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Sloe Gin - Joe Bonamassa

I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello

Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads

Flat wound strings and a piece of foam under the bridge are favoured by those looking for that old school, P bass thump (think James Jameson on the old Motown recordings). Stick with what’s on there for the moment, until you work out what you want from it tonally, then you can investigate the many options. Fortunately, there is plenty of help on Basschat in this regards. Nice bass you have there. 👍

Lily the Mink - The Scaffold

Rat in Mi Kitchen - UB40

My Best Friend’s Girl - The Cars

No idea, possibly.

There were tarps at Springsteen, but that’s still an awful lot of traffic. That said, grass is very resilient and it was no doubt in tip top condition for whatever the next big footie game was.

That’d be a great gig; top album!

Man alive I do love his work on Graceland. ☺️

Talking of slapping a fretless sometimes causing a raised eyebrow (not with me you understand), I would turn those folks’ attention to Paul Young's Come Back and Stay, where the bassist of this thread, slaps the crap out of the bass also in this thread. We won’t mention Les Claypool, as he’s just nuts .

Likewise. I was just thinking that the pitch at Wembley took a hammering that year, what with Live Aid and Springsteen.

Funky Gibbon - The Goodies

One assumes that Pino just didn’t crank the bass and treble all the way up (far too tasteful a player for any full on shenanigans), thus the ‘Ray’s natural midrange remained front and centre.

I had the fretted version of this, IMO, the best colour MM ever did.

That’ll do - sorted 👍

Woolly Bully - Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

Slap plates! I remember them. When I did my first defret, I was tempted to leave the last fret or two in to offer this option (I didn’t eventually).

They make a great sounding fretless.

I think I’ve had 5 over the years, 2 of which were defrets. Currently just the 2 in the house, not including the EUB.

Kings of the Wild Frontier - Adam & the Ants

Drumming was overly enthusiastic and the addition of a sax was superfluous. Sounded more like a jam, certainly not well rehearsed. I’m not a huge Queen fan, but they were so slick, moving seamlessly from an abbreviated version of one tune to another. Plainly, well rehearsed. If I were the three other members of U2, there would have been words about Bono’s excursion into the audience. Playing that riff over and over, for so long would have been wearing, not to mention boring. EDIT: The Who doing Won’t Get Fooled Again was an absolute car crash.

Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson