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Meh. The Cribs have got Johnny Marr, The Cribs win.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='574251' date='Aug 19 2009, 02:47 PM']Did you get the deal?[/quote] They did offer us a deal but our manager thought we could do better, but the manager dropped us eventually! He said he could page Billy Joel and he'd get back to him within the hour, but if he paged James (our singer) it would be three days. We split up shortly after that because it was the singer's band and he was becoming increasingly unreliable.

[quote name='MythSte' post='574237' date='Aug 19 2009, 02:40 PM']Alas! One of those people that did things and you just though, Are you [i]serious[/i]?![/quote] Those sorts of people are good to have in bands, right up to the point where they're suddenly not. Like the singer who de-kegged our percussionist while he was carrying a tray of drinks, leaving his meat & two veg dangling in the faces of the nice men from Sony.

Shame about that band, I thought there was a lot of potential there. Was there an unbearable dickhead in it, was that the issue? There's always one of those.

Some have complained that the Bass Big Muff doesn't go fuzzy enough. Those people are probably comparing it to the regular Big Muff which goes extremely fuzzy. It's probably a good thing in terms of practicality tbh but might be disappointing on those rare occasions that you just want tonnes of harmonic mess to drown everything.

I would've thought you'd give endorsements rather than get them. Unless you really are asking EHX to tell the world what a great bassist you are!

Their singer looks like Matt Berry in that video.

Neither of the two bands I'm in are democratic. The first is run by the singer, it's all about her, which is fine in a way because she's a talent but she's also too lazy for it to really go anywhere. The second is weird. It's basically run by me but the guitarist is supposed to be the one in charge. We got on really well though and share songwriting duties so I don't see it being a problem. All it means is things are more organised and happen faster than if he was doing it.

So they say what do you want, we'll build it, and he picks something from the 1950s. For f***'s sake... I wouldn't even know what a Gibson Grabber was if it wasn't for Mike Dirnt. It sounded alright to the millions of people who bought Dookie. I'm very disappointed.

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='569441' date='Aug 14 2009, 08:21 PM']The reason I ask is that I feel the time is approaching when I may end up on stage. I have posted about this previously ([url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=52797&hl=hot+tub"]post no. 8[/url]) and believe me, it's a big deal. Probably gonna be a "guest spot" on bass for a couple of songs, but there won't be any rehearsal.[/quote] Bloody hell, you're braver than you think! In terms of key changes: Learn to play the songs without using open strings. That way if it's in a different key you can rely on muscle memory and just move your hands to the new position. (personally I often avoid open strings anyway because they have a different timbre to fretted notes, unless I want that sound). It can be fairly common for a song to be transposed for the vocalist, but it usually won't move far, maybe a tone at most, unlikely to be any more than that, unless the singer is really bad. So imagine (or practice) playing the songs a tone away from from where the recording is - if you can cope with that you should be OK. I have to say reading your other thread you are quite an interesting individual. It's hard to believe you've stuck with what is essentially an accompanist's instrument for 30 years without ever accompanying anyone. If you were anywhere near York I'd invite you to come and take part in rehearsals with my band in my place (I sing too so I wouldn't be left with nothing to do) just to give you a low-key opportunity to face your phobia. There are strictly no cocks in my band, you'd get on with them all effortlessly. If you ever are planning to be around York and you're feeling brave, let me know and I'll send you some tunes to learn. And good luck with your gig! At the very least remember to enjoy yourself. You might only realise you enjoyed it some time after you get off the stage, but there will be moments that stick in your mind as being special. Those are what will draw you back.

When you say "synth" pedal, do you mean a pedal that replaces your bass sound with something else? Like the DI, G5, OS, SYB, etc.? I suppose there's not much call for them, given that keyboard synths sound better and are easier to play / more reliable. I do like using them personally, though.

Can't say I've had any issues like that, but I've never had problems with muscles or joints or anything. I do play 4-string basses though, I've never gigged anything bigger for any appreciable length of time. Although my main bass is my old Warwick Thumb which seems to be made out of Americans or something.

That's not the sort of stuff you could sell on without raising a few eyebrows is it? I wonder what sort of a scumbag took it off his hands.

Do a search on TB - there's been a couple of early adopters giving their thoughts on it. But as usual, it's all honeymoon period stuff and they'll no doubt change their minds in a couple of weeks...

He's posted his board on TB before. His main pedals are a Boss OC-2, Woolly Mammoth and a Moog MF-101 (where he uses an expression pedal on the filter cut-off control) probably in that order. He also uses various weirder fuzzy-noise-producing pedals - a Bugcrusher, CoPilot Orbit, ... er... I forget. Other stuff. There used to be a Bassballs and an old DOD Phasor and a DL-4 in there somewhere too.

[quote name='umph' post='564140' date='Aug 9 2009, 02:01 PM']the bass micro synth does all those and more[/quote] Hahahaha. I never even thought of the BMS and it's my favourite pedal. The distortion isn't great though. It's nice when being swept by the filter but generally I leave it off and use the octave fuzz slider for a bit of colour instead.

Might be worth looking at the Big John Granny Puker. You'd be the only person I know who's got one.

[quote name='cd_david' post='564005' date='Aug 9 2009, 09:36 AM']I used to be as thin as a pin but "spread" a few years ago and Jesus its hard to shift but its going,[/quote] Yeah I'd never had an ounce of fat on me until a couple of years ago, and it bothers me that I have a few little collections of wobbly stuff turning up under my skin now. Makes it easier to buy trousers, but it's still got to go. I'm not sure where it's coming from because my lifestyle hasn't changed at all.

That Muff's in surprisingly good condition.

That's the classic Bernard Edwards bass so they're pretty collectable. The earlier the better obviously if you're going for Chic appeal, and a refin isn't going to be worth so much, but an aged neck is still nice to have. Probably £12-1500 regiion I'd say.

That's weird, hearing of a German bassist influenced by The Wedding Present.

My main bass is a Thumb and it's partly because it's as skinny as I am (luckily I love the sound). Proper-size basses (Precisions and Stingrays particularly) always looked way too big on me but the Thumb looks right. I'm 35 now and recently sold a Stingray fretless that still looked too big. I'm jealous of you and other big people! For the record I'm 6'2" and currently about 12 stone, which is the most I've ever weighed.

[quote name='JanSpeeltBas' post='560859' date='Aug 5 2009, 08:03 AM']Who's the bassplayer for Whatnauts?[/quote] I don't know who played on that record. Apparently it was Curtis McTeer on their early '70s releases. Weird that we don't know such an influential bassist isn't it?