JellyKnees

Every time I clap my hands, someone decides not to buy the new iPhone...

Excellent stuff, will have a proper watch at home later. I've had back problems myself and have found yoga very helpful. Stance and posture is so important, I used to stand in exactly the same way as you did at the start of the video, with all my weight through the one leg, now I'm much more body aware and stand in a much more evenly balanced way. Vertical alignment of ankles, hips and shoulders is also key for maintaining a healthy back. This is an interesting book on posture and alignment.. [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1620550997/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1620550997/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1[/url]

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My new Dingwall ABZ5 from Bass Direct. Swamp ash body and wenge neck/fingerboard. Totally fantastic, I love the sound and feel of this bass. [attachment=169682:dingwall.jpg]

Very sad. Was really looking forward to seeing him at Womad this year.

Man, there are some miserable cynical gits on this forum.. I think it's a great summer pop song with a catchy as hell chorus.. the verse is a bit nothing but it's a hell of a lot better than some of the other dross that seems to clog the charts up. And I thought the performance was pretty good... I bet it was great to actually be there, having a boogie on a warm summers day with a cold beer in hand. Lighten up people.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1401449934' post='2463735'] Stuart Hall and Snuggie [/quote] Garry Glitter and Haribo?

I love the Smiths but Morrissey is definitely a bit up himself.... Another opportunity to post a link to a classic bit of viz... [url="http://www.omg-ponies.com/post/72216896520/morrissey-is-a-twat"]http://www.omg-ponie...issey-is-a-twat[/url]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1397475793' post='2424195'] I That's not what I said, read it again. But if only life were as simple as your response. I don't understand the claimed distinction, in this way: Let's imagine my band is playing a song written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. It's called [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_You_When_You%27re_Down_and_Out"]Nobody Knows You[/url]. This song has been recorded I don't know how may times and has been played in live situations even more times with a mighty variety of arrangements and instrumentations. Our live version is vocal, backing vocal, acoustic guitar, electric piano, upright bass, drums. Our recorded version also features electric lap steel guitar. We play it our way with our arrangement but the melody and lyrics are Jimmy Cox and even those have been tempered by the decades. Now, were we influenced by other versions? I expect so because I, for one, have been listening to that song in one arrangement or another for close on fifty years. Now let's imagine my band's singer writes a song, i.e. a set of words with a melody. I'll put a bass line to his melody just as I did to the Jimmy Cox song. As regards either song there may be some discussion as to whether what I am doing works effectively - similarly for the other players - but either way I am playing someone else's song and yet in both cases I have my own bassline (subject to the views of the rest of the band). As for playing a line 'someone else wrote 40 years ago', I would agree that those can sometimes be distinguished from 'a line that you came up with yourself' in that if it's a better line - especially in the sense of the bass line having become a clear characteristic of the song (alongside its lyrics and melody) - then I would definitely play it and be very pleased to do so. However, even in such a case, if the band were wholly rearranging the song then while some change to the bassline could well be warranted, it might still not be essential: [/quote] Well, I think I kind of covered that in my previous comment tbh. Kudos to those that don't, but the majority of covers bands I've heard over the years (all ALL tribute bands by definition) play pretty much by rote. I'm glad to hear you have nothing against creativity though

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1397469172' post='2424109'] I've never understood this claimed distinction between playing covers and playing originals. I just like music. [/quote] You see no absolutely difference between playing a line someone else wrote 40 years ago and a line that you came up with yourself? Really? I'm not claiming one thing is inherently 'better' than the other by the way.

Good on you. Playing covers is fine as far as it goes, and it's a great way to help you develop when learning to play, but I think the real joy of music is in the creative process. And yes, I know you can come up with ideas for covers to put your own stamp on them, but it's just not the same as starting with a blank sheet of paper as it were.

Uncle Frank getting down with some 13/8... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHvdlBJZbow"]https://www.youtube....h?v=cHvdlBJZbow[/url]

Only problem with Liverpool is that it's full of scousers... And yeah, the music shops are dire these days.

I have one, I think it's an excellent bass for the money. No noticeable neck dive at all. And I think 17mm is about right for the string spacing, which I found a bit tight at first but I'm totally use to now. Great sound and versative pre-amp too.

Yup, as bigredx said, it's very personal thing and it also depends very much on the bass you are using. I've recently gone back to rotos... I switched my main bass from a headless 4 string to a standard 5 string (an Ibanez) after many years, and I found pretty much all the other brands were just too floppy for me. Personally I think the rotos sound great - I've had them on a couple of months and they haven't died on me yet...it's an expensive journey though. Might be worth trying to pick up some slightly used strings on here to save yourself some wonga?

I've got a little mark tube going into a barefaced bigun and it sounds best with no eq... i have the mix biased 60% towards the valve preamp so there is obviouly some colouration going on, but I've experimented with the eq/contour controls a fair bit and it definitely works best for me with no eq. Back in the 'good' old days (which is the 80s for me), I don't recall being able to do this with any of the various bass amps I owned - they all needed some serious twidling to get a good sound out of them. Modern gear is just so much better IMHO, arguments about transparency etc. not withstanding.

Pity they are all in that London

My mum sings in a light operatic society so I heard an awful lots of that kind stuff growing up, but it wasn't really my thing and still isn't tbh. She also had a few beatles, simon and garfunkel and carpenters records, generally melodic stuff, some of which was ok... (apart from that bloody liverpool group). My dad had a few more interesting records (elvis, johnny cash, leonard cohen, george melly!) but he was away at sea a lot of the time when I was growing up so I didn't get to hear them that often. I was the oldest so i didn't have any older siblings to feed me music - it was probably when I went to secondary school in 1978 that I started to pick up on the whole punk/new wave thing that was going on on, plus there was a weird zappa/beefheart cult at the time in merseyside, so that also fed into my early musical discoveries. It feels like they were Interesting musical times compared to now, but perhaps that's probably just rose tinted nostalgia kicking in... it was definitely better than the mid to late 80s though, now that WAS a dire period.

Well, it's just another technique, isn't it? Like an ingredient in a recipe, probably akin to chilli or something. So go easy on it - put too much in and you will ruin the dish, but use just the right amount in a tasteful way and it can be delish.

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1394191400' post='2388905'] These are my fave. They're more pleasing than the Schaller type and they feel safer, to me anyway. [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dmi&field-keywords=marvel%20straplocks"]http://www.amazon.co...el%20straplocks[/url] [/quote] Another vote for these... best I've used, nice and solid with nifty ball multiple ball bearing mechanism to lock it onto the button

Can't stand Springsteen personally, I think it's overwrought overblown shouty Americana, really horrible cliched music which just makes me cringe... but that's just me. I wouldn't waste time trying to 'get' it...life's too short. I happen love Zappa (well most of it) but I understand why lots of folk don't... vive la difference, as they say.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1391468713' post='2357617'] Flatwounds would do it! [/quote] Not for playing Stranglers stuff they wouldn't! You'll be wanting a set of Rotosound swing bass.. pretty sure that's what JJ used back in the day. Funnily enough I've just gone back to these myself after many years away because I wanted more beef to my sound and they are doing the trick nicely. Not everyone's cup of tea I know but I like 'em.

I hope he is wearing an extra sock for hygiene purposes...

guitar solos occasionally sound good?

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1383229482' post='2261849'] And people in covers bands get fed up of people in originals bands looking down their noses at them for being unoriginal, selling out, making more money for perceived less effort/artistic value or whatever the damn beef is. At the risk of sounding like a total sap - we're all performing music here, [b]can't we all just get along[/b]? [/quote] Where's the fun in that? I don't look down my nose at cover bands (tribute acts maybe), but I do think the preponderance of said cover/tributes acts has to some extent squeezed the market/opportunities for original stuff, at least round where I live. Perhaps it's just a geographical thing, I don't know. Perhaps it's just all the crappy unprofessional original bands out there getting what they deserve. Cover bands can be ok in a pub setting if done well, but I'd never go out of my way to watch one, which is why the whole tribute bands playing huge venues thing leaves me bemused. Still, lots of people[b] seem [/b]to like them, so what do I know?