Rayman

[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 .

I've gone back to EB Slinkys after trying a few different brands. DR were the best of the alternatives for me. However I used to use Warwick Black Labels in a heavy rock band I was in, and they were great strings, punchy and powerful, but I did find them quite abrassive on the fingers. Great rock strings though.

[quote name='stevie' post='921901' date='Aug 11 2010, 07:30 PM']Not so sure he's "our" Janek any more. I had a quick read of some of his posts on here (very interesting guy) and it seems he got pissed off with people taking potshots at him. He hasn't posted for quite a while.[/quote] You're not wrong, he got a right mawling every time he posted here, which I never did quite understand. I guess his comments rubbed a few people up the wrong way. It's a shame, he's a very talented bloke, and would be a great source of information on here, but instead he can be found on Talk Bass in the US.

Great song, I like that. I've seen Janek a couple of times with JEM as well as his own projects. He's also JEM's musical director I understand, and she was great live too. He's an all round cool cat our Janek.

[i]For me[/i] "The One" doesn't exist. People on here who know me, know that I trade stuff in and out for fun, I just don't get attached to gear at all. I think out of all the basses I've moved on, the Kinal or the Overwater came the closest to what I'd call my ideal bass, but I sold them on didn't I? So I acn't believe that there's anything out there that will ever satisfy me 100%. I'm very happy with the G&Ls at the time of writing, but I know that at some point something will come along to tempt me, and I'll think about trading them out again, because I'm skint, and can't buy a bass for cash at the moment. If someone were to offer me a 6 string for instance, for both the G&Ls I'd think about it, just because I'd love a decent 6er. I'd like a Warwick Steamer Stage 1 or 2 before I die, and I'd like a good 6 stringer, but, "The One" just isn't out there at all for me.

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[quote name='Marvin' post='919018' date='Aug 8 2010, 08:25 PM']My children were playing with Micheal Caines' children (that's the chef - Caines, not the actor Caine) at a fun park this afternoon. I did not speak or attempt to embarrass myself in front of Mr Caines.[/quote] Top bloke, top chef, but what possessed him to go for the rubber hand? I'd have gone for interchangeable kitchen utensils instead.

They look like Sadowsky knobs, maybe you can get them from the Sado website?

Two basses, always, a 4 and a 5. I've seen some musicians, including our guitarist, and other bass players, with 4 or 5 instruments on stands behind them, which to me, is ridiculous.

Yeah, my problem is, I'm a sucker for labels, so it has to say MIA on it somewhere or I'm not happy. That alone is ridiculous, as I've played some American dogs in my time, and I love Japanese instruments. Every Ibanez or Yamaha I've ever played, be it budget or expensive have been utterly brilliant. I'll bet you'd feel more at home with your Squier than a new US made Jazz.

Good score, he's a top bass player.

It just backs up what I've said many times, you don't [i]have[/i] to spend a fortune to have a great bass. There are loads of "budget" basses out there that knock spots off their more expensive counterparts. I had an old Japanese Squier Precision until recently, that was head and shoulders above any other Precision I'd ever played. I sold it for peanuts too, and I wish I hadn't had to, it was worth double the price. I've had an OLP Tony Levin, and I've had MM Stingrays. My experience was the they were two very different beasts, even though they looked similar from a distance, and the build quality of the MM, in my case, was head and shoulders above that of the OLP, but both certainly had their place, and both were worthy of a place in anyone's gig bag. I generally use the G&Ls most of the time, but I'm more than happy to wheel out my Fleabass for gigs too, it looks great, it plays great and it sounds great, although admitedly it is modded. It's a budget bass, although it is overpriced, and I love it.

That sir, is a fabulous looking bass.

[quote name='Stacker' post='918368' date='Aug 7 2010, 09:44 PM']Get a grip the lot of you! You're nothing but sheep if you think that wreck is a 'prototype'![/quote] That's us told then.

Ha ha ha, this site just amazes me sometimes. How can a great thread turn into the usual mindless BC slanging match?? Get a grip.

Yeah, toggle switches etc can be a pain in the butt, however I've gotten used to mine and don't have a problem with them at all, and to be honest, I hardly ever touch them, I tend to stick to [i]my[/i] sound on both basses for most songs in the set. I agree with Pete, Leo was always going to say his last designs were the best. I don't actually agree that G&Ls are the best basses he made, I think the Fender Jazz and Precision were the best basses he made, and I'd put the Stingray and the G&L L2000 somewhere equally behind them. Walman, yep, let's be seeing yours, and maybe one day I'll own a Wal, the one bass that has still eluded me all these years.

I'd definately go the extra mile with the mods, the bass is worth the effort. Mine has ended up being a great bass, bit still a little bit of a one trick pony. My daughter will end up with it eventually.