jazzmanb

Great player,he's a songwriter first and foremost and writes some great lines to suit.If you want some stuff to put on and jam to for 5 minutes plus look out for Bring on the night live cd,Omar hakim on drums and you can improvise to your hearts delight Favourite bass lines .Spirits in the material world,Burn for you,King of pain,Shadows in the rain

Understand their core function and know their own limitations .Pretty much the same as all band members.

Reading his book there's no "i heard this and had to get a bass! moments,he played woodwind stuff and you can hear his Eastern influences from his family so i think he would have always been off the wall and he picked Bass

I thought that's what you meant lol !So my reply was anyone can copy and he was well above the anyone's ,but where is he in that elite pool above them and why the extra star ? ..i wasn't referring to the endless great YouTube copyists when i said great players .

It is an early Prometeus,he's an Italian guy called Armando.The bass in my avatar is one of his .He mainly does multi string stuff now

I've always been in it for the same reason,because i love playing the instrument.I have a bass in the house and i struggle to walk past it without picking it up,even if its for 30 seconds.I enjoyed listening to new people,it widened my outlook and improved my playing. While tipping my cap to the greats i'm happy and content with my level .The feedback i get from bands i've been in is there's lots of great players out there but often they a)Can't keep time b)Have a poor sound/volume issues c) Over play and don't get whats important about the song

Possibly,i couldn't quite get how your reply related to my comment either so we're both doing well

Nothing to do with ability,he's well above the copyists ,what makes him so special given the pool of players he swims in? The mention of being the original fretless player is a valid one.

i play Rosie from the 5TH fret E string then on the guitar solo(one guitar set up) i change to Open A and the octave on the D as a chord whilst continuing the riff for the filling out.I just find the for main part my E 5TH has more bottom than the open A

i use them to my advantage to fill my sound out if need be,that ringing on is handy when a guitar goes onto solo leaving you and drums The Tool stuff is a great example,you get some cool stuff on the G string while ringing the A i never use them in a run at the bottom of the neck,i find it really odd if i do

Yeah,possibly. Regards "new" i think Mick Karn was unique and well under appreciated and i've never heard anything like him before or since. Would he have been without Jaco ? who knows.

Agree with OP ,impressive but there's lots of great players out there so i'm not sure why he gets the extra star or two

There is music i only listen to because of the bass player,the majority of stuff i really love to listen too rarely has the bass as a key part.Strange. Started off liking all the full on stuff.punk,rock etc but not anymore

i learn by ear and have often been given a song i knew to listen to but not play.I tend to find the important stuff like key and verse chorus and kind of adlib the rest and i often think its sound better.As for hard to suss bass i found Baker streets bass line goes missing a bit on the "so easy " bit and i made my own line up

[quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1476787694' post='3157182'] I never listened to any of Mick's solo stuff, so I'll go grab that album after a quick listen on t'tube. Knew he'd played on Numan's Dance album with Pino Palladino doing some other of Numan's fretless work around that time. Anyway, much appreciated pointing me at that album, cheers. [/quote] No probs,i bought Titles on cassette when it came out,it was the days of the Walkman, I took it down the pub on the Friday,it was the pre- rock club crowd and passed it round.The first track Tribal dawn just blew everyone away!

[quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1473622436' post='3131772'] Can't echo the sentiments in here enough - nothing like him. OK, Angie Bowie aside (actually, I really don't mind what she does here) - I'm mesmerised by this bassline and his playing... ridiculously good...ok, the Alice band might be a step too far but how cool is this? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W14YmRABFFg[/media] [/quote]That bass line is on Titles iirc

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1476720522' post='3156637'] Meddle posted that ..post #19 [/quote] Missed it ,bit of a boob