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Anyone used Resident Studios in London? https://www.residentstudios.com/ Opinions? ta.

Apparently esteemed bassist and producer Youth, had an open sale at his home studio in South West London in February. Did any Basschatters go?

Hats? Covers up the baldy heid, and if you use stage lighting, necessary to stop unwanted glare and reflection from said baldy pate.

Cool. Not cold. As in epitome of cool 😎 Bootsy could wear a boiler suit & a welding mask, and would still be da funk 🤩

Keep music live 😎

Great thread! First bass was a Westone Thunder 1A borrowed from College. First owned bass Ibanez Blazer bass. First bass amp? Gotta think about that... Probably a god-awful Marshall 100w Guitar & Bass head. I think I paired it with a Peavey Black Widow cab.

Best ever The Simpsons tonight, Homer the bass player 😄 "All the thrill of live music, without the fear of hearing something new..."

Kylie 🥰😍💕💕

Don't know the band, but in this case possibly just done for the purposes of the video?

They've still got to carry it!

Hence Bach's Well Tempered Clavier.

This was suggested last night at rehearsal, so we jammed it and it didn't sound too bad. Got the dots and song so gonna attempt to learn it ''properly'. Even so, still reckon there will be an element of improv. Norm eh? He's a bit good...

Enjoyment of last night's gig was somewhat marred, by Timothy Taylor's Boltmaker no longer being a guest ale.

It's at the menders at the moment. Regular readers may know that my Shuker's have an all in one pup cover/ramp/thumbrest which runs from the neck to the bridge. I'm having a similar thing made, but one that is detachable and won't ruin the finish.

An update to this. At the gig mentioned above, for some reason during the mad panic to get set up, the combo had been placed on a stand. I've done several bass gigs with it since, at similar size venues, and with the combo on the floor the volume has been set at 3 to 4, and the power sponge at 50w.

Hi y'all Is anyone from that London (or thereabouts) going, or coming back from Jon Shuker's next week? Cheers McD.

Slither? You'll all be doing it tomorrow!

Time for me to interject as the OP. My bass journey began on classical guitar and that is the technique I brought to my bass playing. I've always played fretted. Over the years I've had a fiddle with fretless, but never got on with them. That is until I played Frank Black's Rob Allen Mouse at the last SE Bass Bash. I have being fortunate to procure my own, which is lined, and after initially having my gaze locked on the neck, I'm now playing with a mixture of neck glancing, positional play, and by ear.

Love the stage version, seen it a couple of times. The problem with the film is the insertion of a 'star' into what should be an ensemble film. The same thing happened to Suicide Squad, which rather than being an ensemble piece, became a Will Smith film, and suffered because of it. Rock of Ages the film, became more about having Tom Cruise in the film, than an actor portraying a blond hair metal vocalist archetype.

Frank Black is to blame, had he not brought his Rob Allen Mouse to the SE Bass Bash, it would not have led to my being able to show the attached pictures.

If it's no longer good enough for Norm, it's not good enough for me.

The Macc Lads - Live at Leeds (The Who?)

W.A.S.P. Live... in the raw. All songs better than the studio album versions.

Maybe stateside, but Jet Harris showed us here 😀

A bit of interesting background reading from Bill Whitfield's (MJ bodyguard) page on the Facebook.