silverfoxnik

Here's a link to a new thread about the [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=27119"]Workshops[/url]

Hi Folks, Here's the details for the Workshops that'll be taking place at the SE Bash later this month. As you know, it's taking place here: HOLIDAY INN Clandon Suite 1 & 2 EGERTON ROAD GUILDFORD, GU2 7XZ ENGLAND on [b]Saturday 27th September[/b], starting at [b]10am[/b], finishing at [b]5.30pm[/b] (though we have the room until 6pm). [b]Cost: £10.00.[/b] Any profits raised will be split between (i) Basschat and (ii) the disability charity I work for, which is The Enable Me Project (www.enableme.org.uk). Here's a quick outline of the workshops planned for the day, though exact workshop times may be subject to change as I'm still waiting for everyone concerned to get back to me to confirm their times. These will all be taking place in [b]Room 2[/b], which is smaller than the main room.. [u][b]Workshop 1: Joe White of Joe White Guitars[/b] (http://www.jwhite-guitarworkshops.co.uk/) [/u] Joe is a [b]luthier[/b] and will be doing a talk on what he calls [b]'the black art of being a luthier'[/b]. Joe has earned a great reputation for his work and our very own OBBM has used his services and rates them highly, which is good enough for me! Joe has offered to do [b]set-ups on the day[/b] for Basschatters at a discounted rate of [b]£50.00[/b] (as opposed to his normal charge of £80.00), but you will need to [b]bring your own strings with you[/b]. Thanks to Stingrayfan for the suggestion of having someone like Joe on the day! [u][b]Workshop 2: Adrian Ashton, Editor of Bass Guitar Magazine[/b][/u] Adrian has kindly offered to come and do a [b]Q&A session[/b] with us on the day and will also bring some of his [b]unique bass gear[/b] with him as well! Adrian is happy to talk about the kind of i[b]nterviews[/b] he has done and what it's like running [b]BGM[/b]! Should be fascinating As well as all that, Adrian is bringing some [b]back copies of BGM [/b]to sell, proceeds of which will go towards the pot of money raised on the day. so if you want [b]any particular back copies,[/b] post them up here so Adrian can see what is required! Thanks to OBBM for help with this. [u][b]Workshop 3: John East[/b][/u] I hardly need to introduce John I would have thought, but for those of you who haven't heard of him and his amazing [b]East pre-amps[/b], [b]J-Retro[/b] etc, etc - where have you been?? We are very lucky because John is going to talk about his [b]different products[/b] and in particular, demonstrate his new [b]filter-based pre-amp[/b] that [b]Stanley Clarke[/b] is going to be using! As a fan of Wal basses, I am really looking forward to this! Again, thanks to OBBM for being 'the go-between'! [u][b]Workshop 4: Alex Claber[/b][/u] I have managed to 'gently persuade' Alex to talk us through the murky scientific world of [b]'acoustics'[/b] and [b]'speaker design' [/b]and I'm really pleased he's taken up the challenge! He'll be bringing his [b]self-built cabs[/b] to demonstrate and it would be good to hear suggestions of what other cabs it might be good to compare them to?? Personally, I have always been amazed at the [b]knowledge[/b] that we have available to us here on Basschat from other members and what's so stunning is that it's offered for FREE!! I've read many of Alex's posts on this subject and what with the many Basschatters using [b]BFM cabs[/b] and building their own, it seems to me that this is a subject we could all do with knowing more about! [u]Rough[b] times[/b] are:[/u] 10.30-11.45 Joe White 12.00-13.00 Adrian Ashton 13.15.14.00 John East 14.15-15.00 Alex Claber 15.00-16.00 Joe White Joe will also be available to do [b]set-ups throughout the day[/b] aside from his two sessions in Room 2, should people want them. Lastly, a couple of other things; 1) If you have any [b]questions that you'd like to ask[/b] any of the people holding the Workshops, please could you [b]PM them to me[/b] and I'll bring along a list of them all on the day - that way, we can always keep the sessions moving if there's any quiet moments when the questions dry up.. 2) Whist I'm away next week, [b]Merton[/b] & [b]WalMan[/b] will be around to field any questions and just to say, they have been brilliant in helping make this happen! 3) Also, if anyone else would like to [b]help on the day[/b] or has [b]any suggestions [/b]to improve things, please let us know.. Thanks! Sorry for such a long post and I hope it all makes sense... but I wanted to get everyone thinking in advance about what they would like to do with their time on the day! The people who've offered their time to do the Workshops have also been brilliant and [b]thanks[/b] to them for offering, but it's all about [b]YOU[/b] at the end of the day, so please come along and help make it totally, wonderfully, brilliant! Cheers Nik

Cheers folks, though this has been a [b]team[/b] effort, I can assure you...

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='278422' date='Sep 6 2008, 09:20 AM']C'mon guys! only 4 driving to the bash with room for others?! Think of the money you'll save in sharing the petrol cost!! Think of the camaraderie, the joyous glow of helping your fellow (wo)man! Think of the outcome of Dunkirk if none of the little ships helped! Give it a shot, give someone a lift![/quote] + 1 Well said! When WalMan, Merton and me travelled up for the main Bash in March we had a great laugh.. even when we got lost for ages

[quote name='ped' post='278592' date='Sep 6 2008, 02:08 PM']Blimey Nik, what an impressive schedule. I Can't wait! Cheers ped[/quote] Cheers Ped! Nor can I...

Hi Folks, Here's a brief update on the SE Bash. As you know, it's taking place here: [b]HOLIDAY INN[/b] Clandon Suite 1 & 2 EGERTON ROAD GUILDFORD, GU2 7XZ ENGLAND on [b]Saturday 27th September[/b] Starting at 10am, finishing at 5.30pm (though we have the room until 6pm). [b]Cost: £10.00[/b] Any profits raised will be split between (i) Basschat and (ii) the disability charity I work for, which is The Enable Me Project (www.enableme.org.uk). There are some key threads running at the moment about the Bash, so I'll recap on them quickly: 1. This thread - which in the main is listing who's coming 2. 'Rigs' thread - to make the gear issue manageable on the day 3. 'Lift-share' thread - self-explanatory.. I'm also going to add two more threads before I go off to Spain for a week on Monday, which will be: 1. SE Bash 'Workshops' thread 2. SE Bash 'Raffle' thread To get you all thinking, here's a quick outline of the workshops planned for the day, though exact workshop times may be subject to change as I'm still waiting for everyone concerned to get back to me to confirm their times. These will all be taking place in [b]Room 2[/b], which is smaller than the main room.. [b]Workshop 1[/b]: [b]Joe White of Joe White Guitars[/b] (http://www.jwhite-guitarworkshops.co.uk/) Joe is a [b]luthier[/b] and will be doing a talk on what he calls [b]'the black art of being a luthier'[/b]. Joe has earned a great reputation for his work and our very own OBBM has used his services and rates them highly, which is good enough for me! Joe has offered to do [b]set-ups[/b] on the day for Basschatters at a discounted rate of [b]£50.00[/b] (as opposed to his normal charge of £80.00), but you will need to [b]bring your own strings with you[/b]. Thanks to Stingrayfan for the suggestion of having someone like Joe on the day! [b]Workshop 2[/b]: [b]Adrian Ashton, Editor of Bass Guitar Magazine[/b] Adrian has kindly offered to come and do a [b]Q&A session[/b] with us on the day and will also bring some of his [b]unique bass gear[/b] with him as well! Adrian is happy to talk about the kind of i[b]nterviews[/b] he has done and what it's like running [b]BGM[/b]! Should be fascinating As well as all that, Adrian is bringing some [b]back copies of BGM[/b] to sell, proceeds of which will go towards the pot of money raised on the day. so if you want any particular back copies, post them up here so Adrian can see what is required! Thanks to OBBM for help with this. [b]Workshop 3[/b]: [b]John East[/b] I hardly need to introduce John I would have thought, but for those of you who haven't heard of him and his amazing [b]East pre-amps[/b], [b]J-Retro[/b] etc, etc - where have you been?? We are very lucky because John is going to talk about his [b]different products[/b] and in particular, demonstrate his new [b]filter-based pre-amp[/b] that [b]Stanley Clarke[/b] is going to be using! As a fan of Wal basses, I am really looking forward to this! Again, thanks to OBBM for being 'the go-between'! [b]Workshop 4[/b]: [b]Alex Claber[/b] I have managed to [i]'gently persuade'[/i] Alex to talk us through the murky scientific world of [b]'acoustics'[/b] and [b]'speaker design'[/b] and I'm really pleased he's taken up the challenge! He'll be bringing his [b]self-built[/b] cabs to demonstrate and it would be good to hear suggestions of what other cabs it might be good to compare them to?? Personally, I have always been amazed at the [b]knowledge[/b] that we have available to us here on Basschat from other members and what's so stunning is that it's offered for FREE!! I've read many of Alex's posts on this subject and what with the many Basschatters using [b]BFM[/b] cabs and building their own, it seems to me that this is a subject we could all do with knowing more about! Rough [b]times[/b] are: 10.30-11.45 Joe White 12.00-13.00 Adrian Ashton 13.15.14.00 John East 14.15-15.00 Alex Claber 15.00-16.00 Joe White Joe will also be available to do [b]set-ups throughout the day[/b] aside from his two sessions in Room 2, should people want them. Lastly, a couple of other things; Whist I'm away next week, Merton & WalMan will be around to field any questions and just to say, they have been brilliant in helping make this happen! Also, if anyone else would like to help on the day or has any suggestions to improve things, please let us know.. Thanks! Sorry for such a long post and I hope it all makes sense... but I wanted to get everyone thinking in advance about what they would like to do with their time on the day! The people who've offered their time to do the Workshops have also been brilliant and thanks to them for offering, but it's all about [b]YOU[/b] at the end of the day, so please come along and help make it totally, wonderfully, brilliant! Cheers Nik [/quote]

+1 It does look really good....

[quote name='Rich' post='276900' date='Sep 4 2008, 12:42 PM']Prince[/quote] +1 Great producer, great musician, great writer and great performer. As if that's not enough, apparently he can engineer as well....

[quote name='Monz' post='277684' date='Sep 5 2008, 11:12 AM']Sound and Vision does it for me...[/quote] +1 And 'A New Career In A New Town' from the same album...

Fabulous! Though I prefer the original pickguard myself...

[quote name='WalMan' post='277476' date='Sep 5 2008, 12:00 AM']Times is hard. We had to eat ours last week this end of LA [/quote] You too!!

Other web forums just don't do it for me...

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='277371' date='Sep 4 2008, 09:23 PM']Promises, promises...[/quote] Sorry guys; am still waiting on one final detail to be confirmed before I can post up the info for the day.. With a bit of luck, I should be able to put something up tomorrow or Saturday at the latest.. Good to see you've been paying attention though!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='277407' date='Sep 4 2008, 10:26 PM']I don't think so - they're still on dial-up in Littlehampton. [/quote] What's dial-up then? We still use carrier pigeon round here..

That's gorgeous!

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='276905' date='Sep 4 2008, 12:48 PM']Good to see I'm not the only one who still rates Dunaway. Alice Cooper had a cracking band in the 70s and it was largely built around Dennis.[/quote] There's a few of us lurking around here I think! [quote]Not that I'm being pedantic but it's "Bolder" as opposed to Boulder[/quote] Oops - sorry molan.. Must look at the My Space later and +1 on Gail Ann Dorsey!

[quote name='bnt' post='276608' date='Sep 3 2008, 11:30 PM']Michael Brook and Daniel Lanois among my favourite producers, though they're guitarists. Larry Klein and Bill Laswell are other bassists/producers to know. Not forgetting, of course, Brian Wilson.[/quote] +1 for Brian Wilson and what about Macca?

[quote name='steve-soar' post='276594' date='Sep 3 2008, 11:02 PM']Just been listening to Bowies "Singles" album, absolutely mesmerising bass lines, Ashes to Ashes, Fashion, Boys, China Girl..... WOW. Production, amazing. This may lead on to a great producers thread. So here goes....[/quote] +1 Bowie's my absolute all-time favourite artist and I started listening to his stuff in 1972, a few years before I first picked up a bass. So the early playing of The Spiders From Mars bassist, Trevor Boulder really influenced me, along with Dennis Dunnaway Alice Cooper's bassist. In both cases, their bass playing was always very musical and creative, doing much more than just playing root-note stuff so that the bass lines were really integral parts of the song. There's lots of other great bass lines on Bowie records too.. For example, the descending bass line in the chorus of 'Changes' absolutely makes it for me and is a great hook in itself.. And later on, when Bowie had Dennis Davis on drums and George Murray on bass, some of the bass lines on 'Station to Station' and 'Low' in particular are brilliant! Another +1 for Tony Visconti as well...

I always use the tone control on my bass in order to vary how bright the bass is from song to song. In my band we have to play songs by bands as diverse as The Killers to The Temptations, so the bass sounds required can be very different across a two hour set! Luckily, the tone control on my Roscoe Beck 5 string is excellent and offers a lot of variety for a passive bass, so I can get some great results without too much effort.

[quote name='phil_the_bassist' post='276043' date='Sep 3 2008, 09:41 AM']So, is it time to start working out lift-share type deals? Even if popularity dictates that I'm taking my full stack, I'm still going to have 4 empty seats, and in the current socio-plitical climate this seems like a freakin waste! Should I start a new thread for this?[/quote] That's a good idea! BTW, there'll be another thread starting later tonight (when I get home from rehearsal) with all the details for the two rooms, workshops, speakers etc...

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='275941' date='Sep 2 2008, 11:55 PM']Could that be because the rig looks 'old school'...[/quote] Now you come to mention it, your rig does look really 'old school' until you look closely and see it's totally up to date kit. Good combination!

[quote name='Josh' post='275122' date='Sep 2 2008, 12:30 AM']May I present, Brian Fox: I advise that there should be no mugs/jugs/cups/vases/pint glasses of coffee near the monitor or keyboard whilst watching.[/quote] Thanks Josh - that was hilarious! I kept flicking the clips backwards and forwards and it sounded like he was playing the same riff at each point so I hate to think what a whole gig of it would sound like. He looks like the bass playing equivalent of The Big Lebowski; imagine Jeff Bridges playing a sad loser of a bluesman/bassplayer frontman who doesn't realise just how awful he and his band is?? But as the saying goes, truth is always stranger than fiction and it looks like Brian Fox is proof of that!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='275909' date='Sep 2 2008, 11:18 PM']No, just cheaper ones so that can I stand my beer on them. I'm offering to bring this beauty along as a cupholder: [/quote] Mmm; looks good that Trace! I had one very similar in the late 80's.. How old is your?

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='275394' date='Sep 2 2008, 01:26 PM']+1. Quirky stuff nice and all but it would be good to have some more bread and butter stuff.[/quote] Do you mean it in the sense that we can contrast & compare standard gear with more 'boutique' stuff? If so, I think that would be useful...