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Last Of The Steam Powered Trains - The Kinks

Oh well, the second half of the question remains, given how Bowie performed it with her. It's like a staged scene, Bowie playing one character, the bass line the other.

Anything she has to say about the genesis of I Would Be Your Slave, or what it was like performing it, would be interesting to hear

I very recently came across fretmeister's NBD thread for his superlight short scale Sandberg - 5.7 lbs!!

If 95% of my income was dependent on the continuing popularity of one song, I'd be denying it was an ode to kleenex, too. Anyway, here's a song about moisturiser:

No, I'm thinking of Teenage Kicks. Change "you" to "it" and the song becomes a rather better recounting of the adolescent male experience

Isn't the song about wristwork?

Would be interesting to hear what these SOs would say if asked for their 5 favourite songs with great basslines.

Getting closer to your point, I just listened to youtube demos and covers using the Ibanez semi that's just been listened on BC marketplace - yes, if you were wanting to produce something fresh and original and characterful, that would be very good start.

Who booked him?

"We went to a Sex Pistols gig and decided to form a band and the next day [guitarist] Bernard Sumner said ‘Go get a bass’." Borrowing £35 from his mother, he went to Mazel’s in Manchester in search of a bass, but there was one slight problem - he didn’t quite know what a bass guitar was or did. "The guy in the shop asked which one I wanted and that stumped me, I just kept saying ‘bass’ guitar. He must have thought, ‘God, I’ve got a right one here, another idiot from that Sex Pistols gig!’ When he grabbed the nearest one, I said it wouldn’t do because there was only four strings - and that’s when he told me, ‘No son, basses only have four’." The punk convert proudly rode the bus home with his new Gibson EB-0 replica wrapped in a black binliner and its headstock poking out. He "plinked and plonked" that night and then began rehearsing with Bernard the following day, with no idea of even how to tune the thing.

Relieved to see that Phil Collins' cover, also of 1982, was recorded well after the Jam's release

Seemingly, no one came across them back in the day. I've now found the B-side of their single on YouTube. 2 parts Keane to 1 part Geneva? The A-side is seemingly not there

Always wondered what was wrong with this cover, now I realise it's the gaping hole where the bassline should be

Never Here - Elastica

I'm even yet more smitten with Side 2 Track 2 PS the photo of Nigel used for the SBL video is so bad I didn't recognise him. Recognised the bass, obvs.....

The idiot would be the person wanting to make money who chose music as the best way of doing it.

What is it?

Bad Omen - Megadeth

I'm too sexagenarian for my shirt

I think the colours are too strong to be coming through a clear pickguard, there's no glimmer from the translucent material. Compare with this randomly chosen photo

I learnt that whole concert, note for note 🖤

Ooh, Richard Fairbrass, he's famous. And a bassist. edit — and, like Suzi Quatro, a winner of Rear Of The Year ('82 and '94)

Did anyone ever encounter this band? They seem to have released 1 single single, on Fierce Panda, in 2001: https://www.discogs.com/release/2523209-Phonotype-Stars-Another-Love-Song

I'd never heard of Jaco or Wooten or Flea or Geddy Lee until I joined a bass forum, the only bassists names I knew I learnt from the backs of LPs and cassette and CD inlays: Steve Harris, John Taylor, Simon Gallup, Cliff Williams, Craig Adams, Jason Newsted, Andy Rourke, Kim Deal etc. Who the bassists were in the Happy Mondays or the House of Love or the Jesus and Mary Chain or Oasis or Pulp or Elastica etc, I had no idea. And I definitely had no idea who was playing the tasty bass lines in Sister Sledge songs: turned out he was the biggest influence on my sense of what a bass should sound like.