Old Man Riva

This is one of my favourite Pete pics…

As well as featuring a typically wonderful Les Pattinson bass line it is arguably the finest song to mention collective greengrocer stock there’s been…

Aye, it appears history has tortoise nothing...

Hopefully this adds rather than derails! Here’s an excellent appreciation of Chuck R …

That’s great! There’s an interview Chuck Rainey has done recently with Rick Beato where they discuss (amongst other things) Kid Charlemagne. Rick Beato has the guitar included when they’re listening through to the bass and drums, which blends everything together perfectly. Chuck Rainey says it was all done in one take!

Wilton Felder’s bass line on Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow by Joni Mitchell is lovely to play. Cool, groovy, slinky and perfect. There’s also a little motif/phrase up towards the dusty end that is great fun.

This popped up a few days ago. Never really seen proper full concert footage of this era before…

The whole thing is brilliant and disturbing in equal measure! It’s Pete Way before Pete Way…

I must admit I was surprised when I first saw him using the Thunderbird, but it sounds and looks great. His mid-70s heavily modded Jazz was in a Cov music shop a while back - the one he used in General Public. Pretty much all of the hardware had been replaced by brass versions (even the pickguard). It sounded great, was lovely to play, but needless to say it weighed a ton!

If it’s good enough for Sir Horace Gentleman…

… watched it and it’s fabulous. Rick Beato is so good at getting people to open up, and Chuck Rainey is such a wonderful and interesting guy. A lovely look at Chuck Rainey’s journey, along with some fascinating insights into being a (pro) musician and the trials and tribulations of the session scene…

… not had time to watch this yet but if it’s anything like Rick Beato’s usual interviews it’ll be well worth the watch.

There were other bands in the series - I can’t recall seeing the Icicle Works, but fairly sure the Bunnymen were on. I quite liked the Icicle Works until I read that Mike Read (the DJ, not the Runaround fella!) was fond of using one of their albums as the soundtrack to his Percy Filth escapades - obviously not their fault, but still! Re. BAD and Chiefs of Relief, was that recorded for TV? Pretty sure that turned up on a late night Channel 4 show at the time…

This is a good watch. Back when this was filmed/aired the chances of anything music-related being shown on prime-time telly were slim, but this popped up on the BBC as an early evening programme as part of a series of gigs at Sefton Park in Liverpool (Big Country were also on as a separate broadcast and cleverly changed the chorus to Angle Park to Sefton Park, the cheeky loveable scamps!). As I recall it was on a Tuesday/Wednesday evening at 7pm, or some such? Anyway…

… another 80s favourite.

Here’s a very 80s track with a very 80s video. I thought this was massively hip and cool at the time… (still do!)

It sounds like an eminently sensible and practical way to try and improve the instrument! I can't recall anybody I knew back then even giving a second thought to whether the (perceived) improvements they were doing to an instrument would affect future value. Swapping out the original nuts for a brass version ("more sustain") or installing a new Schaller bridge (with rolling saddles!) were done with a view that the instrument would be improved, which was the main consideration. The first replacement p/ups I knew of were the cream coloured DiMarzios. Then came the active EMG p/ups, which caused quite a stir. You could have an active bass with relative ease. The battery was normally okay to squeeze under the control plate on a Jazz, but more difficult to do with a Precision, which is why the body was often routed to fit the battery. And the work that went into fitting a Floyd Rose to a Strat would these days probably be seen as sacrilege. I blame Eddie Van Halen!

Nice! I’m a sucker for white/cream p/ups - reminds me of the 70s DiMarzios that were the replacement p/up of choice at the time. What’s the story with the pickguard? It looks like it’s been carefully modded rather than a clean-line break…

… and a terrific song at that! Didn’t his mum used to run a B‘n’B in Manchester?

Not that I’d ever be asked, but… If I were asked to describe Dee Murray’s line and playing on this marvellous track in one word I think I’d opt for ‘sumptuous’, so there you go…

Our six-string pals have similar debates! https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/fender-1960s-era-neck-date-stamp-missing.2034190/

Personally speaking, if the rest of the things to look out for were all okay it wouldn’t bother me (though I suppose it may become an issue if one were looking to sell it on in the future and a buyer was put off by the lack of a date stamp?). If someone were to fake an instrument the daftest thing to do would be to make sure all pots etc. were correct but then not include something as easy as a neck stamp so, as I say, I wouldn’t be too fussed… Or am I being massively gullible?!

Indeed! I doubt it's meant to be taken too seriously...

I did instantly think of you when this thread popped up!