Steve Woodcock

The first fretless lines I copped were John Giblin's from the early Kate Bush albums.

+1 for the GWB1

I got my last one from the Bass Merchant.

[quote name='dood' post='39266' date='Jul 30 2007, 10:15 PM']Yeh, I gotta give the Norwich guys a thumbs up. They have always been spot on for me. Sometimes a bit manic and busy, but hey.. it's a shop![/quote] Haven't been in there for a few years now, was still Academy of Sound when I last visited. Is Greg still there?

Tony Levin: We recorded it in 1986, because . . . I remember the year because my daughter was born that year. And she was only two months old, and I brought her with me to the sessions. And being a typical American, I guess, I didn't know that they had what we call diapers. I didn't know you had those in England. (laughs) Of course you have. You call them nappies. And my suitcases and my bass cases were all full of nappies. And when it came to the second half of that song, "Don't Give Up," I was looking for a bassier sound, and one way I get that in the studio is to put dampening material, usually foam rubber, under the strings of the bass. Well, there wasn't any foam rubber, and I looked around and what there were plenty of were diapers, or nappies. So I put the diaper under the bass strings. It's the only time I've ever done it, and we got a wonderful, very bassy sound. And we named it the "Super Wonder Nappy Sound," which I think we looked for on other albums but never quite reproduced. [size=1]Source: Games Without Frontiers - The Peter Gabriel Story - BBC Radio[/size]

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='37648' date='Jul 27 2007, 08:20 AM']i had images of him drumming and Tony fretting for some reason.[/quote] You're correct, Levin was still fretting - I think I read in another interview that Marotta was kneeling in front of him so you can imagine how that must have looked...! Have you heard the story about the nappies and the track 'Don't Give Up'?

[quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='37275' date='Jul 26 2007, 12:19 PM']I just love that 'funk fingers' thing he did on Peter Gabriel' 'Big Time' ...possibly my favourite 4 seconds of bass playing [/quote] It was actually Jerry Marotta that played that part by drumming on Levin's bass strings - Levin invented the 'Funk Fingers' later in order to reproduce that part live... [url="http://www.tonylevin.com/pbtlff.htm"]More about Funk Fingers[/url]

[quote name='Toasted' post='6031' date='May 24 2007, 08:51 PM']The Radial JDI is fantastic value for money under £100.[/quote] Where are they available for under £100?

Anyone had any dealings with [url="http://craftedinjapan.co.uk/gallery_74489.html"]www.craftedinjapan.co.uk[/url]? Seem to be a lot cheaper than the other UK importers...

Tonight! If you are in to fusion-tinged technical/progressive metal then I urge you to come down and check out Cynic as these guys are legends.

[quote name='odub' post='21217' date='Jun 21 2007, 09:08 AM']Whereabouts in West London?[/quote] Acton.

Hi doctorbass, I'm a tutor based in West London and I specialise in teaching fingerstyle technique. Please feel free to contact me at bassist [at] fastmail [dot] fm Steve

Bump. One week tonight.