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[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1412722857' post='2571487'] Can someone on Spotify add for me: Who Did You Think I Was or Good Love is on the way - Pino with John Mayer trio Chickhen Grease - Pino with D'Angelo So What - Paul Chambers with Miles Davis [/quote] Done!

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1412618164' post='2570468'] The space occupied by these drones might comfortably have encompassed detailed digressions upon Mr Hackett's career, Mr Collins' sterling work with Brand X and the precise variety of lemon upon which Mr Banks is accustomed to suck. [/quote] Agreed re Brand X - it was nice to see some Flaming Youth though.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412608543' post='2570327'] I'm with Mrs. S's husband. [/quote] I think Mrs S would have something to say about that as well.

Henrik is on the cover of this month's Bass Player magazine... http://www.newsstand.co.uk/194-Guitar-Magazines/3185-Subscribe-to-BASS-PLAYER-Magazine-Subscription.aspx

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1412583163' post='2570022'] While the Gabriel era is short compared to the total lifespan of the band, I think it's more accurate to measure things in terms of original albums. As Genesis has been inactive for a fair proportion of the last 20 years or so. Measured in terms of original albums (not compilations etc.) then the Gabriel and Hackett eras are more significant. [/quote] And in terms of quality. Same goes for solo careers: why Mike and Tony got a look in with their lame solo material while Steve's continually inventive and diverse material was ignored was beyond me.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1412520316' post='2569528'] Steve Hackett didn't like it, I just read this on his Facebook page [url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Hackett/123101228589?fref=nf"]https://www.facebook...1228589?fref=nf[/url] [/quote] Yeah, that's the bit I forgot to mention. Still, my gig dollar is going in his pocket this year as well as last year, and the R-Kive (cringe) compilation is just embarassing really.

One of the best bits was the Hackett/Banks showdown. We raised our handbags and went "Ooo" chez tone at that point. Great footage that I've not seen before from the early 70s (eg Atomic Sunrise), some good bits from around Pete's early solo career but not in enough detail - eg how they got that gated reverb sound on Intruder that defined the 80s from thereon. Disappointing: No Selling England, no Wind & Wuthering. Steurmer getting the "Firth of Fifth" spotlight ("he improvised a bit" said Banks - no, he made a right pigs ear of it actually), the early 80s timeline gets a bit muddled. In general, great to see the five of them in the same place, but I don't think we've learned much we didn't already know.

Chatted to Norman Watt-Roy before a Wilko Johnson gig while the support band were on. Had a nice chat and complimented him on his playing and how it had influenced little tone all those years ago into listening out for a cool bassline, which he nicely acknowledged. Had a few email exchanges with Tony Levin in the mid-90s when his solo career and record label was just starting. Met him at a clinic in a barn somewhere near Stevevage about 2006 or 07 where he was kind enough to let us sit in on his soundcheck, and he signed my original issue Funk Fingers afterwards. There's probably more but it's sunday morning and the brain isn't quite working yet...

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1412442974' post='2569010'] Played on Stevie's left hand, Boogie on Reggae Woman has one of the best bass lines ever IMO - quite Jamerson influenced in note choice, but with that lovely glitchy/gated Moog quality. [/quote] In case you missed it: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/246416-spotify-best-bass-lines-evaaar-playlist-get-involved/page__view__findpost__p__2568122

[quote name='JamesFlashG' timestamp='1412352620' post='2568185'] nice one gonna have to check this out for sure! do you know if the synth bass on stevies are recordings are done by himself on keys? [/quote] This would have been played on TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), an amalgamation of Moog, Arp, Oberheim, Serge and custom-built synths. Stevie would play the actual keys and his recording pals Malcolm Cecil and Bob Margouleff would work the gubbins (switching portamentos in and out, tweaking filters etc) in real time during performance. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto's_Expanding_Head_Band and http://www.geeksandbeats.com/tag/stevie-wonder/ They don't make em like that anymore

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1412350207' post='2568146'] Not got time to do it but can someone at least put some Who, Beatles, Yes, Cream and Rush on there. A bassline related list looks lost without them. [/quote] Done! No Beatles on Spotify though

Bingo: http://bentkallehauge.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/boogie-on-.pdf

[quote name='JamesFlashG' timestamp='1412345502' post='2568082'] wow how have i not heard that stevie song before - boogie on reggae woman love it, like a funky 12bb but with some real nice chords changes. I might have to make it part of my practising to transcribe a song from this list each day nice choice who ever it was =P [/quote] You're welcome! Good luck with the transcription! It once appeared in its entirety in Bass Player magazine, transcribed by Bryan Beller, who dubbed it "the hardest song he's ever had to transcribe".

Yep, Dave LaRue for sure, a great player. Check him out with the Dixie Dregs from back in the day. Here's some more with JS from (I think) the same show as the original clip. Familiar fare for Satch fans for the first few minutes, but then after 4m20s it's all systems go, we have lift off on Satriani spaceways. The pickup from 7m45s onwards is amazing all round. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DzRb4DHGw

I can't bear the music, but I wish I was that good.

Here you go: http://www.timeout.com/london/search?_source=global&_dd=&page_zone=music&keyword=&section=music&on=period&s_date=2014-10-22&e_date=2014-10-26&locationText=&_section_search=music or browse from http://www.timeout.com/london/music

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1412007261' post='2564781'] Here's a man who should know talking about it at 11:50 ; [/quote] Thanks! That's a perfect example of implied metronomic time being all that's need to demonstrate beat placement.

Here's a simple but effective demo from a drummer (he's exaggerating to emphasis the effect) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlcSuJlOwJ0 My take is that you have metronomic time, and if everyone sticks to this then you're on the beat. Stay in time but play either side of metronomic time, then you're playing ahead or behind the beat.

Norman Watt-Roy plays the "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" bassline solo on his own and unaccompanied: [url="http://www.theblockheads.com/page/player/norman_plays_hit_me"]http://www.theblockh...an_plays_hit_me[/url] Have you been playing it right all this time? (I haven't)

I've managed to steer clear of this thread, and indeed all reviews and setlists, ahead of seeing the gig last night. Time to join in! It was an amazing gig! Although "gig" is underselling it, maybe "multimedia musical theatre operatic dance spectacle" might work as well. The opening six songs were overwhelming and various gig pals including me reported welling up at various places - for me Lily and Top Of The City, another's was Hounds Of Love. The two concept pieces/song cycles/whatever The Ninth Wave and Aerial were incredibly ambitious, very high production value and a lot to take in, and I felt they both were too long - some editing could have seen another 3 songs creep in maybe. Bertie's bit was rather cringe. I didn't miss "the old stuff", I'm not so keen on that material anyway apart from the obvious hits. It would've been nice to hear something off The Sensual World. John Giblin was brilliant, as were all the musicians. Tough to call all his gear as sometimes the band were in the shadows a bit (and 15 rows back my eyesight's not what it was). On top of at least two electrics there was an electric upright - Ampeg Baby Bass shape, but might not have been that, plus a gorgeous hollow-body fretless that looked a lot like an Ibanez Artcore. Happy to be corrected on either of these though.

[quote name='dougal' timestamp='1410881456' post='2554246'] Much happier without the cost, smell and addiction. [/quote] Funny you should mention that - the one thing I was immune to as a smoker was the smell. I had no sense of smell (now back with a vengeance and very sensitive to fag smoke), and my sense of taste improved a lot as well. Once I was out driving through town and suddenly could smell a recently lit cig. Odd that, being on my own with the windows and sunroof all closed. It was someone in the open-top car in front, coming in through the air vents.

You can now delete U2 from your iTunes... https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut

Tony Levin on Secret World Live in 1993 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwX_c0PcjY#t=165"]http://www.youtube.c...wX_c0PcjY#t=165[/url] Keep your eye on TLev at about 3m40s. You can see something fall off his Trace Elliot amp. Happens to the best of us I suppose.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1410774706' post='2552848'] Agreed. It is one of the worse books I ever read. Then I stopped smoking and thought, well, I will give up anyway, nothing to do with that book, just feel like it now. Then went on amazon and looked at the reviews, and they all said 'what a badly written book, didn't work but I decided to give up anyway', then it clicked! [/quote] I found that when it got to the point where "I'm now going to tell you how to actually stop, if you don't feel mentally prepared, don't read on, come to a clinic" I thought "oh, I feel like a smoke actually" and off I went. A couple of months later I was smoking one morning after a night out, hungover, felt terrible and thought "I just can't be arsed any more" and put one out half-smoked. That was it. I'd absorbed enough from the book to know what to do (this will vary from person to person). My life as a smug and annoying ex-smoker had begun!

Had my 5000-day anniversary a few days ago. Not that I'm counting really - I've been looking for an arbitrary anniversary as an excuse to treat myself to a year-of-my-birth bass (not bought yet, but all of a sudden it's ok to start looking). So, 5000 days (or 13 and a half years, ish) of not spending a fiver (on average) on fags = about £25000. Probably more when you take into account extra weekend smokes. Like others, I just stopped. No cold turkey here though, apart from two or three occasions in the first week, there were no withdrawal symptoms. On those two or three occasions, I just did something else for a bit and the symptoms went away. What took a million times more willpower was reading the Allen Carr book to instil the frame of mind to stop smoking easily.