Twigman

I have decided that the final song in our set would be better played with a plectrum but all the other songs will be fingers. In the past I would stuff a plectrum between the body and the scratchplate but my scratchplate severely warped doing that. As the final song runs on from the previous fingered song in a medley style I have a mere 4 bars (@ something like 140bpm) to grab my plectrum and sort myself out.... I don't think a back pocket would work and I probably won't be able to see if it's atop my amp... Where do you keep yours?

I think when I come to sell my bass I'll have to double/treble/quadruple the price and add the 'owned by *Twigman* from SL&G"...after all we've got loads more listeners on last.fm than him which must make me more famous than him. [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Stuart+Zender"]http://www.last.fm/music/Stuart+Zender[/url] 1,234 plays (74 listeners) [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Sad+Lovers+and+Giants"]http://www.last.fm/music/Sad+Lovers+and+Giants[/url] 158,493 plays (17,040 listeners) Anyone want to buy a Squire JV P (Fiesta Red) for say £2000 ? mind [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Jamiroquai"]http://www.last.fm/music/Jamiroquai[/url] 17,665,177 plays (771,738 listeners) might need to be factored in....I suppose

I've never had a bass lesson in my life but sometimes employ a technique which involves damping strings with the outside of my plucking hand.

I hope they don't make the same mistake that TWO/Magicalia did with Visordown. They introduced their own forum software and demanded an opt out of promos and made whole areas of the site subscription only....... That was horrible. Everyone deserted and set up their own place. Edit: hook line sinker - but i've seen it happen too often for real

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[quote name='basswesty' post='450267' date='Mar 31 2009, 08:47 AM']I don't get the 'P has One sound' though. Ok, its never going to have the variation of certain other basses with loads of EQ but you can get a fair amount of tone from a P by a twist of the tone pot and moving your right hand to play near the bridge/neck. Sit back and wait for the backlash!!! [/quote] What backlash? I agree 100%

Battery? What you need is a passive bass - no batteries required - no memory required.

Practicing for these - after many years off:

1987 at Club Isla, Pacha, Valencia - the only live photo I could find. After we get back from tour I'll post what we look like 22 years later!

nobody tempted by the spicy wedges then?

c'mon - someone must want it!!! Must shift it this weekend. I'll throw in a bag of McCains Spicy Potato wedges if you like...

So are all 4 strings tuned to D? That'd be novel.

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Where might I buy Fender vintage style fabric covered wiring in the UK? I'd like a length of white fabric covered wire. THX

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[quote name='Linus27' post='444797' date='Mar 25 2009, 10:27 AM']Of course, as your a girl,[/quote] news to me

Here are the pics

co-incedentally it appears I sold mine to MoonBassAlpha !! I didn't know he was here and haven't seen him for the best part of 20 years and we post on the same thread about the same amp within minutes of each other. Small world this interweb thing ain't it?

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[quote name='alexclaber' post='443705' date='Mar 24 2009, 12:58 PM']When you lighten up with the plucking hand you can then lighten up with the fretting hand too - it takes less effort to hold down a string that's being softly plucked rather than being ripped off the bass. And once you get the hang of moderating your typical attack you can then vary your dynamics much more. Alex[/quote] Thanks On reflection I realise all this. Back in the 80s when I was playing all the time I had much better control than nowadays. The recent rehearsals have been my first playing bass in 20 years! When we started rehearsing in January, my fingers were as soft as a newborn's bum but now they are hard but blistered. Sunday was the longest session so far.

[quote name='Huge Hands' post='443683' date='Mar 24 2009, 12:41 PM']I thought it might be worth referring you to [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19929&hl=superglue"]this thread[/url] I posted a while ago.[/quote] Great thread I might even try the glueing my fingers to the opposite forearm and ripping them off....maybe.....perhaps.......after a bottle of tequila maybe......

[quote name='bassicinstinct' post='443645' date='Mar 24 2009, 12:23 PM']1. Four hours [b]isn't[/b] (or certainly shouldn't be) an extended rehearsal.[/quote] We might book 4 or 5 hours studio time but our set is approximately 1 hour 40 minutes long. The last couple of rehearsals we have gone in, played the set end to end the once and then gone down the pub. Inside 2hours. On Sunday we started playing through the set for the 3rd time before we called it a night. In the average 4 hour rehearsal we'd be lucky to get 2hours actual playing coz of all the arsing around/smoke breaks etc On Sunday it was constant without a break!