EliasMooseblaster

Hasn't this style been done before? I believe I know somebody who owns an Ibanez guitar with a similar design, but in blood-red on a white background. Designed, one might argue, to resemble spattered blood.

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1475825199' post='3148944'] There is still time!! [/quote] [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1475834107' post='3149049'] Ha ha! I'd be lying if I hadn't thought that myself [/quote] Alright, I'll get the ball rolling: [i]BUT IS THIS PETITION ANY GOOD FOR METAL?[/i] PS signed!

[quote name='Indy' timestamp='1475824623' post='3148941'] Loved Andy Rourke and his sound. Think I remember him saying he liked to do bass lines as a song within a song. Love the bass line in Barbarism begins at home. Jonny Marr said that the queen is dead album wouldn't have been possible without the bassists contribution. [/quote] I'd be inclined to agree Marr, some of the bass parts on that album are excellent! Any idea what bass(es) he was playing on those sessions? His tone on [i]Frankly Mr Shankly [/i]and [i]Cemetery Gates[/i] is wonderful.

Time for a new one: here's something I knocked out over the weekend [media]http://youtu.be/YgIaAwlfx4c[/media]

Bumpity-bump... [attachment=229036:CWeventBanner2.jpg]

Oh dear. "Generic" really is the word, isn't it? If they're reading this thread* then might I suggest they either go for something radically different, or reissue the SG-Z bass? The main complaint about T-birds seemed to be upper-fret access, and the (secondary) main complaint about SG basses was the great big mudbucker right under the neck; combining the SG's upper-fret access with a T-bird pickup arrangement seemed to be a good solution to me. *they're almost certainly not

I probably owe a debt of gratitude to my sister, and to a certain amount of serendipity. The Mooseblaster family have not, historically, been musical. On my mother's side, Grandpa Molestrangler played the guitar and was briefly a member of some sort of band. Sadly he passed away before I was born, though his acoustic guitar is still in the family, and is utterly terrible. On my father's side, one of his siblings briefly played the trumpet. I can't remember which of my grandmothers had a few piano lessons before the teacher told her mother, "I think it would be better for your wallet and my sanity if [name] didn't have any more lessons." That said, both my parents always enjoyed listening to music, so when my sister expressed an interest in learning the piano, they expressed a great deal of vicarious enthusiasm, and presumably hoped that she would get the musical education they weren't able to have when they were her age. After the first couple of months, she had to be badgered to practice (like most young children) but did, to be fair, make it all the way through the grades. It probably didn't help having a teacher who didn't appreciate that, whilst the work of JS Bach is technically fascinating to somebody who has spent their entire adult life teaching piano technique and music theory, it is terrifically boring to most children. Of course these things don't happen in isolation - after the piano appeared at home, I began to noodle around on it cluelessly until my folks found a teacher for me as well. Fortunately for me, I ended up with a jazz enthusiast, who encouraged me to listen to [i]Kind of Blue [/i]and taught me how to improvise. I think it's fair to say I enjoyed my piano lessons more than my sister enjoyed hers; I still wonder, however whether I would have taken this first step if she hadn't instigated the piano coming into the house in the first place!

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1475097766' post='3143116'] Did you move it on because the cat sprayed it? [/quote] Let's just say I'm glad Wunjo's only did a visual inspection and not a sniff test...

Off to see Joanne Shaw Taylor this very evening. Got a tip-off from a friend that she's doing an album launch at the HMV on Oxford Street. (One of those "the gig is free entry, as long as you buy a copy of the album from us" arrangements - but I figured if I was going to buy the album anyway then I may as well get the gig and an autograph out of it as well.)

Does it count if I took said "selfie" using a webcam rather than a mobile phone? [attachment=228840:felineVsFretless.jpg] (And does it still count if I know longer own the featured bass?)

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1474927258' post='3141638'] The noodle bar has struggled of late for entries so it would be great to get another entry in [/quote] Happy to oblige: https://soundcloud.com/cherrywhitemusic/funky-appendage/s-RxpFB

[quote name='Kevin Glasgow' timestamp='1473347615' post='3129393'] Hi folks, here's another solo video. This time it's John Coltrane's minor blues Equinox. Hope you enjoy it! ... Cheers, Kev [/quote] Cracking stuff, Kev! I used to love playing this song with my old jazz band - though I was certainly never doing anything that impressive with the bass part!

[attachment=228725:onstageProud.jpg] (Excuse the slightly narcissistic pic, it was the best one I had to hand!) This bitsa was cobbled together when I spotted a mahogany body going for a reasonable price on fleabay and thought, "ooh, that looks nice." It gathered dust for a long time until I had enough disposable to buy the other components. I got a luthier friend to widen the neck pocket, and spent most of the project trying to combat the fact that the body was almost certainly intended for a short-scale bass! French-polishing it was quite relaxing though. (Full build diary at https://thecrowfrombelow.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/the-birth-of-aradia-part-i/ ) And does this one count? [attachment=228726:brenda.jpg] "Brenda" was originally built from a Brandoni Guitars kit, but underwent a refurbishment a couple of years ago. The main focus was to redo the French-polished finish, but I decided to treat her to a nicer scratchplate, some new pots and a fancy Fender '62 RI pickup.

You can do a surprising amount of Creedence Clearwater Revival with just one guitar. You may have to make the bassline a little busier during guitar solos, but otherwise most audiences tend not to notice the absence of a second guitar part.

I call plagiarism - it looks suspiciously like my Frankenbass with an extra pickup (below centre)! [attachment=228724:bass_trio.jpg]

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1474888127' post='3141220'] I've never encountered a hostile stage invader (yet) but we had a guy get up on on to our little foot high 'stage' at a recent pub gig who started to try to talk to our frontman mid song. My initial thought was that he must be drunk and was going to try and grab the mic. No, he was totally sober and was in fact try to ask if he could book us to play at a party. He obviously didn't want to wait until the break. [/quote] This, much like Dave's story above about a guy wanting to buy the band a round of drinks, are the most baffling ones. I've encountered heavily refreshed gentlemen who've wanted to get at the mic (and in my younger and angrier days I did shove at least one such punter off the stage into a crowd who were a bit fed up with his antics and told him to give it a rest), but why would you try and talk to a band member mid-song? If you saw someone was on the phone you wouldn't walk up and just talk at them, so why would you approach a band member when they're clearly in the middle of something and the stage volume is going to make it difficult for you to be heard? Mighty strange.

You'd think for three grand they could have at least come up with a slightly less godawful headstock! I didn't mind the look of the semi-hollow fretless which appears to have been made by the same people ([url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ATLANSIA-VICTORIA-ARC-FL-Fretless-Bass-Free-Shipping/222237718389?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D202e0ccbcc5f44658446b103171a9602%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D222224221003"]this one[/url]), though similarly I don't know whether I'd stump up four grand for it...

I know it's not the guitar's tone [i]per se, [/i]but several guitarists I know have argued that thicker necks give better sustain - supposedly Paul Gilbert's most recent signature model has quite a deep neck profile for this very reason. None of them have been able to provide a physical explanation for this (ofr course), and unfortunately, among my basses no two are sufficiently similar for me to conduct any meaningful investigation, so I'll have to put myself in the "Don't Know" camp for now.

They're probably best described as "an acquired taste." I have acquired said taste, but I can appreciate they're not for everybody. Tonally, they're good for classic rock and blues (and, perhaps surprisingly, older sub-genres of jazz such as swing and bop) but they're pretty lousy for funk. I don't really play slap, but if I did I probably wouldn't use my Thunderbird for it. They certainly suit the taller lady or gentleman, given the way both the 'bird and my Epi EB-3/SG sit on a strap, but I have been blessed with long arms so this hasn't been an issue. Yes, the neck dive is a bit ridiculous on the SG, but the way my right arm sits counteracts this quite effectively. I'd argue the 'bird isn't as badly balanced as some have suggested, though I don't know whether the Hipshot bridge on mine is adding significantly more weight at the back than the original bridge (which, I agree, is a bit of a silly design!) For me, the greatest attraction is how articulate they are in the upper registers. The dusty end sings in a way that I just haven't found with many other basses - listen to [i]The Real Me [/i]by The Who for an example of the kind of sound that I'm referring to, and which sparked my initial interest in Gibson-style basses. It's probably also fortunate coincidence that their typical tone sits quite comfortably into my band's sound (thick Les Paul guitar sound, strong female vocal, chuffing loud drummer).

[quote name='guildb30179' timestamp='1473370556' post='3129641'] Ahem, I have to mention the same joke for bassists, "How do you know when there's a bassist at the door? He's late and he's got the wrong key" [/quote] In a slightly crueller vein: Q What does a bass player use for contraception? A His personality! (boom boom)

[quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1473349320' post='3129410'] [b]Often 1 or 2 at a time for some bizarre reason.[/b] [/quote] Presumably they're leftovers from a certain chap who shall not be named but converts 7-string guitars to 6-strings for "players with bigger hands"...

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1473325130' post='3129026'] Aha! That is quite telling. £35 for that pickup is a damn bargain. They do a really nice, authentic-sounding Precision tone - some will question the balance etc but for £35 it wipes out a few competitors at double the price imo. [/quote] If it's any reassurance, I put a Tonerider Jazz pickup in one of my own projects and was amazed by how good it sounded for just thirty bob!

[quote name='HazBeen' timestamp='1473171009' post='3127631'] Who's this Rick you keep going on about? Loud, rowdy, punk a little dirty.... Rick Mayall? [/quote] Honestly, you'd think [i]Devil Woman [/i]had never been written!

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[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1473161942' post='3127493'] Certainly. However, people come to see a band, not necessarily to listen to a band. [/quote] Absolutely - at the risk of being a little [i]too[/i] reductionist about it: why book a covers band when you could just let punter cue the music they want to hear on the jukebox all night? Simple answer is that a covers band worth their salt will create an atmosphere that piped music demonstrably can't. Even with an original artist playing something incredibly twiddly and technical, there will be some innate fascination in watching them execute these feats of noodly technicality, and so if you have to choose between two such groups, then the group who can apply a little more showmanship to their technoodlesome execution is more likely to be the one that gets your ticket money. (Though conversely, I often wonder if the one thing worse than a shy band is a band that's too arrogant and just gets on the crowd's nerves. Is a hostile atmosphere worse than no atmosphere?)