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[quote name='Musky' timestamp='1415317266' post='2599267'] Out of curiosity, what was the average price paid by those who purchased? [/quote] It varied a bit, 50p or £1 per track (some tracks are over 7 minutes long, one over 10 minutes, only one is less than 4 minutes), for the album the lowest was £3, the highest £10, most paid £5.

When you come across music that you like, maybe on Bandcamp for instance, if it's 'pay what you want', do you always pay for it ? I do, even if it's only £5 for an album, or a £1 or so for a track (bear in mind I'm a student). I've had an album and separate tracks on Bandcamp for a couple of months now. They were priced at 'pay what you want'. I thought it was better for people (and nice) if people downloaded it, and maybe let friends/family hear it. The first time someone just downloaded it, and didn't pay, I felt actually felt quite a bit aggrieved and cheated, quite odd really . I was looking at the stats on Bandcamp a couple of days ago, and out of the 120 odd downloads, 21 were free. So now I've changed the pricing so it's £1 per track and £5 for the album. Keep in mind that it's all totally original music, I composed, played, recorded, arranged and mixed it. Some came straight away, others didn't. It's 'work' that I've done, is it wrong to expect to be paid ? If it was a 'physical' something that I'd made, then people would naturally expect to pay for it, so why should music be different ? Just wondered what everyone else thought ?

The idea is to baffle you with science.

It's probably a load of nonsense.

I know there's one in Glasgow. I can't find the other one in London, I wrote it down somewhere - they were advertising in Gumtree of all places.

Let me know when you're playing, I'd love to come along.

There are a few venues - [url="http://www.forgevenue.org"]http://www.forgevenue.org[/url] [url="http://www.cafeoto.co.uk"]http://www.cafeoto.co.uk[/url] There's also the Union chapel, they have nights for the more unusual types of music I'm maybe playing there with another bass player. There was another that I found, the name's in my diary though that I don't have with me at the moment. Hope this helps.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1415010022' post='2595489'] I have nothing useful to add, but when I read the subject of the post I thought to myself "depends on how desperate you need to go" Sorry. [/quote] It's 30 pence at railway stations now !

I've been told by people - one being a lady at my local post office - that it's pointless paying extra for Saturday/Sunday delivery, because 9 times out of 10, they don't deliver. Saying that though, Amazon prime's next day delivery is excellent, and they do deliver Sundays. Shame I won't be renewing my prime membership since they almost doubled the price.

Just use chord tones and play variations of them, e.g. 1, 3 , 5 , 7 or 3, 5, 7, 1, or 7, 5, 3, 1 etc put in chromatic passing notes where you feel they're needed.

I'm probably gonna be the odd one out, but definitely no. I only play 6 string basses, and what I listen to now bears absolutely no relation to what I listen to when I was a child, or even 10 years ago.

I think there are very few professional bassists making their living from just playing bass, so questions 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 probably don't apply to a great many people. Filled in most, but the date of birth and post code etc are a bit too personal

I love Steve Lawson's fretless sound. You get a lot of ambient soundscaping, then all of a sudden a beautiful legato fretless melody line.

They even have an annoying advert on TV now. People rule.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1414765100' post='2593095'] Sorry to hear this Ash. I've had similar crap from them to the point where I'll have nothing to do with them (except for very small transactions). Problem is that PayPal is not a proper bank and don't have to abide by the usual banking regulations - so they are a law unto themselves. They (and eBay) are tantamount to criminal organisations in my book and should be investigated by the proper authorities. No help to you though, sorry for the rant! [/quote] I totally agree. I'm on the verge of having my Paypal account limited, whatever that means. Just because I've received over a certain amount in the last year. They want me to send them a copy of my passport, as if that's going to happen I've only phoned them once about something a couple of years ago, I'm sure it was a cleaner who answered my call.

If you pay via a credit or debit card then it goes straight back to the source of the payment, it may not show as credit in your Paypal account. At least that's how it's shown in mine the couple of times I've had refunds from them.

What are you having done to it ? Do they have bolt on necks ? Maybe ship in 2 pieces ?

Thanks, to be honest I haven't listened to any other version at all besides our cover, I didn't want to get influenced in any way how to make it sound.

Anything you want really I like reverb, chorus and delay/echo personally. Checkout some of Steve Lawson's playing for inspiration.

UPS or Fedex, they're what a lot of companies seem to use.

The Beatles always have a soporific effect on me too.

I think the new ones are made in Mexico.

Do they have a forklift truck in stock too ? Might be useful to carry it around