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Aladdin Sane/Diamond Dogs/Ziggy And Tin Machine I'll leave it to your discretion to work out which is which...

Wow, never realised that James Jamerson ever played with the Shadows. Can't wit to listen to the clip!

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1489509814' post='3257546'] From Rush.com's "rig rundown" section, 1989: The colour-coding apparently helped him when he was breaking in a new ARP synthesiser and bass pedal arrangement. [/quote] Now you see, that's just typical of the ill informed rubbish that you see spouted on the internet as though it's fact. I mean, that photo has been obviously faked. EVERYONE knows that Geddy has never used that sort of band. They are patently heavy duty Post Office grade FLAT rubber bands in that photo. Any true Rush fan knows that Geddy uses incredibly thin, light Office-grade ROUND rubber bands. Get your facts right, mate!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1489488598' post='3257302'] And what about Leigh Gorman of Bow Wow Wow? I think that the collectability of a particular bass depends very much on interesting players using that particular bass in preference to all others and not just as a passing phase like some of those mentioned above, who for me can just as easily be associated with other basses - like Martin Kemp who for me will always be associated with the Stingray he used in the early days when they were interesting rather than popular. [/quote] Leigh is another great player with a killer tone. But again on Pro and JG models rather than that later Custom models...

The singles chart as we know it no longer works because the model on which it is based has changed fundamentally. It uses to be based on a scarce, time-limited resource with an intrinsic and emotional cachet. Back then tracks were specifically chosen to be singles and only those counted for chart purposes. The then needed to be physically pressed and distributed but were only available to buy for a limited time -even the most popular. Eventually no more were pressed and the supply ran out. Therefore there was a constant churn of songs that could be chart co tenders and their chart life was strictly limited. Therefore you got the shape of the charts we used to know which gave an indication of which NEW songs were attracting the most purchases in any week. A proxy for popularity. Things are fundamentally different now. There is little of no selective or physical barrier which limits the contenders for a chart place. Any track can appear in the singles chart. So a whole album can be eligible at the same time - that could/would never have happened back in the day. It simply wasn't the business model. They also now exist pretty much eternally so may never naturally drop out of the chart through lack of supply. So there is no natural churn. Songs aren't bought they are consumed on Spotify so. Again there is no entry barrier. All this adds up to the Sheeran chart being an inevitability. I do know one person who is delighted though. My chum Amy who co-wrote four of the songs on the album!

And the 1970s were WORSE! [b][size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]Best selling single of the 1970s[/color][/font][/size][/b] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]1 "Mull of Kintyre"/"Girls' School" Wings [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]2 "Rivers of Babylon"/"Brown Girl in the Ring" Boney M. [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]3 "You're the One That I Want" John Travolta and Olivia Newton John [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]4 "Mary's Boy Child" Boney M. [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]5 "Summer Nights" John Travolta and Olivia Newton John [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]6 "Y.M.C.A." Village People [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]7 "Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]8 "Heart of Glass" Blondie [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]9 "Bright Eyes" Art Garfunkel [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]10 "Don't Give Up on Us" David Soul [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]11 "I Love You Love Me Love" Gary Glitter [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]12 "Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]13 "Save Your Kisses for Me" Brotherhood of Man [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]14 "Eye Level" Simon Park Orchestra [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]15 "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" Little Jimmy Osmond [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]16 "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" Pink Floyd [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]17 "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Julie Covington [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]18 "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" The New Seekers [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]19 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" Dawn featuring Tony Orlando [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]20 "Under the Moon of Love" Showaddywaddy [/color][/font][/size]

[size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]The truth is, the charts have ALWAYS been rubbish. Here is the full top 5 best-selling singles of the 60s in the UK and the rest of the non-Beatles top 20. This is NOT the list that the music journo in one of those would “I Heart The 60s” clip shows would predict. And not what any of us would predict…[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]No Who, no Rolling Stones, no Animals, no Yardbirds no[font=Arial][color=#222222] Dylan, no Byrds, no Stax, no Motown[/color][/font]…[/color][/font][/size] [b][size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]Best-selling singles of the 1960s in the UK[/color][/font][/size][/b] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]1 [/color][color=#000000]"She Loves You" Beatles, The[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]2 [/color][color=#000000]"I Want to Hold Your Hand" Beatles, The [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]3 [/color][color=#000000]"Tears" Dodd, Ken [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]4 [/color][color=#000000]"Can't Buy Me Love" Beatles, The [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]5 [/color][color=#000000]"I Feel Fine" Beatles, The [/color][/font][/size][size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000] [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]6 [/color][color=#000000]" The Carnival Is Over" Seekers, The [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]8 [/color][color=#000000]"Release Me" Humperdinck, Engelbert [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]9 [/color][color=#000000]"It's Now or Never" Presley, Elvis [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]10 [/color][color=#000000]"Green, Green Grass of Home" Jones, Tom [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]11 [/color][color=#000000]"The Last Waltz" Humperdinck, Engelbert [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]12 [/color][color=#000000]"Stranger on the Shore" Bilk, Acker [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]13 [/color][color=#000000]"I Remember You" Ifield, Frank [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]14 [/color][color=#000000]"TheThe Young Ones" Richard, Cliff and The Shadows [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]15 [/color][color=#000000]"Sugar, Sugar" Archies, The [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]16 [/color][color=#000000]" TheThe Next Time" / "Bachelor Boy" Richard, Cliff and The Shadows[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]17 [/color][color=#000000]"Telstar" Tornados, The [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font=Calibri][color=#000000]19 [/color][color=#000000]"Two Little Boys" Harris, Rolf [/color][/font][/size]

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1489415066' post='3256697'] not introducing an effects loop just a simple way of getting a di signal from the power amp of the jcm so no vtdi needed in the chain. [/quote] Aaaah...

But apparently they have half an album all but done... and due to do some more soon... yay!

100% agreed on Alan Spenner. Only excluded because he never really played the Custom Series which the others listed above all used (tho some also had JGs and Pros too). Many things go in phases and desirability waxes and wanes. Certainly Wals had a glory days period in the 80s, were a bit less prominent in the 90s and gained more widespread notoriety and appeal in the 2000s again.

[size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]It’s funny the way in which you hear Wals being referenced in terms of the big 3… Mick, Geddy and Justin as if that is the gamut of the Wal sound.[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"] [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]For me whilst I enjoy Geddy’s late 80s/early 90s sound and the bits of Mick’s fretless I have heard (Japan were never a huge part of my listening list and I can’t honestly hum any tune by Tool) they represent for me only the tiniest corner of what a Wal is capable of. And it’s their ability to sculpt a host of different tonalities which has always been a huge draw for me (fingers arguments notwithstanding).[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"] [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]Think of other notable Wal users and their tones… Flea on BSSM, Bruce Thomas on Elvis Costello’s “Punch the Clock”, Laurence Cottle with his Big Band, with The Alan Parsons Project or with Black Sabbath, Macca on Flowers in the Dirt or the Light Fantastic Live Album, Martin Kemp with Spandau Ballet, John Illsley with Dire Straits, Percy Jones with Brand X, Jeff Ament with Pearl Jam, Greg Lake on the ELP Black Moon album… all broadly different examples of tones that a Wal is capable of producing.[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"] [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]Back on topic, though, it was interesting to see what happened with the second hand price of Wal basses in the two or three year hiatus between Pete Stevens finally retiring and Paul Herman restarting production. If I recall the highest I saw a pretty standard Wal model go for was around $9500 dollars (around £7500 at the time – a decade ago now). It will be interesting to see how other luthier brands go when their makers stop making. However, as others have said, I suspect it will also be driven by distinctives around design. Zemaitis basses were already goig to silly prices before Tony Zemaitis. Real Zemaitis guitars and basses are now eye-wateringly expensive. And if any instrument had a distinctive USP they were one.[/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"] [/color][/font][/size] [size=3][font="Calibri"][color="#000000"]At least the future of Wal seems secure for the foreseeable.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#222222]Adding in the Radial DI box to introduce an effects look into the signal path looks like a pretty over-engineered solution given that a slight re-ordering of your existing pedals and leads seems to solve the problem.[/color] [color=#000000]Go [b]from[/b]…[/color] [color=#000000]Bass-> Korg Pitchblack-> Sansamp VTDI-> MXR Phase 90 -> Corona Mini[/color] [color=#000000][b]To[/b]…[/color] [color=#000000]Bass-> Korg Pitchblack-> MXR Phase 90 -> Corona Mini -> Sansamp VTDI.[/color] [color=#000000]Then use the VTDI XLR output to take the signal to the PA. Then use either 1) the parallel out to the amp if you DON’T want the EQ and drive settings on the VTDI to go through the amp or 2) the main jack output of the VTDI if you do. [/color] [color=#000000]If there is an issue that you prefer to have an overdriven sound going into the modulation effects rather than modulation effects going into the overdrive then your set up would be…[/color] [color=#000000]Bass-> Korg Pitchblack-> [i][NEW OVERDRIVE PEDAL TO GENERATE OD TONE][/i]-> MXR Phase 90 -> Corona Mini -> Sansamp VTDI ([i]set up with a low gain to act as an amp/speaker sim rather than an overdrive[/i]).[/color] [color=#000000]Anything more than that seems like over complicating things for no particular reason or benefit.[/color]

Had one years ago on a Squier Jazz project bass and loved it. Finally put them on my two Wals (EB4s). Loving it. Simple but effective engineering. [quote name='mildmanofrock' timestamp='1181895067' post='18015'] It goes from bad to worse. The damn thing kept going out of tune, no matter how much fine-tuning I did. Last night, I took it off and put it back on, in the hope that something would slot down right. That done, I flicked the lever, and it only detuned a little bit. I've taken the thing off and put my old Musicman peg back on. I'm considering my next move. I feel a Hipshot sale coming on. [/quote] I think I might know the problem. Check that the tuning screw is properly seating against the knurled nut in the lever pivot. If it is slightly misaligned it might be catching on the washer and not detuning properly and consistently. If so, the tiniest bend of the bent bit of metal that holds the tuning screw with some pliers will fix it. Had that happen with one of mine. When I realised it was a 20 second fix. Now working perfectly.

If I understand correctly bass into tuner into VT DI. Output to PA from XLR output. Amp connected to the parallel output. Phaser and chorus connected to the VTDI main jack output? Is that right? It seems to be what you're implying. If so, then the effects aren't in the signal chain at all and are doing nothing. Surely I've got that wrong? The obvious signal chain would be... bass > tuner > phaser > chorus > VTDI. XLR out from VTDI to PA, choice of main jack out or parallel out to amp depending on whether you want the EQ and speaker sim from the VTDI going into your amp. I keep rereading your post and thinking I can't be right but I can't make the signal chain description mean anything else... #perplexed

Crumbs, was just looking at a flyer for a local festival where they were due to play in a couple of months. Great singers, sad loss.

[quote name='bertbass' timestamp='1489327930' post='3256040'] Forget the iPad, what about that mess of leads round your feet! Definitely a trip hazard. Where's the H&S inspector. [/quote]

''Tis indeed

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1488367780' post='3248257'] How anyone can remember what bloody lead they used is quite beyond me! [/quote] Jack, look what I just found in my bass guitar case... Although I will concede that this might not be my actual first ever gigging set up lead but a spare bought about 4 years later! #imsosad

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1489165997' post='3254928'] Thanks for the heads up, Sir. I went and checked it out: Mr Tribe's version is a little gem and beats the bollocks off the UB40 version. [media]http://youtu.be/PNgzk0TvJJI[/media] [/quote] Not heard that before. WHY HAS NOONE SHOWN ME THIS BEFORE. OH, THE WASTED YEARS! What a great version.

Is this it? Some nice close up photos... http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/portfolio/0201-krell-4/ "Makore"... not a wood I've come across before.

It's a pretty top wood. What is it? Ovangkol? Figured bubinga? Shedua? I love the subtle checkerboard flaming on it. Quite a Wal-ly aesthetic wood choice (which OF COURSE I like).

Definitely a "less is more" situation. Root notes and little walking runs if you are feeling flash. And no one will notice/care what type of strings you've got on. Play what you think will feel/sound good for you. And, yes, the singers will probably jump at the idea of having a "backing band" but not think about little things like having chord sheets for the backing musos...

The aesthetics of ACGs have never grabbed me, which is a shame given the rep they're building. However, this model is definitely the one that most floats my visual boat. Nice bass... But I must confess that every time I hear the word Krell this guy pops into my mind...