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Thanks Clarky, interesting 🙏

Thanks all, much appreciated, As per @uk_lefty post, yes considering what even bog standard US Precisions sell for used these days the price isn't too hefty really, I'm assuming the J-PUP is a modification?

And he had those keys and that bass to compete with, not always easy to weave subtle guitar part into that sonic maelstrom

He's thrown in the Cozy....

Anyone know much about this? https://thebassgallery.com/products/fender-tnb-thinline-telebass

There’s defo something about him in that clip 👍

I had to walk a similar distance one night in the 80's following a mate's band's gig in a West London club on account of Lemmy having signed the £10 note that was otherwise going to get me a taxi home

So, wasn't a session player either, this about the Grip recording From

Some accounts, and frankly therein lies the problem with being famous and dead

He's in his own World isn't he 👍

"It's not obvious is it....?" Beautiful moment. I love everything about the late 70's, and Ian Dury is probably very close to the top of the list, the first time I realised what being 'a tight band' meant was watching The Blockheads, and there was probably not better frontman for that band that Dury, an oddly Shakespearian character who was in so many ways years ahead of his time. Now he really was a huge loss not just to music but to the wider arts and to society generally ❤️

Really enjoying drilling down into RN. There's a lovely bit of sax in the chorus of Get a Grip that sounds just like Andy McKay in Roxy at the time.....

Damn, there was me thinking I was the first to notice...... https://m.facebook.com/prog/posts/2733705826668703/?comment_id=2734511009921518

Noticed it was a Yamaha after I posted it, don;t think I'd ever seen him without a Fender. Re that neck, I'd rebuild a bass around it if it was mine 👍

Interesting what we hear when we listen to music, just saw Stranglers described online as a rare example of a keyboard-led band, which isn't how I'd ever have thought of them until Sunday? I can hear prog in Heroes, Grip and Walk on By for sure

Indeed 👍

Glorious isn't it, grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. An early Sounds review said something along the lines "The bass sounds like there's a barracuda in the room with you'

Absolutely, absolutely!!! Funnily enough my Stranglers revisit started on Sunday when I found my old Rattus Norvegicus t-shirt in a box and wore it to a BBQ, from where a few people asked what it was , from where I played some of it and from where I was damned if it didn't sound quite a lot like, as you say, some Yes bass and keys 👍

Despite the considerable competition at the time, circa 1977 JJB was and remains the most iconic of bass players. And that's before you factor in those extraordinary lines and the totally unique tone.....

That bass into Hangin Around

So, following on from recent forays into 70's Prog with Yes and Genesis I delved back into that other major force in 70's prog The Stranglers.... And wow I'd forgotten just how bloody amazing they were, and how prog they were (certainly far more prog than the punk label they had in '77/78 would suggest). Elements of Squire bass tone and Emerson keyboards? And this is just one of the best tracks ever recorded (in my humble opinion of course)

I think my Snoop just Lioneled, smells like a Frank in here 😕

Too close to the truth 😀

Which reminds me of the less well known Mexican Beatles John, Paul, George, and Gringo 😀