Cosmo Valdemar

But they do all have waffer-theen necks.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1466339843' post='3075038'] Good practice not to be a slave to playing open strings as that wont transpose very well. If you play fretted, key shifts are just another position on the neck around the same shape. For this song, most will play in the original key but if you cover a lot of music then other keys come into play. You've heard the one about how to shut up a gtr..?? give him a horn key... Same would apply to bass.. [/quote] Fair enough. I've never really thought about it like that. I've always played WGFA in the original key of A and as per the version above use lots of open strings - there are a few pull offs onto open strings which give the line a certain swagger. I imagine the line would stiffen up if played elsewhere on the neck.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1466460322' post='3076067'] Kings X, they're playing a small bar here in Milwaukee next Tuesday night. Blue [/quote] That will be awesome! If you have the Live in London set from a few years ago, I'm somewhere in the audience.

Alice Cooper and The Darkness at the O2 tomorrow. Best bit - it was free!

And Ian Paice has just had a stroke! What's going on?!

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1465917462' post='3072081'] Just sounded like a P bass to me. [/quote] Exactly. Had he been playing with the tone up we would have a better idea.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1465846084' post='3071574'] Oh.. and as is good practice, IMO.. avoid open strings as much as poss [/quote] Why is this good practice? Serious question.

I am now the happy owner of fretmeister's EHX Micro Pog. To quote eBay: "A smooth transaction, great comms throughout. Top seller +++++". Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to pretend I'm playing an 8 string.

It's a bit old-hat - the first song in particular is very 2000 - but it's very slick and accomplished for ones so young. Fair play to 'em. Not sure if it's intentional or not but I'm sensing a strong Roadrunner Records/NYHC vibe as well.

Utter, utter majesty. How Yes could even consider carrying on without Jon is beyond me.

So we became The Originals, and we had to change our name as there was another group in the east end called The Originals and we had to rename ourselves The New Originals. Then The Originals changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought well, we could go back to The Originals but what's the point?

[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1465398413' post='3067882'] Stephen Amazing (UPP) [/quote] +1

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1465322570' post='3067167'] It looks like one but does it sound like one? (I know it's miming on Top of the Pops and it may well not be what was used in the studio but ... hey ... nonetheless ... does it sound like a 66 Slab P?) [/quote] Assuming it is a Slab on the recording, the fabled Slab sound seems to be in the treblier end of the tone - thumb-plucking at the neck with (presumably) the tone turned down is always going to result in a more trad sound.

John Entwistle Geddy Lee Chris Squire Geezer Butler John Deacon Honourable mentions: JPJ, Rex Brown, Cliff Burton, Jim Lea, John Wetton, Macca, Colin Hodgkinson, Mark Bedford, Dave Hope, Roger Glover, Martin Turner, Jack Casady, Lemmy, Doug Pinnick, Eddie Jackson, Jack Bruce, Andy Fraser, Felix Pappalardi.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1465248292' post='3066560'] Does this look like a 66 Slab Precision? http://youtu.be/kM-y1a1oeCo [/quote] Yes!

I think the key to JE's tone in the Shepperton clip is his Alembic running in stereo. You'll never quite get that sound without running each pickup independently . I used to own a Fernandes Alembic copy and it nailed that JE tone. Why did I sell it? Idiocy, probably.

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1465051748' post='3064975'] Possibly so. They were out of stock when I placed an order a couple of hours ago. [/quote] Give me £20 and you can have mine. 😉

Mine arrived today. I'm a bit worried I've got a duff one as the drive knob does very little - it seems to act as a volume control until the very last turn of the knob when a heavy (and quite unpleasant) farty overdrive kicks in. Surely this isn't normal?