The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[Drago]

One can never have too many pedals. I've an overdrive, but chorus, flanger and compressor are all on the shopping list. And a pedal board.

 

[DCBassman]

Try some different basslines - Riders on The Storm (might've mentioned that before) and Axel F.
Keeps the fingers loose. they might even fall off!

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

One can never have too many pedals. I've an overdrive, but chorus, flanger and compressor are all on the shopping list. And a pedal board.

Trying to strike the balance of a new amp or new guitar vs how good I am (or not 😂)

Probably put in more hours this week than I have since buying it 😯

 

[Grant Fondo]

I am no expert on the bass but particularly like Jimmy Jonnson on the Alan Holdsworth albums

 

[GM]

Did you guys watch the documentary about The shadows last night? Genuinely very interesting.

Been a big Shadows fan since the year dot, I was weaned on them. My biggest regret last year was selling my Strat, arthritic left hand and carpal thumb

 

[ColinJ]

It's... Win a guitar time!

 

[DCBassman]

It's... Win a guitar time!

Reverse headstock. Wouldn't allow it in the house...

 

[Oxford Dave]

Reverse headstock. Wouldn't allow it in the house...

Probably less likely to get knocked out of tune when you hit random bits of furniture or other musicians with the head, though.

 

[ColinJ]

Reverse headstock. Wouldn't allow it in the house...

Funny - I had thought that there was something odd-looking about that guitar but hadn't realised what it was!

 

[ColinJ]

Probably less likely to get knocked out of tune when you hit random bits of furniture or other musicians with the head, though.

You have evoked a memory from the 1970s. Let me check...

Ah, The Stranglers playing at the Locarno Ballroom in Coventry, October 1977.

Blimey... I only paid £1.60 for my ticket!!!!

Anyway... the band were playing and the densely-packed punk audience was pogoing away in front of the stage, with the occasional pogoer spitting up at the band. (Remember those glorious pre-virus days!!) They were getting a bit peed off with it and bass player Jean-Jacques Burnel leaned forward and growled into his mic... "Right, you can pack that f*****g gobbing in! The next f****r who gobs at me gets it!!" Most of the punks had enough sense to believe him but one idiot pogoed to the front and gobbed straight at him. JJB immediately smacked him in the face with his bass! The ailing punk was escorted from the building by security and the band carried on with their set.

It always struck me how young JJB looked compared to the rest of them - he looked like a precocious teenager playing in his dodgy old dad's band!

 

[ColinJ]

Ok, just for @DCBassman, a competition to win a guitar with a non-reversed headstock - an Ibanez JS140M worth nearly £800.

Enter HERE by 11:59pm PST, May 17th, 2020. Call it 23:59 BST to be on the safe side.

 

[DCBassman]

Nice guitars, but not my thang...
A double-bound Telecaster, mow you're talking!

 

[Drago]

I've entered. If I win a clank plank I can sell and buy a steinberger.

 

[rogerzilla]

Try some different basslines - Riders on The Storm (might've mentioned that before) and Axel F.
Keeps the fingers loose. they might even fall off!

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick is famously complex.

 

[Drago]

I found while My Guitar Gently Weeps very difficult, but it's actually 2 x basslines played simultaneously, so the best I can do is an approximation.