harryharold

U2 are like this thread : really boring, but yet i read it, sh*t. i'll be buying U2 albums next, actually no i can't, thank f*** for the credit crunch.

bought dave's antdroid (strange prototype pedal), was sent quickly and all that. top stuff. Cheers (though my girlfriend is annoyed with amount of noise i'm making at the moment) Harry

i'd be up for this, is there anyone else making the trip from southlondon who would want to lift share? it seems a bit of bitch to get there by public transport. could bring my self built monster, a little mark II and a few box's of tricks

Sold me a pedal power supply, damn good price and quick delivery. good stuff.

Bob dylan - jack of hearts well simple but great fun to play. been playing along to the whole of blood on the tracks all week as my girlfriend has it on repeat, does anyone know who's playing bass on that album? nothing flashy but solid bass playing, what you'd expect with bob i guess. oh and still playing playing jazz heads, currently enjoying funkarello - bill evans (i think) mr. clean - freddy hubbard (again not entirely sure)

Cheers, exactly what i was looking for, will attempt to check it out sometime soon. Harry

Does anyone know of any good jam nights in south london?, preferably near the peckham/camberwell area. I miss playing different styles of music to the heavy rock/blues band i'm in at the moment. A jazz session would be the best but if there's a folky thing local to me i can happily thump along to that for hours. Oh and talking about the peckham/camberwell area, does anyone else on here frequent JazzLive in the crypt of st. giles church? awesome jazz club.

[quote name='bremen' post='414455' date='Feb 19 2009, 04:19 PM']It is? I tried counting it in 4 and it just wouldn't fit. Stick it on your ipod and go for a walk, the 'one' is alternately on left and right foot. Maybe i have odd feet...[/quote] yeh i know, its not until you walk with it that you realise, unless its on a compilation and its called 7/4 shoreline, i hate that they do that, i missed the joy of discovering a weird time signature.

shoreline by broken social scene is really good, in 7/4 but it takes you a while to realise. another classic is take 5 by dave brubeck, obviously in 5/4. quite a few of the tunes previously mentioned are in 4 but have a slightly wierd pulse - the birthday party one is actually in 4. there are quite few funk tracks which are supposedly in 'open' time - which means bootsy wasn't counting so it ended up as 17/16 or something wierd, the only example i can think of is the crunge by led zep, funky as hell, nuts time signature but feels completely right, so easy to play and groove to, which i guess is the point. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UG3B57Ky1g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UG3B57Ky1g[/url]

Hi all london giggers, we (Black Sea [url="http://www.myspace.com/blacksea)"]http://www.myspace.com/blacksea)[/url] are booked to play the bull and gate in kentish town this thursday but unfortunately our singer is all flued up so will have to pull out. the venue has asked us to try and help them find a replacement so putting it up here for the picking if anyone wants it. The night is for anything from rock to metal so if you're a least slightly amplified to incredibly amplified you'll fit in. The slot is the headlining one so you get a full 45 mins between 10.15 and 11.00. it one of the standard london unsigned gigs where you get paid if enough people come and see and there will be no real pressure to get a massive crowd for a gig at this short notice. Just contact me if you want it and i'll put you through to promoters. if theres kit issues i'm sure we can help you out, kind of our prerogative. cheers Harry

cheers with the comments, ive just got back from the bass gallery and....... well i tried the tonehammer and the BDDI and the tonehammer was far superior (for me that is anyway) as seeing as they were selling both for £179 i got the tone hammer. they also had the mxr DI there for the same price but i didn't bother. what really sold it to me was the switching options and the overdrive settings. i like being able to have all three options of bypassed, through the preamp, with the lovely gainy distortion. it was the drive settings that really won it over for me though, the tonehammer sounds amazing. to be honest the BDDI was probably a little easier to get a good tone out of when clean, probably due to the para eq on the aguilar needed a bit of fiddling with but when driven it was rubbish in comparison. the BDDI sounded all high end when driven and there was no deep throaty growl that the tonehammer had in abundance. really nice bit of kit. heavy, needs 18v, but sounds so damned powerful. bit pricey but got it from an awesome shop who have helped me out so many times and i think that was the first thing i bought from them.

mmmmm not sure about the MXR, will attempt to demo one of them as well, will see what is best for my bass. the only thing is that i'm not sure i'm going to be able to demo any DHA stuff, anyone know of anywhere in london where this is possible???

I'm currently trying to decide which of these units to buy as i think i'm need of a little hifi signal processing. What i really want is something with an eq to tame/enhance my lovely passive bass which also has the option to provide a little bit of driven distortion, not all out fuzz, i have other pedals for that, but just enough to sound like a nice gainy amp being driven a bit. I'm going to try the bassgallery tomorrow where they hopefully have the tonehammer and BDDI in, but i was also wanting some opinion on various DHA pedals. Have been looking at either the dual bass or the eq bass drive but was wandering about how well they could be used as a selector between a nice clean preamp and a dirty driven one. Quite like the look of the tonehammer though it is a little more pricey that the other two (obviously want the programmable BDDI for switching capabilities), what is the general opinion on these units? and is there anything that ive missed out? Oh suppose i should give details of my rig. Bass is a home built 5 string, very heavy, ovankol body, with a basslines MM pickup. This goes through a few pedals, all analogue, true bypass, currently a bluebeard fuzz, EHX bassballs, and currently sourcing an ampeg scrambler. Then into a markbass little mark 250 head powering an oldish ashdown ABM410. Cheers Harry

Definitely Linley Marthe, saw him playing with the (sadly late) joe zawinul a couple of years ago and he completely blew me away. so glad i went to that gig and managed to see the zawinul syndicate, don't think i'll manage to go to a better gig.