Bilbo

Main problem with being a Sheehan is that you need a Vai or Gilbert to bounce off and there aren't many of them, despite the rhetoric to the contrary.

Just keep trying. A lot.

The most replaceable bass player in music

Here is my Wal Custom Fretless 4 (1985), now 30 years old, sharing the stage with John Etheridge a couple of weeks ago. The drummer on the gig (19th June) was a guy called Gary Wilcox who I last played with on a trio gig with Dylan Fowler in 1994. I used my Wal on that gig also!! [URL=http://s283.photobucket.com/user/bilbo230763/media/Etheridge%20and%20I_zps4evmwkof.jpg.html][IMG]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk287/bilbo230763/Etheridge%20and%20I_zps4evmwkof.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Brighton is full of great musos. Shouldn't be hard to find one. One other point. Don't feel that every transcription that you do has to be complete. Sometimes, a few 'special' bars are enough to learn something important.

I lost a GK MB150S and an SWR electric Blue cab stolen from my car at the Aust Services by the old Severn Bridge. We were inside buying food. The saxophonist was in the car at the time. They took it from the boot without him realising it wasn't us.

Try non bass music. Gerry Mulligan, Curtis Fuller, Bob Brookmeyer - horns like baritone sax and trombone which mirror the range of our instrument.

Not had time. Am working on an album with guitarist Tim Ainslie and drummer Brendan O'Neil (Rory Gallagher). It's tying up what little free time I have.

Tormato has some of my favourite Squire bass work on.

Not read the whole thread but I would respond badly to someone like Rich. Duke Ellington was a gentleman and his band 10x that of Rich. This behaviour is simply unnecessary bullying. As for Whiplash, a dreadful film.

If you need a ledger line, you have gone to far. Get back down there!!!

I posted this here in 2010 but had no chords. Glad to see you got that bit nailed.

New face to me... http://youtu.be/p9rEQgASIvg

Yep. It's way ahead of what most people are doing even today.

Carl Hudson on keys (Boy George/Culture Club, Incognito, Professor Green). Great player if slightly bonkers!

It's like Modern Jazz, invented in the mid 1940s.

If you want to understand sharps and flats, try looking at the notes on a piano. Then think of what it would look like if the whole piano alternated between black and white notes.

Of course and the occasional blues lick finds its way in but, in simplistic terms, there ain't much dancing at Prog gigs!!

Prog is, for most people, a minority interest music, like Jazz. Finding four musicians willing and able to invest the time necessary to develop something intelligent and original will be like searching for the Holy Grail. Investment vs. return ratio would mean it's for a very dedicated few. Personally, I love the fact that Prog is probably the only music in the popular fields that isn't linked to dance and/or the blues. It is an essentially English invention with no direct links to the African American influenced dance genres like Funk, Soul, Jazz, Blues etc etc. Thus it works best for White men who can't dance ;-)

10, 000, 000 violinists, cellists and double bass players can't be wrong. The idea that fretless is harder than fretted is entirely mythological. It is merely different. PS ha[font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#141823"][size=3]ve been playing fretless for over 30 years[/size][/color][/font]

Learning both helps us with writing out tunes as well.

I was working as a roadie for a band recording at Rockfield studios and staying at their accommodation up the hill opposite. These two guys appeared and came in for a cup of tea and we sat and chatted for ages. Nothing embarrassing was said and it was all cool but I had no idea until I was later told that I was talking to half of Hawkwind (Huw Lloyd Langton and the then bass player who I still cannot name). Also, when I played with Grant Nicholas of Feeder, we had an opportunity to jam with an American drummer guy for a couple of hours because he just wanted to play and was not otherwise busy. Lovely guy. Handlebar moustache. That'll be Richie Hayward of Little Feat then. Although I later found out he was Robert Plant's drummer, I still didn't know who Little Feat were!

Wow!! Was there any Jazz on??

Nope. Cloying. Not his fault I don't like it. He is a talented guy. I just don't think he has found himself yet.

Can't deny the talent but I find it unlistenable. Hate the affected voice and choice of material (turd polishing?). Talented but misdirected, IMHO.