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[quote name='BottomE' post='1220004' date='May 4 2011, 04:10 PM']Keep forgetting to watch it - i miss the Tube[/quote] Buy a modern telly, they haven't got tubes

[quote name='KK Jale' post='1219306' date='May 3 2011, 10:41 PM']'Kin 'ell... just how appallingly, unspeakably, irredeemably flat does Adele sing?[/quote] [quote name='goblin' post='1219364' date='May 3 2011, 11:41 PM']If you listen to Rolling In The Deep carefully enough on Spotify, especially the Acapella and Instrumental, you'll realise just how lazy the band are too. I can do a better job of it with a couple of mates and the copy of Audacity I've got on my netbook![/quote] Comments like this really do sum up BC members sometimes. I'm looking forward to your rendition of Rolling In The Deep with much anticipation

I've just replaced the D'Addarios on my bass with Fender 7150 Nickels and tbh.........all I can tell is they are a set of new strings. Only differences is maybe less finger noise and they sound marginally 'warmer'. Although I'd have to clean the D'Addarios up to see how bright they really are. The Fenders feel slightly smoother as well I'm crap me

[quote name='paul h' post='1217812' date='May 2 2011, 05:44 PM']Now I'm finally gigging again I feel like I can join in![/quote] Cool! That Retrovibe looks good mate. And welcome back. I was just wondering the other day where you were. EDIT: I'm old enough and uncool enough to use the word cool and not be bothered whether I get away with

I had to really think about this one, it's been about 6 weeks since I sat down to learn a song. So, it was either. Alison Moyet's, All Cried Out (with some extra fills ) or Avril Lavigne's My Happy Ending (with some fills taken out, because my fingers are old ) Also had to refresh my memory about playing Message In A Bottle. Simple but I love playing it, I just do

Watched last night's edition. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't listen to any of the artists that were featured so perhaps I wasn't expecting anything. Performances were all very good I thought, Ron Sexsmith was a bit shaky but he wasn't awful. Really nice to see Avery Sunshine's bass player playing a Squier, and he played it very well

Cracking stuff mate. Really pleased for you.

[quote name='silddx' post='1214819' date='Apr 29 2011, 01:03 PM']My POD X3 LIVE. I'd be lost without it.[/quote] Is it a Sat Nav?

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1214978' date='Apr 29 2011, 02:59 PM']Why is it wrong? TNIT had a valid point (albeit harshly put), and Golchen had an open platform to come back.[/quote] I agree with you entirely. And in fewer words than I was going to use

Has the early summer effected people's sense of proportion on here? I was going to write something at length, but I just can't be bothered. Personally I'm finding BC incredibly dull lately. The slightest whiff of a heated debate and people start getting offended. Be offended. I'm probably one of the least knowledgeable and/or experienced bass players on here but how many times can you find talking about the same pick-ups, strings blah blah blah blah interesting? If that thread alone is the reason TNiT has been banned from Off Topic then I find lots of what is posted on OT offensive. Can I get the 'writers' banned?

My Hercules Mini Stand. It folds down soooooooo small My guitarist has 3 Hercules grab stand things, always looks like he's going camping the amount of metal he carries around. I'm easily pleased.

I've just been reading a thread on another bass site about Fender 7150 strings. It was quite interesting to read about the fact that some found them quieter and had a high tension. When I've bought strings before I've always just looked for recommendations but never really gone much deeper than that. I've never really considered whether a string is louder etc. Have you? On forums you get a lot of "these strings are good" but it seems not to go much further than that.

[quote name='Lozz196' post='1213083' date='Apr 27 2011, 08:15 PM']I like Rotosounds, which aren`t too expensive. Have also heard a few people praising Fender strings, as they are fairly cheap - have to say I`m not overkeen though.[/quote] Someone told me that D'Addario make the Fender strings, or at least some of them. Personally I've got D'Addario XL's. They're about £16-£19 depending on where you get them.

[quote name='SteveK' post='1209894' date='Apr 24 2011, 11:19 AM']I know there are many X Factor detractors here (myself included). To those, a question: If asked to do the winners tour, would you?[/quote] Probably not, I don't like Butlins.

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1207999' date='Apr 22 2011, 10:04 AM']Do you have the keys doing the stabs ? (or is that you stabbing the guitarist ?)[/quote] No keys, just me and the guitarist I downloaded a piano transcript, [url="http://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/47217/Product.aspx"]here[/url] (proper notation, no tab , topical) and basically took the bass part of the keys to play. The guitarist has worked it out by ear. However, there are parts, specifically the end of the verses and the bridge in particular where we 'part company'. The line I use works against the original recording, but the guitarist swears blind that he's playing the right thing. I did email him my copy of the transcript that has the guitar chords on it but he seems to have put them to one side in preference to the ones he worked out by ear Just wondered how others 'attacked' it. really. I may just have to pop around his place and we work on it together.

We're trying this one out at rehearsal. However, myself and the guitarist seem to be playing different things. Anyone got the chords for this one? Please Thanks.

I'll stop using it, as simple as that. I'm certainly not paying £4.99 a month. I don't spend £60 on music in a year anyway, so I'm certainly not paying for a service that, at the moment, I rarely use. It would seem that another potential 'model' for the music industry has disappeared. What next?

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1199624' date='Apr 14 2011, 05:09 PM']I suppose it's only fair that Mr Higginbotham protect his investment, however he may have erred on this occasion. For example, here's a tune supposedly penned by that notorous magpie Mr Noel Gallagher. I wonder whence he drew inspiration?[/quote] I hope you're not showing disrespect to Mr Gallagher. He is well thought of and a leading member of the Musical Green Movement and in this capacity done his best for recycling.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1198554' date='Apr 13 2011, 07:04 PM']I love BSSM. Flea is an awesome player.[/quote] He's not as good as Mark King though Oowwwww! Who threw that?

Absolutely cracking Clarky. Really pleased for you mate. All the best.

Wear the right shoes? Perhaps the Picturehouse has gone very upmarket.

[quote name='stevie' post='1190426' date='Apr 6 2011, 12:57 PM']Pull yourself together man! [/quote] Just have a heart. This is a distressing time.