Bilbo

[quote name='ubassman' timestamp='1376400502' post='2173343'] The headstock looks very similar to Paul Chambers bass - welcome to BC !! [/quote] Lovely anecdote. Can you see the bead glinting on the headstock in that photo? That bead came off one of Annie Chambers's, Paul's wife's, dresses.

Thanks goingdownslow. That's the fellow (the Alive In The Studio session - it is not the recording I remember but it is clearly a rehearsal by the same band and the arrangement is the same, jsut the detail of the recording (bass sound, vocals place in the mix etc) that is not as good as the version I remember. But great to listen to it again at last. Many thanks again.

The LP was Songs For A Tailor although Theme For an Imaginary Western was on there.

What was the winning bid?

My first bass was my 5 string so go for it!!

I think it is because he is from Cardiff and we all played like that in Cardiff at the time.

Have the LPs but, no, the track I am looking for was only ever recorded on this one live session.

Yes - have seen that video on a previous fruitless search Marvellous memories.

In the 1980s, I recorded (on cassette) a session off Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show that featured Cozy Powell's Over The Top band with Jack Bruce on bass. An Aria SB1000, IIRC, and the sound was influential to me at the time and remains my 'source' bass sound. It was a favourite for yrars, particularly their version of Tickets To Waterfalls with JB on vocals. So, getting to the point, has anyone got a copy? I lost the cassette years ago so doubt anyone will have it but if there is a 50 something anorak out there that has kept all of his cassettes...... Would love to hear it again

It absorbs all sense of taste, tone and musicality before it comes out of the guitar..... [size=4] [/size]

Brilliant musician.

If the audience is ignoring me but smiling, I know I have nailed it.

The only term I Know is whole-half diminished and half-whole diminished. But no-one uses those terms and just use the general term.

PM sent.

It took me a couple of years to get past 'suck'. I am still not happy but can play without making a complete tit of myself after about 4 years.

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1375816193' post='2166143'] John Etheridge *and* Jim Mullen. I'm more than a little green [/quote] Mullen was great but Etheridge took it to a whole new level! A career highlight for me (as was Mullen, to be fair).

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1375815314' post='2166124'] Oi, Bilbo - are you getting Mick Hanson back to his old stomping ground? [/quote] No.

Not interested and waiting for the September competition.

John Pariceli, f f s

Saw them on the Mama tour. NEC £19 Inc coach

Love the band. Not a bad note throughout their career.

C - Db would work on a C7b9 chord (i.e. a dominant chord) whereas CD would work better on a diminished chord like Cdim7 or plain Cdim.

There are very few bass players who have such an identifiable sound. Jaco was not the complete player everyone thinks; hi simprovisation skills were actually quite limited, for instance, and a lot of his work had precedents (listn Alphonso Johnson alongside JP on Black Market etc) but he changed the way we hear bass forever and made his mark. I agree that the kind of hero worship that ends with people wearing headbands to look like him is seriously naff. The best way to honour JP is to find your own path, like he did.

I find the word Jazz is equally distorted with all sorts of crap masquesrading as the most noble of sounds (like a solo singer with backing tapes of funk tunes or a quintet with a drum machine - scandalous!!). Seems all that is required is a saxophone and you're in!!

Db on a five string High C is has all the benefits of Ab on a four