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Got anything with you laying down a really solid groove? Maybe from the Spain stuff?

I thought I remembered them actually playing like this all the time....

FWIW my wife has just had a whine on Trip Advisor about a hotel we stayed at... had a message asking her to call one of the directors the next day, because she got so many hits on TA for it! So maybe we need a Parcel Advisor site or similar!

Isnt that sort of thing why gaffer/duct tape was invented? Now if only they would do a tortoise shell version and TCSB version....,

Hm. I spent years happily tucked in beside the drummer on his hihat side. Correct place for a bass player. Till my current band. Drummer stage left right next to the singers keyboard and the mixer. Guitarist about 2/3 stage right with me squeezed in the remainder - miles from the drummer. Hate it. I thought when I had to take over most of the lead vocals recently I would get to move.... nah. But they are great players and a lovely bunch of chaps and I guess old habits die hard!

Twickers... where the Wuggah comes from. Never gigged there but I did watch Llanelli play the wasps years ago - in the welsh side of the stand. SCARY!

The moral of the story is - find a great drummer that you can work with and do anything you have to to keep the relationship going. A great rhythm section will always work. Life is just too short for mediocre drummers.

The singer in my band was operated on in late November for a cancer which turned out to be NEAR his pancreas, not on it. They hacked out part of his pancreas, bile duct and stomach & we thought he would be back in action in a couple of months. Turned out he has further symptoms & is undergoing chemotherapy, to which he is responding well. The other three of us recruited an old friend to play keyboards (singer also was rhythm guitar & keys) and with me doing a lot of the singing we have been surviving the gigs already on the books. We have a benefit scheduled for the singer (wife and 2 young children, no income) on June 26th with 5 bands a PA company and a local DJ compere`ng at a large-ish venue, ALL providing their services for free. The only part that concerns me is whether or not there will be a band left for him to come back to once he is sorted out. Suspect the same applies here.

Thanks for the input, chaps! I think I will just carry on playing it as-is until something eventually falls off or wears out! Sounds great to my ears, live or recorded.

I bought an upright off a friend who is a pretty decent luthier. When he got it, the neck had broken off where it joined the body. He has drilled both down into the heel AND through the soundboard using 4 heavy duty screws. I have had the bass for several years and it is all holding together really well, so I thought I would ask around to find out what other peoples experience with this sort of repair is? It doesn`t look that pretty since although the holes are countersunk, he only filled and levelled the ones in the fingerboard, which are to be honest way up at the dusty end, so unlikely to be an issue for me. Thing is, it is a fairly decent Czech instrument with a carved top and ply back/sides as far as I can see. I suppose what I am leading up to is "should I consider spending more money on it for a really pro setup or not"

Cheapest way to remove coloration from sympathetic vibration? Sorbothane hemispheres. http://www.qtasystems.co.uk/articles/how-to-use-sorbothane-hemispheres.htm Dirt cheap. I was about to spring ££$$£$£$£$£"$ for a pair of Iso stands till I decided to risk eight quid on 16 little hemispheres (about 30mm diameter) to sit between the top of my Ikea (bedside table) 4U racks either side of the mix position and my two pairs of monitors. The difference was amazing. I still have a tiny amount of vibration getting through when I have the monitors up around the linmit for the room, but never when using mix volumes. Try them first. Oh - the rest of the system is a pair of Tannoy NFM6 Mk2s with a 1979 Quad 405 and a pair of Unity Audio The Rock IIs. You could do a lot worse than finding an old Quad. I route signal to mine via an el cheapo monitor controller...

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1463995104' post='3055545'] Yep, HB was great, but I think Steve Jordan was Drumming back then, not Anton Fig ? The Worlds Most Dangerous Band? Not sure why I am getting all busy and Geeky, they are all great. [/quote] You are right! I put it down to old farts memory or lack thereof. Although I thought I remembered catching a few shows with Hiram AND Anton playing? Nah probably not.... my fevered imagination again.

Better with Hiram Bullock, IMO. But yep - seriously good "house band"!

Oh dear.... wonder who thought THAT was a good idea? Still,m hopefully Andy P will make some money from the Banana Splits generation buying this.... I suppose the next one will be a new Archies Ell Pee.

Fantastic player. Him and Anton Fig together KILLED.

My first ever bass was a 1962 P bass. 44mmx19mm deep at the nut. Perfect. I now have a USA Precision 62 reissue which is just over the 19mm but is still lovely. My PJ is actually an Epiphone Thunderbird mutant thing - production prototype I was given by the lovely peeps at Massman Drive years ago. The neck on that is also 19mm deep but a slender 40mm wide. Also very well loved/played! I have owned two or three Jazzes, including a 62 reissue and just never got on with them. Necks shaped like pencils.

Just bought a Stagg which is supposedly the deluxe version with the rosewood fingerboard, but at the price I paid I am happy regardless. No rattles, gig bag is all in one piece and the two wire supports are there. MUCH easier on my arthritic mitts than the real upright. Now all I have to do is sell the double bass lurking in the corner before my wife notices the new arrival! Strictly a one in one out household these days due to space constraints, or I would keep the double bass.

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Bearing in mind that S.A. prices for everything are pretty cheap, this could be a great bass for not much money. Incidentally, how much did you pay and how many pickups does yours have?

O.K. I bought a rather nice Stagg 3/4 electric upright - the n ice one with the decent fingerboard. Very happy, apart from it is too big to hide and I have not gotten round to selling my upright yet... Herself will be home thursday night. PANIC!!!!

Actually, the rot set in during the early seventies. After heaving itself out of the wartime doldrums (with the notable exception of the jazz scene) music hit an immense high from the late 1940s with the start of rock and roll & RnB and then collapsed and died in a sea of corporate manipulation in about 1972-3. Not that everything since then has been sh*te, but the sh*te to shinola ration certainly skewed horribly from there on in. With the notable exceptions of funk and disco, everything being sampled and regurgitated these days seems to be from pre 1971 or is a re-re sampling of something older. The other thing that happened was the disappearance of fire from the bellies of performing musicians in the popular genres. Production values took over from commitment and great songwriting. Get off my lawn, kid!

A less obvious thought on this one. Make sure you are playing in time with yourself before worrying about playing in time with the groove. Put you bass in the playing position but instead of playing any actual notes, simultaneously tap with the same finger of both left and right hand on the same string. When you can do this over and over and there is only one click or thud, bring a second finger into play and alternate them, still looking for both fingers (L & R) to land on the string at the exact same moment. Sounds silly, but getting co-ordination between the two hands smack on IS a prelude to getting real precision in your overall playing, which in turn leads to tighter playing over a groove. When I was teaching this was the first thing I showed new players. Obviously you need the other stuff, but this on its own will give you more control & power with less effort. Try it. EDIT: Completely forgot to get to the actual point of this ramble! I too got into drums and found the same issues - plodding along like a three legged donkey, where in my head I was billy cobham,. So I applied the same technique as I outlined above to get my two hands in synch on the kit. Don`t know about the feet, as for some reason they have never been a problem.

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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1405903183' post='2506395'] At 60 actually close to 61, I still love it, however there are certain aspects of it that are harder for me now than when I was in my 20s. Being organized with a plan of action for set up and tear down helps. Blue [/quote] 72 in a month. My gear just got smaller lighter and LOUDER as I got older. Bar gigs I do very occasionally and play for as long as I feel like it mostly. Minimum two hours though. My 60s resurrection band does 3x45 minutes usually & we get 100 quid a man. But we dont travel more than about 15 miles...

Um - that first one is 4 notes. Couple of them repeated.....