Burns-bass

That’s very cool. im off to Sweden for a festival next week. You’ve got me thinking!

Over the last 20 years I’ve had literally hundreds of basses. I realised it was all wasted in the end as all I need to do is just get a few guitars I love and use. Happens to be a few USA Fenders, but could easily have been a Stingray or Shuker. But for the rigours of gigging I trust the USA ones the most.

This does my head in. https://www.jimmyegypt.com/fender-1973-jazz-bass-black-block-markers-3-color-sunburst-pre-owned?srsltid=AfmBOoopjVqdyrelLPtMO-6LMnepN2iFpW6y7HMswVNDJ1za1e2C5xmCOVY The bridge and the pickguard are obviously replaced. Come on lads!

Perhaps its all in my head (but I’m sure it isn’t) that the USA ones simply do sound and feel better. The materials and components on a USA jazz and the build quality genuinely are higher. The modern ones much more so than the vintage ones (of which I have owned a lot of). I appreciate they’re basic designs and you’re certainly paying a premium for the brand over something like Xotic, but god knows what I’d do with a preamp like that! None of it really matters to 99% of the population, of course. My backup bass for double bass gigs is this £150 Bronco - which is fantastic.

It’s all relative of course, but I don’t see Oasis inspiring that many kids nowadays. It’s going to be filled with middle aged men like me.

Friedn of mine is considering paying £450 for a Ticketmaster-approved resale ticket. World gone mad. Anyone there today, I hope you have an amazing time and that you can see over the sea of smartphones proving these people were there.

Thanks for this. It makes perfect sense this way. As sad as it sounds, as well as playing it, I’ll study these to see what he’s doing against a chord to try and understand it. I’ll just print it and write the chords at the top in pencil and we’re good. Appreciate it’s an improvised line!

What a challenging transcription to have made! It's not just the notes, it's the feel too – what a player! I have one request (and you can ignore me and throw stuff at the screen if you want). When you're doing these walking jazz transcriptions, could you put the chord at the top of the bar? That way I can sit there and try and figure out what he's doing as it relates to the key? (I know I can do this myself, and I do)

It strange isn't it. I've had a lot of the boutique stuff (Shuker, Alembic, etc) and I find that while they're all beautifully made they're complex to coax out a great sound, ofter over-engineered and, well, a bit ugly. The more gigs I play and the more varied music I'm asked to work on, I value the simplicity and quality of the American Fenders I've had.

I’d say clarity of note is more important than which finger you use. It’s not like bowing a double bass. And remember, knowing 1 scale already puts you ahead of 50% of guitarists in theory knowledge.

I found the FSR Fenders to be the best. The one I have is an absolutely amazing instrument. I was luck enough to try a few of them and picked the one I liked the best. I have two basses I will never sell and this is one of them. The rest I’m sort of ambivalent towards.

People will have different views, but I e gigged with Squiers, Mexican, Japanese and American jazz basses. While all are great instruments (and some can be awful) the American higher end models sound better, are built better and come with a nice case. Whether this is worth the premium, that’s a question of personal choice. But for me, my Professional series jazz basses is the best instrument I’ve used and we’ve done hundreds of gigs together.

I think it's impossible not to like him. My wife watched a documentary about him while I was (pretending) to read a book. He and his family seemed lovely people.

Big nostalgia marketing fest now. Simon Reynolds had this all nailed back in 2012.

The BBC is to blame for this. They're trying to establish Glastonbury as some sort of quasi religious experience when it's just lots of people enjoying music in a field. If we expect every performer to deliver a generation-defining set, we're all going to be disappointed. But it's still just people playing music in a field which is sometimes great, oftentimes good, and sometimes truly dire.