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[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1449945623' post='2928299'] Look! A Dwarf with a violin. [/quote] No, I don't know that one either.

Some of the people being named I am wholly unfamiliar with. And as for Brian May, surely at best (or at worst) he would be 'the other bloke in Queen' because there is only the two of them.

[url="http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/04/26/stories-behind-the-songs-jerry-jemmott/"]http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/04/26/stories-behind-the-songs-jerry-jemmott/[/url]

Pastorius: 'I’m just an imitator man. I’m doing a very bad imitation of Jerry Jemmott…' I prefer Jemmott. http://youtu.be/4Sm9n-6hy6M

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1449937060' post='2928188'] Ten doors in a cul-de-sac..? You'd be lucky if any of them could name a single bass player. If you pointed out that McCartney was a bass player they'd know the name, but McCartney was a singer, a songwriter and a Beatle first, second and third and a bass player fourth. [/quote] ... and almost everyone would call his bass guitar, a guitar.

There are no people who are 'household names' as bassists.

I just now listened to the Jaco Pastorius album. I gave up half way through. It does not hold my interest and all those harmonics are extremely annoying. YMMV.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1449933858' post='2928138'] +1 Like many of the [i]names[/i] that come up on here I have to google them, even then they are often only known to a certain group of people, how many bassists are true household names? Jaco is not one of them, knock on all the doors in your street and check, I would put a genuine £50 of my own money on this being fact! Macca and Sting, Lemmy, Mark king if they are over 40 years old after that they are mostly only household names in households where 50 plus year old bassists live. [/quote] No one is a 'household name', by which I take you to mean commonly known, for being a bassist, not even McCartney. Insofar as McCartney is a 'household name' it's for being a Beatle, a singer, a musician, but most people don't even know what a bass is, and there is no reason why they should. Same goes for Sting. Pastorius is, in those terms, an obscurity.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1449926621' post='2928049'] When it comes down to it, I have never met a half decent bass player (regardless of genre) in the real world who isn’t a Jaco fan or at least appreciative of his contribution to music / modern bass playing. [/quote] You need to meet more people, including bassists.

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[quote name='blue' timestamp='1449883474' post='2927802'] ... I'm not a better player than anyone ...[/quote] We are all better than someone unless we are the worst one of all ... ... and if no one is better than anyone else then Jaco is not better than me.

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1449857907' post='2927610'] Can we get any love for Bobby Vega. After Macca is crap and Jaco's not all that One of the guys I love to hear solo on the bass and funy as ..to boot. P or J it's all great. Makes it look oh so easy. [/quote] Bobby Vega is fantastic and I bet he loves both McCartney and Pastorius too.

I too use a Zoom. It records perfectly well. Its weak spot, for me, is I have never found it easy to use.

http://youtu.be/qN9u3DlbnV4

[quote name='smurfitt' timestamp='1449846592' post='2927487'] ... I think they suggest a set up should be done each time you change the strings?? [/quote] That is what I think and what I do and it would be my advice to anyone. If you think and do different then so be it. It's ok. It's your bass.

Misunderstood how?

[quote name='smurfitt' timestamp='1449845159' post='2927465'] What?? I need all those tools just to change a set of strings? [/quote] No, you can just change the strings and soldier on if you prefer.

Klaus Voormann ... http://youtu.be/b6UAYGxiRwU

[quote name='AinsleyWalker' timestamp='1449844026' post='2927445'] Yeah, I've checked a few, but they seemed overly complicated needing tons of tools and such... But thanks I will check these out tonight [/quote] You do need some tools - an electronic tuner, appropriate screwdriver(s) and allen key(s), feeler gauge set, short ruler with sixteenths, 18" straight edge rule, and maybe a cheap business card. Also useful are string cutters, string winder, an electronic micrometer for less than a fiver, a small bottle of lemon oil for your rosewood fretboard, and an appropriate polishing cloth

[quote name='AinsleyWalker' timestamp='1449843488' post='2927433'] Thanks for the links! I have a stingray, I know what needs to be done in theory, just never applied it through fear of messing the thing up haha.. Will these videos apply to a ray? (Can't check videos at the moment!) [/quote] The principles are the same for any common fretted bass guitar - by which I mean to exclude 13-stringers and the like, etc. but even there the principles would be the same. If Carl Pedigo's video doesn't appeal, there are many more on Youtube.

http://youtu.be/k8qFpcsg-0A

http://youtu.be/D4MdWzN_100

[quote name='AinsleyWalker' timestamp='1449842990' post='2927423'] I guess through my lack of knowledge of how to actually do a set-up on my own I've never thought it was necessary to do that often! [/quote] [media]http://youtu.be/cIzV9462xeE[/media]

It's not only the gauge of strings that matters. The particular construction affects tension, compliance, and intonation. That's why strings of the same gauge can have very different tensions and or compliances.

[quote name='AinsleyWalker' timestamp='1449842439' post='2927410'] Wait, does this mean you do a full set-up every time you change your strings?! [/quote] I rarely change strings but if I do I would do a setup. I'd also redo or check the setup every now and then anyway without new strings. How would you know it didn't need doing if you hadn't checked it?