PaulWarning

[quote name='thebrig' timestamp='1350643512' post='1841588'] Don't know whether this has been done before, but here are the songs I hear most when I go and see a live 'covers' band. Admittedly, they [u]were[/u], and still [u]are[/u] great songs, but do WE still want to keep playing them, and perhaps more importantly, do the PUNTERS still want to keep hearing them? It would be interesting to see what songs you guys/gals come up with, and to hear your thoughts on playing the same old songs over and over again. 1. Mustang Sally 2. Brown Sugar 3. All Right Now 4. Born To Be Wild 5. Black Night 6. Sex On Fire 7. Brown Eyed Girl 8. Honky Tonk Woman 9. Maggie May 10. Can't Get Enough none of these [/quote] [quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1350643656' post='1841593'] Teenage Kicks 500 Miles Whole lotta Rosie [/quote] all of these

been said already but, P bass, pick, oh lengthen your strap , can't agree with the kick drum thing, just feel the groove.

if you like the Stones you'll probably like this record, if you don't you probably won't.

it does say [url="http://thetopguitars.com/brands/Custom-Shop-Rickenbacker-Inspired-Guitar.html"] Rickenbacker Inspired Guitar[/url]

I know a couple of bands who've been through this, first one got on and got a bloody awful 1am slot at the festival, for them anyway, they're a accusticy originals band with no drummer, you can imagine how that went. The other band did the audition thing, with admission charge, in mid week which meant there was nobody there, and weren't told they were on till a couple of months before the festival by which time the singer had booked his holidays, as somebody else said amateur hour

isn't the riff very similar to Quo's Red Sky?

when I'm learning a new song sometimes I play along with the original using audacity, sounds ok when played back, until I play back just my bass bit, sounds a damn sight worse than this

being a failed guitarist and playing in a punk band I always use a pick, sort of rest the underside of my forearm on the top of the bass and my hand floats around so I can play nearer the bridge if I want less 'boom' espescailly on bottom E, as for changing strings I work out whether to start the pevious note or set of notes on the up or down stroke so I'm heading towards the string I'm changing too when the change arrives, hope that makes sense

most of the time audiences don't know whether it's the original bass line or not, but they do know if a band as a whole sounds good or not, although they don't know why, and that's the important thing

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1349371380' post='1825444'] Talking of the Ramones, I love this too. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTjCvF4rQhI&feature=related[/media] [/quote] Don't want to be too pedantic, but we cover this one and it's actual off Joey Ramones solo album, and no I don't play it note for note, unusually for me I stick some extra ones in

[quote name='Bigjas' timestamp='1349350975' post='1825065'] I like to try and copy the original as close as my talent will allow. On some songs this is easy, on others I can't match the talent of the original player, so I will get as close as I can. When watching/listening to other cover bands, I like to hear it as I remember it from the original. Jas [/quote] This, apart from when I'm watching another covers band, then I like it when their bass player cuts more corners than I do

I think I'm underrated

[quote name='Wiggybass' timestamp='1349267267' post='1823977'] Hmmm...sorry, simply not true. This is physics and its principles govern all things regardless of marketing. Let's look beyond crappy, frequency-limited backline and into proper audio systems, like a big modern PA designed to deliver full-range audio to large crowds. In all modern systems the full frequency range is divided electronically into bands, usually four - HF, high-mid, low-mid and LF. HF is always produced by 1" or 2" compression drivers, the mids are usually tens or twelves and the LF is almost always some arrangement of EIGHTEEN inch drivers in ENORMOUS cabinets. Now, if all speakers could reproduce low frequencies with the same enthusiasm, why go to all this trouble? The answer, of course, is that they don't - they physically can't. The longer the wavelength you're looking to reproduce, the larger the device has to be. At 100Hz (the open G on a concert-tuned bass is 98Hz), the physical wavelength at sea level and 20 degC is 3.4 [i]metres[/i]. Yes, tens will do that but not with the same efficiency of a fifteen of equivalent performance and sensitivity. This of course all based on a one-speaker to one-speaker comparison. The practical issue comes down to how much cardboard moves in and out when you play, and thus how much air is physically displaced and then picked up by our lugholes. A 4x10 against a single 15 with the same amp power will be louder because it's moving more air but in frequency response terms it will not reproduce low frequencies as efficiently. Which incidentally explains why you're quite right about a 4x10 drowning out a single 15 - for those to balance in terms of physical loudness the 4x10 would have to be turned down a bit. As for variances between venues, again it depends. Reflex cabs are much more reactive to their surroundings than close or front-ported cabs, that alone would make a lot more difference than the size of drivers they contain. But surely that's what the EQ is for? [/quote] bloody hell, don't really understand that, but I do know when I connect my 15" speaker to my 2 x 10" combo it's got more grunt

went for £506.50 plus a hefty £43.50 postage, someone got a bargain, I was tempted myself but being a P man I'd have been buying it because it's cheap not because I wanted it

of course it could be that DR think they can get away with charging more in the UK, in which case I'm glad I'm doing them out of extra profit

you'll never be satisfied until you've owned one and lived with it for a while, you may then decide you've wasted your money (if you buy a second hand one you might even not lose anything at all) but you'll never know if you don't get one and that's what eats away at you

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1349109642' post='1821955'] Yes the OP was lucky! In addition to 20% VAT and duty the Royal Mail also add an £8 handling fee for everything that goes through their VAT/duty collection process. I've been nobbled by this on fairly small purchases from the USA a couple of times recently so they are watching out for this sort of thing. [/quote] even with VAT and Royal Mail fees on they're still only £35, only £2 more than the cheapest UK price I could find, so maybe it's worth the risk.

maybe at this point I should say I'm not necessarily having a go at the shop, although if they can give discount just when somebody asks maybe they should be reviewing their business model, how many people look at the price ticket and just walk out?, the system from top to bottom seems a bit wrong to me.

so why isn't everything half price from the states? Why should I have to ask for a discount? it wasn't arab market stall I bought them from, if the shop could sell them cheaper and still make a profit that should be the price on the ticket

I bought some DR neon pink strings (they match my strap quite nicely) on impulse from Brighton when we had a gig down there, cost me £40, when I decided to buy another set thought I'd shop around, got them for £21.66 including postage, from the states off ebay and they arrived in a week, is it any wonder music shops are closing down? I don't mind paying a couple of quid extra to support them but we're talking nearly half price here, ridiculous.

yep, and a 4th and an octive and maybe a flattened 7th, maybe wrong on that one though

I find anything out of the pentatonic scale works, basically go up a sting or 2, and play the same fret or 2 higher, does that make sense? some muso will probably tell me I'm talking bollocks but it seems to work for me

[quote name='pst62' timestamp='1348127025' post='1809535'] IMO having no headstock makes a bass look ugly, 9 times out of 10 it has an ugly body to match it's headlessness anyway. [/quote] +1 to that, also having the strap so short the bass finishes up looking like a bib

[quote name='Donnyboy' timestamp='1347098194' post='1796884'] great stuff watched it with a couple of largeV&T's as a post gig wind - down. What's the story with Fergal , not being involved 'n' stuff? [/quote] for some reason Fergal's a bitter man, one clue in the doc was when one of them said he was never part of the gang and he hadn't got any mates ( I think that's right) obviousley a difficult character, almost every bands got one.

cheers, I saw them at Bearded theory a couple of years ago, they still rock, the poor old Waterboys had to follow them on, they didn't stand a chance