12stringbassist

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1455740068' post='2982046'] My job in my band is to play the best bass lines that compliment the songs we play, sing background vocals and maintain a certain level of stage presence. I was not hired to critique or correct other members playing ability. As long as our calender is filled with good gigs I keep quiet. Blue [/quote] But if something is sounding wrong and it's buggering your head up, you can at least try to resolve it. As sure as eggs is eggs, it will sound wrong out front too. That's when re-bookings don't happen.

I always have said to myself when there is a problem in a band 'how do we fix this?' Sometimes the only way is to remove the problem and get someone new. I like the idea of listening back to a rehearsal. If the problem player listens to it back and still thinks he is wonderful, then you need a quick band meeting without him there. Good luck.

Find a jam night near you. Go to watch a couple of times. Think of an easy song you CAN play that people will know. Then take a bass with you or use the one provided and arrange to get up and do that..

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1455130787' post='2976299'] My girlfriend thinks I should quit and said I'm clearly not enjoying it, when that's not true I do find it frustrating but I think I'm happy learning I think. And she also said bluntly at times I am not very good, which really got to me, it wasn't meant to but it basically really hurt and depressed me.[/quote] Do what makes you happy, not what makes your girlfriend happy. Play easier tunes to start with. Look at Youtube tutorials if you can't do lessons in person. Good luck.

I used to have a guitarist who told me to smile more (for photos and sometimes on stage). I say USED TO. Tell your guitarist politely that you don't tell him how to act on stage and that if he continues, you will step down. That may solve part of the problem. Try and work out what makes you anxious about people at gigs. I don't make eye contact with people when I am playing and do spend an amount of time in auto-pilot. It may help you if you tune them out a bit. But if the issue is you can't be arsed, then the only way is probably out. Don't sell anything until you are sure that you won't use it for your own pleasure. Do what makes you feel happy.

Suede

My basses are at http://www.crazeeworld.plus.com/ian/gearhead-basses.htm - I have stopped counting.

I'm pretty much into this one at the moment.

I have been inside this place [url="http://www.ststouring.co.uk/"]http://www.[b]ststouring[/b].co.uk[/url]/ (behind the Apollo in Manchester) to pick up a hired Marshall guitar stack and they have everything for hire. Amps, cabs of evey description, drums. PA and lighting. I was astonished at the size of the place and the labels on the guitar cases. People hire for live shows / tours and videos.

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Annuder one...

Queen have told the tape swap story a number of times. The time it would have taken to re-record the singles for the Beeb would have eaten all the profits.

I bought a Tascam 24 track recorder from them late last year. It came with a European power supply. I emailed them to let them know I couldn't use the unit. After about a fortnight of the recorder sitting in its box (and them sending me a kettle lead, which was absolutely no use whatsoever!!), I snapped and told them that if they weren't going to send me a UK power supply, I would send them a Tascam 24 track recorder. After much mithering and a rather descriptive post on their Facebook page which really set them worrying, I finally got one. Recently I ordered a footswitch for said beastie. After a while I emailed them to ask where it was. They said they had emailed me to let me know that it was coming from Germany, and I would have it by the end of January. Of course that email arrived. I am a bit fed up with them.

Perhaps wait for a NBD topic?

The seller has not managed to get the instrument to you, so they will need to get the compensation from the courier and reimburse you.

An old one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjjBBFqbOw

Both have their merits. I prefer The Who to Yes by a long way. I have met John Entwistle who was a perfect gent. He invented bass techniques, as far as I am concerned. I vote John, but admired what I heard of Chris. He always had a superb sound. Yes were too complex for me on the whole.

Both have their merits. I prefer The Who to Yes by a long way. I have met John Entwistle who was a perfect gent. I vote John, but admired what i heard of Chris.

Open each mp3 and write out the chord sequence while you are listening. Note breaks, vamps, verses, choruses. Study them. Print them out big for on the day. Play along with the tracks until you have them off.

VERY nice.

Suede. Manchester in February.

I just started a poll on this. Perhaps it could be done every January?

Please enter how old you are during Jan 2016. Thanks.

I once had a drummer knock over a Fender bass that I had on a stand at the side of his kit - pretty much as usual. It went over with a sickening CRACK. This was at a wedding function and we were setting up in the afternoon with only a DJ in the otherwise empty ballroom. What I shouted can't be repeated here. The drummer just got up from behind his kit and walked off, avoiding eye contact, saying nothing about what he had done. Fortunately the bass landed flat on its strings and (uncannily, bearing mind how loudly it landed, unplugged) was undamaged. It was my first real indication of what an utter c*** he was going to be. I didn't go home because it was someone's wedding. I would later find myself dismantling my rig at half time in a Labour club while the others sat in the other room. Awful people. I would suggest the original poster gets a quote for the repair / partial refinish for the drummer to peruse.