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[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='969823' date='Sep 27 2010, 06:18 PM']........ because thankfully we are not all the same.[/quote] I'm the same!

A big piece of 12mm ply that has yet to be made into a Jack10 cab. Well, it did only turn up at 10am. Last piece of actual gear, a Zoom B2.1u. I go from loving it to thinking I wasted money buying it. At the moment I'm ambivalent about it.

Wincey Willis. That's got to be right, I'm always right, I've got a brain the size of a planet.! :wacko:

[quote name='JamieCooper91' post='966085' date='Sep 23 2010, 08:55 PM']Anyway I[b] need to cut through[/b] two loud guitars and a pretty loud drummer.[/quote] Chainsaw?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='964503' date='Sep 22 2010, 02:20 PM']I'm never sure what to make of the "A gig's a gig" credo. I've played plenty of gigs where I would've rather been somewhere else; gigs that we thought might be sh*t when we agreed to play them and didn't disappoint. I suppose if you're only doing it for the money then it's a different story. To me a gig's a live music event not a job.[/quote] Last gig I went to see I wished I'd been somewhere else, it was awful. The headline act was good but the support was beyond words to describe how bad. The singer was like a drunk at a karaoke night, it was like X Factor for middle aged portly 'time has passed me by' almost wannabes. So perhaps a gig is not gig, thing.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='965031' date='Sep 22 2010, 09:48 PM']Its the sequence that defines it, as skej21 says. If you work on the principle that you have to have a CDEFGAB in every scale F goes FGABbCDEF, whereas G goes GABCDEF#G as opposed to GABCDEGbG. If, say, the key of Db had sharps in, it would read DbEb[b]FF#[/b]G#A#CDb. It matters a lot more if you are reading to key signatures as having say a B and a Bb in a scale would mean every B woudl have an accidental which would make it harder to notate. Most rock music is written in E, A or D so its sharps whilst most sax orientated music is in Bb or Eb (generalisations I know) so its flats all around.[/quote] You purposely set out to confuse us thickies with that, didn't you!?

As someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time on Bill Fitzmaurice's web site researching a Jack10, his advice is absolutely sound (lovely pun). So I'd go with what he says.

[quote name='Dave Vader' post='963203' date='Sep 21 2010, 12:28 PM']I live round your way, trust me, they are.[/quote] Bl00dy bumpkins!

[quote name='JTUK' post='963745' date='Sep 21 2010, 08:21 PM']Who is in charge of this gathering? If it were me, I'd ask for common ground from all or most concerned and arrange a get-together just to see how thing would sound. The material would, at this stage be secondary to seeing what you have in common musically. Once you have decided which members are useful, then I'd have a song storming session where everyone who is committed tables a few songs and everyone votes on them. You make that your first mixtape CD and a template for your set. By this time, you should have in mind how you are going to approach this..with a view to what gigs you do and how to colour the songs....but you need a line-up first. What songs you throw around in rehearsal for this first gathering would not likely be anywhere near what you end up with gigging, IMO.[/quote] Thanks , that sounds solid advice. I mainly want a few covers for 'the back pocket' as it were, for a first meeting. Like Jezzaboy said it would be handy to have a few standards just so I don't turn up completely blank. If all goes well, then I'll suggest what you've posted. Thanks again.

thanks as always, you've come up trumps.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=101860"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=101860[/url] Perhaps Mr Levin had been reading this 'ere thread

[quote name='silddx' post='963278' date='Sep 21 2010, 01:33 PM']No. I am challenging common assumption and causing debate for the sake of future enlightenment of, and thereby furthering the cause of, the creative bassist who feels dictated to and in thrall to celebrated bassists who adopt the attitude that because they are celebrated must mean they are doing everything right and therefore so must everyone else. It's all perfectly straightforward really. [/quote] Sorry, you lost me after no.

CCR are good for the money. I've always liked Down on the Corner as well. Which oddly enough I think I suggested to a potential band last year and it went down well with them. Like Thunderbird13, I've always thought AC/DC (despite liking them) aren't really suited to the pubs around my way.

[quote name='Stingray5' post='963147' date='Sep 21 2010, 11:34 AM']You want very quick; you want easy to learn; sound alright. You don't want loads of fills and variations. You want repetitive... Ok, these may be way off the mark, or you may have covered/dismissed them already, but how about... * U2 - "Still Haven't Found..." * U2 - "With Or Without You" * U2 - probably most of their other stuff too! * Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall" ...to name three. Yes I know -- but you did ask! [/quote] It would keep the drummer happy.

May I suggest these to the OP? Actually what do others think?

[quote name='lowdown' post='963086' date='Sep 21 2010, 10:40 AM']Good grief you want an easy life.. What about just starting a Bill Haley tribute act? You would only need to learn one song then.[/quote] I'm a busy man. I've got a house to clean today.

I placed an ad on one of those sites, you know lonely hearts for musicians and got a reply from a guitarist who sounds rather good if I'm honest. There's a drummer and potentially a warbler. Well it's just dawned on me that in the past year that I've been noodling around on the bass I haven't actually learnt a cover in full. Well by that I mean I'll have sort of learnt one on a night and then completely forgotten a) how to play it and/or b ) what the damned song was in the first place. So your mission, if you wish to accept it, is to come up with a few covers (4 or 5 at the max) that are very quick and easy to learn but sound alright. By easy I mean nothing with loads of fills and variations in it, repetitive is the key word here as I've got a lousy memory Oh, some are on the scratched off list already - Sex on Fire, All Right Now, Sweet Home what's it, Mustang doo dah, you know the score.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='961981' date='Sep 20 2010, 11:09 AM'] was that a pun or a freudian slip ![/quote] Definitely a pun *he's says very unconvincingly*

[quote name='SteveO' post='961571' date='Sep 19 2010, 08:58 PM']I think this is being taken too far. You are at work, OK you have a problem with the possibility of co-workers seeing NSFW images, I understand that, but a safe for work alternative has already been given. Do we really want to moderate this forum to make the whole site safe for work? I was once pulled by the IT bods because I was browsing the 'Gear Porn' and this obviously triggered all sorts of alarm bells all the time. I wish it had a nicer name to stop it being a problem, but it is not fair to ask that it should be changed just to protect me from doing something that I shouldn't have been doing in the first place. I vote for leaving the site it as is. There is a 'lofi' solution to your problem If you don't want to use it then you must accept the consequences.[/quote] This sums it up perfectly for me. Why should the forum have to bare the responsibility of policing avatars to protect individuals from something that perhaps they shouldn't be doing in the first place. Especially when alternatives are already available.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='961462' date='Sep 19 2010, 07:33 PM']I thought I'd have a picture of a woman who is considered the most attractive on the planet and is also a brilliant actress. Would any boss disagree with that?[/quote] Pete, you're far too modest. You look lovely in your strawberry blonde wig, green dress and fake boobs. I would, ay!

[quote name='YouMa' post='961246' date='Sep 19 2010, 03:26 PM']Nikki sixx is not cool though. [/quote] In total agreement. But he could have the most coolest of cool basses in the world, made by the coolest luthier, out of the coolest wood, with the coolest pups etc, etc, blah, blah and he'd still look a noob.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' post='960238' date='Sep 18 2010, 10:51 AM']Agreed. Sound is 50% of it for me. Feel is the other 50%. I agree, I wouldn't swamp any bass with OD unless the music required it. Thats the most important thing… You don't always do 'What You Want'… often its about what the music needs, and if it feels right fattening it up with overdrive then go for it. Karnivool are a great example. Jon Stockman has a stunning Bass Tone, but his distorted tone just sounds amazing, and suits the music perfectly… [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvtx3HMUks&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjvtx3HMUks...feature=related[/url][/quote] Stockman makes his bass sound like a grizzly bear that's woken up with a raging headache. Brilliant.

[quote name='JTUK' post='960926' date='Sep 19 2010, 08:56 AM']My point is that people seem to imply that because he is loud, he lacks ability and the ability to play quiet...and keep on going round and round on that subject when it is just isn't the case. I could have left this threads ages ago but for people jumping to a wrong conclusion. He can play quiet but the bands sounds so much better when it is blazing.[/quote] From your original contribution I think many of us assumed that your drummer could [u]only[/u] play loud. I'm afraid it wasn't very clear that he could reign it in, but that as you say in your last post it "sounds so much better when it is blazing". That's all really, your first post made him sound a little limited.

[quote name='tredders' post='960653' date='Sep 18 2010, 06:46 PM']Horace makes anything look cool... [attachment=59110:horace_p...ls_pa774.jpg][/quote] Definitely one cool man. I was watching the TV last year, coverage of one of the festivals, and noticed Horace playing the Thunderbird. Good to see someone liking an instrument for what it is rather than for it's reputation or stereotype. It all boils down to how you use it. [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='960806' date='Sep 18 2010, 10:13 PM']I wish Lynval Goulding was my dad. What a guy.[/quote] I was mistaken for Lynval Goulding once. .......no, wait a minute, that's wrong, it was someone else completely.

[quote name='urb' post='959273' date='Sep 17 2010, 11:35 AM']kettle lead,[/quote] [quote name='JTUK' post='959314' date='Sep 17 2010, 12:02 PM']Spare Kettle lead[/quote] [quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='959335' date='Sep 17 2010, 12:21 PM']Spare Kettle lead[/quote] [quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='959343' date='Sep 17 2010, 12:27 PM']/kettle plugs x2/[/quote] [quote name='thisnameistaken' post='959397' date='Sep 17 2010, 01:20 PM']2 kettle leads[/quote] Great thinking from all 5 of you. Nothing like a brew after some hard work, but do remember to pack the tea bags and chocolate digestives.