EssentialTension

Son bought it for my birthday present after he spent two weeks raving about it over Christmas. I really like it.

[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1452344695' post='2949065'] Just got to the part where he says "the tuning pegs are copper, so if you're broke you can sell them and get twice the price of the guitar". Now I'm crying,really, actually crying with laughter. Come on Billy, it's not serious. If I'm wrong, I'll be really humble, but I really think it's a spoof. [/quote] There did seem to be a humour bypass in some responses.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1452337282' post='2948958'] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film"]https://en.wikipedia...%26_Mercy_(film[/url]) This was Mark Kermode's video of the week on this week's review. And it was Carole Kaye on some of the later Beach Boys tracks - IIRC Good Vibrations had three bass tracks layered on it. [/quote] Fixed link ... [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film)"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%26_Mercy_(film)[/url] I need to see that.

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1452336809' post='2948948'] What is the name of the guy playing the Jaguar? [/quote] Carl Wilson on Jaguar Al Jardine on Strat

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452336447' post='2948940'] Ah, but did you say you were loving it, with a big grin? [/quote] It does make me grin ... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/176029-the-beach-boys-lost-concert-1964"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/176029-the-beach-boys-lost-concert-1964[/url] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/266095-beach-boys-the-lost-concert-1964"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/266095-beach-boys-the-lost-concert-1964[/url]

I've posted that concert twice before with little response. Perhaps you had to be there. But thanks for posting again.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1452272343' post='2948395'] I have more basses than i have gigs. [/quote] But have you had more basses than you have had gigs?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452282246' post='2948558'] Yes... No. I don't know - I'm being distracted by all these pictures of nude herring. [/quote] Yes, life is just a bowl of herring.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1452281918' post='2948550'] I though it was for looking at grumble and pretending to be someone else. [/quote] Are you disagreeing with me?

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1452281485' post='2948544'] A link to winding lengths on this post from ET. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/273227-best-flatwound-strings-for-30-scale/page__view__findpost__p__2909037"]http://basschat.co.u...ost__p__2909037[/url] [/quote] Ah, well spotted, I had forgotten that.

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1452260329' post='2948174'] Oh no! People are disagreeing on the internet [/quote] I thought that was what the internet was for?

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1452249547' post='2947972'] Well now you've just change your point entirely. The comments were about liking something not about developing tastes. Being open minded & listening to new things can help develop new tastes, yes. But liking a new thing comes about because it suits those new (or even the old) tastes. Implying that people who don't like a specific new thing are closed minded/stuck in their ways is a very strange argument; I assume most people on this forum (as we're all musicians) listen to lots of new music every month, but I'm sure we don't all like all of it & there's nothing wrong with that - we all enjoy music in different ways. And I agree; age has nothing to do with any of this (other than the ages of the next generation of players, or the old age of the previous generation of inspirations). [/quote] I haven't changed my point at all. My post that you quoted was in response to a post saying that age had something to do with it and about being 'stuck in the 70s' ... [quote name='blue' timestamp='1452205044' post='2947706'] I think age has something to do with it. I'm 62 and a 70s guy, so for an older guy like me, I'm not hearing what I call funk. This must be the New funk. Unfortunately when it comes to funk, I'm stuck in the 70s. [/quote] To which I replied ... 'I'm 64. I like Thundercat. It's got nothing to do with age. It's about being open-minded.' You responded ... [quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1452245814' post='2947921'] Liking something hasn't got anything to do with being open minded. You like him because he suits your tastes. [/quote] Well, 'You like him because he suits your tastes' seems to be tautological. It sounds that perhaps you mean that 'liking someone' is no different from 'suiting one's tastes' and vice versa. In which case 'suiting one's tastes' cannot be an explanation for 'liking someone'. We would need to understand why and how it had come to suit one's tastes' for it to be any kind of explanation. Anyway, I still maintain that being open-minded makes you more likely to develop new tastes. In fact 'more likely to develop new tastes' might well be what we would mean by 'being open-minded' and so it's a definition or even another tautology. I then gave some further explanation of my position ... [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1452248654' post='2947956'] If you are closed-minded then you won't develop your tastes and that applies to music just as it does to food, to literature, to film, to life, etc. Being open-minded doesn't mean you have you like everyone and everything but at least you allow yourself the opportunity to learn to like or dislike. However, and of course, some people are very resistant to any such development of tastes. Anyway, my point was not as to whether someone or anyone, even you, ought to like Thundercat. The point was that being a certain age ought not to be a counter to liking or disliking him or anything else new (or old). Nonetheless, people have a tendency to be stuck in their ways. [/quote] So, I stick to my original claim that 'age is only a limiting factor on taste if one allows it to be'. Better to be open-minded, whatever age you are, and listen out for new and old stuff. Even stuff you once didn't like, maybe you'll see it in a new light. And stuff you used to like, you can come to think 'it's not as great as I thought'. [quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1452249547' post='2947972'] Implying that people who don't like a specific new thing are closed minded/stuck in their ways is a very strange argument; [/quote] The post I responded to admitted to being 'stuck in the 70s'. But, anyway, your 'very strange argument' is actually not an argument that I made. I said ... my point was not whether someone or anyone, even you, ought to like Thundercat. The point was that being a certain age ought not to be a counter to liking or disliking him or anything else new (or old). I stand by what I said.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1452248072' post='2947950'] Are they picking up the bass as a result of hearing him? ... [/quote] I expect not. In fact most of the young people I know who listen to Thundercat are already musicians and aren't bassists, although some are.

[quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1452245814' post='2947921'] Liking something hasn't got anything to do with being open minded. You like him because he suits your tastes. [/quote] I disagree completely. If you are closed-minded then you won't develop your tastes and that applies to music just as it does to food, to literature, to film, to life, etc. Being open-minded doesn't mean you have you like everyone and everything but at least you allow yourself the opportunity to learn to like or dislike. However, and of course, some people are very resistant to any such development of tastes. [quote name='Lw.' timestamp='1452245814' post='2947921'] I hadn't head of him until this thread, having listened to the couple of tracks posted; meh - I'm sure he's talented but I'm not particularly inspired by him, for me musically it's a watered down version of things like Jamiroquai/Brand New Heavies with a standard modern R&B vocal over the top. All fine if that's what you're in to so well done to him, just not for me. [/quote] Anyway, my point was not as to whether someone or anyone, even you, ought to like Thundercat. The point was that being a certain age ought not to be a counter to liking or disliking him or anything else new (or old). Nonetheless, people have a tendency to be stuck in their ways.

Cocktail sticks (harder wood) are better than matchsticks (softer wood). I think Schaller straplocks now come with two sizes of screw; i.e. a pair of larger ones too.

http://youtu.be/rx_08cambjA

Of course, they borrowed the whole idea of a rooftop concert from Jefferson Airplane.

http://youtu.be/E1HVnK3ZmDA

[quote name='Behlmene' timestamp='1452219392' post='2947818'] I believe you're right. And here are some stellar color stills that were taken that day: [url="http://www.vintag.es/2015/01/wonderful-color-photographs-of-beatles.html"]http://www.vintag.es...of-beatles.html[/url] [/quote] [media]http://youtu.be/Fr-7Z5S78gM[/media] http://youtu.be/Xwy-CPaXgOc

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1452205044' post='2947706'] I think age has something to do with it. I'm 62 and a 70s guy, so for an older guy like me, I'm not hearing what I call funk. This must be the New funk. Unfortunately when it comes to funk, I'm stuck in the 70s. Blue [/quote] I'm 64. I like Thundercat. It's got nothing to do with age. It's about being open-minded.

Verckys et l'Orchestre Veve ... http://youtu.be/7SOTrsshqtQ

Excellent. Especially the soundtrack.

http://youtu.be/dLDwhGt6Gl0

One reason for me liking the Casino is I've actually played one quite often. My son has had one for ten years and until recently it was his main guitar (then a hollow bodied Fender Jaguar Thinline took over). It's very light. The single coil P90 dogears can produce a wide range of sounds but they don't do that overdriven humbucker sound which I am not interested in. It's well made enough to cope with very heavy gauge flatwound strings - 13-56 Pyramid Golds - and of course the originals of these kind of guitars came with flats. Which makes it excellent for rhythm skanking but you can still play melodic lines. With those strings it isn't built for bending. It has a fixed bridge and not floating and so easier intonation setup. Quite loud acoustically for private practice. Like Rhys says, it's difficult to put into words.

Do you mean hollow-body guitars? Not basses. Some are only semi-hollow and have a centre block, such as the Gibson 335 My preferred fully hollow is the Epiphone Casino.