Rig Rundown from Ian King: in the pit on "Hamilton" in the West End. Bass / DB / Synth.
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Saw him at our Basschat Day last year where he was a guest speaker. Fabulous player that can do the lot and one of my favourite players of recent times.
I look forward to watching this - Cheers
I look forward to watching this - Cheers
MODS: moved to Bass
Wow, a talented guy!
Nice one. I'll be watching this later after work.
Spend a lifetime honing your art then the band wants you to play a staccato root note every couple of bars. Life's not fair on bass players.
Getting something like that right can be just as challenging as the more showy stuff.Al_Nico said:Spend a lifetime honing your art then the band wants you to play a staccato root note every couple of bars. Life's not fair on bass players.
I love getting lost in a simple groove. If I get that right, the punters start dancing.
They think it was because of the singer or guitarist etc.
it wasn't. It was the bassist. All the power from behind the curtain...
;)
Spend a lifetime honing your art to the point you know exactly what the music needs is a staccato root note every couple of bars, and praying the guitarist remembers and hasn’t got show-off ego diarrhoea…Al_Nico said:Spend a lifetime honing your art then the band wants you to play a staccato root note every couple of bars. Life's not fair on bass players.
'The groove shall be the law and all of the law'. Do what thou wilt but break not the law!'LukeFRC said:Spend a lifetime honing your art to the point you know exactly what the music needs is a staccato root note every couple of bars, and praying the guitarist remembers and hasn’t got show-off ego diarrhoea…Al_Nico said:Spend a lifetime honing your art then the band wants you to play a staccato root note every couple of bars. Life's not fair on bass players.
When Chris V posted on here (and The Guitar and Bass magazine still existed) I said why don’t you feature people like pit musicians, that would be very interesting. Chris said yes it would. Never did. And that was interesting I thought.
As well as music I've spent half my life around theatre ... and musical theatre: pit musicians are awesome.EricTheWeary said:When Chris V posted on here (and The Guitar and Bass magazine still existed) I said why don’t you feature people like pit musicians, that would be very interesting. Chris said yes it would. Never did. And that was interesting I thought.
Great vid.
Though he looks and sounds so much like my friend Matt it's quite uncanny...!
Though he looks and sounds so much like my friend Matt it's quite uncanny...!
One thought when he talks about monitoring - it must be LOVELY to have a consistent mix every show and always know what you're gonna get!
This is great stuff, really informative. Full di without cabs of course, and with playing examples for each instrument and effect.
And a few stories of things going wrong - including when another musician changes his patches wrongly it changes other people's patches too!