knirirr

Just got back from a gig. This was a party in honour of a local jazz musician who died just before Christmas (made it to 90, and this would have been his birthday). He was a friend of our BL, so we volunteered to entertain. Good gig - the audience were very appreciative and enjoyed the material (inc. dancing at the end). The highlight for me was some recitation over musical accompaniment of prose reflecting the deceased's other hobby of ancient archaeology. The result resembled an extended jazz version of the Spinal Tap Stonehenge intro, with soprano sax noodling. Nice!

Enjoy! I got to grade 5 and found the lessons very helpful overall, even though I'm not playing classical right now. I hope it's similarly useful for you.

A totally awesome colour, esp. with that plate on it. For me it would be my Orange OBC112 cab. Sounds great, is the correct colour, and weighs a reasonable amount (I used to have to carry around a TE combo of much the same size but double the weight).

I suspect he's right; it doesn't actually know what it's doing any more than it does when writing boilerplate text. Some colleagues find that it gives them a good first approximation, though.

This book might be of interest: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil#preview I've encountered "AI" when it comes to programming and have found it to be of limited use at best, essentially as a fancy autocomplete when writing boilerplate code.

Here's my first bass. I should have kept it.

What was the issue? A problem with the conversion, or playing it afterwards?

Exactly this. The first bass I ever had was an unlined fretless, back in the 90s (Encore P copy) and it was easy enough to adapt to. I would struggle to play one with lines and dots in the same place as a fretted bass; it would be rather confusing. I'm reminded of an amusing exchange on another forum, which went along these lines: A: "Unlined fingerboards are stupid! You never see professionals who have unmarked tools - would a mechanic have spanners without the sizes marked on them?" B: "I program computers for a living and own a keyboard with no markings on the keys." A: "No one cares what nerds think!"

Looking good - I hope you're still enjoying it!

100% I must have re-started playing around 2016-17 and it's taken until the end of this year to manage to play a gig with the variety of music I like and a band able to do it justice. To get there involved quite a bit of networking at jams, though I found the drummer by advertising on JMB.

So did I. Recently, I played a tape of my first gig to a teacher, who thought that the intonation was good but the choice of notes ... less so ... No ponytail involved, but I'd have one if I could get the rest of my hair back to go with it. BTW I always try to drop in to Machynlleth when passing.

I don't know... But, at both jams I attended this month someone either brought a fretless bass guitar or promised to do so in January.

Quite! Unfortunately playing those one tends to meet extreme fans or haters (I have given them up for the moment).

Indeed, though I think that fretted bass clickbait is long overdue a cultural reappraisal.

Claimed!

I saw this anon opinion earlier today: Is that an accurate representation of how they are viewed? BTW, I got one out at a rehearsal a few months ago, prompting the saxophonist to comment that fretless bass guitars appeared to be prevalent in Oxfordshire. Perhaps they are popular everywhere.

I traded in my old iPhone for a Pixel but still have the box, inc. a cable. If it would be of use to anyone then I can send it on for the cost of postage (again, I guess that £5 would cover it).

These appear to be in good condition, and I think the green silks mean they're Fenders. The numbered markers came off some Labella strings I put on instead. They were on a Jazz. Yours if you don't mind paying for postage (£5 ought to cover it). I would want to post them after Christmas due to being away and also the evil queues at the local post office.

From time to time I drop in and perhaps ought to do so more often, though I have been looking at https://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/ a bit more frequently.

I've not been banned, but I was blackguarded by one of the big-shots as an incompetent and a racist for not liking a particular sub-genre ... which I had said I enjoyed listening to earlier in the thread. There was a lot of miscommunication in that discussion and the mods deleted a lot of it. They have changed the design making it harder navigate and so I visit less often now.

Strangely, on those occasions where I find it easier to take an EUB there's usually at least one person who will comment on how cool and/or expensive it looks. It's a cheap EUB and sounds a bit rubbish compared with the acoustic but no-one seems to notice (except double bassists).

It works if one follows Mr. Neely and regularly watches his videos. Perhaps not otherwise...

Ah, then you missed the bit where he says something along the lines of "everything I've said up until now in this video is complete bull****", then proceeds to explain why, for the rest of the video.

Adam Neely did an interesting video on A=432

Though I normally only play 4 strings (because it's a pretty standard 3/4 DB) this thread has tempted me to borrow Mrs. K's 5-string to try out at a jam. They normally do the Christmas jam in a room where the ceiling's too low to stand up with my DB.