Richard R

Absolutely this. GD completely passed me by until a couple of years ago when I asked Findave of this parish for a recommendation of what to listen to. And the live recordings are definitely where the magic is. Because they encouraged both fan and desk recordings and bootlegs, pretty much everything got recorded, and a lot is now on CD. Cornel 5/8/77 is the obvious starting point, and for a good reason. It's regarded as almost definite by some, but they played for 30 years, so there were a lot of good gigs. The Sunshine Daydream concert is from '72 so a bit earlier. I then really like "Wake Up to Find Out - Nassau Colluseum 3/29/1990" and "Crimson White and Indigo - July 7 1989' Different to the 70's concerts and to each other. The version of Birdsong on Wake Up to Find Out has a sax guest player. Originally just for that song they liked jamming with him so insisted he played the rest of the set. All the above are on Spotify, and highly recommended.

Certainly none that would get past the BC filters!

That's like the Crocodile Dundee of basses! "You call that six string a bass instrument? THIS is a bass instrument"

I agree wholeheartedly! @Boodang - I have posted it to the Famous Quotes thread. 👏

https://ritter-instruments.com/artist-series-phil-lesh.php Fewer knobs, more wild curves. I rather like that.

There is a lot of feedback available, and students are encouraged to upload videos for feedback and correction. Given that SBL is a school, then the choice of material may also be a matter of finding decent teachers for a genre, rather than deliberately ignoring it. (My old school had a fantastic modern languages department, aparently, but couldn't offer Spanish). There are a couple of courses on metal playing, one on prog metal, and some seminars. I'm sure Scott would love to find a thrash metal bassist prepared to write and teach a course on keeping that style and speed going for a full gig without injury. Right - I'm off to practice the pieces "Abstract Noodle 6" and "Muddy Leeds River", followed by "Funky Love Glove" See you in the shed when I've fixed the roof.

Fair enough- if the teacher isn't teaching you what you want to play then there is absolutely no point in carrying on with that teacher.

Both comments addressed in the video which started this thread 🙂 Scott gets knocked a lot on BC, so I'll stick up for him here. I agree the marketing can be is really annoying, but so are The Ordnance Survey and O2 Events. Just mark as junk or unsubscribe. His YT video style is over-enthusiastic, but the academy lessons are much more down-to-earth and genuinely really good. For ~£100/year (the cost of four pace-to-face lessons) I've learned way more than I would in four lessons. And being able to submit your playing videos for review - and see everyone else's as well - is great. 7pm this Monday there's a live seminar with Ariane Cap, John Patitucci's song studies are fablulous, and there is a load more. Back to Rickenbakers though. Which are the ones with the stereo / dual pickup output thing? Is that the "S" models?

Looks like a black starship. Very nice!

You can't post a statement like that without pictures! 😅

Bribery and corruption at the highest level! You didn't go on to a career in FIFA did you?

Try to get to a Bass Bash and play one there. If we're lucky, then @Owen will be able to come to the Midlands Bash in April, and maybe bring the 6 as well as his rather tasty collection of 5s.

Blast - missed it!

Ish that like Tesh of the d'Urbervillsh?

Great to watch him play though. 👍

I've listened to the concert recording a lot, but never sat down to watch the film before today. Judging by the number of naked stoned hippies dancing in the audience then knob-fest seems appropriate.

Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard

He'll be in there. I looked up some of his stuff on the Internet. His current Spotify albums are solo piano, very medatative. I also came across this gem from 1983. This predates my becoming a Christian, but I recognised the album cover, so probably saw it later. Just be warned, it now sounds very dated indeed!

A few? Discreet?🤣 Thanks @ahpook

Just watching the film "Sunshine Daydream" of the Grateful Dead concert at Veneta Oregon, 1972. What is Phil Lesh playing here, and what on earth are all the knobs?

Keyboard player was Chris Rollinson. "Restore O Lord", was one of his best known tunes, but there are quite a few other in Mission Praise.

Less than three months to go - Better start the gear list. Usual format - copy the latest version of the list, add/ammend/delete your entries as usual and re-post. @Richard R : Brawley 4 and 5 string, EBS session 60 amp, cheap Aeon sustainer, cake.

@binky_bass - that seems to have resolved the problem! That setting refers the typing to Grammarly for checking. Had I known that was a setting I would have turned it off anyway, regardless of whether the API worked properly or not.

I know we moan a lot on this thread (safe space and all that), but Wednesday evening's Churches Together service, held at our church, was great! A semi-scratch band comprising drums, vocal and guitar from one church, keyboard player from another, and muggins on bass. Really good fun group to play with and the congregation got into the worship. After the first practice song I thought "I really need to up my game here!", and locked onto the snare for dear life. I found out later that the drummer is a professional musician, the backing vocalist was professionally trained, and the keyboard player is now retired but used to write with Graham Kendrick and play with Shiela Walsh and others. God was worshipped, the preaching was good, and a lots of us piled into the pub over the road afterwards and completely outnumbered the few regulars who had come in for a quiet evening watching the footy!