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I have a Spector USA NS5-XL which, as far as i knew, had the Tone Pump fitted. However I've just been reading the owner's manual and it says the controls do not ahve any center detents & mine certainly do. Does this mean I actually don't have the Tone Pump fitted? I haven't really played much with the controls but they sound like they are centred with both boost & cut as opposed to a more direct boost only circuit?

[quote name='Johnzy' post='429384' date='Mar 9 2009, 02:05 PM']Deconstructing the lines and harmony opened my ears to his playing. check out marvin gaye' Aint no mountain! thats some serious stretchin!!!!![/quote] And then listen to him on the Diana Ross version to hear the development a few years later

I can't believe I've never seen this before - what a fabulous bit of live footage of both Marvin & JJ (plus the rest of the band of course!).

Slightly off topic but I was at a big showbiz party once entertaining a client and the band were really funky. The thing that suprised me was how many Edwin Starr songs they were playing - The person I was with mentioned this to one of the organisers & said the singer was very good but had a bit of an Edwin Starr fixation going on. The organiser casually pointed out that this was because the singer actually was Edwin Starr :blush: The pair of us slid quietly away into a corner. . . Never heard of Blinky before, will definitely fire up my Spotify for a listen Hunter Gets Captured was originally the Marvelettes I think.

I like watching Tal Wilkenfeld jamming on this one with Beck live at Ronnie's: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zah06PvnVio"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zah06PvnVio[/url] Bass is a bit low in the mix but she's obviously enjoying playing it lots without any fancy stuff - just holding the groove and working it

[quote name='51m0n' post='429303' date='Mar 9 2009, 01:05 PM']Nice, I think she's quoting God Fear Money even if she didn't realise it. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY033jfPoNk&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY033jfPoNk...feature=related[/url] The tone on that is unreal, how crunchy can you get???? Probably not everybodies cup of tea but I love it...[/quote] Umm, I'll have a cup of whatever you're having. . .

Met Nick in a good old Basschatter's favourite venue - a motorway service station car park! Really nice guy & just one of those people you know you can trust with any sort of deal From a brief 2 minutes watching him acoustically trying out a bass I have a sneaking suspicion that this man can really play. . .

Ray recently bought an Epifani head from me & everything went really smoothly Lots of excellent communication & very understanding about a short delay when my courier failed to turn up one day. Someone I would trust completely in any deal

[quote name='crez5150' post='425945' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:23 AM']Thats not a wig....... This is a wig...... [/quote] Now that really is a serious wig Crez - do you wear that for all your functions gigs?

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='421545' date='Feb 28 2009, 10:19 AM']Yes, I forgot yours had a blue tint to it, Al Embic Here's some recent promo pics from Blondie UK. Ignore the fat bloke. The bass is the important bit [/quote] I thought these promo pics were rather nice?

[quote name='ashevans09' post='423820' date='Mar 3 2009, 01:27 AM']Really well thanks, had my first gig with her on Wednesday. Cut through like an absolute bullet with a lot of rumble , I was extremely happy . The B on it is just insane . I now just need to get over my extreme fear of taking it to gigs in case it gets scratched! haha.[/quote] I gigged with mine on Saturday. Vaguely amusing little story from the interval of the gig when a bass player in the audience started talking to me. He told me had a newish Fender USA Jazz. I mentioned that whilst I liked the good old J bass I'd only ever owned one Fender and that was an old '70's Musicmaster. He then proceeded to go through a long speech about how great Fenders were and took great pains to explain that if a US Standard was a bit expensive for me then I should consider the Mex basses as they were such great quality. I'm fairly sure that because I was using a tiny Benz Shuttle for amplification at the gig he thought I was a bit of a bass man on the cheap and that the MTD must have been some cheapo Korean thing. I asked what he thought of my bass and he said it looked pretty. I said that it was a USA MTD and that he should try one if he got a chance.He said he'd look out for them in a fairly offhand way and I then casually mentioned that they were excellent but quite expensive - about £3K new but if he shopped around he might be lucky enough to find a used one for somewhere around the £2K mark. . . His jaw dropped and and his mouth gaped open for ages - he then completely stuttered over his words for a minute or two and then quietly shuffled away, lol. N.B. I really do like Fender J basses & I would never normally have tried to pull any sort of 'one-upmanship' trick like this (not least because the price of something may not be a true reflection of value & it's all subjective anyway) but he was very condescending in the way he was talking to me so I couldn't resist