Marvin

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.

All of them, every single one. Can't stand any of them. I'd rather chop my head off - well maybe not. EDIT: for the record I'm in a bad mood, sorry.

Thank goodness for iPlayer. I think I managed to condense that complete pile of excrement into about 1 to 2 minutes - and I think I was being generous letting some of them go on as long as they did. Nicky Wire must be up there with 'the most talentless', what an *&^%*&^%$*&^%!! As for who has a good tone, what instrument they're playing and through what really when it gets down to the nitty gritty if the performance and the songs are dreadful it doesn't matter. Some of the festival coverage lately and shows like these almost turn me off music.

A very good comprehensive review. Thanks.

Thanks for the review. I've been very tempted to buy one and you've just convinced me with that review, cheers.

I've never got even close to doing anything at all of note musically. Although I did tell the jobcentre, when asked what type of job I was looking for, told them I wanted to be a rock star. The interviewer looked perplexed, so I continued the rouse. You can't live in the past, you can't change it. There are things I wished I had done and hadn't but there is little point mulling over them. You can only look forward.

Vile looking tatty thing. If you're in any doubt, I wouldn't buy it.

Is there anything left? I think everything's pretty much covered. Personally, coffee table things, gold hardware, impractical shapes basically anything that's style over substance and looks like it was design by a counter assistant at Elizabeth Duke.

[quote name='Beedster' post='952618' date='Sep 11 2010, 12:09 PM']To quote that great Val Kilmer line in Tombstone "I'll be your Huckleberry". .......[/quote] I've always liked Kurt Russell's line [b]"You tell him I'm coming and hell's coming with me".[/b] I however, will not be coming, or for that matter bringing hell with me . It takes over 4 hours to get there from here. All the best though and have a good one. EDITED: due to lack of educational attainment.

[url="http://www.billfitzmaurice.com/"]Bill Fitzmaurice[/url] Ditch the combo idea and make your own cab. Everyone's doing it - see above. Or buy a Hartke or the Promethean. I was thinking about the Hartke 112c Hydrive. Loads of features, smallish, 250w and Pete Academy's place of employment was selling them new for, wait for it........£349. It's a bargain. Commission on that one if you get the sale please Pete

Hooky was on telly the other night, you probably all saw it, but due to his unique playing style he now has issues with regard to his back. So perhaps he might shorten his strap.

Do people have to write essays? Anything over 5 lines and I start to drift.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='950051' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:55 PM']I went to see that Scott Pilgrim flick last weekend, he's got a lovely fireglo Ric bass that gets destroyed fighting a vegan bass player with a Mustang. In the next scene the Ric was held together with gaffa tape and I was distraught![/quote] It's all CGI these days, so the fireglo Ric probably never existed. Why did a vegan have a ferrel horse anyway?

[quote name='Linus27' post='949362' date='Sep 8 2010, 12:52 PM']I think the mistake being made here is that we are actually thinking people listen to us. Come on everyone, don't forget we are bass players. Nobody listens to us or cares about us. Lets all get back to where we belong. At the back, looking bored or boring, upappreciated and not very important to anything or anyone. See, that makes everything so much better [/quote] You're right of course. But, I'm awaiting the thoughts of Tony Goggle on this subject before I make my mind up on the matter.

[quote name='jakesbass' post='949224' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:40 AM']Sounds a little to me Nig that ..........[/quote] [quote name='silddx' post='949231' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:47 AM']Bugger, I was hoping you would stay out of this one [/quote] Jake's word is the LAW!