EssentialTension

Perhaps people fancied trying a six-string but then quickly found that they had no real use for it.

The ways in which strings wear may also be related to how they are played; soft touch verus hard touch (right or left hand), pick or fingers, sweat chemistry, condition of frets, etc etc.

I can't say that this fits at all with my experience of 'young kids' over the last few years. My son (now 19) and his mates and his bands are into all sorts of instruments including guitar, keyboards, bass and drums but - and this is the difference from when I was in my late teens - also including trumpet and trombone and accordion and banjo and violin and viola and harmonica and melodica etc etc .... and they never listen to mainstream radio ... and they are not very interested in rock music ... .... and anyway which 'young kids' are going to buy a £1500 Fender Dimension Bass? None of them, I should think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBqcHDDuDo8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RG0eRHCTNw

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1384966537' post='2282922'] Motown was targeted at white audiences so that's why we "got it". Not many people "got" blues at the start. Many more did after the 60's blues boom. Anyway this is splitting hairs. I don't think it's very good but my point is do we understand good and bad in Chinese music and Iranian Music? So why should be understand what's good in Hip Hop? In the "projects" they might think this is great. [/quote] Motown was not targetted at white audiences, it was intially black audiences then mixed audiences. So, after all, it turns out that many people 'got' the blues. If you really think the average Basschatter's understanding of hip hop is on about the same level as their knowing about Chinese or Iranian music then I despair. There may well be some experts here on Chinese and/or Iranian music on Basschat or at least people who have listened to that stuff but they will be few and far between but many of us have heard hip hop regularly for thirty years and more. Although I hadn't properly realised Kanye West was hip hop until you told me; I thought it was just pop music of a trivial and poor kind. If you really think white people can't understand hip hop (and that is what you seem to be saying) then I want to resist saying that is simple and straightforward racism but I really don't know how else to understand it. I've never understood metal. Is that also because I am a white boy?

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1384964047' post='2282873'] Sorry - if that's right we should never have 'got' Blues. G. [/quote] ... or Motown etc. etc.

That's a spoof surely. It's not real is it? Is it?

I was losing the will to live even when that woman was introducing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz6g8zTG-pc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsDpc-8iR8g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTaqn8_gMR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tILEQ5dDM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFVPBvF37_Q

Here we go .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1A3tew97ng

On a more serious note, yes ... do it a lot because when you are mixing ukulele and lapsteel and piano and guitar and harmonica and bass and percussion the only successful way to pay a Gloria Gaynor song is by rearranging it. A song is just a melody line and some words, other than that do what you want.

Yes .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLAbAp5tbU0

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1384902783' post='2282266'] I'm arresting you on suspicion.... [/quote] ... or, by phone from lead singer, 'I've been arrested for non-payment of busking fines and my guitar has been confiscated. Can you come and get me out?'.

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1384896032' post='2282113'] Running through the changes about to jam with a guitarist who says he plays in a 'jazzy style' "what do you mean Fm7 is F [u][b]'minor'[/b][/u] 7 ? ....its not, Fm7 is F [u][b]'major'[/b][/u] 7 ...bloody bassists what the hell do you guys know about music!" [/quote] So, he does play ina 'jazzy style'.

Yes, as already said, those are well over priced and you may not like them anyway. And at 1mm they are not extra hard, I am sometimes using 2mm and even 3mm. Get a bag of picks of different shapes, thicknesses, materials etc. and find out which works for you.

'Do you need a private and personal toilet?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg

[quote name='M@23' timestamp='1384716550' post='2279917'] Sorry to hijack here, but I'm going to put some flats on the Christmas list. Not had them before, do I need to order any specific length for through body stringing? I'll prob give Fender ago to see how I like them. Thanks! Edit: another noob question; Do they not do 45-110s? I need to do some more homework here... [/quote] Many people do successfully string flats through bodies but it's not always recommended. There is a greater likelihood of breakage. La Bella do some specifically through body flats. I expect someone does 45-110s but I pay little attention to gauges, it's how the string is constructed that matters and two strings can be the very same gauge and yet nothing at all like each other.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1384714057' post='2279859'] I presume that's a joke as it did make me laugh. [/quote] I'm with you on that one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W146Z_-O0J0

But there'll be disagreement about what counts as playable.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1384682252' post='2279336'] But Rickenbacker "stereo" isn't stereo at all. It's two channel mono. IMO stereo is 2 connected channels that are arranged in such a way that sound sources are capable of being positioned anywhere between the two. Rickenbacker simply connect each pickup to it's own output with no provision to be able to pan from one out put to the other. THIS IS NOT STEREO. [/quote] I always knew there was a catch.