The Bassist and Guitarist thread

[Drago]

You want an LK edition Rickenbacker bass.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You want an LK edition Rickenbacker bass.

This!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Or this….

 

[Cycleops]

With all the talk about banjos on here and there being a few bass players too I thought I would share this video of Foggy Mountain Breakdown played on a bass. Quite incredible piece of playing.

View: https://youtu.be/HUIsiou0gj4

 

[Jim Cardiff]

With all the talk about banjos on here and there being a few bass players too I thought I would share this video of Foggy Mountain Breakdown played on a bass. Quite incredible piece of playing.

View: https://youtu.be/HUIsiou0gj4

I was at the Pizza Express jazz club in Soho a couple of years back when the band called up Yolanda Charles from the audience and she and the drummer did an incredible improvisation (during which the drummer lost a shoe and cut his hand!) She usually plays a 5 string bass. Quite a player. - see eg

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChgDcuOJuHA

No banjo though!

 

[Drago]

She had a piece in Bass Player recently.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

IF,I do risk my interpretation of Senior Management saying "Do What You Want" being correct about buying a guitar, which do I buy/order?

Orange Stain G4320

OR.....................

Riviera Blue G2420?

 

[Cycleops]

I’d go for the orange @Richard A Thackeray

Why is it Gretsch don’t seem to be so popular these days?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I’d go for the orange @Richard A Thackeray

Why is it Gretsch don’t seem to be so popular these days?

@Cycleops
It probably would be the orange, as l’ve liked the colour since first seeing colourised pictures of Eddie Cochran playing one, & of course, Brian Setzer too

Popularity?
Can’t say, unless it looks too ‘old fashioned’
They have a fair stable of signature artists though!
Setzer, in the 90s, was the first since Chet Atkins, in the 60s!

Another lesser known Gretsch devotee was Poison Ivy, of The Cramps
I thought I ought to use a more 'prim' photograph of her..................

EDIT @ 11:13
Four pages; https://gretschguitars.com/artists

 

[MontyVeda]

He couldn’t do a D chord. He said his ‘fingers didn’t fit on the strings’. After a week he couldn’t or daren’t progress to a A chord as he assumed it would be harder.
I am a bad person as I didn’t disillusion him. Just handed over the money. When I first learned, it took me a bit to get that D chord tidy but never looked back after. I still, sometimes have to think with a D minor.

I have forgotten my scales but remembered the first couple of bars of Cliffs of Dover. First few bars of Evil Eye too.

Very glad that the lad had no stickability. I really love that little amp he sold it with too. It’s really rather good.

I find open A a bit of a squash in its standard position, and tend to play it up at the 5th instead, shown in the bottom image...

 

[Saluki]

I find open A a bit of a squash in its standard position, and tend to play it up at the 5th instead, shown in the bottom image...
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I like that. Thank you. I have little girly hands so an A isn’t a big issue for me.
I mostly have problems changing chords quickly, but practicing that a lot now. Going from Em to D is a doddle, then hopping to a C is tricky for me. I could just stop playing Eleanor Rigby but of course, but it’s the only bit that still catches me out.

Really enjoying re-engaging with guitar. I have the Justin-guitar app. With that and a metronome, it’s slowly coming along. Some days, my annoying hands, just say that playing isn’t happening. I do try to just do a couple of finger exercise, on those days, just to get them moving. My job is brain numbing so learning again, as well as my Dutch language app, keeps my brain from shrivelling up from lack of use.

 

[Badger_Boom]

As a badly self-tought strummer I've always taken the cavalier one finger approach to playing an open A, but I too have always suffered with the speed of changes problem These days I just play slower stuff.

 

[carpiste]

As a badly self-tought strummer I've always taken the cavalier one finger approach to playing an open A, but I too have always suffered with the speed of changes problem These days I just play slower stuff.

I just go down the open tuning route and barre everything. Easy and no or little stress on the fingers/ brain
Even better I mostly play 3 string GDG or DAD

 

[Drago]

Christmas gig on Saturday, so a solid morning spent at practice ahoy.

 

[Drago]

Last practice all done ready for Christmas gig tomorrow.