DCBassman
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Gratuitous shot of my 51RI Precision taken at the Tavistock Wharf, January 2010
The Bassist and Guitarist thread
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Drago
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Jaco was a diletente. Lemmy is a real bassist.
delb0y
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Jaco's playing on Joni's Mitchell's Hejira (partly) made that album. There again, Lemmy's playing on many a Motorhead song, makes those songs... Both great in their respective genres. How about Victor Wooten? Any fans?
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Drago
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Much love here for both Ian Anderson and Mike Oldfield as bassists. Ian did most of the bass work on the Stormwatch album because regular bassist John Glascock was ill (and soonafter died) and Anderson's playing has one hell of a groove. Oldfield did most of his own bass playing on his esrly albums, and he also has a serious dose of finger funk - there are a few films of him playing bass on pooptube and he is proper good.
DCBassman
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Other similar cases: Prince recordings are all him.
A lot of Hendrix stuff is all Hendrix, although personally I don't like his style, eg Watchtower.
A lot of Hendrix stuff is all Hendrix, although personally I don't like his style, eg Watchtower.
ColinJ
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I have been posting a lot of guitar competitions in this thread. Many of them are UK based, but some are based in the USA but allow entries from the UK. I just looked up what the rules are for receiving such a prize here.
It appears that we would currently have to pay a 2% import levy, plus 20% VAT on the value of the prize PLUS shipping and insurance. Safe to say that would be ~25% total. So, winning a guitar worth $1,500 could cost UK members about £275 at today's exchange rate. If you have the cash, that would be a very good deal. I don't, so I would have to borrow the money and then sell the prize to pay it back!
It may be that some competition organisers would cover those extra costs, but I would assume that they would NOT so as not to get a nasty shock, should you be lucky enough to win.
It appears that we would currently have to pay a 2% import levy, plus 20% VAT on the value of the prize PLUS shipping and insurance. Safe to say that would be ~25% total. So, winning a guitar worth $1,500 could cost UK members about £275 at today's exchange rate. If you have the cash, that would be a very good deal. I don't, so I would have to borrow the money and then sell the prize to pay it back!
It may be that some competition organisers would cover those extra costs, but I would assume that they would NOT so as not to get a nasty shock, should you be lucky enough to win.
delb0y
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Heard that the great Tony Rice passed away on Christmas Day. Superb flat-picker and great vocalist. Sad loss.
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Drago
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Been getting to grips with the Tascam GB-10 guitar and bass trainer. Now I'm used to it i have found it to be a brilliant, easy to use piece of kit. Well worth laying your hands on if you haben't got one.
DCBassman
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I have the older mp-bt1 trainer, very good. Will need replacing soon, the GB-10 is the one to get, for sure.
Salad Dodger
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I am not a Gibson devotee (unless anyone has a J45 or a J200 laying about that they would like to give a good home to), but I should have thought that someone in USA would give you a good price for it......
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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As has been the story of my (guitar playing) life, I picked up the guitar regularly for a few weeks, got distracted, and stopped...
Something unexpected happened though... I have been getting regular visits from my Covid 'bubble pal' and she noticed that I had my guitar out of storage and decided to have a go. She thinks that she is making little progress, but I have listening to her over the months and she is definitely improving. Slow, steady progress. She hasn't completely nailed 'F' yet but I reckon that she soon will.
I saw that she was tilting the top of the guitar towards her to get a better look at the fretboard but that meant a big bend of the left wrist. I persuaded her to keep the guitar upright and lean forward more - that really helped her.
She said something which rings true... She enjoys practising so she practises. She thinks that I am more interested in being able to play and get frustrated that I can't, and so I don't enjoy the journey. I think she is right - I need to relax and enjoy the steps along the way.
To illustrate the problem... I have had guitars for 55 years and I can tell you exactly how many tunes/songs that I have tried to learn in that time. If you had to guess, you might say 1,000? 500? 250? Nope, the answer is ZERO! Nought! None! Not a single one. Endless twiddly little things that never got joined together with anything else to make a coherent whole. I don't like to hear myself playing badly, so I just don't play.
I'll probably crack it about 10 minutes before the Grim Reaper calls!
Something unexpected happened though... I have been getting regular visits from my Covid 'bubble pal' and she noticed that I had my guitar out of storage and decided to have a go. She thinks that she is making little progress, but I have listening to her over the months and she is definitely improving. Slow, steady progress. She hasn't completely nailed 'F' yet but I reckon that she soon will.
I saw that she was tilting the top of the guitar towards her to get a better look at the fretboard but that meant a big bend of the left wrist. I persuaded her to keep the guitar upright and lean forward more - that really helped her.
She said something which rings true... She enjoys practising so she practises. She thinks that I am more interested in being able to play and get frustrated that I can't, and so I don't enjoy the journey. I think she is right - I need to relax and enjoy the steps along the way.
To illustrate the problem... I have had guitars for 55 years and I can tell you exactly how many tunes/songs that I have tried to learn in that time. If you had to guess, you might say 1,000? 500? 250? Nope, the answer is ZERO! Nought! None! Not a single one. Endless twiddly little things that never got joined together with anything else to make a coherent whole. I don't like to hear myself playing badly, so I just don't play.
I'll probably crack it about 10 minutes before the Grim Reaper calls!
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Drago
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I keep track - I learned 44 new songs in 2020.
