Earbrass

By coincidence, I only recently stumbled on this video too. I think it's great, not least because of the way he mixes the comedic with the despairingly tragic; "dirty stains on history's final page" is a wonderful line. It also reminds me of an old joke about the difference between the American and British views of life - for an American, things are serious, but never hopeless, whereas to a Brit things are hopeless, but never serious.

Well, it's your opinion, and you gave it to us straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears.

In the seventies, the BBC broadcast an adaptation of Sartre's The Roads to Freedom, which acquired a cult following in our sixth-form. I can't remember a single thing about the characters or story, but the haunting theme song has never left me; La Route Est Dure, sung by the wonderful Georgia Brown.

Ronnie Hazlehurst showing Pink Floyd how it should be done: 😉

Question for the short-scale experts on here. How feasible is it to tune a 30 inch scale bass down to DGCF (without having to use strings so thick that it would require mods to the nut)? Does it make the strings just too floppy?

Recent update from Thomann (apologies if it's already been posted...thread has grown somewhat) https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/an-update-for-our-valued-uk-customers/

Terveisiä! I have fond memories of a trip to Hämeenlinna, just up the road from you, in November 2017 to see Värttinä with Paleface at the Verkatehdas. Had fun going round the castle too!

An a-icthyist point of view:

Feel free to start your own thread about any of the benefits that Brexit has brought to the bass-playing community.

These guys sure do....

As WoT says, it's four blobs singing opera that you can control. What he neglected to mention, however, is that the frequencies and patterns generated by the associated AI have been carefully selected to affect the brain's alpha-waves in order to make the user more susceptible to certain types of online advertising, and to assume a generally more relaxed attitude to issues such as tax avoidance by major technology companies. Now, I've had the boffins down at Earbrass Laboratories looking into this, and they have come up with a way to completely nullify these effects using a sophisticated and precisely engineered piece of headgear, constructed of high-tech thinly-rolled aluminium sheet. As you can imagine, these are in very high demand in the lead up to christmas, and usually retail for £129.99, but as a special offer to Basschat users, I have been able to make them available for a one-time special offer price of £39.99 plus admin fee through the Earbrass Laboratories' wholly owned subsidiary Grabber and Grabber (Cayman Islands) Ltd. Stocks are limited, so it will be on a first-come-first-served basis, and individual orders will be restricted to a dozen items. Thankyou.

A bit of fun.... https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?

Väsen

...says the man offering his judgement on the judgements on those opinions...😂.

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"He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat, To view his collection of stamps; And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, The wine, his cigar, and the lamps:" from "Have Some Madeira M'Dear" by Flanders and Swann

Is this for real? Anyone tried it?

Sometime in the mid nineties I used to compose theatre music for Dawn Lintern, who at the time was directing avant-garde versions of Chekhov and obscure Icelandic theatre (we had the Icelandic ambassador turn up for that one) amongst other stuff. Watching her now I am reminded of the refrain from Dylan's My Back Pages - "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now".

Sorry for the delay in replying - busy packing for a house move! Pekko Käppi is one of my favourites: I have seen him a few times, both in Finland and London. I am not familiar with the other names you mention, but will check them out. Other favourite Finnish bands and artists include Värttinä, Antti Paalanen, Esko Järvelä (especially the Epic Male Band), Maria Kalaniemi, Suden Aika, Tuuletar, Ulla Pirttijärvi, Vilda, Duo Emilia Lajunen and Suvi Oskala, Frigg, Gjallarhorn, Hyperborean and Sväng. I have visited Tampere only once (for a Värttinä concert at the kesateatteri), but thought it was a very beautiful place.