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[quote name='Shaggy' post='527690' date='Jun 29 2009, 01:10 PM']Not buying a Wal when they were £500 s/h I feel quite depressed now [/quote] Would it depress you more if I told you I paid £330 for mine..?

+1 for what Jan said about the preamp... get the best one you possibly can.

1:25, there he is. Oh god, we are [i]so[/i] unworthy.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='526080' date='Jun 27 2009, 05:08 PM']When you're stood on stage naked, painted blue with yellow polka-dots, hair on fire, slapping the strings with your erect p*nis, and people are STILL watching the flaming Lead Guitard and Singer. [/quote] :lol: [size=1]ps. sorry, I just had to amend the thread title... typo was doing my head in [/size]

[quote name='RhysP' post='525807' date='Jun 27 2009, 11:20 AM']Jeff Berlin has said something pretty similar at clinics he's done. ... He then went on to ask people in the audience if they spent lots of time working on techniques such as tapping etc. & many said yes. He then asked how many of them had ever got booked for a session or been called upon to at an audition to use these techniques and invariably the answer was no.[/quote] Yes, I've heard him come up with that before. He seems to be arguing that there's no point in learning something unless you're going to get paid for it. Now call me a radical, but what's so wrong with playing or learning stuff for the [i]enjoyment[/i] of it? If getting paid was the be all and end all, I'd never get to play a note.

Awwwww man, that is fabulous. Love this guy's playing. My favourite Marcus track is 'Eric' from his 'Tales' album.

[quote name='alexharvay' post='522478' date='Jun 24 2009, 11:59 AM']Stay in school Don't take drugs[/quote] Huh! Ow! [/jamesbrown]

Mmmm, I like that Dodge Copperhead colour. If you could get that paint to work, it'd be a cracker. It'd need about a million coats of lacquer. EDIT: Apparently it's called "Copper Fire Orange"

Of course, there's a whole new Fender 6-string bass now. And what a fugly munterfunster it is too.

Rather than ordinary purple, how about that colour-changing flip flop type purple stuff? Actually no, that's a really awful idea too. You'd have to be several bricks short to even consider putting such stuff on a bass [s]called Sally[/s]. [quote name='yorick' post='520468' date='Jun 22 2009, 06:52 AM']Metallic British racing green.[/quote] Vvvvvery nice. Although metalflake colours can be an absolute bastid to get right. They are often best left to a pro paint shop. I'm liking the idea of bright yellow. What sort of paint do you have in mind? Car colours?

Purple? Actually no, that's a bad idea. A terrible one even. Nobody in their right mind would have a purple bass. In fact, you'd have to be an utterly barking hatstand johnny-no-mates to even contemplate a purple [s]7-string[/s] errm, [s]headless 6-string[/s] bass.

My regrets, all going back to the late '80s: 1.Not going up to London with my mate Keith after our band folded. He went to Drumtech and kept phoning me up begging me to come with him and go to Basstech. I didn't. Stayed at home. I got a job in a boring humdrum office. He got a job touring the world with JTQ. 2.Not buying the pre-EB Stingray I saw advertised for 250 quid. 3.Not buying the Dodge Challenger I saw advertised for 850 quid.

£2k+ for that pig?? [i]*falls about in uncontrollable mirth*[/i] Well they've got a sense of humour, I'll give 'em that much. I never thought I'd ever see an uglier bass than the Bongo. Shocking. Still, it's horses for course I guess.

Pretty much everything Bernard Edwards ever played. Playing the notes is easy, it's getting that irresistable groove thang going that's so difficult. Good Times is a perfect case in point... it's what he[i] doesn't [/i]play that makes the line such a classic. [size=1]If you see what I mean.[/size]

Our most popular floorfillers are: Let Me Entertain You Disco Inferno Hard To Handle (which we segue into Beyonce's Crazy In Love) Long Train Running I Want You Back (segued into ABC) Walking On Sunshine Play That Funky Music

[quote name='OldGit' post='517159' date='Jun 18 2009, 09:10 AM']Keep the faith, mate. You can do the gig. If it's blues orginals you can sort the starts and ends and wing the rest. No one will know if you are doing it right or wrong. Never sell your gear when depressed. Wait 'til you are happy and sorted and fullfilled.[/quote] Wise words from the Very Old One there. Never eBay when drunk, or sell kit when fed up. Sooner or later you sober up/cheer up and then regret doing it. Stick with it, big man, it'll all come good. If not this one, then the next one. Don't hang up those boots for good.

Wow. Sounds like I did the right thing by giving it a miss. Roll on the next Manson's show in Exeter (assuming there will be another one? hope so).

We get the occasional nice little earner -- New Year's Eves and so on -- but generally I do it for laughs and the love of playing, and enough cash to cover my diesel. Any more than that is a bonus. There's 13 of us, so it's never going to be a living!

Pennie Smith's shot of Bruce Foxton is the one that does it for me. Although I must admit the Steve Harris one does have a certain something. Here's one of me that I'm particularly fond of. Mainly because it doesn't show my gurning face.

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[quote name='Earbrass' post='508899' date='Jun 9 2009, 11:28 AM']From "Wiki Answers": [i]Are horse chestnuts safe food for squirrels? In: Chipmunks and Squirrels [Edit categories] [Edit] Yes they are. [/i][/quote] Ah yes, well they might be [i]safe[/i] for squirrels, but do the squirrels actually [u]like[/u] them? I mean, tomatoes and hard boiled eggs are perfectly [i]safe[/i] food for me, but I'd rather eat my own entrails on a Ryvita than take a single small bite out of either of those. Eww *shudder* And who would win in a fight between a magpie and a fully-laden African swallow? [quote name='spongebob' post='508975' date='Jun 9 2009, 12:59 PM']Can't we all just be friends????? :wub: :wub: :wub:[/quote] Yeah yeah, whatever. Will somebody [i]please[/i] think of the squirrels?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='506941' date='Jun 6 2009, 01:15 PM']It is a bit of an old chestnut, this.[/quote] No, it can't be. Squirrels don't like chestnuts. Nor do badgers or magpies.

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Hi and welcome I'm not a Reading bassist as such, but I lived there for the first 23 years of my life (well I lived in Shinfield actually, just the other side of the M4) and my dad still lives in Sonning, so does that count?