BassTractor

Another thread revival! Heads up: Colin Moulding got together with Terry Chambers again in 2016 and the two recorded the ep "Great Aspirations", which was released in October 2017 under the artist name TC&I (which I suppose means "Terry Chambers and I" as in that in essence this ep is a Colin Moulding thing. FWIW, Wikipedia says Colin wrote all four songs. Couldn't find a cd copy immediately, and downloaded it from Burning Shed for the time being. It's playing as I speak, and I think the typical Colin thing is present. The first track, Scatter Me, hit home right away, and to me seems to vaguely refer to Andy Partridge whilst still seeming to me like a true Colin Moulding song - a good thing. "Kenny", the third track, too seems like a Moulding track one could find on an XTC album. The second track, "Greatness", has yet to build an impression on me, and the last one, "Comrades of Pop" seems to be about the lyrics only. Now, I'm lyrics deaf but in that last track I did hear the words "It's the guy that writes the hits that gets the money", "the bassist and the drummer might be lucky", and "lawyer". so this might indicate that the lyrics indeed are more important to CM than the music, which basically is some simple ostinato. No comments on the bass parts or the playing yet.

You're an idiot. Nobody has ever taken that title from me since 1976! What, they've not even challenged me. Hasty edit: You're NOT an idiot! 😮

Found this quite interesting: the same R. de Visée prelude played on four different instruments: theorbo, lute, baroque guitar and harpsichord.

😀 Thanks! ...and as you can imagine, I did find out immediately after posting. Somehow one has to. (It appears I've been in Somerset several times when driving between Anglesey and Devon.)

What a shame! I'd have paid a lot more than that for a meet-and-greet! 😉 (BTW, before anyone thinks I'm a stalker: I am indeed a stalker but not in this context; I never zoomed out after my Google Maps search, so I still don't even know where in the UK Somerset might be. 😁 )

Lovely read. Thanks for posting. They're right, ya know. What can I say, other than: Thank you, Newfoundfreedom. Keep up the good work. Basschat is as much yours as it is ours. From BassTractor (the bloke), Søgne (the village).

Well... I was nervously waiting for you in Wirral Park Rd... Were you there at all, or did you somehow end up in the Townsend Shopping Park?

Wrong. It was there, and it was a large part of why I, and IIRC others, left.

Aye. In the background one hears the hardship of the Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA.

I'd wager the notion that everyone sometimes acts in bizarre, unusual ways - though admittedly some more than others. People go through many different kinds of stuff in their lives, and most of the time, one can sense those hardships in the background when they post in said ways on any forum.

Thanks again, folks. As i said, @AndyTravis's July 28th proposal of a Spector USA Rex bass is as close as I think we're gonna get. It's so close that it could very well be the exact thing I was trying to find. best, bert

To bring some science to this thread: I've just visited my ex, with ear plugs well-mounted in my ears. Ear Plugs Don't Work.

Listening to your music (I love it and consequently bought the album), I can't hear the relationships on first listening, so yeah, I'm quite open to the notion of this being a different band. Searching a tiny little bit, I did find a band called Lutz and they were described as playing Americana and something else I've already forgotten. Anyway, thanks for the music. BC has some great bands!

That's you? him? Congrats! I've seen worse music-maps:

IME Word of mouth indeed, if added to availability and dependability. In practical terms: someone with the contacts who likes to shove work your way coz that won't reflect badly on them again. I'm sure agencies would or could do great work, but my own experience doesn't stretch that far. Peers of mine would be very active in networking, but the eagerness was dripping from them, and I still got the work without being that good.

First of all: an immense Thank you to everyone! The response, though typically BC was far greater than expected, and gave a lot of purdy pics. I'm with @Unknown_User, coz this is fun! As to Andy's proposal: WOW! Methinks that is a close as we're gonna get, and maybe if these existed several decades ago, this is the one I was in fact looking for even though I remember and saw it as more "rectangular". Mind you, I've been doubting myself, as many different pics of Thunderbirds give many different impressions, and also they came in a plethora of variations - with for example different placements of the bridge (dunno how they do that - I'm no specialist in these models). The thing I remember from that bass, and from what I thought I saw on the telly is exactly this character of obviously stemming from a Thunderbird but with the angles that count being closer to 90 degrees than in an original Thunderbird. Andy's Rex does that exactly - to my eyes that is. Maybe you guys provably see it as much closer to a Thunderbird, Idunno. Yes indeed. I fully agree with you there, and I did try both before and after posting. Many of the programmes they show here in Norway can be seen online afterwards, but many can't. I've scanned what I can, but haven't found it. Should of course have made a note right away, but overestimating my memory is one of my weaknesses. If the programme was Norwegian, you wouldn't be able to see it outside Norway - hence my attempt to play it online and make a screenshot. Also, admittedly, my brain functions so unwell these days, that I might have seen an ad on my computer whilst watching tv - the bass being in the ad but my sick brain remembering it immediately as if the bass was on tv. Therefore I've trawled my papers in the hope of a possible ad appearing again. BTW, that would be Lord Bertie to you, but as you know I'm more of an Algy type. 😁 (Young uns: look it up! 🙂 ) Thanks, folks! Lord AlgyBertie

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Googling and googling, I found the same question on TalkBass, and there they didn't solve it. When I started this thread, I though it was a well-known bass and therefore easy, but now it seems to me this isn't easy at all. So I think it's not worth the energy, and that it's best to put this at rest. Thanks again, everyone! Bert (However, for those who love stuff like this and who are not gonna be stopped, let me try in different words: Basically, it's a Thunderbird shape. No Non Reverse, no other things that make it weirder or more regular. However, if you can see the Thunderbird as basically a bendy parallellogram, then this bass still is a bendy parallellogram but less pointy. As a result its body probably is wider, or seems wider. Neck has large inlays (though that may have been an artefact of the resolution). One-part bridge near end of body. It looked rectangular and chromey. Two single-coil pups, or pups that look like them. I saw no scratchplate, but it may have been there Headstock not seen.)

Love them, me, and have done so since the early 70s - a period when we could just walk into our local music shop and try and buy Renaissance instrument copies. What a wonderful time! Based on my experience with the viola da gamba, I'd say: "Do it! Do it!" 🙂

Thanks, guys! As to @EssentialTension's Stormbird and @Chiliwailer's Non Reverse T-bird, I'd seen those earlier and then thought to myself that if they had had the typical Thunderbird non-reversed reversed non-reversedreversedness, they could be rather close. The Cataldo too is close, but in my eye somewhat closer to a T-Bird again. In the mean time, I've been trying to find the tv-programme online for a screenshot. Will keep you updated. Thanks!

Thanks, folks! None of those I'm afraid. Think of it as a bass that you immediately think is a Thunderbird, and then, milliseconds later, you realise it's a copy that tried to be just different enough. It's slightly in the direction of a rectangle - with for example a lesser pronounced lower horn than a real Thunderbird. I think it existed in the seventies, but as my memory is lacking I cannot be sure. In case I think eighties is a fair guess. In the mean time, I've done some more googling, and the Schecter Sixx Bass comes very close, see below, without being exactly the one I saw on tv, which seems slightly closer to a rectangle again and which had pronounced inlays in the neck. Again, this is not important stuff. I'm just interested. Thanks again!

Today a bass (I think) was almost seen on tv that I remember from days long gone, and it was obviously like a Thunderbird, but made so as to discern it from it, making for a more modest, more rectangular-like shape. Anyone any idea what it could have been? It's not an important question, but I'm trying to build up my memory again.

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I was saddened reading this. Also, it's so unnecessary! In my book, you still look like Donny Osmond! 🙂 (That said, these days Donny Osmond sadly looks a lot worse than even Barry off EastEnders.) 😐