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[quote name='ead' timestamp='1492161186' post='3278338'] Check JB's fretless playing at the Cream reunion gigs at the Albert Hall. Very tasteful, I partiuclarly like the lines he's playing on Stormy Monday. [/quote] Thanks. The "great" mwah is over-rated. A lot of bassist forum chatter suggests that it is the holy grail for bassists. Rubbish! The mwah is unique to the fretless but it is more of a characteristic than a desirable quality. If all you get from a tune's bassline is mwah it gets boring to the point of annoyance I think. Jack is far better than Jaco for my taste. I still like Jaco though for his work with Joni and for some of the Weather Report repertoire.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1492159647' post='3278318'] What is click bait? Blue [/quote] It's a means of attracting interest from people browsing the internet by using enticing and sometimes wholly inappropriate words in a hypertext link just to get "cash for clicks" or search engine ratings. "Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I mentioned it because of this recent topic; http://basschat.co.uk/topic/303710-respected-players-using-clickbait-on-youtube/ On reflection it wasn't all that witty, sorry.

Why does the BBC not keep its promise of delivering 5.1 surround? I only ever get the pro-logic logo on my receiver, never Dolby D or DTS. My understanding from the BBC's own HD TV promo was that they took great lengths to record in surround format. Pro-logic M sounds like surround but it isn't actually 6 channels... or is it? Curious.

Has the show been vetted for click bait yet though... Heeheehee.

Yup. That is one mint bassment. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mint mint - Expression used in The North Of England meaning good "Ah, thats well mint!"

[quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1492079768' post='3277728'] I too think the 'clickbait' thing isn't clickbait (and I guess the OP covers that by using quotes). When bulk email goes out, clever companies run AB testing on subject lines to see which ones are the most opened. Scott's SEO bod is just writing subject lines with a hook. [/quote] Not sure now whether I've woken up in an angling or an I.T. forum. Shouldn't have had that last wine gum.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ[/media]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1492090207' post='3277866'] Has anyone else taken this long, or longer to get into a bass or a technique? <snip> I think 5 string could be another long journey for me too. [/quote] I took much longer to feel happy with my fretless. I bought it with roundwound strings brand new. I now wonder if that was an error on the part of the shop. That was Dublin in 1986 or 7! Last year I decided that I'd restring it with flats as the roundwounds had chewed the black finish off the fingerboard in places. I put black nylon Rotosounds with gold tails on and wished I'd done it sooner. I am going to give it a go on one of the open mic nights this year, such is my confidence with it. It plays like it should now but I didn't cotton on to how different it would feel for 30 years!!! I thought, like you say, that going from four to five on fretted bass would be difficult but it isn't really that bad. I think I took a month or so to feel at home with the low B. It's a bit like getting a slightly larger desk, more room to work with yet everything within reach. I have said in the past that I'd like a fiver fretless too but I am not so sure now. The Vantage sounds good as it is with its J and P style pups. Maybe one day. It's a damned good thing that I don't depend on my playing for a living innit.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1492079574' post='3277720'] Looks better to most folks who aren't in the extreme echelons of knowledge [/quote] Good on you! With a slight edit to your quote thus - "Fender... Looks better to most folks who aren't in the extreme echelons of knowledge" - may I suggest you run that right up the Fender marketing flag pole and see how many salutes it gets. Hahahahahahaha. My lower echelon is itchy now [scratches arse]

[quote name='Bassmonkey' timestamp='1492032667' post='3277427'] As a result of this I have been on a You Tube trip remembering all those great Sweet songs. Happy days [/quote] Plus one. Glam rock may be cheesy but maturity has made it a fine comestible. Best taken in good company with crackers and a light drink.

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1492029233' post='3277380'] I am playing the St Matthew Passion on Friday. I have not done this kind of stuff for a VERY long time. I will be very tired on Saturday. Cracking bass lines though. He was The Don. [/quote] Have a great gig my friend.

Many thanks D. I've got summat much better than BBC News24 to watch over breakfast now. Regards

[quote name='MisterT' timestamp='1492034797' post='3277457'] (ref the Partridge bit - that's Music for Chameleons by Gary Numan) The Numan fans all remember Pino very well indeed, he recorded in 1982 with Gary before he did the Paul Young stuff so we were all indoctrinated with that special style of his. It's been great seeing him go as far as he has. Nevermind all that... MICK! [/quote] Good call. Japan was an evocative band.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1492037468' post='3277479'] Ah, 80s synths... love em. Back in '87 my band had two keys players, between them they had a DX7, JX3P, Juno 106 and a PX7 piano. And yes, I played fretless through a chorus on some songs Though I say so myself, we were AWESOME *wistful sigh* [/quote] Aw bless. We thought the same about ourselves. Unfortunately, I have some four track cassettes that prove how naff we really were. The true talent in our band was the drummer because he played all of the instruments that his older brothers had learned on too. He chose drums because the others hadn't and to top it off, he sang at the same time. I thank him for bringing me back into the music thing having been put off it by school and those horrible Bert Weedon books. The eighties were awesome in themselves. Electronic instruments went mainstream in a big way and shook the whole industry out of its rut. I was lucky to be in my twenties at the time even taking into consideration the threat of global nuclear war that was always in the news back then. That the fretless bass came to the fore was remarkable in the circumstances. Maybe it softened the edges a bit against the sometimes harsh sounds of MIDI driven modules. On the other hand MIDI allowed Stock Aitken Waterman to establish a minor monopoly in the charts for a while. Heeheehee.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1492060854' post='3277509'] I can never understand why people don't get it. For me it very obvious why people decorate their basses in this fashion. This is show business. It's all about creating an image, a look or a vibe. We don't criticise folk for sporting a hairdo or guyliner. Putting a decal on the headstock is exactly the same. It's the finishing touch to an impression you are creating. I'm fine with it. It's none of my business. I played a few gigs with a band a few years ago and they wanted a look. I reliced an old Squier and put a fender decal on. It looked awesome and was exactly the vibe the band wanted. It's no big deal. Other people can't afford fenders but gain confidence when they sport a fenderesque instrument. Live and let livery I say. [/quote] Hahahahahahahah - "Live and let livery" very good my friend. I don't get why folk who don't get why other folk don't get it say they don't get why folk don't get it. Excuse me while I sit for a moment, I've got dizzy for some reason.

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1492029540' post='3277385'] Not just cars. Everything gets cloned these days - £50 Chinese snide "Rolex" anyone? Nothing new in music, either. My first fiddle, a European factory cheapo, had a fake Strad label in it. [/quote] True. The perverse thing about second hand goods sales is that the fakes can sometimes command a higher price than an equivalent "unknown" brand just [i]because[/i] they are fakes even though they are known to be dodgy copies by the purchaser and advertised as such. It tends to happen with older goods and antiques. Did you keep your Strad clone?

[quote name='project_c' timestamp='1492032621' post='3277424'] The DX7 had a huge revival around 10 years ago, Native Instruments released a virtual version (called FM7 I think) which also became very popular in electronic music circles. 80s synths in general are still popular. The 808 is still the most popular kick drum sound of all time. [/quote] Oh thank gawd. I shall sleep soundly tonight. Thank you from the heart of my bo.... er, bottom of my heart. Mind you, you've reminded me of the dinky cowbell sound that the 808 makes so I might have nightmares that whiney Whitney wants to sleep with me because she thinks I'm somebody. NURSE! Heeheehee.

I didn't realise Jack Bruce was using one until I saw the clips on t'telly. It's already been said, the eighties coloured the public perception of what fretless was supposed to sound like. The great "mwah" is what does it, in my humble bumble. Like the DX7's bell tones, the uniquely characterisitic sound was overused to the point where it became annoying. Neither instrument has to make that sound all of the time however. Anyway... what about the DX7? Fretless has never gone away for it to need a comeback but we still are unsure if we'll ever see that keyboard on a stage, brazenly declaring its manufacturer and model name, ever again. I blame the theme tune of Eastenders for killing its popularity through over exposure.

It didn't hurt The Police being a three piece. I always wanted to have a lickle three piece of my own.

[quote name='scalpy' timestamp='1492019899' post='3277288'] Nope but they've put M badges on their old 318 or Porsche wheels on their vintage bug. The car market is even more guilty of this than the music instrument industry! [/quote] Reminds me of when one of my mates from teenage bought what looked on the outside to be a Ford XR3i. Something about the decals was not quite right. I lifted the bonnet and saw carburettors... I kept shtum for a bit but had to tell him eventually that he'd been had. The look on his face was as if I had somehow been responsible. He didn't speak to me for ages after.

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1492013789' post='3277214'] A 70's effect pedal with a siren? Cool! I just loved the cheesiness of doing it. We had two old skool rotating police lights, one red one blue, on top of the PA speakers either side, we'd fill the stage with smoke and then fire up the lights and siren to start the second set. We'd leave it going for twenty seconds or so before starting the riff, silly but great fun [/quote] Stagecraft mate. I like your style.

[quote name='inthedoghouse' timestamp='1491989512' post='3276940'] Misplaced vanity - as if anybody cares I gigged for a while with a pro band in the 80s using a nice Squier and nobody said a word or gave me a funny look [/quote] ...and did you look like Blakey back then too? Heeheehee

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1491983897' post='3276875'] I think if you're intentionally trying to recreate something that is above and beyond your budget, sticking a Fender decal on it when it's an intentional Fender repro (like a Nash or Limelight) is just good attention to detail and keeping the style correct. If you don't want a Fender repro but want a jazz/pj/Precision at a similar price then new Fenders (MIM/MIJ etc) or Maruszczyk are in that prt of the market, so just get what YOU want (it's your money after all). It's just another option on the table and if doesn't interest you, then it shouldn't bother you either. If you were making a spitfire airfix model, you make it look as close to a spitfire as possible. You're not doing it to deceive anyone because everyone who actually knows anything about it knows it's not an ACTUAL spitfire and you wouldn't ever try to sell it on gumtree etc as an actual spitfire. I much prefer that to [u]when people put on a decal that is styled just like a Fender decal but incorporates some tenuous dad-joke like "pretender gaz bass" or someone's surname etc. It makes me cringe like hell[/u] (sorry if that's you but it's just really not my thing!). [/quote] I can't think what you mean... [cough][b]R0ck1nb3tt3r![/b][/cough] I agree. To justify that particular example by saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is just b0110x.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1491984700' post='3276883'] Thank you [/quote] Got the books down off the shelf for you. I thought I had three different ones but it turns out that two are the same except that one has a play along CD for the bass duets if you aren't up to playing both parts simultaneously as I've seen on YT clips. If you want the one without the CD I'd be happy to send it to you. PM me to sort out the postage expenses if you want it. J. S. Bach for Electric Bass Three duets and five solo pieces arranged for bass guitar Music, Instruction, Historical Analysis By Bob Gallway, PH.D. Hal Leonard ISBN 978-0-634-03143-4 (This is the spare that I might let you have) It contains score and tab for;[list] [*]Two-Part Invention #4 in D Minor [*]Two-Part Invention #1 in C Major [*]Sinfonia from Partita 2 in C Major for Solo Harpsichord [*]Bourree 1 and 2 from Suite #3 in C Major for Solo Cello [*]Sarabande from Suite #2 in D Minor for Solo Cello [*]Presto from Sonata #1 in G Minor for Solo Violin [*]Allemande from Suite #6 in D Major for Solo Cello [*]Tempo di Bourree from Sonata #2 in D Major for Solo Violin [/list] and (Translated from Italian) J. S. Bach Inventions Transcriptions for 2 Four String Basses by Marco Di Natale a CD ROM with audio and interactive track containing also the transcriptions for two 6 string electric basses Ricordi ISMN M-2151-0625-3 It contains score only for;[list] [*]Invention 1 C Major [*]Invention 2 C Minor [*]Invention 6 E Major [*]Invention 8 F Major [*]Invention 13 A Minor [/list] Hope this helps.

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1491983620' post='3276872'] You wouldn't believe how shocked you will be when you find out the secret. [/quote] Hahahahaha. I was writing aircraft manuals to SGML standard in the nineties. You must think I came down with the last shower. I'll bite anyway, tell us; What do you think the big secret is? My guess would be that the entire world is in fact run by Tescos and that Walmart is a subsidiary of theirs. Commerce drives everything. PS; I spotted what you did there but it might have been better if you'd hypertext linked it to askmyarse dot co dot uk.