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not one for the shy retiring type [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOOTSY-COLLINS-WASHBURN-SPACE-BASS-/121086961170?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c31586612#ht_566wt_1330"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOOTSY-COLLINS-WASHBURN-SPACE-BASS-/121086961170?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c31586612#ht_566wt_1330[/url]

I was going to post [b]Alphaville's Big In Japan[/b] a choice slice of on the turn cheddar until I came across this cover, she has managed to massage it into a lovely bit of Jarlsberg....apparently its about a couple trying to get off heroine...there's me thinking it was all about rent boys [i][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawP6yu-D6s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawP6yu-D6s[/url][/i]

Ps...i see ya in norwich, im near banham not too far if ya fancy a go the aria?

I would of said a good old westfield before i bought an aria stb jazz a very well built and simply a very nice bass overall indeed and needs no excuses on cost....mine is a jazz but they all have p necks so quite versatile combo..cost 116 delivered but this may have been a blow out deal?

I was wondering if everything related back to a major...?

Cheers

all these negative vibes are pricking my GAS....I'm getting all deflated....OK, cigar box bass anyone?

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1365080027' post='2034955'] I do agree that to read and studying music theory is a good thing. Not dissing the poster in any way. Just a bit of an eye-opener to me to see all that theory. [/quote] yup, never seen a chord list like that either, quite cool

why do they have feedback issues?

cheers guys. To clarify, I want an [b][i]electro acoustic s[/i][/b]o it will be amplified.

Woke up this morning (do do do..feeling fine!) wanting an acoustic bass, I'm like that, next week I'll want a food processer, an old railway lamp or something. But I seem to hear a lot of comments of "pointless/can't set them up/ all feedback" stuff...so whats the reality. I only want to noodle around at home so fancied a cheapie to fiddle around on...I see gear for music do cheapies for a ton...I know I can get a good tone forma cheap std bass does this form follow acoustic? cheers for any help

[i]The Dark Lord, on 04 April 2013 - 09:16 AM, said:[/i] [i]I read all the stuff below and my only thought was ....... WTF ? Respect to you indeed, but I play in a covers band that rocks the roof off of pubs and I have no idea about musical theory.[/i] ...but some theory never made anyones playing worse for it I'm a crap player but a bit of theory has made my 'playing' more bareable to the wife. ...for me theory has helped me oodles as I'm all bar tone deaf and don't have a musical gene in me, my brain is wired for engineering, period, not fine arts, music and stuff...so the 'engineering of music' make things a LOT easier for me. I do wish someone had told me to study chord tones rather than bloody scales, learning about chord tones has been like someone switching on a light, we play along with chords usually so knowledge of chords is essential. Scales are useful but chord tones are where it's at. This scale method of teaching is fine for piano etc but the bass is not a piano and never will be

Song in question just jack writers block, goes Am/G/ Dm. Assuming its in A minor so the chords run as 1, 7, 4, would it be correct to say " its a 1, 7, 4 over A minor" ....? ....you know how one might say "its 12 bars blues 1, 4, 5. over C" for instance? Ive never heard anyone talk of a minor run but plenty of songs like this

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1365011707' post='2034167'] We have a winner [/quote] anyone know the key....

Kate gardner...hmm...shiney shiney doo doo do do doo

He also played with steely dan...yes really! Great tone, golden era for proper hardcore funkmiesters....mark superslide adams, steve arrington, buddy hankerson, good call sir

......did you leave it next to a radiator, then pull it thru a letterbox before cooling? I like it, a lot, it has a high tech' look but also a sort of, well, lazy, laid back look about it, very tasty

could still play better than me though!

Strangely catchy little number, sort of hardcore village people, not seen this covered by any of the bands at my local yet....the ahh erm 'dancer' on the right has less sense of rhythm than me! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9isAOSwn7s[/media]

[quote name='borisbrain' timestamp='1364609165' post='2028907'] Thomas Dolby - 'She blinded me with science' and 'Hyperactive' Flock of Seagulls - 'Photograph' Berlin - 'Take my breath away' Imagination - 'Just an Illusion' Madonna - 'Like a Virgin' and 'Get into the Groove' Anything by Nik Kershaw Anything by Howard Jones Anything by Shalimar That's just for starters. I think I was traumatised by much of the 80s... BB [/quote] just goes to show, one man's cheese is another man's meat I've just been noodling Imagination's Just An Illusion, I'll have you know!

ohh forgotten about these this super group....3 chords and not Status...I think there maybe a Roland synth bass kicking around here? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oaWLIVIT6Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oaWLIVIT6Q[/url]

some very 80's erm, fashion statements and slapping on the bed chorus... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lec3m1pLY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Lec3m1pLY[/url]

[quote name='stu_g' timestamp='1364554823' post='2028056'] thompson twins [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVWKz6kuWk[/media] [/quote] ohh, drop D! nice one...also known as 'the three haircuts'...I had their 1st two singles...that's a real good copy of tube footage...and a bassist hidden behind by screen...the guy on keyboards was he the bassist....after the ginger lead singer (Tom) moved on to keyboards....I'll get my coat!