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[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KQsdfnbOevM"]Asian Dub Foundation[/url] You can't not be pumped listening to their stuff.

[quote name='Master blaster' post='242789' date='Jul 18 2008, 03:16 PM']Jimi Jazz. He plays for G-love and special sauce. I saw them support Jack Johnson. Didnt think much of JJ's bassist, he did the whole root and 5th things all the way through every song. Yeh Jimi Jazz is an amazing upright bass player. Everyone should check him out.[/quote] I've got their first CD (had some others - don't any more, don't miss them!) and it's great. Some really funky stuff going on, nice airy-sounding recordings. Win. Funnily enough I recommended them to someone who was listening to Jack Johnson a year or two ago. Here are their [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x6kGSN0P8HA"]two[/url] [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mUH4zPdpbug"]hits[/url].

[quote name='Dr.Dave' post='245293' date='Jul 22 2008, 12:43 PM']I watch that show a fair bit. That little Greek bloke irritates me for some reason.[/quote] He reminds me of a berk I went to school with. That was in Wakefield actually - he might remind you of the same berk!

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='245149' date='Jul 22 2008, 10:38 AM']But I don't get why they invested so much having barely heard them![/quote] This was in the paper yesterday (they were giving away The Independent with bottles of water at the train station - weird...). Apparently they were in there for two and a half hours, and played a few tunes. I don't suppose the whole thing would've fit on your TV.

[quote name='gilmour' post='242881' date='Jul 18 2008, 04:42 PM']Funny looks just like a G&L to me[/quote] Yeah that's what I was thinking. I really like the way L2000s play but I've only ever seen one that looked appealing to me, and somebody else had already bought it when I returned to the store the next day. Should've put a deposit on it!

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fvEj5iZMEpU"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fvEj5iZMEpU[/url] I think it's an SH-101 but a nice easy starter bass line. Add a Boss OC-2 and you can totally cop it on bass guitar.

I don't use one at the moment. Depends what you want it for, I suppose. I used to use a Boss LMB-3 just to flatten peaks from unruly pedals and it did a good job of it, also had a Compulator for a while which seemed to be a good all-round compressor and provided a noticeable sustain improvement too. Thinking about getting another one just to improve performance from octavers and other "tracking" effects.

[quote name='Jase' post='242284' date='Jul 18 2008, 12:07 AM']The annoying thing about those sites is hardly anybody replies after the first contact, been looking myself lately and out of about 12 pm's and dozens of posts on the forums some of these sites have, I can honestly say, 3 bands/musicians have had the courtesy to actually get back and say, "no thanks" or "sorry we're sorted".....so many ignorant "musicians" around. Hard work I reckon![/quote] I've had good results from formingbands and bandmix. Actually my "main" band at the moment came from an initial contact at bandmix, and it turned out the girl who'd sent me the message lived about 100 yards away. I've also been in regular contact with another band that can't seem to keep bass players; they're a folk outfit and I keep telling them that I don't think I'd be suitable, but every six months or so after the next guy's quit they come back and say it "might be interesting" to have a nutcase with a huge pedalboard playing bass for them. It surely would be interesting for me, but I still don't think they'd dig it. And that's just the two gigs I've been interested in. Had lots of contacts from other bands, mostly cover bands or rockers or other samey-sounding stuff that I'm too old to bother with. I get regular contacts on both of them. Maybe I should write a thread about how to advertise yourself on musician dating sites.

Biggest: Probably an MTV gig on the beach in Belmar, NJ, while they were covering Greekfest one year and putting on some volleyball tournament or other. Don't think we went out on the telly, but we were the local heroes so we had a huge and awesome crowd. Last tune I could barely play for being bumped by sluts in bikinis. Wish gigs in Yorkshire were like that... Smallest: Probably (what was) The Post Haste in Wakefield. Last time I saw it it was a gay bar and the stage was mostly host to drag queens (the one I saw was very good actually!), no idea whether it's even still open. We'd enlisted my mate Tosh to operate the smoke machine but he got pissed (true to form) and forgot to plug it in, so when he decided to let out some smoke all he achieved was squirting me in the back with nasty green slime. Ah, gigs.

Sell your Thumb 6, buy a same-era Thumb 5. Job done and plenty of change left over for lemonade and ginger biscuits.

I've seen two or three basses in the last couple of weeks that I would've bought if I could justify having them. Unfortunately I've got a holiday that isn't paid for yet and a tax bill to settle at the end of the month - July's always my weakest gear-buying month. I'm also torn between buying another 4-banger or buying an upright. I don't think an upright will fit in my car, but I need a new car anyway.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='240726' date='Jul 16 2008, 11:28 AM']About that Bespeco expression pedal, I was considering one myself, but have just ordered a Moog EP-2 pedal from Digital Village for £28.99. Looks a lot better quality and is still pretty cheap.[/quote] Yeah I had a look around to see what else was available but AFAIK the Moog is a 50Kohm pot, and the Meatball filter will close with around 20Kohm so the Bespeco is a better match. I imagine if I had the Moog only about half the pedal travel would do anything.

[quote name='OldGit' post='240599' date='Jul 16 2008, 09:07 AM']The corollary to our topic, in the theatre, is the total (economic) domination of "pop song theme" musicals over real theatre.[/quote] My girlfriend's a drama teacher, and one of her colleagues (dance/PE teacher) is the thickest person I've ever met. Anyway, the other week the girlfriend was going to the theatre to see one of her students in a production of 1984, and Thick Dance Teacher said "Ooh, is that a music tribute thing?"

[quote name='rayfw' post='240940' date='Jul 16 2008, 03:18 PM']Atmosfear - Dancing in outer space?[/quote] The only version of that I've ever heard is an instrumental. Does it have lyrics?

Not any Parliament song I know. Doesn't quite have their ridiculousness about it either. Sorry, no idea.

[quote name='peted' post='239094' date='Jul 14 2008, 12:54 PM']Hey! I find it has quite a nice finger-style tone. It's doesn't have to be a slap monster [/quote] I don't slap my Thumb bass either. Or at least only very rarely and for ironic purposes. I hadn't actually realised that owning one suggests to people that I might be a slapper. That's a worry.

[quote name='Muppet' post='238297' date='Jul 13 2008, 01:32 AM']So my challenge is - what do I need for playback? A computer or a MP3 player maybe or what and does anyone have any tips for getting it right? I have visions of it all going horribly wrong and us all blaming the drummer.....[/quote] A friend of mine used to do this with his band (synths / samples in one track, click in the other), AFAIK he used a rack-mounted DAT most of the time, unless they had new tunes they were still working on, which he'd run from a laptop. Another band I've done some work with would take a desktop Mac out to gigs with them. I suppose whatever you've got will do, so long as it's not in a lossy format like mp3. The big downside of course is that it means the structure of all your tunes becomes very rigid.

[quote name='molan' post='238248' date='Jul 12 2008, 10:52 PM']spend an evening watching appalling "originals" bands playing tuneless rubbish with little or no stagecraft or even basic musicianship or a classy "covers" band playing superbly written songs with serious ability and genuine stage presence that you can dance or sing along to and have a really great evening.[/quote] To make a fairer comparison, would you prefer a great covers band or a great originals band? How about a covers band or a karaoke night? Covers band or staying in and watching a low-budget biopic about The Monkees?

I've never heard of any of the charities. The auctions haven't exactly been high-profile either - it might be that most visitors haven't even seen them.

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' post='237965' date='Jul 12 2008, 02:50 PM']i'd love to actually see where most of that extra tax goes! im sure there's a big black hole (or someone's back pocket)[/quote] MPs need kitchens, it's a simple fact of life. And whatever else they're claiming on expenses that they don't want us to know about. Procurement's always been a huge source of government mismanagement. Defense contracts are the most high-profile waste of money but in recent years another whole arseload of cash has been bunged at IT projects that either never materialised or ran way over budget and still don't work properly. Many of these projects would be of limited value even if they [i]did[/i] work properly. You don't have to look far to see where public money is being pissed away - it's all around you.

[quote name='lowdown' post='237839' date='Jul 12 2008, 10:46 AM']3 - Louis Johnson.[/quote] Shh!