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Seen Colin using a range of basses over the years. The following spring to mind... Dennis Fano Custom, Epiphone Newport, Vox Apollo, Wal Pro Bass, Jazz Bass, Fender Musicmaster Bass, Rickenbacker, Ibanez Musician...

[quote name='rmcki' timestamp='1456830694' post='2992570'] As recommended by Chris at Overwater [url="http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/shielding-aerosols/7259987/"]http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/shielding-aerosols/7259987/[/url] [/quote] This Scotts Bass Lessons vid has him chatting about it about 6 mins in and why to use the metal paint not the graphite stuff... http://youtu.be/czK3IjnM_oE

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1457438381' post='2998478'] Neither count: no live albums and compilations allowed. [/quote] Tee hee... Far be it for anyone on Basschat to stray slightly off topic... :-)

What is your budget. Can't help that a £90 acoustic bass may be a bit cheap and nasty (pure presumption- it may be brilliant) but may be fine for home noodling. When I needed an electro acoustic bass for home and on stage use I plumped for a Faith Titan Neptune acoustic bass. Really nice and with a great sound but 5 times the price of the G4M model. It was about £500 when I bought it a couple of yearsw ago but seems to have had a price hike since then. Other I looked at uin the £500 mark included Tanglewoods, Sigmas and Takamines. The Faith was head and shoulders above the others with a simple but really great sounding preamp and a hard case includd in the price. However, it will all come down to thje price point you are able to run to and what that provides... better woods and build, solid top, case thrown in, quality of pickup and electronics...

[quote name='Kevsy71' timestamp='1457390540' post='2998159'] ...and Thin Lizzy's Life:live - I don't care if it's overdubbed, it's superb. [/quote] Oooooh Life:Live over Live And Dangerous? Controversial. Having seen Lizzy on their farewell tour I so wanted to love Life:Live when it came out but the sound was so horrible and thin to my ears compared to L&D. Plus too much Sykes widdliness all over it. Personally I'd nominate L&D... The only Lizzy album I've repurchased on CD. [Edit] That should be ...only one NOT repurchased...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1457358416' post='2997680'] With only one DI going to the console, the tech will have to either use a compromise sound for both instruments, or juggle each time they're switched. Surely this would imply two separate DI feeds to the console..? [/quote] Indeed, just checking there wasn't some reason that blending down to one signal at some point was required ( even though that would be a compromise on the desk). Occham's razor wins... Two DIs and two tuners...

Can I just check... Are you planning on a single DI channel for both basses or a DI channel each? Will the bass be going into one channel of the amp while the Kala goes into the other channel or will they share a channel? Or do you envisage either bass swapping to either channel? If the answer I each bass has its own channel on the amp and its own channel on the desk the simplest solution has to be two tuners, two DI boxes... Unless you're thinking about a different, more versatile switching set up. Would be helpful to have a bit more clarity on your envisaged signal paths...

I'd look at the various switching pedals made by Lehle. Not cheap but really good quality. http://lehle.com/EN/AB-Switcher You'd need two Little Lehle II pedals, one before and one after to take the two signal chains down to one pedal and then back out to two. Some of their more complex pedals may give you a more "one box" solution. However, it strikes me that since each bass effectively seems to have its own channel that the simplest approach might be just buying a second tuner...?

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1457257679' post='2996692'] you don't realise how many good tracks there are on this till you start to try and whittle them down, can't argue with most of this but I'd get rid of Martha my dear and replace it with the continuing story of Bungalow Bill or Cry Baby Cry, maybe there ought to be another Beatles thread, which songs would you leave off the Beatles White Album, only joking, or am I [/quote] A lot of them chose themselves and then it was a case of which other few make it up to 45 mins. I wondered about Martha My Dear (is she the cousin of Lovely Rita, Meter Maid?) but it seemed to be the least invidious of Macca's twee sentimental tracks on there. I thought more folks would balk at the absence of Happiness Is A Warm Gun which lots of people seem to love and which has always bored me rigid.

Yeah, my real answer to the last Q would be "maybe"

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1457195060' post='2996266'] ELO's Out Of The Blue was a favourite when I was about 12. Now the one that I consider one of my top albums of all time is Pat Metheny's 80/81. After that, all the doubles I like are live recordings. [/quote] How could I have forgotten Out Of The Blue? One of my all time faves and a double I'm still happy to sit and listen to end to end... So many great songs. And nearly 40 years since I first bought it. 40 years!!!! Blimey!

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1457243536' post='2996622'] Thought this thread was going to be about a love interest [/quote] It is! I'd agree with those who said to think about which are your two or three "great backup basses" which give you a range of options. Then think about which really want to keep just for sentimental reasons even if you rarely play them. Then think about any which just give you a really particular glow of pleasure simply from having them in your collection (for whatever reason). Those are probably your keepers (for now). The others are negotiable and can become a bass purchase fighting fund.

A huge plus one for custom moulded plugs. I went with Ultimate Ears when I was getting myear monitors and got them to do a set of plugs at the same time. Absolutely an investment not a cost.

[quote name='joeystrange' timestamp='1457213510' post='2996494'] Does 'double album' in this case mean one very long album on two discs? [/quote] A single artistic statement spread thinly over 4 sides of vinyl and released as a single package. One overly long album in other words.

Here's my "White Album" as a cracking single album... [indent=1]1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]2. "Dear Prudence" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]3. "Glass Onion" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison)[/indent] [indent=1]6. "Martha My Dear" ( McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]7. "I'm So Tired" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]8. "Blackbird" ( McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]9. "Birthday" ( McCartney and Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]10. "Yer Blues" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]11. "Mother Nature's Son" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]12. "Sexy Sadie" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]13 . "Helter Skelter" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]14. "Revolution 1" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]Total Length 45 mins[/indent]

Yeah, a few years ago the Beeb did a Which Decade Was Best series of pop music debates looking at the 50s onwards. There was a show for each decade and then one to decide the best decade. One of the most interesting bits of each programme was the little feature running down the top ten most popular/biggest selling songs of the decade. They were to a huge majority stuffed with awful, commercialised pap, not the songs that end up on greatest lists! Our memories are so very selective, nostaligia driven and skewed to support our underlying view of the world...

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1457164218' post='2995867'] He is brainwashing us to believe this is a new thing. This could be applied to the 60s, 70s, 80s and,...well I lost interest after that. Holland Dozier and Holland, Chin and Chapman, Stock Aitkin and Waterman anyone. None of this is new. It's been happening since the beginning of pop music. Listen to Brian Mathews' Sounds of the Sixties and you will hear everything he has described in the video. [/quote] What he said... Probably is even worse now, though. He's right though there is a small group of people whose aim is to control and monetise what we hear. Yes, I'm looking at you Norrie Paramore, Joe Meek, Berry Gordy, Brian Epstein,...

I'd say try 3 (or 4) first. Then if that doesn't work then try 5 and if that doesn't work then 6 is the last resort...

[quote name='NickD' timestamp='1457117782' post='2995602'] War of the Worlds has the top spot for me (the original, not the recent debacle). It just flows beautifully. The Guns & Roses Use Your Illusion, double, double album farce takes the wooden spoon... they could have made a legendary single album, and a worthy successor to Appetite... but no. [/quote] Makes me realise just how few double albums I have/listen to... [b]Works:[/b] Jeff Wayne's WotW is deffo up there. As would be the soundtrack album for Star Wars. Not Star Wars A New Hope... STAR WARS... But that's another thread entirely. Songs In The Key Of Life just scrapes in if you ignore some of the slightly questionable choices like the sound effects all over Isn't She Lovely. [b]Wanting:[/b] The White Album definitely. ELP's Works, Physical Graffiti, Tales from Topographic Oceans. All perfectly decent single albums padded and stretched...

An [quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1453812922' post='2962942'] Excellent. We already have a couple of offers for talks - stay tuned [/quote] And what "test" will we have Lozz presiding over this time? Will it involve cheap and (actually not at all) nasty Maplins speaker cabs?

Not so long ago Elvis Costello was claiming it was down to him... "10 Things We Learned From Elvis Costello's Brilliant New Memoir Songwriter's new book reflects on 'SNL' ban and infamous 1979 tirade, why he won't reveal who Alison is. It's probably no surprise that Elvis Costello's memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, out today, is thoroughly engrossing. Costello's gift for storytelling in song is without question, but like Bob Dylan's Chronicles, his book is truly remarkable in the way it presents a riveting, honest portrait of the author and the many A-listers he's tread the boards with, while ricocheting through the years at an almost breathless pace. In an era of ghostwritten — or, worse, self-serving — memoirs by rock stars at every strata of the pecking order, the nearly 700-page Unfaithful Music is a standout. While the book is certainly worth of a leisurely, cover-to-cover dive, an even more surprising treat is the companion audiobook, in which the author himself acts out many of his most legendary incidents, delivering spot-on impressions of Dylan and many others, and often sending up himself in the process. Either way, even the most ardent Costello fan will come away having learned more about the man than any of us ever dared hope to discover. Here are 10 key revelations. ...3. Elvis talked Paul McCartney into using his Hofner bass again and got him to embrace his Beatle-ness. Costello recounts that when he first began collaborating with Paul McCartney, the former Beatle favored a "super-hi-tech custom" bass that his wife, Linda, had given him for Christmas. It had, much to Costello's horror, five strings. Costello inquired about the Hofner, trying not to sound too much like the Beatle geek that all of us would be in that moment. McCartney then pulled it out of storage, and has been using it as his main instrument ever since." http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/10-things-we-learned-from-elvis-costellos-brilliant-new-memoir-20151013#ixzz41ty4zrYI

Rickys... Love the look, love the sound, can't abide the feel of the neck. Similarly basses with lacquered maple fingerboards. Call me shallow but I can't get past the visual appearance of the Lakland oval bridge. Never played a Warwick that felt comfy in my hands.

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1456840164' post='2992745'] Actually very relevant, BC's no Ricks policy exists [i]entirely[/i] because Hall & his not-so-merry men do their damnedest to protect RIC's trade dress. Even in territories where they have no enforceable legal ability to do so. [/quote] Wow, so did BC get threatened or have an injunction slapped on for passing on and/or trading/abetting the trade of counterfeit goods?

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1456907495' post='2993321'] Yep, at the time of Wal's ascendency Macca was not really considered an iconic bassist in the way players like Mick Karn were. Funny thing is that those 80's Wal playing popsters probably set the vibe for Wal in the same way as Geddy Lee and Chris Squire did for Ricks, and both brands still suffer from being too strongly associated with a specific sound. Macca of course played both Wals and Ricks and sounded nothing like 80's popsters or 70 prog rockers. He probably did both brands a lot of good. [/quote] Funny thing thought... Both Geddy and Chris were also known for playing Rickys and Wals (a very particular one in Chris' case!). Funny thing is, I've always suspected that in 1989 or thereaboutsGeddy would probably have sold more Wals for the company than Paul did! On the original Q... Yes, Wal didn't do freebies for endorsees. The names who played them paid for them. Where they did give basses free it was more of a big personal thank you. Rob Burns who was a bit of an unpaid ambassador for the brand and a long term Wal user was given the prototype of the first Wal 6er as a surprise thank you gift for all he'd done for them. John G Perry was also given a lovely early MK 1 Custom specially built as a short scale bass. Again as a surprise thank you pressie.

Gary, you said it! You know it's true! ;-)