funkgod

Been a blast looking at some of these bands some great talent overseas a real eye opener some of them,

Some of my fave bands are from over seas

New cool collective, i love them guys, and so giving, letting me release a cover of one of their songs.

been watching  a band from Estonia go from strength to strength they really have got their finger on the Pulse

well worth checking out. i like his G&L jazz bass as well 🙂

Lexsoul Dancemachine

On 16/10/2021 at 09:26, Richard R said:

@funkgod lots of good, and terrible, suggestions above. Have you picked a winner yet? 

Indeed loads of great names and most of them very valid bassfinger has gone taters deep with this one so many cheers.

maggie thatcher milk snatcher, love that...  i remember her stopping milk to primary schools, it was always warm anyway, UUUGGGHH.

Thinking back to the 80s it was actually a pritty bleak time miners strike, maggie, Falklands, cruse, unemployment, strikes, the change of NHS, loads of reasons as all decades have i suppose, but then to make it more bleak we had the reminders of it all by great poets and tv series like john cooper clark and boys from the black stuff, bread and little gems like one summer, i think for the younger generation kids leaving school in the 80s, me being one of them in 82, music was a way to get away from it all, or even confront it all.

i am sure there is a great theater show in there somewhere waiting to be done and it would be huge, as its a decade we can all relate too, i would go and watch that. the music in the 80 was pretty special too, growing up with it, it seemed to be "ours" a lot of people diss 80s music but a lot of advancements were made in the 80s for pros and us young people that wanted to get into music, the porter studio, how many bands were signed up based on them demo tapes, record company's could hear the potential of the songs/bands just on them raw demos, i always thought tony wilson was great, i think the 80s sound was a british thing, to me then it seemed the usa was mainly hair rock bands with the exception of a few like debbie harry, talking heads and so on, but to me the 80s sound was british, looking at the set list the iconic 80s songs were mainly british, prob because we associate iconic with the most played and we are all listening to british radio, and radio was changing, i use to think that it was all "designed" the gov wanting to get rid of the anarchy of punk in the 70s as it was for them disruptive and wean us all on to something not so threatening, again its how we were thinking at the time,  🙂 so a lot of argument there, ... sorry all just thinking out loud, just my thoughts on it all.

A Name ? right i think the rewind is winning at the mo " The Rewind, 80s tribute show" if we add the end bit we might get away with that, we will see, will keep you all posted but the band is sounding great, a lot of effort has been put in, for eg drums, are all triggered to get them 80s sounds, one of the biggest things when looking at an 80s band for me is the drums, they were so varied between songs and to have one kit trying to capture all them sounds which adds allot of dynamics to the songs seems a bit one dimensional, (this is just my thought ) to have them massive drums in say "New sensation" make a massive difference, so we have gone to great lengths to get them sounds, we will see.

Thanks so much to everyone with your ideas keep them coming if yall want the more the better im sure 80s bands in the future will all be looking through the names 🙂 cheers once again

OMG... wow thank you all so much, did not expect so many response's  loads of great ideas  keep them coming if you can,

if we had a girl lead singer we could have " Hot Hatch Maggie and the Mullets " an adaptation on two of your great ideas.

The Rewind is great as well as said it is being used but if we add a bit on the end, which we would have to anyway and call it

The Rewind, Back to the 80s Tribute show ( or band).. would we get away with something like that ?

for ref here is the set list of the first 20

1,  Gold..................... Spandau, Live version
2,  New sensation............ INXS
3,  A little respect ........ erasure.
4,  Heat is on............... glen fray
5,  Reo...................... duran
6,  Everybody wants to rule.. tears for fears
7,  a new flame.............. simply red
8,  Dont you Forget.......... Simple Minds
9,  dignity.................. deacon blue.
11, dancing with tears....... ultravox
10, Town called mal.......... jam
12, lets dance............... dave b
13, wont let sun go down..... nick kershaw, live version with band member intros.
14, we close our eyes........ go west
15, Real gone kid............ deacon blue.
16, this one goes out ....... Rem
17, im still standing........ ej
18, dont look down........... go west
19, take on me............... Ah ha
20, running in the family.... L42

we did think about using a name of a song but the best one there is "New Sensation" but that sounds a bit too 70s cabaret 🙂

once again thanks all keep them coming the funny and the witty as well, my chuckle muscle never stopped 🙂

Hi all we are looking for a name for an 80s tribute band playing 95% english pop and iconic 80s tracks for theatre and corp work

( got to earn some money somehow ! funk only buys me a bag of chips now and again !)

if you have any good ideas we could nick we would be very greatful, pref one that is not being used already. and something that implies its an 80s band.

cheers all,

8 hours ago, Ricky Rioli said:

 

Do you find yourself using both choices?

you can do yes, it seems everyone is going for that hifi scooped sound, thats not what im after after recording it, you can roll it off but its still too "breathy" if thats a word to use, i want to hear the hi tone not a super hi click, and the mid does not get you up there so cant compensate, its just prefs thats all, each to their own and all that.

just had a thought.... on saying all that,,, its really down to your bass set up and pickups, the mec golds are super clean, so maybe that has something to do with it ??

i can only agree with all the comments, the guy is on the ball when it comes to back up of his products.

i installed a J retro in my jazz but hated the top end glassyness of it as i could not hear the top end tone to the notes only a sort of hi clickyness, so after a discussion with jon he just said no problem bring it back and i will drop down the hi an octave so you can hear it clearer in the notes, which i wanted for recording, so i said i dont mind doing it myself ( im a bit of a tec electronics geek anyway) so he just sent me full  instructions of what to do, just a change of a cap for a lower value, so i thought sod it al put the cap on another switch so i can swap between two hi's, what a nice guy, even to someone thats as much as a pain in the crack as me 🙂

and here it is...

Eddie and Hot Rods, now that rick has some history, the bass is now owned by my mate "Clarky" a member on here, im seeing him after as iv just fixed a truss rod for one of his other ricks so taking it round, al get him to post a pic of it 🙂

and it is ,  i cant really tell ped, could be either dirty ash or light hog, hard to tell, all the little brown flecks in it though, hog does have them, im sure i seen somewhere a method where you could see the wood grain under the paint with a mirror withe the light off and a torch, just try ed to find it, if i see it al post it ...

ahhh right, a good find ! its nice, it just might be a hog then 🙂

"persuaded" now there is a word did you use a jedi mind trick, cash, or build him up psychologically ?

i tried the jedi trick and can confirm... it does not work, they just said "why you waving your fingers at me" that yoda is just full of it. 🙂

that leaves "build them up" maybe offering to buy the strap on it first.. as below ?

if not that, then good old cash offer is always good when you want to cut to the chase and not have the embarrassment of waving your fingers at him with your eyes closed !  🙂

On 12/09/2021 at 10:01, ped said:

Just adding my August ‘82

 

 

MMMMMMM nnniiiice

where did you find the series e ?

that body where its worn looks like golden maple or ash screaming to come through !

i always wanted an all maple ash series E

You know you want to do it 🙂 hehe

and why have you got tag strip over one of your E pole pieces on the other ?

im sure on their site it says the import duty to the UK is paid on payment and wont be subjected to ant duty

Special Rules for our UK Customers

All our prices quoted on our online store contain both VAT and customs - so you will not incur any additional costs after the purchase.

Within our normal 30 days money back warranty from abroad, the return shipping costs are paid by the customer. For returns, simply request a return on your customer log in centre (Return Product) or you can send an email to [email protected]. You will then receive detailed return information via email.

https://www.thomann.de/gb/faq_question_information_for_non_eu_countries.html

8 hours ago, pst62 said:

Nigel Griggs' Mockingbird.

ahh yea

nice choice, check out Jerome preston's bcr,, sounds clear as a bell..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTfRjihu2rY

if we are talking lust here , i only ever really  REALLY wanted two basses owned by others,

1 was bluey to me by far the best looking wal ever made, this was built for bill zorn when this came up for auction mike beat me to it i was so gypsy's kissed off, esp when i had sold him 4 of my wals, but... hes a nice guy, but i still want it so bad.

the other is Henry thomas's G&L i would love that it was the first G&L i had seen, and it all started righ here 

Funny you should say that 🙂

i use to think it began with a C

edited...

it will indeed, as Beethoven and Carl orff is played today, music is here to stay in all its forms.

in fact one thing i recommend when i am teaching is start to write your own songs as soon as you can,

no matter how silly they seem.

Its the only thing you can leave  here when you are gone, keeping your name alive FOORRRREVVVVEEEERRRRRRR 🙂

some one in the future will deffo look as too where it came from 🙂

untill the earth is sucked into the sun, or the Rothschilds finish us all off first 😞

I just seen mine in another topic and came here to say ...

" what a load of crap, get rid" and seen this topic.

SO....

what a load of crap, get rid

its blocking peoples pic.

I cant now see what bass newfoundfreedom has to see if he is worthy of a reply 🙂

Dam.

Roland Dr880.

i still have my trusty AKAI z4 sampler with the 8 output card on the back, which is just killer.

but for getting tracks down with sounds as good as the Vdrums ( which i have also td12 and for old school td5).

ease of programing, with more kits than you can shake a stick at,

then my go to for the last 15+ years is the Roland Boss DR880.

its up there with the best available today enough worth looking into.

my quartet,

On 11/07/2021 at 12:20, Geddys nose said:

I have the April one:

Just a superb bass and look at the condition it looks like a reissue, I’m a long time lover of all thing G&l and had a good few but this just feels special.

OWWWWWWWWWW

sell it me or im sending the management round with the wilkinsons freshly stropped. 🙂

Joking aside that one is prob the best one iv seen condition wise on the planet at the mo,

i was so sick i missed it i even got intouch with the seller and told him to fwd my ebay name incase the buyer ever sold it. !

ahhh well,...  you should be right proud of that, is it to be played live or a stay at home bass ?

12 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

S'been a very long time indeed since I used WMP; I've forgotten what it 'sounds' like. I use 'Foobar2000', which is free, and 'GOM Player', which has a free version with ads (which I ignore...) and a 'GOM+' version, which cost... I don't know, as I've never even considered spending anything. Both of these play back my tracks, whether in WAV, MP3, OGG or any other format exactly as my DAW (Reaper...) rendered them. GOM has the advantage of being a very flexible video player, too, allowing subtitles, which I like.
Just my tuppence-worth. 

Hi Dad, i was still using it till recently when i looked into it, it seems to be a widely known problem googling it, i always did wonder why it was never the same.

christ i went through all sorts thinking it was the exported track, so i got it explained to me by someone in the know

i will have a look at Foobar2000, thanks for that

Hi all, just i case anyone has come across this problem...

To all them using "windows media player" too check out your finished track ! !

there is a process before you listen to your song on headphones or monitors much MUCH more important to the sound if you have converted your song to wav or mp3 to hear how it sounds on your PC.

ok this does not apply to people using apple.

if you are using " windows media player " to play your tracks on it wont matter what you use to hear the track cans or speakers because it will sound dull and lifeless and nothing like what you exported out of your cubase prootools reaper or anything else.

did you ever wonder why your songs sound sh!t once you had exported it when using WMP ? the answer is WMP its self, its awfull. as a test download "quick time" and do an A,B test or even check out the mix you had in your daw against playing the exported version in WMP, its shocking the amount of loss WMP does to the track.

to proove its not the exporting of the track, you can try this..

export your track to say a wav file then inport it as a new track into your daw and listen, you will hear very little if any loss.

so... my bit of advice is before the cans V monitors test, get a good sounding player able to play your track as it came out of your daw. something that uses ASIO maybe.

22 hours ago, Newfoundfreedom said:

More zombies popping up on here lately than on The Walking Dead. 

???

thanks, glad you could contribute something to the post.

On 03/01/2019 at 20:10, smokyflipps said:

Haven't seen any G&L 2000e for sale for ages.

 

 

 

Gorgeous one just sold on ebay UK last april, i had it watched but missed the auction as i was driving back from bristol so missed it or it would of been on my wall, i was so pi@@sed off cus i really wanted it, ahh well, anyone here buy it ?

another clip,  george Anderson from shackattack before his JayDee days with a black i think L2000E

On 21/01/2021 at 13:09, Piers_Williamson said:

Did anyone pick up on this initiative?

http://www.nedcom.nl/WAL/

And a gratuitous picture of my Wal for good measure

 

 

yea, there is a few of mine on that list 🙂 and an early one iv had since the 80s thats not,

Just now, TheGreek said:

or as Pele would say:

PERFECT 🙂

most basses in that price range are good now days, try a few, and go for the one that YOU like best, dont be a sheep.

Good advice ?

the best bit of advice i can only offer is...

There is no such thing as "god given talent"

everyone that is good has put time and effort into it. Period.

you cant pull anything out the hat that you did not put there in the first place.... so my advice ?

its a time thing, put the time in and you will get the rewards, there is NO shortcuts.