Richard R
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Welcome aboard. 🙂 If you have been on this forum for any length of time you will already be anticipating this question: Contrabassoon - is it any good for metal?
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Your best (and worst!) bass gear purchases of 2019?
Richard R replied to Al Krow's topic in General Discussion
Last purchase of 2019 now made, post Christmas sales and money sat in my PayPal account: https://www.dawsons.co.uk/armourdillo-defender-bass-guitar-gig-bag It won't arrive this year, but I shall post back in @Kirky's thread as to whether it's any good or not. Slàinte Mhath everyone! -
That I like. I can see why it didn't make the album, it wouldn't quite fit. Sounds like it should have been on Heavy Horses but with the synths from Broadsword. Tull got their Christmas Single royalties with Solstice Bells, but I'm off to dig out this and wake the rest of the house up.
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Just googled the Osaka Monaurail album. That blew away the cobwebs! You must have played a real belter 😎
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I happened to be near Bass Direct on Wednesday and popped in to have a play on a couple of 5 string basses, just to see how I got on. One was a TRB1005. It just sounded great, definitely a player's bass. I'm not in the market for anything, but if I was this would be high on the shorlist. GLWTS 👍 -
Well I was confused as I read " \\ to the .." as "angled to the ...". "// to the..." is clearly what you meant, unless you're left-handed. 😉
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That's what was so strange and funny, clearly the sax player can play. My first thought was that his iems must have failed and so he couldn't hear the keyboard. But when no one stopped him...
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Terrible reheaesal on Monday for a big service on Sunday. Very, very, stressful, still wound up yesterday. A friend sent me this to cheer me up. Hope it makes some of you smile too.
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Oh Come All Ye Faithfull (adeste-fideles). Trad words please or you'll confuse me as to where the chords change 😉
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It is magic. B---- cold though! Standing on Leuchars station platform waiting for a train is still the coldest I have ever been, and that includes Ottowa at -31C. 🥶
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As is said elsewhere above, common decency wins in the long run. FYI, I knew I had seen a Musicians' Union article on this somewhere recently. https://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/Advice/Your-Career/Legal/Partnerships So when your next band takes over the world, you'll be ready and set up properly! 🍻🍻
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Do you, as a band, have any sort of written contract or agreement about how the band runs? If not then you are all, in law, equals in a partnership by agreement and all equally own all the common assets of the band. As soon as you started working together for a common cause you're in a partnership. By sacking you they have technically dissolved the partnership, and you now all equally own the assets. In particular the right to use the name. Court cases on this go on for decades (Bucks Fizz), but that is the case. Plenty of web sites on band law to reference. So you could very politely point this out to them, and ask that they pay you for the gig and then buy out your share of what they think the name is worth if they wish to continue. Since you hold the social media passwords, do absolutely nothing at all on those sites, nothing malicious especially. If there is no desire to pay you for the gig or the name, then you own it as much as they do, so after the gig do as you wish. If you do have a written agreement that takes precedence of course.
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Hellooo! Where in Fife? My wife and I lived in St Andrew's for two years when we were first married and I absolutely love the East Neuk. I would have stayed up there, but it was a long way from our families and there wasn't any sensible work.
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I have been caught out like that. I did service at church a while back during which we prepared and cooked two sponge cakes on the platform as part of the service. Used my phone as the countdown timer, plugged into the PA so everyone would hear the cakes were ready and I would stop preaching. Of course just before the end I had a phone call. From my mother who thought it was Saturday morning! Flight mode is your friend!
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There seems to be quite a group of bass players doing other things with their feet at the same time. Reassures me it isn't such a daft idea.
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This bass has already been to Crack Convertors once... (with apologies to Mr. Shuker, but the pun was irresistible)
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Play it a lot over Christmas, then see how you feel in late January. Hopefully you'll love it because it certainly looks a beauty.
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Foot pedal was the plan. Ideally set up the sounds in order, to sustain until the next one is triggered, then tap foot at appropriate chord change. I already have a home-built foot pedal for turning music pages, so there is a high possibility for error in either direction 😁
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So end of April would be a better weekend then, not clashing with the wedding or the moved bank holiday.
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"master of bass around the world ". I like that 😁. In my case I have terrible timing and technique and am still a newbie, but lots of helpful people here who ARE masters of the bass. Welcome aboard!
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No to worry, thanks for the PM. I will try that and see what happens. I have a fist full of carols to learn in the next couple of weeks, so that will keep me occupied. Synth pads will have to wait until I have time after Christmas.
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Hi GisserD, Sorry for not replying sooner. Sent you If you do have a spare license that would be very much appreciated. My Scarlett is too old to qualify under Focusrite's terms. Rich
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Presto Music in Leamington, great little shop. 👍Not been there in years. All classical mind you.
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I might just buy it, but that spoils the fun. I'll need to transpose it too, as it's written for bassoon and piano and I think the bassoon is a Bb instrument like a clarinet.
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https://www.nemphasis.com/en/prodotti/steam-bass-analog-chorus.html 😉
