Barking Spiders

All the CDs i bought in the 80s are all in fine fettle with barely a scratch

There are more than enough good free tutorials by Scott, Mark Smith and other good tutors on YT for me to bother with signing up to any one site. I like Scott's enthusiasm so I probably would sign up to his bass academy ting if I ever decide to part with the readies

And the 70s threw up more than it's fair share of dung.

probably one of them yep, no argument there. Possibly the best singles rock band of the 60s. Better than The Beatles and Stones IMO

Soz Rog I dont agree. My taste in rock leans more towards British post punk of the 80s and US alt rock of the late 80s mid 90s so the peak is probably somewhere around 1984-86 in Blighty and 90-93 in the US. Never a great fan of the Who meself. Some good singles but the albums seem a bit patchy.

sure is. When I listen to the From the Archives series there's so many quality tunes FSOL must be ultra picky guys not to have included them on their albums proper.

Of late and as I work right now it's all been back to back Future Sound of London, their entire From The Archives and Environments series.

ahem, UB40, reggae? More like pop with a reggae tinge.

Good thread. Never thought about the wall pose as being a bit cliched but what about moody side faces

Ever since 'Johnny' made his first appearance in the Chuck Berry song (or mebbe even before JBG), he's cropped up time and again in a zillion rock and country songs over the following decades. It must be the same Johnny as he's this badass dude from the wrong side of the tracks, who don't care for nobody. He lives fast and eventually dies young (usually in an RTA) , only to be reborn to appear in another song about some crazy renegade who don't give a s***. His girl loves him but he's one moody mutha who thinks nothing of robbing the local liquor store etc. Meanwhile in the history of the rock song where are the Phils, the Daves, the Chrisses, the Dereks.? Maybe someone here has a written a song about this fella called Clive. As well as 'Johnny', another popular rock song character is the 'workin man' a poor blue collar geezer who toils hard and sweats blood to do right by his family but in the end he's beaten down by the Man / done wrong by his woman. Of course, the working man never works in a call centre or Carphone Warehouse and has a comfortable PAYE income. Are there any other characters that crop up time and again in song?

for me funk, reggae, disco and jazz funk is where the bass guitar is at but no one was playing any of those at Biggest Weekend. The friday and saturday Belfast line-ups definitely looked the stronger IMO. I forgot to mention David Holmes though he only played a DJ set.

Clearly BC generally seen as a forum dedicated to the bass guitar but obviously there are also many instruments which use the bass clef. What about the bass singer in opera or doo-wap groups? The tuba in brass bands? The (contra) bassoon in orchestras? The bass synth in dance music? Anyone here play the euphonium or baritone horn? For me some of the best bass sounds come from the church organ, I mean those big muthas in cathedrals with pipes several metres tall. Is this kinda talk sacrilege?

Ha that's me. I'm on BC because I play bass. Tres simple

And other here for WWFAS bassline. Good time to growing up in Liverpool with the likes of CC around town. The Icicle Works were another 80s Liverpool alt pop band with some tasty bass going on by Chris Layhe

The three tunes i used to always try to get bands I've been in to play were ; Get Down Tonight by KC and the Sunshine Band, Aint Gonna Bump No More ..by Joe Tex and Disco Inferno by Trammps. Not so much for the basslines but because these are great for filling the dancefloor

Apart from Underworld, Orbital and Public Service Broadcasting I had a big fat zero interest in anything else going on

Seems to me music in general and live music in particular is a bit of a niche taste and that broadcasting companies are only responding to demand. BARB viewing stats bear this out with Later not even among BBC2s 30 most watched, coming way below repeats of Dad's Army, snooker, Eggheads and progs to do with the countryside. So, don't think any TV company will be in a rush to stick on more music unless it's chart fodder.

Yoiks, when I come across various posts about tones, rig set ups, custom jobs, string selection, rewiring pick ups etc I feel very random and amateur in my hit n' miss approach to bass playing. In 25 years I've never replaced any factory settings and tend to do nowt more technical than playing about with combinations of effects settings and tones controls on the bass and amp. Just wondering if anyone else is like me in this respect or would your bands not allow you to get away with it?

qualifying what I said about rather seeing bands do covers than originals, they've gotta be more imaginative / less predictable in their choice of songs. Problem for me is, over many years most of the bands I've seen gigging in pubs have pretty conservative and overly familiar setlists.

you're right but i bought my basses and guitars all for less than £500, so not exactly highly sought after models. I' not having much luck with trying to sell on FB or through old school approaches . So cheers to you guys who gave the heads up for the Cov shop. Def give that a go

+ 2 here as a rule if it's any genre other than funk , not that I see many bands playing this. If i do hear a band playing funk stuff i don't now but they swing with a heavy groove then I'm happy. If it's rock of any sort then they'd have to be mostly covers

I've not been in a band for a few years now but in my 20s and 30s I was in a couple of dozen. Would I have paid a paltry entry fee to see them live? Maybe a funk/dub one in was in but none of the rock/indie /covers mobs I was in. And would I have walked put on any of them if they'd struck up while I was already in the pub? Yep, at least a dozen of them.

I want to part ex a large chunk of my guitar, bass and drum collection and could do with a good idea of music stores that do good part ex deals, in any of these areas; Bristol, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Coventry, Brum, Oxfordshire. cheers

The one I'm still after is the Ar$equake. It's a bit like searching for the Holy Grail and I'm 95% there. The tone should have the power and meatiness that can rumble your bowels, a sort of unEarthly cross between JJ Burnel's classic early sound, Louis Johnson or Mark King giving it extra large layered with a bit of Peter Hook. My Cort GB74 is the bass for the job but I'm working on a combination of the right tone settings and effects units.

+ 1 here. if not some earnest beardy hipster then it's some born again, fey new age girlie with gossamer thin vocals strumming one chord a minute on her nylon string while warbling some Joni Mitchell