Dave Vader

[url="http://www.matthewnorth.com/"]http://www.matthewnorth.com/[/url] Ask this chap, i used to play in a band with him and the amount of Floyd bootlegs and stuff he has is quite ridiculous. He probably has the original mixdown tapes of what you guys are looking for.

Hang above sofa for 20 years, smoke on said sofa for same 20 years, gig in very smokey venues for most of those 20 years. Jobs a good-un Or use that stuff from the manchester guitar tech, it's quicker.

Yep, as always 51m0n has it right. ignore it after you've checked the tracks haven't been played utterly wrong, then get back to it later, you need to come at it late, as when you've spent ages getting the takes down, you will be sick of hearing it. When you have spent another 2 or 3 hours trying to get the mix how you want it, you will also be sick of it. Trying to rush it will mean you will hate it forever, and you will just want the bloody thing done. This results in a crap mix. Check my newest work for examples of rushed stuff that I am sick of

True, Zane lowe's show is really very good. I tend to flip between 6music, Jazz Fm and Classic FM at work though. (Am I getting old?)

I have found new stuff about ulnar nerve compression which i think might be the cause of all my troubles, different (and less finger murdering) exercises will ensue... It still makes me chuckle that i can play 90% of my usual bass stuff with 3 fingers and thus can still gig. Shame I can't play guitar with 3 fingers, it is making me sad.

[quote name='JayPH' timestamp='1335363433' post='1629880'] thanks mate. I hope I've caught it in time. I would be absolutely gutted if its a more permanent thing. Month sounds reasonable yet soooooo long. Doesnt your joint swell when you do the band exercises? [/quote] Hasn't swollen at all for the whole thing. Very weird. And exercises have left me with claws today, so may have been a bad idea.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1335350345' post='1629576'] Nice chief - good bit of exposure that! [/quote] [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1335373138' post='1630144'] Well done though for getting on it Dave!! [/quote] Ta, just wish I'd played on the single/album. Not me, some feller called Paul, who sounds pretty good, and it wasn't as easy as I'd hoped learning his stuff for the live shows. Never met him though, might have helped.

Didn't miss it, people were nice about it. hoorah!

heh, my mate just sent me a text saying that Fearne Cotton sounded like an idiotic 14 year old who wrote in to Jim'll fix it to present a radio show. Nice... Still waiting (bet it was on while I was having to do some work and I missed it)

Well, sort of, I'm not, but Maz Totterdell who I play for in her live band is being played on Fearne Cotton's show today. This is a good thing, except... I am listening to it, and I forgot how annoying Ms Cotton is, hurry up and play the song so I can go back to 6music.... Still cool though.

I thought I had 500 quid, but then the road tax came up, and the MOT, and the washing machine broke. Now i have f*** all. Get the cab and the jazz, 2 things are better than one.

As a (very lazy) guitar player, i have a bunch of pedals, many of them are the same pedal set to different settings, so that when the inevitable moment arrives in a song that I haven't retwiddled the knobs for, i can step on the other delay, and it will be in time, and not all over the place. Plus different levels of fuzz are needed, if your only distortion tone is the face-melting lead solo, it's going to bleed all over the vocals.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1335288236' post='1628734'] read the post again - he's talking about maple necks with separate maple boards using the same construction as maple/rw necks as opposed to maple one piece [/quote] He's right you know, I am. But now I want a rosewood neck with a maple board, it just sounds a bit cool (though probably shockingly heavy)

[quote name='JayPH' timestamp='1335303153' post='1629135'] Did he give you any idea how long to rest it for? [/quote] Nope, he said if it doesn't get any better to come back, but didn't say when. I have gone for an arbitrary month. (My doctor is famously quite useless) Have been using my powerball and phils elastic band technique without any excess pain, so I think that may be the way forward.

My Maples are covered in Danish oil, it is not very hard at all, and no lacquer. Sound the same as other maple necks do though.

[quote name='GremlinAndy' timestamp='1335274068' post='1628411'] maybe the way to tell that would be a maple fb on a maple neck with the same construction as a rosewood? But whos got one of those? [/quote] You'd be surprised, a lot of cheaper bass necks are done like this, guitars too. I've got 3 at least hanging around the place somewhere. [quote name='brensabre79' timestamp='1335277355' post='1628469'] I did want to build a maple fretless, not many of those around! [/quote] One of them is a maple fretless. (It sounds like my ebony fretless when i play it...)

Crap, just pulled the trigger on the HB one from Thomann, money I don't have.... Still I can flog my GK to fund it if it's good enough, if not it can go back to Thomann. Phew, justified that spend.

I just happen to have an old eminence 10" driver hanging about the place. I now think I have to spend some money I don't have and get me one of these things. Then A/B the drivers and see what happens.

I am not playing for a bit. Doc said it was just a strained tendon and it needed to rest. It has been 4 days, I am very bored. I occasionally test it to see if it doesn't hurt anymore. This is a stupid thing to do, because it does.

Nice amps are probably nice to have. Guitar wise I'm a lot fussier, but my bass rig is a GK backline head into two old Laney PA cabs that I swapped out the drivers on, and ripped out the horns. it sounds nice. However, a lot of the time now i am using shared rigs at gigs. So far this month i have used a big Trace thing in London, a proper GK into an ampeg cab in Exeter, and my own rig the other night. After a bit of twisting about with the knobs (mostly putting them back to flat) my dear old bass sounded pretty much the same through all three. I am thinking of downgrading the Gk for one of them Harley benton promethean rip offs, as it means i get more choice. (Plus won't look quite as mad at the tiny acuostic venue like i did on friday, my rig was bigger than the PA )

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1335128340' post='1626212'] According to all the adverts I've seen you need to have your own gear, own transport and be experienced. That's band code for own a PA, van and know how to load it on your own at 1am. [/quote] Some people who answer these adverts think it means "I can borrow a drum kit, one of you can probably give me a lift, and I have banged along to that bit in the Phil Collins song on my desk a bit."

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1334941237' post='1623884'] Nope, it's the augmented fourth/diminshed fifth, aka the Tritone. Ask Sabbath, Slayer and - er - most of the heavy metal community! We thrive on having people hate what we like [/quote] Oh Bach's beloved "Devils Interval" but that is lovely in every way.

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1334937153' post='1623788'] The last "angry young man" (from this side of the pond) was Weller. Although I like a lot of his solo work, he's never written a great political song since the early days of The Style Council. There's never been (IMO) a greater political songwriter since then, and I don't really see one coming up any time soon. [/quote] Did Billy Bragg completely pass you by? Love him or hate him you can't deny he was both angry, young and political. And is still one of those things, and proposes alternatives now rather than just shouting no.

But Rap has also grown stale and bloated like everything it tried to break down in the first place. We could do with more shouty angry people doing something different.

I used a hole punch on some maple veneer, collected the punched out holes, and after drilling out the original black dots i superglued in about 3 or 4 "holes" before I did the final sanding on the neck. Was lucky to have a hole punch exactly the right size.