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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1360852222' post='1977392'] So there was electronic music before The Beatles. I'm shocked and not a little horrified. I'm sure i read somewhere that the Fab Four invented music. [/quote] You've quoted me, but you'll have to explain what your post means as it makes no sense to me.

[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1360846778' post='1977272'] This'll annoy some of you! Some interesting analysis of their music though: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKK0bCSIR4E[/media] [/quote] Pah! What does Howard Goodall know? He's only studied music and got a CBE for services to music education. He's not qualified to comment on this subject.

I got it wrong. On your headstock be it

On your neck be it.

I've never been able to get into Level42, but King is a very talented musician, there is no doubt about that in my mind. I wish I could be influenced by him but I can't slap for toffee

Popular music is dead because music isn't popular. That's the great thing about satire, the grain of truth underpinning it.

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1360694426' post='1974899'] ive never ever said anyone was the best, i dont see how you define a best, only what is best for you as a listener, watcher, admirer etc... [/quote] Sorry, I should have put this little fella in . Surely with nearly 800 posts you've heard of the silly King vs Flea 'discussions'? I wasn't being at all serious.

[quote name='marcus bell' timestamp='1360693916' post='1974879'] LOL. why oh why do people get opinionated against others ill never know. [/quote] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/199459-flea/page__pid__1974885#entry1974885"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/199459-flea/page__pid__1974885#entry1974885[/url] Post 8

He's not as good as Mark King.

He's not as good as Flea.

I'm older than the bass in question so it can't be vintage...I'M NOT VINTAGE!!!!

I sound the same which ever bass I'm playing so just play the one I fancy fiddly with at the time

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1360590953' post='1972839'] Doesn't work with Opera... [/quote] It's rare to find guitar riffs in Opera

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360602600' post='1973158'] Absolutely. Let me at it. And if I'm allowed to re-use influences from my "back catalogue" It would be much more straight forward to do. The difference between what I've done so far and what The Beatles did, is that they had all day every day to work on the songs and recordings. Most of us here have had to juggle school/university/jobs with their musical activities. And then complicate that when all the members of your band have differing levels of availability at any one time, and the actual opportunities for you to come together and write, play and record rapidly diminish. Looking at The Beatles situation as a creative person the opportunities and later the freedom they had are the important things that go towards being able to produce a varied and serious body of work. I find it rather sad that there is a tendency for musicians here to throw themselves on their knees with a "we're not worthy!" attitude at the very mention of The Beatles, when instead you should be thinking "I could do that too". [/quote] Then do it. You've got no one to rely on you, partner, children. You could have chosen to do anything you want, like the members of the Beatles did. They were in their late teens when they went to Germany to cut their teeth, most of us could have taken similar choices at the same age. None of them had privileged backgrounds, they made a choice and worked to get where they did. If they had all day to write songs that's because they put in the ground work. Many other bands have had freedom and resources to do what they want after their initial success and haven't had the influence the Beatles did and others failed completely. Resources didn't make them what they became. The what might have beens, what could be, the what ifs are all irrelevant, their achievements are a matter of record. I'm not even a big Beatles fan but acknowledge the level of influence they had on music and other musicians. Could others have done it? No one has, despite their best efforts.

I tried the Quiklok stand. Although it said it would take more than the weight of my Rumble 350...it didn't, neither did the replacement.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360595882' post='1972978'] Really? Maybe you lack the imagination to be able to do that. I don't. [/quote] Yes. It has nothing to do with a lack of imagination. As Steve has already posted it's like saying [i]I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot . [/i]Or, give me a 1983 Fodera Monarch Deluxe and I'll be able to play every bit as well as Victor Wooten. It's a nonsensical statement. The Beatles wrote their body of work in a little over 6 years. You're in your 50's and been writing since your teens/20's? You've certainly had the time to convene with other like minded souls and [i][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]come up with a series of albums every bit as varied and interesting as anything the Beatles did. [/font][/color][/i][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]So...?[/font][/color]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1360589548' post='1972794'] But give me and 3 of my musically inclined friends virtually unlimited studio time in a state of the art facility. Give us a sympathetic producer and a team of engineers ready to pander to our every sonic whim. Feed us a diet of previously unheard music and the occasional mind-altering drugs, and then outside of the studio surround us with the cream of innovative artists spanning the whole spectrum of creative endeavour, and I'm sure that we could come up with a series of albums every bit as varied and interesting as anything the Beatles did. [/quote] If you forgot to put the winking smiley in then fair shout, otherwise it's, without doubt, the most ridiculous post I've ever read on basschat.

One day I'll get the hang of this phone. Anyway, I played a friends ergodyne and it has got a skinny neck. Great instrument.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1360440684' post='1970590'] My Ibanez EDB has a really fast, slim neck too.. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/198472-fs-ibanez-edb600-jazz-cw-hardcase-near-mint-price-drop/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/198472-fs-ibanez-edb600-jazz-cw-hardcase-near-mint-price-drop/page__fromsearch__1[/url] Was that subtle enough? [/quote]

Oh hell, you said the t word

I always seem to miss out on these

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1360437898' post='1970547'] Indulge me, how exactly has that statement been proven incorrect?? It is an interesting debate because the Beatles were such an important cultural phenomenon.... [/quote] They may have been a cultural phenomenon, but probably more part of a cultural phenomenon. But that aside, why do so many other artists cite them as an influence if they weren't a musical phenomenon? Why not the Stones, Who or the Kinks?

[quote name='risingson' timestamp='1360437438' post='1970536'] The problem with threads like this is I tend to get increasingly pissed (wrongly so I might add!) when it is suggested that the band weren't musically significant or influential. It's just that you can't really argue with historical fact and actual proof here, it far outweighs the suppositions. What I actually think it boils down to for most people in this case is a feeling of annoyance over how much the Beatles are lauded and a probable dislike of their music. Both those things I can understand very well. But misinformation gets tossed around and it's tough to try and step over it all. [/quote] It is an oddity that people cannot detach disliking something from how it has influenced many others and appreciate that fact. Throwing in terms like 'crap','overrated etc misses the point that this band were massively influential and more so than any other band. I'm not a big Beatles fan, but the artists I listen to are on record as being big fans.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1360435885' post='1970495'] Are you just guessing that? [/quote] Yes. And I like to write posts that I feel need this fella Not so much this chap but I'll put him in anyway.

[quote name='mckendrick' timestamp='1360435548' post='1970484'] Depends what state of dryness. Fresh stuff is real slick. Mid life is a bit tacky. Bone dry stuff gives you that polished dance floor kind slickness. [/quote] Thank you, I can sleep easy tonight knowing that