SJA

the guy who does the cartoon [url="http://www.conniptions.org/"]http://www.conniptions.org/[/url] , Wayne Myers, plays guitar, bass and keys in bands, and sings, so I guess he's seen it from nearly all levels...

[quote name='alexclaber' post='151498' date='Mar 5 2008, 08:06 AM']I disagree, you can do amazing things with palm muting[/quote] +1

Mick Karn- the fretless tone, attack and the way he does slides. a funny aside- on Derek Forbes' new band Four Good Men's forum, there was a discussion of the current Simple Minds album- I remarked that Eddie Duffy's bassline on "stay visible" sounded a lot like Derek- he replied-"if it sounds like me, that's because it IS me!" - he played on a couple of tracks, only they didn't credit him. -it's the way he plays with a pick- rhythmically busy with lots of dead notes.

and why is there a control cavity cover on the back????? it was rear-routed for controls and someone's put a scratchplate on it since.

aren't the Musicmaster machineheads non-standard? I'm pretty sure you can't get a Hipshot detuner in the exact style of the ones on the bass in the bass porn forum.

Steve Harris does strum chords sometimes- which looks like Nard's chucking technique. eg. here at 0.35 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpI49B6QVUY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpI49B6QVUY[/url]

looks like an early G&L. L1000?

*Tim Westwood voice* dammmm! jus' killin' it!

my G.A.S. has died down since I started learning guitar and keyboards as well- I'm too preoccupied with learning those than to get bored with the basses i have. although bass porn is still fun to look at (good quality, tastefully done bass porn, mind)

so the harmonics for guitar and bass peter out at about the same freq- around 5k?

[quote name='Jase' post='144928' date='Feb 22 2008, 11:58 AM']Wait a minute!!!! I've been lucky enough to meet and chat with Billy on two occasions, once many years ago when he did a clinic in Wapping High St, the Ampeg Promo Billy's back and once at a Mr Big Gig In Newport. All I can say is "speak as you find..." I found him to be a very polite, sincere and genuine person regardless of any beliefs he has and does it really matter what beliefs a person has? and whether a player can read or not? I don't think so.[/quote] you've got the wrong end of the stick here- I respect the guy a lot- I've learnt loads from his instructional vids. it's just a bit odd, since learning bits of theory myself, to look back on the Bass Secrets and On Bass vids in which he shows a striking lack of knowledge of things like modes- when it's pretty simple, logical concepts. it seems like a form of mental block, which I've had myself, stemming from being self-taught, which I'm overcoming gradually.

it's odd how he's "seen the light" in scientology, but still hasn't regarding music theory and reading music....c'mon, Billy, it's not that difficult....

[url="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256922413"]http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2256922413[/url] Bernard Edwards tribute facebook group.

ps. back in 1996 when the news of 'Nard's passing had just broken, DJ Norman Jay played this track on his GLR radio show in tribute.

sounds like he used a Jazz on the recording of that album, and stingray on the next one, C'est chic .

trouble with having a wiper on your bass, at gigs you'll get annoying blokes coming up and offering to adjust it for you- no matter how much you tell them not to- and then expecting a tip... 'get me coat....

[quote name='3V17C' post='142453' date='Feb 18 2008, 01:50 PM']i guess its easier for Yamaha to make these mods to a standard BB and call it a signature rather than get a whole budget Attitude range into production again.[/quote] ah, I get it now. the demand for a cheap Sheehan-style bass isn't enough. I remember the cheap Attitudes getting cleared out and discontinued. I still think the Attitude 5 (with PJ pickups) had a wide appeal, but the BB series covers the trad-style cheap passive 5string market now.

ps. he says in the interview that they did this bass to make a cheaper alternative- but they've done several cheaper Attitude models in the past, including ones with the neck pickup- IIRC Attitude plus?

I don't get this BB Sheehan sig bass- looks more like Yamaha got him to do it to boost sales of the BB range. in his On Bass and Bass Secrets videos he stresses he really needs the old style precision pickups- and prefers the covered polepieces- as on his Attitude sig. -yet this BB model has the Yamaha split pickup (that's less comfortable as a thumbrest) and exposed polepieces. also his old pink custom BB2000 /BB3000 prototype had a maple fingerboard.

when Gibson bought Tobias they did a model called "The American" which had TB Plus pickups (as in current Thunderbirds) but with the usual Tobias body shape and neck, IIRC passive with a maple fingerboard.

I remember the bassist in the Boo Radleys had a Gibson hollowbody like that- EB750 or EB650

Brian May says in his blog about Planet Rock "can I buy it?" [url="http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbfeb08b.html#22"]http://www.brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/bri...bfeb08b.html#22[/url]

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='137890' date='Feb 10 2008, 11:35 PM']I think the reason i can now do it was to simply raise the bass up a bit. I dont really have it that low anyway but a couple of inches Higher seemed to make the world of difference.[/quote] it's funny that I've done the same but for the opposite reason- I've raised my bass since starting to play with a pick as well- I wear it quite low and prefer having my arm out straight when playing fingerstyle, and when using a pick my arm is turned sideways.

the (now discontinued) Fender Deluxe precision 5 (the active 22 fret one with the bridge humbucker as well) had the P pickup halves the other way round- as on the Shuker. the Shuker way looks wrong to me, because on a 4 string P, the A string is sensed by the neck-ward half. so the most precision-esque tone comes from the 3 section on the B E and A towards the neck, and the 2 on the D and G, towards the bridge. ps. but when i pointed that out on Talkbass, P deluxe 5 owners said they hadn't noticed any tonal difference.

here's Nikki Sixx recording with his Spectorbird- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSLujVG9YU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOSLujVG9YU[/url]