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A Crimbo single we did a few years back, though for reasons I can't remember, our guitarist played bass on it instead of me. And, yes, that really is John Cooper Clarke http://youtu.be/yaOEvyxo_yU

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[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1418920486' post='2634889'] True, theres a great bit in a show (star trek I think) where they are in a museum in the future , there is a large 50s juke box that gets called an iPod, which in the great scheme of things time wise (only 40 years) its not that far out. [/quote] Sure you're not thinking of the BeatleBox? [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcVS9ssNYVQ[/media]

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1418855006' post='2634210']Similar to camera film vs digital, nobody can make a digital camera with the dynamic range of slide film yet.[/quote] Erm, slide film in particular has very limited dynamic range (which is a term borrowed from electronics, so not directly applicable to film). Fuji Velvia can deal with about 4 to 4.5 stops between the brightest and darkest tones before you blow the highlights or block out the shadows. Photographers who use Velvia get used to using graduated neutral density filters (to tame skies) and shooting in soft light to bring the range of tones into line with something that can be captured. Kodachrome could deal with possibly 6 stops in good conditions and is about par for the course for most slide film. With Fuji Provia, you can probably get about 8 stops of usable tones, but that's on the high end for a colour reversal film. Monochrome [i]negative[/i] film has a much greater exposure latitude; typically around 10 stops. HP5 is known for being able to pull out detail in the shadows and highlights over 11 to 12 stops. I've heard of people getting 15 stops plus on TMax 100 negs, but the limitation with negative film really comes when you have to print it, since there's about 100:1 luminance ratio in a photographic print, which equates to about 6.5 stops of DR. It takes some skill to develop the film appropriately and then render 15 stops in an original negative within that printable range. Colour negs fall somewhere between the colour slide and mono negs for the range of tones that they can capture. It [i]was[/i] true about ten to fifteen years ago that many DSLRs were limited to around 6-8 stops of DR. Blown highlights and very noisy shadows were fairly commonplace, especially if you didn't nail your exposure exactly or had to bump up the ISO. Improvements in technology have meant that most decent, modern cameras can reliably capture usable detail in the 10 to 12 stop range at their base ISO, which is broadly comparable with b/w negative film and still do far better than all slide films at higher speeds (up to around ISO 6400). My Sony A7, which has one of the better 35mm sensors currently available from that perspective, can capture about 14 stops of dynamic range at ISO 100. You still have to manage it well in PP to get it to display on screen or in a print. cheerz Rob [still shooting slide & neg film [i]and[/i] digital]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1417426129' post='2620089'] No more the end than it was when Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, Neil Diamond, Dolly Parton etc filled that Sunday lunchtime slot which is when I understand LR will be on. From the info currently available he is not headlining. [/quote] Quite. I saw Tony Bennett doing that slot in 98 and he was top value entertainment. Burt Bacharach was supposed to be on in 2000, but had to pull out due to illness. We got David Gray instead... but there was Willie Nelson straight after

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1417513372' post='2621054']Would you be happy , if he took the stage when you were playing.[/quote] Hell, yeah!

Somehow this all reminds me of an old Frank Zappa story [quote]In 1969, George Wein, impresario of the Newport Jazz Festival, decided it would be a tremendous idea to put the Mothers of Invention on a jazz tour of the East Coast. We wound up working in a package with Kirk, Duke Ellington and Gary Burton in Miami at the Jai Alai Fronton, and at another gig in South Carolina. The touring package did not carry its own PA - we had to use whatever speakers existed in each of the venues we were booked into. The hall in South Carolina was rigged with small jukebox speakers, set in a ring around the building. Useless, but there we were - we had to play the show. Before we went on, I saw Duke Ellington begging - pleading - for a ten-dollar advance. It was really depressing. After that show, I told the guys: '[i]That's it - we're breaking the band up[/i].' We'd been together in one configuration or another for about five years at that point, and suddenly EVERYTHING looked utterly hopeless to me. If Duke Ellington had to beg some George Wein assistant backstage for [i]ten bucks[/i], what the f*** was I doing with a ten-piece band, trying to play rock and roll - or something that was [i]almost[/i] rock and roll?[/quote] [FZ in "The Real Frank Zappa Book", 1989]

For a UK comparison, Fish (of Marillion fame) put together a breakdown of costs of touring on his blog last year http://fishheads.club/2013/01/29/touring/

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1414067651' post='2585415']Does anyone actually pronounce it the French way, like you would 'Médecins Sans Frontières'?[/quote] No need to... 'sans' is Middle English word (although borrowed from Old French) dating back to the 14th century. In English, it's pronounced to rhyme with Hans or bans (c.f. 'sans serif font'). Shakespeare: 'All the World's a Stage' monologue from [i]As You Like it[/i] [quote]Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.[color=#252525][font=sans-serif][/quote][/font][/color] [color=#252525][font=sans-serif] [/font][/color]

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1414018116' post='2584997'] I listened to a radio programme on Gerry Rafferty a while back and he said that line was originally for guitar. Someone had the idea for it to be sax and, perhaps because Raphael played it so beautifully (timing is excellent!), it stuck. [/quote] The original demo of [i]Baker Street[/i] is an extra on the 2011 remaster of City to City and a guitar plays the line. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcXRkMs0fs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=7bcXRkMs0fs[/url]

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1413365830' post='2577468']£199 Satellite P... [/quote] You'd have to pay me to take a Satellite off your hands. My first electric guitar was a Satellite Les Paul copy and still one of the nastiest things I've had the displeasure to play.

FWIW, it seems to have been made under the [i]Orpheus/Orpheum [/i]brand name (Japan, not to be confused with the Bulgarian manufacturer of the same name). [url="http://www.triplesmileplus.com/Shop/images/_Musical/Guitar_Orpheus_4Strings_Bass_need1string_a.jpg"]http://www.triplesmi...ed1string_a.jpg[/url] and some other, very similar instruments [url="http://forum.megabass.it/viewtopic.php?p=762888"]http://forum.megabas...ic.php?p=762888[/url] [url="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1960s-Orpheum-Baritone-Bass-27-1-2-guyatone-Japan-MIJ-Worldwide-/121458188752?pt=Guitar&hash=item1c4778e1d0"]http://www.ebay.com/...=item1c4778e1d0[/url] Guyatone were mentioned earlier - their EB4 model is [i]very[/i] similar in appearance, though perhaps a little more up market (a more fancy scratch plate) [url="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152015724434797.1073741935.192721204796&type=3"]https://www.facebook...21204796&type=3[/url] Apparently, Kay also branded some of their output with the [i]Orpheus/Orpheum[/i] name, which would fit. and, since Teisco were also mentioned, here's what looks like the same instrument again, identified as a Teisco Ibanez [url="http://www.ibanezbass.org/for-sale/teisco-ibanez-japan-vintage-electric-bass-guitar-rare/12284/"]http://www.ibanezbas...tar-rare/12284/[/url]

Much as I like Thomas Yorke, David Byrne is rather more eloquent on the topic of Spotify in yesterday's Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world?commentpage=1

What's the betting we'll be waiting about nine months for the Zygote to be delivered?

I have to agree: I'm more likely to roll off the treble a little on my VM Fretless and I've strung it with D'Addario Chrome flatwounds.

I purchased the new Arctic Monkeys album, 'AM', today. And an oldie - 'Rain, Steam & Speed' by New Zealand's finest, The Mutton Birds. Enjoying them both very much. AM may have convinced me I have to try some dirt in my bass sound...

I think you should cover The Violent Femmes' 'Prove My Love': "Third verse same as the first" http://youtu.be/ZLmxbS15A-c

[quote name='spinynorman' timestamp='1378848172' post='2205640']I wish there was a setting on eBay where you could exclude sellers in the US from searches, but allow the rest of the world.[/quote] I wish the eBay iPhone and iPad apps would actually show me items located in the UK when I ask for it. Unless Poughkeepsie and Genoa have secretly ceded from their conventional countries to join the United Kingdom, they are failing dismally.

In 30 years I don't think I've ever tripped over my own lead

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1378830577' post='2205274'] Ah, Andy's... I wince at the mention of their name. Prior to my mega bass-sabbatical, I sold a pair of basses through them and had to go to court to get them to cough up the cash when they were sold. Using them was a mistake, but not as big a mistake (and pretty much my biggest regret in life) as selling the basses in the first place: a pair of Wals (fretted and fretless). [/quote] I didn't have to take them to court to get my money, but I deeply regret selling my oddball Epiphone Genesis guitar to Andy's when I was mighty strapped for cash after I left university circa 1991.

Encrypted Data stream?! [ hides from GCHQ intercepts with their crypto breaking algorithms by using a cable ]

Noah and the Whale are from Twickenham and featured in the last series [?] I keep watching. The occasional jewel still turns up.

I've only had to to it once in the recent past - when learning the bridge to the Beatles' 'Here Comes the Sun' which has measures of 11/8, 4/4 and 7/8 in sequence. (1, 2, 3 : 1, 2, 3 : 1, 2, 3 : 1, 2 / 1, 2, 3, 4 / 1, 2 : 1, 2, : 1, 2, 3) Or rather, once I'd already internalised it without thinking too much by playing along, I had to explain it to the guitarist and drummer by counting.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1378499347' post='2201305']I've just bought a new bass. [/quote] That worked for me a couple of weeks ago. No hassle ( though it is over 10 years since I bought the one before that) Reminds me; I should put up a NBD thread...