SpondonBassed

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1492013789' post='3277214'] A 70's effect pedal with a siren? Cool! I just loved the cheesiness of doing it. We had two old skool rotating police lights, one red one blue, on top of the PA speakers either side, we'd fill the stage with smoke and then fire up the lights and siren to start the second set. We'd leave it going for twenty seconds or so before starting the riff, silly but great fun [/quote] Stagecraft mate. I like your style.

[quote name='inthedoghouse' timestamp='1491989512' post='3276940'] Misplaced vanity - as if anybody cares I gigged for a while with a pro band in the 80s using a nice Squier and nobody said a word or gave me a funny look [/quote] ...and did you look like Blakey back then too? Heeheehee

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1491983897' post='3276875'] I think if you're intentionally trying to recreate something that is above and beyond your budget, sticking a Fender decal on it when it's an intentional Fender repro (like a Nash or Limelight) is just good attention to detail and keeping the style correct. If you don't want a Fender repro but want a jazz/pj/Precision at a similar price then new Fenders (MIM/MIJ etc) or Maruszczyk are in that prt of the market, so just get what YOU want (it's your money after all). It's just another option on the table and if doesn't interest you, then it shouldn't bother you either. If you were making a spitfire airfix model, you make it look as close to a spitfire as possible. You're not doing it to deceive anyone because everyone who actually knows anything about it knows it's not an ACTUAL spitfire and you wouldn't ever try to sell it on gumtree etc as an actual spitfire. I much prefer that to [u]when people put on a decal that is styled just like a Fender decal but incorporates some tenuous dad-joke like "pretender gaz bass" or someone's surname etc. It makes me cringe like hell[/u] (sorry if that's you but it's just really not my thing!). [/quote] I can't think what you mean... [cough][b]R0ck1nb3tt3r![/b][/cough] I agree. To justify that particular example by saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is just b0110x.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1491984700' post='3276883'] Thank you [/quote] Got the books down off the shelf for you. I thought I had three different ones but it turns out that two are the same except that one has a play along CD for the bass duets if you aren't up to playing both parts simultaneously as I've seen on YT clips. If you want the one without the CD I'd be happy to send it to you. PM me to sort out the postage expenses if you want it. J. S. Bach for Electric Bass Three duets and five solo pieces arranged for bass guitar Music, Instruction, Historical Analysis By Bob Gallway, PH.D. Hal Leonard ISBN 978-0-634-03143-4 (This is the spare that I might let you have) It contains score and tab for;[list] [*]Two-Part Invention #4 in D Minor [*]Two-Part Invention #1 in C Major [*]Sinfonia from Partita 2 in C Major for Solo Harpsichord [*]Bourree 1 and 2 from Suite #3 in C Major for Solo Cello [*]Sarabande from Suite #2 in D Minor for Solo Cello [*]Presto from Sonata #1 in G Minor for Solo Violin [*]Allemande from Suite #6 in D Major for Solo Cello [*]Tempo di Bourree from Sonata #2 in D Major for Solo Violin [/list] and (Translated from Italian) J. S. Bach Inventions Transcriptions for 2 Four String Basses by Marco Di Natale a CD ROM with audio and interactive track containing also the transcriptions for two 6 string electric basses Ricordi ISMN M-2151-0625-3 It contains score only for;[list] [*]Invention 1 C Major [*]Invention 2 C Minor [*]Invention 6 E Major [*]Invention 8 F Major [*]Invention 13 A Minor [/list] Hope this helps.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1491983620' post='3276872'] You wouldn't believe how shocked you will be when you find out the secret. [/quote] Hahahahaha. I was writing aircraft manuals to SGML standard in the nineties. You must think I came down with the last shower. I'll bite anyway, tell us; What do you think the big secret is? My guess would be that the entire world is in fact run by Tescos and that Walmart is a subsidiary of theirs. Commerce drives everything. PS; I spotted what you did there but it might have been better if you'd hypertext linked it to askmyarse dot co dot uk.

I sometimes wonder at how our language and the way we use it has been modified by I.T.

[quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1491946342' post='3276750'] Cannot listen to this tune without the Macc Lads' words entering my head. [/quote] Can you give us an example please? I am barely aware of the Macc Lads. Were they in Viz?

I know that one in my sleep! When I was ten we lived in a hotel suite for a few months around the time that song was popular. The function room of the hotel had a good sound system and my bedroom window was overlooking it. Blockbuster played over and over again but I never got sick of it. Come to think of it, the filtered sounds from the weekend discos heard in my sleep were probably what made me the [s]awsome[/s] awful player I am today.

Had the original LP too. A real cracker from the day when Sci-fi was a proper cult. I said [i]cult[/i]. Sci-fi today is such nonsense; [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/"]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/[/url] Ear plugs recommended for the bits with Dakota Fanning in. Eeeeeeeeeeeek! Eeeeeeeeek! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Edit: I should say that I was referring to the LP of "Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds" from 1978. I am amazed how many versions H.G. Wells' original story inspired.

I've bought a couple of books of tab arrangements of J.S. Bach for bass. If you can't find any yourself message me and I'll get you some more information. It's cracking stuff but you need to be a bit more applied than myself.

OOOOh!

[quote name='Mickyk' timestamp='1489686752' post='3259022'] Agree to a certain extent as regards slapping my sr 300,maybe it's just my technique ,i saw a video on youtube of a girl, Martha i think her name is and she was using a Yam 424 with great effect,playing the Patrice Rushen track,Forget me Nots a song which i like a lot and always wanted to learn,but cannot seem to make the right sounds slapping with my Ibanez sr300,maybe i need more practise,it was just that i am sold on that Yam 424x. Some great replies guys cheers for them,i am open to more suggestions however. [/quote] Are you going to do a lot of slap? I'd recommend looking for a set of super wound strings. They're the ones with just the core wire going over the saddles, the windings (round wound) start between the bridge and bridge pup. Very bright and good sustain. Hard to get these days I think but a real sound from the eighties. Is this the clip that you saw? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRusbYIyRNI

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1489682707' post='3258971'] Oh way ahead of you on this... Functionally, it works surprisingly well in winter, [i]within reason[/i] - providing the radiator is working and my wife doesn't have friends round. In summer, the leather seat cover just gets too, well... 'claggy' Hence underpants uber alles. [/quote] Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! [frantically tries to scrub image out of brain with bleach]

No. He's clearly looking for a discussion on the great works of Talk Talk from the eighties.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1489669705' post='3258802'] Here’s my approach…[list=1] [*]Replace human band members with a computer and some gadgetry - think like Skynet [*]Set up said computer and gadgetry in a room with a lockable door to keep the kids out [*]Retreat to room; make music with the involvement of as few other [s]meatbags[/s] humans as possible [*]Release music online [/list] [size=6][b]...all of which can be done whilst wearing nothing but one's underpants. Just' saying.[/b][/size] I never set foot on stage - and know for sure that I’m missing out on that experience (I [i]have[/i] gigged in the past and know how much fun it is…). But it’s zero stress; it avoids me falling out with my mates; it fits nicely around family and work; and I do get some satisfaction from entertaining an audience, albeit remotely - my music has been played on the radio, in clubs and received 20,000+ plays online to date (small fry really, but it’s more than I’d reach on my local pub circuit). And my gear doesn’t stink of stale beer and sweat Ok, so it’s not a band. And it’s not gigging. But it’s performance of sorts (cue Sinatra singing ‘My Way’). [/quote] If you were as hard core as you try to appear you wouldn't need the underpants. Just saying.

I always thought of friends with benefits as nooky on the dole.

At the risk of upsetting the OP I feel I must say that Ultimate Bowie does not do it for me like ChangesTwoBowie does. Based on the promos alone I feel that the latter has caught the essence of Bowie's sound. Although the former seems to put effort into the glam look it seems to be a case of style over substance. It is the bass playing in Ultimate Bowie that I don't like. It is overdone. The bassist is fine technically but those lines are more than they need to be. They give the impression of someone who is showing off. It actually lets the rest of the band down in their efforts to look and sound faithful to the artist that they pay tribute to. Choosing which of the two I'd pay to see if I could only afford one night out it would be ChangesTwoBowie.

[quote name='Yank' timestamp='1489657001' post='3258650'] Watch the movie "The Commitments". Roide Sully Roide. [/quote] I wasn't going to dignify this with a response. I changed my mind because I lived in Dublin when that film came out. I was in a small band at the time. Don't believe anything you see on screen that has been made to turn a profit at the box office. My considered response is therefore BAH! Seriously though; Put yourself out there at open mic nights where possible. Since I did that, I have been forging links with other musos in my area. Whilst not yet ready to form a band of my own, it has got the ball rolling in the right direction.

I love these isolated clips. Thanks Rich.

[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1489579699' post='3258068'] Are you a unique and innovative design with extremely valuable commercial worth ? [/quote] I'm a gay icon mate. Chubby chasers lurve me. Heeheehee.

[quote name='briansbrew' timestamp='1489525013' post='3257705'] Finished now with the bullets lodged, Check the top of the page what do you think, love the Danish oil finish [/quote] Lovely.

[quote name='Naetharu' timestamp='1489507942' post='3257531'] Ahh alas this is a Trademark issue and not a patent one so no pennies for you. [/quote] Damn. I suppose that means I'll have to keep belly bashing for beer money. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGhQ9sT8b0[/media]

Right. I'm nipping out to the patents office to patent my own body shape. Soon I'll be collecting royalties from all you lot wot are carrying dad guts too. Anyone for a Euro Banana?

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1489486236' post='3257273'] It's like the chat room for SAGA Holidays in here. Not that I lurk in the SAGA Holidays chat room and am able to make this comparison from personal experience, of course. That is all. As you were. [/quote] SAGA; Sex And Games for the Aged. I'm sold on that. Where do I take out a life time subscription please?

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/302139-chuck-berry-et-alfunny-dep/page__view__findpost__p__3257098 This is relevant in my opinion. Wouldn't it be fair to say that BH among others made the "underground" music of the time popular?