What happened to bass solos?

Stop...

You'll only encourage me.

To write the perfect concept album;

1) Come up with a concept.

2) Write excellent music that in some way conveys the theme of the concept and hangs together coherently to make a full piece over the entire length of the album*

3) Write great lyrics that poetically convey the concept in hand, preferably relating it to social issues so that there is more depth than a simple flat theme*

4) Ensure that there is drama in both lyrics and music, and that the lights and shades are adequately coloured and contrasted.

5) Some kind of catharsis can lead to an inevitablity, which, of course, will lend a degree of drive - but maybe you don't want that. Maybe the concept is purely psychedelic and needs no explanation or drive. Here is where you inject your originality.

*) Note that 2) and 3) are interchangeable.

Job Done - instant concept album!

5 minute solo wrote: Manowar did the entire William Tell Overture on bass alone so that is probably why some people are opposed to the idea.

Ooo I love that song! They also did The Flight Of The Bumblebee! He plays an 8-string bass, doesn't he?

Has the bass solo ended yet?

FINE, ANYTHING THATS RUSTY AND SHARP! bECAUSE IF YOU DON'T KILL THEM THEY'RE LIKELY TO GET GANGREEN BECAUSE OF THE RUST! IT BE A WIN - WIN SITUATION ME LADS, ARRRH!

No your in the right place. Bass players rule! Or maybe they're all just crazy? They stand around not saying much and smiling a lot to make it look like they're enjoying themselves but really in ther minds they're killing the audience with a rusty hacksaw!

Conspiracy or timing?

Funny thing, the world being round, isn't it? Dark on one side, light on the other and kind of dawn/dusk in between. I miss the Flat Earth days.... I and the Velvet Clown, that is!!!

My prescription for you, Mr. Solo, if I may be so bold, is to adjust your schedule to maximize your ability to communicate with forum members. My regular schedule for forum scrounging is 7:15 am to 4:00 pm PST - Monday through Friday. Weekends are up for grabs and usually too consumed with beer drinking and playing house to enable me to surf. 

OR

You may PM those members you find exciting and intriguing and find out their schedules to develop some consistant interaction.

Now call me paranoid if you like but I feel like everyone is ignoring me because evrytime I'm on no one else is here. You all hate me! That's it! It be a conspiracy maties!

And suddenly everyones paying all kinds of attention!

Tell me about your mother...