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Maude

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  1. [quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1445975242' post='2895886'] Placebo [/quote] Trivial fact....... I restored and painted Steve Hewitt's car a few years ago. It was the first car he bought with his Placebo earnings and he wanted it back to showroom condition to put into storage. Sadly it was only a purple Peugeot 306 GTI 6. Boring fact over, as you were.
  2. I just had to cancel Thursdays band rehearsal as I've been offered two tickets to see Alice Cooper in Plymouth. I last saw AC 24 years ago, I swear '91 isn't that long ago, and can't wait to see if the show is as good as it was. Musical theatre at its best. I can't wait.
  3. [quote name='leftybassman392' timestamp='1445197868' post='2889576'] Anybody mind if we don't discuss art in this thread? I get the analogy, but there was a very long and at times closely argued thread on that subject a while ago. Just a polite request... [/quote] Point taken, and agreed with. Just thought I'd comment on the other post
  4. Gov, Gov, not 'got', bleedin' Gov! Try to post an amusing reply and my phone makes an embarrassment of me, I give up.
  5. Good job cos I ain't got a clue Got!
  6. On the art front, I think if the piece serves a purpose other than just to be art, and the things that go along with this eg stimulating thought or conversation,then it isn't art. Therefore the above painted wall isn't art but the painted canvas is.
  7. [quote name='jonunders' timestamp='1445195892' post='2889549'] If a person perceives a note to be musical who can argue that it isn't [/quote] Me I think a single sound, that doesn't rise or fall in pitch rhythmically, cannot be musical. That's not to say that this unmusical sound cannot be turned into music by repeating the sound or adding others to it. For example, I don't consider a single hand clap musical, now repeat in a pattern and it becomes musical, ala 'Carwash'.
  8. Just realised I never updated this with completed pictures. The only one I have at the moment is this one of me in our rehearsal room, don't know why it's black and white, guitarist thinking he's some sort of artist I suppose [URL=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/Maudebass/media/Varicaster_zps4a9900c2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/Maudebass/Varicaster_zps4a9900c2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  9. [quote name='DavidMcKay' timestamp='1445068331' post='2888498'] I'm intrigued. Anyone got any pictures of successful DIY paint jobs? [/quote] I've done lots of successful DIY refinishes, only pictures on here are this, which I've now realised I need to update with some completed pictures, albeit very late. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/227483-variax-make-over/
  10. Most reasonable sized automotive bodyshops should have device that scans the paint surface to get a good match on faded paints where just the paint code isn't enough. They could scan your bass and give you a paint code which Halfords could make up a aerosol of paint with. To be honest I wouldn't use Halfords though, mostly staffed by people with no experience of the product they're selling. The companys that supply bodyshops would be much better and would be able to scan and mix your paint and put it in an aerosol can, if you know of any bodyshop suppliers. Whereabouts are you, can't see on my phone?
  11. [quote name='Andytre' timestamp='1444748180' post='2885572'] i'd be tempted but any Deko over £40 is too rich for my blood! [/quote] Ha ha, that's what it's got like with the dekos. Fifty quid for a brand new bass is just too much
  12. If you're on a budget then Entwistle JBXNs can't be beat. Actually forget the "on a budget" bit, they're just really good pickups.
  13. "What is a Feeler?" Well that's my left hand, the right is a proper groper.
  14. Yep. I did it when I made my bass uke. Bought a set of generic cheapies and reversed two to make a 2+2 headstock. Pretty sure all the Fender and copies can be reversed.
  15. So in a way the jazz standards are more like building blocks to do your own thing with rather than songs to try and reproduce note for note, bar for bar as rock/pop covers seem to be. Strange how almost polar opposites are expected from different genres. Although our band takes popular songs and reworks them into different styles, swing Sex Pistols, bluegrass Arctic Monkeys, rockabilly Outkast etc and it goes down a storm everywhere we play, so maybe the average pub crowd doesn't just want straight covers. Thanks for the replies and sorry to the op for the slight derailment.
  16. You'll have to excuse my ignorance here as this genre is most certainly not my cup of tea. Are these songs generally looked at in the same light as all the 'rock cover band' standards that all pub audiences love but most folks on here recoil at the very mention of, dakota, sex on fire, mustang sally etc? The way the Jazz standards have been described above makes them seem like they're the same old same old that every other jazz band churns out. Not looking to cause trouble, genuinely interested in how they are regarded.
  17. I love going out gigging. The BCRs will gig in more towns, to more people, and make more money than I ever have so why the hell not.
  18. First heard this on a tape someone lent me when I was younger. Laying in bed in a dark room with headphones on, I really should still do that but don't, The guitar just took my breath away, so amazingly sad and melancholic, yet angry and beautiful. Just utterly captivating. http://youtu.be/dh3bleXWaCk
  19. Anything is possible with the correct tools and skills, that's not to say it'll be worthwhile. What is it you're trying to achieve?
  20. Not quite sure if this qualifies but it always puts a massive grin on my face and wasn't recorded as a serious track. http://youtu.be/GXCh9OhDiCI
  21. Ebay item number 371436430252 for the supplier of the guitar ones, maybe worth a message to see if they can get bass ones. Sorry, don't know how to link ebay on my phone.
  22. There was a supplier of wooden ones on ebay. I was going to get a set for my Bex4 but the centre hole is machined for guitar size, not bass, so I gave up.
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