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[quote name='P-ZARN' timestamp='1487434557' post='3239802'] Check out 'Doug Wilkes' website where he's been applying this idea to guitars and basses. [/quote] Oooooh, blast from the past. I remember when Wilkes The Answer came out about 30 years ago. Sadly it seemed to be an answer to a question no one was actually asking!

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1487316827' post='3238820'] Trouble with a capital T is my favourite song in our set. Great band and a great bass line! [/quote] Your band plays Trouble With A Capital T? #deadjealous Also one of my top three or four fave Horslips tunes! You need to lobby to get The Power And The Glory added to the set too! Never had occasion to play a single Horslips tune live

[quote name='skb558' timestamp='1487281136' post='3238681'] Anyone remember Badger? Ex-Yes keyboard Tony Kay's band. [/quote] I had a poster of their album cover on my wall at university. Had never heard the album, just liked the Roger Dean artwork.

Longish story... my first set were an unwanted set from CamdenRob which he'd tried on his Wal Mk 1 and decided quickly weren't for him so I don't know for sure. They went on my shedua Mk 1. The second set on my Pro IIE are 760FLs. However they feel much the same as the ones on the Mk1 so I'm guessing they're both the same.

So, anyone recognise ANY of these at all? I love 'em! Horslips http://youtu.be/y5G8AJf4Xzw River City People http://youtu.be/wlLdr4yD-PA Gordon Giltrap http://youtu.be/ktRsmHrLHU4 Iona http://youtu.be/wRVZrvbOEMU Threshold http://youtu.be/3NnJ79Ndx6I

I was sorting out some MP3s for the car and so browsing through my iTunes folder. Looking at the bands I love there were a few which are well known choices... Lizzy, Rush, ELO, Incognito, James Taylor... However it struck my that a very high proportion of my fave bands are ones to which even most music fans might go, "Huh? Who?". Now it's not that my tastes are exclusively limited to the Guatemalan nose flute or something. These are all pretty much bands which have had hit UK albums and singles over the last forty years or so. OK they may be located on a more obscure corner than Kylie, Status Quo or R.E.M. But still it's a surprise so few folks seem to have heard of them. Even here, where a more discerning level of music fanhood seems to be de rigueur ive only ever seen a few mentioned in conversation once or twice. Are there bands that you've long adored that you're surprised don't have a wider appeal or recognition factor? Would be interested to know who is on your list. The ones that stood out for me were seminal Irish folk rock band, Horslips, short lived 90s jangle poppers, River City People, folk/prog virtuoso, Gordon Giltrap, Celtic-fusion band, Iona, and prog-metallers Threshold (tho Rich did give them a fantasy band shout out just now...). I'll add a video by each in the next post in case anyone's interested in checking them out.

Went over to La Bellas on both my Wals a bit over a year ago and am loving them. However, I do take some issue with the standard "Want thud/thump use La Bella Flats" mantra you hear a lot. That for me sounds like a very limited, non-sustaining sound which is not at all what I get from them. Now, if it means a strongly fundamental based sound that cuts through the mix really effectively, that's more like it. However, that seems a long way from the words "thud" and "thump". I love the sound of them, much to my surprise actually. My more considered and detailed thoughts on the flats are here... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/273185-adventures-in-flatland-formerly-another-so-im-thinking-about-flats-but-thread/page__view__findpost__p__2943813 And here... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/273185-adventures-in-flatland-formerly-another-so-im-thinking-about-flats-but-thread/page__view__findpost__p__2993109

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1487188917' post='3237954'] Frost* Threshold (although that would cause some confusion, as their keys player has the same name as me!) It Bites [/quote] Great to see a shout out for Threshold! Have known Karl and Rich for more years than I care to remember. Top guys and a great band. Maybe if you did get the dep slot Steve would let you borrow that lovely myrtle topped Sei of his. Now there is a nice bass. Mind you, I reckon that your Wal would slot in just nicely on any of their tunes!

Don't thank me, thank Shazam, Google, YouTube and Allmusic.com in that order! I'm also going to check them out further having heard that track!

I would impersonate Lee Pomeroy and spend all my days playing those classic ELO tunes. Either that or I'd throw a banana peel in front of Tom Hamilton and jump in to the breech as a last minute dep for that Thin Lizzy gig.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1487093866' post='3237014'] As the owner of an exquisite [i]satin-finished, tobacco-sunburst[/i] [url="http://www.shukerguitars.co.uk/j36.jpg"]Shuker[/url], I shall endeavour to pretend that I didn't read that. [/quote] Not ALL satin finished basses are equal (after all my no 1 bass is a non gloss Mk 1 Wal). It's that particular finish which just looks unfinished. Maybe, the particular colour and the way the wood filler is. It looks more un-buffed than deliberately satin. Reminds me of a finish Yamaha used to do on some next price point up Pacificas. A bit like this... It wasn't a satin sheen, just dull and flat.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1486930557' post='3235690'] Looks nice, although I'm not wild about the tart's-handbag neck inlay. I'd certainly have a fretted one but without the flowery excess. I love my acoustic bass, Ok so it's not loud enough to compete with an acoustic guitar, but that doesn't bother me. It's fun to just noodle about on. If I buy another fretless bass, it will definitely be one of these. [/quote] Quite like the design of that bass though fretless is sooooo not my thing. However, the sunburst and the matt finish makes it look like someone hoiked it off the assembly line before the last few finishing operations had been done. The design and marketing teams should definitely have a stern talk to themselves and think up some more attractive finishes. So what is my guilty pleasure nominee? I see several folks are forgetting to add their own choices in, without which this thread kinda doesn't work. Well, for no other reason than having a hankering for one I've always fancied the idea of having one of these... No idea what I'd ever actually use it for, whether I'd get on with the 30" scale and a less dour colour would be nice.

There was another version they recorded that didn't have the intro. I think the one in the mixtape was an alternate take. It's a cracking bass intro. Glad the alternate version is available out there.

From the YouTube clip it sounds like the drums Andy bass intro are integral. Here's another... http://youtu.be/RUhAlsgmu3U

http://youtu.be/86NYDQh8WuU

Shazam suggests that it is Confusion - The Two Things In One once the guitar kicks in... http://www.allmusic.com/album/together-forever-the-music-city-sessions-mw0002173637/credits Johnnie Lee Tucker on the bass...

Very very sad. Such a great singer.

No idea, Rob. There can't be many!

[quote name='prowla' timestamp='1486889715' post='3235211'] (This is a bit like the "Why are the adverts on telly louder than the programme?" question.) If you turn up all of the eq, does that count as boosting the signal? :-) Actually, I really did mean the overall volume; my Rickys aren't as loud as my Statii... :-) [/quote] Depends on the profile of the tone controls. You're unlikely to get a straight level boost. You're more likely to get a lumpy louder version of the non boosted sound, esp since most active tone controls will boost across a sort of bell curve profile centred around a particular frequency.

Was having dinner out last night and this came on the restaurant Muzak... different take to be sure. I rather like it! http://youtu.be/UIPL1NwQAY0

Reposting a comment from Rob Burns in the Wal Facebook group... "May want to exchange my prototype Wal 6 string for a Wal 4 or 5 string ebony fretless. Any interest?" Rob was considering this prior to his recent nasty hand injury and we'd been discussing offline prior to his accident so not directly related. The bass in question is a solid ash 6 string that Pete had used as a prototype for the 6 string/Mark III design. He gave it to Rob as a gift... and it's a beaut! Currently de-fretted but Rob has the original frets and is happy to restore to original. His motivation is he's just not using it and would rather it was. On the other hand, he sold both his 4's many moons ago and has realised over the years that was a huge mistake. Facebook link here. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154746347810860&set=gm.10155064814884312&type=3&theater Info about the bass on my Wal blog here. http://walbasshistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/wal-players-discuss-their-basses-rob.html If you're seriously interested PM Rob on Facebook. Mods if inappropriate or wrongly placed please do your thing. No personal affiliation with the sale other than having know Rob for years through social media and via my Wal history blog.

Reposting a comment from Rob Burns in the Wal Facebook group... "May want to exchange my prototype Wal 6 string for a Wal 4 or 5 string ebony fretless. Any interest?" Rob was considering this prior to his recent nasty hand injury and we'd been discussing offline prior to his accident so not directly related. The bass in question is a solid ash 6 string that Pete had used as a prototype for the 6 string/Mark III design. He gave it to Rob as a gift... and it's a beaut! Currently de-fretted but Rob has the original frets and is happy to restore to original. His motivation is he's just not using it and would rather it was. On the other hand, he sold both his 4's many moons ago and has realised over the years that was a huge mistake. Facebook link here. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154746347810860&set=gm.10155064814884312&type=3&theater Info about the bass on my Wal blog here. http://walbasshistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/wal-players-discuss-their-basses-rob.html If you're seriously interested PM Rob on Facebook.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1486318004' post='3230851'] I think people confuse boosting signal with boosting eq? [/quote] [quote name='prowla' timestamp='1486745452' post='3234334'] My rule is: if it sounds louder, then it is louder! [/quote] Hmmm... I think you might be confusing boosting signal with boosting eq!

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1486797610' post='3234576'] I remember seeing this at the time by complete chance, fair play she had some guns. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXkEhs00lo [/quote] Gobsmacked. That's some "understudy"!