NickD

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?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1367417311' post='2065375'] ,Jaco played some great stuff and some dross. He played well on some crap tunes and poorly on some great tunes. For me, when he was hitting, he was hitting and his hit rate was the envy of a generation. He opened doors for me that I didn't even know were closed. What he does for anyone else is of no interest to me. He was 'my man', along with 3 others, and I sometimes still hear him today and go 'wow'. There aren't many that do that anymore. [/quote] I don't think I can add anything to this thread, partly because I know nowt, and partly because all the expected posts are already in. I'd really like to know who your '3 others' are though?

Just get a theramin... way more fun, and a bit more showy!