Shaggy

[quote name='Shaggy' timestamp='1410379513' post='2548880'] Eh? Never 'eard of 'em...... Ok, a perennial fave of mine, hopefully not too eclectic. A collaboration between two musicians much better known for being in a couple of high profile bands 1. America is waiting 2. Mea Culpa 3. Regiment 4. Help me somebody 5. The Jezabel spirit 6. Qu'ran 7. Moonlight in glory 8. The Carrier 9. A secret life 10. Come with us 11. Mountain of needles [/quote] Wrong of me to have put my oar into this thread, as I'm travelling and BC-less for the next 4 days Answer is "My life in the bush of ghosts" by Brian Eno and David Byrne, around 1979-ish Someone else take up the baton quick.....

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1410377767' post='2548837'] Phew! Congrats, Shaggy! Now bring us some more! Easy stuff, like The Beatles' "Sgt, Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". [/quote] Eh? Never 'eard of 'em...... Ok, a perennial fave of mine, hopefully not too eclectic. A collaboration between two musicians much better known for being in a couple of high profile bands 1. America is waiting 2. Mea Culpa 3. Regiment 4. Help me somebody 5. The Jezabel spirit 6. Qu'ran 7. Moonlight in glory 8. The Carrier 9. A secret life 10. Come with us 11. Mountain of needles

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1410374365' post='2548768'] Sadly not, but that was an ultra cool answer. I did think of Yes's "Into the Lens" myself, where they sing "I am a camera", if memory serves, but had no idea there was this Buggles link to it, or I would've used the same song list but with better reasons! Maybe it's time to drop this one now. I thought it was easy seeing as many people on BC are antiquities like me. Might it help if I said it's prog from 1980, and the bassist in that band is highly regarded on BC but not mentioned very often? [/quote] "Civilian", Gentle Giant. Excellent Edit: actually a concept album based on Dolly Parton. Not a lot of people know that........

[quote name='mickster' timestamp='1408809417' post='2533718'] Parden the daft question, but does the hollow body have a noticeable affect on the tone when played through an amp? I love the look of these hollowbodies, but have never played one, so just wondering whether they sound different to a solid-body with similar scale/pickups? Obviously, the pickups in these (ideally) aren't microphones, so they can only react to the moving string and can't 'hear' the hollowness of the body, same as on a regular bass, so just wondering how all this works... [/quote] With a semi-hollow the tone isn't as affected as one might think, mainly as most have a centre solid section of light-density wood to avoid the feedback problem you get when you add pickups to an acoustic instrument However the body definitely affects the way the strings move (and therefore the amplified tone) so the tone IS more "acoustic" - warmer, more harmonics, a slower attack and faster decay (I think.....). I'd say it's far more noticeable on a guitar than a bass, but for example; my EB-2D above sounds quite different to an EB-3, which would essentially have exactly the same hardware, pickups and neck, but a solid body Edit - the other bonus is they're generally very light weight....

......and a couple of long-scalers I sadly don't own any more; '85 Gordon Smith Galaxy and late '80's Steve Smith Custom "EB-2"

Some cracking semi-hollow basses here! Always been fond of both bass and guitar semi's; one of the very few basses I still GAS for would be a nice old Ric 4005 - technically fully hollow bodied My current S-H squeezes - a brace of Gibson EB-2's ( '69 EB-2DC and '58 EB-2) and English-made '67 Vox Wyman bass..........

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-Ovation-MAGNUM-II-Bass-On-Board-EQ-The-Equalizer-Unique-Model-2-Vintage-/201147858329?pt=Guitar&hash=item2ed558bd99 Decent price for one of these (I've got the passive Magnum 1) - goddam shame it's in the US..... Lovely slab of Honduras mahogany for the body too

[quote name='Russ' timestamp='1408021695' post='2526334'] I remember seeing a Wal for £200 back in the mid-90s. I'd have had it if I'd had £200 at the time! [/quote] Oh Jeez........that one really hurts........ I've had a few bargs - - '60's or early '70's Guild Starfire bass hard case in excellent nick for £20 - see http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1969-GUILD-USA-STARFIRE-BASS-CASE-fits-also-GIBSON-EB-2-SEMI-BASS-/121410296735?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c449e1b9f - Mint Peavey Classic 30 guitar combo (all-valve / US-made) for £90 - Squier MB1 bass in decent nick for £50 - early '60's Broadway semi-acoustic guitar with twin Fenton Weil pickups for £30 (punk-era graffiti all over it, but came up lovely with a nitro re-fin and a Bigbsy fitted)

Excellent - liking that a lot, though agree with Bassassin that a pearl pickguard might work better, and def needs a decal

What I mainly remember about Peter Noone is he was a regular on the Basil Brush show in the '70's - I hope the poor guy's got over that.....

[quote name='Guitar-restaurant' timestamp='1407082563' post='2517131'] my late 70's gibson RD and ampeg SVT VR head wwith 810AV cab: [/quote] Now that's a proper man's bass and rig...... Ace

Pete bought a couple of JB pickguards off me; prompt payer and highly entertaining communications - thanks mate!

Matt bought a bridge off me; instant payment, great comms, smooth deal - cheers fella!!!

[quote name='tonyxtiger' timestamp='1407175539' post='2518087'] I also think flea is awful but I'm ready for lots of people to correct me on that one. [/quote] Nope, totally with you there! [quote name='Number6' timestamp='1407182621' post='2518183'] What about some Hawkwind or Marillion? (Spoken in the voice of Neal from the Young Ones) [/quote] So Lemmy's a dame? That explains a great deal....... NB: am I the only one to have never heard of the Pixies?