Bass - Are you Bi-instrumental too..

[AndyR]

Sounds like you watched (or remember) Record Breakers more than I did :lol:

My image of Roy Castle is always Carry on up the Khyber nowadays - that's the first thing I thought of when I read the post above :lol:

[Philly Q]

My image of Roy Castle is always Carry on up the Khyber nowadays - that's the first thing I thought of when I read the post above :lol:

At least it's one of the best Carry Ons!  :D

[AndyR]

Agreed, but we don't watch it very often (same as Cleo), probably because we've seen it so often (we have all of them except the ill-conceived one a decade or so later with all the current right-on comedians of the time). My favourites at the moment are "At your convenience" (which was apparently a flop because they didn't realise their core audience would not dig a pop at trade unions at the time) "Abroad", and "Don't Lose your head".

... this might seem like a monumental thread de-rail... but I feel that discussing Carry On films is, er, carrying on the "snicker, snicker" spirit of Afghan Dave's original post :lol:

[Philly Q]

I think my favourites would have to be the aforementioned "...Up The Khyber", "...Cleo", "...Spying", "...Cruising" (just love the bit where Dilys Laye says "Her-cu-lees!" about the physical trainer bloke  :lol: ) and, best of all, "Carry On Screaming!" - I think Harry H. Corbett is brilliant, even though the role was obviously meant for Sid James.

I like nearly all of them really, although the quality tailed off a bit in the '70s, especially the last few films.

[Afghan Dave]

Definitely "...Up The Khyber", "...Cleo" for me... both fantastic.  :P

[AndyR]

I feel a bit of a Khyber or Cleo coming on tonight... :D

Although, Screaming is one of Mrs R's favourites... "Frying tonight!!"

[Afghan Dave]

Love Khyber...

"Fakir - off!"    Genius :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Roobubba]

Yup, that is quite a derailment!

[Afghan Dave]

If you stumble into this forum God alone only knows what you would think...  :? :)

[darkbluemurder]

I used to play bass in my first band, and in a later band I sat in for our bass player in a pinch for one gig while he was abroad. But I had to practice the songs for two weeks each day - as Philly mentioned it is physically quite harder than playing guitar.

I also played Dobro for four years in a Bluegrass band.

I started playing violin as a child before picking up the guitar.

I still have a mandolin but to say I play it is a blatant exaggeration - I fight it more or less, and most of the times the mandolin comes out winning ...

Cheers Stephan

[Oli]

A few years ago I built myself a bass, and really enjoy picking it up-- strangely I don't really like playing the same things as I do with guitar... I'd quite like to play bass in an R&B style band, which is not hugely.... me :)

[Philly Q]

-- strangely I don't really like playing the same things as I do with guitar... I'd quite like to play bass in an R&B style band, which is not hugely.... me :)

Do you not find that with guitar as well though?

I would love to be able to play jazz and country, even though I don't particularly enjoy listening to either!

[AndyR]

Hey! Some people are trying to get the thread back on track - wot r u doing?! :lol:

Well, Mrs R says "Screaming" would be good, but she wouldn't mind "Khyber" either... not "Cleo" tonight though...

A few years ago I built myself a bass, and really enjoy picking it up-- strangely I don't really like playing the same things as I do with guitar... I'd quite like to play bass in an R&B style band, which is not hugely.... me :)

Same here on bass for me - I use it to get myself away from my usual blues/rock noodlings.

I'd recommend that any guitarist gives bass a go - explore bass-lines from songs you like but have never paid much attention to what the bassist is doing. It's a real eye-opener if you've never tried it. It's even better if you can play bass "for real" in a band, even if it's only a rehearsal/jam, you suddenly find out a whole bunch of what it's about when it's a decent volume and you feel the interraction with the rest of the band.

[AndyR]

-- strangely I don't really like playing the same things as I do with guitar... I'd quite like to play bass in an R&B style band, which is not hugely.... me :)

Do you not find that with guitar as well though?

I would love to be able to play jazz and country, even though I don't particularly enjoy listening to either!

I think on the RnB front, it's what the bassist does that makes the music interesting. He/she has the groove and feel and often the melodic counterpoint to the lead line. The guitar/whatever is important, but not that exciting (although it does feel good when you play minimal guitar in a grooving combo - it's just not what most of us widdlers are fiddling with and dreaming of all the time!).