Dave Vader

Ok I'll start, here's one of my wedding pics from 7 years ago. Now you go.....

It got deleted, it was from John Hall.

We were in the middle of dartmoor, recorded music was not an option, neither was a band. I had my friend Rachel play REO Speedwagon on a Cello in the lashing rain, not a bad joke. We had readings like in church services, but they were from Marvin Gaye and Chaka Khan, (I wanted the Speedwagon lyrics, but the missus read them first and made me change it to something nice) Oh, and I managed to get some KISS lyrics into the vows as well. All very fun.

You should go and check out Guitarchat, it's like basschat, run by the same guys and..... what's that guys? Milty's listening? Sorry, forget I said anything, it doesn't exist yet.......

[url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/cmi-cleartone-musical-instruments-made-by-marshall-jazz-bass-ex-condition-70s-japan/1021897002"]http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/cmi-cleartone-musical-instruments-made-by-marshall-jazz-bass-ex-condition-70s-japan/1021897002[/url] In Plymouth, Gumtree, belongs to a mate of mine, very nice CMI Jazz bas, 80 quid. Bargain, I don't have 80 quid though....

Nice job, always nice to have the guitar from out of your head turn up in your hands.

I just realised I have no decent photos of my main frankenstein, and main bass. Here's one from Beautiful Days last year, It's an 83 Ibanez Roadstar body, with an SD Ricky replacement pup in the bridge, an old Kay pickup in the neck, and a lovely warmoth ebony fretless jazz neck. bridge was a cheap thing I bought cos it had the right string spacing for the pickups. I started refinishing it when I first put it together 3 or 4 years ago, but had a gig and needed to put it back together quickly as my only other bass at the time had gone awol in another bands van (not permanently, I just left it there til the next gig with that band). I still haven't finished the refin, and it seems to get me more work looking like this, as people remember it (or me, not sure which). Anyhow, picture yeah... All my others are technically frankensteins, but since they look like 2 P-basses and a r********er I won't bother posting them.

I used to read stuff on talkbass and not post a lot there. Then somebody linked a few threads over here from over there. I liked the general tone and banter and switched. I think... long time ago now.

[quote name='iceonaboy' timestamp='1371130902' post='2110199'] Thats what I said though...the attack, I mean how can you pluck a string any other way than harder or softer? [/quote] near the bridge, near the neck, inbetween, plus the left hand effect, different bits of finger, pick, drumstick (I was bored ok) and a billion other variables. Which I accept mostly equate to harder or softer in the simplest terms possible. But in the same way as a multiband eq equates to treblier and bassier.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1371127493' post='2110135'] Developed a [i]need [/i]to have a satin nitro finished neck....I can't play shiny necks anymore - they just feel wrong. Satin nitro finished necks don't come with cheap basses. [/quote] Yeah, but for 15 quid a can, and a bit of sandpaper, you can do that particular mod, incredibly easily.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1371081649' post='2109723'] Some bands write interviews and articles with themselves on their own webzine/webpage/ and release on their own diy record label and write their own wiki article linkig to them, and also have a PR agent that is themself, and their wiki page manages to stay up, whilst no-one on their actual local scene that they are apparently heard of has ever heard of them (although he once stood in my way when I was trying to get a cauliflower). [/quote] I think I know that guy.

Yep. All my basses sound pretty much the same really.

Yep, after nearly 25 years, the Sunn Mustang P-bass copy from Argos is still my favourite go to bass.

[quote name='BurritoBass' timestamp='1370957749' post='2107917'] I can't remember the last time I did something to try & impress teenage girls... I'm aiming for the Mums! [/quote] It's either driving back from a festival in Wales to take my step-daughter out for her 18th birthday, or auditioning for my current band, who are led by a teenage girl. That's not what you meant is it? Populism is over-rated, I liked Metal machine music, it sent tingly happiness up my spine. Everyone else I play it too tells me to turn that sh*t off.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1370953882' post='2107842'] joined by a lady called Rebecca Romine from California. [/quote] What? The Lass from X-Men? Painted all blue? Surely not?

Yep, all teenage girls care about the role of the bass and its power, that's why Jimmy Page was so jealous of John paul Jones

Capos are great, you can make lovely sounds with them that you just can't do with barre chords. Bassists really just need to learn to transpose in their heads quickly, and pick out a root note from the middle of an augmented 9th add7 without missing a beat. I work with a lot of people who both use capos and altered tunings, and "play by ear". A lesser player would be lost and running away in seconds. I translate for the other musicians instead. Some of them are even weirder....

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1370942007' post='2107628'] They are playing an 'f'-ing d-shape though, it's just transposed 3 semitones up for capo3... [/quote] Oh that's clever, i see what you did there.....

I don't think they can hear the bass

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1370877318' post='2106733'] I may be out of line with this, but, CNC machines aside, aren't these guitars and basses supposed to be largely hand-crafted..? Could one surmise from that that there could be some discrepancy between batches..? I presume they'd use templates and such, but different craftsmen (or women...) could produce a quite different product. The 'Hofner' range, over the years, are a good example of 'variance' between instruments. Not necessarily a bad thing, but one would have to take that into account when choosing one's supplier, I would have thought. Buying 'blind' could, quite naturally, lead to deception. Any truth in this, or poppycock..? Just wondering... [/quote] true, I know at least 2 people who spent years searching the land for the perfect Gibson. My friend Rob waited 6 years before he bought his '74 Les Paul, cos it was the only one he'd found that didn't have an overly chunky neck. It was about 400 quid, this was about 20 years ago though. Talk to Angus Young about SG necks if you have time, he is equally funny about the Gibson neck variations.

My gear is very cheap, I like it, if it got nicked or broken I could get another one. Even the home-made things could be rebuilt, and nobody would want to nick them anyway.

Punk was a long long time ago, just like the Beatles and Rock and Roll.

Also just gave your tune a listen Deb, really good (even on my crappy laptop speakers) enjoyed it a lot. And not just cos I like spoken word stuff and welsh accents. Although that helped.

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1370623196' post='2103655'] Also, I don't personally find modern music to be mediocre. Well, no more mediocre than it's been at any other time during my 40 years thus far. I think what's considered to be pop music has diversified hugely since the hey day of the Beatles. If anything, the mediocrity of today's chart is due to major labels being constantly one step behind the zeitgeist and always playing catch up: desperately releasing sanitised pastiches of whatever trend they've been told is 'Trending', by which time the cool kids have already moved on to whatever's next. Justin Bieber released a dubstep-infused track recently, which says it all really. And it was desperately mediocre. [/quote] I remember the famous drum and bass lite that was baby d and let me be your fantasy. I think that was the first time I noticed this phenomena. As I was too young to know if D-Mob were actually acid house or not, and I didn't get Guy called Gerald til a year or 2 after it came out.

I'm not going to make it, just got hit with a bunch of dep gigs, many sets to learn. Bugger, though probably a good thing, I have the Killer Roo episode of the Mighty Boosh going through my head every time I see that picture.