12stringbassist

If I joined a theatre standard pro tribute band that was earning a decent living and I had a more than passing resemblance to whoever I was being passed off as a tribute to, I could maybe understand why they may lean towards suggesting I bought the correct instrument for that role. If I was in a common or garden pub band and someone came up to me and said I needed a red Fodera P bass because they'd heard one and it sounded nice, I'd try to politely decline the suggestion. I don't mind at all being told how to blend in with the sound of the group I am playing with, but to have bass choice requirements placed on me by other people, based on some wacky idea they have, rather than some wacky idea that I have, well.... no.

Like A Hurricane Dylan

Amazon have recalled it now, as they agreed to cancel. So I am off the hook.

And it's STILL not here... Amazon caved on the order cancellation and I got a refund for the TV, stating breach of contract over the delivery date. Ordered 10th, delivery due 13th. Ordered same TV from Argos Friday morning. Click and collect. Went out for it an hour later. Hoping Hermes do try to deliver it so I can tell them to take it away again.

And it's still not here...

I ordered a new TV from Amazon on the 10th. I was given a delivery date of 13th. The parcel was in Liverpool on the 13th, according to Hermes tracking. I may get it by the 23rd according to Amazon. No option to cancel. Rather annoyed.

I usually play along with the original on repeat to get it into my head. How exactly I follow the bass part depends how much of a feature it is. For example, we were working on Elton John's 'Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting' before the fun stopped. Dee Murray played some rather funky little runs, but seeing as I am singing the thing as well, I thought it best to keep the bass quite simplified and tight, seeing as the world will not notice anyway.

I always love to hear the deeply insightful thoughts of people who have never been on a stage in their lives and who don't understand the complexities of singing and playing bass at the same time.

Try this if you haven't watched it already... Scott Thunes on bass who really wound Zappa's band up if I remember right.

I suppose it is more honest to declare that you've split, if you don't intend to re-group. I can think of a few bands who kept their fans hanging on in vain hope for years. And some whose reunions were genuinely that.

Be Bop Deluxe Radio In Concert from January 1976 - Made In Heaven, (From the Sunburst Finish box set).

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I would think it's partly because they have been played to death over many years. Plus the 60's bands are not getting the Radio 2 plays that they used to. They are moving more towards playing stuff from this century only. As we get a little older, it will move towards the kind of identikit crap computer music that I can't bear, which meant I stopped listening to Radio 1 about 20 years ago.

Lockdown has done nothing at all for my bass playing. I have all of the time in the world to do home recording, but no ideas. I feel like giving up, but I know that we will regroup when this is over. But I can't see us gigging until next year at the earliest.

Flash bang wollop Tommy Steele

Early in the morning Robert Palmer

Ich Liebe Dich Beatles

Unfinished Sweet Alice Cooper

I'll muddle along with my Vintage. Lovely...

Most of mine. Two not in pic: a Squier and a Westfield.

Smooth operator Sade

Sit down James