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What about asking Rhino to chat about his life in the Quo? He's a regular attendee. Or Neil Murray? He's a Basschattter, tho ,I guess mostly it's BC for bass sales The other thought I had, though I don't have personal links to him, was someone like Lol Cottle. He must have a few stories to tell. Or Mo Foster... he's not short of an anecdote.

There is also the issue of the natural break points within a vocal range. Having two octaves or whatever to play with is all well and good but within that there are different areas where the voice has a different tone... Chest voice, Head voice and Falsetto. Transitioning across those in a vocal line can be problematic or sound odd. Imagine if on the bass you had an octave and a bit range where you naturally played fingerstyle BUT as soon as you got above a certain note the magic bass fairy suddenly put a pick in your hand and made you play with that. And below another note they forced you to play tug bar and thumb like the old country bassists. Awkward. You'd certainly want to arrange your keys and bass lines so they naturally fell within one of those ranges. Case in point. We've just started doing this country-rock tinged song at church and it's in B - original key. Suits my voice nicely, suits the lead singer nicely. However, when she's not around and the guitarist leads he wants to do the song in A... easy chords! But that places the melody right across my Chest/head break point. If I go up an octave it is right on my head/falsetto point elsewhere and somewhat of a strain. Two semitones but a huge difference in singability for me. So choice... sing too high and strain. Sing too low and sound like Paul Robeson doing Lynyrd Skynyrd and risk puberty-like voice cracking either way. It's a royal pain of a song in A and a rockin' cracker in B... just two semitones...

[quote name='tommorichards' timestamp='1499115426' post='3329362'] I thought i remember that they closed up shop. Theres just nothing quite like a wal. The electronics are out of this world. [/quote] Yes from about 2004-2007 Pete had lost his staff and got progressively more ill and faced two or three consecutive workshop moves until he could no longer cope with the business. He handed the reins over to Paul who relaunched the brand after the move from High Wycombe to Fetcham in about 2009.

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1498904640' post='3327866'] I know he's a busy man but I'd love to see a set/talk by Steve Lawson!! [/quote] That was my thought too. Either a geeky effects chat or a looping masterclass. I know Steve from way back. Happy to drop him a line too! PS planning to be there too!

I also worked with a guy called Ian Furneaux... or "Disco" as we used to call him!

Does "Penwith Live 83" count... there was no 84, 85, 86... because they lost so much money. Planned for about 30,000 but got 5,000! It was Cornwall's first rock festival and, to be honest, a lot of people thought it was probably a hoax. It was logistically doomed to failure though, if for no other reason that they organised it for a Tuesday (yes, you read that right) after the August bank holiday. I think that reasoning was that the bands could do it as a add-on to whatever gigs they were doing over the Bank Holiday weekend and therefore be a bit cheaper to hire. They never figured that a) all the Bank Holiday tourists might have gone home on Monday and b ) all the locals might have needed to go back t work on Tuesday!!! It was a great gig though and those of us who were here had a whale of a time. The lineup was... Sid's Taxi (local covers band who opened), The Opposition (dull dour electro-goth), Renaissance (wonderful folk rock - what a pair of pipes Annie Haslam has!!!), Chuck Berry (strictly for his contracted minutes plus one song as an encore for a cash bung back stage - and you know what song he sang, don't you), Aswad (absolutely glorious on a warm summer evening), 10cc (with Graham and Eric and utterly brilliant), Meatloaf (OTT, wonderful and at risk of giving himself a hernia or an aneurysm at any moment - it was at the height of his "even larger than normal" years). Oh yeah, and between the acts to entertain the audience while the gear was changed, some bloke wandered on stage with an electric guitar to sing these slightly humorous, sometimes political songs in a kinda rough estuary accent. Found out later it was some bloke called Billy Bragg. Wonder what happened to him?

[quote name='bazztard' timestamp='1498966495' post='3328265'] Top Gear The Allman Brothers - Jessica some tasty bass playing, as usual [/quote] D'uh, of course!!! My brain! And of course I should've included The Chain by Fleetwood Mac too! How could I have forgotten those two?

The excellent Great TV themes thread (and the passing of Barry Norman) got me thinking about those TV themes which started life as singles or album tracks in their own right rather than being specially commissioned or culled off some library albums. There really are some great ones which are just amazing tunes in their own right and deserve to be appreciated as such... here are a few of my favourites... Film 19xx/20xx - The Billy Taylor Trio http://youtu.be/jlH_XFuf3wU BBC Holiday - Gordon Giltrap http://youtu.be/ktRsmHrLHU4 Graham Norton show - The Propellerheads and Dame Shirley Bassey http://youtu.be/yzLT6_TQmq8 The South Bank Show - Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber (Backed by Barbara Thompson and Coliseum II) http://youtu.be/TMCb90JpvxY

Used to work with Mary Christmas... it was her married name so she only had herself to blame!

Always loved the Red Dwarf theme tune. Rob (Guitarist Magazine) Burns on his nice new Wal 5 string. He also did the Blackadder Themes and a load of Not The Nine News songs

Congratulations guys! And looking good both of you!

Paul makes some lovely feather-light ones now. Did you try the walnut 5-er at the SEBB? Lifted it off the stand and nearly threw it through the ceiling!!!! Just saying...

[quote name='mark76' timestamp='1498636425' post='3325964'] Did you get a short scale model made then? Because I'm close to your height (about 3/4¨ shorter) and a 34" scale P bass neck looks longer on me than that Wal's does on you. [/quote] Nope, standard 34" scale. Must be a camera/bass angle trick of the eye going on or something. [quote name='ZilchWoolham' timestamp='1498650649' post='3326091'] A thing of beauty, this one! How heavy is it, by the way? With a European ash body I suppose it's not the lightest. [/quote] Ha! Both my Wals weigh in at about 10lbs. Note three 4" wide soft leather Italia Leathers strap! But anyway, my first ever bass was an Aria SB700 which also weighed... you guessed it, 10lbs! So when I bought the Wals I just thought that was what basses were supposed to weigh!!!!

[quote name='mark76' timestamp='1498559719' post='3325475'] Bloody hell. Trev's a giant I kinda want a TrevorR signature Wal. It look neat [/quote] Well, if that's true then I must be the tallest 5 foot 8 and a half inches in the world! Maybe I'm measured in metric feet and inches rather than Imperial ones... that must be il!!

The Mk III basses do play and balance beautifully but I still love the more retro look and feel of my Mk I and Pro... Who reeeeeeealy needs a high G anyway. I barely need one at the octave!!! Lol!

Great new about the Bash, Nik! [font="Times New Roman"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]Sincere condolences for your family’s loss. You are all in our thoughts.[/color][/font][/size]

The wedding/covers band I used to play in was guitar/bass/sax/drums. Stuff we played varied quite a bit and got quite rocky in places. It worked brilliantly on a whole range of non-sax and quite rocky numbers. Give it a go and keep an open mind and you might be surprised.

There are elements of the more melodic end of progressive metal. The acoustic intro and middle section reminds me a little of some elements of my mate's band Threshold, except that it never quite builds into actual metal as others have said. So somewhere between melodic rock and prog metal.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1496081216' post='3308650'] Mustang Sally is a cracking song, it's great to play, audiences love it. Even when played badly. The down side is we've probably all been playing and hearing it played for 30+ years and are bored with it. I think that's a more honest point of view. [/quote] This, I've never ever played Mustang Sally to an empty dance floor. And spent many renditions with the bridesmaids smooching up next to me singing what we will charitably call "backing vocals" into my microphone. I love playing it. And Brown Eyed Girl and Sweet Home Alabama... But then I've always got as much of a buzz from seeing a crowd have a great time as from the complexity of the music I've played!

Coming late to the party, but for others with a G10 an alternative fix could be this... http://www.switchcraft.com/Drawings/13_cd.pdf http://www.switchcraft.com/Product.aspx?ID=2698 Rather than a TRS arrangement to make a power circuit closed for the bass preamp it has an isolated make circuit separate from the audio circuit. The jack tip locales in a plastic cup and physically pushes the circuit closed. This is the arrangement Wal use for switching on their active circuits.

[quote name='kendall' timestamp='1495697667' post='3305881'] Even more weird, I could have sworn John McEnroe was playing guitar. [/quote] The other guy on the Tele was Geoff Beauchamp from Eigth Wonder. Got the single when it first came out. As a charity single it's got a lot more going for it than a lot... still wonderfully ridiculous though!

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1495305998' post='3302898'] I know it doesn't start with a W but you mention Westbury - Shaftsbury maybe? [/quote] That's quite possible. The mind is trying to dredge up mental images from over 35 years ago...

Oh, and this one, http://youtu.be/Xu7Y08wOHs8 L'arc en ciel de Miles is great too!

Crumbs, how do you classify best bassline. Mine probably aren't going to hit a lot of "brilliant because they're difficult" lists. However, the bass lines that put the biggest smile on my face when I hear them are actually quite simple but perfectly executed and an integral part of the song. So these are the lines that just make me grin every time I hear them... http://youtu.be/BL8NNTNmPT4 http://youtu.be/VcrY6eSViXQ http://youtu.be/y5G8AJf4Xzw http://youtu.be/wziJqdq4LcA ...oh, and Good Times, of course!

This sounds a lot like the Looperlative gear that Steve Lawson used to use... [url="http://looperlativeaudio.com/"]http://looperlativeaudio.com/[/url] Don't know what the status of the company is these days...