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[quote name='Bass_Guardian' post='1030962' date='Nov 20 2010, 10:52 PM']I dont know half the songs people are mentioning tbh...[/quote] Glad it's not just me then

[quote name='chris_b' post='1029690' date='Nov 19 2010, 05:48 PM']They do.... the last three things I wanted to buy got snapped up before I even noticed the ad![/quote] Indeed. Happens to me too. And then there's the fact that most of the stuff I look at and go 'I'd like that' is miles away and collection only.

[quote name='silddx' post='1014257' date='Nov 6 2010, 01:40 PM']Just got the orange ones today and put them on my Corvette Fretless. They look incredible, even in normal daylight. God knows what they are like under a black light. I got them from Guitarsuperhero on ebay for about £20 including shipping. Bargain. Only took four days to arrive aswell. Acoustically they sound rich in the mids and bright, and they reek of quality! [/quote] Damn it man! Just stop it!

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1024723' date='Nov 15 2010, 03:13 PM']At least we're still safe with "How To Steal A Million". Whoops...[/quote] Oh well that's another one gone. I've got images of Nigel turning up at a Take That concert dressed as Audrey Hepburn, for some reason

My year? Well some ups, some downs. Some swings, some roundabouts. No gigs, maybe a band. So so.

I may have posted asking about these before. [url="http://www.gallien-krueger.com/products_mbCombos.html"]GK website, MB combos[/url] Has anyone got any experience of them? They seem a very good price for what you get, under £500 at most places. However, some of the reviews I've read there have been concerns about reliability - mainly speakers, uhum, farting. Didn't know if anyone could shed some light on these. Cheers

[quote name='silddx' post='1023846' date='Nov 14 2010, 07:56 PM']I wear them because I like to look like Audrey Hepburn [/quote] Please don't say things like that, I thought Audrey was very attractive - now I've an uncomfortable image in my head. Do you go the whole hog? Which movie do you go for? Charade? Roman Holiday? Breakfast at Tiffany's? In actual fact don't tell me I wouldn't be able to watch them again

Didn't like any of it. As a bass player he's very talented and so are the others at their instruments, but musically it doesn't interest me in the slightest. And promo? It came across as bits and bobs recorded on someone's mobile phone.

[quote name='Musky' post='1023671' date='Nov 14 2010, 06:05 PM']Buy used, my friend. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=20"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=20[/url][/quote] Hmmm, like this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=109731"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=109731[/url]

Probably for their approach Paul McCartney Mike Mills - REM Kim Deal - The Pixies (despite not actually owning a Pixies record I like her style) - but a nod and a wink to the chap from Doves.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1022092' date='Nov 13 2010, 01:51 AM']I would rather kill myself. I used to try to offer humourous modes of death in response to questions like this but I no longer find any joy in it. I would just kill myself.[/quote]

[quote name='silddx' post='1021914' date='Nov 12 2010, 08:45 PM']I had a white headless Steinberger double neck until recently, mrs silddx nearly left me saying she couldn't tolerate that level of sheer ugliness in our home. I thought it looked beautiful [/quote] She's obviously a women of impeccable taste mrs silddx You've done a cracking job with paint again, you've got a bit of a flair for that. Good work mate.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='1021885' date='Nov 12 2010, 08:11 PM']Mad Men[/quote] I don't think there's any need for name calling Pete.

[quote name='Sue' post='1021825' date='Nov 12 2010, 07:08 PM']With all the avatars and unusual names, I thought most of you were women (or animals)![/quote] I'm a fine upstanding pillock of the community And I only wear stockings at the weekends I shouldn't have said that should I?

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='1021721' date='Nov 12 2010, 05:37 PM']Hello! bottomendian grassed you all up asking about me... Thought I'd quickly check in and say hi, my bassiness is kind of on hold at the min after both my band and lessons went balls up for totally random reasons. I'm not fulltime at work in a really stressful job, and currently battling generalised anxiety disorder and bad panic attacks. Other than that life's peachy I keep meaning to come back and say hi but I've been feeling sh*te recently so haven't been doing much of anything other than work! I will be back soon when I'm feeling more 'me'...[/quote] Good to see you visiting I think you need someone to buy you an interesting drink in the BC Arms and have a game Mornington Crescent

I found two transcripts - one is just root notes, and [b]just[/b] root notes the other is a bit more interesting, which I think is the actual line. Which one do most of you play. I don't like being different....well sometimes I do

[quote name='Craigmartini' post='1019610' date='Nov 11 2010, 02:18 AM']Hello by birthday bass brother! It would seem to me that un-cracked fingertips that are a bit softer would be better than painful split skin. OUCH! Have you tried (as mentioned above) some type of gloves for your outdoor work? Maybe surgical gloves to keep your hands dry during the day if bulky gloves interfere with your work? Also maybe try a bit of cream with a soft pair of cotton gloves at bed time. My girl is a massage therapist and suffers from painful splitting skin on her knuckles. The cotton glove and cream helps her a bunch. Best of luck with it![/quote] Hi Bro If my hands get too bad I might go for the surgical gloves - it'll look a little odd but sometimes you just have to. Being a postal worker wearing gloves is a little tricky, you tend to pick out more letters than you bargained for but the surgical ones would be fine. My wife and I used to suffer with split skin on our knuckles all the time when our kids were very young. My cousin pointed out it was all the washing and use of sterilising solution that dried our hands out. I've started using a product to help prevent my hands from drying out, of course it's not moisturiser because as TNiT say men don't moisturise oh no indeedy. [quote]and ideally, we should all wear gloves when going to bed, but I found out that that creates a kind of an interference with my... social ...agenda[/quote] Name the film. Thanks to everyone for your advice.

They generally split along joints and on the tips, predictably right where you'd be fretting. Might go for the plaster route, it's definitely worth a go.

Obviously as you play more the calluses on your finger tips build up, and to aid this one you use such things as surgical spirit et al. My problem is that because I work outside, the cold (dry/frosty bits) weather dries my hands out to the point sometimes my skin splits - similar to a [b]very[/b] deep paper cut. So how much will moisturising products compromise the building and maintenance of the calluses on my stubby mitts? Or is it irrelevant? I'm in a slight catch 22 because if I don't use something to prevent drying out then I can't play anyway as the splits in my hands can be very painful.

Thanks mate, looks very similar to what my guitarist was telling me - which I've subsequently mislaid somewhere in my head cheers

[quote name='silddx' post='1019267' date='Nov 10 2010, 07:50 PM']Tab kinda destroys the point doesn't it? I always found tab to be horrible to learn from anyway.[/quote] Hal Leonard's Bass Method, by Ed Friedland, series is odd for this very reason. The first book is entirely stave, then for some unknown reason he introduces TAB. It doesn't matter how hard I tried to stop looking at the TAB, I've got a lazy brain and just started using the TAB fingerings and well the rest is history. The middle line on the bass stave is a D, that's about it for me really oh and the bottom line is a G - I sort of take my bearings from that, but I can't sight read anyway so it doesn't matter.

As in the title just need the chords really I think the verse is C,Bb,A,Ab ????????? Chorus - can't remember really Then there's the middle eighty bit Not overly fussed about what the actual bass line is, I'll sort of make something up. It's just I can't remember what my guitarist said it was, and the chorus I sort of know but not 100%. I've tried playing against the original recording and I'm sort of there just need confirmation Cheers

Hmmm, looks like a microwave.

[quote name='icastle' post='1013974' date='Nov 6 2010, 08:09 AM']Sex on Fire I always have to resist the urge to grab a petrol can and a box of matches to put it out of my misery...[/quote] I was so glad that that one was not mentioned by anyone to play. In fact the guitarist point blank refuses to put it forward as "it's been done to death".

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1013716' date='Nov 5 2010, 08:21 PM']Yes, they would.[/quote] Any one in particular, just so we can have an example