EliasMooseblaster

A couple of gigs to catch up on...firstly a shot from The Royal Park in Leeds (8th May): [attachment=192200:liveRoyalPark.jpg] This one was taken by Jessie Leong ([url="http://www.jessieleong.com/"]http://www.jessieleong.com/[/url]) a professional photographer who's started working with bands more recently, and was absolutely excellent to work with!

Has nobody taken them to one side and quietly told them that VE Day was last week?

Just a quick bump as this one's tomorrow night - I'll probably be loitering around the Spice from around 6.30 in case anyone fancies a pint before the gig starts!

[quote name='Heket' timestamp='1431509620' post='2771973'] No one else use volume control to control the level of distortion? I only play at home but that's what I use the volume on my SUB for, it being super hot and keen to distort. Or is that just a left over relic from my heady metal guitar days? [/quote] Me too! [quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1431358011' post='2770422'] Onboard volume generally on full - the only exception, normally, is when I'm using the Tube Screamer, as it does respond very nicely to changes in input level. The Screamer generally only gets used when I'm soloing, however, so I'll be on '10' for the majority of a set. [/quote] As I say, it's generally just for when I'm soloing, but the TS-9B does respond really nicely to changes in input volume, especially if it's run out into a tube amp.

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1431522183' post='2772176'] I really liked the Grey Horse pub, was one of the few 'pubs' left in Kingston. The main 'support' for the bands as far as I know was that they could play for free and keep all the takings if they decided to charge. Anyway, thanks to this thread I have Sophie Alloway coming to give my daughter a lesson tomorrow eve. I have lots of other contacts too, female and male, who I may still contact so a massive THANK YOU to everyone who has been in touch. [/quote] I did a dep gig with her once, years ago. Doubt she'd remember me, but I can assure you she's a superb drummer!

It would be nice if it were to carry on as a venue - though most of the rumours I hear contain the horrifying word "gastropub." Seems all the refugees from the Horse are drifting over to the Cavern in Raynes Park - went there myself last Sunday for the first time, not a bad little place!

I've found out that I can actually get to this relatively easily, so put me down as a tentative "yes" for the time being! I can bring a Hagstrom 8-string if anybody's interested in trying one...?

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1431382694' post='2770817'] Ditto- a friend of mine and world class drummer is in Kingston, just a bloke.... (Throughly top bloke too) [/quote] [quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1431367860' post='2770597'] I know a great drum tutor in New Malden. Do they really have to be a she? [/quote] If you chaps wouldn't mind sharing these gentlemen's details with me as well, my other half could be in the market for a new drum teacher fairly soon!

Any basschatters twiddling their thumbs this Friday could do a lot worse than this night of music at the Spice of Life, just off Charing Cross Road: http://substancegigs.com/showdetails.php?sid=487&vid=&pa=1 Featuring [b]Dr Lockhart's Midnight Soul Train (http://www.midnightsoultrain.com/)[/b] [b]Various Guises (https://www.facebook.com/variousguises)[/b] [b]Cherry White (https://soundcloud.com/cherrywhitemusic)[/b] [b]Dancehall Days (https://www.facebook.com/dancehalldayspdx)[/b] All for the eminently reasonable sum of just £6 - the Spice is on Moor Street, just behind the Cambridge Theatre, and proceedings kick off around 7.

Onboard volume generally on full - the only exception, normally, is when I'm using the Tube Screamer, as it does respond very nicely to changes in input level. The Screamer generally only gets used when I'm soloing, however, so I'll be on '10' for the majority of a set. I do, however, find myself rolling off the tone a fair bit, even on the Gibson-type basses. It may just be that our music suits a slightly darker bass sound.

Just a quick update to say the lineup has been updated (it's not Cherry White, Lost Trends, Wildlife and Johnny B. ), we finally have the official poster for the event and, perhaps most importantly: IT'S TONIGHT! [attachment=191499:RoyalPark.jpg]

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1430999314' post='2766704'] [b]I haven't heard any of their stuff. [/b]Guess I'm just too old, but Scouting for girls really irritates me. It sounds too jimmy saville/ Rolf Harris . Repulsive . Are there any band names you hate , regardless of whether you like them or not? [/quote] You are a very fortunate man. Trust me, if you think the band name's bad, the music is utterly contemptible.

I'll also freely put my hand up as another one who doesn't "get" rap/hip-hop, though it doesn't get up my nose in the same way it used to. To be honest, most things don't get up my nose to the same extent they used to. There's still a number of very popular artists whose music I can't stand (The Beatles and David Bowie being two more controversial examples) but they don't inspire the same burning hatred that I reserve for, e.g., certain politicians! Whilst this suggests I have, generally, mellowed, there are still a few artists and songs who/which bring to the "hurl the radio out the window" level of dislike. Par exemple: Scouting for Girls Snow Patrol [i]Teenage Kicks [/i]by The Undertones I also have it in for The Proclaimers, though it's not necessarily their fault: during a car journey back down south from the Peak District, the first CD the driver put on was [i]Sunshine on Leith: the best of the Proclaimers[/i]. 20-odd songs, and bugger me, every one of them was awful. I can't remember the last time I've been quite so glad to hear someone say, "oh, I think that's the end of that disc..."

I'm sure there are plenty of people who will be able to give you a more informed and detailed response than I can, but a decent mastering job will add that certain "fairy dust" element that can often make your record sound like a "proper" album rather than a demo. Which is odd, given that it mainly seems to involve compressing and EQ'ing certain frequency bands and making sure the overall level doesn't change too much between tracks. They may also ask whether you'd like your record to keep some dynamic range, or whether you'd prefer that it was compressed to buggery to compete in the ongoing "loudness war." I'd be inclined to send your mixed tracks away to somebody else for mastering - mainly because most of the recording engineers we've worked with have recommended the same! I can't remember how many of them offered it as an additional service, but at least one of them stated quite emphatically that he preferred to master tracks he hadn't mixed himself.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1430495190' post='2762070'] Rare? Huh! It don't mean a t'ing if it ain't got dat "Vintage". Rare & vintage, rare & vintage, go together like a ... like a ... like something that rhymes with "vintage". [/quote] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1430495523' post='2762078'] Squinted? Appendage? Inches? [/quote] Rare and vintage, rare and vintage, falling off you like diseased appendage?

*emerges from shed* [Dubious West Count Accent] This week, I have been mostly listening to [i]Soused[/i] by Scott Walker and Sunn O))) [/DWCA] *returns to shed* It's a delightfully unsettling piece of music, and delightfully the most...erm...challenging album I found last year. Has anybody else been enjoying this particular dark edifice? Is anyone else hoping for a follow-up album? And what the hell should I put on to follow that?

[quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1430482337' post='2761842'] Aren't people just seeding the auction title with words that people search for ? A bit like when you see 'not Ampeg, not Trace Elliot, etc ' in the title for a bass amp auction to draw people in who have searched for those makes ? It's sneaky ! [/quote] It's a stroke of marketing genius, quite frankly. I have a bit of furniture to shift; I might seed the listing with "Not a teapot, nor fetish gear, nor a genuine lock of Herman Goerring's hair, nor a biscuit tin full of elephant droppings, nor a live badger in a Pringles tube." The possibilities for reaching out to niche demographics are almost limitless.

Presumably "rare" within the boundaries of his own home...

You might struggle to get one new under £500 (could you stretch to £600?), but the Schecter Diamond Series includes some excellent takes on the Precision design. I will probably continue to bang on about how much I love my Model T right up until the day I finally own a MIA Fender: https://thecrowfrombelow.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/gear-review-2-schecter-model-t/

I'm sure I wasn't the only one who clicked this link expecting to see a pair of earplugs!

[quote name='throwoff' timestamp='1430300566' post='2759924'] That is lovely. WANT. [/quote] +1. Is this possibly an attempt to compete with the new line of Jazz-type basses from Sire? Either, way, it's a beauty. If my own Schecter is anything to go by, this will be an excellent instrument!

"[color=#333333]and the pic of god from life of brian film on the back"[/color] [size=4][color=#333333]For crying out loud, man, that image is from [/color][i]The Holy Grail![/i][/size] [size=4]And that's before I get started on what he's done to the instrument...Jesus wept, I've lusted after one of those since they came out, and this lunatic actually allowed Raygun near it? [/size]

Hi all, I know we have a fair few BCers around West Yorkshire way - can I interest any of you in Cherry White's first appearance in Leeds? We'll be playing at the Royal Park, and are going out on a limb slightly, having never played this far north before! (That, and our gig in Derby the following night has just been cancelled, which will make the journey back a bit more of a pain...) Tickets are available from http://www.leedsmayhem.co.uk/buy-tickets/4588028868 and we're supporting Lost Trends and Indianic - I shall pop up a few more helpful links when I'm not constrained by work internet! Cheers, EMB

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1430126945' post='2758107'] [url="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/22/jay-zs-tidal-app-falls-out-of-iphone-top-700-chart"]http://www.theguardi...e-top-700-chart[/url] [/quote] "Meanwhile, Kanye West, another Tidal backer, has reassured people that the service is not part of the shadowy world-governing organisation known as the Illuminati. Which certainly clears things up. " Bravo, Kanye. Because, of course, that's exactly what we were all thinking...

Have you noticed that any pieces written in a harmonic minor scale usually (always?) use the key signature of the natural minor (Aeolian mode), and simply sharpen the 7th whenever it crops up on the stave? My guess would be, if you're in a mode of A harmonic minor, you'd use the natural/Aeolian key signature and just sharpen what is now the 3rd when you encounter it. Which will probably be more frequent than the 7th, admittedly, but I guess that's the price we pay for dabbling in strange scales and modes!