EssentialTension

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.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441554034' post='2859744'] Thing is, having that early perspective is like being in at the start of anything. You know what things were like before it started and then the situation rolls away and it's like - er - being on a bus and you can see what's happening out the windows as you go along the way and you know where the bus has been because you got on at the bus station rather than further on along the road at the bus stop by the abbatoir, say. But if you're waiting for the bus further along the road you only ever see the [i]front[/i] of the bus coming towards you while you're waiting at the bus-stop by the abbatoir and then you get on the bus and you only see what's happening out of the windows [i]after[/i] you get on the bus but you don't know where the bus has been and you don't what it was like on the bus before you got on the bus at the bus stop you did. I can see how that might give one a kind of perspective. And wisdom. [/quote] But what if it's one of those circular buses like the number 11? It doesn't matter where you get on because the bus always goes all the way around and around and around and around and around ... a bit like this thread really.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1441483512' post='2859214'] I love the internet. [color=#ffffff].[/color] [/quote] Outrageous.

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1441470687' post='2859108'] ........... whereas I could be biased having seen them 36 times over ten years. [/quote] I never counted how many times but I saw them when they were The 'N Betweens, when they were Ambrose Slade, as fresh skinheads called Slade (with the Northfield Mob after them because, of course, they weren't real skinheads) and actual Slade ... but many times around Birmingham and environs between about 1966 and 1972. Slade were a great band but I don't really get how you could be a Slade fan and not get The Beatles unless it was merely a rejection on principle of the previous generation - which would not be unusual. I'd be extremely surprised to find Slade not being big fans of The Beatles.

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1441387887' post='2858586'] Making the trombone cool since 1977. His simple yet effective solo in A Message to you Rudy is always good for a bit of air trombone. [/quote] Rico was recording from around 1958 in Jamaica.

... and I believe [i]Merry Christmas Everybody[/i] features John Lennon's harmonium (borrowed from the next studio) on the opening chords. Which proves .... nothing at all.

Not my cup of tea but at least it is less likely to fall over.

[quote name='jazzyvee' timestamp='1441446700' post='2858926'] yep that's what I've always done and I'm amazed at the number of players who don't do that and they leave loads of windings on the peg too. [/quote] I'd say as long as they do not overlap then more windings on the peg is very good; especially with flat Fender style headstocks.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1441442646' post='2858878'] It would be interesting to see if blue "gets" monty Python. He was certainly there. I was there but I never got it. Maybe I'm thick and it all went over my head. [/quote] Of course, Python were only influenced by The Beatles. They were comedy when The Beatles do it. No influence at all from The Goons, from Edward Lear, from Max Wall, from Round the Horne, from TW3, from Peter Cook, from Bernard Montgomery, etc. etc. etc. and just in case anyone thinks I am serious ...