neepheid
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As I mentioned in the "Whatcha listenin' to?" thread, watching an ABBA documentary last night sparked off a wave of nostalgia in me, and brought back into sharp focus the ceremony of putting a record on, or loading and rewinding a tape to the beginning. Some of you may have begun your musical journey by listening to the music of your parents/guardians. Track 1, side 1 always sticks in the mind for obvious reasons - it's the track you most readily associate with the album in the predominantly sequential world of the record/tape. Enough waffle, here's 11 that I remember, in alphabetical by artist, then chronological by release date so no favourites: Artist - Album - Track ABBA - Greatest Hits Vol. 2 - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)ABBA - Super Trouper - Super TrouperCream - Fresh Cream - I Feel FreeCream - Wheels of Fire - White RoomCurved Air - Airconditioning - It Happened TodayEmerson, Lake and Palmer - Trilogy - The Endless Enigma (Part One)Genesis - Nursery Cryme - The Musical BoxGenesis - Selling England By The Pound - Dancing With the Moonlit KnightCharles Penrose - All Aboard! - The Laughing PolicemanSteppenwolf - Easy Rider Soundtrack - The PusherWishbone Ash - Argus - Time Was And one that my naive kid self didn't listen to because he thought the sleeve looked boring: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu - Carry On
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Thanks to the recent ABBA documentary on BBC, I've gone on a major nostalgia thing - side 1, track 1s of the parental vinyl/tapes that I listened to when I was a kid. I think I'll start a thread about it, but to contribute here: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - track 1, side1, ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 Also the bassage in this is crazy - galloping octaves, slides, funky popped notes, sounds bloody mental. Must try it.
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Agreed, but it's amazing how much easier it makes things with a little background knowledge. It's the same as when I started taking some bass lessons. Had been entirely self taught up to then but the lessons really filled in the gaps and gave names to the things I did but didn't know why I did them or what they were called. Now that I'm writing some songs, I think I'm pretty good with words, but up to now I've just been pricking about on the computer for chords until something sounds good. Would like to know WHY it sounds good and if I'm in a certain key then have some signposts at the forks in the road.
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Yup, I enjoyed that. No chin stroking required Particularly liked the contrast between the raw main vocal and the sweeter backing vocals.
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Next you'll be telling me it's "cunty" to wear a wedding ring. The nerve of some folk, advertising their relationship status to the whole offline world.
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http://www.axesrus.com - the free postage is great for buying little bits n bobs.
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It's a bit old now, but I've been more than happy with my Motorola RAZR i. It's a nice size, smaller than a Galaxy S3 and the like. Haven't looked at what Motorola are up to right now though so cannot advise on current phones. New phone time for me is September, so have plenty of time to chew it over.
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I started writing songs (and actually presenting the ideas to the band for further development) last year and I want to get better at it. Probably just by doing it more, as most of the stuff I've read about song writing has been airy-fairy, content and direction free "you can do it" twaddle. Improving my understanding of music theory, keys and chords and the like will probably help.
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S'pose that's you spent all your pennies now
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There is no such thing as a Thunderbird guitar. The similarly shaped guitar is called a Firebird. Sorry for the pedantry but redundant questions bug me. Carry on, good luck with the sales
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Nope, it was back in 1994.
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I wished death upon someone once and it happened exactly as I wished it a little under a fortnight later.
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What's your favourite sweetie? It really is a minefield of personal preference. I presume you've decided to go with roundwounds and not flats or half-rounds. I'd probably recommend nickel rather than stainless steel, but I haven't had a lot of experience with stainless steel so it's just based upon what I'm used to. Obviously if you have a nickel allergy then you should use stainless steel. FWIW I use very cheap, but very good, but very difficult to find Hartke 45-105 nickel rounds unless they don't fit due to through body stringing and the likes, then it's D'Addario XL 45-105 nickel rounds. They've both got a nice feel, not too rough and not too smooth either. But it really is a complete personal preference thing, and an expensive business to find out what you like. A cheaper option might be to go on a site like basschat.co.uk - not to ask for this advice because you'll probably start a holy war or something, but there's often people selling second hand sets that they've barely used because they didn't like them. A cheaper way of trying out different strings. perhaps.
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I wish I could be contributing to this thread. Ask me next year
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I had a fantastic old toaster when I was a student, "borrowed" it from my folks. It used to eject the toast out sideways at an angle, sometimes it even launched the toast completely out of itself if it was in a mood to do so. Made bloody good toast an a'. That's the guy! Toast's ready, duck!
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Aye but the point is with any of the Handy Recorder type devices (of which the Zoom H2N is merely one), you can just set it up (mains powered via any phone charger made these days) and leave it running the whole session. I do this then slice and dice the recording at home. All jams, ideas, "play that again" moments captured. Also the sound quality is surprisingly good, even when you take into account the fact that that's its purpose.
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Get it drunk, you fairy.
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Love this one, magnificent bassage, I've tried to wrap my head/fingers around it a couple of times but failed so far. Maybe this year.
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For this long term memory condition, fortunately there is a cure:
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I just don't even know where to start. We're doomed from the initial contact thing: Ages of Band Members: Most of the adult multiple choice age brackets covered, except the first one. Genre: Ill-advised, horn sectioned R&B revival? Biggest Gig you've ever played?: A cow shed near New Deer. How did you first hear of Fat Hippy?: Not sure, I was rather drunk at the time, but I came home with a CD. Etc. etc. I really don't think we're BOTB material. Mostly because I don't know what kind of material we are yet.
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It does not have a hard case. Rich Lewis in BoD did the wiring modification. He's my go-to guy for everything I can't/won't/shouldn't do to a guitar/bass. To be honest I could have done this mod myself, but he's way neater and tidier with the soldering iron than me.
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I haven't tried it, but Paint.NET is free and might be simpler than (or at least different to) GIMP. Info here: http://www.getpaint.net/index.html (the software itself is kosher but the site is loaded with download buttons that download other things - naughty!) so.... Download here: http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html
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Has anyone got an old, scruffy, unpadded, inexpensive bass guitar gig bag hanging around that they want rid of? It just has to hold a bass, keep the rain off, you know?
