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yeah Fishbone used to rule!!!! All good, keep em coming! peace c

[quote name='Jase' post='171958' date='Apr 8 2008, 12:20 AM']Yeah, Percy's the business Are you thinking of using fretless with Live n Loud Clive?[/quote] no, not sure how well it'd work with maiden etc!! its more for home recording and just experimenting with at the mo. cheers c

i'm guessing he means covering up the mic thing on the noise limiter so that it doesn't go off so readily - a band did that at a local venue near here, covering the limiter in gaffa, foam and allsorts. unfortunatley that was the night the council came to check on volume levels..... oops! peace c

[quote name='Jase' post='171568' date='Apr 7 2008, 04:28 PM']More Percy with Dann Glenn....nice heavy parts [url="http://www.bangtower.com/media.html"]http://www.bangtower.com/media.html[/url][/quote] yeah i likee that! cheers c

haha.. yeah just watched all of the Percy Jones DVD on youtube (not much work done this morning then!) - he's pretty good - thinking about it, i did have some Brand X stuff on tape years ago. +1 for Giblin on the Kate Bush stuff and also the guy from Talk Talk - who were a very good band as for Claypool - went through my Primus phase many moons ago! i do like a bit of quirkiness and Primus, Sauage, Oysterhead, Frog Brigade, BOBB etc all still get listened to from time to time. in fact i may have to revisit some with my fretless head on aunt sally. peace c

i read about this in another paper the other day (meant to post on here about it but forgot!) - apparently yes it does affect pubs and other venues too. Live bands, music, discos, karaoke whatever can now be no louder than 85db or face fines etc etc. All to protect the hearing of the bar staff apparently. If its true and its enforced its another pretty major blow to live music. I'm sure theres others on here with more detailed info. peace c

ok nice one bilbo - lots of names in there i'm aware of, some i've heard, some i haven't and some i'd just completely forgotten about!! I'm very open minded musically so will listen to all kinds of different stuff - Next stop youtube! cheers c

i've been getting into ye olde fretless quite a bit lately both playing wise and listening wise - soooooo..... howzabout recommending me some new listening material for inspiration. i'm well aware of all the usual suspects; Jaco, Mick Karn, Michael Manring, Tony Franklin, Gary Willis etc but would be interested in hearing some recommendations of other fretless players/albums etc. Not so interested in jazzy stuff (I like some, but not a big Jaco fan for instance) and would also be interested in hearing some fretless in a rock scenario (aside from Blue Murder/The Firm/Pearl Jam). Any pointers? cheers c

thats pretty good sir peace c

[quote name='Gamble' post='166277' date='Mar 30 2008, 12:39 PM']Please let me know what you think! No Harm Done and The River (Arch Stanton) were recorded with their last bass player, but they're still in our set.[/quote] which was me!!! peace c

hmmm yeah not really sure on that - its borderline looking like an 80's pointy headstock hair metal type paintjob, but in a good way! peace c

yeah Wyman did apparently defret a bass way way back when the Stones first started out which he then used quite often.... [color="#000080"]STONES TONES "I think it's Japanese," is all Bill Wyman can offer as to the origin of his famous "homemade" fretless. "I was playing in an R&B band in 1961 when I bought it from this bloke our drummer knew. Before that I'd been playing bass on the bottom two strings of a detuned guitar, so I was glad to finally have a 'real' bass. Unfortunately, it was bloody horrible! The body was this great big wide thing. But I'd seen Gibson and Fender basses in pictures of Little Richard's and Fats Domino's bands, so I drew a shape like one of those on the back of my bass and had my next-door neighbor saw it down. Then I beveled the edges, took off all the paint, and put in a new Baldwin pickup. Still, it rattled with every note because the frets were so worn. I figured I'd just pull out all the frets and put in new ones when I could afford some. But when I pulled 'em out, it suddenly sounded really good! [Laughs.] So I never put frets back in, and I think it was the first fretless electric ever. I used it on every Stones album and many of the singles up to 1975. Even without an amp, it sounds wonderful—it's got the sound." [/color] peace c

i've been playing bass for 25+ years and only a few months ago picked up my first ever fretless (Lined Jazz) - basically because i just fancied one and had a bit of spare cash - I play in mainly hard rock bands so won't use it live but at home i noodle about with loads of different styles and the fretless does make for some interesting new ideas although some of my bits i normally play on fretted don't work so well - string bends and tapping/slapping for instance. Heres a tony franklin video i just found - quite good: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVLOJDX-fM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVLOJDX-fM[/url] also check out Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam who used a fretless alot particularly on their earlier stuff peace c

crazy - i think the only use for that would be if you were in a cheap trick tribute band. peace c

hmmm, while admittedly some of the SX basses do look quite nice, to me, they still reek of cheapo bass and probably slightly more so than Squier which at least have a vague connection to fender. i have always been a bit of a gear snob though so perhaps that clouds my judgement when i should be judging on playability etc rather than the headstock logo. Still, I personally wouldn't ever go out live with a sub £200 bass. Like so many things though, its to each his own. peace c

well - having been off work for 4 days with proper flu (not [i]man[/i] flu - proper flu! - fever, cold sweats, shakes etc) and having not eaten more than the odd crumb for the same amount of time i was borderline cancelling our gig on Saturday but of course, not wanting to let anyone down, the show must go on etc etc, I dragged myself out of my deathbed, dosed myself up with Lemsip and Red Bull and went for it. Feeling [i]very[/i] ill still, and more than a little annoyed by the drummer having a [b]massive[/b] go at the bewildered guitarist for not bringing the intro tape (we don't normally use an intro tape at this venue!) - i thought sod it, i'll stay out of it and hopefully as is often the case, once i'm up onstage then i'll sweat the evil germs out of me and it'll all be good. Didn't quite go like that though as after a couple of songs it was pretty obvious that things weren't going to improve and with the heat of the lights etc I started to feel much worse, weak and dizzy. Still struggling on I manage to get through both sets despite the fact that by half way thru set two, the music in my delirous brain was sounding like some old creepy fairground music kind of ebbing and flowing and speeding up and slowing down!!! yoinks! really annoying thing though was despite how dodgy i felt i (think) i played pretty much fine but our widdly guitarist was dropping bum notes all over the shop!!!!! grrrrrr!!! he's been warned so many times lately too!!! gig was videoed so i'll wait to watch that before passing judgement but it did annoy the hell out of me at the time!! peace c

[quote name='dlloyd' post='155245' date='Mar 11 2008, 12:51 PM']Now, KP Discos in Ready Salted were the best reconstituted potato snack ever. I haven't seen them for years.[/quote] you should get yourself down to Morrisons - they always have them on offer, buy one get one free (i say you buy one, you get one free!) - six pack - cheese and onion, salt and vinegar AND ready salted! peace c

if i can make it i'll bring the Yamaha Attitude LTD 1 c

hmmm an interesting thread. On the subject of theory versus creativity: one of the guitarists in my band is technically fantastic. He knows all the theory, loads of weird scales/modes etc etc and practices at least four hours a day (even if that means getting up at 5 in the morning to get a couple of hours in before he starts work!) and can play super fast and super clean. Theres no doubt that he knows what hes doing....... BUT he overcooks things sometimes. We play pretty basic old school rock/metal and he'll often be soloing and throw in these weird and 'clever' scales but they'll sound wrong in the context of the song despite being technically correct. He doesn't understand when we tell him that it sounds wrong though because 'technically' what he's playing IS correct. Its one example where perhaps using his ears instead of his theory and listening to whats going on around him would work better. The other guitarist on the other hand comes from a more bluesy kinda background with much less technical know how and his solos are always much more creative. Personally i do like alot of technical stuff but for me, there does have to be equal parts creativity. Many of these solo bass virtuoso albums etc do seem quite sterile in a way. As for practicing 10 hrs a day, I don't think i could go that far. I used to do 3 or 4 hrs practice when i had the time but these days its perhaps 1 or 2 at most. peace c

[quote name='finnbass' post='153294' date='Mar 7 2008, 06:31 PM']And your point is? That's like saying, 'God influenced God!' I'm thinking about putting up prize money however, for anyone who can stand more than 60 seconds of this: [/quote] ouch! if you skip the first half it does settle down into something listenable....... c

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='152037' date='Mar 5 2008, 09:16 PM']We've got the normal Maplin traffic lights but they flash like mad and there's no switch or control to stop them. Anyone know how to set them to be constantly on please?[/quote] varying layers of gaffa tape over the mic can slow them down a bit peace c

yeah not bad, nothing that makes me go 'ooooooh!' apart from how solid he is but some interesting bits from some choice songs played very well. Interesting beard growth throughout! And as well as clearly having far too many basses, he must also have far too much spare time on his hands! how many videos has he got up there!!! yoinks! peace c

just over on [url="http://www.myspace.com/normanwattroy"]Norman's myspace[/url] - seems theres a solo album on the way! Apparently 'Norman will utilize a few of his lesser known chops that made more than a few hits, but for which he never received a writers credit, and turn em into phat new jams'........... could be good, the man's a legend! ....if somewhat sweaty looking!! peace c

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