Woodinblack

It arrived today. I got home 20 minutes ago, I opened the parcel, I tried to read the huge manual, I tried to register the US only pedal, I plugged it in (it has a battery, I found that impressive). I twiddled some knobs - that is about it. OMFG. Tonight I shall play. Tomorrow I might even gig it, why the hell not! Will have to find an online manual to see what the send and return do - the paper manual is too small. It tracks down to the B on a bass with tapewounds without a glitch. IMG_5674.mov

Yeh, I tried that back when I was calling my collection 9 (excluding the ones I didn't count). It doesn't work, turns out she can count

I'm guessing this is a jazz thing or something as my answer would be 'never'. TBH, I have never been with a singer who knew what a key was, let alone that it had a flat or heaven forbid, a double flat! And my other thought would be if you are playing something in e♭ and they want it in d♭♭ can't you just move it down 3 frets or across 1 string and up 2, or a combination thereof or am I missing something obvious ? This is what I have always done.

If it is a 705 then it is a 2+3

Well, my wife was but they didn't deliver. Very irritating, and more irritating because I wouldn't have missed it if they hadn't said it was coming!

I had chromes on mine but didn't like them so I went back to roundwounds

I am not either but my wife is in, so I shall be trying it out tomorrow night! Earlier than I expected, was assuming it would be still a few weeks. Maybe time to check if the Squier CV Mustangs are coming out yet - nope! Sorry about that!

Not for me - I form an idea in my head straight away and dont' want to double check it. I just don't want (or need) the social interaction with others. It is a lot of effort, most people are quite hard work. I have no problem communicating my ideas, its just that my ideal world involves being left to get on with my own stuff without anyone else. Even when gigging, I like the people dancing to stuff, and the interaction between the front man and the audience is great. I couldn't do it, I don't know how he does. I just like playing to a crowd but I don't want to talk to them.

Oh fancy that - I got an email saying that mine is going to be delivered tomorrow. For a change, I started a thread about something I ended up buying

Played there. Not a fan! To be fair, that might be because Wigan.

We just go for a new ending each time. Luckily when we played live we just all did some new ones!

Strangely, I also hate them, but I have a singer next to me that seems to love people, and deflect them from me as much as is possible.

I have two bands. One we play pretty well every weekend, a gig or two, 20-30 gigs a year, goes fine, normal gigging issues. We played yesterday at a new venue, all went well except the bass was (whisper it) too loud! Of more interest, to me, when the band was in a bit of a quiet zone around january / feb time, I thought it would be nice to have another band to fill up the gigging schedule and so when i was asked to join another band, motown and stuff (I never did motown), it seemed a good idea. Saturday was our second gig! And it was only half a set. I am now the 3rd oldest member of the gig as everyone else left, 2 singers, 2 drummers, obv the bass player before I left, the horn section. I originally thought they were just unlucky with people but now I know why. Anyway, the thing that keeps me there is that when the female singer left a months or so back my wife joined as a stand in so I got to gig with her. and for all the hassle of the band, that is worth it for me. Whether we will get to a third gig, who knows. One thing is for sure, we will have at least learned 30 different endings for the 15 songs we gigged the other day.

Personality traits like the hatred of gigging?

Clearly there are going to be some people that do. I have met several musicians who hated gigging, a couple just had stage fright and hated ever second of it, and a couple who just like composing and writing music and recording, but had absolutely no interest of playing it in front of an audience. And also as expressed in here, ie, the purpose of this thread. Sure some people might do it if they were being paid, but that doesn't mean they love it, same as your job before you retired, you did it but didn't love it.

If you hate the widdly odd time signature stuff, then how about 90125?

Yeh. I would never do that. I mean, I love gigging, but if you are out entertaining people there has to be a payback for it, if nothing that just to say you are worth being there. I am happy to do the occasional charity gig, like a 1 in 20 or less, but only if I believe in it. I did one tonight in fact.

It really won't, it won't make a blind bit of difference. If your girlfriend goes off with your best mate, does it help if it was your girlfriends idea rather than your best mates idea? So he is going to join a band to make them look better and then deliberately pick songs that the singer will mess up and they will sound a crap band playing live so that the rest of the group decide to get a new singer? I hope it sounds better in his head than it does when said out loud!

I think that is the main thing for most people. Unless you need it to make money it is there for entertainment. If it isn't, don't do it.

Would be hard to pick one, but there is something about Gates of Delirium that I always loved. Probably the same with parallels, but I think gates for me. They had quite an influence on my bass progression, probably more than I thought, as although I would describe myself as being more influenced by rush, when I play stuff, Rush is harder to play because he plays in a way I don't so I have to think about it, whereas I can play yes without a second though, not because I am necessarily that good, but in that I play exactly like he would, ie, it seems entirely natural to play like him. I am glad I got to meet him.

The irony here with me saying I wouldn't do our set without a 5, we do saturday night, and I don't use the B at all on it!

.. that you wanted something other than a kay!

No, they didn't waive it, they realised you knew the law and stopped trying to rip you off!

Thought you liked that one? I just got my B3n, loving it, going to swap the helix HX out for it.

REM modern music? They formed closer to the end of the second world war than the current day! For me, 1) Yeh, why not, not necessarily my thing, but I am sure it is fun. 2) If life got in the way now it will get in the way again. Life is like that. Plus if he got contacted in june why not contact those people back? But if I wasn't doing anything I would probably contact them, as if they don't bother replying I haven't lost anything. 3) Hell no. Learning the eagles to play every 2 months? Sounds like a practice only group with the occasional grudging gig. 4) Too old for that but back in the day, would have probably given it a go.