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[quote name='Earbrass' post='905690' date='Jul 26 2010, 12:38 PM']There is simply no such thing as a bassline that everyone 'should' know.[/quote] Good Times.

Just bought a bow quiver from Martin, top guy.

The EHX Deluxe Memory Boy. I don't know if it's analogue (they say it is) but it sounds right and it has some wicked features.

I use a lot of effects. Saves me lugging a synth to gigs.

I just hope some listeners enjoy it. That's all.

[quote name='4000' post='904163' date='Jul 24 2010, 05:24 PM']This is what I essentially said about Marcus and got a load of grief for. Works both ways doesn't it? Personally I'd take the Ox every day of the week, but each to their own.[/quote] I'm sure we'll talk about somebody I like one day.

[quote name='bobbass4k' post='904486' date='Jul 25 2010, 02:54 AM']Madness played at the races? That passed me by.[/quote] The show was decent, but it required people to be at York races. Oh my god... I've never been before and I won't go again, it was like a gentrified NF rally or something, I've never seen so many inexplicable f***heads in one place, and I've seen the X-Factor auditions. I actually said to someone that I didn't think they could let them out into the general population, I thought they would have to filter them out gradually as they sobered up. I now understand why York is so unrecognisable when the races are on - it's the immeasurable set of unbelieveable dirty drunken gambling bastards who go to the races.

I saw Madness at York races last night, I think it was Bedders playing bass but I couldn't be sure, the rest of the band was obviously the original band which was pretty impressive. They can still mash a crowd up with just 8 snare beats which is more than most bands can manage. Specials: Horace was a monster and one of the biggest influences on me, I was tiny when the Specials were in the charts but their music (and tunes like Tom Hark (The Pirahnas), Pig Bag (Pig Bag) and House of Fun (Madness) were the first records I really remember singing along to when I was tiny. But credit where it's due, the man who made Specials special was Jerry Dammers. Just how the main man in Madness was Mike Barson. Horace was amazing but that band was Jerry Dammers, the songs were his and without him they aren't the Specials. I'm currently gigging a bunch of Desmond Dekker, Toots Hibbert, Alton Ellis, Max Romeo, Hopeton Lewis etc. songs as a busking duo with our guitarist, I love those old ska/rocksteady tunes, they are some of the first music I really loved as a child.

[quote name='beardybass' post='903728' date='Jul 24 2010, 04:32 AM']Not particularly helpful there captain, if you don't like what someone says or the way they conduct themselves just ignore them.[/quote] I'm not especially fussed about what he has to say, just leave him to it.

[quote name='garethox' post='903418' date='Jul 23 2010, 05:27 PM']If you don't think Entwistle sounded good on 'Who's Next'; 'Quadrophenia' and 'The Who by Numbers' to name but three - then I don't know what to say! McCartney's bass playing was pretty uninteresting before 'Revolver', 'Rain' etc; John started off with 'My Generation' and kept moving forward - helping to advance string and amplification/effects technology along the way.[/quote] Actually his fuzzed-up flatwound sound on My Generation was the only time he ever sounded good. He sounded worse the more technology he threw at it.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='903360' date='Jul 23 2010, 04:31 PM']Innervisions for me but not by much, Mistra Know It All with Willie Weeks on bass is fantastic.[/quote] I've been listening to Innervisions more recently, it does have some great moments on it but I don't think he'd quite reached his full stride by that point.

I still think Songs in the Key of Life has all Stevie's best stuff. Not to mention all the classic up-tempo numbers on that album. If I could write one song as good as any of these I would die happy.

[quote name='JTUK' post='902860' date='Jul 23 2010, 09:43 AM']From a tecnical POV, McCartney is rather a naff player, IMO. From an influencial POV, He is right up there by virtue of his partnership in the Beatles. Neither Lennon or McCartney got anywhere near the same level again in songwriting terms on their own and it is odd that you could put one or another that far ahead and say who was the best element of the partnership..[/quote] Because it's obvious if you listen to the Beatles songs which ones were written by Paul McCartney and which ones were written by John Lennon. They shared credits on them all but you can tell which ones they wrote on their own.

I've had some expensives basses, I've got one sitting right behind me (a '91 Thumb bass) but I'm currently gigging a Squier Jazz that IIRC I paid £110 for from a BC-er based in Newcastle. Stuck a set of flatwounds on it and I love the sound, I'm doing contemporary reggae/soul/post-punk/hip-hop stuff on it, sounds deep and thumpy and old-school and fresh. Definitely good value for a hundred quid!

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='902671' date='Jul 23 2010, 01:01 AM']As for the 60's ??? I'm no expert but I seem to remember a nifty player called the ox?[/quote] I never understood John Entwhistle. I sounded fairly good when all I had to spend on an amp was a hundred quid. Meanwhile he had practically unlimited funds and a rig half the size of Wembley and still routinely sounded like sh*t. But he was good, right? He also played sh*t-looking basses, so he could look like sh*t while he sounded like sh*t. I know he's dead and all but seriously he's one of the shittest-sounding and shittest-looking bassists ever. Meanwhile McCartney managed to sound good on every record I've ever heard him on, and he wrote all the Beatles' best songs. Making him f***ing loads better than John Entwhistle at basically everything except being a pretentious pointy-guitared twat.

Regardless of the words used to sell them in the first place, I think the fact that people like Sid played them with picks tells you all you need to know about the origins of the bass guitar. Some people play them more like double basses, some people play them more like guitars, it's an interesting instrument. Clearly it was intended to perform the role of the double bass in rock and roll music but I think given that nothing was made obsolete it's clear that what actually happened was that a new instrument was invented. But either way I would call it a guitar. Even fretless bass I would say is a guitar. I can't play guitar for sh*t, but I would still say my basses are guitars (apart from my double bass of course).

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='901911' date='Jul 22 2010, 02:04 PM']True, but then what about fretless basses... they're more like double basses![/quote] An unsuccessful mutation of the bass guitar.