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My guess : 4200 £.... (not that I will be bidding)

Already peaking and still 9 days to go...nice ! :-)

Clayton's sparkle bass...

To be honest : it sounds great but I think that the timing of the bass-player is a bit pushy... if you listen to those plucks he plays, not a lot of them are in time.. It feels like the rest of the band is a bit more laidback than him and it spoils the groove a bit...

I had already seen these clips as I was looking for a clip of this song for ages... I do think that it's a bassplayer playing this song and a réally good one (I doubt if Stewart can make this sort of thing up, it is a bassplayers masterpiece imo) and again : when I saw Garcia playing it it made sense to me that he was the one providing that line.. But it's just a gut-feeling, I don't have any proof.. Whatever : it's a great song and I still enjoy it :-)

When I saw Garcia live with his Wal bass at Werchter his way of playing totally fitted the bass playing on the album.. It's possible that I'm wrong but it fitted like a glove and it didn't sound like he was playing someone else's parts..

[quote name='BigRedX' post='1282799' date='Jun 26 2011, 09:16 AM']You've never heard anything by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_(band)"]Curve[/url]? BTW are you sure that it's Garcia on "This is the House"? He wasn't part of the band for the Sweet Dreams tour...[/quote] I saw Eurythmics at Werchter in Belgium with Dean Garcia...I know they had Chucho Merchan on bass after Dean. Sorry but never heard of "Curve".. probably didn't make it to Belgian radio. On the internet I've read that Andy Brown is quoted as being the bass player but I've always thought it was Garcia, watching him live he sounded and played with the same phrasing as on the record.. I could be wrong.

Back in the eighties this single came out and it blew me away... This bassline carried the whole song and the sound was just superb. It sounded like nothing I had ever heard before and it dragged my attention to a bass which I didn't know at the time : Wal. This is still one of my all-time favourite songs and I had the opportunity to see Eurythmics with their bass-player Dean Garcia during the eighties : live he was just as great as on this record. After Eurythmics I know he played bass on "A Good Heart" by Feargul Sharkey but I lost track of him.. I even wrote a letter at the time to Wal to know what kind of bass Garcia used and I got a letter back from Ian Waller..I started saving and finally I was able to get my own Wal bass. I've owned twelve of them since then but it was thanks to this song that I got into them. Listening to this single I still get blown away by the punchy sound and the original phrasing of Garcia...

Yesterday I had a pub gig and I brought my Adamovic singlecut along (amplified it with a Bergantino AE2X12 and an Epifani amp) and used it on the standard pub-repertoire (from Pretty woman-Roy Orbison to Use Somebody (KOL), from I'm a Believer to Wonderful tonight) and it sounded just great.. It's the lightest bass I have ever played (apart from my purple bass, which was made of plywood), the action is ridiculously low without any rattle, it has easy controls and lots of punch... I simply adore it and it's one of the best basses I have ever owned (nearly 120 after 25 years). I don't actually care if it's a singlecut or not : it brings out the best in me, it is a good friend of my back (you can play it for hours on stage) and I love the looks..

Reminds me of a story Hugh Grant told on television : His mother was invited to some dinner-party and she sat next to people she didn't know... The person next to her started conversation and asked if she had children.. She said "I have two, one of them works for a bank and the other one's a rather famous actor.." Her neighbour replied : "Great ! Which bank ?"

Great groove .. nice slap solo too.

Great video... it's this sort of thing which I tried to point out in the Jaco-topic, I've never seen or heard Jaco play these kind of long solo's leading to a great climax. Quite a lot of bass-players have taken the technique of Jaco to a higher level than the man did himself..

Thàt's a nice one ...

He was great but he had his flaws.. One of the most striking things I have ever read came from one of the children of Joe Zawinul (he took his children on tour and they saw the show every night) : "Daddy, why is Jaco playing the same thing every night ?" (referring to the solo-spot of Jaco). I started to dislike his manierisms, a musician (however great he is) who's on routine is boring.. This is the Jaco I adore...

I used to be a huge Jaco-fan...I had a lot of cd's, bootlegs, special editions, etc.. Recently I moved and I went through a pile of cd's of which I had to decide "keep them or not". I threw a lot of Jaco-stuff away since I hardly listen to it anymore since a couple of years.. It strikes me more and more that I'm really fond of beautiful fretless melodies that linger on and which you can remember after hearing them twice.. The problem I have with Jaco is clear to me in the first video...I can't remember a thing he played, it's a stream of notes which seem to have no connection and come out random.. It's a problem I encounter a lot in his playing, he played like he was : he had a mental illness and it reflected in his playing : impulsive, wild, rarely well-structured...moments of greatness but also moments of "empty" notes which don't mean a thing.. I'm not too fond of Jaco as a composer, except for Continuum and Three views of a Secret, not a lot still touches me.. I cherish the Jaco as a bass-player in a supportive role : "Refuge of the roads" (perhaps the best fretless of all time (and I can hum every line)), "A Remark you Made" or "Bright Size Life". I can't listen to the unstable Jaco anymore...he lacked melodies when he played fast (I prefer the solos of Jeff Berlin which are musical even when he's going fast)and he jumped from one spot to another, bringing in pauzes which broke the fluidity and made it even more fragments without something to hang on to.. Maybe I'm not Jazz-cat enough, could be..