musicbassman

Never mind the flash stuff, learn to play any of the classic Motown lines accurately and with feeling. And if you think that's easy, you're doing it wrong. And when you meet a bass player who's possibly a bit better than you, swallow your pride, put your ego back on the shelf and try and learn from them. And, yes, never ever leave your gear in the car. Ever. Your luck will definitely run out at some time.

When you're last minute depping with a band and at the gig have a complete mental blank about the next song that you apparently ran through with them at an impromptu rehearsal that afternoon. Singer, to me : "we're going to do ' Be My Bad Move Dreamer' next" Me: Blank look.................. Singer: " It starts with the bass - remember??? Me: Errr............File not found Singer: "do-do-dar- dum-dum" (Pulls a bass face and plays imaginary bass) ..........."Remember ?" Me: 😥 Guitarist: "No, actually we never did go through that one" Me: ............🙂.....................☺️😊☺️

Yes, it can't be denied he has a look of extreme concentration on his face. Maybe this will explain for those that don't know: http://www.ktvu.com/news/tower-of-power-member-returns-to-yoshis-following-horrific-train-accident

Careful guys - with these attitudes to punters. It's something I used to be very guilty of myself in the arrogance of my younger gigging days - regarding any customers as 'dim punters' if they didn't react favourably to your playing or ignored you. It's better to try and engage with these people - so if you're going to put a PA speaker 12" from their faces when you're setting up then you could at least suggest with a smile on your face that they might like to move tables "as it might get a bit loud and we don't want to deafen you" or something like that. OK, they may not be the sharpest tools in the box but they're still human beings and people usually respond favourably to someone taking even the slightest interest in them and their wellbeing. And then it all helps create a good atmosphere in the place which is beneficial for all. Just a thought, nothing personal.

I would imagine some dad rock bands struggling to book the occasional pub gig would be lucky to receive the 3 hour rate for the whole band, never mind each.

Ouch! - my nether regions retracted and my toes curled when I saw that pic - bloody hell, literally. Can someone explain some does and donts for using superglue in an emergency? - I would never have thought of this.

Just listened to this - Sibob is an interesting and obviously very experienced player with a lot of sage advice. My only request would be to keep the podcasts to 45 mins - this was an hour and 5mins. I can guess how difficult this is to edit down, but maybe keep the conversation to certain aspects of someones career or playing tips etc rather than making it so general? Well done anyway!

So, has anyone got a first batch JV with the large fender logo but with the 62 spec ??? - or do they even exist ?

I have a 57 with a maple neck. It's one of the early ones with the large fender logo. Serial no. is JV 07768. I understood that all the first batch large fender logo ones were 57's, but someone else may know better ?

A Danelectro Longhorn, bought secondhand in 1969! Here I am playing in a folk rock band in Exeter in 1971 called Retrospect. I think that's a pick hanging out of my mouth, not a fag. We won the Melody Maker rock contest for the South West area, and then bombed miserably at the finals held at The Roundhouse in Camden. I remember we really felt like innocent country bumpkins up in The Big City. A young Phil Beer is the violin player here, since these early days he's had a long a well respected career playing with Paul Downs as 'Show of Hands' - well known on the folk circuit for many years. In 1972 I sent the Danelectro up to John Birch in Birmingham to fit a Rickenbacker back pup to this - hoping to get more punch and sustain. The result was an iconic bass ruined for no gain and quite a lot of expense, I recall. The stupidity of youth, as ever.

Wife and kids sleep in the garden ? Seems fair.................

I wouldn't have minded, but I'd heard so much about Muzz's and discreet's apres-gig parties, and I'd been expecting so much more.

54! Jeez, that's a roomful. Think we have a winner here, but not sure what the prize is - a larger house maybe.. Are they kept cased or do you have them all tastefully arranged on display ? Got pictures?

I met up with chimike yesterday - he's local to me. What a lovely guy. Anyway, he admitted that he owns 40 basses....... I own one ! Can any BCers top 40? Chimike is a collector, well that's his excuse...........What's yours?

OK, obi 2 kenobi, what we really want to know is what exactly were you searching for to get this as a result ??? Traditional untainted German culture?............... Ahem..... Tight leather shorts????..........Cough............. Band vacancies in Bavaria ??????????????

I don't know who the bass player is, but a great demonstration of restrained and purposeful playing there.

Genius!

432Hz be damned! Try this test...................

OK, just had a quick listen to this on Youtube - I think you'll need to detune your bass about a quarter of a tone to be in pitch with this whilst you learn it. Then the chords are just D - Em and back to D, and now and then it's D - Em - Bm - Em. I suspect you might have had problems as the bass is so mixed in with the kick - this makes it a bit tricky to discern, and if you add in the quarter tone drop this wouldn't have helped. Hope this helps!

Sorry, but have just watched some of this and I stick with what i said earlier - -he's incredibly talented but the end product sounds completely sanitised and risk free - ready to sell to those nice middle aged and middle class folks in Tunbridge Wells..................

Yes, bonkers talented, but I think he's in great danger of getting sucked into the easy listening "oooh, that sounds a bit like sophisticated jazz" MOR market............ Still, more talent in one fingernail there than ten of me !! - so good luck to him. By the way, there's stuff online of him playing with Rob Mullarkey that's worth checking out.

Well - firstly - watching these two middle aged guys pulling faces is not really great to look at, so maybe best just listened to. So, I tried this, and it did make a bit more sense - a bit. It's just a long and rambling musical journey, and some of the vocalisations are quite impressive. But did I like it? Errr - no. But I'll try anything once, so thanks to OP 👌

Hope your amp was set up correctly. Wouldn't want any clipping...........................

Well, if we're going back a bit, here I am playing with a band called East Side Cruisers at the Greyhound in Fulham Palace Road in1975............. ................. '63 Precision ! Wonder where it is now................