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[quote name='Bilbo' post='919526' date='Aug 9 2010, 12:51 PM']Shushun frmmnt ssereo , pithic funch :snob:[/quote] "Pithic Funch" - is that 'name the cover band' thread still going? I think we might have a winner here.

"Free Wynton Marsalis"? Hmmm, that sounds like a good idea for a song....

[quote name='Dandelion' post='915085' date='Aug 4 2010, 04:06 PM']Rock Dysfunction.[/quote] Only just got that one!

- Borrowed And Blue (I used to be in a duo called this) - The Pre-nuptuals

- By Appointment - Gretna Green Groovers - Next Year In Reno (for the cynical wedding band )

[quote name='arsenic' post='914332' date='Aug 3 2010, 09:46 PM']I first met them in 2003, and the other half a few years before. Currently up to 12 studio albums and a best of. Hunt down a copy of the Vampyre Erotica and Beltaine albums - or better still get along to see them live, Candia has a great voice live - great band and great people.[/quote] Cheers, I'll try to do that.

[quote name='arsenic' post='912119' date='Aug 1 2010, 06:48 PM']By some friends of ours..... [/quote] Like it. I probably should know more of this stuff, as the band I play with describe themselves as Pagan, and we have lots of songs on similar themes to Inkubus Sukkubus.

[quote name='gjones' post='907759' date='Jul 28 2010, 12:10 AM']He's the dogs wotsits![/quote] Careful now...

When there's a thread in praise of a player or genre that I don't like or in which I am not interested, I generally don't bother posting to disagree with the general sentiment. There's no real point, as it's all just a matter of taste and opinion, and I've seen too many threads descend into pointless name-calling and bad feeling just because people like different things. However, when people start to take the absence of any dissent as a sign that the player or genre in question is unversally held in high esteem, it is perhaps worth reminding people that other points of view exist. I do understand that many people here find it surprising that a bassist could fail to rave over JJ's playing, but then again I was genuinely surprised, when I first came to this site some years ago, to find that Motown was taken even slightly seriously by people calling themselves musicians. I think that just shows how we can all get used to talking to people we agree with, and quietly forget that there are a lot of other people out there that think differently. I can't honestly say that I [b]don't[/b] rate JJ as a player, it's more that I've never really listened to him because I have no time at all for the kind of music he played. I don't think that makes me 'daft', just someone with a different opinion and different tastes. I think it just goes to show what a diverse bunch we are, with very diverse tastes, which is somehing we should probably celebrate rather than fight over. Just my 2p. OK, back to the JJ lurve-fest.

[quote name='Ajrt' post='905700' date='Jul 26 2010, 12:41 PM']Stop being a spoilsport.[/quote] Sorry.

There is simply no such thing as a bassline that everyone 'should' know.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='904665' date='Jul 25 2010, 12:20 PM']I just feel lucky to be able to play good music to people that appreciate it.[/quote] I just feel lucky to be able to play bad music to people that don't throw stuff. ps <only joking if my band read this>

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='903075' date='Jul 23 2010, 12:24 PM']Nonetheless, no doubt, someone is thinking 'Motown? Jamerson? It's s**t'.[/quote] [quote name='purpleblob' post='903086' date='Jul 23 2010, 12:31 PM']No doubt [/quote] +1

[quote name='dougal' post='901697' date='Jul 22 2010, 10:22 AM']Give a guitarist, any guitarist, a bass guitar, and he can play Mustang Sally in five minutes. Give a guitarist a proper bass and... it wouldn't be pretty. It's a guitar.[/quote] [quote name='EssentialTension' post='901729' date='Jul 22 2010, 11:05 AM']In construction, the double bass is the bass instrument of the violin family - violin, viola, violincello, and bass viol. In construction, the bass guitar is the bass instrument of the guitar family - tenor guitar, guitar, baritone guitar, bass guitar. However, it doesn't really matter.[/quote] These.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='900194' date='Jul 20 2010, 03:52 PM']I expect Doddy will be wearing his hat in Germany this Friday at the Formula One gig, helping himself to free food and booze, whilst ogling gorgeous women and pocketing a great wage to boot. Who's laughing now? [/quote] Not you apparently.

[quote name='Lozz196' post='896253' date='Jul 16 2010, 08:53 AM']... and whats more rock n roll than a Marshall?[/quote] ...[b]not[/b] having a double hernia and chronic lumbago?

That's really beautiful. Good job. How did you get into playing the viola da gamba? Do you use it a lot for modern music like this, or mainly for baroque and earlier?

[quote name='Spoombung' post='889566' date='Jul 8 2010, 02:46 PM']Singing suits. Money. Pomp. Awful lyrics. Yuk! [/quote] +10000

[quote name='TomKent' post='888031' date='Jul 7 2010, 01:22 AM']These are fantastic musicians, fantastic sings and brilliant production![/quote] You can't beat fantastic sings.

For a definitive and authorative explanation....

I've never really thought about it before, but I think it depends on which string I'm hitting. I use 3 fingers, and being a pianist by training, I think of them as 2(index), 3(middle) & 4(ring??). I think I mainly use 4 on the beat when the note is on the G or D string. Either of the others is more likely on the E & A. No idea why - I've never set out to play like that, it's just what comes naturally.

[quote name='Dom in Somerset' post='886372' date='Jul 5 2010, 03:40 PM']Rather wonderful and quite safe for work. [url="http://vimeo.com/12658207"]http://vimeo.com/12658207[/url][/quote] Excellent! Thanks for posting.

Never get tired of listening to this. Definitely in my all-time top 5. Maybe 3. "...and though each little song Was less than three minutes long, Mike squeezed a solo in, somehow...."

[quote name='machinehead' post='876517' date='Jun 24 2010, 03:42 PM']If you listened to a rig with your eyes closed, could you tell its weight?[/quote] Sounds like an idea for a tombola-style stall at the next Bass Bash. Bit like guessing how many pennies are in the jar.