Frank Blank

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The title of my forthcoming novella, there.

I forgive him everything for a smattering of excellent performances, SM are tops though.

Oh my god, are you sure she’s not my good lady wife? Three of my top bands right there. I’m always over the moon when anyone mentions The Slits, totally great band.

Excellent. I think I’ve found my brand!

Your good lady wife is right on the money. I was musing on this a while back, Crass - Sleaford Mods, anything in between is mostly irrelevant.

That’s great news! Thanks for the update, gives me an opportunity to remind you (just in case, I’m sure you remembered) about the black truss rod cover. It might be a two bass week here!

No sign of it yet but I’ll let you know as soon as it arrives and we can sort out a meet.

I'm not sure it's technically 'rock star' but you are, without a shadow of a doubt, The Man.

Nope... 1995 2012

...nor grammar.

I can hear that from over here.

Thanks so much for this. My bass tutor has sent me some files of drones in various pitches to play scales along with, I’ll get to it! Thanks again.

Despite being an almost complete novice on a fretless I nearly went all snob about him when I need to do exactly the opposite and be open to all things fretless. I actually think this has been a really good exercise in not instantly going up my own a***. Cheers.

I’m actually digging him, I wasn’t at first but I’m warming to his videos.

I may be a talentless vagabond Sir but I do have standards

I just spat coffee all over my iPad.

Welcome. I’m relatively new on here and I must say it’s been a gas. Really helpful, really informative and most importantly as reasonable as I’ve known a forum to be. Enjoy.

Tony Franklin, as in Whitesnake?

Some kind of inverse formula going on I think, the times when I wasn’t in a band were the times when I most looked like someone in a band.

This is, I’ve found, very common with bands I’ve played for or worked with, small and big, not bearing about the bass player nor their gear, but some exceptions have been quite the opposite and those bands always sound the better for it. Any group of selfish individuals who are only concerned with their own sound and not the blend of those sounds is not only going to be a drag to play with but a drag to listen to as well. The simple fact of the matter is that the bass is as vital as every other instrument and as ‘of course’ as that sounds it is a) rarely acknowledged, let alone applied in practice and b) rarely defended or even mentioned by us bass players while singers, guitarists and drummers ruin everything because of ego and intransigence. I no longer have any truck with people who do not understand the democracy of sonics and I am incredibly lucky to play with people who don’t bring ego to the stage nor the rehearsal room. It’s a difficult balance to strike, especially when egos are involved but stand your ground Sir, you and your bass are as important as every other element of the band, don’t get pushed around because you are new or consider yourself lucky