Bassfinger

On 27/12/2021 at 18:05, SteveXFR said:

 

Corgan has become 100% ego.

I saw Smashing Pumpkins at Glastonbury a few years ago and they were so average that the only thing I remember was that Corgans shirt was too small and his belly was stuck out the bottom.

Much how I looked at the bar!

Jethro Tull's album Benefit was released in April, pushing them further away from their blues roots and towards prog.  This sort of middle ground makes for an electic mix and paved the way for Aqualung to follow.

She's Not There.

Not a shortcut, not an easy re write, but the brilliant, superb, full fat, double cholesteol original Chris White bassline.  It's just an incredible song. Looking forward to playing it live next gig.

4 hours ago, deepbass5 said:

 

 

We have been on this subject a few times. PAT & PLI So here is my bit again.  Not picking on these two individual comments but as examples of, so don't beat me up.

 

As an electrician and later a lecturer in H&S inc Electrical safety.  There are certified courses run to train individuals on PAT testing - been there done that.   Though this does not stop a competant individual doing this without a certificate but removes that ambiguity, one less thing to prove in court.  

If no one can agree, or someone explodes, the that court, and only a court, can remove can remove the ambiguity.

Hard to say. Warwick SSII perhaps?

12 hours ago, mikel said:

Good pick. Even more left field as John Glasscock was ill and its reported he only played on three tracks. Ian Anderson played bass on the rest.

Inceed. Glascock only did Orion, Elegy and Flying Dutchman.

Anderson, as you say, did the rest, and to this day it blows me away how good he was. This is a long song, but check out the bass from about 5:30 onwards and you can hear that Anderson, who'd previously hardly touched the instrument, has a really nice controlled yet hard style on the olde 4 string. Add in some excellent production by Anderson and is a delight to listen to as a fan and as a bassist.

On 18/12/2021 at 19:10, BigRedX said:

There’s more to music than just funk.

I think one Mr L. Kilmister of Los Angeles would have agreed with that sentiment.

38 minutes ago, bassbiscuits said:

No way you’re getting me in a baseball hat and a goatee tho.

When, like me, you reach a certain age and a certain level of cranial follicular sparseness that is about the only look remaining!

One of the best selling albums of '73 and it just passed me by.

You could update it by buying a Harley Benton to keep it company.

6 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Why do people get so upset about other people's choices?

Im all for folk being veganatarian.

It leaves more steak for me.

On 26/11/2021 at 09:14, BigRedX said:

 

A very nice humorous story (and probably has made a good interview at some point) except:

 

1. It's not true. On the record label it's credited to both Ian Anderson and Gerald Bostock.

 

2. Unless he was very stupid/lazy Ian Anderson would have registered "Gerald Bostock" as a pseudonym with the PRS thereby getting his full share of the performance royalties. Even for a relative songwriting non-entity like myself it is simple to do. I'm registered with the PRS under my full name (which was required when I joined in the early 80s) my usual abbreviated name (which most of the songs I have written are credited to) and my Terrortones stage name (which all Dïck Venom & The Terrortones songs are credited to). Each name has its own unique CAE number, but royalties for all three names get paid to me.

It could be made up, I don't know for sure. Nevertheless, during the TAAB2 tour in June 2013, Albert Hall gig, when Anderson was regaling the audience with tales between songs he claimed this very thing himself. He said so in person, within my earshot, witnessed by both Mrs Bassfinger and my friend Oz, and everyone else sat there who was awake.

Whether it happened in reality is one thing. That Anderson has claimed that happened is beyond question, and I have no reason or evidence with which to doubt it.

Wire brush, angle grinder, 60 grit sandpaper.

Been invited to a lodge new year festive board, although that may change dependent on the whim of the government.

He did indeed, John Glascock was seriously ill and Anderson had put him on salaried leave.  Anderson did a blummen good job of too, really hit his stride.

At least its exactly how Brian May imagined it in his one vision.

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

 

Now you're talking.

A left field suggestion,  one that caught the attention of ny bass orientated ear recently;

Stormwatch, Jethro Tull.

The thread title is misleading  - it led me to bepoeve this was a Weezer thread.

In all seriousness, which is difficult for me...

A quick wipe of the whole thing, including strings and fretboard, with a dry microfibre cloth after every play. In over 4 decades of guitaring and latterly 5 of 6 of bass playing I have suffered zero grunge buikd up on frets and the like as a result.

Every 6 months or so all (gloss) painted and plated parts get a going over with pure carnauba paste wax.  Matte finish paint gets a spray and wipe with a liquid car sealant, who's name eludes me.

I periodically do other stuff to fretboards, nuts, etc, but that steps over the threshold into maintanence and the brief for this thread is cleaning so I won't  go there.

But most importantly Inwash my hands before playing the damn things in the first place - that's  the biggest contribution we can make to 'cleaning.

26 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

It was Arbiter that did the respray job at the time as they were the Fender importer.

Indeed. One just ordered it in any colour from the UK Dallas Arbiter palette. 

I'll  have to ask my butler what he ises to clean mine.

If we're being really sarcastic, it should be pointed out that the government has not legally defined what best practice is instance...

5 hours ago, Cat Burrito said:

Um, Meat Loaf announces he no longer eats meat and is going vegan for Veganuary (inews.co.uk) 

 

Sorry links don't seem to work on this computer but feel free to google it. 

He never so much ate meat as had it intravenously piped into his veins.