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I actually really like Born into this- especially Illuminated, Holy mountain and Tiger in the sun. Chris Wyse is also on most of the previous Cult album, Beyond good and evil. check out "War" for bass tone. he also appears in the bassist auditions in Metallica's some kind of monster.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='173290' date='Apr 9 2008, 04:47 PM']Sunless Saturday (Reality of My Surroundings) I really like the sound Allan Dias got on PIL's "Rise". Great tune. [/quote] +1 for the song and bassline, but I think it was Bill Laswell who played it. [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22661"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22661[/url] Alan Dias played some great lines with PIL too.

Nathan East used to have a Yamaha Motion 5 string (with low B ) that was 32in scale- he plays it on his Contemporary Electric Bass vid. but he's since gone for standard long scale and extra long scale on his basses.

35in scale with a big 4inline headstock? not one for cramped stages, but then neither is a T-bird.

in one of his old interviews in Bassist he said he started using Trace in the 80's when the shop that sold him a Steinberger (he was looking for a bass that wouldn't break) recommended it.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEui2pouQWk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEui2pouQWk[/url] Hiwatt head into Marshall cabs? (see at 1.22, beside cheery Jet Black)

[quote name='coasterbass' post='172159' date='Apr 8 2008, 12:29 PM']Open Your Eyes - Flora Purim (Alphonso Johnson) (Also known as Bug Powder Dust by BombtheBass)[/quote] when I play that riff people think it's Muse's hysteria!

it's just asking for Megadeth riffs to be played on it

[quote name='gary mac' post='172118' date='Apr 8 2008, 11:33 AM']There's some great 80's basslines on the Frankie Goes To Hollywood stuff too... Wasn't that the Blockheads rhythm unit[/quote] Trevor Horn used a Fairlight to sample Norman Watt-Roy and the Blockheads drummer jamming, and programmed the sampled notes/hits to make up the backing tracks. on early FGTH live recordings you can hear Mark O'Toole actually playing those basslines for real, plus other riffs that Horn later used as keyboard parts eg. the intro to Two tribes. Horn preferred to keep the band out of the studio, but gave them the writing credit.

[quote name='beerdragon' post='171930' date='Apr 7 2008, 11:35 PM']Ok. what were you using on that?.[/quote] Warmoth P (maple neck, ash body) P pickup soloed, through a Zoom 506 distortion setting, which drops out a bit of lows.

ps. just remembered ages ago on Talkbass I had a go at the Stevie Wonder "Sir Duke" break, and also for a laugh did an impression of what JJ Burnel playing it would sound like- [url="http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/audiofiles/Strangledduke.mp3"]http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/audiof...rangledduke.mp3[/url] (my pick technique's got a bit better since then...)

you might notice that the pickguard on his old black maple-neck P doesn't line up perfectly with the body shape- because it's a replacement body, which he says is very heavy. probably hard ash.

very low action, esp. on black & white, steel roundwounds, a pick, and a hiwatt guitar head into a guitar cab with blown speakers!

Modulus P and J style necks used to have fender style large headstocks. Hutch Hutchinson also has a precision style bass made by Stars Guitars with a Modulus Graphite neck- and that definitely has the full size headstock and elephant ear machineheads (seen in an old Bass Player interview). in that interview he also mentions 2 jazz style basses with Modulus graphite necks. also Sting had a p-bass with a Modulus neck around the time of 10 summoners tales. I presume the big F forced them to change it.

Private investigations, you mean (is it off Communique?)

Paul Webb with Talk talk eg. "Today" Derek Forbes with simple minds eg. sweat in bullet, today I died again

I'll raise you Daft Punk's Da Funk- just G quarter notes throughout. IIRC Siouxsie & the Banshees' Peek a boo has just one bass note sliding down coming in sparsely in the whole song.

maybe it's been bought by that Music Outlet guy in germany- expect a relisting for £1000

I thought for a moment that it was Jools playing piano with James Taylor, and he was playing surprisingly tastefully for a change, but I was mistaken. I liked the second Black kids song, but don't like the whiney singer at all. does that Adele "Hometown" song remind anyone else of the Cadbury's flake ad music?

they do look a lot better when the "manhole cover/fire escape steps" scratchplate is replaced with a normal one.

pity they overdid the black of the sunburst on the arm contour- looks odd.

front dots on the fretless but no lines? has someone added the dots?

looks like you're paying for the exclusivity- only 10 made. but not as absurd as the Fender custom shop EVH frankenstrat- exactly replicating an $80 junk guitar for $25,000.

I've got a Dean EvoXM which is great for £79, except for the machineheads, which I've replaced. I'd like a clean single coil sound too for funk, so I might try a coil-tap or parallel option. also got an Ovation pinnacle electro-acoustic that my brother left in a near-dead state with me (long improbable story), and I've patched up.

compare Supergrass' "pumping on your stereo"- slight influence there, perhaps? [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Rebel"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Rebel[/url] says here it was Herbie. I assume it was his Jazz with Roto Tru-bass nylon flats.