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[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!

I'm pretty sure the most obvious visual difference is the headstock shape.

Caught him at Sonisphere in 2010, and Cropredy in 2013, and for my money he's still got it, if that's your thing. Really entertaining.

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1445872416' post='2894876'] Maggie May? [/quote] According to the lyrics, Maggie definitely will!

Diabeatles?

Meatloa... Oh, wait...

Donnervan?

FLABBA?

Steve Harris & Nicko McBrain. Obviously it's a niche thing stylistically, but they're almost telepathic. Known for spending a great deal of time on practicing together without the band. Probably not wide ranging enough to qualify as 'best ever'but they do their thing wonderfully.

[quote name='Roger2611' timestamp='1445621774' post='2892937'] Now Then by Stiff Little Fingers...even the band don't like it but I think it is definitely one of their best......Bits of Kids, touch and Go and Falling down being my pick of the tracks [/quote] I'm with you on that. I even like the cover of Love of the Common People on there. Albums - I bought Spilt Milk by Jellyfish back the early 90s, and to this day maintain it's one of the best pop records ever, despite every I introduce to it telling me it's sh*te.

Limited as my understanding is, in the context of the song 'bad' is out of time and/or out of tune... so basically, me!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1445334145' post='2890573'] At the risk of injecting yet more life into this zombie thread, let me lay this urban myth to rest. From interviews with Trevor Horn and other engineers who were working at SARM at the time of FGTH, they were unhappy with the playing on "Relax" so they got the Blockheads in to re-do the instrumental parts. While the results were better technically they didn't have the right feel - does that make NWR a poor bass player since he didn't play what was required for the song ;-) Eventually the track was assembled in Page R on the Fairlight. Some of the individual notes used create the bass line might have been sampled from the Blockheads session but that hardly makes it NWR's playing. The actual performance came from whoever did the programming - most likely one of The Art Of Noise. [/quote] Fair enough. It doesn't even sound like there's a bass anywhere on Relax.

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1356667034' post='1912257'] I also remember some band somewhere that had to re-record all the bass parts laid down by the original bass player because they were so bad. I think it might have been a Trevor Horn produced track...was it Frankie Goes To Hollywood? [/quote] It was FGTH, they'd got everything but didn't play too well & the Blockheads were his go to session guys.

I've not had to play it for years, but Shake Your Tailfeather was always a blast when we nailed it.