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Iron Maiden - taught me how to play fast, aggressive baselines, much in the same manner as bassbiscuits above -Live After Death was the album I spent my early days of bass on. Rush - developed my more melodic playing, and introduced me to the more proggy and musically interesting side of things. Dream Theater - I spent a massive amount of time in the 90's and 2000's listening to these guys. Those are probably the most defining bands of my life and playing so far... I've been listening to a lot of Animals As Leaders ( yeah... I know... no bass) and Tatran recently...

Rush - The Enemy Within David Lee Roth -Yankee Rose Scorpions - Make It Real

Holy cow!

I left one band I set up after 18 months over 20 years ago. We were all in our early 20's playing original grunge-style rock. It started off as being great fun - we wrote loads of stuff really quickly and got loads of gigs and positive feedback. The rot started setting in as soon as the singer and drummer started making noises about 'making it'. We were in Cornwall playing a style of music that was a couple of years too late to be current. Yeah, really going to happen... Anyway, those two developed prima donna-ish attitudes, the singer started taking way too many drugs, the drummer retreated into self-indulgent angst, so I thought sod this, left, did an access course, then went to university. They carried on with another bassist, didn't write much more stuff and folded a year later. No regrets.

Blimey... didn't expect that! Some pipes... 😊

Cool gig at a tiny little bar called Hillbilly's in Falmouth. First outing for the Mayones BE4 I got in a p/x with one of the guys on here on B.C. Went very well!

As we say in Cornwall... that fretboard is grooted!

A few years ago Scorpions blew Judas Priest out of the water at Plymouth Pavilions. Scorps were running around like teenagers and played with bags of energy, Judas Priest played like a bunch of old men who weren't really interested.

If I didn't live in a second floor flat, I was 25 years younger, and I didn't have an ongoing lower back issue, then it would be Ampeg valve amp all the way. However, practicality wins out... I do love my Genz/Barefaced set up though.... it packs what I need. Idealism is beyond my circumstances these days! 🙂

No bass, but bloody hell!!.... 😲

I'm too scared to look!

Seems like an odd choice for any set...

You could be right... it was many years and many joints ago!!

I rented a room off Dixie Lee, the drummer, for a couple of years. Used to spend a lot of time playing V Rally and Goldeneye with him. Got to jam with him and Kenny Driscoll, the second Lone Star singer a few times.

I'd never heard this! Thanks for the heads-up!! 😎

Don't blame you. I've walked from a couple of bands for the same reason. It would help if people like him put their cards on the table right from the outset. 'Hired gun required' is a lot different to 'Anyone want to write some tunes?' I've spent a lot of time in the past learning someone's stuff on the understanding that there would be some jamming and collaboration in the future, only to find that they wanted a hired band. Onwards and upwards!

Remind him that he is the sax player, and you are the bass player. He does his job, you do yours.

Holy cow!..... 😯🤩

Thanks Kev! Yeah, a few years ago I played in a band with a guy who ran some fantastic sounds from a laptop and a couple of expensive midi foot pedals, but unfortunately he had endless problems getting the set-up to work in a gig situation. Sounds went missing, effects wouldn't work, and it became farcical at times... so... I'm hoping to go down the 'straight-in' road, like yourself, to avoid the vagaries of having a laptop involved. Cheers!

Ooh.... what set up do you have for midi pedals/synth, if you don't mind me asking? I want to dip my toes into that area of playing... I'm interested in the Mcmillen 12 step...

I've been reading about how artificial intelligence has been used to create music. Thought I'd set up a thread for any discoveries you might have found that were created by AI. I've listened to a few bits and pieces - quite impressive, though this is new to me... Plus... if anyone's got any thoughts on AI music generally... where it might be headed? What it might imply for human composers etc?...

HAHAHA!! I'm so going to use that one at work!! 🤣

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