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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?

« on: November 03, 2023, 03:21:10 AM »

Quote from: uwe on October 24, 2023, 12:52:27 PM

This is cool! Reminds me of these guys here

which I first heard in Morocco and have since witnessed live in Brussels. They are Tuaregs from the Sahara region in Mali. Their name Tinariwen means desert in the Tuareg language.

Tuareg blues was a revelation to me when i first heard Cerys Mathews playing it on her radio 2 blues show. I grew up in the middle east so there are certain music motifs that hit me right in the childhood. to hear middle eastern playing combined with electric blues was a marriage made in heaven

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Gibson Basses / are 93 T-birds any good?

« on: November 03, 2023, 03:02:33 AM »

I'm looking to invest around £2k in a Gibson bass i can hang on my wall and look at, that will not depreciate in value

I'm looking at this bird on reverb, its a bit younger than i was hoping for, but also a lot cheaper than I was expecting is there any reason for this? were mid 90s birds pigs for any reason?

https://reverb.com/uk/item/74601496-gibson-thunderbird-iv-1993-vintage-sunburst

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?

« on: October 20, 2023, 10:13:51 AM »

not my usual type of music but ive been enjoying a deep dive into the back catalogue of local busker turned youtube sensation Ren. His strange blend of hip hop and folk is nicely different

a lot of his stuff is autobiographical charting his battles with autoimune disease

I also like the fact that a lot of his tunes are episodic, he comes back to them again and again radically reworking or just entirely new songs with the same theme

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Brooks Nachtkrapp - Night Raven

« on: October 17, 2023, 08:49:30 PM »

simply gorgeous

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Bill's Shop: Projects, Mods & Repairs / Re: Oooweee it's an UV!

« on: July 29, 2023, 01:30:08 AM »

breathtakingly beautiful

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Gibson Basses / Re: How much thunderbird will £3k buy me?

« on: March 06, 2023, 11:46:29 PM »

Thank you all,

an RD would fit the bill, I'm a Krist Novoselic fan which helps,

plus the fact that for many years I thought that the bass that had first blown me away live (Craig Adams in the Mission) was a thunderbird, but it has since turned out to be an RD.

hmmm,

wonders if 3k might get an RD and a second hand modern epi bird

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: The dangerous life of a guitar tech

« on: March 05, 2023, 05:30:31 PM »

Quote from: Dave W on February 15, 2023, 03:37:03 PM

Since there's so much love for Bruce here.

I watched Ricky Warwick's tech do that gag with Thin Lizzy and completely lunch it. he even put special white gloves on in preparation, then completely failed to check the momentum and the butt of the guitar slammed into his tuning table and knocked all his shit on the floor. big dink in the guitar too.

We all laughed like drains tho cos the guy had been a real dick to us locals on the load in

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Buckets the Drummer

« on: March 05, 2023, 05:21:50 PM »

Quote from: Dave W on February 22, 2023, 04:30:55 PM

Fancy stickwork!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/721803409387447/?s=single_unit

thats the best yet, I'm transfixed by the way the nose wobbles

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Ten Bands That Should Retire

« on: March 05, 2023, 05:14:59 PM »

Quote from: slinkp on February 26, 2023, 05:17:41 PM

Despite being a huge Entwistle fan - he had a huge impact on me as a young bassist - I don't agree the Who (or "The Two") should have retired after Entwistle died. They did some quite good shows on the Endless Wire tour, though it was a very uneven album. The 2019 "Who" album was pretty decent too. But sometime in the last few years I agree they've really run out of steam as a live group.
That 2010 Super Bowl performance was dreadful.

Thats sad to hear

they are finishing their current tour in my local cricket ground so I'll be helping load them in/out

I was stoked to get to see them (even without the ox)

now not so much

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?

« on: March 05, 2023, 05:12:04 PM »

Quote from: Pilgrim on March 05, 2023, 12:26:46 PM

I really did it!

glad its not just me

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Gibson Basses / Re: How much thunderbird will £3k buy me?

« on: March 05, 2023, 05:06:13 PM »

Quote from: Stjofön Big on March 05, 2023, 01:36:14 PM

What to do? Get hold of a 60's Tbird. That's what I would do if I were in your clothes. Go cat, go!

is a 60's bird more in my price range than a bicentennial?* are they the holy grail of T-birds?

Quote from: uwe on March 05, 2023, 01:08:52 PM

It's like waiting for the benefits of BREXIT, which will eventually come, I'm sure.

Thank you, and umm, ouch

*The bicentennial is one of my earliest memories, at 4 years old I was living in a US airbase in the middle east when suddenly all the yanks went bonkers. I thought it had something to do with buffalo

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The Bass Zone / Whats the real name for the "octave pop" funk move ?

« on: March 05, 2023, 04:56:11 PM »

Hi does anyone know the real name for the thing you do (especially in funk) where you bounce between the root and the octave two stings higher

I had it explained to me as the "Octave Pop" years ago and have been calling it that but now I want to reference it in my dissertation and I cant find it as a phrase anywhere on the internet. I think the guy who taught me must have made the name up.

I'm sure it has a real name but I've crapped out how to ask G**gle to tell me

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Gibson Basses / Re: Music videos that feature Thunderbirds

« on: March 05, 2023, 04:45:28 PM »

Quote from: doombass on October 22, 2022, 04:33:36 PM

Jamie Stewart and ebony Bicentennial:

ooh thank you for that, Jamie Stweart was one half of the reason I took up bass, but by Sonic Temple they had got too "american" for 20 year old me.

I very rarely played sonic temple even when I had Cult Freak painted on the back of my jacket, and this was it as its most schmaltsy.

oddly enough 50 year old me likes it more

and definitely the best use of Ciao Baby in a song.

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