BenMartinBass Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Hi! My name is Ben, I'm 23 and I'm a bass player (sounds like an anonymous meeting...). I've been playing since I was 11 ever since my father took me to see Gary Moore play (ironic I know, but so much groove!). I own two primary basses, a Warwick 4 string Corvette (Bubinga) and a Yamaha RBX JM2, the John Myung Signature 6 string. The 6 string is almost exclusively used on the rare occasion I find myself teaching an extended range student but most commonly in my band 'Bloodwork', a London based extreme metal band. The 4 is used for pretty much everything else. I'm a huge fan of funk, slap especially. Bloodwork gives me my brutality fix so the chunkier the groove the better in anything else! I'm currently selling my amp, an H&K Quantum head in favour of something a little smaller and more manageable. I love all things bass and consider myself something of a tone geek, I'm on that unending quest to find the perfect clean tone that can shift straight into the perfect distorted tone! Quote
discreet Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 (edited) [size=4]Your quest may well end here. Or maybe it's just begun? *[i]Twilight Zone[/i] music*[/size] Edited January 31, 2013 by discreet Quote
BassTractor Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Hey Ben, Welcome! You're extremely welcome, I'm sure, even though you like whiskey. Protestant or catholic? The whiskey, I mean. Enjoy the site! best, bert Quote
Leen2112 Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Welcome Ben, Wow, what a cool dad you have, to take you to see Gary Moore at 11, My dad took me at that same age to see the band Sky (google em) Crap really. Anyway, there is a thread here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/190396-show-us-your-band-video/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/190396-show-us-your-band-video/[/url] where you should post a video of your extreme metal band......I love a nice bit of Metal! Cheers Leen. Quote
Len_derby Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Welcome Ben. Just a bit down the road from you. Quote
Gazm Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Hi Ben, Good to have more Derbyshire players on here. Pete. Quote
BenMartinBass Posted February 1, 2013 Author Posted February 1, 2013 Protestant whisky of course! Well... depends on the smoky peatiness. Thanks for the welcome, I'll be sure to post a video up soon! It's nice to have a community like this methinks. Quote
erictheweary Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 [quote name='Leen2112' timestamp='1359664898' post='1958571'] Welcome Ben, Wow, what a cool dad you have, to take you to see Gary Moore at 11, My dad took me at that same age to see the band Sky (google em) Crap really. Anyway, there is a thread here [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/190396-show-us-your-band-video/"]http://basschat.co.u...our-band-video/[/url] where you should post a video of your extreme metal band......I love a nice bit of Metal! Cheers Leen. [/quote] My first gig I went to was Manhattan Transfer. I may win this one... Quote
BenMartinBass Posted February 1, 2013 Author Posted February 1, 2013 [quote name='erictheweary' timestamp='1359719687' post='1959257'] My first gig I went to was Manhattan Transfer. I may win this one... [/quote] Son of a... Quote
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