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Nick Mason [i]hates [/i]reconstituted stone.

Thelonious Monk [i]hated[/i] silence.

Miley Cyrus [i]hates[/i] metric measurements

Frank Zappa [i]hated[/i] lies.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1425858047' post='2711623'] Well, I didn't learn that way (though many people probably wish I had). But seriously, it seems a really weird idea to video yourself doing something and then put it on the net. I have the same concerns with people reporting their every moment on facebook. To me it seems very sad, almost as if these people need to do these things to make themselves feel OK about themselves, or to justify their existence. I can't believe that these people do it out of altruism to help their fellow bassists learn stuff. [/quote] but I think some people do this for the bucks $$$$! Lots of views lead to lots of advertising revenue unless it has changed since I did my "Bass Player in the wrong band film..."

Randy California [i]hated[/i] sex.

Tom Waits [i]hates [/i]waiting.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1425688280' post='2709871'] Whole lot of dekos just went up and disappeared within seconds. There was a maple necked vintage jazz bass. IMHO someone is using a computer programme not just to look for them. But to buy them as well. [code] 2015-03-07 12:28:46: Notified: Harley Benton D-120NT Deko 2015-03-07 12:28:46: Notified: Harley Benton JB-75SB MN Vintage Ser Deko 2015-03-07 12:28:46: Notified: Harley Benton L-450Plus Cherry Burst Deko 2015-03-07 12:28:46: Notified: Harley Benton RX-40 Black Progressiv Deko 2015-03-07 12:28:46: Notified: Harley Benton S-620 TR Rock Series Deko 2015-03-07 12:30:07: Notified: Bye bye Harley Benton D-120NT Deko 2015-03-07 12:30:07: Notified: Bye bye Harley Benton JB-75SB MN Vintage Ser Deko 2015-03-07 12:30:07: Notified: Bye bye Harley Benton L-450Plus Cherry Burst Deko 2015-03-07 12:30:07: Notified: Bye bye Harley Benton RX-40 Black Progressiv Deko 2015-03-07 12:32:02: Notified: Bye bye Harley Benton S-620 TR Rock Series Deko [/code] [/quote] Available on an online auction site soon?

We should have organised a meet and said "Hello"!

Star(Bass)Date: Day66 Year2015 Well last night was the Judith Owen gig down in sunny Totnes with Lee Sklar on Bass. Here's the full write-up.... Having booked the gig back in Sept last year I was checking the route last week and wondered if I had bitten off more than I could chew! Various planners made the journey around 2 hours and most of it along the main route into Devon and Cornwall. Anyway, setting off around 5.30 pm and with no holiday traffic we got there in 90 minutes along mostly dual carriageway-Home to Yeovil, Honiton, Exeter, Dartington, then Totnes driving into the setting sun. Arriving in Totnes, our route was to turn left at the roundabout ( the only one in town-I kid you not!) and that took us into an Industrial Estate. Not the B&Q type but the one your Plumber or Electrician frequents, with a PO Sorting Office at one end. We missed the next turn but go back around this deserted area of closed Units to find a few people stood outside what looks like another Industrial Unit, but named South Devon Arts Centre! This was it and we were let into a smallish unit with a Bar and a tiny stage, I've played in bigger pubs! Reckon around 80-100 people there and it was not uncomfortably full by the end. The gig itself: Judith played the whole of the Ebb and Flow Album plus covers of Summer Nights(!), Blue Jeans (ask your parents),Walking the Dog and Carole King's "It might as well rain until September". She's quite a demanding performer but funny and self deprecating too. As she introduced the Band there was no Waddy Wachtel on Guitar so the Bass had a bigger place in the arrangements along with drums (Russ Kunkel played rods all night), Percussion and JO on Keyboards. Lee Sklar played his Warwick Star Bass sat down in front of an Ampeg Portaflex and it was like having a lesson in cool tasteful playing in your front room, I must have been no more than 10 m from the stage. Due to the absence of guitar he played quite few chords and high up the neck to fill out the sound. Bit of backing vocals too, but mostly low in the mix. After the gig JO was signing her album so I ticked that box then went to chat to Lee who was packing away his Bass. Apparently Waddy Wachtel arrived from the US with Russ and Lee last week and was turned around at Immigration. he's now back in the US with a Lawyer trying to find out why he was not admitted. (Good to know the UK Border Agency can let 3 school-kids go to join Isis but keep out a foreign musician from stealing our jobs...) They've all recorded new album with JO and will be opening for Bryan Ferry on his Tour later this year. Lee was gutted he was missing the London Bass Guitar Show ( said lots of his friends were playing there) and they were setting off at 8.00 am today to get up to Sheffield, if the gig in Totnes had been the day before he could have attended. Anyway, I thanked him for his playing, not just that night but on all my favourite music of the 70's (James Taylor, Carole KIng etc etc) and got him to sign my previously autographed copy of the JO album. So a really nice night full of tasteful playing, just a bit disappointed there was no guitar..( did I really say that?) OH, I'm guessing this Tour is not sold out so I'd recommend going to see them if you can, my ticket was only £10 [attachment=185851:Judith.jpg]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1425732869' post='2710146'] You're kidding me?! [/quote] I never joke on Basschat.

Nathan East [i]hates[/i] the South

Guess what arrived today? My new BGM. Straight to the Editorial " Ears still ringing from the London Bass Guitar Show? Ours certainly are and what a mighty event it was! here at the Bass Guitar Magazine command bunker we're still reeling from the sheer amazingness of the bass players and gear we witnessed over that epic weekend in March...." Clearly time travel has been invented and Blaze Publishing have stolen a March(!) on the rest of the industry...... Oh there's a free CD as well.

[sub]Paloma Faith[i] hates [/i]organised religions.[/sub]

Florence [i]loves[/i] Welsh people

Roger Waters [i]loves[/i] yachting

Melody Gardot[i] hates[/i] Death Metal

Eric Carmen [i]hates[/i] Opera

Ben Harper [i]hates[/i] Harps

Leonard Cohen [i]hates[/i] Ice Cream

Johnny Cash [i]hated[/i] Dollar Bills

Nat King Cole [i] hates [/i]carbon fuels

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1425601947' post='2709079'] Robert Plant [i]hates[/i] gardening. [/quote] So does Axel Rose

Nice sales patter, very friendly!

Dire Straits and Chris Rea are thinking of merging to form a Super Group called "Chris Dire"