British Gaians... show your faces!

[Boolean Julian]

*Puts on infuriatingly benevelont voice to feign wisdom* The grass is always greener on the other side...  

[MellowYetPsycho]

whapcapn

*Puts on infuriatingly benevelont voice to feign wisdom* The grass is always greener on the other side...

close enough. candy will slap you now whee  

[Invictus_88]

whapcapn

*Puts on infuriatingly benevelont voice to feign wisdom* The grass is always greener on the other side...

Oh, I'd not be so sure.. rolleyes  

[TheLoneBassist46]

whapcapn

*Puts on infuriatingly benevelont voice to feign wisdom* The grass is always greener on the other side...

*takes out a base ball bat and hit you across the head with it* Anyways... how's the weather? xd  

[Days of Empire]

Myself with two of my four basses.  

[MellowYetPsycho]

wonderful! a fellow musician. i used to play bass quite a bit. i never learned that many things though...then my brother took the amp and bass to college with him.

what kind are those?  

[Days of Empire]

Hah, I have a Vintage Stingray replica, a Dean DB96 six-stringer, a Vintage V940FL fretless bass (bubinga body, active P/J pickups - ridiculously good for the price) and an acoustic bass. (acoustic bass guitar, not an upright)

I've been playing for about two and a half years now, and I'm actually at Uni doing a degree on Sound Engineering.  

[Boolean Julian]

I generally speaking make a lot of enemies when I say this, but isn't electric bass just an easier double bass?
(I am a musician myself. I play piano and cello, and currently play keyboard in a band.)  

[TheLoneBassist46]

Hoorah! A fellow Musician! I myself play Bass and i've just started though, but I'm gettin there...  

[Invictus_88]

Interpol - Evil.

"Letting bass guitar come to the fore.."  

[Days of Empire]

whapcapn

I generally speaking make a lot of enemies when I say this, but isn't electric bass just an easier double bass?
(I am a musician myself. I play piano and cello, and currently play keyboard in a band.)

Hmm... Yes and no.

Originally when the electric guitar was invented, double basses were used in the early rock bands. But as the venues got larger, they found they had problems keeping the levels right, as the electric guitar was a lot easier to amplify than the double bass. So, Leo Fender applied the the technology of the electric guitar to the double bass, and created the electric bass. It has an entirely different sound to the double bass, and different techniques. With the exception of pizzicato playing and fingerstyle, which are similar, none of the techniques of either transpose to the other.

However, then you get electric basses like my latest toy.



Unlined fretless bass - much closer to the double bass!




And after all, isn't the cello just a big violin? wink  

[MellowYetPsycho]

Erix Griffon

whapcapn

I generally speaking make a lot of enemies when I say this, but isn't electric bass just an easier double bass?
(I am a musician myself. I play piano and cello, and currently play keyboard in a band.)

Hmm... Yes and no.

Originally when the electric guitar was invented, double basses were used in the early rock bands. But as the venues got larger, they found they had problems keeping the levels right, as the electric guitar was a lot easier to amplify than the double bass. So, Leo Fender applied the the technology of the electric guitar to the double bass, and created the electric bass. It has an entirely different sound to the double bass, and different techniques. With the exception of pizzicato playing and fingerstyle, which are similar, none of the techniques of either transpose to the other.

However, then you get electric basses like my latest toy.



Unlined fretless bass - much closer to the double bass!




And after all, isn't the cello just a big violin? wink

hah. yeah really..

my friend steve has a six string fretless bass guitar. it's pretty cool. without fret's i'm lost though...that's why i find violin so hard.  

[davidcrossfan06]

Invictus_88

Interpol - Evil.

"Letting bass guitar come to the fore.."

MY GOD I adore that song. The band as a whole, actually.

I tried to get my (male) avatar's name to be Rosemary but it was already taken. stressed Fool.

Radiohead: Airbag.

You don't notice the bass at first but it's ******** loud.

I play guitar, badly, but I was never that fond of the bass.  

[British Rebel]

Now this is not me, but do keep reading...

Now I will be getting a new pic soon, all the old ones I lost.

Also I did some surfing and found this pic.

Now this girl looks so much like me, only I have blonde hair to me waist i might get a trim, I don't know. Also I have blue eyes and Freckles on the checks... well you will just have to see for yourself when I get a new pic done.

Also this girl looks very posh with those colthes... I very rarely were clothes like that...

Also I am 5'5 I have no Idea what hight she is and also I am 14 she looks maybe 18 or 17, no Idea?

Also I am:

30% British
30% Welsh (yes I am usally the butt of jokes)
because they say that people from wales don't really have humor, but I sure do!
and
40% Irish

Also this is weird...

I was born in Germany, me mum and da were in the US army! whee

Mum: 22 years (SGM, E9)
Da: 20 years (SG, E8 )

And well now they are retired!

(Da only went to Iraq, Afganastand(sp?), and Hungry)

Mum was to high in rank to go

Well enough about that

I also have a younger sister (12)

Well there you have it I just said stuff, that really means nothing to any of you... sorry sweatdrop

I just like to talk about alot of stuff! whee xd  

[Lord Jagged]

Welcome to the GBG. I am sure that you will fit in.
Everyone else does.