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@Dad3353, thanks for the link - I watched the BBC programme about guitar the other night, and they had KT on there and a clip of her on Jools Holland's Later programme - she was amazing. A master class from Ms Tunstall herself - brilliant.

I'm thinking about performing just me on double bass and a singer - instead of trying to tap out a beat or using a drum machine, I thought about using a loop pedal and creating my own beat, maybe with couple of taps on the bass or something like that. Is anyone doing something similar to this? Any recommendations or tips?

Had a long drive over the weekend and got the chance to listen to Jazz FM on the car DAB radio. One track that jumped out was Still Hidden Morning by Misha Mullov-Abbado. Awesome tone and lovely minimal lines. Wondered whether anyone else listened to any of his music, I'm looking up gigs but none near me.

This made me laugh this morning - not sure what would've happened if the person had lived on the upper floors, maybe the driver would have swung it round like an Olympic hammer thrower? https://www.talkbass.com/threads/how-the-german-parcel-service-hermes-delivers-music-gear.1384939/

I do like spalted, and burnt, but maybe not at the same time. Try playing this baby:

I think you can count yourself lucky that you weren't the one not quite up to scratch here. I've done a couple of auditions that still make me cringe when I think of them - Bowie said once that when you feel you're just out of your depth, that's the best place to be, but in my case it wasn't, I was drowning... in full public view. It'd be interesting to hear whether they get any gigs - afterall, money talks, b&llshit walks...

According to Mr Google, there are about 944 genres and 2 million artists on Spotify, so maybe having an 'eclectic' taste in music just means you like 'all kinda stuff'. Amazing and mind-boggling though how much music you can stream with a subscription these days.... I'd probably only need about three or four genres and 20 ish artists myself.

Amazing looking instruments on the fortevio site ! Would be nice to see some YT clips of instruments being played.

I thought Tina & the BBC whoever made it did a great job and put together an entertaining hour of rock-documentary that was all about 'us' - what's not to like? As has been said, you're never gonna please everyone in an hour long show. Even though I've seen the subject covered before, the bit on Herbie Flowers was cool, love watching him talking about music, and Bernard Edwards - wow! And clips of people walking round Manhattan talking about music & bass n bands - sign me up.

Thanks for sharing. I watched Above Us Only Sky over Christmas, a brilliant rock-doc, and of course Klaus features in that. Seems like a lovely guy and a great bassist.

Like I said I'm no expert 😀 I learn something everyday - thanks !

I can remember Henry very well, great player. And Diedre, ditto, and the occasional guest drummers on this programme, such as Ian Paice - class.

F@ck it, when I turn up at the studio I'll have my custom bass & if they don't like it they know what they can do...

Love it! And an awesome bass and bass tone...

@jrixn1 Blimey, how d'ya manage to get so many offers? What's the secret? 😁 I've never been to Ronnie Scott's BTW, my point was that only in some scenarios is an acoustic double bass a must-have. But I'm no expert. I do gig an acoustic upright, mainly in a vintage swing jazz outfit, so as well as the superior tone (hopefully), it fits in better for vintage-type events.

If you're doing Jazz gigs at Ronnie Scott's the crowd will probably expect an acoustic upright, maybe with very expensive guts. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it. What I'd make sure is that whichever one I got, it doesn't spin on its endpin, has a proper upright concave neck, has roughly the same neck length as a normal double-bass, and takes normal double bass strings (stock strings are usually rubbish).

At the weekend I saw a news headline about a shop (not a guitar shop) in Japan where they charge people to go in - I don't blame them either. A lot of people use shops as a free try-the-product out place, then buy it online at a cheaper price, or expect in-store prices to be the same as online. It's tough competing against online-only retailers, so I guess having price on request enables them to be more competitive. What next? Subscription-only shops?

Plugged my SRH500 Fretless into GarageBand last night and recorded some tracks to see what kind of tone I could record. Here're a couple, with the out-of-the-box 60s Combo GarageBand amp and 60s shuffle drums, and the bass and mids turned up, and a bit of drive to try to fatten up the tone on the So What track, but clean on the EveryBody Wants To Be A Cat jazz standard. Still stock strings at the moment, which I'm enjoying, so I'll leave on for the time being then I'll probably try some tape wounds. https://soundcloud.com/james-bllonde/fretless-bass-line-so-what https://soundcloud.com/james-bllonde/everybodywannabeacat I'm just using this as a rehearsal instrument at the moment, so I don't have to drag my double bass along, so I made a couple of adjustments to slightly raise the action to take off some of the mwwahh that it had originally, which sounds great but not exactly what I need right now.

He doesn't care anyway 😉 Great musician. Always thought Aaron Copeland was his dad, but just googled it and he wasn't.

Unless you know every pop and rock song on the planet in many keys, I doubt you'd be expected to know songs. If someone shouts out the chords then I'd expect to be able to improvise something, and it's easier with some forms that have a regular structure, such as blues n jazz. Or I'd get one of those busker books with chords for hundreds of songs.

Hope it goes well, sure it will. When i think of bongos two bands come to mind. Raw Sex, the house band for the UK French and Saunders comedy TV show. And early T-Rex with Mickey Finn. Very funny and very cool :-)

In an old roots/Americana band we used to do a couple of Katie Melua songs, Moonshine, and Life is like a slow train (John Mayall cover), and one of my favourites the Diana Krall cover of Temptation,, and Chocolate Jesus.

Congratulations mate. Keep on truckin!!

Hadn't heard this - awesome bass tone !!!

Danny Thompson on Glory Box cover by John Martyn - killer tone.