Baxlin

I would imagine it wouldn’t take much to put it back as it was, and might be a bargain? (unless the reserve is as unreal - imo - as the conversion?)

One of these? I can’t get the headphones socket to work - I can record onto my PC with it, but can’t hear what I’m playing! I think the driver is installed ok, as far as I can tell, but the instructions, inevitably aren’t clear. Thanks

Had a frustrating day yesterday, I couldn’t get my PC to recognise a new (to me) interface jobbie, so had to record my bass part without really being able to hear what I was playing. I used my 335 style bass, and only one earbud, so there was a bit there, but not much. For some reason our tecky prefers sound through Audacity, and the picture recorded separately (simultaneously, of course) on tablet. With the worship leader’s original track on my phone, that’s 3 devices to tie in, before you’ve played a note... It was only 4 songs, but three recordings as one was two songs together (double chance for error😩). So now introduce the far from occasional errors and bum notes (and with not being able to hear them, erring on the side of caution) into the mix, and you get my opening statement - “had a frustrating day yesterday”! But I love it. Malcolm

^^^^ What a great band. The brass section would be the Mar-keys, Stax’s “other” house band alongside the MGs. if I had to choose one style/genre/label/etc, the Stax stable would be it! Love it. Please forgive a personal anecdote - The line-up of a (can I say two-tone?) band I was in during the 60s was guitar, bass, drums (me) tenor sax, keys, and vocals. For one concert though, where we stood as the house band for most of the acts, we added alto sax, trombone,2x trumpet, and female BVs. Inevitably the acts had to decide who was singing which Otis Redding song......

Mmmm I place it in the “an article written only because I was told to write an article” section, and tbh, I didn’t find it particularly funny. (but having said that, for some unaccountable reason all my basses are black, and to the casual observer they do look rather similar to each other......)

A pearl white Hondo P-bass, bought secondhand, complete with a grey gig bag, the latter having the names of various metal and underground bands I’d never previously heard of scrawled on with felt-tip pen. Funny, I remember the gig bag more than the bass...... I swapped it at a secondhand shop for a short scale Strat copy guitar, which I still have and use regularly.

In the Nottingham Boat clubs (yes, really, 3 dance venues next to each other by the Trent) in the late 60s.... ‘Sock it to ‘em, JB’ by Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers I kid you not! (don’t know how to post a YouTube link, sorry!)

‘Je t’aime’ isn’t bad to dance to........

I hope when you’ve sharpened and set them you’ll place/store them on their side so as not to damage the blade.👍 Re saws, my son-in-law gave me a laminate saw, which has a very slightly thicker blade, but the teeth are set ‘inwards’, so it tends to give a cleaner cut. It’s my ‘go to’ general purpose saw now. Before Covid, and hopefully again before too long, I volunteered at the WorkAid charity, in the hand tools refurbishment dept, cleaning up/repairing all sorts of hand tools. These had been donated, and which typically came from ‘Grandad’s shed’. By their nature, there were some very old, but lovely tools, and some which were conversation pieces, they were so unusual. Generally speaking, the older ones, once cleaned up, were much better than the newer, built to a price jobbies. Even respected names, such as Stanley and Draper, have introduced shortcuts, such as riveting on hand-drills, rather than set screws, etc (I once did a complete renovation on a hammer - it needed a new shaft and a new head. I did a good job though, it looked like new when I’d finished.......😇)

If I lean any of mine in a corner (without a stand) I always put it face to the wall, to ‘relieve’ the strings. Daft, I daresay, both expecting it to make a difference, and of course not using a stand.

I’ve spent most of today on YouTube having searched for ‘bass backing tracks’, and really enjoyed playing along with some old tunes, some jazzy, some I’d often wanted to know the chords etc to. Most probably everyone else on here has been doing this for years as a way of getting the practice in, and improving their technique, exploring new progressions etc, but it’s something I’ve never done before. I particularly liked playing along to Georgia on my Mind. I connected the headphone socket of my iPad to one input of my practice amp, and the bass into the other, and so easily ‘lost’ a couple of hours...... As I said, not new, but new to me, and a great way to spend a rainy day. 🤫

Just think of all the Nectar points you’d get....

Does anyone have, to use a term relevant to the thread, ‘chapter and verse’ which clarifies this? I can’t find any direct reference/guidance.

I wish them ^^^^ well, Lefty! Had a WhatsApp discussion today with some of the worship band roster members, wondering if under the new rules we can ‘do a Beatles’ and record some songs (for upcoming services) outside and socially distanced? Although we’re all willing to have a go, the big stumbling block is that all the sound tech stuff (desk etc) at both venues is hardwired in, so it’d be a big job to shift and set up. Our own amps aren’t too problematical of course Anyone else thought of this, and if so any ideas to make it happen more easily?

I suppose strictly speaking, assuming they’re talking of Mt. Olympus, they’re not wrong, because that’s nowhere near, either, so Kilimanjaro does rise over the Serengeti like Olympus does (or doesn’t ......)

Albert Lee and his Musicman (but i understand he had or had an intetest in the company

“And our friends are all aboard, many more of them live next door”. Eh? How many more than ‘all’ do you have?

Err, isn’t this BASSchat?

Barry Manilow ‘I write the songs’...... Well, that was one he didn’t write!

Don’t laugh, but I always thought he was saying ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy’......

Our church band uses OnSong, very good for transposing when different worship leaders want different keys.

Dunno, in my teenage years, an ex who I stayed friends with phoned me to suggest I went out with her younger sister. Which I did for a year or so, quite happily.

La Bamba, Sir Duke, etc etc

‘But you’d sure miss it if it wasn’t there’ would have been a reasonable response......

I know what you mean.... ”Just single notes until the last chorus, please Malc”...