Bilbo

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1469904705' post='3101945'] Next you'll be telling me that van Morrison isn't as important to jazz as Thelonius Monk or Dizzy Gillespie! [/quote] Van Morrison Isn't as important to Jazz as Peter Rabbit and Mrs Tiggie Winkle

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1469882239' post='3101738'] MoonDance is the absolute pinnacle of Jazz! Nothing better has been written in that genre. It captures all the musical elements of Jazz but has the quality of that it is listenable and catchy! [/quote] Careful, Viscount Snorker. Your ignorance is showing. B-)

Moondance has one great quality. It proves that you CAN fool some of the people all of the time.

I have a cassette tape of me doing Portrait of Tracy on a gig about 20 years ago. Any good?

It's horses for courses. For me, a covers band is a band that does covers. There are variations within that but, like all genres, there are sub genres. Covers bands who are accurate reproductions, bands who expand their covers, tribute bands etc. The definitions are very broad in the way that Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman are both Jazz, Status Quo and Trivium are both Rock and Level 42 and Parliament are both funk. The terms are only broad definitions not scientific classifications.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1469091784' post='3095602'] All very admirable but I think they're somewhat missing the point. [/quote] Great post but the last sentence also misses a point. Music has many purposes and the one you describe is undoubtedly the most popular but, for some, the process of creativity is the driver and not the roar of the crowd. This is no less legitimate because it is less popular. What is interesting is they way in which 'muso' innovation creeps into the mainstream

http://youtu.be/P7lPev_V-e0

[quote name='FlatEric' timestamp='1345032029' post='1772553'] Something a bit special from Ibanez. [/quote] I LOVE this.... would you sell?

My intonation on arco double bass is only marginally more accurate than my intonation on soprano saxophone.

I lived in the same town as Heyes when I took up the double bass the first time. Called him up for lessons. He only taught during office hours so that was the end of that.

Another ' adjust it to the room and then leave it' guy here.

Look up Mark Egan, Mo Foster, Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia and a band called Montreux. That's a couple of hours sorted.

Kermit Driscol, Bill Frissel.

Dirty Loops on amphetamine.

[quote name='Kevin Glasgow' timestamp='1456769603' post='2992086'] Hi folks, Here's a new video from my band Preston-Glasgow-Lowe. Hope you enjoy it! [media]http://youtu.be/qvU4EizrbMA[/media] Cheers, Kev [/quote] I saw these guys doing this live at my Jazz East at The Alex thing in Felixstowe earlier this year. This was a stand out track, for me. I couldn't even MIME it. I still think Kevin is arguably the greatest bass player in the UK at the moment. I know he disagrees but I am bigger than him so I win.

Jaco, Anthony Jackson, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Johnson and Richard Bona on electric. On double bass it's Dave Holland, Marc Johnson, Charlie Haden, Edgar Meyer and Renaud Garcia-Fons.

I have a real soft spot for ACDC. I was there when it was Born Scott. Loved it. Makes me smile every time

I once walked into Andy's Guitar Shop in Denmark Street with a guitar roadie from a famous Parisienne guitarist. He asked Andy 'can you recommend a good Polish for my man's guitars'? Andy answered 'Pledge' :-D I left the shop really quickly.

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.