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[quote name='Monckyman' post='1283508' date='Jun 26 2011, 11:12 PM']Ok Coldplay Janelle, beyonce ... ultra yawn. Queens of the Stone Age. Nuff said.[/quote] Watching it now. Brilliant. [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/glastonbury/2011/artists/queensofthestoneage/"]BBC QotSA stream[/url]

Bakithi Kumalo's Zon. "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes" was untouchable

[quote name='spongebob' post='1281236' date='Jun 24 2011, 04:59 PM']What I really like is that this is the first I've heard of it - how many people make a massive PR song and dance when doing such a thing?[/quote] Maybe not enough PR in this case! I've stuck it on the Bass Player magazine facebook feed.

Mark King's selling off some gear for charity - have a look at the youtube vid

[quote name='silddx' post='1280587' date='Jun 24 2011, 09:53 AM']It's the only place to go in London.[/quote] Except the London branch of GuitarGuitar in Epsom of course

[quote name='Harry' post='1280501' date='Jun 24 2011, 08:12 AM']try The bass Gallery in Camdan town all the details are on their web site [url="http://www.thebassgallery.com/"]http://www.thebassgallery.com/[/url][/quote] Not much more to say than this. Good selection of basses and friendly, helpful staff.

If you've already got some bathroom scales, use those. Weigh yourself, then weigh yourself plus suitcase/bass/etc. One minus the other = postage/baggage allowance.

[quote name='Marvin' post='1277417' date='Jun 21 2011, 06:00 PM']This thread has baffled me, I can't work out what on earth is going on.[/quote] Someone once teased Bilbo for liking clever music.

[quote name='Bankai' post='1276167' date='Jun 20 2011, 06:16 PM']Time to come in store then But I'll pass your comment on as well![/quote] Thanks! Next time I leave London for "London" I'll be sure to stop by

Good website, lots of interesting stock. All it needs is a "Show all" clicky... "Bass Guitars 1 to 24 of a total of 328 Bass Guitars Page(s) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NEXT" Good for searching. Rubbish for browsing.

Annie Clements of Sugarland

Nick Beggs is now in Steve Hackett's touring band, and doing a pretty good job of it. The chap out of Bow Wow Wow was pretty good. Check out "Quiver (Arrows In My)" (it used to be on youtube, can't find it any more) (edit: It's Leigh Gorman - he ended up in Adam and the Ants)

Winner in category "most likely to be mistaken for Deb out of Dexter" - Vivi Rama

[quote name='Chris2112' post='1269901' date='Jun 15 2011, 12:05 PM']What this really comes down to is...who is the hottest? [/quote] I thought that's what the original question was anyway. I vote for both bassists from The T*ts of Death.

[quote name='blackmn90' post='1263980' date='Jun 10 2011, 02:45 PM']just spent the last 10 minutes trying to get the 2nd harmonics on the birdland intro ... Still need a bit more practice Would love to know how he gets so much sustain out of the notes though.[/quote] He used a compressor, said Tone neatly joining together two threads. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=139947"]No technique, apparently[/url].

Peter Gabriel: each venue to supply lady massage to DO artiste "hippy style" for one hour in incense-fuelled dressing room.

"Play so fast they can't tell that you're out of tune. That's the secret to playing fretless bass"

[quote name='KevB' post='1262795' date='Jun 9 2011, 03:16 PM']I'm happy to give the whole Saturday a miss, just not enough there for me. Never a big Priest fan, Lizzy have been little more than a tribute act since reforming and on the prog stage there's really only Caravan I'd be bothered about. I think Spock's Beard were better with Neal Morse present but I find his solo stuff a bit dreary irrespective of the overtly religious content. So on balance I'd rather see SB without Morse on the Sunday than the man himself on the Sat. BJH don't really grab me much, looks suspiciously 'almost tribute' as Lizzy on the face of it. Not familiar with Von Hertzen Bros so maybe I'm missing something there but won't lose sleep over it, for me [i]personally[/i] Sunday wins hands down. For Sun I think gates open 12pm and rumour was that The Enid (2nd on bill at prog stage) would be on around 2pm so guessing first bands around 12:30-1pm? Curfews are 11pm Sat and 10:30pm Sun[/quote] Caravan will be a struggle for me: while they're one of my favourite prog acts, there's not really enough of them to call it Caravan apart from the songs they sign. Even Doug Boyle's jumped ship these days, and he really made a difference. The songs themselves and Geoff Richardson on hedge clippers might win the day though. Agree with you re Lizzy. VHBros are great - I've only heard one album but it's good stuff: look for their single "Miracle" on youtube.

Everyone's got their favourite Jaco. Big Band, Joni, Weather Report, smooth, R&B, fusion trios, or tick more than one box from the above. I wish I could pack all that into 10 years or so of my recorded bass-playing history.

[quote name='Maverick' post='1262505' date='Jun 9 2011, 12:08 PM']If you'd said after Six Degrees I could agree, but IMO their best stuff comes from A Change of Seasons to Six Degrees, although I'm not a huge fan of Falling Into Infinity, I'd probably take Awake over that. To me, although Jordan Rudess is an amazing keyboardist I don't think he's a great composer, and as he's become more established in the band the material has become weaker. I think Portnoy's writing started going seriously downhill as well. And his vocals were always awful.[/quote] After FII and ACOS, I lost interest - only the covers on ACOS grabbed me. Everything since then felt too much of an undertaking to get into given I'd already wasn't that keen. Still, love Awake and previous stuff though.

[quote name='KevB' post='1262664' date='Jun 9 2011, 01:39 PM']For the number of bands potentially viewable it still doesn't seem too bad value to me, considering I paid that sort of money just to see Rush.[/quote] Hmm... Good point, I suppose. I saw Rush too, and got more than my money's worth (from the second row of Block A2 in front of Geddy). For a weekend ticket, and if showtime scheduling allows, I'd get Slash, Caravan, Von Hertzen Bros on Saturday; Curved Air, Tull and BCC on Sunday. I'm considering it now - I'll see what happens when show timing is announced.

DT were brilliant when I saw them at the Forum in erm 1994 or 95 on the Awake tour. Next time I saw them at the Astoria and they played all of The Number Of The Beast. Fun, but terrible sound. They lost the plot a bit songwriting-wise after Awake, it's all technique and flash. Silver Linings was ok but I only got that for the King Crimson cover on the bonus disc. High Voltage is a bit disappointing this year: neither headliner is enough of a draw for me, and there's just about enough good acts across both days to fill up one day's festival-going. Good to see that the Prog Stage is being billed higher than the metal stage this year - and they've changed the layout of the stages as well.

I saw it too - the Blockheads are indeed tight as can be, but the set left a little baffled with relatively few hits and an awkward medley of some of the better-known numbers. Muuuuch better is the "Hang On To Your Structure" show from Hammersmith, which also pops up now and again on BBC4 or Sky Arts. Wilko pops up in that one as well, but not for the whole set. (incidentally, NWR is in Wilko's touring band and they're well worth seeing. At their gig last year I got there towards the end of the support band - Mark Radcliffe's lot - and nabbed the last empty spot by the bar. NWR was right next to me and was very gracious in listening to the inane dribblings of the bassist who'd ended up next to him)

[quote name='ficelles' post='1261307' date='Jun 8 2011, 03:14 PM']My favourite Jaco album is actually Joni Mitchell's Hejira... Jaco's playing on that is superb and I reckon enhanced by the fact the album is centered around Joni's songs rather than his playing. If you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen. The way Jaco drives the opening track is dynamic. Just noticed wombatboter referenced Refuge Of The Roads in the post above - that's the final track on Hejira. Coyote is the opener. ficelles[/quote] Agreed - Hejira is fantastic, although Jaco only plays on four tracks - as well as Refuge, he's on the title track, Coyote and Black Crow. Better vfm in the Jaco/Joni stable is Shadows And Light, where the band is just blisteringly good. Jaco, Metheny, Brecker, Don Alias, Lyle Mays. Here's Jaco's solo from one of the Hejira shows - audio only, but some good pics making up the vid. Check out the "thumbs up" at about 4m50s. I can't do that. The Hejira on S&L is fantastic - although I'm sure there's a huge bum note at one point.