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[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1027177' date='Nov 17 2010, 06:53 PM']Pearloid pickguards shouldn't be allowed, they are foul.[/quote] -1

[quote name='silddx' post='1027208' date='Nov 17 2010, 07:20 PM']There's no Olympic White so I can't play.[/quote] +1

[quote name='The Bass Doc' post='1027060' date='Nov 17 2010, 04:51 PM']Always thought funk was a 'feel' thing as opposed to any particular technique or sound employed. Anyone agree that Andy Fraser could be considered a funk player (on an EB3 ffs!)?[/quote] I'd agree Andy Fraser was funky but I'd probably use 'funk' to refer to a particular genre and 'funky' to refer to a particular feel - so, on that account, you can be funky without playing funk.

[quote name='Fat Rich' post='1026786' date='Nov 17 2010, 12:23 PM']I thought James Jamerson invented funk on a P bass? Maybe I dreamt it.....[/quote] I dreamed that too ... and the P bass was called the Funk Machine and the band were called the Funk Brothers ... must have been a dream.

I prefer a higher action. It gives a better tone in my experience.

So, it's not the first beat of the bar that you are looking for?

Boss TU2 - it's a tuner. Artec SE-SWB - it's a switch box for my fretted and fretless. K&K Pure - it's preamp for my EUB. Radial Bassbone - it's a switch box (for bass guitars or EUB) and second preamp for my EUB. So I don't think of those as pedals really, even though I sometimes tread on them. Which only leaves: Electro-Harmonix Black Finger. Tech 21 VT Bass.

I've been doing about 25 to 30 gigs a year recently but only 11 this year.

[quote name='sk8' post='1012555' date='Nov 4 2010, 08:46 PM']with songs and a band i don't know without even a practice! Should be a laugh [/quote] A couple of weeks ago I went to a pub to see a band. I used to be in a different band with the guitarist. 'Hello', I said. 'Have you brought a bass,' he said, 'our bassist hasn't turned up.' Then he drove me home to collect my gear and we played two sets, including two songs I'd actually played before, and I got my £50. They got booked back there for January 30th.

[quote name='GT40Graham' post='1019769' date='Nov 11 2010, 10:03 AM']I like the bass line on Old Brown Shoe but it was played by Harrison on a Fender Bass VI I do believe and not McCartney.[/quote] For what it's worth, Ian MacDonald's book [i]Revolution in the Head[/i] claims it's McCartney on bass but with Harrison tracking the same line on guitar. But who knows? Harrison claims it was him on bass in an interview in Creem magazine in 87/88 but seems to agree to the double tracking with him playing both.

Here it is: [url="http://entertainment.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7022&hdnJumpToLot=1&Lot_No=46029&x=31&y=6"]http://entertainment.ha.com/common/view_it...mp;x=31&y=6[/url]. Scroll down. Bill Black didn't actually play with the Bill Black Combo for the last couple of years of his life due to ill health - brain tumour, I think. So the Jazz bass could well not be his.

[quote name='99ster' post='1019591' date='Nov 11 2010, 01:22 AM']And the [url="http://"%20<a%20href="http://entertainment.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=7022&Lot_No=46029""%20target="_blank">http://entertainment.ha.com/common/view_it..._No=46029"</a>"]black & white photo here[/url] actually shows a stack-knob Jazz bass...[/quote] Bad link.

And it says 'Transparent orange-brown triple hand-lacquered and polished varnish finish' but it definitely looked black to me.

[quote name='Telebass' post='1019385' date='Nov 10 2010, 09:36 PM']Although Joe Osborne does it all wrong for me, in terms of instrument/strings/technique (Jazz Bass/flats/pick), he's probably the guy I'd name as top personal influence.[/quote] I always feel he's one of those session guys who manages to be in some way both simple and yet very creative at the same time.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1018902' date='Nov 10 2010, 03:46 PM']That is a good cd but look for a Wynton Kelly cd called Blues On Purpose. It was recorded around the same time as the Smokin' lp and is really strong. PC does a 10 chorus solo (12-bar blues) that just lifts and lifts and has the audience really whippedu up and he takes it further that any other solo I have heard him play (and I have heard hundreds and hundreds)[/quote] Looking for it now. Your posts often seem to cost me money Bilbo. Worth it though.

Clarky sold me some strings, perfect service as always.

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1017567' date='Nov 9 2010, 02:17 PM']mmmm [/quote] Nice.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1018936' date='Nov 10 2010, 04:17 PM']Never trust a man in a suit :-)[/quote] That's me done then.

Just been listening to Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery [i]Smokin' at the Half Note[/i]. Wes Montgomery – guitar Wynton Kelly – piano Paul Chambers – bass Jimmy Cobb – drums

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1018472' date='Nov 10 2010, 10:17 AM'] If my drummer even attempted to do a solo i would just throw my bass at him, in bar one.[/quote] We don't allow it any more. We only ever allowed so that we got a cigarette break.

[quote name='dave_bass5' post='1018463' date='Nov 10 2010, 10:12 AM']Funny that, I also slip a bit of Billie in when i get bored. Normally if a guitar solo goes on for too long (when will they learn), its normally his cue to finish up. The other one is groove is in the heart.[/quote] Funny that, because I've also used Billie Jean to cue the drummer to end that solo now.

[quote name='Bilbo' post='1018408' date='Nov 10 2010, 09:35 AM']... I think bass tapping is almost universally the worst sound you can get out of a bass without driving over it....[/quote] Bilbo, do you have an mp3 of that? I'd like to hear it.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1018244' date='Nov 9 2010, 11:07 PM']And hands up how many of you tried two-handed tapping before you tried reading music? I know I did![/quote] I have never tried one-handed let alone two-handed tapping. The very thought makes me feel faint.

Probably whoever I'm listening to at the time but I don't consciously think of other bass players when I'm working out a new line. I tend to think in terms of chords, scales, and passing notes, and whether it sounds right/good with what the rest of the band are doing - especially the vocal melody and the drums. I'm sure I'm influenced by the bassists I was hearing as a teenager in the 1960s. In fact I came off stage at the end of a gig a couple of years ago and a bassist I vaguely knew who was in the audience but who had never heard me play before came up to me and said 'I'm hearing Paul McCartney, Jack Bruce, and Jack Casady'. I've got a standing bet on with a guitarist that, at every gig, I can somewhere slip in the main bass phrase from Green Onions or from Billie Jean whatever songs we play.

Not a bad price for its heritage. Here's McCartney playing Bill Black's double bass: