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[quote name='seashell' timestamp='1407969652' post='2525981'] ....I'd just like to mention 'In a Broken Dream' by Python Lee Jackson. So good it hurts.... [/quote] I'm glad you like it, but it was only intended as a demo to get the band a record deal. Which it did. Rod Stewarts huge success with Maggie May caused it to be dusted off and released. After it became a hit there was no chance the actual recording would be released. It had been consigned to the vaults after PLJ split up for the final time, several years before.

Rod's had 3 lives. I saw him with Long John Baldry and with the Jeff Beck Group. My favourite part of his first period. I also saw the Faces several times, when our band supported them (we had the same management). Good stuff. Faces audiences were something else. 3rd period, from Atlantic Crossing onwards. My least favourite period of the 3. Rod was one of the blokes until Britt came along. All these people are difficult to varying degrees. It comes with the world they inhabit, but you can't argue, he's a very talented guy.

Thanks Mark. Any chance of getting Freddie Washington over?

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1407833089' post='2524350'] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]1. Hamster - 2. Silverfoxnik - BC Rich Eagle, Schecter Diamond P5, Levinson Blade B15, amp & cab tbc 3. Bluejay - with no fewer than two cameras, and possibly her so far pretty successful - despite being lefty - Warwick Corvette 5 Pro 4. Happy Jack - who knows what I will bring this year?[/size][/font][/color] [/quote] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3]1. Hamster - 2. Silverfoxnik - BC Rich Eagle, Schecter Diamond P5, Levinson Blade B15, amp & cab tbc 3. Bluejay - with no fewer than two cameras, and possibly her so far pretty successful - despite being lefty - Warwick Corvette 5 Pro 4. Happy Jack - who knows what I will bring this year? 5. chris_b[/size][/font][/color]

Get another number 1 bass. A Jazz or a Lakland.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1407411204' post='2520184'] No, because I have a shape of what the song is doing so all I need to do is think where I am going and I can do that in an instant, so everything I play is geared to what is happening 'now' and I react to it as I hear it. I might know the drummer is winding up to a big '4' and no matter he does, I'll likely get it. This is why you can be tight in a band in an instant ... I don't play parts as such, but we may well have determined the direction of the song so there is likely a precedent, so I am listening to what is happening, not so much what I expect to happen. Of course, they will be tried and tested paths but I don't enjoy an oblivious path ..and therefore a part, if I don't think it is working. It helps to have default, of course, but if no one else is playing it...or CAN play it, then it has little use... I tend to 'get' a song in the 1st bar and that determines the 'groove' for that particular version... If it works really well, I expect we will copy it next time.. Dep work works like this, IMO... you can't say I WILL play it like this when you don't know what the others guys references are, so you just know the notes and their place and you work to make it fit. If the song is busked... I'll just ask what key we play this in... check on the bridge or changes, and we are off... Less than 10 seconds and we should be sorted...if everyone knows what they are doing. [/quote] +1

I don't understand hanging basses on the wall. They're not ornaments to me. I keep all my basses in their cases and my main gigging bass doesn't come out at home.

A P bass comparison.... care of Ed Friedland Isolated bass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMNTN-9SAUQ Full mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoJUz1oajXo The interesting point is how similar they all sound and how there is even less to separate them in the full mix.

The Bass Club Chicago video is pretty useless. The mike should be away from the Berg (and maybe the other two) as it's not picking up the tweeter where its positioned. They're missing a large part of the sound, Why move on "probably the best cab I have" for a 5lb weight difference? I've a very bad back, even so, 5 lbs wouldn't be the deciding factor if I was buying a cab. At these weights my decision would still be 100% based on tone. I've played AE112 cabs for 6 years and the only thing that made me change was the arrival of the CN range. I used one AE112 with the acoustic duo. All other gigs I used two. The difference in a band is a big improvement over using just one. On very loud gigs I used 3 with my 2 ohm amp. A huge sound. I have a great sounding Barefaced BB2 and while the differences are small, the Bergs are still getting all my playing time.

[quote name='Bassman Sam' timestamp='1407105729' post='2517462'] ....put your stamp on it.... [/quote] +1 I have no problem playing numbers and bass lines I don't like. Jack Bruce jokingly says he's there to make the rest of the band sound good. I agree with that and it's also my job to make any number we play sound good. As long as the rest of the band is good, the audience likes what we are doing and the gig is going well, I can just stand back and enjoy my tone and locking with the drummer. And even if none of those are true, i'm getting paid to put on a good show. I know I'm professional enough to ensure that no one else will know what my opinion of the material is.

This thread just seems to be another list of numbers people don't like. IMO the only "worst" bass lines are the ones that are badly played.

Spoonful, Howlin Wolf. The greatness of it totally went over the heads of our Ruislip youth club audience. At the end the singer announced the last number just as the main lights went on. The caretaker who was walking down the room shouted, "Don't bother mate, they've all gone home!" Ah, showbiz.

Of course, but my point was about where they ended up not where they started. All 3 took bass playing so far beyond the norms of the techniques of the day that they virtually started their own rule books.

The rules are there to be adapted. Lazy playing usually doesn't work, but if you can make something easier to play or sound better then keep it in. The "rule book" works for most players but every so often someone comes along like Larry Graham, James Jamerson and Jaco Pastorius. Those guys ripped it up and started again.

Looks pretty normal playing to me. Very light touch and "floating anchor". You've got to be anchored somewhere, thumb, wrist, forearm, shoulder, wherever, but IMO anchoring closer to the area of playing improves accuracy. I've yet to see any player I'm interested in using full a "floating thumb" style. If you think this is tough just put in more hours practising. It'll come. For me the left hand leads and the right hand just follows. I'd be more interested in seeing how Guy gets his left hand around the notes.

A change is as good as a rest.... etc I'd start to learn another instrument. Piano and singing would be my choice. Get a different slant on your playing, start lessons. I'd also get back into gigging. Gives the whole thing a point, in my opinion.

Juan Nelson used to play MTD basses, but I've recently seen pictures of him with a Fender.

[quote] ....several sets of Lakland flats....[/quote] I thought flats were supposed to last a lot of years per set! How long did yours last?

The best workhorse I can suggest is to stay passive with the Squire, disconnect the J and add an Aguilar AG 4P-60 pickup. I'd then try a set of flats.

Good choice. What amp are you going to use with it?

If the song is good enough, the words are not gender specific and you can reach the high notes, then what does that matter?

I've been playing a CN212 for a year now and it's the best cab I've used. If I lost it I'd replace it with another in a heart beat. It pairs up perfectly with my Aguilar TH500 and Thunderfunk amps. I'm in the market for a CN112 to add to it for the stupid loud gigs but on its own the CN212 is full, deep, clear, loud and doesn't boom or put any "mud" into the sound.

Marry a woman with small hands.

McCartney and the rest of the band were match fit. They'd just put in hundreds of hours playing all night Rock and Roll gigs in Hambourg. PM's bass on I Saw Her Standing There is just a RnR piano left hand riff. Listen to Jerry Lee Lewis for a dozen of them. They're easy once you get the pattern in your head and build up your stamina and speed. Spread your fingers, open your hand, relax, start slowly, get faster and focus on a nice and easy flow/groove. IMO contains the best line in a song, ever: She was just 17, You know what I mean. Consigned the "Moon in June" stuff to the history books in just 2 lines. Sheer poetry. Edit: To the OP, you're not crap. You've just been asked to play something outside your comfort zone. We all get asked to do that. Playing music is about challenges. They are there to beat and they make you stronger.

Check out Travis Carlton on the Xotic web site demoing the Robotalk. http://www.theguitarsanctuary.com/Xotic-Robotalk-2-Dual-Channel-Envelope-Filter-p/xoticrobotalk2.htm