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Jean Luc Ponty did some great stuff. Billy Cobham. Larry Coryell's Spaces. Soft Machine. Al Dimeola's early solo stuff. There's loads of this stuff out there.

I spent a little bit of time with both of these techniques for the same reason as you give here. I finally realised that I simply don't like the music played using the more advanced elements of these tricks so I left them to rot on the vine. I have never regretted doing so.

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The above responses suggest to me that the relationship we have with these albums is very personal and dependent on where we are when we find them. Rush we're an early discovery for me as a Rock fan and I was experiencing their version of Rock virtuosity for the first time at around age 17 (1980). The first LP I recall coming out was Permanent Waves (also 1980) soI already knew about them at that point but I got C of S after hearing them on the Friday Rock Show. I think our memories are linked to our state of mind and experience to date and C of S was a discovery at a point where lots of new things were appearing in my cultural life including non mainstream musics, bass virtuosity and Tolkien. Happy times that I relive on a subconscious level whenever I hear C of S. Interestingly, Caress of Steel predates Punk.

Caress of Steel is a special one for me as it was my first.

I came to SD quite late in the game through the Two Against Nature dvd at a friend's house. It's a continuum between freedom and production and everything sits somewhere on that line. Improvisation is one thing, arrangements another. It's all good.

Jazz standards. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing Lotus Blossom Honeysuckle Rose Others You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anything by Robert Plant, Rose Tattoo, Guns N Roses, Spruce Springsteen and The (Weed) Killers.

I prefer to stay home and practice. I guess it is about what you want from attending. Practice playing with others? Networking? Social experience? Hearing other players? Impressing others? Practice getting a good sound live? I got far more from workshop bands in Cardiff in the 80s and 90s than at Jam Sessions. Great for networking when you move to a new area, though. stinky poo players may be stinky poo players but even stinky poo players know where thd good ones are.

No it wasn't. It was Carole Kaye. All of it.

I did two double bass gigs on the same day yesterday. Four one hour sets and three set ups and tear downs. No pain, no strain - all perfectly comfortable. We get there in the end, don't we?

Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Marc Johnson, John Patitucci, Jaco, Jeff Berlin, Kermit Driscoll, Renaud Garcia Fons, Anthony Jackson, Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee and a few others. This is a game I have been playing for decades and I can recognise dozens of Jazz musicians from a relatively few notes. In the end, their voices are as distinctive as your family's.

Michael Spearman Trio

Whatever else you say about Yes, no one else has produced a catalogue like it. Gates is a massively original work.

It's cheap as chips too.

Scrivener.

Unbelievably, I have just found out that three more bass tracks I recorded at home are going to be used on another imminent release, the fifth album by a Prog outfit. I will post details when the album is released. Exciting times (tiny little victories for me, at least).

Available on Spotify.

Not all Prog was as whimsical as Jon Anderson's Yes. Greenslade had songs about sado masicism, Animal Farm and corrupt journalists. The Prog bit was the length of the track, the sections, the keyboard solos etc. Even JJB's tone is pure Chris Squire. Labels don't always stand up to scrutiny.

I had a six string once. I got the seven specifically to try the guitar tuning thing.

Interestingly, if I understand the implication of your reference to me, I tune my seven string bass BEADGBE not BEADGCF. It is essentially a guitar with a low B tuned down an octave. The opposite of what you are doing. 😀

My Wal is 33 years old and wins hands down in terms of my oldest item. I have a metronome that may be older but I cannot be sure.

I remember enjoying this when it came out. Its a Prog tune, as far as I hear it.

The function band I play with. I am the Sasquatch on the right hand side of the picture.

Sixer? Lightweight.

There was a website that listed all the Wals ever made with the owners if known.