Cato

I can listen to and enjoy just about anything if the bass is good enough. ABBA being an example that springs immediately to mind. Musically they're not my cup of tea at all but the bass on some of their tracks is absolutely outstanding.

It does sound like it's got the potential to be an interesting project. Something a bit different from the usual band thing. Having said that, I'm not sure I'd have the patience to rehearse like that, I can imagine getting a bit frustrated with sitting around during vocal exercises and relaxation stuff. I'd be tempted to arrange to turn up after all that was over, otherwise I can see myself annoying the hell out of everyone by absent mindedly noodling whilst waiting for the part that requires my participation to get started.

Does Wings count? 'The band the Beatles could have been'. - Alan Partridge.

I think it's one of those terms that means different things to different people. The other day I was reading the wikipedia entry on the 'Great American Song Book' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Songbook To be honest I reckon I'm familiar with maybe one in three of the 'standards' listed in that article. A lot of them seem to be fairly obscure musical numbers from productions that have probably barley been performed since the 1950s. I suppose the whole concept of what qualifies as a 'standard' these days is entirely subjective.

I'm certain the guy is delighted with the way this has turned out. I also wonder if he might actually sell some real tickets for the remaining shows of the 'tour' to curious punters who wouldn't have otherwise thought of going.

Could have been worse. At least HJ addressed the problem before he went 'full Kravitz'.

I've just googled 'Threatin' and this story seems to be gaining a fair bit of momentum. I wouldn't be surprised if it makes the national press in the next few days. I bet the Youtube views are shooting up as well. So if it was attention the guy was after, it looks like he's going to get it, although I'm somewhat dubious as to whether that's actually going to translate into any kind of commercial success.

That whole album is superb. A lot of the tracks feature various members of the West Coast Getdown, a loose collective of LA based jazz musicians such as Thundercat and Kamasi Washington.

One thing I've learnt from home recording is that you can't always predict how different sounds, effects and textures on different instruments are going to interact with each other when you put them together. The other day I recorded what I thought was quite an overdriven guitar part, but after I listened back to it in the context of the rest of the track it sounded much cleaner than the sound I was going for. I've had similar experiences with what I thought was a great bass tone not really coming through when combined with the rest of the track. So in a way, (imo of course) , the search for 'that' perfect sound is a bit of a wild goose chase in as far as there is no sound that's going to fit perfectly in every context. Having said that there's absolutely no harm or shame in having the nicest gear you can afford. An instrument which you genuinely enjoy playing is inspirational in it's own right, almost regardless of the noises coming out of it.

Including the two stacked sets, I think the Sire almost certainly has more knobs than most East preamps need. If I was getting an East pre for a Jazz style bass I 'd go for one of the ones that comes assembled with the relevant knobs already attached to the control plate. Then it's just a matter removing the old plate, connecting up the pickups to the new one then attaching that to the bass.

Selling a 50s Precision for €47? Even the 'pre discount' prices shown are far too cheap. Definitely a scam site.

Time to dust off the wah pedal.

Songs take on a life of their own. I've never written anything that ended up actually being about what I started out intending to write about.

He's taking online threats of having his guitar shoved up his jacksie seriously. Apparently he's only playing piccolo on the next album.

I'm not sure that the whole red top/ black top distinction works anymore. The Mirror went 'up market' a few years ago, moving away from the focus on scantily clad celebrities and sensational headlines .It now aims to be a left wing version of the Mail rather than the Sun. The Express on the other hand is like a down market Sun these days with it's focus on dog whistle politics, showbiz gossip and inaccurate extreeme weather predictions. And as pointed out above, the Star technically almost isn't a newspaper at all anymore in the traditional sense, it's closer to US gossip mags like the National Enquirer. Although there could be interesting days ahead for the Express and Star as they were recently acquired by the Mirror group, and despite reassurances from that group that those papers would retain their current political orientation, the reality is that the new owners seem to be planning to reduce the staff at both papers and plug the gaps with articles from journalists currently employed by the Mirror.

You could try emailing Andertons. https://www.andertons.co.uk/contact-us They should know.

Can't give any details on branding but my Sire V7 4 string fretless came with flatwounds fitted from the factory which often isn't the case with fretless basses.

Or just teach your cat to sh!t in your neighbour's flower beds, like mine. Although in truth there wasn't much tuition involved. After he'd watched me demonstrate a couple of times he'd pretty much got the hang of it.

The online version is a mixture of stories from the print version, liberally interspersed with clickbait, much of it lifted directly from other websites such as Reddit or Bored Panda and even other online newspapers. The John Deacon article is classic 'clickbait', there's nothing new or newsworthy in the article, it's just a headline designed to attract traffic to the site from people searching online for info on the new Queen film.

There will never be a better music video than this,

Are you listening through decent headphones/speakers? Just about everything sounds terrible coming through phone or tablet speakers and bass most of all.

I was watching this earlier. There's about 3 minutes of faffing around before he actually puts the thing on the bass and starts playing, but it sounds pretty good once he gets going. I'm tempted.

I think most people are over that now, certainly those of us who weren't alive when she was supposed to have broken up the Beatles. Now she's just part of the Beatles mythology and the legend of John Lennon.

After all the Stuart Zender love on here recently it'd be rude not to mention Jamiroquai. Emergency on Planet Earth is a bass-centric classic.

They've got a fair few guitar sigs. As far as I know they've never released an official signature bass.