thisnameistaken

Bloody hell.

Is the guitar on the Black Books theme a baritone?

[quote name='Wil' timestamp='1331905666' post='1580725'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNEMzH7pOZ8&feature=player_embedded[/media] [/quote] I've been laughing at this for five minutes and I haven't even played the video yet. Inspired.

Should've got a clarinet.

Well expect to also pay for a new bridge fitting and strings at least. Can't comment on the fingerboards because I've never seen one that was playable, but I wouldn't be surprised if they need some work.

[quote name='jakenewmanbass' timestamp='1333977405' post='1609014'] I'm sure it's fine on the spike, it just raises the centre of gravity thereby increasing the possibility of damage from a fall. [/quote] Yeah fair point. Mine's in a corner of the dining room where people only go to pick up the double bass, so it's safe enough there. Even the dog won't go near it he leaves the room when I start playing, although perhaps that's down to my intonation I don't know.

I find new effects do make me play differently, so yeah I suppose they're usually worth trying in my experience. Different basses (or amps) don't change my playing so much, although flatwounds do, but I consider flats to be an effect.

I leave mine in a corner with the spike out, it's been fine like that for 2 years, but mine's laminate.

[quote name='Icarus_147' timestamp='1333972771' post='1608886'] Well, I'm not one to judge, but he does [i]sound [/i]like a serial killer. [/quote] Shouldn't laugh but srsly!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1333966537' post='1608739']I suspect that 'kick drum' was instigated by a non-musician who had no understanding of how 'that particular drum' makes a noise and 'pedal drum' might have been far more appropriate. [/quote] Someone should've taken him to see a marching band.

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1333964284' post='1608700'] Can see this coming up as a plot line for Silent Witness! [/quote] Or 'Violent Shitness' as it's known in our house. You don't want to know what we call Waking The Dead.

[quote name='daz' timestamp='1333933540' post='1608518'] Bloody drummers. You cant even trust their Dads either now. Tsk tsk! [/quote] That hi-hat's a bit loud mate.

Growl, as in bass sound. Occasionally I have heard a bass growl but its always been a simple matter of replacing the battery.

I put my hand on a nettle fishing my dog's ball out of the Foss this morning, it's still stingy, and I got wet socks. Sitar players have such easy lives.

Wazzing in your van's radiator must be a low.

I really liked her cover of Queen's Play The Game - just voice and guitar but really nice.

I was just a passenger for most of what happened in that band. Like the time we got banned from the Denny's chain of restaurants, the time we sank our friend's fishing boat, and the time we lost a summer-long residency because our tenor player tore a steel door off an ice machine and beat the DJ's bike to death with it. Etc. It's funny to think I was only in that band for about a year. The next band I joined had lost their previous bassist to a sad accident with a bottle of nitrous oxide, and twice I got stranded at parties when they all left and I couldn't get home because I didn't know where I lived. Each time I had a friendly soul drive me around the following day until I saw a street I recognised and could figure out where my house was. Difficult to explain but funny that it happened twice.

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1333540221' post='1603137'] Were there guys with Banjo's Was it a Deliverance van [/quote] OK so we rented this van, as I said from 'Rent-A-Wreck', and it didn't disappoint. Heater didn't work, fuel gauge didn't work, stereo didn't work, bodywork covered in dings, but it drove and it was cheap so we took it, and it was the butt of many jokes for the whole weekend. We were staying at our singer and guitarist's grandma's house up a mountain near Shamokin Dam, PA. Their grandpa had serious dementia and would basically howl all day and his wife would howl back 'Almond!' - his name was Almond! - 'Almond! Shut up already!'. So it was a pretty weird weekend anyway. But they had a massive garage to cater for a collection of old '50s Chrsylers and it was ideal for rehearsals. It was January and it was snowy and very cold. Anyway, the last night we decided to drive out to the nearest town for some drinking, so we took the van to Herndon and visited the Herndon House, wherein the owner recognised my accent and insisted I sat with him at the bar sampling every beer he had while the rest of the band joined in the karaoke with the rest of the local rednecks. As the bar was closing we got a couple of six packs to go, and a couple of takeaway pizzas (the place also did pizza) and got in the van, all in quite a silly mood, and quite drunk. The drive home was very silly - our singer was driving and he was a real hoon, chasing rabbits through ploughed fields, braking and reversing to try to take a second swing at a skunk he'd missed (missed it again) and knocking down road signs as he blundered along these mountain roads - just to see if Rent-A-Wreck would even notice the additional damage he'd done to their van. Of course eventually he came across a road sign that was a little too far off the road, and from the driver's seat he couldn't see what a steep slope it was, whereas from the passenger seat I could. He drove off the road, the van lurched, he cut the wheel back the other way and that tipped it - the van rolled. I think we did two or three rolls, ended up in a stream, nobody was wearing seatbelts - the truck ended up on the drivers' side with me in the driving seat and James somewhere in the back with everybody else, the two six packs of beer and the two takeaway pizzas, which had now decorated the entire interior of van. We all managed to get out of the van safely through the windscreen because all of the doors had jammed shut, and the only two injuries were a bump on the head for our trumpet player and a cut thumb for our singer, so the only issue we had was the destroyed van lying in a stream on its side. James called some of his redneck friends who were back at the Herndon House and they came to drive us home, but not before entertaining themselves by shooting at the wreck of the van and throwing beer bottles at it, and one of them had a relative with a recovery truck who was called out to retrieve the van before the cops came across it. So we got away with it, but someone had to stay in PA with the van until the insurance company decided what we should do with it, so me and the singer stayed there for a month with Almond howling morning, noon and night, and nothing to do but inflate tractor inner tubes and ride them down the slopes all day. In the end we took the van back to NJ on a trailer, and could've lost it again in Bay Head harbour when we crossed a bridge that we were about two tons too heavy for, which would've been the icing on the cake but sadly was not to be. We did manage to scrape the roof taking it through a drive-through bank though. And no we didn't get the deposit back.

Oh had another one where we played a uni bar in Gettysburgh, the student union had arranged accommodation for us which we assumed was on campus but was actually at a motel a couple of miles away. By the time we found this out we'd all been drinking and were facing the prospect of driving through this town we didn't know in the wee hours. I was with my girlfriend in her 4x4 and she'd already lost her license the year before when she refused a breath test so she insisted that I drive, despite my not having a license and not being legally resident in the USA. Not proud of it but I did drive. I asked our trumpet player to wait for me to get out of the car park so I could follow him (he was sober), but he forgot, so I ended up driving around Gettysburgh for ages trying to find this place, and in the end out of frustration (constantly ending up in left-turn lanes when I was on the right road) I cut off an unmarked police car rather than turning. Of course he pulled me over and I didn't have a license to show him, and I came up with the idea of faking a New Jersey accent and pretending to be my housemate, whose date of birth I didn't know so that sort of fell through. While I'm talking to the cop on the sidewalk there's a river of foam flowing past us as my girlfriend dumps a 20oz cup full of Bass ale out of the truck, somehow he didn't notice that, I told him the only reason I was driving was because my girlfriend had been drinking. Anyway I think the cop himself was drunk because he was trying to smoke but kept dropping the cigarette he was trying to light while talking to me, and in the end he said we could go so long as my girlfriend was driving!!! Just before we set off a squad car pulled up behind him and he said to the other cop 'Do you want a no-license?', the other cop looked me up and down and said 'Nah!'. So off we went, quite relieved, got to the motel and got very drunk, and ended up sleeping in our cars when we got thrown out of the motel in the early hours when a bunch of people in our party had a fight in the corridor and broke one of the room doors down. :/ I do miss that band.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1333542795' post='1603208']She is very talented and a great singer, performer and songwriter.[/quote] She's pretty good on Dragon's Den as well.

If it's fun then do it, if it isn't then don't. I doubt you could have fun playing music you don't like.

There was one time my band rented a C-20 (Chevy's 'Transit') from Rent-A-Wreck to go do a weekend of rehearsals up in the mountains in the middle of Pennsylvania. Me and the singer got back approx. one month later with the van on a trailer, all the windows busted out, every panel bent and even some bullet holes in it. Long story.

Yeah it's pretty easy to stick something under the strings between songs. Admittedly you might not get perfectly even damping across all the strings but I doubt the old Fenders did either.