Frank Blank

Welcome @Madein1962

Is that @Andyjr1515’s son?

Just as an aside I am defending Home Counties Veteran Open-Source Software Chopsticks Champion.

See, this is the thing with @Teebs, he looks like a lovely fella but the undead can’t fool animals.

@Richard R - Brawley Artemis 4, Brawley Artemis 5, EBS Session60 amp, something to weigh basses with. @Frank Blank - Rob Allen Mouse Fretless, Rob Allen Mouse Fretted, Ibanez SRC6, QSC K12.2, HX Stomp. @Stub Mandrel - Frender Performer, Hohner Jack Custom V, Deathburger (HB kit build), TE 1110 combo? @petecarlton - Mayones Cali4 "Puzzle" Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAvWZGwc4s&t=13s&ab_channel=BassTheWorld.com @Teebs - Hinnocent @SpondonBassed - Jack. (That's not short for Jack all, it's just that I can't decide until nearer the time.) @Machines - Sire M5 / Yamaha RBXJM2 / GenzBenz Neo Pak / EICH112XS @bassmansam - Rickenbacker 4003s, Eppy Thunderbird Vintage Pro and Ashdown ABM 500 2x10 combo @jebroad - Not-fender jazz (maybe), squire silver series jazz, old Kay SC, Dingwall combustion, Ashdown 8x10 (Maybe) @Jabba_the_gut - 27" mini basses, Short scale telebass, whatever else I build by then, TC RS210 combo. Cakes @Oldman - Custom fretless 5, and some amplification, TBD @Geek99 - POSSIBLE Ampeg AMP, bass-doc built relic P, homemade jazz with geddy lee pups, zoom b2.1 Just tweaked @Teebs because he’s... well, because he’s @Teebs.

Only that time I had to visit the doctors after I picked up something nasty during a trip to Morocco.

I think last time it was 10am - 5pm

I'm in.

Welcome @bassnumpty

No, no, three groat.

Bringy listy... @Richard R - Brawley Artemis 4, Brawley Artemis 5, EBS Session60 amp, something to weigh basses with. @Frank Blank - Rob Allen Mouse Fretless, Rob Allen Mouse Fretted, Ibanez SRC6, QSC K12.2, HX Stomp. ...cut, paste and add yourself.

Yeah, there’ll be a big ol’ punch up for sure, probably over hairspray.

Superb.

Excellent! Let us know if you have to stump up a deposit, I'm sure we'll chip in.

👍 I never knew that, how interesting. I always thought it odd that he stated he had no musical theory given his abilities on other instruments. Maybe he had such a good ear that he relied on that making him such an intuitive player. Thanks for the extra info, always happy discussing MK. Seconded.

Oh come on, those were tricky circumstances, it clashing with the Conway Twitty documentary and all.

Christ, yes of course... blimey.

Paging @jebroad

Definitely up for it, last year was a gas.

I have been for about 35 years 😀

YAFG* *You actual f****** genius 😄

Pino is amazing! I’ve just been reading up on the albums, MK did backing vocals on one of the I, Assassin tracks. This is Numan’s quote about Pino on the album... He was brilliant. I had never heard playing like it...He came up with stunning bass lines, song after song. I leaned on him heavily during the making of the album. I pushed his playing to the forefront of the tracks and, inadvertently, created a new style. It was one of the first times that the fretless bass had been used as the lead melody instrument, allowing the album to be atmospheric, dreamy and funky. I’ll probably get stick but Pino always struck me as a brilliant technical player, but MK is deeply intuitive. I remember reading an interview with him where he said he had no musical theory at all and couldn’t tell you what notes he was playing if a string was “An E or a C”, also that the rest of the band would rehearse a song into existence and then MK would arrive having made up a bass line just based on the title of the song, they’d rewrite entire songs around his lines because they were so good! Anyway, any excuse for Bestial Cluster...

The album before this, Dance, had Mick Karn playing bass. I have heard people moan about Pino ‘copying’ MK on I, Assassin but he was asked to play like him so he was doing what was required. I think I’m right in saying that Pino used effects whereas MK always double tracked which gives MK a subtler sound imho.