toneknob

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1429740522' post='2754578'] Lol me too! Although I would be partial to my work with Joni Mitchell. [/quote] I'd struggle with the high-waist trousers tbh

Yep, I've got an Analogman BiComprossor which allows either/or/both compressors to be engaged at any time. Or, just get a boost as others have said - Mark Bass Super Booster is another example.

If you're feeling adventurous, try it in 7/8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckp8mJN5ojI

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1429704971' post='2754111'] I play it starting at 5th position, so 2nd finger on the b flat. That way you keep the same pattern as you move around the neck. [/quote] Same here, but maybe third or fourth time around there's some raking down to the F on the E string that works best playing the B flat 1st fret on the A string. Move positions and some different note choices will jump out at you.

Here's someone's photocopies of the relevant pages from The Essential Jaco Pastorius, this is the version originally from Invitation: http://www.youbioit.com/es/article/imagen/4045/imagen19 (click back a couple of pages for Soul Intro if you need that as well)

Get a transcription, read along while listening. Don't try to learn it note for note, just nick your favourite bits.

I'd flatten the EQ.

Are you Doop, by Doop?

I usually say something "Thanks, very kind of you to say, thanks for coming" as others have suggested - acknowledging that it takes a bit of pluck on their part to make the effort to come and make the compliment. What's disappointed me before is name players who, when approached with a similar complimentary manner about how their playing has made an impression, say "nah mate I was rubbish tonight".

Pulsar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_(band) (look at the actual state of them)

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1427744827' post='2733829'] Now here's a bassist who gets bassists excited. What do you recommend, and/or what is considered his finest work? [/quote] Some favourites of mine... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM ...originally from Numan's "I Assassin", which is all Pino. And here he is with Nine Inch Nails recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBiYFoHsOg And with John Mayer, and as always check out his original Grolsch bottle washer straplocks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgFFNXahcg

do they publish articles about Rickenbackers?

[quote name='Drax' timestamp='1427578847' post='2732024'] Reallt enjoyed that. Never really given them enough of my time. What's the best place to start? [/quote] Get all of it! "Nuclear Burn" 4 CD box, featuring the main Brand X albums plus some extras: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuclear-Burn-Brand-X/dp/B00O9K8WS4 Currently £12.82 and worth every penny. You get John Giblin on some of it, which is no bad thing (plus a couple of tracks with both of them)

Are they going to do promotion, cover expenses? (don't hold your breath), provide backline to your spec?

Start another band with the keys player, do both for a while and see which one is doing better in a few months.

[quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426897189' post='2723348'] Now that the decades have passed since getting rid of it; I've come to realize that McCartney probably played this bass because they made him a left-handed copy. He got it free. That's all there is to it. [/quote] They initially wanted money for it though, but yes it was a freebie. He's since started using other basses, which were also freebies. What company wouldn't want the world's most influential bassist showing off their wares on stage? You'd be daft not to give him a freebie. McCartney has said in interview "It was the first left-handed bass I´d ever had, ´cause the Hofner was a converted right-hand. It was a freebie and I loved it". Why put it on Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, Revolver if he didn't?

[quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426897189' post='2723348'] The day I got rid of it I had no remorse and I still don't have any remorse. [/quote] How much did you sell it for, by the way?

No it's white and gold

...and it's a huge improvement on this

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1426511250' post='2718607'] I like it too... but I hate signature basses, I'd be much more likely to buy one if it didn't have his name on it. [/quote] How much is one like that?

Poor old Pharrell - the Gayes are after "Happy" now, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/marvin-gayes-family-says-pharrells-happy-is-another-copy

[quote name='dmz' timestamp='1426106366' post='2714562'] ....don't forget his playing on a few Brand X albums too in the late 70's - try out the "Product" and "Do they hurt" albums and perhaps "Is there anything about". These albums also feature the genius that is Percy Jones ! [/quote] Good recommendation - Product includes some two-bass action from both JG and PJ, eg Wal To Wal (just the two of them plus a Roland CR-78, and some Phil Collins), and And So To F.

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1426095659' post='2714363'] One of my favourite Gilblin-songs....haunting fretless, beautiful [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9wIVZBhT0"]http://www.youtube....h?v=Uh9wIVZBhT0[/url] [/quote] Cor. I never knew that wasn't Tony Levin.

A musicologist writes: http://joebennett.net/2014/02/01/did-robin-thicke-steal-a-song-from-marvin-gaye/ Essentially, despite different chords, underlying rhythm, basslines, key, vocal melody, lyrics, they sound a bit like each other and have highish pitched male vocal. The concluding sentence is interesting: "The act of putting an electric piano together with a cowbell and a 120BPM disco beat would need to have been judged a creative act in itself, making instrumentation and possibly even genre into protectable Intellectual Property. Which would have had massive implications for future creators of music".

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1426034446' post='2713738'] We have an ex John Giblin Aria in the shop. I play it every now and then in the pathetic hope it might make me sound like him. It never does. . . [/quote] Same here, but with the Takamine TB-10 he used in the Before The Dawn show. On the other hand, he doesn't sound much like me either, whatever bass he uses.