Bassfinger

Interesting point Mr XCR.  Nearly all these "cosmic ray powered government 5G trackers built into vaccines" believers wouldn't leave the house without their government mandated citizen tracking module, AKA mobile phone. 

They complain about imaginary tracking in vaccines yet pay good money to willfully submit to a device with genuine tracking potential. Whats that all abput?

12 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Nope. Here's a picture of them together. 

All see is a picture of Cher stood next to a mirror.

My theory is that Elvis died having it off with a groupie, and Priscilla was so angry she propped his corpse on the lavvy to forever humiliate him.

We have a bit of "humour" in our act. 

Our singer has a great singing tone, but a slightly limited range. About halfway through he'll apologise to the audience, saying his voice is a bit tired. 

I'll pipe up on my mic, tell him to stop moaning because he has it easy.  We'll then have a pretend argument which ends with me saying "right, if you think you can do better then be my guest", and I hand him the bass. 

He's not a bassist at all but I've taught him to play House of the Rising Sun, so I'll blast through the vocals and he does bass for that one song.  We then shake hands and swap back to normality.

Invariably earns much-O applause from the audience.

Sorry to hear that Brig. That sort of thing is part of the reason I prefer to get in with new bands at the point of formation.

Apology accepted.  And please accept my apology for the unintended offence caused.

4 hours ago, la bam said:

 

Certainly not lightweight, but not harley benton heavy. 

??? All of my HB's are on the lighter side of average.  My heaviest by a good margin is a Fender at nearly 20 times the price ofnthe HB's.

Thats just like me Nail Soup.

In real life im generally pretty quiet. Meeting new people makes me nervous, stepping into the boxing ring used to make me nervous (and rightly so, because I was a dreadful pugilist), all sorts of things in daily life make me nervous...

Except gigging. It's what I love doing, and it's the one thing that draws attention to me that gives me a frisson of excitement instead of a dose of jangly nerves.

4 hours ago, mikel said:

I am contacting the RSPCA...

Who do you think is keeping me supplied with fresh dogs?

16 hours ago, Boodang said:

It's just banter after all, not antiquated stereotyping. 

I never once used the word banter. You have, I have not.

My comment was in relation to a real incident where our female co-vocalist drove into my car. 

It was not my intention to offend anyone so deleted it. And still you moan.

Get over it.

We all have one we no longer use! 

A bit of Greta Van Fleet today.

3 hours ago, tauzero said:

I use a Tascam GB-10, though that's not exactly what you want as you transfer MP3s or WAV files to it. They do work well though.

Coming up for a decade of near daily service from my GB10. Arguably one of the most important pieces of kit I own.

15 minutes ago, Boodang said:

Do you bring a dustpan and brush along with you to gigs and present them to your female colleagues? Maybe you could gift wrap them.

That really is uncanny. I did indeed present her with the dustpan and brush from the boot of my car (kept for sweeping out the detritus from the dog when Ive been shooting) and she used it to sweep up the bits that had broken off her MX5..

I didn't gift wrap it. While I am a fan of preparedness, I never foresaw the need to carry wrapping paper, tape and scissors just to satisfy you.

You can feign as much indignation as you like. It has actually happened, and to the one female member of my band.  When the topic comes up it's usually her the first to take the rise out of herself.  

1 hour ago, toneknob said:

Does Bassfinger have female bandmates? unlikely

 

Sadly, I must correct you.

I most assuredly do have a female bandmate.

And at one gig she reversed her car into mine...

Perhaps youre over thinking this? Small venues like pubs I use my Orange Crush 100. No need for monitors or owt set up like that in somewhere small and tight. Anything larger we go through the PA and sub.

After the gig donate your sweaty clothes to a charity shop.  You can buy them back on Monday for 50p, all clean and crisply ironed.

If you have a band member called Steven you can ssve time by calling him Steve.

Take pork pies as a mid gig snack. The excess jelly can be used as a string lube.

Wear a miners helmet. No only will you be able to see if there should be a power cut, but it will protect your head from items thrown at the stage.

On 08/03/2022 at 13:43, Quilly said:

Not gigging much lately and need some songs to practice with.

Id describe myself as 'intermediate' level. Any suggestions ?   

Come Up And See Me, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel.  A nice little workout for an intermediate player, good exercise for your scale skills.

And Dani California. Not quite as formally technical as Come Up And See Me, probably a bit more improv by Flea, but an interesting workout.

Its a purdy thing.

Fantastic!  That looks a fairly clean break, an easy repair if you ever decided to.

Although that hypothesis is for sporting performance, so not terribly relevant to playing an instrument.

Yamaha Sessioncake?

53 minutes ago, lozkerr said:

Props. That can't have been a cheap purchase!

 

I had two BSAs back in the day. One was a crappy old Bantam, about which the less said the better and the other was an A65 650 twin. Lovely machine - it's one of the few bikes I really regret selling.

£2300. Its not a minter but very tidy, all original patina. I don't normally drink but a schoolfriend had died and I cracked open the bottle of Laphroaig id bought him for his forthcoming birthday.

It's not brilliant for someone my size and weight and struggles to top 55 as a result, but for unhurriedly pottering around locally it is quite pleasant.

But the seller was great, laughed his behind off when I told him the story.

1 minute ago, oldslapper said:

So I’m in a room with a group of very angry and potentially dangerous men. 

Sounds much like my time on the rigs with the rousatabouts and roughnecks, except you werent locked up with them for 2 weeks at a time!

I genuinely suffer very little anxiety. My pulse raises a little with excitement, but no anxiety.  I've done/been through a lot scarier stuff over the years than playing to an audience.

I love playing live, look forward to every gig with great relish. Each gig is 2 or 3 hours of being on a high, followed by hours of buzzing afterwards.  Ive never played to an audience of more than 500 so imagine the buzz the likes of Freddie Mecury used to enjoy playing to stadia full of fans. 

But then something mundane like meeting new people at a party fills me with dread, leaves me clammy(er than normal) and makes me short of breath.  Weird.