SteveXFR

A bassist who plays a simple part perfectly in time is far better than one who plays a complex part with sloppy timing. 

Understanding when to stay simple and when to go for it is also an important skill and a skill no guitarist has.

Id definitely recommend in person lessons. On line lessons are fine but you'll get no feedback at all. You need someone to tell you if you're technique is a bit off.

The online lessons also don't put enough emphasis on timing and because bass is a rhythm instrument, timing is extremely important. Bad timing can make a good band sound terrible.

Eat the meek - NOFX

56 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said:

What happens when you take small children away from there parents and send them to a single sex boarding school? 
 

Whatever you did don’t let them near the levers of power. Oh dear too late. 

Three if my mates went to very expensive boarding schools. One has been fired from at least four jobs. One has bankrupted two businesses and a third soon most likely. The other one ended up selling cocaine so I then avoided him (I don't like drugs). A couple years later i heard he died of a heroin overdose. 

Ive also worked with several privately educated people who were mostly utterly hopeless. 

If I could afford to send my kids to private school, I wouldn't. 

The Real Thing by Faith No More. 

I haven't listened to it in years and forgot just what a masterpiece it is. One of the all time great rock record, id put it up there with Led Zeppelins best. 

Billy Gould deserves more recognition as a great bassist. 

Demon Cleaner - Kyuss

2 hours ago, BassAdder60 said:

You sure it was the OBC112 as it’s lightweight around 12kg ? 

Yep. There's no way it was only 12kg. Maybe they've made it lighter since then 

I had one. Very punchy, pretty heavy and very harsh sounding. I wouldn't recommend it.

Ive had a few Orange cabs and didn't really like any of them. 

Kids of the K hole - NOFX

On 08/02/2026 at 11:04, Terry M. said:

https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass/products/ernie-ball-music-man-5

 

I've actually played this bass in the store and believe me when I say my recently acquired used Ray35 is no worse. It's hard to look at this price tag after that.

I like how the website allows you to select a quantity. Dangerous when drunk online shopping. You could end up with 12 of the bastards and no house. 

Ive never had trouble getting things repaired but I deliberately bought amps that can be repaired. Ashdown and Trace Elliott are just made of standard components. Ive had pedals repaired by a local, retired electronics engineer. Ive never had trouble getting a bass repaired.

Holy crap. I had a carbon mountain bike frame shipped over from Colorado for only a few pounds more than that.

1 hour ago, neepheid said:

 

Are they these guys?

 

Thats the ones

Can someone help please?

I've got a 1985 Japanese made BB1100S and one of the tuners has an issue. As I turn the D string tuner to slacken off the string, rather the string coming slack, the tuning is unscrewing itself and the knob with worm gear is coming out of the tuner back plate. Is there anyting I can do to fix it?

I really don't want to replace the tuners, they've got an amazing look to them from over 40 years of use although that 40 years of use may be the problem!

I was lucky enough to see the Ramones on their last ever tour. They only did another three last ever tours after that last ever tour so I was lucky. 

3 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

in a tory meeting (or I guess now reform)!

 

Same thing rebranded. Reform are just Snickers to the tory Marathon. Either way, they need a warning to say they contain nuts.

Its not really news anymore. Its all opinion reporting. You can have two different outlets reporting the same story with the same facts and while one portrays it as a great thing, the other portrays it as utter failure. I don't want opinion, just fact me and fact me hard. There was better reporting on Not The Nine o'clock News

Im sure they just make stuff up. Any time they quote an anonymous source or "insiders tell us" that just means theyre making it up. 

And then there's the shouting a question that they know the target would never answer and do it at the same time as a dozen other journalists are shouting equally pointless questions just so they can say "Mr Bottomflaps has refused to comment about the situation involving the Chancellor and a hamster"

One inch man - Kyuss

Currently learning how to play a bass part I wrote last year. I thought my playing had improved. I guess not. My hands don't want to move that fast anymore. 

Gravedigger Song - Mark Lanegan 

With a loud metal band, my 600W Ashdown amp is running at about quarter on the master volume knob. When we had a second guitarist, I was close to a third on the knob. Im pretty sure the 300W version of the same amp would do me just fine but the used market is ful of 600W ABM heads and 300W ABMs are really hard to find.

There's definitely a difference in speaker efficiency. If I take my 210 and 115 GK cabs to practice then ill run the master volume lower than if I use the battered old Peavey 410 cab in the studio.

10 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Always the whining about Coldplay. Stop the bitterness and envy, before it destroys you.

Its not whining. They are the opposite to this, perfectly competent. Can't fault the playing, recording, mixing etc but they have no weirdness, nothing to challenge the listener, nothing unusual. They're just standard. This is the opposite to that. You're never going to hear this played as background music in a supermarket. Most people who hear this will think its a mess but those who get it will really enjoy it.

This has reminded me of a band i saw last summer at Arctangent Festival. 

I thought id just stop for a couple songs before heading to the bar but ended up staying for the whole set. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have a whole lot of strange and an excellent name

There was also a band called Clown Core who were incredibly weird but im still suffering PTSD from their visuals. 

More power means more heat which generally means bigger enclosure and more fans. Im using a 600w head and that has three fans on it so its big and its heavy and it was expensive (£700 when new). 

200w is plenty for pub gigs and thats all most people want. Ive only got a 600w head because I like Ashdown ABM's and couldn't find a 300w head locally at that time.

I guess small amps must be big sellers otherwise manufacturers wouldn't make so many of them