EssentialTension

[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1443768264' post='2877466'] Can someone give the definition of sideman and pick-up band? [/quote] In both cases, you are working for someone else .... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideman"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideman[/url] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_group"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_group[/url]

I prefer piano.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443593421' post='2875938'] One of many reasons that I'm glad I didn't grow up in the 80s. [/quote] +1

Having used, over the years, 5", 8", 10", 12", 15" and 18" speakers I have become conditioned not to care about speaker size.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1443099468' post='2872194'] Paul McCartney auctioned a signed left handed hofner bass for £40k. I don't know if it was 'the' hofner though. [/quote] I'm guessing McCartney's actual 'the' Hofner would fetch at least twenty times as much ... and maybe more.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1442702922' post='2868933'] I'm always faintly bemused by the way Ebay numpties invariably claim that the Korean Young-Chang factory is an individual. Why? Jon. [/quote] Wasn't it two individuals originally?

[quote name='Fitzy73' timestamp='1442140513' post='2864583'] I recently bought a new lakland skyline 44/64 ... I took it back to the shop . The guy thinks the neck is out of line ... [/quote] In that case the shop should be refunding or replacing. It's simple. If they won't do so then contact Lakland direct with an email.

Fender Bass VI plus upright bass ... [media]http://youtu.be/Wpz2mxNGNCc[/media]

I have a B9 which I use on my Squier Bass VI. It works fine in my view but I am using it to sound like an organ. I am not using it to play bass. I don't use effects on my 'normal' four-string bass.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1442170811' post='2864869'] ... early seventies live recordings ... [/quote] Are you suggesting that OGWT was actually playing live and not miming to a prerecording?

That was great.

It's simple. 'No, thank you, I can't afford it at that price.'

Electro-Harmonix B9 and/or C9 Organ Machine. Lots of demos on youtube.

Solid body bass ukulele [media]http://youtu.be/diZtOUtgh60[/media]

... and also Jeff Lynne didn't live far from the number 11 route.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1441623951' post='2860277'] ... I don't think you learn how to write music by playing covers in a pub ... [/quote] I'd say that very little creativity (if any at all) comes from nothing. Only God supposedly creates [i]ex nihilo[/i]. For songwriting, it might not be actually playing covers in a pub but - at least generally speaking - it will involve deep immersion in some way in already existing songs and in most cases they will be the base material from which the new is constructed. John Lennon said of ELO's Showdown: [quote]On September 28, 1974, John Lennon was a guest of Dennis Elsas on WNEW-FM, a New York City radio station, where he commented that if the Beatles had stayed together, they would sound like ELO on [i]Showdown[/i], calling them the "Son of Beatles." "We're gonna play Electric Light Orchestra from last year, [i]Showdown[/i], which I thought was a great record and I was expecting it to be #1 but I don't think UA [United Artists] got their fingers out and pushed it. And it's a nice group -- I call them 'Son of Beatles' -- although they're doing things we never did, obviously. But I remember a statement they made when they first formed was to carry on from where the Beatles left off with [i]Walrus[/i], and they certainly did. And for those people who like to know where licks and things come from, which I do.... this is a beautiful combination of [i]I Heard It Through The Grapevine[/i] by Marvin Gaye and [i]Lightning Strikes Again[/i] Lou Christie, and it's a beautiful job with a little [i]Walrus[/i] underneath." [url="http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/showdown/"]Source[/url] [/quote] [media]http://youtu.be/QB9MgpxF4HQ[/media] On the same radio show Lennon talks about the influence of bluebeat/ska on the middle eight of The Beatles [i]I Call Your Name[/i] - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZHkhqQWaE"]https://www.youtube....h?v=QiZHkhqQWaE[/url]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441563395' post='2859866'] ... dressed up as Batman and buggered ... with a marrow. [/quote] Is that part of your normal service or is it by special request?

The Beatles learned thrir wisdom and creativity by doing their 10000 hours playing covers in pubs/bars/clubs like the Cavern and the Kaiserkellar.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1441576093' post='2860045'] I don't think Blue will approve of the latest turn this thread has taken. lol [/quote] I don't see why there would be disapproval ... Outer Circle is obviously influenced by Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.

[media]http://youtu.be/pmRH2EAInX8[/media]

No. Tell them to book a band who play what they want to hear.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1441570564' post='2859968'] Busses should be red. End of discussion. [/quote] Your wish has come true ...

The Birmingham 11 Outer Circle has its own website ... [url="http://outercirclebus.com/"]http://outercirclebus.com/[/url]

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441555655' post='2859762'] Birmingham Corporation Bus? I remember those from my youth. Love the sloping driver's windscreen. [/quote] In dark blue and cream livery.