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Brilliant! Cbeebies is the only telly I get to watch these days (yep 2 kids now) and my 2 year old loves the Zings. I get him to slap all over my bass every morning before brekkie so this is going on my bookmarks! Well, you gotta brainwash them as early as you can eh? cheers for that, and cheers to SZ for being able to have a bit of fun with it
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http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-h3g-uk&safesearch=always&gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=xhC-hhavnYg
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It was astonishing at the time (as it is now) just how good he was at such a young age. I think he'd only been playing bass a couple of years before he got the Jamiroquai gig. I remember in an interview he gave years ago, he said when he was even younger he was a percussionist in the Archaos circus (with his sister?) so he obviously had the rhythmic thang down. Then he picked up the bass and hit the ground running....... After watching the above clip earlier today I found a wicked early Jamiroquai gig in Japan from '93 on youtube (Jamiroquai - live at club citta) - Can't link to anything on my crap phone soz but check it out if you can. (it's left me gassing for a P/J Streamer stage one I can tell you!
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I wondered if you could be right here so I checked up on it but if you google 'jimmy page discusses making Led Zepellin III' (at ledzepellin.org) he goes through all the tracks and for Bron-aur he says JPJ used a large bodied acoustic bass guitar that he had defretted and played it acoustically. Wow I've always thought it was that fretless P (you were right about him using it on 'in my time of dying though)
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Not forgetting the fretless P-bass on Bron-Y-Aur stomp. So sexy!
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Yep I always thought he used flats (read it in an interview once somewhere) but then I got shot down in flames on Talkbass for saying so. Lots of evidence was brought forward by people who say they have met and asked him (which of course could be internet BS) and other interviews he gave say he hated flats and used Roto swingbass 66 roundwound strings and just eqed it that way. He mentioned that when Jimmy used to go off on one, JPJ needed to fill the space up as it was just down to the bass and drums and he found flats too limiting. He also said he'd change them often too so it's not like he was using dead rounds either. but yeah, they always sounded like flats to me.
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Congrats mate, I love a happy ending! Nothing like the kindness of strangers to restore a little faith eh? Nice peeps.
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Looks very nice indeed. Enjoy!
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Whats the best Jazz Bass I can buy for under £300
miles'tone replied to matybigfro's topic in Bass Guitars
[quote name='yepmop' timestamp='1345930180' post='1783371'] I have one of these and they are amazing, lovely to play and everyone that hears it, comments on what a great sound it has. The "Out of the box" action is a little high for a fretless but that probably adds to the sound. These can be bought used on flea bay for around £175 [/quote] I did indeed pick one of these basses up last week for 172 quid. It is outstanding value for money, sounds the real deal, a joy to play! Bomb-proof Wilkinson hardware too. -
God used to love Bassist. I wrote in once as a kid trying to find out what model Rickenbacker Mani's Jackson pollock-esque one was. They actually printed my letter and I got my answer 4 months later! Wow, remind me never to take t'net for granted. I love the 'any answer in a heart beat' age we now live in, and thank god for Basschat! btw - Mani played a Ric 4005 back in the day popfans -but you already knew that of course
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As a single download I suggest 'Amelia' live with Wayne Cochran and the cc riders (it's on Punk Jazz - the Jaco Pastorius anthology) a very young Jaco playing one of his own compositions with them. He's using a Fender Jazz but with Labella flats on (pre rotosound tone) It's a killer tune with one hell of a groove from the young master.
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Saw him at the Cardiff show for war of the worlds a coupla years ago. Brilliant show and he had a killer tone. Only knew he was playing when we sat down and read the program before it started. Made my night!
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Cool!
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If you go on youtube and look for 'Qotsa Glastonbury 2002 No One Knows' (sorry I can't put the link up directly - my phone is cack) you can fleetingly see Nick O finishing a passage with his fingers then reaching to the mic stand to grab a pick for the next bit. Never noticed this before. The rest of the tunes from them that day are well worth a look - that was one hell of a line up back then! Also on one of the tunes (soz can't remember which one and I've got an armful of newborn baby right now so I can't really go trawling even though I want to!) you can clearly see the large pole pieces of his quarter pounder and the down-tuned flubby strings I mentioned earlier.
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Dunno about in the studio but saw him live many times on the songs for the deaf tour... P-bass with Basslines SPB3 quarter pounder, bass tuned C-F-B flat- E flat with what looked like quite regular strings as they were REALLY floppy! Played hard with a pick cranked thru a scruffy Ampeg rig. Sounded the same as the album cut to me... Effing awesome! A Sansamp Bassdriver DI will get you there for a recording.
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Something worth considering is that when you hear the lemon song it is JPJ playing with complete freedom of thought and expression as Zep were there own bosses so to speak. With Jamerson, all those basslines we adore and love were created within a more restrictive environment; the 'hit factory'. It was his day job. The funk brothers were pretty much told what they would be playing (arrangement wise) and of course they got their freak on within that set up but they weren't calling the creative shots really. jamerson famously would not allow the motown stuff to be played at home complaining that he had to spend all day at work listening to that Sh*t. Jamerson was a jazz cat at heart and would play exactly that during his down time. I guess what I'm trying to get at in a long winded way is that Jamerson has blown us all away with his talent and yet we may never have actually heard him really being himself, creating what HE really wanted to... I also agree that music is not a competition by the way. Both these guys are killer talents.
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Bump for a beauty! Man I wish I had the cash for this right now, it'd be gone! I had a ray from this year too and I've always regretted selling it (hope you don't!) Stunning neck by the way, don't see these anymore unless you're forking out for a new classic. Sweet bass! -
Thanks for that, perfect vibe for this morning.
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Sorted. Bought new Golden Slaps and I'm very happy. They are the dog's nic-naks!
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Thank, I'll check that out!
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Like the title says!
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[quote name='JakeBrownBass' timestamp='1336677649' post='1649462'] Forget the bass playing, that drummers left hand on the hi-hat is insanely tight at those speeds! [/quote] just what I was thinking!
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Hi all. Up for sale is my Fender Jazz Bass American Standard (made in 2000) which I have converted to P/J configuration. I have owned this bass from new, buying it from the Bass Cellar in Denmark Street, London. Since buying it, this has been my only electric bass (I also play upright), and I have gigged with it alot, playing many summer festivals for the past 6 of those years. I've never had a backup bass and it has never let me down. My reason for selling is that it's my 40th birthday this year and I've pushed the boat out and had a custom bass built. As you can see I have converted it to P/J, this was done about about 4 years ago and the bridge pickup was replaced at the same time. It is now loaded with a Fender Original Precision pickup (same as you will find in a Fender Custom Shop '64 Precision and also the '62 Fender American Vintage Reissue) and the bridge pickup is a Basslines Antiquity II. I have also changed the cap to an Ampohm .047 paper in oil. Needless to say, this bass sounds killer! It does look a bit "road worn" but that's because it is, the genuine way! (I can't show every tiny ding due to the photo limit but I've shown the significant ones.) It's obviously well played in and feels and sounds so much better now than when I bought it. The maple neck has also mellowed some and gained an aged tint which I like as the American standard necks of this time were not tinted like the ones today. This neck has the "Posiflex" graphite suppot rods in it and is the most stable neck I've ever owned. Never had any need to adjust it due to seasonal change at all, just for playing preference. The frets have lots of life left in them too. It weighs 9 1/3 pounds according to my kitchen scales and balances perfectly when strapped on. I bought the P routed J-bass pickguard from Warmoth in the states as their take on this conversion has a bit more mass towards the bridge on the pickguard, enabling the P pickup to sit in the same position as on a P-bass (If you put a P rout on a regular Jazz pickguard, the P pickup is too far "north" in my opinion). This bass comes perfectly set up and intonated, strung (thru body) with D'addario chromes (105-50) that are nicely played in and are sounding awesome. It has the original Schaller straplocks but no case, It will be securely packed for posting. This Jazz is a joy to play and is solid as a rock with more years left in it than I have. I'm looking for £525 posted. So for that you're getting American build quality with Custom Shop tone for the price of a Mexican! [attachment=107218:SAM_1633.JPG][attachment=107222:SAM_1628.JPG][attachment=107226:SAM_1626.JPG][attachment=107237:SAM_1634.JPG][attachment=107244:SAM_1643.JPG][attachment=107246:SAM_1636.JPG][attachment=107247:SAM_1637.JPG]
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Stumbled across this and I too watched the whole thing. God bless ya Bootzilla! Excellent!!!
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[quote name='grimbeaver' post='1295788' date='Jul 7 2011, 11:22 AM']my strings have shrunk to funk master 30/90s, and I have a seg on my thumb. Am I going over to the dark side? Will slap take over from my rock style playing? Will all bass players hate me from now on and slag of the slapping? Help[/quote] I saw The Doors of the 21st century a few years ago at Wembley arena and on the final song - L.A. Woman - as the band was being introduced, the bass player played the most god-awful slap bass solo I have ever heard in my life. On L.A. WOMAN!! It just killed the gig for me, it had been as ok as it could've been without Jim up to that point. I felt like shoving that nipple-high P-bass right where the sun don't shine. He was totally disrespectful of the material he was playing and made me question the remaining Doors judgment for letting him do that. This has put me off slapping in public for ever. Just horrible. I can and do slap at home for fun (no you won't find me on youtube!) and it's great rhythmic practice but Beware! Don't have your bass set up just for slap as you may end up with a too twee tone for fingerstyle or pick playing and that doesn't rock. Get some regular strings on so if you do slap it will only be for a bit and be tasteful! But that's just me and you ultimately have to enjoy yourself so.... Enjoy whatever it is you love! Peace.
