PaulWarning

this^ we have just had a request for I Wanna Be Sedated for one of our gigs, they don't come any simpler than that but it's a great song and good fun to play IMO. It's one those where you think why is this simple song so good, I remember a quote by Gary Moore when talking about great guitar riffs, "A great guitar riff is one that is so simple you think to yourself why didn't I think of that?"

yes you're probably right, I like listening to songs by artists where the bass is more prominent, Stranglers, Jam even the Beatles on some of their tracks, especially the remixed versions, even Status Quo up to but not including Rocking All Over the World, the bass drove the songs along instead of just adding low end

so he could have been saying "Where's my fcuking cake" 😂

seems to be the modern way, bass is there to add bottom end, nobody knows what a bass does until it's not there

unless you can tell a difference from hearing gig or recording does it matter? amused me that the Rod Stewart bassist used 3 basses at Glastonbury and you could hardly hear him, never mind tell any difference between them I used a different bass at one of our gigs, I said to my partner afterwards how it sounded, she replied "It sounded like a bass!" 😂

might have been fucccccccking SARRROOOOONNNNNNN, the cnuts have left me sitting here

just watched the Sabbath set on youtube, wasn't embarrassing at all, Ossie's voice is still sounds the same, amazingly, you could tell he really wanted to stand up but the old legs wouldn't let him, rest of the band were spot on, a great way to go out. Any lip readers out there? be interested to know what Ossie said when the rest of the band exited the stage and left him there

I see there's a predictable storm about Gary Glitter getting a royalty payment for Hello, but it does seem the obvious song to start with, but as Glitter is bankrupt maybe his victims (creditors) will get it? edit, anyway he's still in jail so won't do him much good, Mike Leander will be pleased though

Remixes can make a big difference, remasters not so much, most remixers/remasters I've heard involve the bass being boosted, no bad thing IMO

just listened to John Fogerty on the iPlayer, the sound was so much better than when I listened to him live, the bass was up in the mix, and we got the full set, wish he hadn't done quite so much talking though, he might have had time to do Bad Moon Rising then

Mick Jagger

should have bought Ronnie Wood on to play bass on Maggie May, it's a great bass line on the recording

well Fender recommend 2.4mm at the 17th fret, so not a million miles away, it all depends on your style of play and how much fret rattle you can put up with, I'm a fairly heavy handed pick player so I set mine up round about the Fender specs. Basses do have a higher action than guitars, longer neck and thicker strings are the reason for this I suspect. There are plenty of tutorials on youtube on how to set up a bass

I've pondered packing it all in, but then I'd miss the gigs, I won't miss is the band hassles, loading my car up, all the setting up and breaking down, I don't look forward to gigs like I used too, but once I'm up there playing I still enjoy it, I'm lucky in that I don't have any health problems I suppose when I do that'll be the time to give it all up

unless there is a way to read the minds of disorganised (or just don't care) bands members I don't think there is