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Kiss That Frog - Peter Gabriel

That looked like a recipe for disaster. However, it seems that Mr Daniel helped. Onwards with the build.

An absolute bass monster who doesn’t get nearly as much love as he deserved. 17-11-70 remains one of favourite live albums and it’s in no small way due to Dee and Nigel.

It’s an F bass and it was in an SBL giveaway they just did.

I’ve been back in the P club a few weeks now, so time for an add to this thread. Squier 40th Anniversary P.

Strings are always the best start point, especially on a used instrument. The short scale of the Allen Woody can accentuate any wooliness in the thicker strings (make sure you buy the right length of strings for your bass).

Vertigo - U2

Dace Like These - Low

Given Scott's focal dystonia, this seems unlikely, but you never know.

Inspired by this thread, I gave 2 of the tracks on YouTube another go. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the sax and keyboard sounds I don’t like. The sax is ok when doubling the guitar, but when it is soloed, it’s really not for me. The keyboard tone on the 2 tracks I’ve tried is just wrong to me. Love the percussion though.

Scott decided he wanted to make a fusion record (he doesn’t know how long he’ll be able to keep playing due to the focal dystopia and it was a case of better do it now) and contacted Simon King to see if he was interested and it grew from there.

Better late than never.

As a Robben Ford/Yellowjackets fan, I bought this, but was bitterly disappointed and I think I gave it away. I like fusion well enough, Return to Forever, Stanley & Al Di’s solo stuff, Jan Hammer with Jeff Beck, Jeff on his own and a number of others, but Scott’s project leaves me cold. I can appreciate the technical ability and artistry but I don’t want to finish listening to a single track and bass solos (unless it’s Stanley) I find unnecessary. That said, there are plenty of other genres that I don’t like, or even certain artists within genres I adore that I don’t like and I’m sure that there enough folk who do like them to warrant going to the effort of producing it in the first place, including Scott’s project. In fact, kudos to Scott for actually doing it, given his medical condition, it couldn’t have been easy for him.

Noods

Often the problem with keyboard generated bass (and, by association, bass pedals) is that it lacks the percussive punch of a bass guitar and is held onto too long, creating a standing wave. The keyboard player in my band has this issue with some of his B3 sounds, the left hand stays in place and it builds into a mush. I find judicious bass cut on his FOH channel sorts the issue (something he's happy for me to do).

We’re well known for being content with what we having and making do, everyone knows that.

Take Me I'm Yours - Squeeze

If you asked on your typical fb group for that, I guarantee one of the replies would say, "Good luck with that."

Enjoyed that and Ian Allison's Ibanez on the front pickup sounds great. He's a great fretless player too, but he plays the intro to "Hat" wrong, he misses the double stop. That said, I wish I has his chops (and that Musician). As has been said, it's a shame that the likes of John Giblin are missing (did you know that Rob Mullarkey is his son?) and I would have like to have seen Larry Klein in that too, but where do you stop? Anyone interested in hearing Tony Levin play lots of fretless (he certainly plays a lot more fretless with Peter Gabriel these days) check out his live album, Double Espresso, it's all fretless, when it's not Stick.

Ah, you mean the reason for other folk to grind their axe about the lack/cost of services. Every time someone asks about the local restaurants here, someone always posts using the word mortgage somewhere in the rant.

I’m always bemused by folk asking questions in local fb groups about local services. They could type the same info into Google and get a much quicker and probably more accurate answer.

I need to watch this on the big machine with headphones. Given the horrible weather we’re expecting up here, this will pass half an hour nicely.

I was once in Peter Jones on Sloane Square, where I was asked by another customer for help with some product or other, I forget what, I had to explain that I wasn’t a member of staff (I was respectable, in a short and tie, easy mistake to make), Jenny Agutter was very pleasant about it. I had a job that took me out and about, all over London and I came across quite a few celebrities, but this was the closest encounter, in that words were exchanged. Probably the most famous person I encountered was when I was visiting Number 10. I was waiting in the hall, opposite the lift, which opened and out stepped the PM of the day, one Margaret Thatcher, she was incredibly short in stature. To think she was taller than the Queen, how short was she?

This has reminded me of my run in with him (for a value of run in). I was fixing some piece of office equipment at TV AM and he was lording it up around the offices, demeaning various staff members. He came over as a pompous, little prat and I was just hoping he would say something sarky to me, just so I could let him experience the sharp side of someone’s tongue, who didn’t need to be subservient to his ego. Sadly, this did not come to pass.

I was walking through Berkeley Square once, when I notice Billy Connolly walking towards me. He clocked me and could tell I’d recognised him and his face fell, he was clearly not in the mood to be sociable. We just passed each other, but as we passed, I just said, “Alright, Bill?” and kept moving. I always hoped that he appreciated my restraint.