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Same here... because I didn't like goth in general, I dismissed all bands who could be considered goth - including Bauhaus. But now, I see that Bauhaus were a really good band. I'm not gonna be a born-agin goth, but some good stuff did come from it.

Great thread! I only write and record solo nowadays. My recent bands have been covers. Otherwise it might be different. I mainly go the songwriter route... write the song with about half the full lyrics on guitar, before moving onto recording. Start with a rough drum beat add a guitar track which includes all the elements of the song. Add bass. Add guide vocal Chop it up into a full song arrangements - like intro verse chorus verse and so on. Then replace all of played instruments with 'live' takes. I might 'comp' a few tales together or swap out a mistake. Do the proper drums Do the final vocals. Add solos and extra bits. Then the hardest part - mixing and adding EQ, reverb etc. With guitar effects I used to just paly the line and add effects after. Now I am trying to move towards setting up the effect first and letting that influence the lines played.

On one hand, other instruments mean I spend much less time on bass. One the other hand I think it's really beneficial to play a 'harmonic' instrument (i.e plays chords like guitar or keys) alongside 'single note' instruments like bass or violin*. Helps learn about chord progressions, where the minor/major notes are and what they do and so on. * Yes I know you can play chords on Violin and bass.

Taraf De Haidouks - Balkan Gypsy Folk Music

I didn't get it a bass t-shirt as such, but....

I'd stay right handed, and learn to play without the little finger. So many players reject the 'one finger per fret' approach which needs a little finger. A lot of people just don't use that finger anyway. I do use the little finger, but I just picked up the bass, 'tied my little finger behind my back'........ and I could adapt to it pretty well almost straight away. And if you have any further doubt look at some vids of Django Reinhardt playing six-string guitar with his limited finger-set.

This kind of YT vid?

This is the clip which Youtube most wants me to watch. Not sure why the algorithm got this as it's not similar to what I listen to. But I do quite like it though!

Amazing skills-wise, but would not be something I'd actually listen to as music. It's fine as a party-piece or as a demo of where your bass-playing skills are at.

A lot of musical instruments have a long life cycle - e.g .the violin. There will always be bass... but the way of delivering bass will chnage over time... e.g .transition from Double bass to bass guitar. I think bass guitar will sit along synth bass etc for a few years yet.

Horsegirl:

You have got me tempted for one of these! There is a nice orange version costing 50 or 60 pounds more:

Or take speed.

The old adage "It's what you don't play" seems particularly pertinent to reggae.

I'm not any expert on D&B, but am open minded towards it and my feelings on it are as follows: Not too keen on the jazzy stuff (but that goes for any genre to be honest !) Prefer the weirder, noisier stuff (but that goes for any genre to be honest !) I think I've not really heard it properly - mainly on radio speakers and earphones - D&B sounds like it needs to be heard on a massive sound system. It maybe doesn't fit for me in the context of my life-style.... it's more of a "going-out" type music and I'm more of a 'bedroom' listener. There used to be a kind of pirate radio station in Luton which used to crash my car radio sometimes which played mainly D&B.... it would have sounded ok, but the 'DJ' just talked over it so much.... nothing interesting or imaginative, just an endless stream of "shout out to XYZ" 😞 .

A lot of Jungle D&B is based around the 'Amen break'..... here's a short YT vid on the topic. The man on the rght is the drummer who originally payed it - Gregory Coleman.

I jumped from this thread over to Facebook. Within about 30 seconds this was in my feed

And while we’re at it, are Jungle and D&B the same thing?

So what he's saying is that once a song is liked by one million people then the rest of humanity has to either a) like it too or b) be a snob? Or did I misunderstand the logic?

Would love to have a go on that! My keyboard repertoire is only about 30 secs so won’t be hogging it for long!

The 'standing up' thing was Paul Simenon

I think he was throwing his toys out of the pram about something (something to do with crowd control???)

Basically agree, but somehow Paul Simenon did look cool here :

Great picture, could have inspired a certain old song with as iconic bassline 😉!

Good article. Anyone got any idea why there is some kind of rift between Elvis and Bruce in later years? The interview didn't cover it (although I think their is a part two)