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Went to see Lucinda last night at House of Blues in New Orleans. Great little venue with a seriously good house sound system. Second time I've been there and sound was really good lasttime as well (Thievery Corporation a few years back). Her bass player was a guy called Dave Sutton who I've never really noticed or heard of before. Last time I saw Lucinda he was buried in a wall of mud at Shepherds Bush However last night his out front sound was to die for. Rich round notes cutting through a, very sharp crisp mix, with amazing definition and clarity. Really one of the very best live sounds I've ever heard! And what was he using to achieve this? Good old Fender P with a classic Ampeg head and what looked like a 6x10 (do Ampeg make one of these?). Couldn't tell if it was an original old P bass or maybe something like a Pino signature - whatever it sounded killer. He also used an upright and some sort of very funky semi acoustic. I'm on a phone now so can't post pic links easily. If you look at his MySpace page you'll see pics of all three basses

[quote name='chris_b' post='1219585' date='May 4 2011, 09:15 AM']Hey Barrie, can you get me a copy of the Dumpstaphunk CD? They only sell them at the gigs. Please..................[/quote] Local shop has 2 for sale - Listen Hear at $11 and Want Sum at $17 First one may be either an EP or an album with a few long tracks!

[quote name='chris_b' post='1219636' date='May 4 2011, 10:59 AM']Dumpstaphunk uses 2 bass players, Tony Hall and Nick Daniels, both ex Neville Brothers. You probably already know this, but on the 5th May they are at the Contemporary Arts Centre with Soulive and Lettuce. 3 birds with 1 stone![/quote] That's the gig I saw - it's actually all of the bands in my title post! Bit of confused info flying around locally though - some places say it's 2 gigs on the same night. Others suggesting it's a post Jazz Fest thing so won't start until really late at night

I'm in N'Awlins at the moment and checking the local gigs. Already have tickets for Lucinda Williams on Friday and thinking about Greg Allman tomorrow. Just spotted a 'funk night' full of bands that I know a little bit about but not a huge amount. Anyone know much about all of these? A local guy told me Dumpstaphunk were 'the nuts'

[quote name='TheGreek' post='1216436' date='May 1 2011, 11:33 AM']They come highly recommended by Victor Wooten...[/quote] I've seen Wooten describing how useful he finds them - Billy Sheehan as well

I'm over in the States at the moment in an area where the Fender P pretty much rules the roost - Nashville & Memphis, the centre of all things country, home of the blues, where rock 'n' roll began, the source of soul (insert favourite marketing slogan here. . .). However I managed to track down a few pretty crazy basses in Memphis & got to try them out First up was this outrageous Lowenherz - never seen one of these anywhere before! [url="http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/bassguitars/products.php?pcid=48281&pid=56731"]http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/...1&pid=56731[/url] This bass was described by my, ever sufferin', wife as "so ugly" that she refused to take a picture of me playing it, lol. I found it really hard to play with any sort of fluency as that middle pickup really got in the way. The guy in the shop had no idea what all those flick switches did either, lol. Then I tried a pair of Ritter 5 strings [url="http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/bassguitars/products.php?pcid=48281&pid=56031"]http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/...1&pid=56031[/url] [url="http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/bassguitars/products.php?pcid=48281&pid=56009"]http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/...1&pid=56009[/url] These were a whole different world, sounded great and seriously nice to play. The latter of the two was particularly nice and it felt like I could whizz around the fretboard playing stuff on it Oh, I also had a quick blast on this whilst the sales guy was dragging all the 'exotica' out of the storeroom (they don't even display these basses & rely on internet sales for them - all three were owned by the same crazy Chilean guy apparently!). [url="http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/bassguitars/products.php?pcid=10068&pid=45538"]http://www.martinmusicguitar.com/products/...8&pid=45538[/url] Felt really nice. . .

Just realised I've run out of 9v batteries. Anyone got any recommendations on which ones are best? Don't want rechargeable ones though.

[quote name='Klusee' post='1203992' date='Apr 18 2011, 07:30 PM']Just sold Celinder J to Barrie - nice smooth deal. As a foreigner I have to tell Barrie was very understanding and willing to make every single step of a deal as smooth as possible for which my thanks are going Barrie's way. Barrie is a great guy to deal with, I can only reccomend! It was my pleasure doing bussines with him, many thanks! Ondrej[/quote] And I even managed to pay Ondrej in Czeck Koruna - a first for me, lol. Only incurred £7 money transfer fees as well!

[quote name='Beedster' post='1203978' date='Apr 18 2011, 07:24 PM']Mmm, if you're right it's worrying stuff, and makes you wonder how many cherished vintage basses might have been knocked up in China or Eastern Europe. Or the UK [/quote] I must admit I've been quietly amazed at the number of these vintage basses that pop up all the time on EBay. . .

Just completed an absolutely perfect deal with Ondrej I bought a Celinder J from him and everything went incredibly smoothly - payment was simple to arrange to his bank in Czech Rebuplic and the bass arrived perfectly packed and amazingly quickly. I've had stuff posted from within the UK that has taken longer to arrive! The bass was in exactly the condition he described and arrived with a nice set of strings and all set up & ready to play straight out of the case Great communications throughout the whole process as well - can't recommend him enough if you want to buy or sell anything bass related.

Surely by putting a 'fake' date stamp on the neck this is deliberate 'passing off' with intent to deceive a future purchaser? I don't have a problem with anyone trying to replicate the exact profile, sound, feel etc. etc but putting a date stamp on that is obviously, and deliberately, misleading feels totally wrong to me

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1201163' date='Apr 15 2011, 09:02 PM']Mr Maceo.. great live version.. this is smokin... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgkhThEMRr8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgkhThEMRr8[/url][/quote] That whole album is great - one of my favourites

Craig Charles' Trunk of Funk show got me into these guys - I haven't found a whole album I really like but definitely some great individual tracks out there

She's using a Ritter Cora apparently: From Jens Ritter himself: “Last July Superstar Mary J Blige felt in love with my CORA 5-String Bass. She immediately custom ordered one and I delivered it to her recently. Now she’s an official new JENS RITTER INSTRUMENTS Player! STANDARD CUSTOMER – No Endorser! The additional cool news is: She started to take Bass Lessons because of the Cora!” I hear the Cora is the most 'jazz-like' of Jens' basses - I really like the look of these, would love to try one out!

Excellent news - of al the basses I've bought and sold over the past couple of years the only one I really miss is my Roscoe SKB4. Should never have let that one go Gard is a great guy to deal with - so helpful and friendly

[quote name='chris_b' post='1200455' date='Apr 15 2011, 11:17 AM']All (both ?) JJ's Precision basses were stolen.[/quote] Wasn't one recovered about a year or so ago? Bass Player Mag ran an article on it - way over the top editorial about you could [i]feel Jamerson't presence in the room[/i] sort of stuff