Marvin

[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

[quote name='Wil' post='1013411' date='Nov 5 2010, 03:28 PM']Ruffle. It's ruffle. Sorry, I had to say it. [/quote] Well spotted that man. You rattle a cage Nige

You can't ignore edorka's posts, both are incredibly valid. With regard to George Martin I personally think his role has always been underplayed in relation to The Beatles. I'd go as far to say The Beatles probably wouldn't have got where they did without him. As far as Chris Squire goes....well I don't really like Yes so I'm not particularly worried EDIT: I did like the video clip posted by ET though, Mr Squire seems a fairly nice bloke .

Odd, I can still get audio playback on the embedded video in the thread. Your all welcome to pop round and have a listen EDIT: Like the swig of wine you have before you start playing Nige, nice touch

[quote name='paul h' post='1012942' date='Nov 5 2010, 08:39 AM']I can't hear it but you and the bass look immensely cool which let's face it, it is half the battle! [/quote] Turn the volume up

[quote name='steve-soar' post='1012819' date='Nov 5 2010, 12:50 AM']f***ing marv Nige.[/quote] I'm glad you didn't put a question mark on the end of that sentence [quote name='silddx' post='1012831' date='Nov 5 2010, 01:15 AM']Thank you mate! I'm so pleased with it, it's a fantastic bass! Funny, works on here but YT have binned the audio. Probably a good decision given the mistakes I made on it [/quote] Still working this morning. Sounds great, and you can keep the gold if you want, it actually suits the bass (damn it ) Oh and yeah you might want to put in a bit more practice on that piece

My 3 kids trying to re-engineering the floor upstairs

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1012450' date='Nov 4 2010, 07:14 PM']My Aunt lives in Devon... He fitted her bathroom last year. She said he didn't vacuum the stair carpet afterwards, but because the rest of the job was A1 she chose to let it go. Recommended.[/quote] Problem with Chris and plumbing is is that he feels he has to use a different spanner every five minutes. Top job though, apparently.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1012396' date='Nov 4 2010, 06:31 PM']But just imagine if Squire's career falters and he has to take dep gigs. Say, with a Barbadian steel band or a Ragtime combo. Without the dots, that would be him finished. So, on balance, if he really wants to get on in this business and be taken seriously, he should learn to read before it's too late.[/quote] Quite. Just imagine how foolish he'd look. Heaven forbid if he turned up and a band had a trumpet player.

Well if he'd learnt a bit more theory perhaps he'd have played more than just root notes. Hold on. No I was thinking of Mike Drint who's got that Squire sig bass thingy. Sorry. Carry on.

[quote name='markstuk' post='1012347' date='Nov 4 2010, 05:47 PM']Absolutely, although I thought the point of a restraining order was that you moved rather than Chris :-)[/quote] I have friends in very low places

[quote name='markstuk' post='1012342' date='Nov 4 2010, 05:40 PM']He's moved to Dublin because Marvin followed him around Teignmouth and he felt worried :-)[/quote] Have you been reading the around the courts cuttings in the local Teignmouth press

[quote name='cheddatom' post='1012285' date='Nov 4 2010, 04:52 PM']Seriously?!?! That's so cool. Did you take any pics?[/quote] I'm afraid it's entirely false. Sorry, I made it all up. I've only been to Teignmouth once and that was before I'd even heard of Muse. He does have a reputation for being a nice bloke though and he is tall.

I visited Teignmouth last year, as it's not too far off, and bumped into to Chris. I mentioned I dabbled on the bass and he gave me an impromptu tour of his house and his collection of basses. Very nice man indeed. Quite tall though, felt like I was stood in a hole all afternoon.

[quote name='silddx' post='1012152' date='Nov 4 2010, 03:10 PM']Yes! I do! I even had a hot flush about an hour ago, I think that was the mention of Alain Caron though [/quote] Find somewhere draughty to sit. That's enough of hijacking this thread, I'm off to do the ironing - men's work and all that

[quote name='silddx' post='1012145' date='Nov 4 2010, 03:04 PM'] I seem to have turned into a right miserable f***er lately. I can't think of any music-related threads I've contributed to recently where I've had anything nice to say, apart fom my build diary I must be in a fighting mood at the moment, verbally of course, I hate real fighting [/quote] Perhaps you're going through 'the change' . Men do you know, we're just not allowed to talk about it . Do you find yourself asking for the heating to be turned down?

[quote name='silddx' post='1012127' date='Nov 4 2010, 02:49 PM']We are a miserable nation.[/quote] You speak for yourself I'm the happiest person I know............what a minute. No that's wrong. I'm the grumpiest person I know. Ignore that back as you were.