Recent content by Durham52

Gotta love Talkbass, OP's question answered at post #3, confirmed by about 4 other posters by post #9. Traditional carved figure in Linden wood and a turned bowl.

I know it's sort of the done thing among some here to dis all guitar players, but come on. This is a new band, so probably people are still feeling their way around each other, yet the OP has failed the guitarist before he/she has even had a chance.... Given past history with band related...

First album, The Who Sell Out. Favorite albums I still listen to regularly and never get tired of, countless dozens.... Astral Weeks, Court and Spark, Hejira, Stand Up, Pulse, Power In The Darkness, Blood On The Tracks, Red Guitar, Traffic From Paradise, Fragile, Selling England By The Pound...

Here's a few labels from an Aussie recording company, a true local institution, Mushroom records The others are the first records I ever bought as a 10, 11, or 12 year old. The Beatles, Love Me Do/PS I Love You, 1962, The EP, Twist and Shout/A Taste of Honey/Do You Want to Know a...

Yes, Tassie is Tasmania. Australians have a habit of shortening names and adding either a ie/y sound to the end or an o sound. (don't know jawn is one of you 'Merican' words isn't it, a word for joint or place?) Barbeque = barbie, Freo = Fremantle (a city in Western Australia), we do the add an...

I remember reading an interview with Pete's roadie where he said after the initial few years, he used to buy used guitars in pawn shops and Pete would smash them and then they'd put them back together and use them over and over. Somewhere after the heady days of the 60's and 70's, the guitar...

Yes, the ones in Tassie likewise. There's also a fairly large ant down there and less common in Victoria, but I've seen a few here, called an 'Inchman" ant, I'm sure you can work out why the name. Never been bitten by one and they don't seem very aggressive, but I wouldn't like to stand in a mob...

I don't think we get it so bad down here in Australia, though on the ant front we have some beauties, down in Tasmania there's the 'Jack Jumper Ant', about a centimeter long and a bite like a Bull Ant, but they can jump about 30 inches upwards, so they don't need to crawl up your leg to get you...

In reality many bass players don't hold fast to this 'rule', check out photos of many of thee greats playing and you'll see instances where they move fingers in elation to their thumb wherever they need to to play the piece. All these supposed iron clad rules remind me of learning to play...

Yeah, I'm 70 and while I remember him, (Not much more, than that, but then I'm not 'merican) I certainly remember The Lone Ranger, as seen on a grainy black and white TV in the 1950's. My dad on the other hand used to tell me about Tom Mix(?) movies at Saturday cinema matinee's when he was a...

Wow! Page 21! I though this thread had just about run it's course yesterday at around page 8. Shows what I know... Chill peoples, it's about music, opinions vary. People say stupid things in an attempt to be funny or get likes. Some of the responses here, you'd think this Steve guy just...

I still play the first few Dan albums regularly, they're my favorites, snappier music, some stellar playing and some really clever lyrics among them. The later albums not so much, More complex, but maybe more sterile, but that's just my opinion and tastes. I really don't get the level of...

Here's another to listen to.

I think that explains what the 'difference' between a guitar and a piccolo bass very well. Bassists who play to the instruments strengths are worth checking out, from Stanley Clarke to Zander Zon and everything in-between.

I'm with you, though in a less diplomatic way. Once people get into this judging music as, 'for people less evolved than me', or who see some sort of musical pecking order toped by the 'we advanced, more knowledgeable about music, lucky few', then I've got to think they've missed the whole point...