Marvin

[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.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='722239' date='Jan 23 2010, 03:24 PM']Fans are savvy enough to know you're overplaying. Keep the chops in the butchers. [/quote] [quote name='Doddy' post='722242' date='Jan 23 2010, 03:26 PM'] Nice one.[/quote] Agreed, very eloquently put.

[url="http://www.guitar.co.uk/documents/2669/2669-large.jpg"]http://www.guitar.co.uk/documents/2669/2669-large.jpg[/url] Oooh. I'd have this one though. The Traben Phoenix 5 string. I have no taste. I've got to stop listening to metal.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='721950' date='Jan 23 2010, 09:37 AM']This, the horns are awesome.[/quote] Watched it on NYE brilliant all round.

Truly awful. And so young. My condolences to those close to him.

[quote name='Beedster' post='721485' date='Jan 22 2010, 06:17 PM']Dude, that's an appalingly defeatist attitude[/quote] I must try harder.

Mrs Marvin would definitely notice any new acquisition as I've only got one bass and she is fully aware of what it looks like.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='720512' date='Jan 21 2010, 08:43 PM']This has been posted on here before, but I think it deserves it's own thread. One of these chaps is a font of knowledge on all things Fender. The other is called Leo. Oh, aye.. forgot to mention that one of them is one of BC's own. [/quote] " son, if you're gonna make in this game, you're gonna have to get some pens in those pockets of yours"

I've been laughing so much through this thread I can't think of a caption. Keep up the good work

I play my bass so high now the horn is almost touching my chin!

[quote name='Clarky' post='720518' date='Jan 21 2010, 08:47 PM']Nah, can't get that through on expenses any more - just results in awkward questions about the Euro 15 "In room entertainment" charge! Besides which, this is Belgium not Sweden :-) Ps, on a more mundane note, I have been listening this week to an unusual mixture of What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) and Endgame (Megadeth)[/quote] You wouldn't want to end up like a former Home Secretary's partner either. And Belgium, the home of .......... indecision. (politics joke regarding consociational democracy, yawn). Interesting mix of music.

Excellent idea WoT. That Leo, lucky man. Can we all use it for the tenuous claim to fame thread. "we share internet space with BassDoc, who happened to meet Leo Fender"

[quote name='Clarky' post='720500' date='Jan 21 2010, 08:35 PM']The sound of silence Not Simon & Garfunkek, literally. Stuck in a hotel room in boring Brussels, typing on my Blackberry. God I'm bored.[/quote] The price of being an international jet setter. Nothing on the goggle box then 'ay. Nudge, nudge, know what I'm saying, say no mooorre. :brow:

Damn you broken stereo I have the iPod. Currently listening to Karnivool's second (I think) album Themeta. Title track kicks some behind. Love it, and loving my mid life crisis, listening to what all those hip kids are in to.

You may require trauma counselling.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='718850' date='Jan 20 2010, 11:51 AM']Opinion has it that, for optimal technical delivery, one should hang the bass to match the position it occupies when you're sitting......[/quote] That'll be sat in its stand then.

Not listening to anything currently because MY BL00DY STEREO HAS GONE ON THE BLINK AGAIN. AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH