PaulWarning

[quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1261687242' post='693163'] Well.. it's a bit of a silly question in the first place. Everything is easy when you can play it and difficult when you can't. Please excuse the kitchen sink philosophy [/quote] yes and no, I still have trouble with Monkey Man and Babylons Burning. Glad you resurected this thread, made me read it again, London Calling keeps getting mentioned a lot, I wouldn't have said that was stupidly easy to play, not properly anyway, or like I said before maybe I'm a crap bass player

trouble is a lot of the tv stuff is miming, what made the Bowie clip special was that they were actually playing, with no backing tape, anybody know what were the years that totp did this for

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1324560097' post='1475582'] Saw it,,,what I want to know is...how come it is acceptable for the camera man to have his own copies stashed at home... and he says he has others..!! Homework...??? [/quote] That's probably why it's took so long to surface, who knows how much vintage stuff is stored away which has got there by dubious means, but with the TV companies wiping tapes clean it's just as well, offer an amnesty to everybody that's got dodgy recordings stashed away, who knows what gems will be revealed

anybody watch top of the pops last night? rare David Bowie footage playing the Gene Genie live, absolutely brilliant mix,full of life, you can hear what the bass players doing, why can't studio recordings sound like that insteadof having all the life processed out of them?

if you're cack handed there's a lot less choice

our singer woke up one morning nearly deaf after being at a gig, not one of ours, he goes to loads, got into a right old panic, bought some ear plugs, anyway after a few days his hearing came back, and guess what? he still doesn't wear the earplugs he bought, who said it was drummers that were thick? Oh btw I use ER 20's, they do the job nicely

funnily enough the band I play with is learning Barb Wire Love, who the hell mixed that, it's completely gutless, trying to figure out what the bass players doing is a bit tricky when you can't hear him, I think he's just running up and down some of the major scale notes, no wonder there's no tab for it

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1322078193' post='1446327'] (smart ass answer is) Get some flats and you'll never have to worry/bother with all that [/quote] or Elixir nanowebs, cost more but last ages and ages

yeah, you have to take them off your bass before you boil them there's several topics about this, I've tried it but it's a lot of hassle and the strings go off again PDQ, oh, and use a pan with a lid, it's not very pleasant getting whipped across the face with a red hot bass string, believe me

[quote name='Vibrating G String' timestamp='1321360462' post='1438144'] I'm glad I'm not alone. I think I'll try a different email and see if that helps. [/quote] Didn't help me, still no notifications, this is also covered in another thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/69373-e-mail-notifications-not-working/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/69373-e-mail-notifications-not-working/[/url]

just bought 2 par 64 LED's from Thomanns, about £95 for the 2, used them this weekend, just set them on sound to light and away you go, we didn't opt for the T bar with 4 lights because of the space problem in small pub gigs, we can mount these on top of the PA speakers if we want or put them on the floor. We might get 2 more now we've tried them out

saw them at this years Brearded Theory festival, best band of the weekend, should have headlined, it all went a bit flat when the Waterboys came on

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1320932975' post='1433367'] not at all, which thread? [/quote] It's ok, just found it, thanks for the credit BTW, our drummer told it me, he would wouldn't he?

mind you come to think of it I do a bass solo in the Hives Hate to Say I Told You So, but I just do what I do in the rest of the song but on my own, does that count? or even make sense?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1320885284' post='1432896'] The electric bass is not a solo instrument, IMHO (puts on crash helmet and gets in cupboard under stairs). [/quote] +1, and neither is a drum kit

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1320929771' post='1433274'] Hope you don't mind, I've copied that and pasted it in another thread :-) [/quote] not at all, which thread?

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1320863859' post='1432529'] Not sure if this helps but I discovered yesterday that my message notifications had been re-classified as spam by GMail. I marked a couple 'not spam' and it's been fine since then [/quote] I've checked the spam folder, there's nothing in there

of course, this opens another can of worms, how many of these live albums are actually totally live? not many I suspect

I run a MB4210 with a 1 x 15 extension cab, great sounding amp and LOUD, never have it anywhere near full power, a word of caution though, quality control is not the best, or wasn't, so it might be a good idea to buy locally, you might have to take it back.

Glad you included the PS, The Ramones - It's Alive there has been something similar recently [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/157507-when-a-live-version-is-better-than-the-recording/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/157507-when-a-live-version-is-better-than-the-recording/page__fromsearch__1[/url]

done that, still no notifications

[quote name='Tengu' timestamp='1320252489' post='1424421'] I once played an entire song a semi tone flat just to prove a point - that everyone else was far too loud for a rehearsal. At the end they all looked really pleased with themselves and decided to move on as we had nailed that one. I asked if they thought I should play flat for the gig as well and just got a load of blank looks. I really did wonder why I was there sometimes but they did say on a few occasions that I wasn't that they had noticed a difference. [/quote] I once played an entire song a semitone flat once, and I didn't notice, did worry me a bit till the guitarist also said he was in the wrong (right) key too

Good God, I hate bass solo's even more now, which reminds me of a joke. Guy taking a taxi from the airport on holiday hears some drums in the hills and asks the driver what they are, he replies "when drums stop, very bad". He hears the drums all holiday and every time he asks someone about it he gets the same reply. On his way back to the airport he gets the same taxi driver and says, "look I know if the drums stop it's really bad, but what exactly happens" the taxi driver replies "the Bass solo starts" Mind you, I hate drum solo's as well, so I'm not going there for my holidays

no I don't get any either, tried all the things suggested

[quote name='rasher80' timestamp='1320074125' post='1421941'] - When I saw the title of your thread I got a bit excited that the above had actually happened! Damn you! [/quote] fixed, I might even get more replies now