Mykesbass

"the most un-British thing you can do with a bass"

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1415132535' post='2597118'] You know I love you really [/quote]

Hope the following doesn't still stand if I say this is absolutely beautiful [CODE] [quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1412796672' post='2572226'] Rather sanctimonious and judgemental if I may say [/quote] [/CODE]

Bad form but beaten by the mandolin in the compost bin from an earlier thread. Still, chance to wheel this out: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0oRGHGyzuM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0oRGHGyzuM[/url]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1414527571' post='2590343'] Haha, just checked on this thread, zero views in three days. I'm guessing that the words 'Innovative Electronic Midi Content' are universally untempting :-D [/quote] Looks like it's time for a new title (unless my thread killing skills have come back to haunt me)

Really interesting, especially the way the whole thing evolves - video 1 is an interesting concept but he could really be making that music in numerous different ways, but by video 3 you get the sense of his body working with the technology, making some pretty unique sounds.

Like this a lot, but can't find a Jeff Buckley version, only his dad's original?

Brilliant work once again everyone! Was torn between two, both with an old and new thing going on - Alibabu's retro tune going against a contemporary track, and Leonard Smalls' funky groove emerging out of an industrial soundscape. Leonard just pipped it in teh end.

Always loved a great pop act - Madness back in the day, Lady Antabellum, Taylor Swift more recently, and was very impressed by Ronan Keating recently (but then he was part of a bit of a special gig). Also love some classical stuff, particularly choral, a lot of Jazz (including some experimental) and a wide range of rock, blues, funk and a modicum of Rap. Hope that stops me from being a musical snob.

Congratulations Rob - a big achievement even to get it out there.

[quote name='sykilz' timestamp='1413999932' post='2584710'] My Dad died from the same kind of cancer last year, I really really hope Wilko can now put this in the past, my Dad had similar op but wasn't successful, would be soooo great to have someone beat this poxy nasty condition. Bit emotional, sorry. [/quote] Every right to be - its 20 years for me with my dad and still hate to hear about it. Great to hear Wilko's news though!

[quote name='spacey' timestamp='1413376169' post='2577641'] My personal observation is the average directors wage at most charities is around £800 a day 7 days a week. They never run out of money to pay the board members salaries, so they are not very hard up and my meagre contribution of buying my own fuel and putting in a nights graft wont make much difference and if it does, take a few quid out of the bar takings, the never mention the bar takings do they. [/quote] Charity board members are trustees and are not allowed to be paid (apart from bona-fide expenses) under charity commission rules. My chief exec gets around £130 a day, and if you re-calculate it to take out all the holiday he hasn't taken over the last three years it's probably under £120 a day.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1412960231' post='2573714'] One of the many things I like about the Tribute scene is the punning. Oasish? Green Date? Fleetwood Bac? You've got to love it. [/quote] A friend was setting up an Eagles tribute - I suggested Shmeagles which he loved but the rest of the band rejected out of hand

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1412796672' post='2572226'] Rather sanctimonious and judgemental if I may say [/quote] Of course you may say, but you're wrong

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1412785738' post='2572052'] What's the problem? You hate hate hate it, but it's alright, it's has no musical integrity but that's not what it's about is it. Jesus! Peeps! Get a grip! [/quote] No hate from me just a huge feeling of disappointment that an enormous amount of talent has been wasted by poor treatment of said talent and a great song.

[quote name='Cairobill' timestamp='1412774382' post='2571884'] It's one of my favourite songs begin rant... I watched this BBC auto-tribute earlier...Thankfully, lining up these blink and you'll miss them popstars alongside the venerable greats and getting them to sp**k up the odd line against a horrific, fat headed abortion of a backing track is so anathema to what makes the original a beautiful, delicate, artful thing, it thankfully hasn't tarnished my love of Beach Boys version. But f***ing hell…this is so horrifically overproduced, over thought, over peer-group-researched and broadly inoffensive it makes me ill. And I get the point - It's [i]meant[/i] to be a tribute to music and specifically the music that is recorded for and by the BBC, but really, the deficiencies of this recording are so stark when you compare this banal, please-everyone, rendition against the stellar original. I mean…. how can a song so gloriously personal and affecting be sung by different people, line after line…it's such a STUPID idea. Arrrrgh!!! And really, there are hundreds of other songs that would have been more suitable and less annoying. God Only Knows is one of the few songs that never needs to be recorded ever, ever, repeat ever again because the original is PERFECT. rant over Saying that, it's a very pretty visual treatment. But that doesn't make the choice of song any less ball-achingly annoying... [/quote] Put in a very different style than I would have done but I can't believe how close you have got to how I felt about this, right down to the visual. What a waste of some enormous talent

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1412526661' post='2569592'] First units should be arriving pretty soon [/quote] Marvellous - always being told what a pain I am for never putting anything on a Christmas list - wonder if I'll get away with one of these!!

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1410470324' post='2549886'] I see snakeskin S112's on the horizon, and black S212's with metal grilles and black 1126's with cloth grilles and . . . And . . . [/quote] [quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1412498200' post='2569263'] Failing that...can take trip up to BassGear when they have stock [/quote] Am I reading this correctly - are BG going to be stocking them? Great excuse for going up again

77 is the only one that sound very different to the others to me, but not really what I would be after. Probably on 100% tone would go Japan, Mexico, USA, 77, but really, with the exception of the 77 as Machines said, I doubt you would notice the difference in a band setting.

Well done Bilbo, I knew if I stuck with you you'd get a win eventually!!

[quote name='thefyst' timestamp='1411553058' post='2560549'] have you got a pic of the damage? there might be other alternatives to covering it with the bridge? [/quote] Will be taking it off this week so will take pics and post. Quite liking the bridge cover idea though.

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1411714159' post='2562083'] Do you travel East young man? [/quote] [quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1411715452' post='2562095'] I do, just how far east we talking? [/quote] Gents, I work in Fontwell, live in Burgess Hill and rehearse in Hailsham. Could work out a friendly BassChat relay service if you want.

Not quite up there with a mandolin in the compost, but my wife had some clothes delivered yesterday by DX (new to me this bunch). My wife was in but they didn't seem to make much effort to let her know they were there. The toilet window that faces the road was open very slightly so the driver opened it a bit more and chucked the package through the window. Good job we're a toilet seat down family

[quote name='Matt P' timestamp='1411038958' post='2555790'] have you considered swapping to the traditional BBOT bridge and then fitting a bridge cover? that might cover up the damaged finish pretty well (and i think it looks ace! as can be seen by my profile pic.) Matt [/quote] Funnily enough, yes, I have! May go for that rather than the slightly odd looking one that I've been looking at.