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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Are they still building that? Will it never end? :roflmao:
Reminds me of this. All for it
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The group I'm assisting as they continue their bassist search does a song* in A(I think the original is in F) that puts me either too high or too low. The bass line is quite specific, in both note and pattern. It's the key that fits the singer's voice. 90+% of the audience won't know the difference, so I live with it.

ETA: So I googled and listened to it. I'll be dipped: it's in A!! Just doesn't 'feel' right in that range but doesn't fit the pattern down. Aaaaarrrggh:banghead:

Oh, well, I'll hit the open A on the ending(sigh)

*Stand By Me
That's a VERY specific bassline.
 
Once you hear something out of place in a recording, you can’t un-hear it. It’s always there. Bad tape edits can stick out. Today they tend to fix these things when albums are remastered.
The ones the bother me are the tape or mastering errors where speed fluctuates ever so slightly and you get a tiny pitch shift. Most people don't notice them, but they drive me mad, which is only made worse when I try to point them out to people and they don't hear them. The end of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" has one. I keep thinking somebody must have heard that and decided it wasn't worth fixing, which surprised me with those guys.

The only reason I have any recordings up of myself playing is that I needed something to send around to people when I was auditioning for bands. The solo ones can probably come down at this point. The band videos are mainly up there for band promotion. I'm not that keen on watching myself play :( .
 
The group I'm assisting as they continue their bassist search does a song* in A(I think the original is in F) that puts me either too high or too low. The bass line is quite specific, in both note and pattern. It's the key that fits the singer's voice. 90+% of the audience won't know the difference, so I live with it.

ETA: So I googled and listened to it. I'll be dipped: it's in A!! Just doesn't 'feel' right in that range but doesn't fit the pattern down. Aaaaarrrggh:banghead:

Oh, well, I'll hit the open A on the ending(sigh)

*Stand By Me
I've noticed there was a lot less open string phobia back in the day. Makes sense, when you think about it. Upright players use their open strings a lot more than bass guitarists do, and back then almost everyone playing bass had an upright background. Couple that with an influx of people learning in their garages, and you're going to have open strings.
 
The ones the bother me are the tape or mastering errors where speed fluctuates ever so slightly and you get a tiny pitch shift. Most people don't notice them, but they drive me mad, which is only made worse when I try to point them out to people and they don't hear them. The end of "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" has one. I keep thinking somebody must have heard that and decided it wasn't worth fixing, which surprised me with those guys.

The only reason I have any recordings up of myself playing is that I needed something to send around to people when I was auditioning for bands. The solo ones can probably come down at this point. The band videos are mainly up there for band promotion. I'm not that keen on watching myself play :( .

One the specs for tape machines was “flutter and wow”. It measured the ability of a tape machine to keep a constant speed.
 
The group I'm assisting as they continue their bassist search does a song* in A(I think the original is in F) that puts me either too high or too low. The bass line is quite specific, in both note and pattern. It's the key that fits the singer's voice. 90+% of the audience won't know the difference, so I live with it.

ETA: So I googled and listened to it. I'll be dipped: it's in A!! Just doesn't 'feel' right in that range but doesn't fit the pattern down. Aaaaarrrggh:banghead:

Oh, well, I'll hit the open A on the ending(sigh)

*Stand By Me
Every group I've played with always did Stand by Me in G, but I do seem to recall A being the original key as well.
 
Zappa kept Flo & Eddie's mistakes in the recording for Live at Fillmore East.

Passenger air pilots and doctors are two lines of work that get no pass from me for "good enough". One thing I learn through enough takeoffs and landings is the expectation of certain sounds coupled with certain physical events that happen in a certain order. Sensitive to ones that do not occur as expected. Watch the FAs closely. They absolutely know what's going on. A bored FA is reassuring.
 
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