chris_b

That's the trolley I have. It was about £40 when I bought it, about 8 years ago. It's very well designed and solidly made. There's a bar that slots between the wheels so they cant point in different directions. I'd buy another, but I don't expect to have to.

Like the Fukushima nuclear power station fiasco. They needed a backup power supply in case their power was taken out by a tsunami, so they put the backup generators at ground level, exactly where the tsunami would get them!!!

+1 His lines are always melodic and musical. No matter how busy he gets, like Jamerson, he's always supporting the song.

I ran disaster recovery or business continuance for several large firms. We had to be restored to the last backup point and back up and running within 12 hours of any data centre failure. That service probably cost many times more than TB's budget. I wonder why the "servers suffered from water damage"? Why was the fire service spraying water into a computer room? CO2 is always the only fire retardant allowed in data centres!

So far I've found Talkbass to be a very helpful and civil place.

They have been reviewed on Talkbass, and apparently there a issues. Such as noisy pickups. I'd wait for future batches and see if the problems have been rectified. It's a shame. Roger Sadowsky's name was a byword for outstanding quality. Warwick don't seem too bothered about that. Which is a puzzle!

Doesn't sound like a very well designed data centre!

My cat's not bothered. I consider myself lucky if the drummer wants to chat to me.

IMO if anyone is wearing holes in their frets they're gripping too hard.

I wish I could have written several songs that was as popular.

Let the band decide that.

It seems these days, live music is not a form of entertainment that most kids (below 30) have an interest in. Our audiences are usually long term music fans. . . . . so probably 50 plus.

I'll set everything up at sound-check and have a quick double check during the first number. After that I rarely touch the controls on the bass. I might crank up the amp if the guitarist screws around with his volume and skews the balance of the band, but normally I don't change my sound once it's set. Differences in volume are controlled by me and how I play.

It was unexpected when we moved to our current house and found that Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell lived up the road at No 10. We occasionally get to chat a little about the weather and stuff. Nice guy, mad as a hatter, a ray of sunshine in a grey street.

I saw Nathan East at a bass clinic at GAK a few years ago. He said he ran through Get Lucky a few times and gave them 3 or 4 bass lines and left them to chose which one they wanted to use. So the finished song could be one take or a mash up of those versions. Whichever it is, it's just another fantastic Nathan East bass line.

How can we say if we don't know what bass and amp you are using. I used DR Hi Beams or Lo-Rider rounds on my 5 string basses for years and now have a set of D'Addario NYXL's on my Jazz bass. No muddiness there.

I had Pete Stevens explain the Wal controls to me, twice, and I still never got it!! when I got home I had to sit down with the bass and fiddle until I got the sound I wanted. I never knew what I'd done, but it sounded pretty good.

I did know a guy who bought a brand new TVR Griffith 500. It was his pride and joy and he'd only drive it if he wasn't going to park it. So definitely no car parks. After about 6 months he was out for a drive, hit some ice on a country road, flew through a hedge and rolled over in a ploughed field! He was OK, but (cruel, I know) oh how we laughed at work!!

And don't forget Tanglefoot. I bought that 45! Great record.

Nice tone and an excellent example of a good left hand technique. No stretching, 1FPF or any other shenanigans.

I always have to listen to this track when we're talking about great bass tone. Nathan East just kills with this tone. . . .

Sharay Reed has played plenty of non religious music. It's all out there.

You don't have 5 songs in the top 5 positions of the US top 10 unless you're the best there is. They were that good and then they went and got better! Good enough to change the way the whole recording industry operated. You can hate them and you can try to ignore them but you can't escape them. They influenced all your heroes so, like it or not, they have influenced you!! Poetic justice for all the haters.

What do you guys want from an18 year old bass player? Playing a musical instrument well is an end in itself as every" proper" musician will tell you. Playing it this well is something that many of her critics can't do. There are composers and musicians and sometimes there are guys who do both. It's very boorish to criticize one for not being able to do the other.