Marvin

Find something else to play, move on and come back to it in a few months.

The people have got to be right, it's that simple. You've all got to be going in the same direction. For me it's about playing music that I feel is of a good standard. It doesn't have to be material that I'd necessarily listen to at home, but that will interest an audience...and that means I turn down bands that want to do certain material. I recently turned down a band that presented a set list full of the usual suspects, stuff that would make me cringe if I had to play it in public. I left a new band because they wanted to add stuff like Alright Now etc. I've never learnt to play it and still refuse to. Money, if I wanted to get regular paid gigs I wouldn't be looking at playing pubs, that's just a waste of time. Functions is where the money is. But then I'm not interested in making money to that degree, if someone is trying to make money out of my band playing then I expect my cut but otherwise it's not my motivation for playing. I wouldn't want to earn my living gigging, I'm sure my kids would hate it.

Wear is fine, and to be expected. Gunk and general detritus is a completely different matter, basically NO! A lot of these 'aged' basses with grime on the chrome hardware, eeewwww, I'd be getting the brasso and a rag out.

These are must knows? Crikes, I've not played or learnt a single one put foward. Will i be thrown off the forum?

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1439297768' post='2841627'] There's some interesting posts here. I have to agree on some, like too many knobs and/or strings. And who on earth needs tuning heads the size of a wind-turbine? (Fender) Not wanting to derail the thread, but here's my baby. Do you think It'd look good with a nice tort pick guard? [/quote] Only if you ditch the gold hardware

Pretty standard attitude amongst the less enlightened. Thankfully they are small in number in my experience, most people I've worked with realise it's a different set of skills playing the bass.

A friend of mine has bought the active EV12s recently and for vocals they sounded really nice. My former band was using Mackies at a rehearsal room and the EV's only confirmed what I'd said at rehearsal, that the mackies were horribly harsh when pushed even just a bit. The EV's sounded really rounded and rich in comparison. He uses them at an acoustic open mic night and then adds the subs for his soul and funk band.

It's the number of 'big names' that reference The Beatles and Sgt.Peppers that, for me, can't be ignored. I'm not a big Beatles fan, I like some of there stuff and Sgt.P isn't my favourite of their albums, however, it's and their influence are undeniable.

Tony Levin Mike Mills (REM) Pino Billy Sheehan John McVie Paul Macartney Andy Fraser Richie Kotzen (I'll copy that one ) Brad Smith (Blind Melon) Sting (when he was in the Police)

[quote name='Thunderpaws' timestamp='1437422888' post='2825920'] Richie Kotzen (plays some amazing bass lines on his solo stuff) [/quote] Got to agree with you there, he's got some damn good groove going on...bloody multi-instrumentalists

Single cuts aside, well, that and gold hardware...and coffee table top finishes, those things aside, I can't quite put my finger on why I don't like some basses. G&L's, MM's and some of the Laklands all look big and clumsy and wrong in some way...says a man whose favourite bass is a Jazz copy

In my student days my University, friends and I use to frequent the nights where the BIG names used to DJ... Sasha, John Digweed et al. It was fun at the time. The DJ's reportedly got paid substantial amounts...Jeremy Healy was billed as playing one club we used to go to, by the time we got there at about 10pm he'd already buggered off to 'play' another club up country (that did get us in free the next week because we kicked up such a stink ) It was ok back then but it soon lost its appeal and for me the music just became stale and lacked any innovation so I went back to going to live gigs. I suppose the DJ's became like most covers bands, playing the safe well known material to guarantee a certain crowd response. I went to see a mate of mine from way back a few weeks ago. He's into writing EDM and wanted some 'live' bass on some tracks. I've got to be honest it didn't inspire me to go back and team up with him.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1439027247' post='2839444'] Does this not do anything for anybody ..? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3SBp9qzTM[/media] It's better yet in the context of the whole album, but, imo, stands on its own merits. Nowt to do with 'widdling' nor showing off. All our tastes are different, I know, but still... [/quote] It's not something I'd listen to a second time

A guitar can wail and scream like the human voice, and can cover all those other human emotions because it has the right range. I'll listen to bass solos occasionally, and it can be interesting to some extent but they do tend to smack of "look at me, I can do what the lead guitarist does". I've never heard a bass solo that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up...that's the sum of it for me.

That looks great.

Keef is clearly going through a period of delirium.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1438863965' post='2838160'] Richards also thinks Led Zeppelin are cr4p. [/quote] Cream apparently didn't think they were very good either...they didn't think the Stones were any good at all though

It's totally unworkable and sends out completely the wrong message. From what I read the whole issue was that the music industry said they'd not been compensated for loss of revenue from this new law (that permitted ripping). The figure was something like £58m. They'd have never seen that anyway. The result is that the industry had made itself look greedy, vindictive and actively going after people who have actually bought music. I agree with BRX, it's baffling as to why the Musicians Union got involved with this. I think their efforts would be better focused on getting artists a better deal from labels regards streaming.

It does say in the delivery cost section that only orders over £150 are free. [url="https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/bezorgen/verzendkosten"]https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/bezorgen/verzendkosten[/url]

The prices may be good, BUT, the whole site smacks of something not being quite right. I did notice there was one very disgruntled customer on their Facebook page who was very unhappy with an order. I think I'll avoid.

Aaaaaggghhhh! It's like the old days of dial up

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1438526553' post='2835145'] You're not looking at one of those bongo sites by mistake, are you..? [/quote]