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Perhaps a bit off topic but recently really enjoyed this documentary.. Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Soft Machine.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyPnNsY_0Pc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyPnNsY_0Pc[/url]

Don't agree.. I quite liked the sound... already people sound too much the same. Great playing by the way.. great phrasing and ideas.

Just giving this thing a bump since it's just great to listen to.. Excellent initiative and covers a lot of styles.

Something which I discovered around here on bass.chat.. It's a Fender Precision Special.. costs around 750 euro [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gIMZPn_DKQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gIMZPn_DKQ[/url]

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1347471500' post='1801353'] I'm a huge Pino fan. Always have been. But this does absolutely nothing for me. I find it too busy with too many notes and quite uninteresting. If I heard this and didn't know who was playing it, I wouldn't give it a second thought. Sorry - just being honest and I'll probably get flamed like crazy, but it just goes to show how different people hear things differently. When Pino played fretless through an Octaver, you could tell a mile off with HIS inventive melodies, and sliding double stops and sliding double-stopped harmonics, that it was HIM playing on some new album when you heard it for the first time. You looked up the credits and hey presto, there HE was. Really sorry folks. Awaiting incoming. CB [/quote] Totally agree with you, could often be just anyone when he's playing a Precision. I used to own Precisions and I loved them because they were so fat and growling.. But I've been too much in situations that I cursed myself not bringing a Jazz bass along (especially in big halls where your sound drowns in the bass-drum and all the EQ in the world doesn't help).. Precision basses are often felt in those circumstances but rarely heard. I bought this thing as an alternative.. [IMG]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t247/wombatboter/FENDER001.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1347294104' post='1798943'] What i find quite interesting is how a top session player can't read music. Not that there is a problem with that, it's just you can encounter quite a lot of snobbery from session players who read towards those who can't. I've seen it on here, people going on about how in the 'real world' of gigs you need to read, no tab etc, i've witnessed it whilst on gigs towards those who can't....quite sad. So it's good to now some of the very best don't/can't. [/quote] I met Pino once and asked him how he handles sessions with notation, he smiled and said "I can't read except for chords but if there are notes : most of the time they just hum them to me.."

[quote name='OzMike' timestamp='1347221066' post='1798265'] For non UK people: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEDeIsOe3Rw[/media] [/quote] This is so kind and generous of you.. thanks a lot for doing this, makes my day !

I saw this somewhere else on the internet and it floored me.. I couldn't sit still while watching it. There are a lot of people walking around pretending to be funky and drooling on "on the 1" clichés etc.. but this is the real stuff. This is just smoking and everything is just how it should be : the moves, the groove, the sound, the funny but competent backings, the cowbell (we need more cowbell !) and a great bass-player (who says you need an old Precision with flatwounds ?). Check that bass fill around 5'18".. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyw9QJwfY0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyw9QJwfY0[/url]

[quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1347116383' post='1797141'] Can't you access the bbc iplayer? [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mhlkq/The_One_Show_07_09_2012/"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...how_07_09_2012/[/url] [/quote] Unfortunately not.. site says "UK only"

Pity I can't see this around here in Belgium :-(

I recall reading an article about the bass-session with Norman Watt-Roy who was invited to play all kinds of fancy stuff on Relax.. He was very surprised when he heard the final result with just that one note and even that was send through a Fairlight. I remember having an extended single-version of Relax with some great slap lines which you couldn't find on the single-version. Perhaps those were left-overs from the original version ?

During that concert he also used the fretless bass Michel played here in this video...that was the one I played. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSp_oqY9l20"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSp_oqY9l20[/url]

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1346795030' post='1793482'] Toots playing 'Three views...' with Jaco on piano [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBhoDaS5SKQ[/media] [/quote] Actually a friend of mine did the lights that evening..he told her to have it as bright as possible and no effects. Later on he was very drunk and showed up at the bar of the concert hall in a terrible state. Two or three years ago I bought a Status bass in the southern part of Belgium and the seller showed me this old sixties Fender fretless bass.. He pushed it in my hands and it was the bass Jaco had played during that concert with Toots shown here above (actually it sounded terrible :-))

Well..you can't deny that Berlin can play.. Saw him live in a club around here in Belgium and he was on a level I had never seen (and I'm aware what goes around on the bass-scene). No one plays like Jaco but also : no one can play like Berlin.

Bit off topic but anyway.. a couple of years ago I had to play in this tv-show and Toots Thielemans was there too.. I walked by, saw him standing there and just shook his hand to thank him. An hour later he passed by while I was sitting in the hall and sat next to me and we talked about Jaco and the fact that Toots had played on "Three views of a secret", one of my favourite pieces. Without me asking Toots went into his pocket and started playing the theme for me.. I was driven to tears by the sheer beauty of that moment. I still treasure it.. Here's a picture of the two of us that evening.. he is such an amazing and kind musician.

First concert I ever saw was in the beursschouwburg in Brussels..A friend took me along to see an unknown Irish band which came for the first time to Belgium.. They had to add a local support act to fill the hall since they couldn't fill it on their own. U2 was just amazing that night and had just released "Boy".

The person I see in this video is not really the company I would be looking for.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhPVi2FY-Q4&feature=player_embedded"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhPVi2FY-Q4&feature=player_embedded[/url]#!

I have always been a huge fan of Jaco but when I read the book about him I was shocked by all the things which were written down about him..He must have been a real pain in the ass in the end : insulting people, spitting at the audience, betraying his friends, letting people down...(after a lot of trouble having him signed to record a new album he was invited to sign the record deal and showed his pubic hair to the people from the record company (who changed their minds)).. Still at his best he was the master...that sixteenth feel is just priceless and "Refuge of the Roads" is the best fretless line ever..