Nail Soup

It's only allowed if she chooses you as hers. Same for you!

The producers of DID encourage the islanders to choose their songs based on the latter (important life moments etc) more than the music quality. I had always suspected as much, and in one episode a guest actually alluded to it. My (tongue only slightly in cheek) response to this is to say that discovering my 8 favourite songs are the 8 most important moments in my life!

Saw a Wilko documentory... on the subject of his style/gear/technique/etc the interviewer asked about his pedals. Response: "Pedals? I'm not driving a car!"

Here's my entry. The picture gave me vibes of looping and continuation, so a repetitive bassline and yes it goes on a bit 🙂..... The words (such as they are) came from a bit of word association: Blue Circle > Cement > Concrete > Abstract Finally, the sad death of Keith Levine means I tried to channel some KL/PIL.

Tessellation!

Going for the 'meow' sound I suppose?

Provide info about what strings are fitted to a new instrument, to give the option to replace them with the same.

721 +1 = 722

Three popular bassists did form a band in which they all played bass. Bassists are Andy Rourke, Gary "Mani" Mounfield, and Peter Hook. The band is called Freebase (see what they did there?) From wikipedia: Peter Hook stated that all of the songs have three basses; "Mani does the low part, Andy Rourke in the middle and I do the high bit"

I'd have to say the same as you. My tastes are not mega-obscure... it's stuff that gets regular plays on 6 Music. But they are typically at venues with capacity of couple of hundred. But just go on my own in general. Mrs Soup is OK to come to some gigs that fall outside of my core tastes.... e.g .folk festival or a covers band of AC/DC and the like.

80% of Andy Rourke is no bad thing!

Or unite with the Andy Powell version of the band?

For a lot of people - yes they are.

Should not have went to S***S*v*rs 🙂

Lightening Bolt's "Fantasy Empire" album. A bass/drum/vocals duo.

I'm no ZZ top fan, but this made me smile. Love the way the only two strings he plays are the furthest apart ones. I like to think that Dusty Hill would find this funny too.

I've not used one as a musician... but I've experienced it as a punter and can concur with the "use it sparingly" comments. I think 'sparingly' can be achieved either by not using it all the time, or by not having it too prominent in the mix.

I'd say it's a good idea to learn guitar even if you stick with bass as your primary instrument. It's good for learning to understand chords and harmonisation. It's good for songwriting (unless you want to write bass-driven songs of course) It's good for singalongs and similar situations.

This article is not such good news as you may think. It is about very low frequencies, rather than audible bass if I read it correctly. So more justification to sound engineers who make the bass a low frequency mush rather than being able to hear the notes.

Nearly forgot to post it here .... I made a banjo-driven entry into the BassChat composition challenge for October... ended up in joint first place 🙂 Here's a link, it's about the 4th entry down :

I think I chose the pic more recently than @xgsjx..... so if you have a pic @xgsjx then go for it.

I saw them recently and they were fantastic. I believe they have Terry Edwards joining them on sax for the next run of shows… so should be worth seeing.

Did they only do stuff that the original line-up released? Any on-stage references to any falling-outs etc? And how was it in general?

I got the album recently - Sniffany and the Nits... pretty angry stuff, although the anger is directed at personal as well as social issues.

JJ Burnel led me to bass, but I probably went tone wise more for Steve Hanley of The Fall.