silverfoxnik

Or Guitar/Drummer/Keyboard Geek Chat... 😬

Reminds me of the 'What is It?' sketch from Airplane where Leslie Neilsen says to the air hostess: "This woman has to be gotten to a hospital ' And the air hostess says " A hospital - what is it? " To which Neilsen replies : " It's a big building with patients " IMO, Basschat is that big building and we're all the patients! 😁 On a serious note and in very general terms, I've always believed that Basschat is such a great forum because of the fundamental temperament and personality types that most of us bass players have/are... i.e. collaborative, team-players, grounded, non ego-driven etc, etc.. Except for @ped of course! 😉😂 Oh, and here's that Airplane sketch...

Very sad news! I always love hearing players like Paul Jackson who make funk sound so easy, without making it sound clinical and 'learnt'.. RIP.

Here are my 5 choices: 1. James Jamerson, "What's Going On" 2. Paul McCartney, "Strawberry Fields" 3. John Entwistle, "My Generation" 4. Jaco Pastoriius, "Birdland" 5. Larry Graham, "Dance to the Music"

I think @Mykesbass has the right idea. Perhaps if we each posted the 5 bass players we think fit the criteria as being 'essential' and point out the stand out track for each one of them, that would help the OP with their task in hand? And on that point @DubDelay, it's a great idea for a radio show!

Yep.. Add in Jaco, Larry Graham, Joe Osborne, Charlie Mingus, Bernard Edwards and all the others mentioned above and you'd be getting there. IMHO of course... 😊

Best thread ever! 😂🤣😂

Happy birthday @Phil Starr 🎂🍻🎶 And good luck with this project!

Certainly is! 😁

I ran this rig for 5 years and it was fantastic! The 210HE alone was exceptional - tuned to 33kz, great with low B strings and super punchy.. Paired with the 115HE it was even better, and having the height of both cabs was great for on stage monitoring. Overall, it was a brilliant modular rig combined with the V4BH head. My band at the time loved it, but once the band split up, it was too much to have sitting around at home. Weight wise, the cabs were around 60 lbs each, but I didn't mind that at all. When/ if I get back to gigging regularly again, I'd be more than happy to have a similar Ampeg rig/cabs.

Good question! All very subjective (as has already been said) but, as a life-long David Bowie fan, I think I'm on safe ground in offering up the examples of his early recordings up to and including 'The Laughing Gnome' as being pretty dire, stinkers no less! Thereafter, his albums from 'Space Oddity' onwards, up to and including 'Let's Dance' are some of the finest, most stonkingly brilliant records ever made. Admittedly, I know that this is a very biased viewpoint... 😁

One of my favourite pieces of music by Bowie, both on the album and these live performances.. I've always loved David Live too; it's such an important step in his musical his transition from Ziggy - > Aladdin Sane - > Diamond Dogs - > Young Americans.

Wow! These videos are absolute gems - thanks for sharing.. 👍😊 I'd always wondered what happened to George Murray.. He, Alomar and Davis were just fantastic, so creative, so cool.. And what comes across in these interviews, is what kind, thoughtful people they were too, as was Emir Ksasan. Anyway, thanks again for sharing!

Thanks @ped 4 sets of your finest Basschat merch received safe and sound this morning! Soon to be fitted to my basses.. Cheers Nik

I enjoyed that - thanks for sharing! It's always humbling hearing someone of Kent's renown paying tribute to someone who he learnt from, in this case Bill Lawrence.. Absolute proper respect for that, and for both Kent and Bill's work over the years.

Wow, that really is a depressing read.. Imagine if software developers, architects or lawyers, for example, were expected to give away their work for a pittance, or for nothing..

Yes, it's a funny old thing isn't it as to why we bond with some basses and not others? Answers on a postcard to... 😁 I'm still really enjoying this bass Nigel, but have yet to gig with it (for obvious reasons) .. Maybe my views will change after some gigs.. But in a recording environment, I've got to say, it's been great so far!

This one now resides in Silverfoxnik Towers I'm pleased to say.. Loudest output of any bass I've had and has a really fab range of tones.. I've never particularly been a fan of the phrase 'cuts through the mix', preferring my basses to sit in the mix supporting the song as it were.. But if required, this bass with tone and vol pots fully open, literally light sabres through the mix! 😁