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There’s a masterclass available on BBC iPlayer from a couple of years ago. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07r2w7g

Which is I’m guessing more than a pair of black jeans and a shirt of some description?

Who said rock n roll was dead?

There’s a TV programme on of a morning that investigates this kind of thing. Maybe they’d investigate this if enough people contact whoever makes it. Who knows, if might in turn push the police to do more?

The last four or five years - pre-pandemic - I’ve always travelled by train to gigs. I just had coffee, I’d sometimes take sandwiches. I used to do a lot of dep gigs, they were all over the country. I think the furthest I went south was Plymouth, the furthest north was Whitby. Then I used to take a flask and sandwiches, there was invariably nowhere open that time of night. I am - if you haven’t guess - a cheapskate 😆.

70s - Alembic 80s - Steinberger 90s - Warwick 00s - Modulus 10s - 20s - Dingwall I’ll have to think about the other years.

I had a car body shop spray one for me ten or so years ago. He did a great job for less than £100. I supplied the paint though.

Darkglass Harmonic Booster, there’s erm….one for sale in the ads section. One very careful owner.

A cover band covering its own material.

Any kind of permanent sticker is fine until you decide you really don’t like it, and try to remove it. Why not have it resprayed to a colour you do like?

It would surely depend entirely on who and where they are, and what they do? For many genres of music, and artists it’s the music itself that’s important to the audience. I’ve played in laptop ensembles and performed solo bass stuff, the audience don’t expect you to be entertaining, they’re there to experience the music. The show is an experience for them sonically and there’s often a visual element with film/video or software generated image.

I guess this is related to a question posed by someone I know on Facebook recently: ‘do you consider yourself an artist or an entertainer?’ I started off by playing original music with various bands, I then began playing in covers bands, and left original music behind. I did stints on cruise ships, and played in theatre pit bands. It was during my music degree course - that I’d enrolled on to get better at playing covers - that I realised I much preferred creating original music. Apart from the occasional jazz gig, it’s all I do now. I’ve moved into teaching music, I’m currently training to be a lecturer in music at BCU. I simply get far more pleasure and a greater sense of achievement from creating something original than I ever did playing sex on fire at Rob and Julie’s wedding reception. The only thing I would like to do more of from my past life, is musical theatre, I really did enjoy that. We’re all different though, as long as you derive pleasure from your musical pursuits, that’s all that matters.

I prefer creating to reproducing.

I noticed yesterday that they’ve added a tuner to it too with the recent software update.

There was research carried out by Christopher Raeburn in 2003 that suggested it. They were looking primarily at music students. I think the think the boredom aspect maybe applies more to those who’ve made it?

‘To rise above the nerves, distractions, and stressful circumstances of a performance, to feel as though nothing can get to you, and when the moment of truth arrives, play the way you know you can. To be, in a word, bulletproof.’ Noa Kageyama, Violinist, Performance Psychologist, The Bulletproof Musician

Depends on your knowledge, but I look at the structure of the song: intro, verse, chorus etc. I then work out what’s going on harmonically. I want to know what key the song is in, and I want to know what the chords are, the bass line will pretty much be built from the chords. Most pop and rock songs are built following recognisable chord progressions. Something bluesy will probably be a I/IV/V. From that I know what the roots are, and can hear what the other notes are, they’re usually diatonic (from the chords/scales), with perhaps the odd passing note. If I know the chords I can busk if I forget the actual line. As with anything else, it’s just practice.

Does anyone know of one please?

These are nice basses. Congratulations on your new instrument.

I believe airplane holds are heated and pressurised nowadays. It helps reduce stresses on the metal.

I’ve gigged using a very cheap - sub £100 - bass borrowed from a friend. My custom WT was having some work done to it, a friend asked me to dep for his jazz band. I spent an hour or so setting it up, filed the bridge saddles, and changed the strings. It was perfectly playable.