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[quote name='Beedster' post='715759' date='Jan 17 2010, 04:19 PM']PS, FWIW, if that neck's gone or not to your liking, I'd get a neck made rather than defret the original. Chris[/quote] Yeah, I agree. If it's rosewood, roundwound strings will chew it very quickly.

Hurray! I absolutely [b]LOVE [/b]the Shadows!

Reverb is the easiest way to make ANYTHING totally unlistenable. I hate it.

[quote name='lowdown' post='707465' date='Jan 10 2010, 10:59 AM']Same sort of sound and playing style as of Bob Glaub. He did the album with Hot Stuff and Bad Girls..so maybe him, just a guess though. Its really hard to track down the Musician credits on a lot of the 70's stuff. Garry[/quote] Interesting, I thought it might be Glaub but wasn't sure - still not certain. Precious little from Google...

[quote name='Chris2112' post='707359' date='Jan 10 2010, 07:36 AM']Deserves a mention: Mr [b]Kai Eckhardt[/b] - Kai is a fantastic player, yet never seems to get the mentions he deserves among the other "greats" of Fusion bass playing like Jonas Hellborg, Stuart Hamm, Jaco, Stanley, etc etc. Kai has quietly worked away on many projects over the years which have come to typically little acclaim between bassists circles, and yet he is an immensely talented player.[/quote] You're right, he is [i]very[/i] good (in that post-Jaco bracket). Lovely melodic lines. I didn't know about him.

[color="#FF0000"][size=6]Beware of Eric Clapton and Paul Weller disease.[/size][/color]

Anyone know? Great bass line.

[quote name='J3ster' post='703889' date='Jan 7 2010, 10:25 AM']It was never meant to be like that and I'm not so sure it is. After all I am certainly not the biggest Duran fan to walk the earth.. Nor do I hate Victor the patience and time put in to learning the technique's he has must be immence and for that he deserves credit- just not so much. I think Overated and Underated comes from public perception and acknowledgement. I played with a Rhythum guitarist for a while called Ray Tovey - He constantly amazed me and I have NEVER EVER played with a Better drummer than Peter Gofffin who I do not think even plays anymore.. But no-one else will have heard of them some of the very best musicians are undiscovered. It was just to get objective views on those perceptions and maybe also find some Bassists I had missed out on myself.[/quote] But everyone's submitting subjective views. I don't think there are any objective perceptions. You could start a thread on not-so-well-known bassists that are doing something interesting in their field and deserve more attention - but my guess is you'll just get people going on about Squarepusher and not much else! I don't get it on bass forums when people list incredibly well known and popular players (in incredibly well known bands) as 'underated', ie John Taylor , Brian Wilson, Mick Karn ...or even Paul McCartney!

This is just another one of those threads where people list their favourite music and slag off the music they don't like. I mean...y'know, I can't stand The Who and their music but I wouldn't call Entwistle an 'overated' bassist... because he plays [i]Who music[/i] rather well.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='700048' date='Jan 3 2010, 10:16 PM']whats weird about that..if anywould said that i would think they meant what bass is best for Worship,Gospel, etc[/quote] Because as a genre it's not sufficently different or distinguished enough from the all the other types of music that use exactly the same western-standard pop music instrumentation, ie, drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and vocals/choirs. As far as I can tell, it's only indentifable feature is it's lyrical and communal message and I don't see how your type of bass guitar can influence or effect that much. I find the question 'weird' for the other genres too - as people play a huge variety of different models whatever area of music they're in. Instruments have cultural roles and the bass guitar is no different than any other instrument in this respect. Ironically if the question ran "what bass do I need for Bulgarian folk music" it might be more valid/stimulating.

Didn't know you made amps, Paul. Looks very impressive.

[quote name='maxrossell' post='699354' date='Jan 3 2010, 11:46 AM']Re-amping seems to be one of those things that's gone by the board along with lots of other old studio techniques people used to swear by. Like taking the time to mic things properly.[/quote] Never heard of 're-amping' before...

I really wish my little Roland Cube 30 had a decent recording output as I really like the sound of the amp - but the output is FAR too noisy to use. Shame.

For a moment there I thought this was going to be another one of those weird "which bass is best for Worship Music" threads...

[quote name='crez5150' post='699274' date='Jan 3 2010, 09:40 AM']I use both.... Especially for recording slap bass[/quote] You mean in combination?

Just wondering how you guys do it? I've found mic-ing up the cab sounds 'rounder' but unfortunately a bit noisier (hiss & hum) but it's a big faff to do at home - and you have to have a good mic. DI-ing is easier (you just plug it in) but on close listening it can sound dry, quacky, sterile and thin in the mids. Any thoughts?

[quote name='BigRedX' post='660296' date='Nov 20 2009, 04:25 PM']Gus G1 [/quote] Holy Moses, that is extraordinarily beautiful.

Congratulations! How does that pickup sound?

[quote name='bassatnight' post='692069' date='Dec 23 2009, 08:56 AM']Sylvian ripped the others off big time taking credit (and the cash) for songs that were written by the others and treated them in the end like session players, I would say Karns bass is the most memorable thing about the group Japan there's no way Sylvian came up with those bass lines which were the bones of all of there songs. Still the book reveals all.[/quote] It's a familiar debate:where does composition and arrangement meet/end? Obviously the lines are very blurred in a band like Japan where the arrangements deviate significantly from the basic chords/lyrics framework. I remember the same issue regarding Paul Simon and his south Africans musicians on the Graceland album. He would present the frame work and they would work their magic on it. I have Japan's Tin Drum album and admire it in a holistic way rather than just the bass playing (the electronic treatments and synths and the drums and very interesting too).

[quote name='BigRedX' post='691282' date='Dec 22 2009, 09:34 AM']Have you heard David Sylvian's latest album "Manafon"? It's not exactly easy listening.[/quote] No sir, I have not. I was thinking about giving the king of the navel-gazers a wide berth for the foreseeable.

[quote name='bassatnight' post='691227' date='Dec 22 2009, 08:12 AM']Mick is a very approachable guy and I have had a few letters off him and E-mails answering specific questions for a book I was putting together in 2004 - its a real shame that he and the other guy's are so ignored and thus skint.[/quote] If you're referring to Sylvian - he's not skint! He's made a fortune by gazing wistfully away from the soft-focus camera and croaking about his 'alone -ness', (the poor fragile soul that he is).

[quote name='fatback' post='690546' date='Dec 21 2009, 12:20 PM']And how Joan Armatrading said when he played on her album that he was the only fretless player she'd worked with yet who could play in tune.[/quote] Oh c'mon now. Have a think about where this 'quote' comes from. Joan Armatrading agreed to publicly support the Tories in the mid 80's and later with the John Major government, so she must have been totally off her feckin rocker... and her music smelled like festering vegetables by that stage, anyway. I doubt whether the quality of Karn's intonation would have made any difference at all!