Marvin

[attachment=41289:images.jpeg] This has become frustratingly tedious.

Personally no. If you'd seen them you'd know why

[quote name='ped' post='727046' date='Jan 27 2010, 10:56 PM']Jesus[/quote] Naughty boy. I am a simple man with simple tastes and am quite happy to live with what I've got and not lust after low end trash. [attachment=41288:SDC11552.jpg]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='727024' date='Jan 27 2010, 10:44 PM']IBTL [/quote] Oooh that's just cheating.

WTF is going on. The MILF thread was always going to get closed. That was obvious as soon as it was started. Just live with it. The mods deemed it unsuitable for the forum, and thats the end surely.

Is Wayne going to IBTL?

Wouldn't let it get that far to start with. Lucky to both know what the balance is.

Biffy Clyro but I'm not really enjoying it.

It's more than likely to be a Ricky because it looks very similar if not identical to this, which is definitely a ricky. [attachment=41254:images.jpeg]

[quote name='Sonic_Groove' post='726373' date='Jan 27 2010, 02:24 PM']+ 2 Build calluses. In the old days (when I were a lad!!! LOL) we used to rub surgical spirit on the ends of our finger to help harden them! In them days strings were barbed-wire and action was what you got at the weekend! B[/quote] I remember hearing about the likes of Clapton concocting all kind of potions to build up calluses. Now where did I put my mixing bowl?

It definitely could be a Ricky.

[quote name='silddx' post='726330' date='Jan 27 2010, 01:59 PM']Your fingers look pure and fresh, unsullied by the calluses I would expect from a bass player. If I was an ancient Greek I would have you perfumed and sent to my room. I think you should play more, an hour or two of hard playing/practicing everyday on the Ric. That should have you fully manned up within a couple of weeks.[/quote] You flirt you. Definite need to build up some calluses. I haven't played properly for about 2 months now so mine are gradually disappearing. Don't seem to stay as long as they used to I would have thought it would have been the other way around: older=callus stays longer. But not it would seem.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='726129' date='Jan 27 2010, 10:38 AM']I suggest you don't try playing a 32-foot bass then. Stonehenge, anyone?[/quote]

I'd probably have a pop at the 32'. But I'm not very big and have got crap hands

£50. What a lucky blighter. And with the case. My old guitarist bought a Jackson (his one and only guitar) about 15 years ago, cost him £700. Lovely guitar. Really ballsy heavy sound he could get out of it. Does anyone remember Charvette guitars? I always assumed they were part of the same group. There was a black one very similar to that Charvel in my local music shop when I started playing.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=72476&hl=yamaha"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...6&hl=yamaha[/url] Maybe something like this? If it wasn't for the fact I don't need it and haven't really got the spare cash for it I'd go for it. I'll add though I don't play black metal, partly because I don't know what it is. I'm out of touch with all things yuuf you understand. Anyway, looks the business at a nice sort of price.

[quote name='Tone le Bone' post='724251' date='Jan 25 2010, 04:36 PM']Get yourself one of these........[url="http://www.soundslive.co.uk/product~name~Zoom---B2.1u~ID~4467.asp"]Zoom B2 [/url].......plug in some headphones and you have a multi effects pedal with drum machine and tuner, that you can also take to rehearsals and plug straight into your cabinet with some 50 preset effects and another 40 odd channels to come up with your own! Sarweeeeeeet! [/quote] I'll second that. Really versatile piece of kit. Can also connect into your computer as it has a USB interface. I've used it to record to listen to my own playing. Even if you don't use all the effects it really is more than just a multi effects. Also use a small practice amp with headphone socket, less no, but works well.

Like the tone, like the playing - nothing fancy doing his job very well and like the bass. Also always thought he was the coolest f@cker in GnR.

[quote name='Les' post='724371' date='Jan 25 2010, 06:34 PM']We're 3 piece, drums, bass, guitar and 2 vocals. This is roughly our set. In no particular order Times like these. Foo Fighters The best. Foo Fighters When September ends. Greenday Sweet child o mine. Guns n Roses Sex on fire. Kings Of Leon Use somebody. Kings Of Leon If you tolerate this. Manics Creep. Radiohead Local boy in a photograph. Stereophonics Dakota. Stereophonics Maybe tomorrow. Stereophonics Design for life. Stereophonics Jenny was a friend. The Killers All these things. The Killers Mr Brightside. The Killers Somebody told me. The Killers Where the streets have no name. U2 Vertigo U2 Chasing Cars. Snow Patrol Run. Starts like Leona Lewis, goes a bit like Snow patrol, finishes like Motorhead. [/quote] I'm going to print that list off, show my drummer and tell him "LOOK THIS IS THE SORT OF THING PUB BANDS PLAY". Then I'm going to run. Prevaricating, arty drummers

[quote name='Beedster' post='721494' date='Jan 22 2010, 06:24 PM']I want a full written report on how you intend to redress the wife:bass ratio (WBR), which is expected be at least 1:3 (in certain USA states I believe 2:4 is acceptable). I want this on my desk by Monday Marvin.[/quote] In order to get to a respectable ratio of course there is the obvious, yet boring option, of buying 2 more basses that are identical to my current one. The option of hiding new purchases at the houses of friends and family. Currently my bass remains in its case (keeps my pesky kids off it), so I could hang my current one on a wall and put a new one in the case, the 3rd left at drummers practice room. A precision would be fairly easy to get away with. Could say its my mate Nick's and he's done some work on it (I've borrowed it before). Finally there is the nuclear option. Just tell her whose boss and purchase the damn things anyway. Promptly followed by a quick trip to the solicitors office

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='724241' date='Jan 25 2010, 04:27 PM']and a drummer who understands the idea of light and shade.[/quote] You're more likely to find one of these in my neck of the woods. [attachment=41089:images.jpeg]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='724214' date='Jan 25 2010, 04:04 PM']I was in my local shop the other day - there were some nice looking Corts in there, but the prices were unbelievable. One was £1300. I'm sure it was a nice playing & sounding instrument, but £1300 for an indonesian-built cort! [/quote] What are manufacturers thinking? For £1300 I'd be looking at 2nd hand and a pocket full of change or going custom.

[quote name='thinman' post='722500' date='Jan 23 2010, 07:43 PM']Does Thompson say what he's quoted as saying in the Patrick Humphries biography? IIRC it was along the lines of "all he [Drake] needed was a bacon sandwich and a good shag".[/quote] Oddly not.

Good piece about Nick Drake on The Culture Show last night. Danny Thompson is contributing to a tribute concert to Drake's music. He always comes across as a really genuine geezer.

[quote name='Dubs' post='722154' date='Jan 23 2010, 01:39 PM'][i]So Real[/i] by Jeff Buckley. Epic.[/quote] A true epic, I agree totally. Currently listening to A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms.