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One Of A Kind - Bruford! ANother great album but I preferred FGTM.

Absolutely. I was happy to let most of my vinyl go in the knowledge that, on the two occasions I would ever want to listen to Tales of Topographic Oceans again, I could do so on Spotify!!

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1406636682' post='2513224'] Song Of Seven is pretty good too. [/quote] I actually listened to that track on Sunday on Spotify. It is a good album and I also like Olias of Sunhillow but Animation was head a shoulders above both of them. Superb LP (yes, I had it on vinyl as with the other two).

If you want drum lessons, go ahead.

John Abercrombie Trio - Current Events

I am ot altogether sure that bands at charity events offer that much additionlity, really. If it's not a 'gig' per se, then just play some cds over a pa. Family events for charity are like weddings, the audience is too varied for any one band to appeal and you end up playing to an audience of uninterested passers by. All pertty pointless.

Not a great turnout this month - now I feel bad. Must try harder, must try harder.

We all heard Herbe Hancock's 'New Standards' CD a while back, where he @Jazzed' up a few pop songs but there are loads of interesting takes on non-Jazz tunes that deserve a look. No time boundaries, just some interesting takes on songs not originally written for Jazz performance. Some favourites of mine include: Medeski, Martin, Wood and Scofiled - Julia (a Beatles tune) - the recorded version is stunning Vijay Iyer - Human Nature - energetic take Ben Allison - Philadelphia (Neil Young) and 'We've Only Just Begun' (The Carepnters - the arrangement of this is amazing) The Bad Plus - Roundabout (Yes - really interesting take on the old prog classic) Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden - 'Some Day I'll Fly Away' (Randy Crawford - beautiful version) There are loads more. Anyone got any favourites of their own?

We all heard Herbe Hancock's 'New Standards' CD a while back, where he @Jazzed' up a few pop songs but there are loads of interesting takes on non-Jazz tunes that deserve a look. No time boundaries, just some interesting takes on songs not originally written for Jazz performance. Some favourites of mine include: Medeski, Martin, Wood and Scofiled - Julia (a Beatles tune) - the recorded version is stunning Vijay Iyer - Human Nature - energetic take Ben Allison - Philadelphia (Neil Young) and 'We've Only Just Begun' (The Carepnters - the arrangement of this is amazing) The Bad Plus - Roundabout (Yes - really interesting take on the old prog classic) Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden - 'Some Day I'll Fly Away' (Randy Crawford - beautiful version) There are loads more. Anyone got any favourites of their own?

Last Sunday with Ivo Neame. Bad hair (it was really hot) and bad left arm technique!! I need to watch that!!

At the risk of ruffling a few feathers, if you want a fuller sound, I would ditch the GK. Those cabs are a bit crap and, to me, sound boxy. I swear by my Acoutsic Image stuff and it sounds great, much fuller and warmer (and louder) than the GKs (I have had three over the years and found them all wanting). The AI kit is twice the price of the GK but worth every penny.

The slowest tune I ever heard was by Marc Johnson on his second Bass Desire LP 'Second Sight'. That track was called 'Sweet Soul'. The tempo is geological. Steve Swallow's tune 'Away' from John Scofield's 'Quiet' album is another sublime offering. Charlie Haden? Try 'For All We Know' or 'Where Can I Go Without You' off his duo album with Keith Jarrett (Jasmine - 'One Day I'll Fly Away' is another gem)) or the Rejoicing LP with Pat Metheny (Lonely Woman). No flash, just pure music.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1406481616' post='2511815'] In most cases, I would suggest that they need to pull their finger out, get a bigger amp and get shredding. [/quote] Tit

Never regretted selling a bass (I don't do it often) but I do regret letting an old Ibanez Artist guitar go when I was younger. As I now have an ES175 and a Epiphone 335 I am sorted but I do wonder what possessed me to get rid of that old Ibanez. I swapped it for an acoustic I still own but should have held onto it.

I was in a band with these two guys (at the same time): Grant Nicholas (Feeder) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_nicholas Brian Sperber (producer/engineer Moby, Whitney Houston, Ric Ocasek, Blues Traveler) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sperber Lots of other peripheral contacts but these were guys I spent a lot of time with and gigged properly with.

Another one I keep going back to is Jon Anderson's 'Animation' LP. I saw the tour and the band were great.

http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=h8-u1ipr8zw

Lovely to see so much great music being celebrated. Music is just the BEST thing

I forgot Shadows and Light by Joni Mitchell!!

Thousands of albums come and go as we move through life but there are always a handful that stay with us and which we never tire of. For me, there ones that never seem to grow stale include... Nova - Vimana - a 1976 LP by an Italian fusion outfit but with Percy Jones on bass. Impossible to locate but there are some tracks in Youtube (Vimana, Night Games, The Princess and The Frog) Bill Bruford - Feels Good To Me (1978) Jeff Berlin's finest moment with Annette Peacock, Allan Holdsworth, Dave Stewart and Kenny Wheeler) Kenny Wheeler - Music for Large and Small Ensembles (1990) Marc Johnson - Bass Desires (1985) John Scofiled, Bill Frissel, Peter Ersking - stunning Dave Holland - Extensions (1990)Holland, Steve Coleman, Kevin Eubanks and Marvin Smitty Smith Jaco Pastorius - Twins - the US double LP version (recorded 1982 but released 1999) Joe Lovano - Landmarks (1990) - Lovano, Marc Johnson, Bill Stewart, Kenny Werner, John Abercrombie but this one is greater than the sum of it's parts Genesis - Seconds Out (1976?) - every track a gem - love lots of their stuff but this one was the one that broke them for me Branford Marsalis - Trio Jeepy Yes - Close To The Edge - my first prog LP There are so many more but these are the ones that come to mind and which I occasionally go back to whilst others are long, long gone. What are your keepers?

Viggo Mortensen plays piano and records with Buckethead

I don't think I am going to get there this month. I had an idea that moved someway forward but then I went on holiday, the in-laws moved in pending purchase of their new house (imminent, thank God) and all music activity went south. Can't see how I am going to get to it before the deadline. I have to admit, I wasn't totally inspired by the picture and the world is unlikely to stop turning for want of hearing the piece of sh*te I was preparing so there are not that many drivers in place to make it happen 'against the odds'!!

Author Stephen King played guitar for the rock band Rock Bottom Remainders, several of whose members are authors. Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles. Woody Allen play a credible jazz clarinet and has his own band. Clint Eastwood plays Jazz piano and Dustim Hoffman is also an accomplished pianist but more in the classical vein. Not sure if these last two are in bands per se but they do play and very well. Comedian Steve Martin plays banjo and guitar in bands, Kevin Bacon plays in a coutntry band (The Bacon Brothers), Jack Black leads Teacious D, Jeff Bridges plays piano (see The Fabulous Baker Boys), Ryan Gosling (Dead Man's Bones), Billy Bob THornton plays in a country band, Alan Arkin sand with a olk group, Pauline MOrna (Miss Lemon in Poirot) was a bass player as was Mr. Kidd from Diamonds Are Forever (Putter Smith). Charlie CHaplin was a muso (wrote 'Smile', amongst others).. I guess it is a common thing to work in more than one field of art. There are lots of musician/photgraphers, musician/authors, musician/painters etc. Makes perfect sense when you think about it.

Interestingly, there is a version of this on youtube with Geddy's bass mixed forward in the mix. What is enlightening (and gives us all al ittle hope) is the fact that, when you listen to it, you realise where his bass was dropped in. All those monster fills where he plays agasint Peart's drum fills were all drop ins. Also to hear how dirty the bass was. The interesting thing as it relates to the lick under discussion is that the first triplet is even and doesn;t have a double note on the first note of the triplet as the aboive transcription would suggest. I heard it as a two eighth notes as well but it isn't.

With all the whizz-bang gunslingers out there playing bass, I just wanted to give credit to the guys who play their Jazz slow and with consideration. Few can say as much with so little as Charlie Haden and Steve Swallow. Deep notes and [i]deep[/i] notes. Kudos also to Jim Hall, Thelonious Monk, Stan Tracy, Bill Frissel and Paul Motian; musicians with real depth to their playing and who never chose to hide behind a flurry of notes.