chris_b

I've got a lot of Danny Thompson on Alexis Korner records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sreIXSY6Qk Fantastic player. I learnt electric bass copying DT's bass lines. Here's a more recent session with Eric Bibb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1faZB4QSc

Locking with the drummer on a good raunchy shuffle. It's the best. . . . Keb Mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1va98eMftQ0 ZZ Top https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2UTjoVVVb4 Elmore James https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo80b-QfK0 Eric Bibb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUCbrS-1Lo

I rarely do auditions, but when I turned up to one, about 10 years ago, I was the only one who knew the songs. The band, including the guy who wrote the songs didn't have a clue. The guy running the audition, from their record company, was very apologetic and looked very embarrassed.

Me too. . . . and yes. I'd turn up knowing the songs better than the guy on the original record.

I believe it was Phil Chen on bass. Fantastic player.

I'm obviously doing something wrong. I joined TB in 2007, and so far haven't been shouted at once.

DR make DDT strings especially for down tuning.

Easy. Find better and more committed players.

I played with a guitarist on the weekend who is very deaf. Apparently years ago he had one volume, extremely loud! He didn't protect his hearing then and still isn't today! He's still gigging but when working out songs gets the chords wrong, because he can't hear the records in enough detail! These days I'm meeting lots of older players who are prime examples of the need to protect your hearing before you have any issues.

That's not good customer service. It's like refusing to tell you what colour or how many strings a bass has.

Ha! You beat me to it.

I was 17. The gig was a local youth club, in Ruislip, and we were a blues band. The first song was Howlin Wolf's Spoonful.

I regularly saw PEN 15 on a Roller driving around Ealing in the 60's.

The only number plate I'd buy would be CHR 1 S, but that's already on a car and last went for about £250k!!

Pro's: sound good - last forever. Con's: flats loose some of the wider frequency range that rounds get with a Jazz - made my Sadowsky Jazz sound too much like my PJ - then again, made my Cort Jazz sound much better.

Great tone, great playing, great gear. Flats and foam mute help.

What strings are you using?

I just thought it was me. . . . I don't like phones either!! I didn't know there were so many of us.

I did my back again a few weeks ago and my last 3 gigs were done sitting on a bar stool. I'm not cancelling a gig unless I've died, and even then I'll try to find a way to do it.

She was just seventeen, you know what I mean. A satisfying lack of pretentious arty-farty nonsense in this one.

There are a lot of younger bass players in our local scene and most are very good, damn it!

Cal Me Al is about a lot of stuff, as Paul Simon songs usually are, but the title came from a politician whose stock phrase was Call Me Al.

Next big thing? I'd be interested if someone produced a Graphene Precision bass that weighed 2lbs.

He is the guy who single-handedly changed bass playing forever.