stewblack

Beauty!

[quote name='ste_m3' post='38254' date='Jul 28 2007, 08:21 PM']Oh dood! You really do have too much time on your hands! i say it with jelousy. that was good! Anyway, keep us up to "Scratch" with the cab. i tried?[/quote] The cat has struck again. Not a happy bunny.

I never liked the look of them but then suddenly did (it was a blue one for sale here that turned me) now I shall be buying a 5 as soon as funds allow and no other bass. Until I have my Sei 6 built. Oh and I want a Fender Jag. And a Ric. And a fretless Aria SB from 1983 in red. But that's definitely all. especially the Bongo. Well, mainly the Bongo.

[quote name='Paul Cooke' date='Jul 28 2007, 01:25 PM' post='38131'] tried that, got just 200 byte files... which when examined in a text editor had this: Try [url="http://www.ricksuchow.com/press-group-112.html"]here[/url]

[quote name='Oxblood' post='38084' date='Jul 28 2007, 11:01 AM']Agreed, stew. I'm with you all the way on Bruce Thomas, too. Bloody genius. And then there's Norman Watt-Roy..... The Blockheads would have been SO much less of a rhythm machine without him.[/quote] Yep, NWR and Bruce Thomas the first names that spring to mind when people ask me to name my favourite bass players.

[quote name='Oxblood' post='38076' date='Jul 28 2007, 10:42 AM']At your service, sir! Here are links to a couple of mp3s of James Jamerson at work, isolated from the rest of the instruments. Educational stuff![/quote] I found these too and used them to learn a couple of Jamerson bass lines. Now here's a concept the record labels should latch on to. I'd buy the entire Elvis Costello back catalogue if the pesky drums, guitar keys and vocals were taken out of the mix. What a great tool to examine the basslines and learn 'em! (Not that I don't love the songs - I do - but I find it so hard to pick out the nuance of a complex bassline when bass is always so criminally low in the mix)

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='37312' date='Jul 26 2007, 01:21 PM']He'll be mine as well! Useful to know. [/quote] +1

[quote name='Hutton' post='36716' date='Jul 25 2007, 08:56 AM']Even if you don't like Motown which is of course your right, I am sure that you would appreciate the bass playing of James Jamerson and Bob Babbitt. They are well worth a listen if you can blot out the rest of the song![/quote] It's an interesting one this. I often site Bruce Thomas as my favourite bassist but if I hadn't loved the Attractions would I have listened long or closely enough to discover him? The bassist from the Smiths might be an absolute genius but I'll never know 'cos I'll never listen to their stuff long enough to find out. Yes what I've heard of Jamerson sounds spot on for the music he was playing with, perfect compliment of rhythm and melody but as the music is sometimes great (to my ears) and sometimes awful I don't rave about him as others do. Surely a great bass line to a great song will excite us more than a great bass line to a Phil Collins song?

[quote name='paul, the' post='36572' date='Jul 24 2007, 08:52 PM']I hope this turns into a first bass thread Mine: A Kay SG copy. Muddy, earthy tone. Unslappable. It was (is) lovely. It's short-scale and I could only just reach the first fret with a stretch when I started playing.[/quote] This was once a Kay, or Woolworth's guitar as they were known. A truly horrible instrument suitable for French cricket and beating carpets.

Look what I just found in my shed!! Should probably be in bass porn or for sale inviting offers but what the heck, it's my first ever bass. (Note close up of all important bridge, dirt and sticker arrangement.)

[quote name='P-T-P' post='36416' date='Jul 24 2007, 03:44 PM']Just picked the following up from my local Tesco... Marvin Gaye Gold - Double CD all the hits and loads more besides James Brown Gold - As above but Mr. Brown Jamiroquai - High Times: Singles 1992-2006 All of them for £5 each. Even if they're not really your thing musically (and there's only so much of JB and Jam I can listen to) you kinda owe it to yourself as a bass player to broaden your horizons when it's that cheap.[/quote] Cheers for the heads up. Marvin Gaye I can see being worth listening to, James Brown needs to shut up screeching and sing occasionally apart from that as you say excellent bass stuff, but Jamiroquai? Spare me please, I couldn't stand one track of that mind numbing, soulless, ball less lift music. Each to their own of course, just my humble opinion.

[quote name='mikeh' post='35519' date='Jul 22 2007, 12:56 PM']Heres a question for all you gigging bassists. If you had an aweful front of house sound would you want to know about it??[/quote] I'd think - "Well what can i do about it?" it would spoil the night to be told the sound was awful. I guess the person to tell would be the venue owner who is responsible for booking the sound engineer.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='34969' date='Jul 20 2007, 09:52 PM']I refer my learned friend to the existing DC Montana thread: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3046"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3046[/url][/quote] Ah yes, I see. Late to the party as ever!

have we had this yet? [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DC-Montana-77-Bass-Guitar-Fender-Gibson-picks_W0QQitemZ200129377544QQihZ010QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]Montana Ricish![/url] Actually, on reflection, it's not very Ric really is it ?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='34772' date='Jul 20 2007, 04:15 PM']Hmmm. Is there an issue, perhaps something dark in your past, that prompts this sudden aversive reaction? Seriously, nowt wrong with Westones. If the Thunder III was good enough for King Thumb.... J.[/quote] I do remember a certain rivalry between the Westone and Aria camps back in 84, 85. well in Midsomer Norton there was anyway. Now I think they're both great - although Aria is my first love I find my Thunder 1 a joy to play.

If it does work I'll make sure I keep my hands well clear of it! I take great pains to keep that lovely bright fresh new string sound. Just play them in is the only advice I can give you. they lose a bit of zing quite quickly, especially if you don't protect or clean them.

[quote name='OldGit' post='6274' date='May 25 2007, 08:35 AM']Ok Chaps, this is where you can tell the world all about me Scary or what? [/quote] Just bought a case from Si in a shady motorway services type meet up and he is a wonderful chap, quite prepared to go out of his way to meet me and give up valuable time to help me out. Top bloke, cheers mate!

[quote name='Rooster' post='32293' date='Jul 15 2007, 11:29 PM']Anyone care to recommend me a bloke to fix my bass. It's giving me some real problems, i'm not sure what it is but it's either giving a low output, no output or a slightly audible e estring and barely audible everything else. No one can seem to find the problem (music shops, electricians, fellow bassists/ guitarists) anyone care to recommend me someone?[/quote] If you consider traveling as far as Bristol then why not get off the M4 sooner and [url="http://www.guitarclinic.co.uk/"]use this guy[/url]. I have had him repair several basses with differing problems and he is fantastic.

I played a 6 string Sei when buying a cab of an old BWer a while back. Up until that point I'd only seen photos and, well, 'if that floats your boat' ... I used to think. My God what a superb instrument, I envy you guys getting your bass built and one day, when my ship comes in I shall be there too. Awesome, truly awesome instruments.

[quote name='guitarnbass' post='31923' date='Jul 14 2007, 10:16 PM']this is the face --- [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c46fr2EZOhQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c46fr2EZOhQ[/url][/quote] I'd pull a face if I tried that! No I'd probably rupture myself actually.

[quote name='3V17C' post='31244' date='Jul 13 2007, 01:24 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV--9G_2tE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV--9G_2tE[/url] check out his facial expressions! haha...what a tool. peace c[/quote] I went to the guy's band's myspace site he plays some wonderful stuff on the vid clip there and no tics.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='31881' date='Jul 14 2007, 07:16 PM']Oh dear, I've just had a very embarassing but not entirely unpleasent misshap in my undergarments!!! Do they play as good as they look...? And 32" scale model as well? that just Oooooozes MoJo!! :wub:[/quote] Over here with the Kleenex Burpster! Wowie Zowie that's a beauty. Don't like the 'contact us for prices' bit mind...

[quote name='The Burpster' post='31749' date='Jul 14 2007, 01:38 PM']I say, thats a bit harsh.... Dean, it seems are catering pretty much solely to the Metal end of the spectrum. Maybe thats why this seems as your quote. I'm not saying that a (for instance) Frank Belo sig P bass cannot be use for any stylee of music, but its certainly gonna be more at home with one genre as are most Deans. Interesting arrangment tho'[/quote] I think I expressed myself badly. There was a range of tone there and a playability that was good. I meant, once you'd heard the tone the extra strings brought to the party and gone 'Hmm that's nice' then that was pretty much it. As far as genres go the guy in the shop felt it suited jazz best! It had been tuned to a drop D so maybe there had been a bit of metal interest. For me it suited a bluesy sort of sound. Each to their own.

Just been into a music shop and tried a Dean 12string. Basically 4 normal strings with two little thin strings, both an octave up, alongside each. To be honest it sounded fine, played well but didn't do much a decent octave pedal couldn't and at £800 I thought it was pricey and a one trick pony.