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[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1487010915' post='3236258'] As Elton John's bass player, Davie Paton, how he managed it. https://www.facebook.com/david.paton.58 [/quote] Thank you, it's worth a shot!

I've been booked for a session playing with a 70s esque piano player. No problems working with keyboardists but the material is tricky, and the client wants more than the double the left hand strategy or play long notes out of the way. This is not a discipline I have a huge amount of knowledge in so I was hoping for some inspirational examples of how it's done well, a la Madman Across the Water by Elton John, which I managed to drag up from the memory banks after seeing it on here. Any suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks in advance- Harry

Know everyone's names!

Tying nicely with another thread, Aretha Franklin 'The Weight' with Duane Allman (and David Hood stepping out on the bass) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wta5GU3FNhA (Certainly beats Jealous Guy by Roxy.....)

Singing the national anthem out loud worked for awhile, which was recommended by a friend. Nobody has experienced an ear worm properly though until they've done at least one week of a show. Just completed round one of legally blonde, bursting into 'Gay or European' at work is highly unavisable.

I remember seeing this at the time by complete chance, fair play she had some guns. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXkEhs00lo

We played a wedding last year where Chesney Hawkes was a guest. 'I am the one and only' drove me nuts at the time but having to learn it and write it out for the rest of the band meant I found a lot of respect for it- it's got more key changes than Yale RnD. He was super slick and professional as well, very polite and sang great.

Buttery biscuit

Finger strength is probably the cause, but it's worth remembering that what that's worth once achieved. Cramping up happens because tension has crept in, probably from much further up than you think. Shoulders and neck should be relaxed, you should be breathing properly. Counting the part in halftime helps, as well as focussing on being smooth, rather than 'fast'. Tension not weakness is the issue. Hippy gibberish I know, but if each one of those ideas buys you 30 seconds of extra stamina it all adds up.

Thank you

I'm thinking of getting one of these, as like the OP I have a high output bass, and use octave and filter effects a lot. Can't fathom the specs though for a Little Mark Tube 500 and whether or not it actually has a HPF already. Any ideas, basschat hive intelligence?!

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1485379723' post='3223599'] Great aren't they? How they can put in such an intimate performance in that setting! And as for the way the two drummers work together... [/quote] That was fantastic, thank you. Oteil on the P(hat) Bass too!

Fair play.

Envious, that's a great rig.

Hereford legend. He ran a great thrift/ vintage store here called the Dinosaur Market- all the labels misspelt in the most creative fashion. His metal bass was on the hanging on the wall, he told me I could try it if I could pick it up, knowing full well that I wouldn't even attempt it with my puny frame! But the store let us and many others sell our CDs, put posters up and supported live music- it was very much appreciated. Sad news of his passing.

As an aside, our guitarist owns his old Aqualung JTM45. And blooming wonderful it is too.

I don't think many of the Black Crowes albums were that well received but I adored Amorica and Three Snakes and One Charm.

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1484727207' post='3217743'] Yes, Pete. Our 'fame' as a band that does some charity gigs is spreading and we are getting requests from further and wider. Hmm. [/quote] Unfortunately we're getting the same problem, not helped by a gig we did last year where and I have it from the horses mouth, they'd spent £20k on the event and promotion- I've rarely played through a bigger PA or seen a larger lighting rig, and they wouldn't mix the band (we were provided with a stereo feed to the desk from ours) we had to clear the stage before we were on, put it all back ourselves in five minutes, play for an hour after waiting 7, then watch the video we took to find out they hadn't lit us at all, it was all dancefloor. We had a great gig, but in terms of 'exposure' all we achieved was promoting ourselves to the great and the good of our neck of the woods that we're a push over and cheap!

[URL=http://s284.photobucket.com/user/Thinfingers/media/IMG_2591_zpsvfwghmm1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll12/Thinfingers/IMG_2591_zpsvfwghmm1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] It's taken me forever but got myself a pedaltrain nano+, cioks dc5 and SIS cables and finally put a board together. Right to left- fake ears, fake ampeg, fake 5 string, fake fretless and fake bootsy.

In general live music is too loud in my view. We seem to be caught in a perfect storm of delusions of grandeur, a culture of 'this is how it's done properly' and cheap accessible power. All we're achieving is making venues' lives very difficult and an unattractive experience for potential audiences. That said even top end performers are guilty of this, saw Tommy Emmanuel on Saturday. No need for an acoustic guitar act to be that loud.

And the award for pretentious quote of the week goes to- Music- not what it sounds like, what it feels like.

Aguilar GS212 on here for £350, a steal and would monster the application you need it for.

[quote name='keeponehandloose' timestamp='1483740130' post='3209833'] Fx pedals have the input and output on the wrong sides. Input should be on left, out on right. [/quote] Exactly.

You mute my markbass head by pulling out the volume knob, invariably changing the volume when you do so, and when you push it back in. At least it gives me an excuse for that mysterious second set volume increase that sometimes happens though.

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1483401593' post='3206933'] How about the neo loaded Aguilar SL410x (22.23kg)? [/quote] You'll need a heavy wallet!