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Neil Mahony Jesse F. Keeler Jeff Caxide Scott Reeder Steven Hodson Troy Sanders Cliff Burton Dominic Aitchison Chris Wolstenholme Justin Chancellor I wanted to put JPJ and Geezer on but I figured they're recognised enough, these are all bassisys whose playing I think is not neccaserrily virtuosic, but unique and inspired, and a huge influence on me.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1345657579' post='1780170'] Hmm... Anyone near York with one of these slim necks? [/quote] So YOU'RE the Micklegate strangler!

Love my thru-neck NS2000, I've never played anything that sounds better to my ears, it's just perfect for everything.

P bass into cranked SVT, simple as that, only pedal I ever saw him use was a volume pedal for muting between songs.

It depends, I'm not a fan of basing an entire song around a sample, like black eyed peas did with misirlou, to me that's a cover, no matter how originally you interpret it, it's a cover. But sampling can be used very artistically, DJ Shadow's Endtroducing was made using entirely sampled sounds (and in fact was the first album to do so) He arranged and manipulated dozens of samples to create a unique song. Personally I don't see much difference between that and "regular" musicians choosing which notes to play in which order. Any guitarist can play F, A#, G#, and C# power chords, but only Kurt Cobain could make them into Smells Like Teen Spirit. Same with sampling, tell me this is just uncreative plagiarism: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32X-ieCav-M[/media]

[url="http://britishtheatre.bandcamp.com/releases"]http://britishtheatre.bandcamp.com/releases[/url] Like having your ears washed out by beautiful, naked, tatoeed angels. Or another less weird image.

[quote name='Jack Cahalane' timestamp='1345426711' post='1777433'] Looks like she came back to bump you off [/quote] Luckily no, that was due to my complete lack of hand-eye coordination and accidentally hitting enter. We were all looking over our shoulders for a few days though, none of us had the nerve to tell her in person, we wussed out and sent her an email. She was seriously crazy, not charming "you're wearing a top hat and carrying a cane, that's so kooky!" crazy, more "what smells weir...OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT CHEESE?!?!" sort of crazy.

I've found one good singer in 8 years of looking, and she was completely insane, we had to kick her out after she brought a dead squirrel to a practice. She could sing though, man and those legs! I fear I'm getting sidetracked. I think singers need natural talent more than any other instrument, there's no safety net. We have frets (except fretless, obviously), so as long it's tuned properly, we know we're hitting the right notes, singers have to hit notes with just their ears to guide them.

[quote name='Ancient Mariner' timestamp='1344862312' post='1770217'] snipped for neatness [/quote] Some awesome suggestions there thanks, exaclty what I was after, I'd have probably completely overlooked godins, but that leaf top looks very sexy. I know there's delay on that guitar part (I do actually have the delay pedal he uses) but the actual tone is just his guitar (no doubt with a touch of reverb, but still), trouble is he plays a home made SG with hand wound pickups, so kind of hard to emulate. I'm not wedded to twin humbuckers it's just what I know, is there another pickuip setup that's likely to get me a better tone? I've always found stock strats to be very twangy personally. A tele is probably closer to the tone I'm after but they just don't like value for money to me. Keep em coming

Joining an ambient/weird project that will probably require me to cross to the dark side a lot, so it's time for an upgrade from the crappy vintage PRS copy. I could just go for a 2'nd hand mexican tele and be done with it but I've always loved slightly fringe, under appreciated guitars, unfortunatley my knowledge in this area is not as extensive as I had assumed, so I open the floor to you, the BC public, for suggestions on decent, interesting guitars that can be had for £300 or less 2'nd hand. I'd love an Adam Black Apollo, but they seem to be annoyingly rare on evilBay, but that's the kind of thing I'm aiming for. I've kind of gotten used to twin humbuckers so I'm probably looking for that, I'm gonna be playing clean most of the time so it needs a really nice round clean tone with lots of sustain. The intro of this is my eternal aim in clean guitar tone: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWfBUMipul8[/media] My ideal would be a '72 deluxe tele but I can't really stretch that far even 2'nd hand. I had considered an FMT Tele but they don't really seem value for money to me.

Few more Oceansize ones (hey, I can't help it if Vennart's a lyrical genius....): "Well junkie says is not what junkie do" - New Pin "Feathernest, invest and gain, shiny brass is milk and grain, and yours is to just sustain and chip away with haste" - Ornament/The last wrongs "And did you know, that everything you touch is blessed and all the richer. for your love a better being. If I display just a fraction of the soul you shared in this world, then I know I'll see you again" - Music For A Nurse And of course some more Falco: "My band is better than your band, we got more songs than a song convention" - mclusky, to hell with good intentions "First we organise the parents, then we arm them with our jam, next we send them to environmental health inspectors while we make our stand: No free lunch" - Future of the Left, destroywhitchurch.com "I can't let something as french as fear determine this insecurity" - FOTL, with apologies to Emily Pankhurst "What kind of orgy leaves a sense of deeper love?" - FOTL, you need satan more than he needs you Hmm, that's a lot, oh well, lyrics is nice.

"All of your friends are c***s, your mother is a ballpoint pen thief"- mclusky, Gareth Brown Says "Where others float, you and I crash land" - Oceansize, Savant

Always on headphones, I have a really crap ear for pitch so for some tricky stuff I eq it to isolate the bassline, then put my bass through the pc and play along what i think it is, if it beats horribly, it's wrong, try the next idea, and so on.

http://soundcloud.com/bestfitmusic/british-theatre-as-the-leaves Oh it's good, it's very very good.

My shubb is invaluable now, I tune to D standard/drop C and have really heavy gauge strings on so I can't tune higher, so a capo is a neccessity if I need to play something wirtten in standard that relies on open strings. A bassist who can play Hysteria perfectly in D standard without a capo in the original key is a better bassist than I.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kqoWFrK2v0

I did think of vacuum cleaner (my first thought though was a vacuum chamber, that should give assume insight into my thought processes) but do I not risk catching the cone and ripping it or tearing the surround? Double sided sticky tape seems like the best idea, I'll give it a shot

This is about my hi fi speakers but I Couldn't think of a better place for it. I left my speakers (obviously unwisely...) In a room where children are allowed to roam free and wreak havoc, and they have poked the dust caps on the main drivers and the tweeters, the main ones are paper but the tweeters are aluminium. Does this actually affect performance and if it does how can it be rectified?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcY3UF6_IaM Basically the last 5 minutes is a solo, and it's a perfect solo, it's about melody not technical w***ery. Not sure I'd call it a solo really but the guitar melody that comes in at 4:27 is just sublime, as is the whole song, it's a masterclass in melody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlU0zA8zOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSiKxC7p_w Had to upload it for a potential band for some reason they insisted on actually seeing me play...

http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-future-lefts-ferocious-plot-against-common-sense Oh it's good. It's very good.

Aah yea, it's the HBE Hematoma, It looked MXR sized to me.

No idea what the chequered one is, could be a custom switching unit or something. He used a Prunes and Custard and Octave Multiplexers for the Resistance touring. All the Way Huge stuff is new though, he's probably experimenting in the studio. The pedal drawers are only half out though, his Resistance setup is here: http://www.musewiki.org/images/Bass_Guitar_Magazine_2009-10-04_h.jpg http://www.musewiki.org/images/Bass_Guitar_Magazine_2009-10-04_g.jpg

The problem essentially comes down to peoples ideas of what a bass [i]should [/i]sound like or what the bassist is [i]supposed [/i]to be playing. Without wishing to offend anyone I think most of the players who question the value of effects are of the pub covers or generic rock ilk, who have a somewhat traditional view of bass as fulfilling a specified role. But look at a bass. What is it? It's 4 wires streched across a plank of wood with a couple of magnets and some electronics. It's an instrument for making sound, who's to say that one way of playing it is more valid than any other. I use effects because there are sounds I want to make that my bass can't produce. If I can make them with a bass and some pedals, why shouldn't I? Why should I have to not use those sounds or switch to a different instrument? I just don't see the point of not doing something that I [i]can [/i]do because of some arbitrary "traditions".