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This clip is from 1983 and the band has two bass players. Bruce Johnson & Melvin Gibbs. Can anyone identify the bass that the guy in the blue t-shirt is playing at 7.30? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZL88zT-LsM

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1388066478' post='2318227'] Am I seeing things or does Rick Laird's Precision have a Hagstrom Bisonic in the neck position? [/quote] Well spotted. I didn't notice that.

I'm looking to buy a WEM Dominator but have a couple of questions: Is the only difference between the guitar & bass versions the speaker size? As i'm only going to use it at home and never at full volume would it be o.k. to use the guitar version for bass guitar? Any info much appreciated.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1388067315' post='2318243'] you know your stuff dude. Paul T Williams is one of the greats. Not many people know Blueys first band. totally wrecking my own topic. Bluey side project from years ago. Randy H Taylor on the electric bass. its a wonderful album. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFt3YgS7kbI[/media] [/quote] That's nice! Randy Hope Taylor is always worth a listen. Great bass player.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1388059430' post='2318142'] thankyou for that dude, fascinating . really enjoyed that. got to be honest Bluey is my musical idol. a guy that cant read music, has that much vision. and hes written so much incredible music. i met him once and you would think that he didnt have alot of time. he out talked me. talking to him was like talking to someone you have known for years. [/quote] He always comes over as a nice bloke who is still as enthusiastic about music as he was when he started. I still like this and remember handing over my £2.79 for this vinyl LP (which of course i still have!) on the Friday it was released in 1982. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f468xO0aUw

bubinga5, apologies for going off-topic but this may interest you if you haven't heard it before. http://www.insidemusicast.com/musicasts/2012/5/14/bluey-maunick.html

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1388048964' post='2318024'] Local to me, and kindof interesting. But, I'm not going to do anything about it, as I think it's overpriced. [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/vintage-satellite-fretless-bass-guitar-nr-mint-orig-bag-130-villex-vp-pickups/1042860074"]http://www.gumtree.c...kups/1042860074[/url] [/quote] An even more expensive on here... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Satellite-original-fretless-bass-guitar-very-rare-and-with-hardcase-/290829725240?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item43b6cd6e38

[quote name='SteveO' timestamp='1388010982' post='2317907'] Wow, that's a great read. Thanks for sharing. [/quote] Glad to be of help. It's great article.

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1387999454' post='2317821'] Malcolm Cecil made a significant contribution to my book 'Mr. P. C. the life and music of Paul Chambers'. MC toured the UK in the quintet that supported the Miles Davis Quintet (Vic Ash, Brian Dee et al) and spent a lot of time with Chambers over that period, sharing a seat on the bus, soundchecking each other etc. Lovely guy. He gave me the quote I used to close the final chapter. [/quote] That's very interesting Bilbo. Was it when Malcolm Cecil was a member of 'The Jazz Five' that he toured with Miles?

Here's Rick Laird a few years later............. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQKjffxIOY

This a great clip of the Victor Feldman Trio with one of my favourite bass players, Irish born Rick Laird some years before he became a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Feldman had an eye for spotting decent bass players as Scott LaFaro had recorded with him a few years before. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLwvdv5oWVw[/media]

Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson's (pictured with/at TONTO on the cover) 1980 with Jackson at the controls of TONTO and Malcolm Cecil co-producing. Classic album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZrVPJJvwI

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1387983360' post='2317721'] BW with the Valentinos - It's All Over Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf-oiLUzb1k Love this........ just gave me goose-bumps listening to it. [/quote] The Valentinos (Bobby & Cecil Womack and brothers) were protoges of Sam Cooke. It's said that it was New York DJ 'Murray The K' who gave the Rolling Stones the Valentinos 45 and suggested that they record it. I think that the Stones really nailed this one. Both are great records.

I still love the story about the SAHB and the Doobie Brothers at Knebworth. It's the stuff that rock legends are made of.

These are really nice basses. Once you've got a few things sorted it will be even better. I can't believe a music shop would send a bass out strung like that but on saying that all of the semi-acoustic bases i have need medium scale strings as the short scale ones are far too short.

[quote name='DiMarco' timestamp='1387963297' post='2317509'] SAHB aren't very well known here in the Netherlands. A band from the Liverpool area who were living and gigging here in the nineties introduced me to their music. The impossible dream, Sahb stories and ofc the Live album are still among my favourites. [/quote] SAHB records were released by Vertigo in Holland so there must have been a few fans out there!

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1387974880' post='2317643'] I'm a big fan of Stevie's 'golden period' but was unaware of this connection. As to Tony Blackburn - no comment! [/quote] Yes it's hard to believe that someone like Tony Blackburn would have so much influence but amazingly he did. It was a real big fuss at the time. I went to that Hammersmith Odeon gig with a couple of girls that i knew at the time (we were all in our teens) and we all thought that old Tone was a bit of a knob for walking out as it was one of the best gigs i've been to to this day.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1387974900' post='2317644'] Sorry BF, i skipped a bit but Music of my Mind is superb.SuperWoman is a masterpiece. Stevie really found his stride when he wrote that one. Does Cecil play on that.? [/quote] Malcolm Cecil is only credited as Engineer, Associate Producer and Moog Programmer on Music Of My Mind but he does play his Upright Acoustic Bass on Visions which is on the Innervisions album. MOMM is a great album and was a big departure from what Stevie had released before but there were hints of what was to come with his previous album Where I'm Coming From which was released less that a year before MOMM.

I've always been interested in how a British bass player (Malcolm Cecil) who had played with The Jazz Couriers in the 50s and later in the 60s Blues Incorporated hooked up with Stevie Wonder to make a series of (to me) the best albums ever created. I've read lots about this over the years so know the story but this is a really good interview (link below) with Cecil explaining how he and his musical partner Robert Margouleff created TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) which was the biggest analogue multi-timbral polyphonic synthesizer in the world. I well remember Tonto's Expanding Headband LP Zero Time (1971) which was amazing when it was released and that it attracted a lot of attention in the music press. So it was probably only a matter of time before artists were queueing up to use both TONTO & the Cecil/Margouleff partnership. Stevie's 'Music Of My Mind' was really well received by the rock fraternity as well as the soul fans although not everyone embraced this new sound. I was at the Hammersmith gig in the early 70s when Stevie Wonder first toured with this new music and Tony Blackburn walked out because he didn't like it. It may sound like much nowadays but at the time Blackburn was listened to by millions so it was a big deal in the press. But it ust goes to show how Stevie was on the top his game at the time in getting Cecil & Margouleff involved and the rest as they say is history. Really good article below. http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/innervisions

BW is certainly a soul legend. I saw him in the 70s and then again in the 80s during 'The Poet' period. At Hammersmith in the 70s he was supported by British band Kokomo (who had covered I Can Understand It) and it was really strange seeing a band on stage on this big venue that you usually saw regularly on the London Pub Rock scene for 50p. If you're a fan don't read any reviews of his 1976 Hammersmith gig!

I first heard this when DJ Dave Simmonds played this on his Radio 1 Soul Show on it's release. He late went on to host a soul show on Radio London throughout the 70s. In those days (early 70s) you could only track down the latest soul releases by reading the music press every week, from DJs who specialized in soul music, by word of mouth or from specialist music shops that we frequented. Simmonds was one of the first (maybe THE first) to bring a lot of this music to a national audience. This is great. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyt106EA9w0[/media]

This has been one of my favourite Bobby Womack track for over 40 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxQCpGlj_k

Here are some previous threads on this. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/216689-ebay-global-postage-system/page__p__2205183__hl__ebay%20global__fromsearch__1#entry2205183"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry2205183[/url] http://basschat.co.uk/topic/215454-some-outlets-on-usa-ebay-completing-customs-charging-at-point-of-sale/page__p__2188207__hl__ebay%20global__fromsearch__1#entry2188207

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqjjYP53vQ

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1387882823' post='2316741'] Couple of things Firstly, I just downloaded the Complete Blue Note recordings of Michel Petrucianni on Amazon for £5.99 - 55 tracks over 7 cds. Astonishing value and some great, great music.... (featured bass players include Gary Peacock, Eddie Gomez, Anthony Jackson) [/quote] Michel Petrucciani was a wonderful pianist. I was fortune enough to see him very early in his career in the 80s with with Lee Konitz and also a few times in the 90s.