Wall of Mouths

well on the last tour mike played musicman and status :)

@ redhaired: i don´t mind if they are natural redhaired or not …

And of course … STATUS UND REDHAIRED RULES!

But just these two *g*

3ddo-on-the-balcony wrote:

But, let’s have a challenge for the mighty Michael McKeegan: what’s yóur favourite bass?

<eyes closed, fingers crossed> Danelectro Rumour, Danelectro Rumour…

Yours, Ever hopeful..

d

JSar666 wrote:

Are you insinuating that I’m a date rapist and therefore don’t like red-haired women because they require more knock-out juice? :eek:

:eek: indeed! But I think such a person would use some sort of tranquilizer to spike a drink with, rather than carrying around an anaesthetists’ trolley, complete with gas cannister and mask, so I’m inclined to trust you ;)

I thought we’d seen the last of this old thing!

<looks around>

Just as I remember it.

Of course.

Just as a reminder to everyone else who is reading this: what type of bass do you all play?! To recap:

3ddo: Stingray (five string?)
Me: Danelectro Rumor (so there’s no excuses for anyone who is ashamed of what they have ;) )
Tatty:… Umm, d’you know, I can’t _quite_ remember what Tatty’s favourite bass is… Begins with an ‘S’ I think.

And maybe ends with ‘tatus’ :)

And has red hair…;)

We indeed rule of course!

Yeah my bass is something with a “S” at the beginning and ends with some “tatus” … something familiar like this *g*

we are bass players and not frustrated guitarists!
Some people don´t get the differnce. Cause any instrument with strings has to be a guitar and any guitar has to play rock, and any rockguitarrist has to be a front man :(

Yeah we indeed rule … Without our perfect playing and sound no guitar player ever could let his frustration out on his guitar. We get them a solid basement which they can build up all their shit they usually play :)

Yep we indeed rule … Ask the girls … But don´t ask me were you can find any … I don´t know it myself *gggggg*

How old i am ? It depends on what you are call “old” :)

P.S.: How do you get a guitarist to play slow and fewer notes?
…
You´ll get him a sheet of music!

(I hope the joke worked out … If not its just a matter of a bad translation from german language *g*)

I could teach you a bit *gggggggggg*

the guitarist usually has some psychological illness, which doesn´t allow him to play nothing during a solo by another instrument :)

They always have to play …

Totall freaks they are *g*

Bassman are much more polite and friendly and much much more SEXY! REALLY SEXY *g*

What’s this guitarist-bashing all about then, huh? Is it the psychological inferiority complex that all bassists have due to the fact that they only have 4 strings as standard, whereas we Gods Of Strings have 6? ;) Just kidding.

I think a good bassist is harder to come by than a good guitarist, because most bassists I know only started playing the bass because they thought the guitar was too hard. This is why most rock bassists are boring in my opinion.

I really need to buy some new strings for my bass. It’s a Washburn Bantam XB-400 and I’ve not bought new strings for it since 1997.

I think all the Womble Bassers should meet at one place at the same time and meet irishlady :)

That needs jsut to be done one day *g*

That would be just close to a “perfect moment”?

I think the bassman, who write here are all sweetie bass players from the heart and not playing out of frustration.

Irishlady should pick one to go out with her *g*
Some bit of bass lessons should make her hungry :)

I think she´ll probably kill me for that!

Twelve strings in what way: four times three or twice six?

I know Yes’ Chris Squire has a four times three bass. It has the usual string in the middle, with on both sides the same string one octave higher.

And then off course there is a six string bas which is an octave higher than a usual bass and an octave lower than a guitar. It is used on Primary by The Cure.

That tuning is used by Mike and some other bassists as well. Because it sounded awfull on my 4-string, I bought a 5-string. My first was a Bass Collection, a quite unknown brand from Japan. Good but not enough sustain and low. As you already know I got my dreambass :D

He uses different basses, as you know. Some are tuned in E and some are tuned in D. So, you’re right that some songs make more sense when played on a D tuned bass.

Maybe Mike can give his comment on this one day.

@3ddo: yes, it would be good to hear what Michael might have to say about tunings, so if he reads this…

@Tatty: Substitute has to be my favourite, I think it’s the lyrics more than anything, but still a great song all round.

What do you mean with “always a substitute for another guy”? I don’t feel I’m a substitude for whoever in my band. so I guess I must be missing the point.
Anyway, it’s quite late (my clock says 3:00) now so I’m gonna find my way to bed and cuddle up to my babe. :D