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[quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='140053' date='Feb 14 2008, 08:42 AM']Borrowed the wife's disco cd to play in the car this morning. Just discovered a Chic song called 'I Want You Love'. I've never heard it before but OMFG what a bass line from Mr Edwards again.....it's been stuck in my head all morining and what a tone. I think he was famous for not swapping the strings on his Stingray ever. It's not difficult to see why Stu Zender said he was a huge influence on his playing. Does anyone have any other tracks worth checking out by Bernard Edwards ? (not the obvious Chic / Sister Sledge / Diana Ross I mean).[/quote] Chic: Good Times, Le Freak, Everybody Dance Diana Ross: I'm Coming Out Upside Down Sister Sledge: He's The Greatest Dancer We Are Family Absolute master of "groove" bass playing in my opinion.

No.....gutted. I really enjoy the simplicity of that programme. I did see the full production of cymbals at the Zildjian factory which was really interesting too, as well as drumsticks being made (can't remember who though). Never realised so much went into "pairing" sticks!

[quote name='jakesbass' post='139521' date='Feb 13 2008, 02:21 PM']that is indeed the one. most important aspect is doing it in time. so metronome[/quote] I must admit, if I've got one [b]really[/b] bad habit, it's that I don't spend enough time doing it slowly (no Finbar Saunders jokes please). I build up my speed far too quickly, so therefore am not doing it as effeciently as I suppose I should. I think it comes down to having not a great deal of patience. I'm the same with DVD players, etc. I never read the instructions, I just plug it in and expect it to work.

Alright Ken. I love stories of people that have started playing again. It's just great to hear that you can never give up. I fell out of love with it, but never actually stopped playing totally, just less and less. Then gigging with a mate gave me the love back, and I've been playing regularly for the two years since that. Have fun. Cheers, Pete.

Yeah, Sound Control do have a fairly decent collection of nice acoustics. However, I can't vouch for how many of them are basses. Probably still worth a look though.

[quote name='Rich' post='139241' date='Feb 13 2008, 07:37 AM']He's all over Kate Bush's earlier work too. Think 'Babooshka'. Also, Fish's first solo album 'Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors' contains some of his beautiful fretless work, especially 'State Of Mind' and 'Family Business'.[/quote] Thanks for the info. I'll check that out.

[quote name='Mikey D' post='137434' date='Feb 10 2008, 02:20 AM']I got this from a Satriani article yeeeears ago...has also helped my r/h for string crossing. Along with 'Patitucci's' spider exercise, these two helped my left hand the most.[/quote] Is that the one with 1st finger 1st fret, then 3rd finger 3rd fret, then 2nd finger 2nd fret, then 4th finger 4th fret on alternate strings, then repeat switching strings (e.g. 1st and 3rd on D string, 2nd and 4th on G string, then 1st/3rd on G and 2nd/4th on D) up and down the neck. Then repeat it two strings apart, then again three strings apart, etc? If so, damned good exercise that. Do it myself...but nowhere near as often as I should.

[quote name='Rich' post='139068' date='Feb 12 2008, 08:22 PM']John Giblin is a fretless master. He makes it sing in a way I could only dream of.[/quote] I'd never heard of John Giblin before he was in Simple Minds, and then a friend played me Brand X Products. The track "Wal To Wal" with Percy Jones is fantastic. Simple Minds just didn't highlight his talent at all.

Hi Tony from a fellow Mancunian (although I'm still here). Welcome on board. Cheers, Pete.

[quote name='coasterbass' post='138971' date='Feb 12 2008, 05:17 PM']A few years back I trotted along to a big name store to try out their Ampeg range. It was when the SVT-IV had just come out and there weren't many around. I was about the only guy in there, and happily sat trotting out my favourite licks. I was kind of aware that a guy had come in and was chatting to one of the store people. After a while the store guy calls over and says "can you play something - this guy wants to hear how it sounds?". So I turned up a bit, cracked my fingers, and launched into my rehearsed piece of Come Together - the Marcus Miller version. The guy smiles, says "cool", shakes hands and walks out. As I was leaving I asked who the strange man in the hat was. Sadly it was Marcus Miller.[/quote] "Doh!" as Homer would say. I once did the same thing in front of Andy Rourke of The Smiths, and he stopped me to correct me where I'd gone wrong.

[quote name='bremen' post='138873' date='Feb 12 2008, 02:26 PM']pictures worth 1000+ words. Gold star![/quote] Too right. +1 for that.

Had something similar to that many years ago. Me & my old band mates travelled down from Manchester to Ilford to buy a mixing desk from a guy in a bedsit. Then to go with it, we then travelled round to Surrey to buy a 50 metre roll of multicore. We were a bit similar.....starting noticing the houses getting bigger and bigger. Stopped outside his place, and knocked on this massive oak front door. A young girl opened it and led us in, and pointed us in the direction of the room her dad was in. When we opened the door, it was the door to a huge recording studio he had built in his house. Two 7 piece kits set up, a complete set of kettle drums, lots of saxes hanging all over the place as well as a myriad of other instruments. We spent about an hour there with him chatting away. When we left, the drummer asked our keyboard player what his name was. He said "Jon something......a bit foreign sounding". Our drummer then realised we'd been at the house of Jon Heisman (seen [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtjDigJ_QQI"]here[/url] playing in "Colosseum II" with Gary Moore and Don Airey). Others may know him from "Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia" (I think she was his wife - which would explain the saxes everywhere). Nice house by the way.

Good luck with that mate, hope it all works out OK for you. Our guitarist had a full pint of coke spilled in his a couple of years back, and he got away with....no damage whatsoever. Can't believe how lucky he was.

[quote name='WarPig' post='137919' date='Feb 11 2008, 12:26 AM']lol....ring modulation...[/quote] As soon as I saw the thread title I thought......Fnarr Fnarr!! "Discombobulator"....

Talking of music quotes....my mate had a t-shirt with quotes on that I loved. "To be is to do"--Socrates. "To do is to be"--Jean-Paul Sartre. "Do be do be do"--Frank Sinatra.

[quote name='Muppet' post='137894' date='Feb 10 2008, 11:39 PM']That's cool Dave, though take no notice of the "you're only a proper bass player if you play with your fingers" brigade. True, it's all useful, but there's no law about it so go with what feels comfortable to you I guess! Steve[/quote] Too right. I started off with a plectrum, then moved onto slapping (and every song at that point too - oh dear!), then fingers. Now I play a combination of all of them, depending on what the song requires. What would be the point in having John Patitucci play a Stanglers track, or JJB playing with Chick Corea? Both great bassists in their own right in my opinion.

Matt, Beedster loves his Precisions. I believe he's offline at the moment due to moving house, etc. but I'm sure there may be one or two people that know him. Try and get some photos up on here for starters, and let the experts take a good nosey. Cheers, Pete.

I wasn't a great fan of "Valerie" to be honest. I still much prefer The Zutons version. But today, I heard another cover from that CD that in my book is sacrilege......Pretty Green (by The Jam originally).....it's absolutely horrendous

[quote name='Higgie' post='136418' date='Feb 8 2008, 12:00 PM']Alexis is a good friend of mine - He actually now has 2 of the white basses (which WERE inspired by Zender's) but the first one got a crack in the body from flying internationally, so he had a second one made.[/quote] Ah, so are you "the friend the UK" accredited with getting the LEDs etc. done for him?

Nah mate...wanna see a REALLY sexy Streamer? Alexis Sadler's all white (including neck) is beautiful. Check out his version of "Hooked Up" too...sounds very nice (although not on his Streamer).

[quote name='chardbass' post='136107' date='Feb 7 2008, 10:02 PM']How is this crap?? If he's the guy I think he is then he's from your neck of the woods and held down a resident gig nearby for a couple of years- so he can play solo and ensemble bass whereas I can't. Getting tired of people being knocked when they "show off" Is this guy a bedroom w***er? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLmQRUq7l14&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLmQRUq7l14...feature=related[/url] He's at home having a good old w**k on his bass but as he isn't playing 'Midnight Hour' do we presume he can't groove? The truth is he's one of our most talented young bassists. Joe isn't in his league but he executes some tricky stuff brilliantly. Ian was right- it's a good bass video.[/quote] Well said that man.

Cheers......another £6.32 spent on iTunes !!!

[quote name='OldGit' post='135082' date='Feb 6 2008, 03:23 PM']Steve Wright's having a good day T Two Blue Mink tunes back to back with Herbie Flower's brilliant swooping and sometimes tuba-like bass lines and then Renaissance's Northern Lights with the best Chris Squire impression, ever.. I've got Northern Lights on CD but it doesn't sound as good as it does when it's played on the radio .. How do they do that?[/quote] Yeah, I heard that too. Sounded so much better than listening to Radio Drone etc. where it's the same old same old played over and over again and endless prattle by the DJ.