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[quote name='Doctor J' post='927395' date='Aug 17 2010, 11:45 AM']I think the problem with bass cutting through or not is purely down to the player - their technique and how they EQ. I've never encountered a model of bass which wasn't capable of cutting through, just the players change.[/quote] 100%, and also the room you're playing in makes a big difference. I might be the only person on the site who had a problem getting a Stingray to cut through. I never did get to the bottom of it, but I think it was probably down to a 2EQ and lack of mids. No problem at all with the G&Ls, because I find them so much more versatile and controlable, but for pure live punch and honk I always found passive Fender Jazzes were pretty much the best.

I'm very much looking forward to this album. Unlike some, I've loved pretty much everything Jay Kay has produced, regardless of who the bass player is, altough I'm definately a Zender fan. I don't know if it's because I'm a fan, or just because I like the cut of JK's Jib, but I'm yet to hear a [i]bad[/i] Jamiroquai album, although some are of course better than others.

[url="http://www.bassesbyleo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=149"]http://www.bassesbyleo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=149[/url] Any help?

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='924320' date='Aug 13 2010, 08:11 PM'] Don't get me wrong, I like players who are technically proficient, to see an artist at the height of their musical prowess and mastery of an instrument, but some players just don't do it for me, and the 3 listed rank at the top of my list. One man's meat and all that! It would be boring if we all liked the same thing [/quote] Absolutely right. Variety is the spice of life. I have to say, out of ALL the bass players mentioned here, I think every single one is important to someone, Tal, Hooky, even the bloke from Fall Out Boy, someone somewhere likes what they do, and to me, that means they're important and valued as musicians, even if they're not to evryone's taste. The only one I still think is/was a waste of oxygen was Sid. I hated him when he was alive and I still do, purely because he was a totally useless musician. Just my opinion of course, I'm sure someone loves him.

[quote name='derrenleepoole' post='924095' date='Aug 13 2010, 04:24 PM']Steve Bailey gets my vote any day of the week - completely OTT player with little in the way of soul. It's all technique and flash in the pan pyrotechnics that are totally dull and uninspiring! All those false harmonics, many of which are never in tune... boring. Adam Nitti also falls into this category! Another example of a player who's playing is all technique at the expensive of anything else. I saw him live at Bassday, and while he was interesting to watch, it left me very cold and unmoved. My all time most awful bassist ever though is John Myung! How is it possible that someone so completely unoriginal and lacking in technique gets so much devotion and attention as being a 'special bassist!' Saw him live with Dream Theatre, and that has to be the worst gig I have ever seen - period. Talk about a band comprised of egos instead of musicians! sh*t![/quote] I couldn't disagree more, but fair enough, each to his own.

Ha, awesome, and better build quality than a Fleabass at a fraction of the cost. I'm off to get a donut.

Yeah I must admit, I like Tal's playing. Her album's a bit dull at times but.....

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='923806' date='Aug 13 2010, 01:14 PM']I can't help but feel this thread may end in tears [/quote] Yep, as is normal around here these days.

Sid was so awful that Steve re-recorded all the crap Sid had put down. Sid was just a poster boy, planted by Malcolm McLaren to make them look the part.

Well from the point of view of a major turning point in my life musically, of a [i]non bass [/i]nature, then I have to go back to the day my brother brought home a copy of 'Unleashed In The East' by Judas Priest in about 1979. I was 14, and only really been listening to Beatles records of my parents, and an ELO EP we had. My brother said listen to this and gave the LP to me. I stuck it on the Teak radiogram we had in the front room, and turned it up. That was it, I felt like I'd been born again. I can remember staring at the front cover of the record and imagining I was watching them live on that stage in Japan as I listened to the album over and over again. I was a rocker instantly, and with the discovery of bands like Rush too, I was engrossed in music for ever more. While I'm not a heavy rocker as such anymore, that day I first heard that music changed my life.

It's the only way to learn for me, I can't be doing with staring at bits of paper trying to work it out. Hooky's basslines aren't overly taxing, it should be pretty simple to just sit down and listen to them. I can remember playing along to Atmosphere (I think) and Dead Souls, on my Columbus Jazz, in the bedroom of my parents house in Macclesfield the day after Ian hung himself only a few hundred yards away from us. I ended up living only a few doors down from Ian and Debbie's house on Barton St.

[quote name='Doddy' post='922972' date='Aug 12 2010, 05:44 PM']Yeah I was at Bassday last year. I was hovering at the back of the Nitti masterclass.He's a great player.[/quote] I was the clown at the front, with the borrowed white Spector, pretending to understand what he was talking about.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='922860' date='Aug 12 2010, 03:32 PM']I don't have it. [/quote] Oh...........you've got it...........I just don't know what [i]it [/i]is.

[quote name='Doddy' post='922950' date='Aug 12 2010, 05:24 PM']Seeing Marcus Miller at Sankeys in Manchester in '96 did it for me. I'd only been playing for a few months and had not heard him yet. My dad took me to the gig and it blew me away. The feel,the groove,the playing,the sound,the energy and the music just changed my whole perception of the instrument.[/quote] I still haven't seen Marcus live. I'm a big fan, and had a ticket to see him on the recent Tutu tour in London, but guess what? It was the same night as Bassday last November, where I was due to do a masterclass with.......Adam Nitti. So I wasn't going to miss out on that, and didn't go to see Marcus. His usual drummer Poogie Bell made an appearance at bassday though, and that was great fun, he's a funny bloke and an amazing drummer too.

I was chatting to a muso mate a couple of nights ago, and we got onto the subject of a particular point in time when some song, or gig or whatever suddenly changed your musical direction or even tastes almost overnight. Until Bassday 06 in Manchester I was pretty much a rocker, P bass, slung low, pound the strings like there's no tomorrow and make sure it's loud. I liked other genres, some Jazz, some Funk etc, but not to any great extent. Then I saw Adam Nitti live for the first time at bassday. I remember just thinking, my god, that's what I want to sound like, I want to hear more stuff like that. To me, his sound is perfect, and it instantly changed the way I thought about bass guitar and music generally. It just opened my eyes and ears to a whole different world. It looked so effortless and relaxed, but the tones coming from his fingers just blew me away. This is the song that did it..... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoLqaQmlx1Y&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoLqaQmlx1Y...feature=related[/url]

[quote name='SpinalTap' post='794651' date='Apr 2 2010, 09:23 PM'][url="http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=35f763dfac5c742a2927.jpg"][/url][/quote] [i]Holy cow [/i]!! That's got to be the sexiest bass I've ever seen, [i]ever[/i]. Why would anyone ever want to move that on? It's utterly beautiful. I feel faint, I really do.

Forgive me, but top end sparkle and Yamaha Attitude don't seem to go together to me. Is it not a bass directed at the big bottom end rather than the sparkly highs? I only assume that from the pickup placement etc, forgive me if I'm totally wrong, I often am.

If I had that kind of money, I'd be looking to invest in a 60s Fender Jazz or something, a bass that'll be worth the same or more when it comes to move it on. Equally, I'd probably want a Fodera Emperor to sit next to it a gigs too, just as a backup .