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Other highlights: Brand X with Phil Collins on drums "Phil Manzanera" = 801 with Brian Eno, Bill MacCormick, Simon Phillips etc

It's been downhill since 1976 /oldman (which is difficult as it's such a flat site)

I had a mysterious £6.83 credit appear in my bank account earlier this week from "Magazinesdi". I don't know anyone called Diana Magazines so I suspect that's part refund for my unused subscription.

Is it your band? Make a unilateral decision, preferably before hiring any band members. Otherwise it'll be endless band names list hell and the dreaded vote-off

The long and short of it is that I'm running out of things to read in the bath

Yep agreed that grated somewhat. eg Theory article on melodic minor; picture of bass player who might be a bit melodic, or playing a something minor. Or just a bass player.

As a reader from day one of the US version, that's a real shame but the mag's been downhill for me ever since they stopped printing actual music which is kinda essential for a musical instrument magazine. How you can publish articles like "the most influential bassline in history", "100 greatest bass parts of all time" etc and have cover artists like Cliff Burton, Chris Squire, Laura Lee (and I'm just looking at my current stash of unread BPs) without a bar of music is a significant part of the downhill stretch. Good luck with the online version. The site run by the ex-US BP staff is really good though https://bassmagazine.com/

C&P from the dusty end of basschat circa 2014: Basschat fans everywhere will remember this thread about the Blockheads bassist selling his Fender Jazz on eBay So Norman gave his guitar to Andy (Baxter) to sell, who lists it on eBay the link gets posted on Basschat (thanks to BC user thebrig!) I show the link to my bassist pal Matt Matt shows the link to his dad and bass tutor Laurence Canty Laurence shows the link to his ex-student Colin Colin contacts Andy and puts a deposit down, and subsequently buys the bass. And that's the story of how Colin Greenwood out of Radiohead bought Blockhead Norman Watt-Roy's 1962 Shoreline Gold Fender Jazz bass. Also, (different story), after John Giblin playing a Takamine TB-10 with Kate Bush in her 2014 shows, I decide to find a Takamine TB-10 for myself somehow. Time passes, stuff happens, yada yada, I've now got John Giblin's Takamine TB-10 from the Kate Bush shows.

TMB spent 5-figure $$$ amounts tracking down, purchasing and creating "Peter"'s rainbow cape for Watcher Of The Skies, down to finiding the same colours from the original silk manufacturers. Also, fun fact, if TMB were actual Genesis, Phil would have retired by now and they'd be on the way to releasing Calling All Stations.

Duke Suite starts at 37m14s. But watch all of it, it's amazing.

Duke's pretty good with a small handful of clunkers - seek out the 1980 Lyceum show for the Duke Suite in it's intended form end to end (Behind the Lines/Duchess/Guide Vocal/Turn It On Again/Duke's Travels/Duke's End)

Now playing: Rites of Dawn by Wobbler if you like 70s Yes you'll like this. https://wobbler.bandcamp.com/

Hejira (4 tracks with Jaco) and S&L are long-time favourites. Look out for Don Juan's Restless Daughter and Mingus as well.

Moog Taurus 3 pre-Mike McCready: Moog Taurus 3 post-Mike McCready:

Crikey that's steep, even for Ronnie's. Although having said that I usually go for the restricted view seats because they're not that restricted. but having said that, they've also reduced the footprint of seats in the restricted view area. Because I can suddenly see around pillars a lot better.

Um, Sally James though.

drop any clams?

Long as in many songs, but still finishing at the curfew time.

Having said that though, PJ do ridiculously early/long encores so when that happens you can start heading to the exits and still catch the end of the show but be nearer the exits. Then leg it

setlist.fm has set times for previous shows (https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/pearl-jam-23d6b80b.html - beware potential setlist spoilers of course, even though they do a different set every night). Pearl Jam tend to go on a bit, but on the other hand there'll be a strict curfew at Hyde Park to keep the locals happy (Adele was all done by 10.20pm on Saturday) Even if it's an early (Adele-like) finish you've still got to contend with 50,000 people heading for the exits. Do you live in Mayfair? if not err on the side of caution.

So it is! I thought it might be some new-fangled boutique version of similar. Bit more digging reveals this equipboard page https://equipboard.com/submissions/413320 with a nice photo: ...and links on to JMJ's insta, but page missing so I just went to his insta feed and found this https://www.instagram.com/p/CYm6YTLPVRO/ where his full arsenal is on display. Wah, I want.

What's this weirdo from St Vincent's set? (the bass that is). Full set at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0c7j7r8/glastonbury-st-vincent

St Vincent at the H. Odeon last night, Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass - including his dpahne blue Mustang (does he play his own signature model?), a Hofner Club, a beat up brown Fender P, the new bass (see post on https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/466178-bass-id-game-glasto-edition/) Let's also hear it for Mark Guiliana on drums and Rachel Eckroth on keys (and the brilliant backing singers)

Michael League appears to have left his usual bass at home and had to use whatever the venue had lying around. Any ideas? (I fully expect to be told it's some mega-$$$ boutique bass now)

Herbie Hancock at the Barbican