TimR

Wonder if this happened in Brazil somehow and caused a boost. This is what happens with Celebrity deaths suddenly happening again. The BBC publish something related with a link, people click on the link and it becomes most read, even though its an old story. You may have picked a particular tag somehow that's being picked up. That's how YouTube works, not sure about Spotify as I've never added music. Edit: yes you can add metadata tags to your tracks when uploading on the desktop version.

My great aunt and uncle had an outside toilet, no central heating, no telephone and round pin electrical sockets in the 90s. In North London.

Something they do to bass guitars at the factory.

Worked fine for me for years on small gigs. Tuner in line out. Turn to amp. Hit mute button. Tune bass. Hit mute button. Only presents a problem if you are DIing to the PA.

I think you are both confusing the bass volume control and the amp volume control. If you have a line out tuner, you need to mute the amp somehow. If it doesn't have a mute button then you have to turn the amp volume down, tune, and reset the amp volume. If you're using a DI out of the amp then a tuner pedal that mutes is essential as the amp volume won't affect the DI out. There's a few different configurations we all use. The mute tuner pedal simplifies everything by working in all scenarios.

Can never be too sure round these parts.

Clapping works better for people who don't like to sing and doesn't rely on any pitching.

Surely he's famous as a bass player who acts a bit.

It should mute the signal by grounding it. So you should get no noise. Or at least no more noise, and probably less, than you'd get from you amp when you've muted the strings. It's electrically the same as turning the volume knob on your bass to 0.

Keanu Reeves.

The short bloke from Top Gear.

Yes. It's a fine art to play one as well.

Especially if you're not going to last the full distance.

Went to see Richard Bona at the jazz cafe mid-week about 10 years ago. Doors opened at 7. We arrived at 8. Usually bands start at 9. He eventually appeared at 10pm. At 10:30 large numbers of people started to leave to catch the last train home, so they could get up in the morning for work.

OK. We'll maybe I'll concede, obviously if you've paid loads of money to get into a Richard Bona gig, I would suggest you go to the box office and complain to them and try and get your money back.

The option is not to go and see Richard Bona live. And if a band starts doing something you're not enjoying, leave. I think we've covered- "I don't play solos". Would be good to hear from some more bass players on how they approach playing solos.

I think the great thing about a solo is it can be improvised and anything can happen. It's why I enjoy playing and listening to live music. Anything can, and usually does, happen. Wrong notes, going into the wrong sections, starting in the wrong key, drum kits gaining a life of their own and wandering down stage, amps catching fire, dodgy sound mixes. It's all part of the live experience. A lot of that has become very sterile and clinical now. I think a lack of real live music on TV, multitrack recording on protools and auto tune have spoiled people somewhat.

Is that not the purpose of entertaining and performing. It's all a show.

It's showing appreciation. The performers are there to perform to you, you are there to enjoy the performance. I've noticed this with City vs Village audiences. City audiences seem to think its your job to make them enjoy themselves. Village audiences are there to enjoy whatever you do. YMMV. I was at a dance competition once where the judge said (roughly) "Remember, you are there to entertain and the audience wants to be entertained, they want you to perform well. Enjoy yourself and it will show and make people happy. And remember there will always be some critics in the crowd looking for you to make mistakes and who like to criticise. So even if you perform badly, you're still making someone happy. So enjoy yourselves and show you're enjoying yourselves." Got a chuckle from me anyway.

Drum Solo: usually band stops and drummer hits everything in sight that doesn't move quick enough to get out of the way. Can be any number of bars or any time signature, poly-rhythms with different time signatures on each limb gain extra applause. Everyone is pleased when it ends. Choral solo: singer sings with all other instruments still playing. At end of solo, rest of choir join in. Acapella solo: see also Freddie Mercury. Guitar solo: usually rest of band play verse while guitarist plays as many notes as possible in the given time. Except for Eric Clapton, David Gilmour and some other notable exceptions. In rare cases band gets bored, put down instruments and go for a beer. Keys solo: always playing solos even when not supposed to. Difficult to determine when solo starts and when it ends. Bass solo: usually, drums continue, guitar comps and bass plays something melodic rather than bass and harmony, except when the bass plays just the bass groove. Except notable exceptions where the band stops and the bass player pretends to be a drummer. See above. If the band has keys player, someone unplugs them at this point.

A solo can be whatever you want. I suspect the binary true false nature of Internet forums leads people to imagine all kinds of best case/worst case scenarios. Looking at some of these replies, it's almost as if no one has ever played a siong with a basss intro. Hence why I asked an open ended question with an opportunity to discuss various approaches.

Nice. That's what happens when you give a Klingon a bass set to stun. It's pretty clever as a piece of art, liked the way he went into the intro of the next song at the end. Just not sure I can fit any of that into our current set, but will bear it in mind.

That's what inspired this thread. Seemed a lot of bass players didn't like taking solos.

Yes. That's a pretty straightforward method that works well. Think having the guitar comping is useful otherwise there's often a danger of getting lost. 🤣 Depends how long the phrase is as to how many bars you keep it going for. 8 bars might be a bit short if it's a 2 bar phrase over 4 chord changes. Certainly 16 would be plenty to establish some repeated patterns.

What do you do? Join in the fun using your wealth of background theory knowledge and years of experience to instantly craft an interesting line that has groove and entertains resulting in whistles and cheering from the adoring crowd. Or something else?