Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

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.

I tried to keep the one I was dating from becoming bored.

 

[GonePlaid]

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.

G would lay better. I'll talk to the group.

 

[GonePlaid]

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.

I don't use them a lot(including tuning-I tune @ 5th fret for that reason. just me), but sometimes they work best for me for certain bass lines such as "She's Not There": A-E-A-D-F#-E, all on A string.

 

[GonePlaid]

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 .

I've noticed that on some endings on Sirius/XM where they let songs play out.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I don't use them a lot(including tuning-I tune @ 5th fret for that reason. just me), but sometimes they work best for me for certain bass lines such as "She's Not There": A-E-A-D-F#-E, all on A string.

Hard to manage but some producers used to insist that bass players play as much of the song as possible on a single string. The reason being, it records better, is more even sounding without the need for compression.

 

[GonePlaid]

Hard to manage but some producers used to insist that bass players play as much of the song as possible on a single string. The reason being, it records better, is more even sounding without the need for compression.

With some of today's "drone 16th notes on the root" bass 'parts'(?), that'd be easy.

 

[LBS-bass]

I don't use them a lot(including tuning-I tune @ 5th fret for that reason. just me), but sometimes they work best for me for certain bass lines such as "She's Not There": A-E-A-D-F#-E, all on A string.

Yeah, I don't favor them and would rather play everything at fifth fret positions if I can. A whole lot of dance tunes were written in E though and have a droning low E going on, so I'm good with that. There's a song the blues band is doing that I can really only play correctly by incorporating the open notes but they are so fast you can't really hear any tonal issues. Live videos appear to show everyone in the band playing that lick that way, but you can't really see the bassist so, who knows?

 

[Jeff Scott]

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.

If they didn't want us to play open strings they would have designed basses so you couldn't....................

I love bouncing off of open strings, and, even playing open strings as the occasion requires.

 

[GonePlaid]

Yeah, I don't favor them and would rather play everything at fifth fret positions if I can. A whole lot of dance tunes were written in E though and have a droning low E going on, so I'm good with that. There's a song the blues band is doing that I can really only play correctly by incorporating the open notes but they are so fast you can't really hear any tonal issues. Live videos appear to show everyone in the band playing that lick that way, but you can't really see the bassist so, who knows?

We have determined on another thread that cameras/directors hate bass players.

 

[beans-on-toast]

We have determined on another thread that cameras/directors hate bass players.

Does it have anything to do with the hats?

 

[LBS-bass]

I played them a lot back in the day because I had a bass with a crappy neck that didn’t play well above the fifth fret. Nowadays I try to do different things just because I can

 

[GwenOnBass]

Can fair argument can be made for bouncing open strings with an alloy slide? Asking for a friend.

 

[LBS-bass]

Does it have anything to do with the hats?

The ones we stand next to? Those are the drummer's problem

 

[Al Kraft]

G would lay better. I'll talk to the group.

I'm not sure why G has shown up so often as the key for that song over my years of playing, but it really seems to work well for everyone in the band, including the vocalists.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I'm not sure why G has shown up so often as the key for that song over my years of playing, but it really seems to work well for everyone in the band, including the vocalists.

Maybe because in G, it can be played with three note open guitar chords. They ring out and sound full. People starting out on the guitar will play the song in G for this reason.

 

[Bobhmcs]

I do that with my bass builds. Yeah those aren't mistakes they're 'features'!

INABIAF!! A computer language acronym to resolve a mistake.
It's Not Bug It's A Feature!
Been using it for years.
Bob

 

[beans-on-toast]

The ones we stand next to? Those are the drummer's problem

I think that drummers get even less camera time than bass players. They can hide behind their kit. Bass players only get noticed if they sing or make a big mistake.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Teacher says every time an engineer uses an acronym, a CRM 114 Discrimanator blows itself up.

 

[beans-on-toast]

50 years since McCartney released his first solo album.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Uncertain how much I can "like" 50 years.