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[quote name='walbassist' post='733846' date='Feb 3 2010, 10:45 AM']Just a little too far away for me. Shame as I love a good fiddle and mando.[/quote] Very close to me but I don't

How about some of Stevie's drumming from the classic trio of albums - Talking Book, Inner Visions & Songs in the Key of Life era when he played on a lot of drums on his albums. Some of the playing is just a bit 'rudimentary' compared to the quality of everything else going on & some if it sounds a bit 'wrong' in places (although in other parts it just works perfectly). The way the drums kinda fall into the chorus on I Believe When I Fall in Love always sound out of time to me - funnily enough I've just YouTubed this and it sounded much better than my LP version. I wonder if it was adjusted at all when transferred to CD?

Check the intro to The Other Side from Aerosmith's A Little South of Sanity - it's live and Joe Perry completely cocks up his intro rhythm guitar part. Drums keep playing so he can back in time again Quite impressed they left it on the album If you listen right through to the end you can hear Steve Tyler give an 'interesting' intro to the next song. . . On an associated note - I got asked to audition for a band this week & they send me a, studio recorded, CD of a lot of their material. I haven't listened to it all yet but I've already spotted a couple of nasty timing errors where they slow down a fair bit & you can hear some people trying to push them back up to speed. I can totally see how this might happen but surprised they didn't spot it & either re-record or 'fix' it when mixing. It's their promo CD to get gigs so I'd have thought it quite important to get this sort of stuff right?

I know it's probably tough but have you sat down with the guy and told him how you feel? If you want to stay on as mates then maybe call a 'band meeting' and try to be as open and honest as possible. I've been through this a few times and the band meet stuff has flushed things out into the open and generally solved the problems. Sometimes it can get a bit unpleasant but it's better to do this than bottle stuff up and be brooding about it all the time.

So anyone make it to see Lady T at Indigo 2 on Saturday? She still has the groove - I felt the set fell apart a bit towards the end but she really rocked for most of the evening. The only YouTube vids I've seen so far have pretty awful sound quality. Funky bass man on an NS5XL - no apparent on stage speakers that i could see, working entirely from in-ears. I loved her versions of Rick James classics - here's a vid from last year which shows one of them & the song that made the whole house jump on Saturday - I Need your Lovin And now we have Larry Graham coming over as well! http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=75820

[i]\"AGMP Concerts presents LARRY GRAHAM & GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION KOKO, 1a, Camden High Street, London, NW1. Sunday 25 April 2010. Doors open at 7pm. Exclusive UK show from the Inventor of the \"Slap\" Bass technique and ex-member of SLY & THE FAMILY STONE, PRINCE & BETTY DAVIS Bands. Larry Graham will be performing with Graham Central Station for this first London show in over a decade. Larry Graham, Jr. (born August 14, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American baritone singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as both the bass guitar player in the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station. He is credited with the invention of the slapping technique, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass guitar. Although bassplayers for decades, indeed into antiquity, had been \"slapping\" their basses with their thumbs using a rotation of the wrist, Larry Graham pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass guitar. The slap-pop style, archetypical of modern funk, couples a percussive thumb-slapping technique of the lower strings with an aggressive finger-snap of the higher strings, often in rhythmic alternation. So-called \"Machine-gun bass\" (as exemplified by Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, John Norwood Fisher, P-Nut, Danny McCormack, Dirk Lance) relies on the slap-pop technique, incorporating a large ratio of mute/ghost tones to normal tones. Graham played bass in the highly successful and influential funk band Sly & the Family Stone from 1967 to 1972. Upon the band\'s disintegration due to lead singer Sly Stone\'s drug addiction, Graham formed his own band, Graham Central Station. The name is a pun of \"Grand Central Station\", a famous train station located in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Graham Central Station had several hits in the 1970s, including \"Hair.\" In the mid 1970s, Larry Graham was also a key member in the career of Betty Davis, wife of jazz legend Miles Davis. With a band that also included members of the Tower of Power horns and the Pointer Sisters, Betty Davis recorded three albums to critical acclaim but limited commercial success. In the early 1980s, Graham recorded five solo albums and had several solo hits. His biggest hit was \"One in a Million, You\", which reached number 9 on the Billboard chart in 1980. He recorded another album in the late 1990s, with a new band using the Graham Central Station name. Two of the new members were former Family Stone bandmates Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini. He also toured with Prince and his band as his bassist in 2000. This is the groups first live show in London since 1996..!\"[/i] If you don\'t like the overtly disco sound of this just check the slapping from 2:57 onwards Or if you\'re really lazy just go straight here, lol

[quote name='BTGAndy' post='729312' date='Jan 29 2010, 10:58 PM']It has arrived! Fender in a display of unusual efficiency have shipped me one a month early. Used it for a gig this afternoon, it's amazing, so loud and punchy yet so small. I have been running it through a golight jnr. 2x10 and I'm thoroughly impressed with the low end the set up produces. I should have some comparisons and recordings up later next week.[/quote] How does it compare to your previous SWR rig in terms of sound? I'm intrtrigued to see if it's possible to get that classic SWR SM400 sound from one of these, lol.