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The super hi-fi cinema system's always on for music shows

On telly doing Glad To Be Gay. Was this a standard colour?

There's another thread on here about the BBC going the 'subby' route with bass, and as Genesis weren't on doing Dance On A Volcano there wasn't any bass to be heard Alex James looked bored?

It started with Blur, then the next band, and the next etc. The bass had been stolen? Anyone seen it? Also not enough boogie-woogie piano.

Summers and Copeland would receive performer royalties on Police songs.

Andy Summers is still happy to pick up the royalties from Sting/arsehole penned Police songs then?

Are you saying Andy Summers was bad-mouthing Sting?

Sounds great for that JJB sound you've always wanted, otherwise sh%te!

Slightly backwards, an original worth a mention; The Moody Blues version of Simple Game (The Four Tops).

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1417477404' post='2620927'] Type O Negative - Cinnamon Girl (they also did a great version of Summer Breeze, a song mentioned earlier in this thread, but a rather lacklustre Beatles medley). Jesus And Mary Chain - Mushroom (a Can cover) and a scorching version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love? Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now (no Morrissey vocal is a bonus for me), as well as a great version of Bronski Beat's Smalltown Boy. And a stonking cover of The Sisters of Mercy's Walk Away. Sepultura - The Hunt (a New Model Army cover). Diamanda Galas - Gloomy Sunday (with the first English lyrics that are closer to the original Hungarian lyrics than the later, better known version covered by the likes of The Associates). Therapy? - Diane (Husker Du cover, although the original is great as well). [/quote]Some household names in there...

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1417519270' post='2621184'] I might have missed it, but has no one mentioned Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah? [/quote] The definitive version of Hallelujah.

Never watched that Booker T/Duck Dunn technique before, weird but playing a shape from F does make my hand ache and I'd probably want to move it about a bit. Mike Rutherford seems to fret all four strings sometimes. I doubt he worries about it too much from his Surrey mansion.

Agreed.

Had a listen to Tubular Bells today for the first time in ages. There's some great bass parts and great sounding bass on it. I reckon that Oldfield lad'll be alright.

Cheers for the advice guys.

I went to a gig on Friday - same old stuff; Dakota, Doctor Doctor and that one by the Kings of Leon. I reckon SOF is gonna be the Brown Sugar of the next few decades. Sad.

Point of order: Sledgehammer was played on a 4-string Stingray fretless using an octave pedal and can't count as a 5-string bassline, as good as it is. 5-strings sound great when recorded (Nathan East always sounds great; Bad and Gail Ann Dorsey's Corporate World are stand outs) but suffer from the same problems electric bass has in a live environment, and it seems to get worse the nearer the B end. Synth bass sounds much better down there.

Trace GP7 2x10 combo - weighed a ton, gave me a prolapsed disc and wasn't very powerful. Amp I shouldn't have got rid of: Hartke HA2000; decent sound and super reliable. And as for Ashdown or any endorsees; they don't RELY on those amps, we do.

Her website gave an update yesterday - she's stable, improving and getting some rest. Good news.

I read somewhere a very long time ago that because of the range of a 5-string it's a compromise sonically, ie. you either produce the sound of a low B well or the higher notes up the uncharted end. I'm sure EQing gets around this but it was an interesting theory. I personally couldn't get on with mine. I have a 4-string B-E-A-D. I agree with the idea of getting something different from playing the same note on different strings. And I love the sound of an E detuned to open D!

Nice touch with the football team, nice to see a band giving a sh%t. nb. when Norm's really old, even older than he is now, he's going to look very, very scary!

Sting for instance has about six houses - maybe he dodges the tax in six countries

The MM is awesome!

Not black, just an excuse to show off my quilted charcoal gorgeousness