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[quote name='jhk' post='318632' date='Oct 30 2008, 07:37 PM']Just met him today briefly at his emporium of bass delights.What a nice fella.Made the trip easy and enjoyable ,and took time to take me through some of his large but very special collection of basses.[/quote] He wants to get a stamp collection he'd pull more birds !

Just got Monk's "the complete riverside recordings" AAAAAAAAARGH! I'm in heaven ! 15 discs of Thelonius cooking !

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='314743' date='Oct 25 2008, 08:11 PM']I happened to be chatting in a fairly polite manner to one of the guys behind the counter - discussing said Aria, mentioned that I have a number of Arias in my posession; chap asks me how many basses I've got, he is told current number! Other ruder staff member then passes comment![/quote] Sadly dissappointed in you Nick , with all your experience of bass and playing this guy is vauxhall conference league , you should've pointed to the most expensive bass in the shop lifted the cheapest and said "right short arse do your talking on the fretboard , lets have a BASSOFF "! Failing that give him the Vinny stare and say "It's been emotional "!

First gig in a new three piece last night, must have been 15 people in at the most ! Only the fourth week the owners have tried live music , used my Markbass CMD 121P with my 88 warwick streamer, sound was Excellent and never got above 2 volume wise sounded nice on our acoustic set. Home for 1 o'clock paid ,bass and amp in a taxi ! Jonathan Ross and a couple of guinness NICE !

If it's too good to be true it is ! Buy cheap buy twice !

[quote name='OldGit' post='294345' date='Sep 29 2008, 09:48 AM']Ok some research needed .. What might be the best Jeff Berlin tracks to listen to?[/quote] Joe Frazier rnd 2 and Dixie are great tracks but nothing stands out in recent years. p.s. avoid "tears in heaven" like the plague !!!!! [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3BV7V7ZbQ&feature=related"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3BV7V7ZbQ&...feature=related[/url] ..........Nuff said !

Double gig bag £46 !!!! Has to be a bargain. [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop/flypage/product_id/16036"]http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/shop/flypage/product_id/16036[/url]

[quote name='StevieC' post='290246' date='Sep 23 2008, 07:03 PM']Well done- that's a tricky old line to play - Growing up in the eighties, that was one of my favourite tunes and bass lines. Bedders came up with some excellent stuff. Steve[/quote] X2 Funny wnough i was playing along with with "baggy trousers" the other week , spooky ! I remember learning "It must be love " a few years back and it was a BALLBUSTER ! Great lines!

[quote name='crez5150' post='271745' date='Aug 28 2008, 01:20 PM']Quote [i]'Well said Terry 73. Iron Maiden will never come top in a Guardian readers poll of best bands, but Steve Harris is one of the best bass players Britain has ever produced.[/i]' HahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA![/quote] His lines are a bollox to play with your right hand fingerstyle, never mind rocco !!!

Nice call checked out some of his cd's VERY good !

One of the greatest solos of all time is here , check out cannonball blows coltrane away !! [url="http://www.last.fm/music/Miles+Davis/_/Love+For+Sale?autostart"]http://www.last.fm/music/Miles+Davis/_/Lov...+Sale?autostart[/url] At around 2.43

Kind of blue is the greatest album ever made !! My favs are "starpeople" and "Decoy" [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-People-Miles-Davis/dp/B00002644H/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219911132&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-People-Miles-...1132&sr=8-1[/url] [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decoy-Miles-Davis/dp/B000026H31/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219911185&sr=1-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decoy-Miles-Davis/...1185&sr=1-1[/url] Also Miles autobiography is one of the best music biographys i've read [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miles-Autobiography-Picador-Books-Davis/dp/0330313827/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219911284&sr=1-1"]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miles-Autobiograph...1284&sr=1-1[/url] Enjoy you lucky sod i'd love to be hearing Miles as a newbie and being bewitched all over again like the first time i heard "Hejira " by Joni Mitchell ! Memories !!!!

Is it them or the magazine though ?

Let the juice loose = Bill Evans with Darryl "the munch " jones on bass !!! Excellent !

Jimmy Haslips "melodic bass library" is a cracking book !

[quote name='bassman100' post='267223' date='Aug 21 2008, 05:33 PM']We would like to invite everyone who has posted a comment here to a real conversation regarding the issues they have raised. Our opening hours are 10am - 7pm monday to saturday and 11am - 5pm on sunday. We will be happy to dicuss these matters with you all and explain in detail the reasoning behind each of our policies. We are sorry to see a small proportion of our 200,000 plus customers each year feel they have received bad customer service, we welcome all feedback both negative and positive. Yours sincerely, The Bass Cellar.[/quote] Are you in charge of staff training ?

Lessons in love - Level 42 My mind used to wander and next thing you know your a chord out !

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='263104' date='Aug 15 2008, 02:29 PM']Had them on the first gig (1980) and never again. Its all in the preparation. There's a saying 'Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong'. Personally, and this is an instrument specific perspective, once you realise that noone would notice the bass player, visually or aurally, unless s/he actually caught fire, the edge is taken off it [/quote] Agree 100% Bilbo , and to prove that very point years ago i used to play in the next key to the song we were playing ! And guess what ? No-one noticed !

Hmmm nice thread. Guitar = John Scofield , John McLaughlin and Alan Murphy Drums = Omar Hakim, Stewart Copeland and Mark Brzezicki Sax = Bill Evans, Branford Marsalis and Dave Liebman And as far as composers go David Sylvian , Andy Partridge and Phil Lynnott.

[quote name='The Funk' post='252241' date='Jul 31 2008, 06:46 PM']Your English is better than most of ours. You should hear my Walloon. Back to your points, I am a Wooten fan. I think he's an excellent bass player. After this thread, I decided to check out a little Jeff Berlin. Turns out he's a pretty good bass player himself! I get what you're saying about people not giving an explanation for why they don't like something. But sometimes people dislike every single part of something - then they can't possibly tell you which aspect they don't like.[/quote] Heres another cat among the pigeons !! Are they good BASS PLAYERS ? Who gets more work Jeff Berlin or Ron Carter?

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='250287' date='Jul 29 2008, 11:20 AM']The trouble with instruments like the bass is that people are encouraged to approach it casually and are offered all sorts of short cuts to perceived competence - 'play in a day' books can easily get someone up to playing a song all the way through in a relatively short time frame. Try that with a piano, a bassoon, violin or saxophone. Because of that, learners struggle to see the benefits of investing long hours in proper study. People all around them will start to justify their lack of investment with all sorts of statments about how proper study undermines your instinctive abilities, undermines your ability to play 'with feeling' etc. It is perfectly possible to play in a gigging band without any theory or 'proper' technique so people do. This affirms their 'I don't need to study' mentality and they proceed accordingly until one day, two years in or ten, they start to see the benefits they missed out on. By then, for many people, it is too late and domestic obligations prevent sustained study. I think the most important skill a new player can have is the development of a critical sense that allows them to recognise what is useful information that will help their progress as a player and what isn't. Who is giving you the right information. That way, whatever Jeff Berlin says can be critically analysed and informed decisions about the most appropriate way forward for a developing player can be made. Like most of us, JB can talk sense one minute and unmitigated b******S the next. We need to be able to recognise the difference.[/quote] BOLLOX

Have to say rather off topic i have a great bootleg somewhere of Kai Eckhardt with John McLaughlin doing a fantastic version of Joe Frazier .

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='249403' date='Jul 28 2008, 09:58 AM']You have to remember that I was a Jeff Berlin devotee in my yoof! I have transcriptions somewhere of some of his bass solos on 'Pump It' and Champions' (my own work) and used to pride myself on my ability to execute some of his solos in real-time. I think Berlin has kind of become a parody of himself. His sound has thinned out in order to allow him to play chordally but he has, as a result, lost a lot of what I liked about his early playing (I particularly love his work on Allan Holdsworth's 'Road Games'). His forays into rock and jazz (and country) are a little embarrasing - he clearly doesn't understand the genres in question and will never make a mark that way as he is not delivering anything with integrity. People (audiences) can see through that kind of superficiality very easily. I want him to do something classy but he keeps delivering pompous self-indulgence. As I said, I want to like his stuff but don't. He is becoming a jack of no trades and master of none. His teaching methods are uncontentious - he is just doing what 1,000s of standard music teachers do. Teaching the dots and basic music theory. Where he irritates me is when he starts talking in absolutes.[/quote] I have to agree , i was the biggest Jeff Berlin nut on the planet at the "Pump it" release and loved the guy some of the trio work with John McLaughlin was astounding. BUT the last couple of albums have been wallpaper,soulless pointless drivel (Tears in heaven was embarrassing ). And was i othe only one on myspace to get an embarrssing message from him looking for norah jones contact address because he thought he could make her famous? Sorry Jeff but you've musically lost the plot.

Jesus ,hadnt heard this. Did some great trio work with Jaco. Will be sadly missed.

Gary Grainger and Dennis Chambers, Blue Matter was superb !