silverfoxnik

Ah, cool.. It was a great little venue back in the day! I played The Moonlight myself many times and also saw U2, Adam and The Ants, Monochrome Set there amongst many others... Eventually, the Decca Records site was taken over by English National Opera and I spent a lot of time there too as my then other half worked for them - in fact she still does all these years later.

Definitely - those were good days for sure! Do you mean West End Lane as in West Hampstead? If so, then that's yet more nostalgia for me. I used to spend a lot of my time there at The Railway Tavern and The Moonlight Club... I always thought Barson was a genius of a songwriter - 'My Girl's Mad At Me' being a case in point... As good as anything by Sting, Squeeze, Elvis Costello and other contemporary post-punk songwriters..

I remember them as the North London Invaders @ProfJames because they used to rehearse where my band did, at Halligan's Heap rehearsal studios in the Holloway Road, near Highbury and Islington tube station.. It was an absolute heap, just as the name suggested, but it had a great vibeo. Spandau used to rehearse there too when they were called Gentry.

Definitely.. It must have had far more impact than anything around at the time, including The Rolling Stones.. M

^^^ +100 to this... Last year, @Paul S very kindly lent me his Sprackenbacker bass for a recording project I'm doing that needed that sort of 'Ricky' sound. .. Despite vaguely seeing each other around on Basschat, at that point, we'd never met - still haven't in fact.. But Paul took a chance on loaning out the bass to me purely based on a number of messages and 1 phone call I think it was... I guess it was kind of a trust built on what I can only describe as 'the Basschat Guarantee'.. 😁 Anyway, spin forward 5 months later and that bass has now been used on loads of the tracks and has been of enormous benefit to the project! Then, Paul gets in touch with me to say he's thinking of moving the bass on and would I like first refusal?? Could I believe my luck? No I bleeding couldn't!! And of course, there was only ever going to be one answer to that question.. So now, I'm the very proud owner of said Sprackenbacker bass and I just wanted to share this little story with all you Basschatters out there about what an absolutely brilliant bloke Paul is ! As was said above so very well by @stewblack. Paul - thanks very much for your generosity and for being such a help - it really is very much appreciated by me and the guys involved in the recording project! ☺️👍🎶 Nik

Good choices!

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!