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[quote name='chaypup' post='1177940' date='Mar 27 2011, 09:04 AM']Guess the song! [b]Yn ac o amgylch y llyn, mynyddoedd yn dod allan o'r awyr, ac maent yn sefyll yno. Un filltir dros ac mi fyddwn ni yno ac fe wnawn ni eich gweld. Deg hafau a byddwn yn dychwelyd ac yn chwerthin hefyd. ar dau deg pedwar cyn fy nghariad i Mi fyddai yno i chi![/b][/quote] I didn't think I knew any Welsh, but I realised I knew that "llyn" was lake, and I recognised "mynydd" was to do with mountains...so it was easy from there! (now I come to think of it, both those pieces of information were gleaned from reading Alan Garner books as a child) Incidentally, I'm sure I won't be the only one to notice that translating the lyrics into Welsh makes them no less comprehensible.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1172980' date='Mar 23 2011, 09:43 AM']If you can afford nine months of instalment payments, then you can afford to save up for nine months and never need to take on the debt in the first place. Am I missing something?[/quote] No, you're spot on. If the scheme didn't make people buy more (or more costly) stuff than they would if they had to save up for it, there would be no incentive to run it.

[quote name='The Fly' post='1153686' date='Mar 8 2011, 12:38 PM']Bottom horn looks like a stray peice from a jigsaw!![/quote] That was my first thought. Perhaps if you buy the whole range they fit together to make a picture of a kitten or something.

[quote name='SteveK' post='1170642' date='Mar 21 2011, 01:39 PM']Cos without it my Precision wouldn't look like a proper Precision, and the knobs and socket would be dangling by their wires It was probably easier and cheaper to mass produce Fenders that way, and being as Fenders are the most copied...[/quote] So it should really be called a "gubbins-hider".

This kind of thing makes me sick. It's just pure snobbery. How many millions of people have you made happy today? Well?? Have you??? I answered "because".

Being 'cool' is [b]so[/b] noughties...

Major Bummer? Adjutant to General Dismay?

Is she in fact Holly Harper, Agony Aunt? [url="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/agony-aunt/your-problems-solved%2c-with-holly-harper-201103093612/"]http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/features/ago...r-201103093612/[/url]

I have a Roland Sonic Cell. [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell"]http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell[/url] It's a multi-function box - MIDI sound module, audio/MIDI interface, and most relevant for your purposes, a live performance box capable of replaying mp3s or standard MIDI files from a connected USB memory stick. Now, I've never used this last function, but it might offer a pc-less solution to your problem. The internal MIDI module is superb, but you should be able to connect other modules via the MIDI out and play those from the MIDI file too, I should imagine. Have a look here: [url="http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell/live-performance.php"]http://www.roland.co.uk/soniccell/live-performance.php[/url]

At 50, with no kids, debts or mortgage, I can afford pretty much any gear I want (except the "silly money" collectors' items), but I've also grown up enough to realise that having more 'stuff' doesn't make me happier (or a better musician), so I don't bother.

I'm guessing the seller thinks they'll get more by inviting offers than by a regular auction - hence the starting price which makes the auction a non-starter.

[quote name='Bezbass' post='1143275' date='Feb 27 2011, 01:29 PM']400 w would be amazing but [b]anything to tie me over[/b] would be great.[/quote] you might want to think about correcting that typo

[quote name='endorka' post='1156364' date='Mar 10 2011, 10:53 AM']However, as others have pointed out, it may not work as well as you think. If you are playing chords, typically someone really still needs to be playing bass.[/quote] Might one way round this be to use guitar-style fingerpicking, with the thumb plucking bass notes and the other fingers picking chords? (Painful till you get the thumb callouses though!)

The original thread on this topic was awesome. Not so keen on these "tribute" threads.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1155449' date='Mar 9 2011, 03:36 PM']Personally I don't pay attention to what cover bands are doing, what audiences they're playing to or what money they're making because it doesn't affect me at all. Our audience isn't going to go see them and their audience isn't going to come and see us, they're two completely different kinds of entertainment.[/quote] Absolutely. Saying that tribute bands are killing the market for interesting new music is a bit like saying that if it weren't for X-Factor and the like, primetime TV would be full of challenging new drama and intelligent documentaries.

There is a huge amount of folk tunes available on-line, mostly in ABC format (this is the [i]lingua franca [/i]of the folk world). This is a very useful format that allows tunes to be posted/stored in ASCII format, and there are free on-line programs that will convert ABC into standard musical notation and/or MIDI files( so there is actually no need to learn ABC notation unless you want to create your own ABC files). Typically, these will be melody only, though sometimes lyrics are included. A good starting point is here: [url="http://info.melodeon.net/index.php/page,abc.html"]http://info.melodeon.net/index.php/page,abc.html[/url] A good site for finding tunes you know the name of is here: [url="http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind"]http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind[/url] An excellent book for English folk tunes is : [url="http://folkshop.efdss.org/Combined+Sets/Hardcore+English+Set.html"]http://folkshop.efdss.org/Combined+Sets/Ha...nglish+Set.html[/url] which contains 300 tunes in standard notation and there is a CD to go with it. Hope this helps.

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1152523' date='Mar 7 2011, 02:28 PM']I think what your saying ( and I agree with ) is that as long as the artist puts something of themselves into it then it could be considered creative so creativity comes as much through the performance as it does through the creation of the work. Which I suppose is what classical musicans would use to argue that they are not just playing covers[/quote] Yup, I think that's pretty much spot on. The idea of a band trying to copy a famous recording as closely as possible seems to be pretty much restricted to the pop/rock world. It's not what (decent) classical, folk or jazz players do, even when they are playing other people's music (and of course there are many pop/rock performers who do "creative" covers too!).

[quote name='thunderbird13' post='1152419' date='Mar 7 2011, 12:56 PM']I went to see a play last night and all the actors did was walk around the stage speaking words that they did nt write and pretending that there were things on the stage that I couldnt see. I wish that these people would keep their childish playacting to themselves - unless actors only speak words which they wrote themselves then their not real artists [/quote] This is just silly. If the actors you saw were trying to reproduce, say, a well-known TV show, and slavishly copying the voices, mannerisms and actions of the more famous set of actors known for that show, then [b]that[/b] would be the theatrical equivalent to a tribute band.

[quote name='spinynorman' post='1149510' date='Mar 4 2011, 02:48 PM']By that logic, does John Williams (classical guitarist) have a harder job than Yehudi Menuhin?[/quote] only if he switches to fretless classical guitar...

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1147300' date='Mar 2 2011, 04:12 PM']I do smile at these 'tone as a holy grail' stories. I have never worked on my tone with this level of obsessiveness and have had three people this week (a bass player, saxophonist and a recording engineer) independently tell me my sound was great. Stock Wal with 10 year old Rotosound Solo Bass strings on it through Eden Metro. Just play the damn thing [/quote] Now now, steady on. You'll go upsetting the young folks, coming in here like that with your common sense and your good advice. For shame! And I bet you're wearing the wrong sort of shirt-cuffs too. It's your type that cause unrest.

Why don't we ALL just leave our bands? Right now. A national bassists' strike. That'll show 'em. B*st*rds. ( )

[quote name='silddx' post='1146624' date='Mar 2 2011, 12:16 AM']and telling your queen you caught a 68lb common carp of the Donald Leney strain from Redmire Pool today, while she smiles at you with deep, lustrous shining eyes.[/quote] She just can't get enough of those fishing stories... [attachment=73701:queen_elizabeth_ii.jpg]

Thanks for your further replies. I will definitely check out the Sonar forum. And now I've looked up FSB on google, I suppose I'll have to try to take that into account as well! D'oh! I bloody hate computers, me (IT programmer for 28 years ).