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that ishibashi website is a nightmare isn't it!! some funny engrish on there mind you: 'Affordable item that sets goods in main body of guitar' 'Best used guitar & amplifier selected carefully is improved all at once' 'It is affordable goods before it rises' [url="http://www.engrish.com/recent_detail.php?imagename=hang.jpg&category=Engrish%20from%20Other%20Countries&date=2007-09-20"]engrish.com[/url] peace c

not sure as i tend to stick to regular tuning where possible - i did notice this the other day: [url="http://www.warwickbass.com/basses/corvette_taranis.htm"]http://www.warwickbass.com/basses/corvette_taranis.htm[/url] so would seem you're not the only one doing this! if you know your way around the fretboard ok then i would imagine the missing G wouldn't be too much of a problem especially with the material you mention you'll be playing. peace c

always thought this was quite nice: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuIMDVm-lTg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuIMDVm-lTg[/url] peace c

thats a well cool little mini bass thing!!! i want one!! but not for over 2000 euros probably easy to make something similar maybe..... peace c

not sure about other Yamahas but I've got 2 Attitudes (a LTD 1 and a Special) and (particularly the higher spec LTD) they are very nice instruments - well made, good sound and solid as anything. I still like my Fenders too mind you! peace c

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='74885' date='Oct 16 2007, 12:06 AM']If no-one else bids on that I can just about afford it... Yeah, so those suck, I mean, really, a lot.[/quote] ???

hmmm must admit i kinda know where you're coming from - i occasionally have the idea of selling absolutely everything and knocking it all on the head (normally after a string of crappy rehearsals or poor gigs) - i mean whats the point of it all, like you say it doesn't get you anywhere!! plus if i sold all my stuff i could have a fantastic holiday of a lifetime!!! but..... i know i'd miss it if i did! don't go making any rash decisions!!!!! and yeah, if you could drive it would certainly make things easier for you..... peace c

ooooh i know - i spotted that this morning! I don't need another one though do i........ or do i?!!!!! must resist...... r e s i s t.......... [b]RESIST!!!!!!!![/b][i][/i] aaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!! peace c

yeah i've read this. was kinda ok but not particularly 'in depth' and seems to skim over alot of details. could have been alot better in my opinion. peace c

Whatever could he have meant when he said "5 grown men looking so ridiculous" ?! peace c

[quote name='Buzz' post='73047' date='Oct 11 2007, 08:30 PM']No response then? Awwwwww.[/quote] not as yet no! in a way its good but i did have a few choice lines ready for retaliation - bah. peace c

i should also say in his defence that on the very day after his mum died he turned up for rehearsal as usual! erm..... on a lighter note.... What do you call a beautiful woman on the arm of a drummer? . . . . . . . . . . A tattoo! parp! c

to be fair, he has stopped the texting thing since i caught him doing it between songs and now apparently switches his phone off when its time to play. thinking about it though, it wasn't too long ago when our singer was constantly texting at rehearsals (due to woman trouble) and the drummer kept telling me how much it was annoying him!! its tricky - yeah i've known him for absolutely years but he is an odd bloke - he looks like a big scary tattooed biker or something but is really insecure so always have to tread carefully. he is also the most stubborn man on the planet not just with band stuff but with everything and will happily 'cut off his nose to spite his face' rather than try to work things out. he insists that, drum wise at least, all songs must be played 100% as per the original record but myself and the rest of the band always put a bit of our own spin on things. and anyway, even for instance with the maiden stuff we do, nicko plays alot of it differently to how clive burr used to do it on the originals. our drummer says 'oooh its got to be right though because any drummers in the audience will notice' but honestly, what percentage of the audience are drummers? and even the ones that are - how many of them would notice if one drum fill was slightly different to the original? alot of the songs we do are old and have been around so long that there isn't even really a definitive version anyway. i don't know how many of you read the 'hate mail' post i put up but when i told the drummer about it (abbreviated version by text obviously!) he said ' sod that we won't play there again then'. .........so 99% of the audience really enjoyed us and one bitter person didn't so thats reason not to go back? definitely, definitely a confidence thing. its not just been since his mum dying but has been getting worse of late. personally i find music to be the best form of escapism when going through tough times but i guess everyones different. if he was a lesser drummer then yes, he would be gone, but the trouble is good drummers are hard to find round here so we've got to take things easy. cheers c (still bored at work!)

our drummer is starting to bother me! Basically we choose a song to learn and then it comes to rehearsal and we play through it for the first time and its pretty much bang on perfect. But then he'll say - 'nah, can't play that'! ......We're all like - 'but you just did - perfectly!' and he says 'yeah but I wouldn't be comfortable doing it live' and thats the end of it. That song is now out. He will not budge. Thing is, fair enough, some songs may have tricky bits in BUT THEN YOU PRACTICE IT surely?! but he won't - if he can't do it first time, then thats it - it simply can't be done. End of. He has an electronic kit at home, plenty of spare time on his hands and easy access to rehearsal place for setting his kit up and running thru stuff but insists that practicing it won't make any difference. It might be something as little as just one particular fill in the song that causes the whole song to be scrapped. Theres also one or two songs where he's made a very slight mistake live and which he now refuses to play in case he repeats the mistake!...again....practice, surely? and we all make mistakes from time to time. Any new songs we learn have to be rehearsed and rehearsed about a 100 times before he'll even think about playing them live despite the fact they may be fine after just a few rehearsals. Every other band member now has spoken to me individually and said that they feel he is holding us back and it is kinda true. Its got to the point now where when its time to chose songs to learn it is purely just down to him to pick based on whether or not he thinks he can play them ok. Which he can! i can't re-iterate how good a drummer he is. its a confidence thing is all, i'm sure. He doesn't really help set up/pack down after gigs apart from his own stuff, he spends all his time texting his girlfriend which has become a running joke in the band but annoys me. We were all onstage waiting to start a gig once and before he'd count in he had to finish sending a text! and i also caught him texting between songs once! grrrrrr. Thing is, despite what he thinks, he's a very good drummer and would be hard to replace. The whole things made more tricky by the fact that his mum died fairly recently and he's now on anti-depressents and also the fact that I've been friends with him for years. aaaaaaaaargh!!!! sorry about long post...bored at work!! peace c

hmmm interesting post. i think generally the thing (for me at least) that slowed progress back in the day was just life! when you first start playing bass you do it all the time: take your guitar to school, friends house afterwards, sit and noodle while watching tv etc etc but as you get older things like work, girlfriends, kids etc come along meaning less time to spend practising and therefore improving. Its ok for players like Sheehan, Vai, Wooten etc to practice 8 hrs a day because they've not got day jobs to worry about, but I certainly couldn't (and probably wouldn't want to!). I think anything is physically possibly to play though and while we may struggle with certain Wooten licks/techniques or whatever, similarly he might struggle with some of ours. Ok these people are exceptional talents but I'm sure theres equally skilled people on here and elsewhere who just don't get the recognition because they're not signed/touring etc or perhaps are just happy to be bedroom players. Personally, these days I do try to practice much more, but the hard thing is not to just play same old routine chops all the time which i can already do so isn't really advancing anything. Always make a point of trying to come up with something new every time. peace c

haha.... that really is just ridiculous!! c

[quote name='Mrs Tinman' post='72305' date='Oct 10 2007, 06:31 PM']Dear 3V17C That's Sh!t Sincerely Yours Valhods[/quote] LOL! nice one! c

Heres ours (we don't play them [i]all[/i] every gig but mix them up a bit)- we got a bit of a quiet spell gig wise for a few weeks so gonna be working on some new stuff - which'll be nice! Iron Maiden - Losfer Words Iron Maiden - 2 minutes to midnight Iron Maiden - Phantom of the opera Iron Maiden - The trooper Iron Maiden - Wrathchild Iron Maiden - Murders in the Rue Morgue Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast Iron Maiden - Where Eagles Dare Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready Thin Lizzy - Boys are back in Town Thin Lizzy - Massacre Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Thin Lizzy - Killer on the loose Whitesnake - Ready and Willing Whitesnake - Give me all your love tonight Whitesnake - Guilty of Love AC/DC - Sin City AC/DC - Shot down in flames AC/DC - Bad boy boogie Rainbow - Long live rock and roll UFO - Lights out in london UFO - Too hot to handle Saxon - 747 Strangers in the night Saxon - Power and the glory Saxon - Wheels of steel Ozzy Osbourne - Mr Crowley Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the dark Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train Deep Purple - Highway Star Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Deep Purple - Speed King Phil Lynott/Gary Moore - Out in the fields Motorhead - Bomber Judas Priest - Breaking the law MSG- Are you ready to rock peace c

we got one of these [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_backdrop_bundle.htm"]Thomann Backdrop[/url] with the stands and everything. Pretty good. The stands have quite a big footprint but can be used for sticking some extra lights on. For smaller places you can of course just hang the actual cloth bit up minus the stands. Its fire retardant too which some places will insist upon and want to see evidence of. Painted it myself (being the artistic type!) - our logo at the time was in a stencil font anyway so made some stencils up on PC, stuck em on some card, cut 'em out and used cheapo Halfords white spray paint. Took a few coats as it soaked in a bit but looks pretty good. Paint did bleed/feather slightly in places but because of our stencil typeface it looks fine - if you were doing a more precise/fancy logo you might want to do things differently. peace c

for starters... NV43345 by Billy Sheehan (Talas era) Something off Stu Hamm's first album - maybe 'flow my tears' (but NOT that country thing!!) something by Victor Wooten (and maybe something by Jaco although I have to confess to not being his greatest fan!) and to show something completely different and how a simple essentially one note bass line can make a song I would also add '20th Century' by Brad from the album Shame. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9GL7PE03pg"]Video Here[/url] [color="#708090"](in fact - just listening to it now for the first time in ages....what a damn fine song it really is!!)[/color] I'm sure I'll think of more! peace c

i [i]had[/i] to reply... [color="#4B0082"]hi again! Cage not rattled at all. You took the trouble to email - I took the trouble to respond is all. ('personal insults' as you call them were meant to be light hearted jibes to avoid anything getting nasty - believe me I [i]can[/i] do personal insults but choose not too as I don't even know you!) I would however question the merits of a person like yourself who sets out to antagonize somebody they don't even know ('cage well and truly rattled - job done then'. Regardless of what you may think and your apparent musical snobbery (a jazz man eh?!) I personally am quite content with my level of ability on my chosen instrument and with over 25 years of playing, recording and touring nationally and in Europe I do kind of think I know what I'm doing. Despite these days playing in a common or garden cheesy rock band (which is apparently some lower form of life) I have a background in, and listen to, many different styles of music and I have the techniques and the chops to back it up. You'd be surprised what some of the others in the band can do too. The songs we play may not be the most technical compositions in the world and for me as the bassist the simple root note basslines aren't particularly demanding but that is how the songs were originally written so that is how we play them. We're a covers band after all! Next time we play, come and say hello! Bring your guitar if you want and you are by all means welcome to show us what you can do. I really would be interested to hear a clearly superior musician like yourself first hand. Alternatively, point me to one of your gigs/recordings/website whatever. Either way we play instruments and gig regularly - in my book that makes us musicians. At the end of the day we enjoy what we do and (apart from the odd person like yourself!) most other people seem to enjoy it too which is why 9 times out of 10 whenever we play somewhere for the first time we're repeatedly booked back. It may not be your cup of tea, as I'm sure what you listen to isn't mine but to each his own Peace[/color]

does that [i]need[/i] to be tapped? c

and i've got a reply back from him! to whit: [color="#4B0082"] Whooooooooooo.........!!!! Cage well and truly rattled I see... Job done then. However, I see no reason for you to resort to "personal insults"... Now that really does show up your attitude. That is crass. However, do keep up the "we're musicians" pretence, I reluctantly sort of admire it....... you know, the "more volume = more talent" argument. It becomes you. Happy to be "in the minority" as you put it. Bye, over and out..... p.s. Spandex and flying V's. Now there's a thought for you...!!! p.p.s. Me...country...? Not likely. I have to confess that G13th #9 chords are where I'm at matey..!! [/color] seems he is the type who sets out to rattle peoples cages so obviously not a particularly nice person especially as he doesn't even know us. the 'personal insults' he refers to i would call humorous jibes to try to keep things civil WITHOUT getting personal (i guess the bit about his mum/sister). i AM going to reply to him but then that will be that - i'm not getting into a long winded thing with him because he's really not worth it - i do like to have my say however. stay tuned! peace c