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the slides and slapping got a bit over the top with the brittle jazz sound, but he played some great fingerstyle when he just stuck to the groove. I liked the inclusion of Soup for one/Modjo- lady.

my older brother's first electric was a yellow Hondo Les paul. he sold it and got a strat.

playing along to AC/DC and Def Leppard tracks made for good 8th note timing practice for me- also good for getting note volume and tonal consistency tight as well.

this is the 1996 final gig with the late, great bernard edwards- it's in a double-CD jewel case as opposed to the original card DVD issue I got it in. seen in the tooting store, not sure of others. also there's Dave Mustaine' life in metal autobiog.

for any fellow londoners, there's a copy of the Haynes Fender bass manual in Charing cross library. interesting (and unexpected) interview with Andy McCluskey from OMD in it.

[quote name='silddx' post='1245002' date='May 25 2011, 10:36 PM']Girl Gone Bad by Van Halen was called Ripley when Eddie wrote it, because, of course, he wrote it while playing a Ripley.[/quote] "top Jimmy" also on the 1984 album IIRC features the Ripley guitar with the harmonic notes panned over stereo. [url="http://www.vintagekramer.com/ripley.htm"]on googling I see they did a bass version too[/url] Yes' "I've seen all good people" sounds like Chris Squire's Rick has the Rick-O-Sound outputs panned separately- or is it a guitar doubling his bassline?

[quote name='matski' post='878099' date='Jun 26 2010, 12:56 PM']I've got a videotape from the 'Oil On Canvas' tour stashed away in a box somewhere, and went to the gig at the Brighton Dome. I was already of fan of Mr Karn and when the gig started was well freaked out by his peculiar style of moving around the stage - there was knee high dry ice on stage and he had this weird method of seemingly sliding forwards and backwards and sideways. At first I thought he was on some sort of trolley, turns out he was shuffling about on the tips of his toes at high speed![/quote] yeah- I've got the Best of Japan DVD, and in the live show included on it he does that- quite funny how he moves around the stage like a computer game character- a neat visual trick.

more Stones ones- Mick Taylor on tumbling dice, Ron Wood on Emotional rescue (quite guitar-ish though)

Steve Stevens on Billy Idol's "flesh for fantasy" and the bassline on Alannah Myles' "black velvet" was done on a keyboard (hence the unusual note choices in the fills).

bear in mind that Lauren Laverne burst into tears when Kenickie appeared on Adam & Joe's "Vinyl Justice" segment of their channel4 show, and she couldn't take them poking fun at some of her record collection. glass houses, eh? as said, though, there have been some top music programmes on BBC4 lately.

having used haynes car manuals, I fully expect the one on bass to feature such enlightening instructions as "now play teentown" and "use billy sheehan solo"

I'm pretty sure nearly all the Imagination basslines were done on synth- the slides all sound like pitch bend moves or portamento slides between notes. Faith No More's "evidence" track sounded like it was heavily influenced by Just an illusion.

a heads up for Chic/Nard fans- the book "Chic- the politics of disco" is going for £4.99 in Soho Original bookshop on Charing Cross road. there's also Collins' Need to know bass guitar inc. CD for £3.99.

never actually heard Hipsway, but he was pretty good in Altered Images, doing a sort of Hooky-type thing eg. Happy birthday.

I was also impressed when I tried a Rockbass corvette fretless a while ago- wish they did them with lined fingerboards though.