BassTractor

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1401320244' post='2462531'] However the band I play in just got a new guitarist who just happens to own a Wal mk1 lined fretless and he brought it along for me to play a few days ago. Absolutely loved it. Was funny seeing everyone's reaction as I took to it again like riding a bicycle. No one in the band had heard me playing fretless before and couldn't believe the singing notes etc. [/quote] Cool story! Brought a smile on my face. The kids as well as my ex now gather around me and ask for money, and it's all your fault!

Welcome to the surface, mbr! BTW, I like the colour scheme and the tasteful minimalism in your avatar! Enjoy! Bert

A Bongo HH 6 is among the top 1 of my wishlist. I hope to own one someday.

Ah! Had forgotten that. Thanks, RR. Les Coccinelles it is then, or Les Bêtes à bon Dieu. Now there's a name. You could enter the Eurovision song contest, Leschirons! "Les Coccinelles: sept points..."

Welcome, Philobedo! As to your question, you're probably best helped if you ask this in the Amps&Cabs forum within the Gear section. I can't remember having seen a direct comparison, but they are both extensively described there. Also, they are quite different animals in several respects, and you will probably need to hear them. General tendency, I believe, is that the Terror Bass is recognised as a one trick pony with a bloody fantastic trick, whilst the RH450 seems to me to evoke more disagreement. It's certainly more flexible and luxurious, and probably more General Purpose than the Terror Bass. Enjoy the forum! bert

Welcome, you young whippersnapper! Lovely intro you wrote, Richard, or rather: I liked reading it. Enjoy the site, its laughs, its occasional eruptions of knowledge spreadage and the everlasting coldth (should have been a word) between old, smelly me and the discreet one with the brain. best, bert

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1401225404' post='2461523'] That would be Le Coquenielles (sp?) would it not? [/quote] Are you maybe thinking of Les Coquilles, as in les maisons spirales des escargots?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1401215047' post='2461356'] Er... isn't that [i]The Beetles[/i]..? [/quote] Couldn't be. I said it had never ever been used before - in any language. However, that is not the good part. The good part is that Leschirons has called himself Leschirons for who knows how long - probably without most of us knowing that a chiron is some type of coléoptère. Impressive as well as funny in my book. Though: I don't know what [b]he[/b] means with the name.

Les Coléoptères, a generic form of Les Chirons, and also never ever used before, in any language.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1401198180' post='2461017'] frequently dropping to his knees, tears rolling down his face with the shear emotion of it all [/quote] [quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1401200998' post='2461085'] booting a pig's head [/quote] Please refrain from veering into off-topic, BetaFunk. CamdenRob was talking about sheep. [quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1401209230' post='2461225'] You actually went to another village? [/quote] and so true. Me dad was almost killed coz locals thought he was from another village.

John, you only got in before me because I was counting how many times we've welcomed Tom already.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1401088964' post='2459811'] I guess my play on the word "hit" was lost then [/quote] ... which seems strange considering that musicians are statistically overrepresented - both as victims and as the ones paying. So .... is BC really a collection of non-musicians? Twould explain a lot...

I'm aware it's encyclopaedic custom that all concepts in the article are assumed known, but still: What is this ...... "practice" of which you speak? ([b]Somebody[/b] had to volunteer! And all the others took a step back!!! )

Doesn't surprise us. You have already been seen to agree with me, so your dementia is certainly reaching a new stage. From the amount of similar questions, my guess is it's one of the forum software bugs. However, just to be sure: You are aware that the "My Content" function is leaky, and will not show all your content? Also, AFAIK, searching is not fuzzy. It requires the exact string you're looking for (though it will find individual word occurances if your string contains more words). But yeah, still seems to me that this is a bug of its own. I just hope you paid your seven quid twice. (BC needs it, yes?)

Welcome, Rosscoe! Yup, you assume correctly. It's a good place to learn. Yesterday, I learned about the Jacobites. Innersting! Enjoy! Bert

Nice vid of a guy playing along a track and having some fun. He is NOT standing on a stage having certain responsibilites, and we do not know how he would have chosen to play the bass line were he to be in such a position. I liked it.

Sorry, but I don't understand the Buzz. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] [color=#ffffff].[/color] Or rather: is it a Buzz? Suddenly realised I have no clue. Does sound grand though, and very lovely played too, IMHO. Another thing is that to my noob ears it sounds surprisingly like a fretless StingRay despite what looks like a PJ config. I'm probably wrong.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1400952827' post='2458549'] Even better than Oasis really [/quote] Also, this great line opens a new perspective: that of tribute through your own compositions, like XTC's open tribute to the Beatles. Ethical? Interesting? Worth a punt? Etc. Not that I'm asking these questions. This thread has become more interesting than earlier, similar threads, IMS&IMHO. Thanks, BC.

Aye! After "attack"*. The initial amplitude with its higher pitch not only lasts for a short time only, and you don't want the long decaying sound to be off, but it also contains harmonic and disharmonic components that make its being in tune less important. Though I can imagine scenarios with quick changes and staccato playing where one would tune on the "attack"* instead. Nowst I think of it, I think the best thing to do is buy an extra bass for those songs, and also one for the songs with medium long tones as well. SHE MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IS NECESSARY!!! *) "Attack" as in the first occurence of a recognisable tone after the real attack.

... or the Xenakis!

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1400882416' post='2457973'] I went to see an orchestra play music by Haydn recently. None of musicians wore frock coats, buckle shoes or powdered wigs tied at the back of the neck with a ribbon. If they had then maybe they could have been a tribute band. They didn't so maybe they were a just covers orchestra. [/quote] Aye. That's why I wrote: [quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1400321307' post='2452854'] I've been to a lot of Bach and Strawinsky tribute shows. Music was always good, but they tend to dress poorly, really looking nothing like the originals. I think I'm done with this now. [/quote] ... but truth be told, some orchestras do not only use period instruments and play them in perceived period-correct ways, but will also dress in olde period-correct clothing as well as perform in buildings from that time, especially when they're making a tv programme. Not that I condone it. Most of the time it gets to be slightly too half-arsed, and even tacky. Just look at their digital watches and their modern sets of glasses if you can't be arsed to have a stern look at heir facial expressions.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1400881007' post='2457957'] I think cover bands probably started many centuries ago when someone would piano a Bach or other such dusty type composer in an ale house or at a private ball event. [/quote] Aye. It's said that one always played the music of one's time until that dusty ole Mendelssohn studied some dusty notebooks with Bach music in them, and decided to perform it, something which became an avalanche that has not stopped yet.

Re the exchange between BetaFunk and Flyfisher: Twas me who brought up classical music, and twas only for bringing in an idea about that it all depends on what kind of music one talks about. Orchestras, ensembles and individual classical artists do indeed exist who'll only play music by one composer, but I'd think they can hardly be compared to tribute bands in the pop/rock vain, because it's customary in the classical world not to try and sound exactly like a perceived period-correct performance of the work, but to try and interpret the work in a fashion deemed valid for a modern audience: "a new look at old music". There's a funny bit here though that makes it more complicated, as the last 50 years have seen a growing interest in "authentic" interpretations, if you forgive the contradictio-in-terminis that this seems to be. Some of them would mainly perform works of one composer only. A good example would be Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra playing mainly Bach. These orchestras and ensembles would be closest to a tribute band, I reckon. Much could be said about it, but I've deleted the even more verbose stuff before hitting "Post".