EssentialTension

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1016752' date='Nov 8 2010, 07:07 PM']I guess that ends the debate as to whether it is pronounced Lak-land (like I thought) or Lak[u]e[/u]-land. [/quote] Well, as is explained on the Lākland website, it's named after Dan [b]Lak[/b]in (pronounced 'lake-in') and Hugh MacFar[b]land[/b]. That's why there is a macron over the first 'a' (e.g. Lākland) on the headstocks.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1016708' date='Nov 8 2010, 06:46 PM']Er - fairly sure. Let me have a think about it. Yes, absolutely abhorrent. Except in certain circumstances.[/quote] Absolutely!

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1016689' date='Nov 8 2010, 06:35 PM']Any attempt to take an absolute and final position on (Theory / Reading / Whatever) versus (Feel / Groove / Whatever) is doomed to ignominious ridicule. Because the value of a particular skill or a specific approach is not a universal constant. It is dependant on context and circumstance. There are just too many variables for anyone to state that with honest confidence that one approach or the other is best - or even mildly preferable - without honourably adding the caveat that each individual's mileage may vary. Absolutism is an abhorrence.[/quote] Are you absolutely sure about that?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1015098' date='Nov 7 2010, 11:20 AM']That's the very definition of Care In The Community. Jon.[/quote] Surely you mean Rare In The Community - didn't you read that this is a ghost.

Very very nice Clarky ... but where is your wife sleeping?

With my band any new song (whether it's one written ourselves or by someone else) usually gets gigged fairly quickly or not at all.

[quote name='scalpy' post='1014302' date='Nov 6 2010, 02:25 PM']Not my thread but loving the positivity! ...[/quote] It won't last.

[quote name='silddx' post='1014186' date='Nov 6 2010, 12:45 PM']Yes but come on guys! This is pretty basic stuff. I know what things sound like and can sometimes put names to them, it's not rocket salad is it, for someone who's played that long. Can you tell the sound of a minor scale from a major? Most musicians can. BUT, if Wakeman said "Chris! Would an A[i]b[/i] Diminished scale work over a D Minor chord sequence modulating into E Major?" would he be able to answer? That's the sort of thing I mean by THEORY. Not, knowing the sound of a whole tone scale, most of us could probably sing that couldn't we?[/quote] Nige, it may be pretty basic but it's still theory. I have to say these threads are amongst the most depressing on BC - and that's saying something.

[quote name='iconic' post='1014010' date='Nov 6 2010, 09:32 AM']Not much of a list.... ...Guy Pratt's father Mike, played Randall in....Randall & Hopkirk... Bodie (Lewis Collins) ala The Professional's, played drums and bass and was going to audition for the Beatles drummer but decided to carry on with hairdressing instead...allegedly... .....Ironside was on TV next but all I know I that Raymond Burr didn't... Hulk Hogan... Richard Hammond Top Gear dwarf...well he did for charity... Cap'n Jack Sparrow... any others out there...?[/quote] Mike Pratt also wrote songs with Lionel Bart for Tommy Steele in the late fifties and early sixties. I believe he also played piano in Steele's backing band. Lewis Collins played bass with sixties beat combo The Mojos.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='1013806' date='Nov 5 2010, 10:13 PM']..... McCartney is actually a dynamite player. Very grounded, very solid and groovy but also fantastically creative.[/quote] Grounded ... solid ... groovy ... creative. Very nicely stated Jake, but I want to add one word and the word is influential. But the Macca/Beatles haters will be along soon I'm sure.

[quote name='Vibrating G String' post='1013948' date='Nov 6 2010, 03:29 AM']So watching the linked video with Chris he plays something and then says that's an inversion. Right there he's in the top few % of all performing musicians for theory knowledge. He also says he couldn't just rip off a diminished scale but he knows the sound of one. How many rock greats even know there is a diminished scale or two? I think his humility is being mistaken for ignorance here, he clearly has a decent grasp of theory that is well above average.[/quote] Thank you for recognising that. It's exactly why I posted the video.

[quote name='RhysP' post='1012405' date='Nov 4 2010, 06:43 PM']I'm pretty sure he can read music & has some knowledge of theory - as a child he was a chorister at St. Andrews church in Wembley (which at the time Squire was a member was regarded as the best choir in Britain) & would have been required to sight read for this.[/quote] I've no idea how much Squire can read but the point made above seems to me likely - even if he hasn't been practicing his reading skills regularly since then. For what it's worth, Bass Player magazine called Squire 'a serious student of harmony' and when they asked who were his biggest harmonic influences he said: 'I got a big education from my years in church choir, which had a really good choirmaster. He taught us a lot about the relationship between vocal lines and bass lines in a choir setting, and I think I adapted a lot of that knowledge into playing bass and singing. I’ve always been very aware of the relationship between the bass and the top melody line.' ([url="http://www.bassplayer.com/article/basso-cantantecontinuo-chris/jan-09/91289"]Source[/url]) I can't say I'm particularly a fan of Yes or Squire, although I wouldn't doubt his abilities.

I can't stand nail on string, so cut them short all the time.

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[quote name='Schnozzalee' post='1009075' date='Nov 1 2010, 10:22 PM']What would you recommend for through body? I'm gonna try some Thomastik Infelds...[/quote] Thomastiks are usually thought to be safe through the body. However I have twice had an A string break at the bridge.

I usually take two. One time I only took one and broke a string first chorus first song. First time I'd broken a string in about 20 years.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1008012' date='Oct 31 2010, 11:27 PM']Basschat Distinguished Service Medal.[/quote] That's the BDSM.

[quote name='fatback' post='1007943' date='Oct 31 2010, 10:15 PM']Amazing you went ahead with the db. Good on you. There should be some kinda medal. [/quote] Basschat Distinguished Service Medal.

I may have to learn that line.