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I love his song based stuff, with Joni particularly. But Donna Lee just sounds like someone driving down a cobbled street with a bass and some congas in the boot. I'm sure it's clever, and better trained ears might get something out of it (or at least pretend to, to look smart), but it's barely musical to me.

It's a broad church, and one I know bugger all about, coming from a rock perspective. Having got really into Snark Puppy (OK, it's probably not proper jazz... but it works for me), someone suggested Mingus's Ah Um, which I got, and I love. Also picked up the Mingus Big Band's Nostalgia on Times Square... the version of Moanin' on it just has me hitting repeat.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1449560930' post='2924562'] Following on from the Jaco thread... Rush are another band I have never heard. Any suggestions? I could do with something to listen to on the way home tonight... [/quote] A 'Best of' might be a decent idea. Spirit of Radio- Greatest Hits is a decent one. I have a few but that's the one I always end up playing. Their good songs are great, but even on those his voice in an aquired taste... or bloody awful as I prefer to call it (though he's not done badly out of it, so what do I know?). On album fillers, of which there are plenty, it's just intolerable.

I remember sitting and picking out the bass to LSD... dead easy, but I'd have never come up with that line in a million years.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1449274131' post='2922247'] It is... almost. [/quote] Hence my inclusion of the word 'almost'.

Love his stuff. It was McCartney more than anyone else that taught me to pay more attention to note choice and note length than tone. After years of messing around with different basses, amps, effects, etc, I heard my first isolated Macca line... fat, dead, dull... and perfect! Jameson on is the same. It became clear to me at that point that what you're playing on and what you're playing through is almost irrelevant compared to what you're playing.

GAS means one of two things... little fibs, or divorce.

He always wanted to be like Layne Staley... now he is. RIP Fella.

[quote name='bonzodog' timestamp='1448829025' post='2918474'] I only use my chorus pedal on the chorus of a song [/quote] I use a delay for tunes I want to play later!

Good to hear. I really want to try one.

[quote name='chardbass' timestamp='1448670626' post='2917405'] I've gigged with a £2k 55-94 for about 13yrs but after taking it and my new Sire V7 5 string to a theatre gig last week, tomorrow's gig sees the Lakland staying at home. [/quote] Crikey! How would you compare the B strings?... as the Lakland is the first bass I've had with a B string that's pretty much as playable as the other strings.

Can't believe I'm actually going to say this but... Paul Carrack... twice. Now we're breeders the bulk of our live music consumption is at the family friendly end of the festival spectrum. The aforementioned chap headlined a night at two of those festivals this year. On both occasions he was bang on. Slick without being bland (despite the middle of the road material), polished and passionate. OK, I'm not old enough to buy any of his stuff for home consumption... yet, but as a live act he was much more engaging than I'd expected. A cracking band helped!

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1447762006' post='2910052'] Pedant alert; it's definitely a right-hand strung instrument...... [/quote] Bah... Foiled!

Outrageous that, in this day and age, the editor of a major publication thinks it's ok to run a picture of a musician toting a Steinberger... Bloody lefties!

I don't see anything that needs fighting here. It's nice to have options. I dig the 6 string out from time to time, and I've not turned into a slavering, volume obsessed freak yet. I find that, as a bass player (of sorts) I approach it quite unconventionally anyway, and because of the different limits of the instrument I often and up taking some cool ideas for bass out of any session. It's all music.

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1446828036' post='2902749'] If Mr Dunky had done the search himself, I would have never discovered this gem of a fact. [/quote] Me either. I like Pino even more now!

I don't get their popularity, but I reckon Grohl being a pretty cool bloke has something to with it. I can listen to any given Foos tune in isolation and enjoy it, but I'd be bored solid if I had to listen to a whole album. Some catchy stuff, but formulaic and samey to me.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1446231370' post='2898016'] Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson and Bruford era Jeff Berlin. [/quote] Thanks. YouTube here I come!

[quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1446207578' post='2897700'] His 3 others were Sid Vicious, Guiggsy from Oasis and Peter Hook! [/quote] No Lemmy?