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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1400490079' post='2454226'] That's interesting but what Rap or Rappers would you say were the originals? [/quote] just googled it, apparently it started centuries ago, so I suppose everything is just a progression, at best, of what's gone before

slightly off thread I'm afraid, but when do people think something truly original came along, can't stand it, but Rap was original, Chuck Berry? Jimi Hendrix? perhaps Black Sabbath? the Beatles and the Stones certainly weren't, most successfully musicians were just good at reinventing the wheel

I think if the tribute in question is of a band you can no longer see there is more justification for it, once saw a Hendrix tribute which had me open mouthed, he looked like Jimi, played like him, wasn't left handed but played a left handed strat upside down, that made me smile, I prefer it when they don't take themselves too seriously, having said that I saw a Quo tribute which I enjoyed, joking about the wigs they were wearing, it was down the local pub, free to get in, decent pint, what's not to like if you're into the band?

because something in the human psyche makes us crave approval from others, that's why we love it when a gig goes well or somebody compliments your playing, and why there's like button on Facebook

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1399968206' post='2449336'] 100%! I hear bad reviews of Elixirs all the time but I love them. [/quote] like most things in life, there are loads of opinions on strings, if it wasn't like that everybody would buy the same ones and Basschat would be a pretty boring place

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1399900116' post='2448739'] Haha I do play pretty hard, fret clank is part of my tone! I don't have problems with Elixir strings though, they lasted me a year until I snapped the E [/quote] something I've never managed to do, snap a string. I'm guessing you like a bit more top end zing to your tone than I do, I used Elixir happily for a while till I found the call of neon pinks string too hard to resist, haven't found they flake any worse than Elixir's though

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1399834402' post='2448178'] The neons have duff G strings as well. Plus they die after about 2 gigs, faster than uncoated strings. Oh and the coating comes off and makes a mess of your fretboard and hardware. [/quote] Christ, and I thought I hit them hard. Just had a thought, you have to make sure you're don't damaging the coating when you pull them through the bridge

I've been using neons for a while now and have never noticed any dull strings, and they last a long time

yep same seller and same insertion time, but different description and £200 price difference, not saying there's anything dodgy, just don't understand why he's done it

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Left-Handed-USA-Precision-P-Bass-1978-Great-Condition-/221434688928?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item338e8935a0 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-USA-1978-Precision-Left-Handed-Lefty-Bass-Natural-P-Bass-Great-Condition-/321399989544?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4ad4eea528 what's going on here?

nothing wrong with FB apart from it panders to the basic human desire that craves acceptance, narcissists who think everybody is interested in every little thing they do, people who put cryptic comments on so others will ask for an explanation, updates that try and convince everybody what a great life they've got and bands that try and give the impression that every gig they do is the dogs bollocks. Apart from that it's ok for folk that haven't got any real friends and can't cope with proper human interaction

PG? Strawberries is a good album as well

exact same thing happened to our guitarist, we were playing to a big crowd at the Nottingham beer festival, big start, 1234 into Blitzkrieg Bop, no guitar, we stopped, he played around with his leads, seemed ok, 1234, no guitar, we stopped again, after 5 minutes of pratting around he changed his amp, everything seemed ok, 1234, no guitar, he eventually changed his guitar and this time everything really was ok, funnily enough by this time the crowd were treating as a joke so it turned into a cracking gig in the end. The trouble with his guitar turned out to be a dodgy contact on his selector switch

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1398880289' post='2438644'] I will not permit our band to use deps anymore, they tried it once before, against my wishes and it was a disaster, we have all worked really hard to become the unit we are, if you start chopping and changing musicians every other gig, then to me, you are not a band just a bunch of journey men musicians. I am proud of our band and our reputation and will do anything to protect it [/quote] head, nail, hit

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1398614636' post='2435738'] Morrisey is a genius. His music has mostly been crap since he left The Smiths ( would have been great to see them carry on without him with Jimmy Somerville as the new singer) , but he knows a thing or two about generating publicity. Like this whole vegetarian "all I eat is toast" facade. If his career ever starts petering out all he needs to do is announce to the world that he is eating meat again and finding it delicious and he will get such a tidal wave of exposure that money could never buy. [/quote] funnily enough, never really 'got' the Smiths, I prefer his solo work TBH

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1398858772' post='2438307'] we had an issue with our drummer once, he double booked so we got a dep in, he wasn't happy about it, but understood it was for the band and it was his fault he had double booked........ he is now the ex drummer... and the dep is our full time drummer.... funny ol' world. sounds insecure to me, but if he is the right man for the job you won't feel the need to replace him, he just needs reassuring [/quote] didn't that happen with Green Day? that really would piss anybody off, make you feel like Pete Best

my main concern with using deps is a quality of performance issue, so you've been playing in a band for a number of years, building up to a 2 hour set, I don't really understand how someone can come in with minimal rehearsal and do a good job, or maybe it's just that I couldn't/wouldn't want to do it, it is slightly different for drummers, they can wing it a lot more easily

open mics I attend are called jams when say a harp player gets up (good because they don't have to know the chords, just the key) and joins in with somebody else's song (jams along), but it's usually a bluesy standard (a lot of open micers seem to be fond of the blues), which is ok as long as they know how to finish it in a reasonably time. loose jam sessions are where a guitarist just noodles along over a basic 12 bar turnaround where nobody has a clue how to finish it and is usually very good at emptying the pub, and I sit there and think "ah, that's why punk was invented"

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1398722530' post='2437052'] [/size][size=4] This. The majority of songs in our set came about as a result of recording jams, listening to them, keeping the good ideas and cutting the crap. It's a good way of organically generating material - everyone has an input. I find it boring to learn songs that are already complete. You don't get the opportunity to be part of the creative process and it's just a case of 'coming up with a bass line'. [/quote] I'm not talking about playing new songs and refining them, I mean jam sessions that just meander aimlessly along just so that some guitarist can do a 20 minute solo

just me so far then, I actually quit a band once because they insisted on doing a half hour jam at the end of every practice instead of going to the pub, annoyed the hell out of me

I just don't get jamming, doing some turnaround bass line over and over while some guitarist thinks he's Eric Clapton, it must be even worse for anybody that actually has to listen to it. Mind you I come from the school of thought that says "if you can't say what you want to say in 3 minutes, you're saying too much"

not being cajoled into joining a tedious Jam session, using someone else's bass

bass frequencies change depending how full the room is too, sound check in an empty room, set everything, then when the crowd (hopefully) comes in in it all changes, especially bass, it can become boomy. I had the drummer and the guitarist accusing me of turning up at the halfway stage at a gig recently, they were complaining all they could hear was bass after the interval, I hadn't touched a thing and left everything the same, when we came off everybody said it sounded fine all gig, go figure

full volume and tone, set the volume according to the drums, I have a 10 metre lead so I stand as far away from the band as possible, it does make a big difference, of course if there's a full PA you are in the hands of the sound engineer, A lot of bands are far too loud, why bands mic up the drums for a pub gig is beyond me, and not invading other peoples frequency space is the key. At a gig recently a guy came up to us after the gig and said "That was great you could hear everything that everybody's playing, can you give my son's band some advice his band just sound a mess?" unfortunately he asked the singer who hasn't got a clue how we set up

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1397229408' post='2422048'] My first bass was a right hand Warwick Fortress. I am naturally right handed, but because of my little finger being bent out of shape through arthiritis, i changed to left. Took me a while to learn to play left. My worst problem was putting my fingers on the top of the fret, instead of putting it on the bottom. It took my a while to get out of that. The only other thiung i do left handed, and always have done, is to shoot a rifle.(it`s ok, i am not a nut job, i was in the army cadets as a kid). Maybe that is why it wasn1t a massive job to learn to play left. [/quote] as has been said before most people are ambidextrous to some extent, I play golf right handed and only just realised I unsrew bottle tops with my right hand WTF is that all about?