White Cloud

Desperately sad to read this news. John was a truly excellent bassist. Sublime taste and tone. What a loss

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1410642688' post='2551632'] im not a Stingray man but i do love them. Ive always owned Jazz basses. when i played a SR4 it blew me away. i ve owned an SR5 that was amazing. still have not owned an SR4 which are different, in lots of ways. anyways this guy is great on a Music Man. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWiT6Q6Awk[/media] [/quote] Still have that on VHS...bought it when it was originally released. Excellent! I have some old demo's that I recorded with one of my old bands back in the 80's...I recorded them with my old Stingray...probably the best recorded bass sounds that I made. Considering my other bass was a Wal custom at the time it says all there is to know about that....now. I cant even remember what happened to that old stingray. And I knew a guy who knew a player who had a brother who owned a stingray just like it...in fact it not only looked like mine but sounded just like mine...and he wondered why I never kept mine. Great basses.

I would say that £90 for a de-fretting at the Gallery is very good value for money. I would also say that de-fretting a factory fretted board would be no drama. I know that it is not the ideal way to go, but from personal experience I have never had any big problems using round wound strings on untreated fretless fingerboards ( I have owned a few) despite what many say.

Beautiful. I love explorers. I'm about 90% certain that Ibanez manufactured these during the 80's...they were readily available in the UK.

Tony Levin on the Peter Gabriel Album [i]So - [/i]I have no idea what kind of amp or other gear that he uses. Just awesome.

Wow...very nice. Well done!

[quote name='NancyJohnson' timestamp='1410293453' post='2547989'] I just don't get it. Clayton has whored his name round so many bass manufacturers, I've lost count. I really just don't like the guy, met him once and he was thoroughly unpleasant. He's not that good a player and (go on, do this) a quick search on his name in Google images just seems to show hundreds of the same photo...the same smug look on his face, a la; [i]I'm-not-looking-at-my-bass-and-you-know-I-think-I-just-cracked-out-a-very-smelly-fart-as-well[/i]. Right place, right time I suppose. Dee Dee? At least the guy played and effing Precision. Maybe I'm just tired. P [/quote] Nancy, you are not a big fan of Mr Clayton....I can sense these things!

[quote name='namefail' timestamp='1410076608' post='2545789'] Perhaps you were, iirc this track is credited to have Glaswegian backing vocals. Rush Exit Stage Left 1981 Closer to the Heart [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mw_c9U7p14"]https://www.youtube....h?v=4Mw_c9U7p14[/url] [/quote] Unfortunately I wasn't there! :-(

Totally agree...NM was a very big influence on me during that classic Whitesnake era. Superb bassist. I would love to have played with Rush during the Moving pictures tour that spawned "Exit...stage left!

Enjoy it...gigging is great!

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1409875229' post='2544317'] I've played both and the Japanese one was better constructed than the USA one . [/quote] Me too.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1408818829' post='2533841'] Bump, nobody got an opinion on these? [/quote] I almost bought one a while ago, the most comfortable 35" scale 5 string bass that I have ever played.

[quote name='steviedee' timestamp='1409258964' post='2538144'] Ha ha the bloke also had a Wal defretted identical to mine in a funky red Wal case in his cupboard, he wasn't selling that tho. [/quote] He has good taste! (like you )

[quote name='steviedee' timestamp='1409258740' post='2538137'] Thanks it really is great. I saw it advertised locally and nipped up to see it and loved it. [/quote] Wish I had seen it first

This is a gig that I truly I would have loved to have witnessed.

Beautiful bass, that is a wonderful acquisition well done.

Very cool!

[quote name='SaxyBassist' timestamp='1408812056' post='2533757'] Yes sadly this is true, thanks to so called austerity punishing the poor for being poor [/quote] We are all in it together...apparently.