Richard R

Last time I played with a band I couldn't quite get the timing right for one song, so the BL and I stayed after to go through it. At one point I said something like " Ah, it goes like this.." and sang the part. He looked at me and just said "You're no singer are you." Which then cracked me up because it was totally deadpan, not a joke, and completely accurate. It's now a catchphrase:-)

On this song do NOT try to swing your bass around by the lead like Roger Daltrey used to to with his microphone. Otherwise that howl of pain and rage will be from the bandmate who gets your bass in the back of his head!!

Must have been that 🙃 Later stuff is better. I must have bought the earlier stuff as exploring the catalogue. In the days before you could use Spotify to cheat.

Welcome aboard! Three Little Birds is the classic reggae learner piece 🙂 I bought my practice amp from here, a better amp second hand than I would have bought new for the same money. Check out the market place - but promise yourself you will NOT buy another bass until you can play the one you have!

Finished the Yes collection, now playing early Neil Young. He was/is an awful singer and wrote depressing dirges. Anyone know why I bought these????

I hadn't heard that one before. Nevermind, I have now.

I can't offer useful advice, but it does sound like a fantastic gig. Congratulations 👏 👏

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Solid-Wood-Guitar-Bass-Pick-Plectrum-Case-Box-Container-Holds-4pcs-Picks/254102905719 But it is solid wood. And heart-shaped.

Sorry!

Fender Acoustosonic: shuffled off to google this. Its, err, interesting. I have never seen a guitar with a plughole before, it looks like water should drain into it.

"Bass" is a noun not an adjective. I would say on the credits you play a "Baritone Bass".

Waiting for the next one already...

The key deciding factor. 👍

Given the strange pickup arrangement there would be little point in using anything magnetic, certainly not on the E.

I used "Fragments of Time" from Daft Punk's Random Access Memories for a while. Then I realised that album is so fantastically well recorded and produced you can play it on a phone in a bucket and it sounds awesome. So no use at all for test and diagnostics! So I went back to my mix CD of selected bits from Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn, Queen's The Works, Madonna's Music, and Bat out of Hell. Stuff I know that covers all the bases.

Fender purr-cision bass

Thanks, I shall go exploring 👍

Decided I need to increase my limited knowledge of The Dead (limited to American Beauty), and this seems to be a "must listen" live album based on the internet. Enjoying it, obviously much longer jams than on record. What else is worth sampling, @FinnDave?

Yes. But it would progress like this - numbers represent what each sprint delivers a rubber band. 4 rubber bands and a packing crate 4 rubber bands and a matchbox a cardboard box of about the right size five guitar strings and some plywood a fully operational 3 band EQ with custom pickups as above with working pickups plywood guitar body to match 6 bass guitar body in pine with 27" neck fretted for 35" a skateboard ...

Interesting reading this thread and comparing it to software development. "WFT?" you all say, but bear with me. Quite often business users come in with an idea of what they want and need, and a solution in mind. It is really hard to get them, especially the technically competent ones, to stop proposing solutions but to let us talk until we have understood all the requirements.. Frequently there is a relatively minor piece of functionality (ie used in about 1% of cases), which dictates a very different underlying data structure or software model than the other 99% alone would. Yes you can change this down the line, but the more you understand up front the easier the process is. Likewise the thread emerging here seems to be that if you go in with clear requirements (sound, intended use, preferences and desires) but discuss and be flexible with the final specifications (exact wood, preamp choice, neck construction), then you are more likely to get an instrument you love than if you spec everything in detail. Some people have more detailed requirements that others would be more flexible over, but it seems that in all cases discussion is the key.

Not seen one of those since I was in school!

http://thepipeandslippers.com/ They haven't got any events on yet either 😞

Only if you play in 4:2 time.

The chap who sat next to me, when we were allowed to be in work, turns out to be a rather good graphic designer on the side. He took a scribble I did in a meeting and I have a very nice moniker for when I finally build something. Not as clever as the infinity bass clef though.

Paging @ped..