Bilbo

I just bought a Mono Twin bass case, one of the ones that takes two electric basses. I have a single one for my Wal already but needed one for when I take my seven string out as well. The case was delivered three days ago and I still haven't opened the box it came in. I guess I am not the excitable teenager I once was

I've got a.ot of time for JP. I remember when we all heard 'Got A Match' for the first time and all ran out and bought the Electrik Band LP (pre-CD days). Everyone was trying to play it and everyone was failing!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm34SVz2K8

I loved my Eden Metro combo but it was just getting too heavy as I was getting older and so I got smaller Acoustic Image gear. I added a PJB speaker and now it sounds great but the Metro was the one. I just needed a roadie. As for basses, I still have the one but there is a guitar I let go that I wish I could have back, an Ibanez Artist from the early 1980s

I re-did mine and cut out all the superfluous fat. It is now a lot shorter but better for it. I put the new link in my previous post in order to avoid confusion later on!!

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1451836917' post='2943841'] I enjoyed that. I can't quite place my finger on it but it reminded me of the theme tune to an 80s sitcom. The sitcom was British at it was on Sunday nights I think. Great work. [/quote] No idea. Just coincidence. It was simply a thing that came into my head when I thought about it. Actually, it's about a minute longer than it's content. Should have edited it down or changed the theme. I am not going back to it now. Publish and be damned!!!

Here is mine for this month. Struggling to find time at the moment. https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/wind-and-rain-a-brass-trio-1

There are different approaches to tributes, from folks just doing songs by a band to the whole production, dressing up thing. Horses for courses. The whole thing fails to grab me but I am not going to be the target audience so that is irrelevant. Best will depend on what you are expecting. Personally, I'd pay to see cetera doing a dep in a big band whilst sporting the full Simmons get up!

[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1451055938' post='2938058'] Bachs 6 cello suites for bass transcription. Will never learn it but looks cool to bust out a few seconds of it! [/quote] I have had these for years. They are great for going back to again and again for reading, technique and particularly bowing.

Roger Glover, Jack Bruce, John Mole, Alphonso Johnson, Mo Foster... Loads, if I am honest.

Well done, y'all.

Pop round mine and spend a year with my cd collection. That'll learn ya!

Nothing from me this month, guys. New job, new venue and Christmas. No time for composing!

Jeff Berlin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZVXqw770A

Alphonso Johnson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUTsZ78xIw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upDUqCjx6A8 Another Squire special.

This is a Zoom H1. Simplest device, great sound for referencing. Anything live on my Soundcloud page is recorded in the same way. https://m.soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/unit-seven

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1449669702' post='2925795'] I like Tom and Jerry. Does that count? [/quote] No. That's more like Stravinsky. There is plenty of modern Jazz that does not sound like it did 50 years ago but which IS Jazz, as opposed to fusion, Jazz Funk etc. Go find it. You will enjoy the journey!!

Great. Only no-one here has referenced much Jazz These guys are all fusion, jazz funksters. Another 30 years and you will discover real Jazz!!!!

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1449518618' post='2924315'] This x100. I was a bit of a fan boy though in the late 80s- listened to him so much in those days and, I might say, my playing probably suffered as a result. I was all back pickup and staccato notes! I rarely hear him now but I heard this the other day and it moved me so deeply. Simply stunning. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpaFTPmp2Pw&feature=youtu.be"]http://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be[/url] [/quote] That was beautifully arranged

Respect to him for not pushing it further than is credible. End of Rush? Who knows?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPtqRjirC6o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0b4STz1lo

[quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1449508460' post='2924185'] I have his back catalog because i thought i was missing out. Listened to it once [/quote] If you have only listened to it once, you are missing a lot. I have been listening to Jaco on and off for 30 years. His touch and phrasing, his ideas, his tone, his concepts - all of it literally set the hares running. He had some lows (his stuff with Brian Melvin, Jon Davis and Birelli Lagrene was all a bit poor) but so much of his stuff 1976 - 1985 was sublime. I remember playing Donna Lee to a sax player and he said 'he's the real deal'. He is not copping licks, he is properly blowing. Word of Mouth, Joni, Weather Report etc etc. Just a massive, massive presence. Anyone who cannot hear the strength of his playing is making choices that are based on a different aesthetic. He was an absolutely unique voice who stands repeated listening decades after the fact. I don't listen to Jaco as a fan boy; I don't like everything he played on by any means. Nevertheless, I just hear him every now and again, shake my head and smile. He was the real thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XauOTo-BKSY

I voted myself into 9th place