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The hard hitter will be a pain,your ears will bleed in small pubs. the hang is half of it, you have to be relaxed in each others company. Audition the nervous younger dude. Maybe meet for a drink around the corner BEFORE the audition. See if he is better when relaxed. The older guy may indeed be rusty, but it doesn't take long to get back into it I'd audition him again too. You're the bassist,you need to be able to trust his playing and gel with him, your opinion carries more weight thatn the others imho ymmv

I wanted songwriting credits on a song we recorded years ago because my bass riff was the most recognisable riff in the song. Guitard said that you can't copyright a bassline, a bassline does not make a song I replied with Pink Floyd's Money. Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, Sir Paul's Silly Love Songs...........

SO TRUE. they should be paying US for the privilege of first dibs

I would ask for a youtube clip or soundcloud clip of each person before agreeing to jam, so many timewasters out there. You showed class to stick it out and not walk, I don't know if I would have the patience.

No black? that's anti-rock and roll man. though function bands aren't really rock and roll, more like corporate music machines

now you mention it, I was at the mixing desk at the time, she probably thought I was the sound guy lol, talk about having low standards lol

a young American couple sat front row at our gig. We are a 4 piece, acoustic and electric guitars, drums and bass. American:"woo wooo, play L.A. Woman" oh, we are all original, not one cover PS remember, no keyboards in this band. Our guitarist "we just played that,and we don't do repeats." rotfl then there was how I met my ex.......setting up the PA for a Sunday arvo gig she walks up to me, puts her arms around my neck and said "take me home and $%#^ me" "ummmm we're playing two sets" I made the drummer speed up in every song, by the end of the gig we were doing Ramones versions of everything hehe

PRO TIP: repeat the "mistake" next time around so it seems you did it on purpose, that's JAZZ

tried a set on my MIM P bass and love them. Smoothness of flats, almost, brighter yet no zingy clank like rounds. Best of both worlds.

it's a process of elimination. try a different bass try a different instrument cable try a different speaker cable try a different head etc

you are only ever a half step away from a correct note

post of the year already !

your handspan does increase with practice and time. If anyone doubts this , hold your hands together, palms touching, thumbs and fingers touching their opposite one. Now fan out your fingers as wide as you can. Your fretting hand should have a wider span. In my case it is the width of my pinky. Don't fret (geddit?) the one finger one fret thing, Using index middle and pinky works really well, and further up the neck one finger one fret is easier .

the half rounds are smooth like flats, with just a bit of the round wound profile, kind of like Elixir nanowebs

I have Jazz basses with rounds and flats, a P with flats (chromes) and one with D'Addario half rounds. Love and use all of them. The P with half rounds is my go to these days coz it gives me the smooth feel of flats with a bit of the growl of rounds

so....it's not a p bass, it's a d bass hyuck hyuck

Mannish Boy and Crossroads

used gear, you can usually on-sell it for the same price you paid for it SO IT"S KINDA FREE does it count?

well, all young people know that nasa faked the moon landings.... yet they believe in zombies and vampires

it's a sign of the times. with anything I buy, with a brief google search before ringing or walking in to any retail shop, I already am better informed than the salesperson, who's job it is to know everything about that item.

me neither. I have a Visa debit card for online buying and payment of bills etc. I only put money into it just before buying something and only enough to cover that. If it ever gets hacked they won't get more than $5

this is the work of the devil, be gone with you! we need an intervention methinks...... optimal number of basses to own = b + 1 where b is current number of basses owned repeat after me, optimal number of basses = .....

one day I was playing along to Neil Diamond and wonderred who the bassist was, Shilo had a great bassline. Then I played America by Simon and Garfunkel and wonderred the same thing. Looked it up and found out it was Joe. His discography is mind blowing. Then I find out he is dying and now this. Thanks Joe, I've learnt SO much from your basslines Arranged by year, artist, title and Chart Position 1961, Rick Nelson, Travelin Man, 1 1965, Gary Lewis/Playboys, This Diamond Ring, 1 1965, Barry McGre, Eve of Destruction, 1 1966, Mamas and Papas, Monday Monday, 1 1966, Johnny Rivers, Poor Side of Town, 1 1967, Association, Windy, 1 1969, Fifth Dimension, Wedding Bell Blues, 1 1969, Tommy Roe, Dizzy, 1 1970, Carpenters, Close To You, 1 1970, Neil Diamond, Cracklin Rose, 1 1970, Partridge Family, I Think I Love You, 1 1970, Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1 1972, Helen Reddy, I Am Woman, 1 1973, Carpenters, Top of the World, 1 1973, Helen Reddy, Delta Dawn, 1 1974, Carpenters, Please, Mr. Postman, 1 1964, Johnny Rivers, Memphis, 2 1965, Gary Lewis/Playboys, Count Me In, 2 1965, Gary Lewis/Playboys, Save Your Heart For Me, 2 1967, Mamas and Papas, Dedicated To the One I Love, 2 1968, Association, Never My Love, 2 1968, Richard Harris, MacArthur Park, 2 1970, Carpenters, Superstar, 2 1970, Carpenters, Weve Only Just Begun, 2 1970, Fifth Dimension, One Less Bell to Answer, 2 1971, Carpenters, Rainy Days and Mondays, 2 1972, Carpenters, Hurting Each Other, 2 1973, Carpenters, Yesterday Once More, 2 1976, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Id Really Love to See You, 2 1966 , Johnny Rivers, Secret Agent Man, 3 1967 , JohnnyRivers, Baby, I Need Your Lovin, 3 1968 , Fifth Dimension, Stone Soul Picnic, 3 1968 , Monkees, Valleri, 3 1969 , Bobby Sherman, Little Women, 3 1971 , Carpenters, For All We Know, 3 1973 , Carpenters, Sing, 3 1973 , Helen Reddy, Leave Me Alone, 3 1965 , Gary Lewis/Playboys, Everybody Loves a Clown, 4 1966 , Mamas & Papas, California Dreamin, 4 1967 , Scott Mackenzie, San Francisco, 4 1974 , America, Tin Man, 4 1975 , Carpenters, Only Yesterday, 4 1962 , Rick Nelson, Teenage Idol, 5 1962 , Rick Nelson, YoungWorld, 5 1966 , Mamas & Papas, Words of Love, 5 1967 , Mamas & Papas, CreequeAlley, 5 1968 , Grass Roots, Midnight Confession, 5 1968 , Kenny Rogers &, Just Dropped In, 5 , The First Edition 1970 , Bobby Sherman, Julie, Do You Love Me?, 5 1974, Neil Diamond, Longfellow Serenade, 5 1975, America, Lonely People, 5 1977, KennyRogers, Lucille, 5 1962, Rick Nelson, Its Up to You, 6 1964, Rick Nelson, ForYou, 6 1966, Mamas & Papas, I Saw Her Again, 6 1966, Tommy Roe, Hurray for Hazel, 6 1969, Kenny Rogers &, Ruby, 6 , The First Edition 1969 , Neil Diamond, Holly Holy, 6 1970 , Barbra Streisand, Stoney End, 6 1972 , Johnny Rivers, Rockin Pneumonia, 6 1971 , Partridge Family, Doesnt Somebody, 6 , , Want to Be Wanted? 1965 , Johnny Rivers, Seventh Son, 7 1967 , Fifth Dimension, Up, Up, and Away, 7 1969 , Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 7 1971 , Tommy Roe, Stagger Lee, 7 1972 , Carpenters, Goodbye to Love, 7 1966 , Gary Lewis/Playboys, Green Grass, 8 1968 , Boyce & Hart, I Wonder What Shes Doin, 8 1969 , Tommy Roe, Jam Up, Jelly Tight, 8 1972 , America, Ventura Highway, 8 1972 , Fifth Dimension, Didnt Get to Sleep at All, 8 1975, Helen Reddy, No Way to Treat a Lady, 8 1961, Rick Nelson, Hello, Mary Lou, 9 1964, Johnny Rivers , Mountain of Love, 9 1967, Spanky & Our Gang, Sunday Will Never Be the Same, 9 1969, Bobby Sherman, La La La, 9 1970, Bobby Sherman, Easy Come, Easy Go, 9 1971, Grass Roots, Sooner or Later, 9 1971, Partridge Family, Ill Meet Ya Halfway, 9 1973, Art Garfunkel, All I Know, 9 1973, B.W. Stevenson, My Maria, 9 1974, Helen Reddy, You and Me Against the World , 9 1975, Austin Roberts, Rocky, 9 1978, England Dan & John Ford Coley , Well Never Have to Say Goodbye Again , 9 1982, Sylvia, Nobody, 9 1967, Johnny Rivers, Tracks of My Tears, 10 1968, Association, EverythingThat TouchesYou, 10 1970, Mark Lindsay, Arizona, 10 1972, Fifth Dimension, If I Could ReachYou, 10 1976, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Nights Are Forever, 10 1961, Rick Nelson, A Wonder Like You, 11 1970, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Somethins Burnin, 11 1974, Carpenters, I Wont Last a Day, 11 1963, Rick Nelson, Fools Rush In, 12 1964, Johnny Rivers, Maybelle, 12 1968, Cass Elliott, Dream a Little Dream, 12 1971, FifthDimension, Never My Love, 12 1972, Carpenters, Its Going to Take Some Time, 12 1972, Austin Roberts, Somethings Wrong With Me, 12 1973, Helen Reddy, Peaceful, 12 1976, Carpenters, Theres a Kind of Hush, 12 1966, Gary Lewis/Playboys, My Heart Symphony, 13 1968, Fifth Dimension, Sweet Blindness, 13 1971, Helen Reddy, I Dont Know How to Love Him , 13 1972, Partridge Family, I Woke Up in Love, 13 1967, Johnny Rivers, Summer Rain, 14 1966, Gary Lewis/Playboys, Paint Me a Picture, 15 1969, Grass Roots, Id Wait a Million Years, 15 1971, Grass Roots, Temptation Eyes, 15 1974, Helen Reddy, Keep On Singing, 15 1961, Rick Nelson, EverLovin, 16 1967, Fifth Dimension, Go Where You Wanna Go, l 6 1971, Grass Roots, Two Divided By Love, 16 1971, Bobby Sherman, Cry Like a Baby, 16 1981, Carpenters, Touch Me When Were Dancin, 16 1968, Spanky & Our Gang, Like to Get to Know You, 17 1970, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Tell It to Brother, 17 1975, Carpenters, Solitaire, 17 1976, Art Garfunkel, I Only Have Eyes For You, 18 1966, Johnny Rivers, Muddy Water, 19 1968, Gary Lewis/Playboys, Sealed With a Kiss, 19 1969, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, But You Know I Love You, 19 1970, Glen Campbell, Honey Come Back, 19 1971, Fifth Dimension, Love Lines, Angels & Rhymes, 19 1976, Helen Reddy, Somewhere in the Night, 19 1982, Michael Murphy, Whats Forever For, 19 1965, Johnny Rivers, Midnight Special, 20 1967, Mamas & Papas, TwelveThirty, 20 1969, Fifth Dimension, Workin On a Groovy Thing, 20 1970, Michael Parks, Long Lonesome Highway, 20 1972, Partridge Family, Its One of Those Nights, 20 1977, Olivia Newton John, Sam, 20 1967, GaryLewis/Playboys , Where Will Words Come From , 21 1970, Fifth Dimension, Blowing Away, 21 1977, EnglandDan &, Its Sad to Belong, 21 , John Ford Coley 1975, Helen Reddy, Emotion, 22 1967, Grass Roots, Things I Should Have Said, 23 1967, Tommy Roe, Its Now Winters Day, 23 1969, Glen Campbell, Try a Little Kindness, 23 1977, England Dan &, Gone Too Far, 23 , John Ford Coley 1966, Mamas & Papas, Look Through My Window, 24 1967, Scott Mackenzie, Like an Old-Time Movie, 24 1969, Grass Roots, HeavenKnows, 24 1970, Fifth Dimension, Puppet Man, 24 1970, Bobby Sherman, Hey, Mr. Sun!, 24 1963, Rick Nelson, String Along, 25 1969, Fifth Dimension, California Soul, 25 1970, Mark Lindsay, Silver Bird, 25 1976, Carpenters, I Need to Be In Love, 26 1964, Rick Nelson, The Very Thought of You, 26 1965, Johnny Rivers, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, 26 1967, Glen Campbell, By the Time I Get to Phoenix , 26 1967, Mamas & Papas, Glad to Be Unhappy , 26 1969, Glen Campbell, Wheres the Playground, Suzie , 26 1970, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Reuben James, 26 1968, Boyce & Hart, Alice Long, 27 1970, Glen Campbell, All I Have to Do is Dream, 27 1970, Fifth Dimension, Save the Country, 27 1966, Grass Roots, Where Were You When I Needed You, 28 1969, Grass Roots, Bella Linda, 28 1972, Partridge Family, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 28 1968, Fifth Dimension, Carpet Man, 29 1969, Tommy Roe, Heather Honey, 29 1971, Bobby Sherman, The Drum, 29 1968, Spanky & Our Gang, Sunday Morning, 30 1969, Cass Elliott, Its Getting Better, 30 1967, Spanky & Our Gang, Make Every Minute Count, 31 1969, Grass Roots, The River Is Wide, 31 1971, Glen Campbell, Dream Baby, 31 1974, Albert Hammond, Im a Train, 31 1970, John Philips, Mississippi, 32 1973, Fifth Dimension, LivingTogether, 32 1977, Carpenters, Calling Occupants, 32 1966, Johnny Rivers, Under Your Spell Again, 33 1970, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Heed the Call, 33 1976, Olivia Newton John, Dont Stop Believin, 33 1967, Fifth Dimension, Paper Cup, 34 1972, Grass Roots, Glory Bound, 34 1973, Neil Diamond, Be, 34 1974, Art Garfunkel, Second Avenue, 34 1969, Glen Campbell, TrueGrit, 35 1970, Grass Roots, Baby, Hold On!, 35 1973, America, Dont Cross River, 35 1975, Helen Reddy, Bluebird, 35 1977, Carpenters, All You Can Get From Love, 35 1968, Glen Campbell, I Want to Live, 36 1969, Glen Campbell, Let It Be Me, 36 1969, Cass Elliott, Make Your Own Kind of Music, 36 1972, Fifth Dimension, Together Lets Find Love, 37 1974, Art Garfunkel, I Shall Sing, 38 1975, Johnny Rivers, Blue Suede Shoes, 38 1967, Boyce & Hart, Out and About, 39 1968, Association, Time For Lovin, 39 1968, Glen Campbell, Gentle On My Mind, 39 1972, Grass Roots, TheRunaway, 39 1973, Partridge Family, Look Through the Eyes of Love, 39 1966, The Turtles, You, Baby, 40

I bought an SX shortie P bass and it played really well. Much better than it's $220 Aust price tag would suggest.

thanks for sharing , John Robert is one the most underrated bassists. His basslines on STP songs are so melodic