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Congratulations! Hello.

[quote name='Johnzy' post='432450' date='Mar 12 2009, 02:25 PM']they are just as flat, which is a little weird. I although the neck seem so much slimmer. it made me realise just how JUMBO those bell brass frets are![/quote]

Bloody huge aren't they! I love them though.

That is weird, flat 'board fretless would seem strange to me. I spose I'll have to nip to the Denm*rk Street and play one under the baleful gaze of an unhelpful surly person.

I bought a box of 5000 staples in September last year. After I had carefully checked the contents, I found there were three missing! I complained bitterly to the shop, who then contacted the manufacturer. I received an envelope in the post few days later containing an apology and not three, but TEN staples! I was made up

I need a new fretless and because I'm in love with my Corvette $$ I want a fretless version. But how do they feel? Are the fingerboards as flat as the fretted? I think I want more radius on a fretless than the usual Warwick fretted.

Satellite 1977

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='431931' date='Mar 11 2009, 09:32 PM'].. drummer reminds me of Buckler.[/quote]

On The Buses was great, wasn't it?!

It doesn't look like there was any music playing during the shoot either. The poses look so static.

Sorry to sound a neggy - especially since you appear to be really proud of the pics, but I can't really tell what your band sounds like from those - because it doenst really look like that's the gear you wear normally. And I have to agree that the outfits are a bit passé now anyway. I think the white BG style with stuff on the floor is a little naff too. The bad choices of make-up and dress do make the ladyvoice look a lot older than twenty something. I think the fact the photographer thought taking the shots from an elevation is probably the worst thing about them though. Are the set and choice of costumes what the snapper suggested?

There we are, you did ask, terribly sorry.

[quote name='crez5150' post='431547' date='Mar 11 2009, 02:41 PM']Diana Dors springs to mind....[/quote]

I think it looks cracking! I would love one in white. Reminds me of Chris Squire's Elektra, that's one damn cool bass right there.

[quote name='BOD2' post='350514' date='Dec 10 2008, 11:27 AM']To answer the original post....

I started playing guitar well over 20 years ago. There was no tab and no guitar music written down other than paino music with "equivalent chords" written down and pulled from a chord dictionary (and usually the wrong chord inversions).

I learned to play by ear entirely.

I started playing bass seriously about 7/8 years ago and just carried that learning technique over. I work out an existing bassline purely by ear, picking out notes by listening and using the exprience I've gained over the years to figure out where things should be played on the neck to sound best.

I don't generally think of the note names. I know where the notes are on the fretboard but just don't think of them generally, other than being aware of playing notes around, say "A" or "D" in a particular song (I know that I'll be playing notes from a scale but again I'm playing by "feel" rather than note names).

For the music I've played (mostly rock/pop covers) I've found that method works for me with no limitations, as I doubt I would be able to find the basslines in any reliable written format anyway. I'm aware of music notation, and can almost understand most of it but I would not be able to sight read at all.

I'm not advocating this approach at all - just answering the question.[/quote]

I think I am a carbon copy of you. But I really do wish I had learned to read and write music. I don't have time now. I don't really feel I need to either, I suppose, I have good ears and never had a problem picking quite complex things up very quickly. However, getting complex ideas noted down on paper would be so much more efficient for me.

You go to the store you bought it from, not Fender directly.

[quote name='Mattplaysbass' post='429622' date='Mar 9 2009, 06:20 PM']Cheers mate thats exactly what I was after great quality for what it is! Thing is will there be a substatial difference with that been the H4 compared to the H2?

Happy Jack PM sent wanting to get as much stuff as possible before I decide on it[/quote]

I think the only difference is the H4 is 4trk, but check the Zoom spec sheets.

I will say, our drummer has been a pro musician and producer for over 25 years and he reckons it's one one of the most useful bits of kit he's ever bought.

Here you go, Matt.

This is exactly what came off the H4.

Jan 2009. Small venue with a decent PA. H4 on its stand 8ft up on a shelf on a central pillar, about 30ft from the stage.

Sorry, forgot to zero it so there's 30 secs of silence before any sound.

EDIT: Erm, all songs copyright 2008 Krupa

Cheers

I can probably do that for you. Live recording on our drummer's H4. It's 47 mins long mp3 of our set though so I'll try to chop a number out of it. Watch this space.

.. and the notes from thy bass shall be warm and full of love ..

tBBC, Chapter 7, Verse 5 ..

Ma and Pa - Fishbone

Congratulations, CK!!

Would you kindly tell us what the Big Beef Chief paid for it?

Halfway through Dupree's Paradise (Zappa), sounding pretty good so far. But I'll never learn Scott Thunes' weird improvisation part, it's so random.

[quote name='Scoop' post='422932' date='Mar 2 2009, 10:00 AM']Are you Auctioning this? Here? I thought that was against the rules.[/quote]

I think this provocative post is where it started. Some people have inferred from this that "auctions" are aginst Marketplace rules and posted their "concerns" accordingly, jumping on a pissy little bandwagon traveling on the wrong bloody road. These dudes wanted this argument for some reason I don't know about, personal issue with CK perhaps? I couldn't give a toss how someone sells their bass. Why would I? Why would YOU?

I can't see anything saying auctions are AGAINST THE RULES. Why would an auction-style sale be AGAINST THE RULES? Get real, people. CK is not the hypocrite here, it's those arguing about the [u]RULES[/u], without any foundation or wholesome reason. It looks purely personal to me.

I wish everyone would shake hands, forget this sh*t and let CK sell his bass, by whatever means, and for what the market will stand.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='426793' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:42 PM']Is there a history of this sort of behaviour? Because this particular incident doesn't fit the description. The stuff he posted was rather stark and blunt but that's just how he is.

I can understand where you're coming from too, and I hope you get a fair price for your bass, but it might be an idea to just post the price that's in your head and see if anyone offers you it. Save yourself a lot of silly bother.[/quote]

I would say that's a perfectly reasonable stance.

I don't think the beef was being a bully or attacking CK personally. I find him intrinsically self deprecating to be honest. He has a slightly dangerous sense of humour (and in the internet context it can be misinterpreted) but where would humour be without that? He also has a sense of morality and blunt honesty which, while sometimes misguided, cuts though one hell of a lot of bullsh*t.

He did leven his offending remark with his own Fred West comment. I think he probably watches too much Jerry Sadowitz.

Awesome!! What a buzz!!

[quote name='thebeat' post='426526' date='Mar 5 2009, 06:00 PM']While the Clash eventually went on to suck on the corporate tit, i wouldn't say that joe Strummer and his beliefs were contrived, or plastic as you say, he may have been an arse at times but i think he really did mean what he said and he treated his followers and fans with a lot of respect.

Raise a toast to St. Joe Strummer
I think he might’ve been our only decent teacher[/quote]

Yeah +1. They were the only white people who could play reggae aswell. Did they ever say they were punks?

Ok, this is a blog from his myspace site that might give an added insight, agian, it's a bit long and you may not care to read it, but it's interesting and he's obviously a difficult character .. **fair bit bit of rather fruity language warning**

[url="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=78868117&blogId=341428272"]http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseact...logId=341428272[/url]

Thank you, my dear fans, for all your good wishes on my comments. I don't get around to writing back to you all, but my feelings of good will toward all men are increased dramatically whenever I rest my weary eyes upon your kind words. It means the mostest to me, and I wanted to let each and every one of you kind-hearted souls how much it meant to me.

So here goes.

I'm very happy. I don't worry too much about anything. My children - knock on wood - are pretty much on that gentle kind of autopilot that makes it easy to solve the problems that do come up: self-esteem issues, following parental orders, learning to be patient. My wife has a great thing going on (knock on wood) that makes it easy to to perform my husbandly and familial and household duties.

Have I told you how hot she is? Like fire, that girl. And so sweet it aches. A wonderful, deeply spiritual (without the organized mumbo-jumbo nor belief system to bog her down) person who knows what I like and makes it happen. Regularly.

But Music. Man. What a trip.

I'm still getting messages and sh*t stating that people just don't understand how I could not be playing music anymore, even after all I've writtened and spokened.

"If I could play half as well as you I'd never put it down!" Well, thank you very very much for the extremely complimentary words, but man, don't you get it?

I love having the ability to play the bass as well as I do. I don't think I've writtened or spokened that before, so let me be clear: I love playing the bass. I love making music with the bass, and I love making people happy playing the bass.

I even love holding it, coaxing sounds out of it, rocking the motherf***ing house with it, and rubbing it gently and roughly between the lovely legs of groupies and women I meet on the street.

It's a GREAT instrument to bang on. And I do mean laying a woman down on top of it and f***ing her.

It's also a great INSTRUMENT. My 1963 P-Bass will live with me forever. When I die, it goes to the wife. If she doesn't want it, it's the children's.

It does everything a musical instrument should. It goes KABOOM all the time. It sweetly sings, and it loves me back, as much as I love it.

BUT GOD MOTHERf***ing PISSBUCKET!!!! I HATE playing it live in front of other humans. It's just not what I'm looking for in my life.

I have so much more interesting and satisfying and fulfilling things on my plate that it just doesn't cut the Mendocino Mustard (w/horseradish).

I would much rather play the piano, for instance. It's so cool! Playing the piano means never having to say you're playing the bass.

You take one Scott Thunes and hand him a 1963 P-Bass, put him live on stage - or sit him down in front of a producer, artist, and engineer in the studio - and you'll get something close to Andy Partridge having a nervous breakdown and leaving the stage.

Last time I played, I was *pretty* safe, and I still had bucket loads of angst and artistic tension.

But at my house? I'm God. I'm totally and unbiasedly loved to the most extreme degree imaginable. All the time. Well, most of the time. OK, some of the time. But Still!

It's just not fair to compare. Life beats live bass playing everytime.

I just wrote a piece of music for the wife for Christmas. Garageband supplied the bass for it, and man, it sounded good. Damn good. It kicked motherf***ing ass. I could have spent hours making it sound that good with my instrutement and it would have had, oh, sure, some personality, but it wouldn't have SOUNDED GOOD. Hell, Frank preferred the Synclavier near the end of his career, and he played with the 'World's Finest Musicians' his entire life. You gonna make an argument with him?

I have what I need, the bass doesn't supply it. My wife, my children, my cats and my piano. My computer, my beer, my new house and my children's school. I'm f***ing so bloody happy it can't be calculated on an Earth-sized computer (although 42 is really quite close to the real answer it's not funny).

I love you you guys, and thanks again for your continued patronage of this site.

Merry Christmas, fans!

Well performed, good songs, but a bit derivative. Great singer, but not to my taste, sounds too much like Chris Cornell for me.

It's very good and there's a big market for you out there. It's ok getting signed but you have to have longevity and keep your market growing. It's a crowded market though so I reckon, based on hearing those three numbers, you need a non-contrived uniqueness to what you do. Could be sounds, signature note combinations, rhythms, christ knows. But you can't contrive it, it has to happen naturally and sound like magic.

Good luck, it's cool. Hope I don't sound too critical