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[quote name='Ghosts Over Japan' post='664245' date='Nov 24 2009, 07:52 PM']Agreed with the Musicman's being independently CR#P on the G at the 7th fret.[/quote] My Stingray was the same.

[quote name='slapmonsta' post='665806' date='Nov 26 2009, 12:44 AM']You may not like the way that Nige+co plays,but then so what?[/quote] We're not stopping him from playing it, so what's the big deal? Honestly I don't know who you're talking about anyway. Was he the bloke out of Level 42? [quote name='slapmonsta' post='665806' date='Nov 26 2009, 12:44 AM']Why get all pious and "holier than thou purist" about someone playing a bass in a style or manner you don't like?Who cares?[/quote] I think the complaints weren't that one man wanted to slap his bass, more that hundreds of men insisted on slapping their basses simultaneously, at high volume. [quote name='slapmonsta' post='665806' date='Nov 26 2009, 12:44 AM']No I wouldn't.I'd simply accept it as part of the rich tapesty of musical styles-but not to my taste.[/quote] Again, I think the issue is that there basically wasn't any rich tapestry of musical styles, just a lot of YouTube stars slapping like it was a mating ritual.

I had a Stingray recently but only kept it for about a year, won't buy another one. Never did it for me, either the feel of it or the sound, but it did look pretty. I bought it because I figured there must be a good reason why they're so popular but I didn't like it, I've never liked Precisions either. I nearly bought an L2000 after trying one in a shop, it was an ugly bass but like you said the range of sounds is brilliant and that's what nearly sold me on it. In the end though I figured I don't record that often, and I'd probably just find a couple of sounds I liked and rarely use anything else. My current main bass is a Warwick. I've had a Corvette before but it was an active 6 with Bartolinis in it. I was gutted when I had to sell it one day to appease the tax man - it was a very nice bass. I haven't tried the passive Corvettes though.

[quote name='Beedster' post='663841' date='Nov 24 2009, 03:18 PM']I don't go to these events simply because at every one I've attended in the past all I've heard is a bunch of smug show-offs slapping. As our singer once famously said after I pulled off a bit of a (probbaly very poor) Flea impression "but why would you want to use a bass to do that". I chose bass 'cos I felt some instinctive affinity with the bass parts in the music I grew up with. OK, I've had to use slap parts in the odd track we've played over the years (notable when we've played Chilis covers), but increasingly I realise the wisdom of our singer's POV.[/quote] Same here. I had to slap some tunes in a previous band because I was replacing a guy who slapped everything, but I felt like a proper berk doing it. And that was in the '90s when it was still sort-of acceptable in some circles.

This is why I don't go to trade shows, or hang out with bass players.

Look up Shonen Knife - Space Christmas.

There's a ton of good Kinks tunes you could do. And Blur by extension. Radiohead maybe, but that might be getting too clever.

I've done hundreds of gigs without a spare bass. Had issues on two occasions with breaking strings mid-song, but I used to pick way, way too hard, especially when I couldn't hear myself properly. So no, in my opinion a spare bass isn't really necessary.

Buy all the compilation albums ever released to coincide with fathers day, CDs of 'driving music', that sort of thing.

To me the Thumb sound is the old bubinga/wenge bass they used to make in the late '80s / very early '90s, before demand required that they switch to mass production. Thumbs from that era aren't particularly prized by UK bass players, maybe because they have quite an era-specific sound - I picked up mine for under £700 a few years ago and I still love it. But everybody who picks it up (from other bass players to luthiers) wants to buy it and that's no exaggeration. So yeah, the old originals are still fairly cheap, probably because Stuart Zender played Streamers. Go find one.

My current main (not intentional, but these things happen) band does a set of old Jamaican pop covers as a sort of bait n' switch set for our original tunes. Works out well. Anyway... Bloody hell what an influence those old Jamaican studio musicians were. Some tunes I probably wouldn't enjoy playing so much if I wasn't singing on them too, but they got such a lovely sound and they've sold me on flatwounds and basses with sh*t pickups I guess they were listening to the American soul players, but whatever, they had some great songs of their own. Spotify links follow: [url="http://spotify:track:6iF9F6xFNY2sJkN5065bGS"]Toots & The Maytals - Sweet and Dandy[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:7I1yNJueIgZGHRomxbghAY"]Alton Ellis - All My Tears[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:4If0n3AcyxqS36719dz8L0"]Desmond Dekker - Problems[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:5YAjthSvYESaY6Wvolqjvl"]The Paragons - Riding On A High And Windy Day[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:06EORoBQehq8dXZE1YZgln"]Winston Jarrett - Wise Man[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:49P2H3WXZRGFas1LcsBnY3"]Delroy Wilson - Once Upon A Time[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:3e7dGh3zEswYX2xVFbf48J"]The Gaylads - It's Hard To Confess[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:3Utse5Hyin3HfDEURVm3i4"]The Gaylads - Somewhere Over The Rainbow's End[/url] The only modern tune we've found that really fits with a set like this is [url="http://spotify:track:3ATGgPMAZfLZ1SIJxp4sIg"]this[/url]. Bless 'em.

Duran Duran's 'The Reflex' definitely speeds up in the middle - if you play along with it you suddenly go flat. I guess they had a duff take they had to use or something.

[quote name='bassace' post='657862' date='Nov 18 2009, 09:48 AM']A double bass will go into anything with a hatch, however small.[/quote] Even if the back seats won't fold flat? I'm umm-ing and aah-ing about buying a DB but my (girlfriend's) car is a little Daihatsu and I can't imagine how a DB would go in there.

Pro: Cheap, tonnes of power. Con: Limited EQ options. I've had mine since about March I think, haven't had any issues with it, been using it two or three times a week since then. I was thinking about pairing it with a rack EQ or preamp but honestly I haven't felt the need - the three-band on board works well enough for me. There's a couple of threads here about it if you do a search.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='658593' date='Nov 18 2009, 09:33 PM']Yeah, but put a bunch of various 4x12s either side (see above).[/quote] Oh yeah I didn't notice the cab without the head. Is that an old H+H head on top of it?

I either have it on 10 or 0, so I suppose I could get away with a switch instead, but I think switches look ugly on basses.

[quote name='sshorepunk' post='653315' date='Nov 13 2009, 08:14 AM']The track on the video is off Ian Browns forst album I think (correct me if I'm wrong, I was into the SR's but lost intrest with his solo stuff)[/quote] I think it was a single, I remember it anyway. I was working with a bloke at the time who was a massive Ian Brown fan, he was always playing that album. Cool that you're hob-nobbin wi't Manc stars. I want a video of you with Clint Boon next.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='653262' date='Nov 13 2009, 12:49 AM']I cringed with embarrassment as I watched a grown man go gooey-faced while delivering something he does not realise is so comprehensively underwhelming. It seems to me that the approbation he garners is down to the fact he's doing it [i]on a bass[/i]! That's sad.[/quote] I think your assessment (generally) is bang on the money to be honest. Maybe players like Manring appeal to very talented instrumentalists who've taken up the bass guitar and then realised to their horror a long way down the road that the instrument they've dedicated so much of their time to is actually fairly easy to play and more often than not very little is required of it. I've never been a particularly impressive player so maybe that's why I'm not interested in it - I'm only really interested in making music as well as I can, never had a party piece.

[quote name='funkypenguin' post='653222' date='Nov 12 2009, 11:43 PM']I think you're missing the point. that its played on the bass, or that hes changing the tuning, is secondary to what he's saying/communicating through the music. take technique, and that he's playing a bass out of the picture, and think of him as a composer[/quote] I think he's good at that, but his music... I expect him to do all his writing in a cabin in the Adirondacks or something. That's the 'beaver documentary' vibe I get from his stuff. And if that's what he's shooting for then bloody hell he's a genius. It does all sound very similar to me though (probably the unique instrumentation has a lot to do with that).

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='653124' date='Nov 12 2009, 09:58 PM']Played with them a few weeks back, AWESOME!!!![/quote] Yeah our trumpet player dragged me along to see them the other week, they blew me away tbh.

Bit of [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQG8MAUhqU"]Skints[/url] maybe? They're more rootsy, very good though. [quote name='Rasta' post='653114' date='Nov 12 2009, 09:56 PM']Fishbone are worth checking out[/quote] They're so mental I love those guys, not so many slow numbers in their back catalogue though. Couple of Spotify links: [url="http://spotify:track:7pjE4uiztMWsMMuk0SV7Mk"]They All Have Abandoned Their Hopes[/url] [url="http://spotify:track:0fpLcUmdePUQRFXJ5vQEWG"]Turn The Other Way[/url]

Same as last year and all the other years - '74 Jazz, rosewood board, blocked and bound. Any colour but black.

He's a real talent but I don't know about that Captain Scott look.