned home. Enjoy it! bert

Mom and dad took me to church every sunday. Er... in the beginning it was twice every sunday! I got to love the church organ, the psalms and the Bach music. Andries, the boy next door and three years my major, played the harmonium (and later became the church organist at age 11 - despite having been born with fingers missing and the like. Impressive!) Andries was my hero. I wanted to play Bach and psalms on the organ or harmonium just like him, but my parents weren't too sure, and decided I had to prove myself first. So they shoved me off to recorder classes for two years - a frustrating two years, also because the recorder teacher hit my best buddy, Andries' younger brother Wim, on the head for making misakes. BUT after two years of this, mom and dad were convinced and bought one of these small electronic organs with two 3- or 3.5-octave manuals and a 13-tone pedal board. Did my first church service at age 12, and was mightily annoyed that I was a whole year older than Andries had been! Mind you, I'd been questioning faith since age 6, but I reckoned Bach and the psalms were not to blame, so I never rejected the music that was to be found in that building. Cool hippie Rick van der Linden (Ekseption) came along, and I wanted to be like him, including the long hair, the beard and the colourful clothing. So I started to arrange Bach pieces and perform them with trios, quartets and quintets, and eventually got to write fake Renaissance music for a play as a result of this. Then a large organ was bought with full length manuals and a full 25 tone pedal board. An electronic piano and two synthesizers were put on top of it, and mom only put on the brakes when a second organ to the side of this setup blocked two cupboards, and the latest semi-modular, black, synth with its knobs and cables was not in style with the rest of the furniture. Also no wooden sides, you know. But I was on my way, and not studying music was not an option anymore.

Welcome, Ant! Yeah. Better be careful. Accidents might happen - especially for people reading BC. Safe journey! best, bert

Yeah, Mick's a weirdo like that. Other way round for me though: he does have my number, but still didn't call.

Welcome, Blundomatik! Aye! The Wal is one fearsome monster. Got one demonstrated, but did somehow manage a narrow escape. My wal let was grateful. Enjoy BC! bert

Welcome, Hamerock, and thanks for inadvertently possibly helping out with a problem I have: I do shove my Jazz into my Genz, but get no sound. You OTOH seem to shove the Genz into something else again. Will investigate! Seriously though, I like the sound of that. Anyway, enjoy BC! bert

Hey Pfretrock, and welcome! You've been practising the... er... [b][i]Fend[/i][/b] out of the Fender? Just guessing. [quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1408289289' post='2528644'] Saw a BCer at a gig last night, if I can find him, will tell him what I think of his playing! [/quote] Ouch! He'll be fearing you now! Anyway, enjoy BC! bert

Aye! There is a few people on here I would love to go and see but kind of hard as I don't swim that well.

Of course.

Won't give you numbers, as my numbers are irrelevant, based as they are on different instruments and subject. BUT, I did have an experience that taught me a lot: My students were almost exclusively of the type who faithfully came to lessons each week, and did so for years and years, with good results. Then, I "bought" another music school, inheriting its pupils, and suddenly noticed in them a lack of scope, lack of commitment, bad practising and bad results. It took me some time to realise what the difference was, and it was that that other school had taken in each student it could get, and had not made good, firm deals ("contracts" as it were) with them - - thus allowing for all kinds of slippery slopes, including the lack of building up good practising routines. This of course had had a negative effect on the effectiveness and, more importantly, on the fun. This experience affirmed my belief on how important the time spent before the first lesson is, and how important the first lessons are. If one wants students who stay, and with good results, this IMHO is at the core of the center if the middle of what's important. Be very friendly and positively supportive, and paint a rosey perspective for them, but also be very strict with what you demand from them, and do not just take any student you can get.

[quote name='gadgie' timestamp='1407971636' post='2526005'] BTW I do that a lot as well. [/quote] Ha! I often do that lot too!

Flare the port, Dougal. FLARE THE PORT!!! Nice one! It's fun having fun, eh? ...though I fear the plethora of proposed folk song titles that may be snail mailed your way in this thread... Huh?

Welcome, Jock! Important question: are you related to the Kinmylies McPlops or to the Culduthel McPlops? Now, I personally wouldn't dig up this old matter, which should've been forgotten ages ago, but thought it best to give you a heads up on how, even on BC, there's more than a river that separates... (Sorry, mate! Just couldn't resist when I saw your login name. ) Anyway, enjoy your stay! best, bert

Hi Danny, and welcome! It's nice to see a pro on here. Finally someone who'll manage a slim bass neck with 6 thin like strings on it, and we'll have us some BASS CHORDS! Enjoy! bert

Welcome, Mike, from another noob. You'll find BC is a well as well as a fountain of knowledge, and it being both questionable and searchable. Enjoy! bert

[quote name='Bolo' timestamp='1407161226' post='2517886'] A Rubens sounds fatter [/quote] Quote of the month!

After this thread I will now sell my [b]way too[/b] expensive bass gear and get me one of those Audis. I'm intrigued and charmed by this concept of all the Audi users w*nking at each other - much like we did in my motorbike days, though we just moved our hand upwards and downwards so as to keep the bike stable. But I'm similar in that my economical situation practically precludes me from being in a band. The cost of it all would break me. So yes, you're definitely not alone. The survival thought for me is that things can change. I hope you have stuff to survive on too!

There's also HNBD (Happy...), but as you grasped already, that term is nonsensical seeing as no-one ever is happy on an NBD. Edit: Correction: unless of course the NBD involves a pink Daisy Rock. Happy days! Thought I'd better put that straight.