Misdee

I like your taste,Si. Now I know it's Sherwood Green I can see it right away. Excellent basses made by a very good people. Let's us know how you like it.

Is that green or charcoal grey, Si? It's very nice whichever. So essentially a passive J configuration on the MM- inspired body shape, by the looks of it. What pickups have you gone with? I'm a big fan of Lakland's own pickups myself. I think they're very underrated.

For my taste, this music is very hard to listen to. It's all too much to take in. There's too much going on. It's relentlessly dynamic, and has no dynamics as a result of that. I'm not averse to complex instrumental music by any means, and the virtuosity of the playing is there to behold, but all I can say is I'm surprised Simon Phillips hasn't got anything better to do.

I can thoroughly recommend listening Red by Black Uhuru. Every track is a banger, and it features Sly and Robbie (and the rest of the Compass Point AllStars) at their very best. I've been listening to that album since it came out in 1981 and I never get tired of it. The first few UB40 albums a great, too. Good songs, good playing. The early 1970's to the mid-1980's was, for my taste, the Golden Age of Reggae. Check out anything on Studio 1 Records from that era.

Regarding Mohini Dey, I wouldn't condemn her as being a bad person for playing unnecessarily complex bass guitar, or for trying make some money from it by endorsing AI, or whatever. I just think she's either made some bad decisions, and/,or been badly advised by someone on how to further her career via social media. In the Internet Age there's so many more opportunities to make bad decisions that can be instantaneously shared with the whole world forever. Everybody makes mistakes, I've made plenty of my own and then made more when I should have known better. It's important to keep things in proportion. No one has been irreparably harmed by Mohini Dey and whatever she does on social media. Myself, I couldn't care less about AI, it's going to do whatever it's going to do. Nothing is going to hold back that tide. Bring a crap bass player and trying to make a few quid doesn't make her The Wicked Witch of the West.

That's very helpful and informative, thank you. So essentially there's nothing too wrong with the Legacy in itself, but it's still distinctly different to the HAZ that's such a big part of the Spector tone. That's fair enough. I don't have a HAZ-style preamp as a point of comparison, but my assessment of the CST with the Legacy preamp is that played through my Bass Driver and Diamond BC1 Bass Compressor the tone is pretty epic and easily identifiable as a Spector NS2. It certainly seems to get fairly close to the sound we all know and love. As I said before, I'm no expert and this CST is my first Spector, despite having wanted one for more than 40 years. I'm in the market for another one, maybe even a USA model so I'm doing my research. I've got a lot of nostalgia for the Kramer-era Spector basses that as a young hopeful, I used to oggle in upmarket guitar shops in the USA in the late '80's. I've been toying with the idea of ordering a custom NS2 that looks like one from that era, with a HAZ pre, of course. That said, my CST seems so good that I might just get a Euro Doug Wimbish to keep it company. It certainly makes more economic sense to do that.

I first saw/ heard Danny Sapko demonstrating various basses on YT on behalf of Gear4Music. I remember being impressed with his playing, especially because his style of playing actually lets you hear what a bass sounds like. It might sound simple but it's a trick that eludes so many other would-be equipment demos. A four minute double thumping slap and tap fest doesn't really tell me much. And he was wearing proper clothes.

Never mind bass influencers scrabbling around for money, you ought to be making your shameless depravity pay. Only Fans Terms and Conditions are easily accessible online. You owe it to yourself and all the other sick bastards out there.🙂🐕🐍🙆

Leonard, are you trying to claim that mantle for yourself?

Regarding Mohini Dey being one of the best bass players on the planet, it's more accurate to say she is one of the most bass players on the planet; she plays an awful lot of notes, but it never seems to add up to much. Yet another bass prodigy who never found a way to make meaningful music. Myself, I'd put Danny Sapko way in front of her in terms of being useful on the bass guitar. The vast majority of these bass "influencers" are all fairly similar in that they have formidable skills but lack enough self-awareness to realise that their playing isn't very interesting in itself. They don't seem to have the creative intelligence to make something more worthwhile. And yet they are offering advice. I like Danny Sapko because he has no such pretentious or delusions. To me, he's not part of that world and long may that remain so. I certainly don't begrudge him if he gets some free bass stuff, though. Better than that even, someone should to send him some proper clothes to wear. He is undoubtedly Britain's Worst Dressed Man, and that is quite an achievement considering both Dominic Cummings and John Barnes still live in the U.K. Never mind YT videos about visiting Andy Baxters ect, he could do with a trip to Primark at the very least.

My mistake.

Those embroidered denim jackets with patches now on display as artefacts at the V&A Fashion Museum. Quite fitting, I thought to myself when I saw that, considering that so many of the blokes that wore them at the time looked like Vikings and Anglo Saxons.

You're not wrong, but for a generation of drummers, particularly British drummers, Cozy will always be an icon.

Another big Joe Jackson/ Graham Maby fan here. I went to a Joe Jackson gig back in those days and at the time it was by far the best gig I had ever seen. Graham was and still is a consummate bass player and has always been a role model for me. Can't say enough good things about his playing. Thinking about that late '70's era, artists like Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and The Police were to an extent lumped in with the punk movement. Seems incongruous now, but at the time every new act had to try incorporate some of that punk edginess into their image.