Nail Soup

Had a listen. You certainly don’t take yourselves seriously, but take the quality of the music seriously. Sounds a bit ska, but I don’t hear jazz as some others have. The nearest genre I can think of is what Madness used to call themselves: The Nutty Sound. Sorry that may not be something you can use.

From the title I thought it’s was going to an “are we Bassists or Bass players “ thread with answers like “hey I’m actually a musician who plays bass” and stuff. But compartmentalising someone into a genre sounds like a lot more fun…. I’ll take a listen and give it a try👍

The worst thing about the whole thing is that “haters gonna hate” is an established phrase in the first place.

I’m biased but will say Totally Wired by The Fall. I think the ghost notes work particularly well with a pick - but all their bass lines are pick driven.

Got reacquainted with that song recently…… my new band covers it👍. RIP Mensie.

I use Xvive2…. Similar to Lozz example it’s two rechargeable bugs so no mains leads involved and no pack to wear. Sound wise I think it’s better than a lead, less effect on the sound.

What a tragic story 🙁. His sister, singer Candy McKenzie, survived the incident and went on to record with (amongst others) Lee Perry

I think any review of a U-bass should talk about the strings. Are they the rubbery ones or something more like a regular bass? So the second vid is more informative than the what-does-it-sound-like first vid. But sounds tempting!

Well, looks like someone has been reading this thread and actually implemented something from our armchair inventions:

Yeah, not sure if it qualifies but I’m defiantly interested to hear the nyckrlharpa so will take a listen in either case. However I never listen until all entries are in!

To go back on topic a little bit....... what particular item(s) would we propose for inclusion? I'll go for an obvious one... the remains of Paul Simenon's bass from the "London Calling" cover.

Not really sure that is how originals band is defined…. Just means no-one did those songs before, not that each member developed their own parts. For example The Undertones were an originals band, but the singer sang the melody and words written by the songwriter - mainly the guitarist, sometimes one of the others, never the singer. Even if the rest of the band write the bass lines note for note it’s still an originals band. Agree it’s not a good situation though.

I can imagine that if it did exist now it would be as an afterthought side room of a National Guitar Museum 🙄.

All the way into 2021?

This just came up on my FB feed. I reckon that pretty much settles it folk.

Got me intrigued….. looking forward to it and will be trying to guess what it is based on the clues given.

This chap has been doing it for over 30 years Yep , playing bass with elbow since they formed in 1990. Oh ….. ebow!

For the last few weeks my FB feed has continuously features a guitar pick with kind of triangular/pyramid shape lumps on the surface (surface which strokes the string, not the gripping surface) This thread comes up so I pop over to FB to find it and post here. Is it in my feed? No. What are the odds eh 😃!

I never upgrade my gear, just do essential maintenance and repairs. Not that I have any objection to upgrades in principal, I'm just a) not knowledgeable enough about pick-ups and so on to make an informed upgrade and b) too worried about the OP's point... it not being worth it. The biggest/only upgrade I can think of is adding a strap button to the heel of an acoustic guitar... very cheap, very easy and defiantly an improvement.

Many years ago, I used to buy Sharks Fin picks, with a kind of rippled edge to give multiple strikes per strum. It did make a difference in sound on a 6 string, but not enough once in the mix to be worthwhile really.

I’d never heard it before either… I’d assumed it was Geordie though due to Nadine’s location.

NME Reports that Adam Clayton has been criticised for comments he made about the bass in a Phil Lynot doc. Clayton: One thing you need to know about the bass is it’s that big, heavy thing that hangs down between your legs Clayton: The bass is this secret weapon. It’s where the power comes from. It looks in a groove with the drum kit – the drums and the bass gives you that nice, kind of sexy wiggle of the hips. And then all the other kind of girly stuff sits on top, but we are the men of the band Indie artist Nadine Shah responded: “Adam Clayton is a f***ing spenk. My ‘girly stuff’ 5h1ts on what you do.” Can't seem to get a link to the NME page.

I think that these types of list are a load of rubbish, and will maintain that view until such time as I find a list which features my favourite bassist at number one . At which point I’ll start a thread on Basschat to tirelessly argue the absolute truth of said list.

I went to a folk festival a couple of years ago and there was a couple of incidents of parent allowing, nay, encouraging kids to play along to the act on percussion instruments. In one case a woman in front of the kid (it was a sit on the floor kind of thing - must have been right in her ear) leant back and asked him to stop. Kid was about 4 and stopped. Kid’s mum taps him on the shoulder and tells him that he doesn’t have to stop . He didn’t start again. Well done that woman it sounded bloody awful.

There’s always the slap bass of goalkeeping