Go Back In Time

[discreet]

3 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

Much as I agree with this sentiment in principle, in practice my entire career was built on putting up with truly industrial quantities of sh!t. Deeply depressing and unenjoyable, but it paid for my early retirement. You pays your money ...

Quite, I picked up a bass in 1974 and lived fast. However I failed to die young and my pension plans are all down the toilet. You pays your money...

[Happy Jack]

So between us, Mark, we make a balanced individual. 

[Zalastar]

9 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

So between us, Mark, we make a balanced individual. 

Now now, we'll have no balanced individuals here please... even if it does take two of you!

[TheGreek]

7 hours ago, scalpy said:

Turn it down! UP

There you go...honest enough mistake

[discreet]

7 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

So between us, Mark, we make a balanced individual. 

Absolutely. I've got hair and your BMI is within nominal parameters.

[DaveFry]

If the venue serves food send the most amiable band member to make friends with the chef .😉

[Happy Jack]

Just now, DaveFry said:

If the venue serves food send the most amiable band member to make friends with the chef .😉

If you stepped out of a time machine in front of your younger self, I'm struggling to imagine what he'd make of that piece of advice from an old git wearing funny clothes. 

[Frank Blank]

4 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

You really need to persist with XTC, they're really very very good.

Amen.

[ezbass]

Ignore that 6 stringed thing, play bass; rhythm trumps solos.

Buy hearing protection before joining a band.

Dont smoke.

[gjones]

Don't be afraid of your truss rod.

Give it a tweak now and then, or it will seize up. 

Because, over the years, mine did.

Edited August 26, 2018 by gjones

[stewblack]

33 minutes ago, gjones said:

Don't afraid of your truss rod.

Give it a tweak now and then, or it will seize up. 

Because, over the years, mine did.

My younger self was never  afraid of tweaking his truss rod.

[discreet]

17 minutes ago, stewblack said:

My younger self was never afraid of tweaking his truss rod.

I tweak mine more now than I did then.

[phil.c60]

2 hours ago, Happy Jack said:

Much as I agree with this sentiment in principle, in practice my entire career was built on putting up with truly industrial quantities of sh!t.

Deeply depressing and unenjoyable, but it paid for my early retirement.

You pays your money ...

 

Strictly speaking they paid your money......

And I wish I'd started before my late forties too.

[stewblack]

1 hour ago, discreet said:

I tweak mine more now than I did then.

I suppose with all the instructional information on the internet we can all tweak them with confidence these days.

[jezzaboy]

It`s not your imagination, 90% of lead singers really are tossers!

[jezzaboy]

And buy one really nice bass and play the crap out of it instead of buying many 10`s of decent but budget basses and feeling disappointed with them after the honeymoon period is over.

[stewblack]

14 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

And buy one really nice bass and play the crap out of it instead of buying many 10`s of decent but budget basses and feeling disappointed with them after the honeymoon period is over.

This. A hundred times this.

[sprocketflup]

"Don't dismiss the stuff that you think you've dealt with, you haven't even started yet. Also, think twice on taking that duvet on that first date, you'll know what I mean when I get there.

Lastly, the time is now. 

oh and ps. - stop picking at it!"

[Rich]

If I could go back in time, I'd go back to visit my 15 year old self and tell him 3 things.

1. Knuckle down at school, do some actual work instead of arsing about, perhaps you might actually get some decent 'O' levels. 

2. When you hit 23, your drummer mate Keith will call you from London, begging you to head up to the Smoke and enrol at the same music college as him. Do it. Then maybe you will get a session career like he did.

3. Most importantly: stop being such a disrespectful little bastid to your parents. They are the best people in the world, and you will miss them dreadfully when they are gone.

[Rich]

Oh, and 4. Buy as many 50s and 60s Fenders as you can now, while they are still relatively cheap... and when you see that pre-Ernie Stingray for £250, snap that one up too. THERE's your pension plan.

[stu_g]

Buy that wal bass for £200 you saw in the freeads doh!

Edited August 26, 2018 by stu_g

[Bluewine]

No matter how much you practice we all can't be fancy riff technical guys.

Figure out where your abilities start and stop and work with it. Master what you can do well.

Blue

[Bluewine]

Not sure cthis comment is for this thread.

So weird, last night Saturday night I was loaded my bass into my car and getting ready for my gig. I remember doing this same routine when I was 12 years old.

I'm still doing it at 65 years old. I'm blessed, there's no real down side to this.

Blue

[Merton]

Practice.

And wear ear plugs.

But mostly practice.

[project_c]

- go to the dentist

- stop smoking 

- don’t get involved with that girl, she’ll end up working as a ropey stripper at Spearmint Rhino

- definitely don’t sleep with her 

- definitely don’t lend her money

- learn to read music 

- don’t be a d!ck

- go to bed