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Show me where else the same is true - certainly not in banking fraud, tax avoidance etc - and also tell me who would enforce it?

There will no doubt be a 'second wave' of accusations, cancellations, and people further capitalising on this. There'll already be hundreds if not thousands of people around the web digging for any evidence, no matter how tenuous, that one of the music influencers accusing this guy are guilty of the same thing. The desperate need to feed the machine to get attention drives fakery and plagiarism everywhere because it requires levels of creativity beyond nearly all normal people, so people become magpies, relying on the creativity of multiple other people to maintain status - I used to be an 'ideas man' in a science business, I'd open my mouth at a client meeting and two hours later there'd be a good chance that someone at the meeting had posted a 'Thought Leadership' piece on Linkedin along the lines 'So, I was talking to a guy this morning and it got me thinking.......' when it didn't 'get them thinking', they literally took my ideas word for word and presented them as their own. It happens in the arts, in science, in literature, in product design and manufacture, everywhere, it's rife and is being fuelled by what is to all intents the wild and lawless frontier of the internet about to be made infinitely worse by the indiscriminate use of AI by the type of muppets who would do that sort of thing........

There's a real sense that cancel culture has evolved into capitalise culture

There's truth in @BabyBlueSound point re opening people's eyes to the fact that fakery is wrong, but the almost hysterical and fever-pitched responses from what is starting to feel like a baying mob are unedifying and I suspect in many cases are at least a little hypocritical. OK, the guy's a con artist, he's not the first in music and he won't be the last. Jeez imagine if the internet had been around when these guys were doing their thing......

Mind if I use that in the promo text, love it 👍

Thanks @Dad3353 I'll listen 🙏

I spent a few hours in the mid-80s chatting to Pete in a Soho club, he was certainly talkative and I felt a little troubled, but he was a friendly and open bloke. If I'd spent the last 20 years being recognised by every bloke in every bar, I'd have been far less civil

I don't really know their stuff well enough to know whether they're in the same league, but I suspect the latter explains the former if you get my drift.......?

Hell yes

I love that sellers shop, he has some very cool and interesting instruments 👍

I was quite surprised when I started looking more closely at PUP positions that there's more variation, for example among Fender Precisions, than I'd always believed/assumed to be the case. I suspect there's as much rhetoric as science in this space?

I’m playing around with this project at present

There is nothing quite like his late 60's/early 70's tone, for me it started to go away a little when he moved towards more specialised instruments - to my mind in the mid-late 60's he was teasing better tones of out his Precisions than most players were 10 years later getting out of their Alembics - and his skill and creativity on what many consider quite a crude instrument puts him and Jamerson in the same camp; genius creative technicians, in short virtuosos. Yep, there were other good players, Macca was solid and had some lovely lyrical moments, Jaco was the Paganini of bass but a very acquired taste musically, and then...... well who else was there in the late 60's/early 70's? OK, loads of highly competent touring and session players, but Entwistle was one of a very small band of bass players who turned bass into a virtuoso instrument.

Both very true 👍

That’s the truth of it. Some very talented people mime, let’s not be too surprised that the less talented do the same

Yep, we tend to see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear

There's probably a whole lotta wrong in the branding/marketing (it was 1971), but shit they could play, and play a whole lot better than a whole lot of all-male bands that had far more success 👍

This is sublime

I love my current gig but man, I wanna do a Beck tribute act, I just love the basslines and the general madness of it all 👍

You get good at doing what you do a lot of, you mime a lot you get bloody good at it 😕

Perhaps the ratings are technically correct but in terms of volume and heft they certainly disappoint when compared to units rated at similar levels

His instructional video is equally rather sad, I watched it the whole way through once and could never do it again. Takes nothing away from what he contributed to music and to the bass in particular, but as you say, a very long way from the glory days......