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Elephants - Them Crooked Vultures

Mercedes Marxist - Idles

Millionaire - Queens Of The Stone Age I know it's not really word association, it's just another song with the same name but I like this song.

LSD is a he'll of a drug. They must have had a lot!

True. I just feel our shares should reflect the amount of work each of us puts in. I'm not sure I deserve the same as the singer / guitarist

They're 80% written by the time I get the song. I add in a few fills and make a couple alterations here and there.

The song writing in our band is done by the singer / rhythm guitarist. He insists that when/if we make money everyone gets an equal share. I'm not entirely comfortable with this because he puts in so much more work than I do. He writes, records, mixes, arranges, sings and plays guitar. I just turn up and play bass. I want to suggest to the other band members that instead of 25% each, we make it 20% for each and the singer gets 40%. I'd just be more comfortable with that. Obviously I'd be happier if there was an equal share of work but I can't sing, write or do the technical stuff.

Celestion over the last week. I bought a couple IR's from them and they email me the entire Internet.

I did until I had one

Aren't all bass guitars niche? Who looks at rock bands on TV and thinks "I don't want to be the cool one shredding away and running around the stage, I want to be the the one at the back who plays root notes and only gets the girls (or boys) guitarist and singer rejected"? It's not the most popular instrument.

Shine on you crazy diamond - Pink Floyd

The Diarrhea Song - Bob's Burgers

Piggy - Nine Inch Nails

Thanks for the tips. Since there's no wild disagreement I've gone and ordered a couple from designacable. Van damme cable (in a nice shade of green) with neutrik plugs (in red for a horrible clash)

I was looking on Andertons earlier to get some new leads and prices range from cheap to bloody expensive. Is there actually any difference in reality?

My local usually has two basses in stock around £300 each. He said he's tried stocking more variety of basses but they don't sell and he gets stuck with stock he can't afford to have hanging around. He's got loads of guitars, violins and ukuleles in stock. I guess bass isn't popular enough. He also doesn't have much stock of lots of other instruments so it's not just discrimination against bass

This has gone severly off topic but who doesn't like the charming Ms Lawson

How dare you. Take that back. She is a goddess and would never use sprouts.

I'm getting worried reading this. I got a new harley benton and the fretboard was super dry, to the point where it felt rough. I put on some lemon oil and half an hour later it felt better but still not great so I put some more on and now it feels super smooth but not oily at all. Could I have over done it and set up future problems?

Stone the crow - Down

I oiled the fretboard on a new Harley Benton this morning. It was really dry out of the box so thought it would do it some good. It looked like it had gone within 10 minutes so I guess it was either absorbed or evaporated

Cheers for the tips. I barely scraped through last time. I think the jam sessions could be great for developing my playing and I think it'll be good fun once I have some idea what I'm doing and can relax.

It's a good plan but it's in a small village. There's only one pub. Or did you mean 12 bar blues? I was prepared for that but nothing even close came up. There was a bit of reggae, some jazz and a bit of rock.

A few weeks ago I went to my first jam session and very quickly realised that I didn't have a clue what I was doing. Someone would start something and then others would just come in and join them. I didn't know what to play or when to play it. Everyone else was making some fantastic noises but I sucked although people were encouraging. I'm guessing I really need to know chords (I don't really know much) but which ones? There's hundreds of the buggers. Are there a few fret board shapes which will help me scrape through?

White Riot - The Clash