SpondonBassed

It's looking great BTW.

Oh wow. You really aren't shy of getting your hands dirty then...?

Have you decided against paint then? It does look good already.

This is better than a Sunday roast! Quite appropriate since yesterday turned out to be Caturday.

Check this then.

If you get to Derby, we wont see you stuck for a lift. If I can't squeeze you in, I am sure someone else can. Of course we'll need details nearer the time.

I'd say you pretty much have to after showing those. They're striking looking basses. I bet they sound good too.

I am sure one of us could help you out with a lift from an appropriate station...? Can you get to Derby with your kit, for example?

PMd

Ta. I may have met you IRL at a Midlands Bass Bash a while back then?

Excellent. I like your choice of colours with the hardware too.

You'd have to have watched it to say that though. I've seen 'nuff click bait and YT inhabitants who sit with an instrument just yakking. We have singers for that job already. Sorry matey, you (the OP) are redundant.

What was your previous screen name please?

I thought that would be so. Nevertheless, his music was influenced by the psychedelic movement. It contains drug references, as do many other popular tunes that are not pro susbstance abuse. I did not say it was druggie music.

There you go.

I like the scrolling TAB that some YT users have on their clips. I don't know if it's an add-on for YT users or whether it's a feature from standard video editing software. It's helped me to improve my sight reading (albeit TAB only) especially when there is a moving cursor on the beat. Of course, YT's advertising tends to inhabit the lower half of the screen so it might be an idea to put it along the top of the screen for those who stream only. That way you'd avoid the frustration of a banner obscuring the TAB content at a crucial point.

Welcome Esther. Sorry we haven't been on the ball with nutters for you. I'm sure one or two will be along shortly...

May we have the link please?

Cool. I would not call myself a Zappa fan. I've heard relatively little of his back catalogue. I do find the music especially interesting at times however. There is a lot more than the drug culture influence in his work. I understand from the 6music interview that he was quite politically active too. What I'd like to see is the background that the documentary promises.

Wow. And it isn't even Caturday yet.

No. It's Teebles!

Fair enough. I wonder if there is a recognised age at which kids do switch on. I mean other than wanting to live the lifestyle (as they perceive it from the media). I was wanting to play guitars from about the age of eleven or so. It was purely because I saw and heard them on TOTP and thought I'd love to do that. Of course I wasn't really interested in doing the work... I just wanted a guitar as an ornament really. I only got properly interested after I was pushed into playing bass for some friends. I'm interested because I had had musical tuition at primary some years earlier (recorder and the "promise" of violin later). That stopped when we left England. That experience and the later desire to become a guitarist never sort of met in the middle with me. Schools back then tended to feed the notion that if a piece of music wasn't Classical, it wasn't really music. I hated the tuition. I still have a problem with teachers in general. I get the impression that I am far from unique in this. Of course in these enlightened times ALL music is classified and therefore Classical. Well that's how I see it anyway.

If you've got photos from your builds we'd love to see them in the Build Diaries.

Zappa - An Alex Winter Film They've just been talking about it on 6music. Interestingly, Alec Winter is the actor from Bill and Ted's adventures... the one who WASN'T in The Matrix. So. Bonus.