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Nice job. Sounds great. Love this bass line too. Even Joe Osborn said he couldn't play it exactly as recorded as the bass line on the album was pieced together from several recordings

Thanks. I really enjoy playinh this one

My Pink Floyd Tribute darkside recorded a version of the late 60s floyd number Green is the Colour. Here's the isolation video with a bass solo around 3.20 mark. Yes the video is mimed and is not 100% accurate but the bass was all one take when I did record it.

Heres the conclusion of a really interesting collaboration my pink floyd band did with the national space centre for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. We played Darkside of The Moon with additional ambient sections for narration and images about the mission to play over. This section uses the last part of an early floyd track Saucerful of Secrets into Eclipse the last track on Darkside of the moon file-1.mp4

Thanks for the advice people. Like I suspected I think I need to plan ahead more than I'm doing now. Salads with a low gi carb source and some protein do work well. Even wetherspoons do a superfood salad and a quinoa salad which are fine. If the venue is near one of these I usually do ok as say what you like about the spoons they get food out nice and quick. It's when we run out of time or play more out of the way places is when it goes tits up and I end up with a big kebab at 1am. Protein bars some bananas and a flapjack or two as a back up all sound good. As much as I love a few bags of crisps after a gig it just messes up my sleep and with two kids under three I need my energy!

Sorry if this topic has been brought up before couldn't find it. I always used to avoid eating a big meal before I play as I hated feeling full when playing. If I did eat I'd have something low carb like piece of salmon with salad. I always have had plenty of energy to play the gig. After the gig I'd be ravenous for something starchy and have late night snack of whatever junk food I fancied.This used to work well. However as I'm getting into my forties my system is just not forgiving when I change my routine in this way. I find I get terrible indigestion eating late and have needed a sugar fix halfway through gigs (bananas work well for this) We have a big set up for my floyd band (usually takes from 1pm-5.30pm to load and set up all the gear and sound check) and if there are any problems (lighting or sound) set up can drag on so it's not always possible to ensure we get a nice stint of time to eat well before the gig starts especially as at some theatres they want us to go on at 7.30pm. The rest of the band usually just have chips/burgers etc but that really doesn't work for me as I just feel like Humpty Dumpty if I eat that stuff before I get on stage Anybody got any tips for easily digestible carry foods that could prevent feeling all bloated when playing but stop me pigging out on junk later on? Cheers in advance

Just bought some Alpine music safe earphone plugs. http://www.gear4music.com/Drums-and-Percussion/Alpine-Music-Safe-Pro-Ear-Plugs-Black/1ASW?origin=product-ads&utm_campaign=*PLA+Shop+-+All+Products&utm_medium=vertical_search&network=google&adgroup=**All+Products&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=60656d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=35246608516&gclid=CN7rhcS1scsCFfEV0wod6MUJLg Going to use them for first time tomorrow so I'll let you know if they are any good. Especially want them for our rehearsals which tend to be louder than our gigs as playing mostly theatres disperses the sound. I very rarely have ringing ears after gigs even with a moderately loud drummer. My Markbass gear and aurelex grammar pad have also meant a more present sound at lower volumes reduced boom from hollow stages which means lower volumes as well which I think is helping.

I started playing at 16, at 19 my technique was terrible and listening back to recordings apart from an ok tone there was much to recommend me as a bassist with my bad timing ( way ahead of the beat) and note choices (far too busy) I really wanted to play well and by about 22 after lots of work I became good enough to play with people I really respected. This came from both home practice and playing with others and lessons. Gave up playing bass from about 25-32 trying to get my career as a psychologist off the ground and when I came back to it I wasn't as good player but my life experience gave me the confidence to go to more auditions and perform better than I ever did before. In fact I actually did the most gigs I ever played in a year when I was 37 (about 70) and now play to the biggest audiences (up to 500 people) I've ever played to and I'm still learning all the time. Sometimes I think I'm a good player other times I think I'm complete crap. It took me ages to get good and I'm far from natural but that's no barrier to doing it if you really want to. I spend my idle time at work thinking about the next gig and what I can do to improve my performance and even with a young family I've found a way to keep playing. Because I love it. If you love it, keep doing it and eventually it'll all click into place. Worth every frustrating moment trying to get there. Good luck with it all!

Good luck. I always enjoyed playing jazz in the past even though apart from bebop, birth of the cool and some funk/jazz fusion (H Hancock) it's not something I listen to much. I love the atmosphere in a jazz ensemble and the bass role is such a different discipline to rock/pop stuff. Enjoy it. Record the gig if you can, it'll give you real insight into what's going well/ what could be improved in your jazz chops. Do you have to solo?

I was doing a gig with a mod band that I used to play with. Before the first set a group of men in black suits came in very drunk. one of them kept coming over asking for "a shot on the drums", he was so pissed that he was flailing around all over the place. We Realised they had been at a wake, and he was the son of the deceased. One of his mates strapped on my bass and I had to get the bar staff to intervene as he wouldn't take no for an answer. The guy who'd lost his dad then started shouting "I can't believe I've lost my f**ing dad and you c**ts won't let me play" and started spitting at us. Then they had to be thrown out the pub. I felt for the guy he was just taking his grief out after too much beer. Didn't add to the party atmos though...

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1452800270' post='2953671'] I was trying to think what to do but kept asking the people in the house to turn the bloody music off as it was getting a bit weird and hypnotic and starting to freak me out. They looked a bit worried when I said that, and finally someone told me to look at my hands (shades of a Castenda dream) and I found that the only music playing was my bass. Never really lived that one down! [/quote] Love this. Nothing better than freaking yourself out.

[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1452780784' post='2953429'] This was hilarious haha! Must admit I've gotten myself into some weird situations too, not unlike this one and maybe worse, non involving musical instruments however. Just a thought funny if while indeed he did get his gf, and you did one people started showing up for said party. Glad you got out haha. [/quote] To be honest I hope that's what happened, after I stopped shitting myself later on I felt sorry for the guy. I just remembered that he also offered to make a joint, and then proceeded to pull random bits of fluff and detritus off the sofa cushions and putting them in a cigarette paper so that when he lit it it immediately turned in a flaming torch of acrid sofa grit. He then took a huge drag coughed violently and immediately passed to me. I can categorically state on that occasion I DID NOT INHALE!

[quote name='KK Jale' timestamp='1452780532' post='2953424'] Can't compete. But... I once worked in a place in Bristol, a very easy-going and fun job with lots of people my age, and one of the guys on my team was a drummer (pattern emerging?) who seemed very friendly and who eventually invited me over for a jam with a mate or two of his. So I went along and we started mucking about with these "pieces" that he had. They were very strange. It was like a kind of math-rock-meets-world-music, but odd and disjointed. The drummer seemed fixated on superimposing odd patterns over certain chord forms while smiling a lot. Eventually the story came out. The drummer was involved with a cult - sorry, "esoteric movement" - called the Emin. The Emin, as far as I could make out, believed in many things, including colour vibrations, numerology, the power of object's shapes, attaining levels of knowledge and light, and some kind of actual space exodus. The drummer was attempting to create, with the movement's local leader, some form of music to illustrate/accompany these beliefs. Hence the clashing time signatures, weirdness, and air of basic unlistenability. I didn't hang around long enough to discover whether the Emin involved some kind of pay-as-you-go system. I suspect it did. [/quote] Never heard of the emin. At least it sounds like a creative cult

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1452777403' post='2953353'] That was me. Thanks for stealing my f***ing booze. [/quote] Whoops! Sorry about that... Fancy a cutlery based jam session to make amends

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1452777396' post='2953352'] Agreed - why would you do that? [/quote] I don't do it anymore! I was a very naive enthusiastic trusting youngster...Ah innocent days