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[quote name='jackers' timestamp='1327932703' post='1518962'] but don't be too disheartened, because when fender gets it right, the USA basses are brilliant. [/quote] For the money USA Fenders cost they should be getting it right [u][b]every single f***ing time[/b][/u].

[quote name='jonannlou' timestamp='1327877942' post='1518293'] The 18v elecs are a dream [/quote] Are you sure it's an 18v circuit? From what I remember of my old Jaydee (which had a neck so unstable I spent 95% of the time I owned it adjusting the f***ing thing before I finally gave up on it) one of the two batteries was purely for powering the LED on the pickup selector.

That really was a superb display of fretless bass cliches to be avoided at all costs.

I'd also stop using the Gripmaster thing if I were you as all that's likely to do is increase the risk of tendonitis - no use whatsoever from a playing perspective. You don't need an iron grip to play a bass guitar.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1327777814' post='1516711'] I'm going to have to go dig out my copy of No Roses now you've mentioned it, I haven't listened to it for years. [/quote] I first heard a track from "No Roses" on a Folk sampler album (on 8 track cartridge!!) called "Clogs" when I was really young & it completely blew me away as I'd never heard anything like it before. I found the lyrics and the instrumentation completely captivating & listened to it over & over again - the track was "The Murder of Maria Marten" & I still love it to this day. When I was in my first band with friends in high school I suggested we cover it & the rest of them thought I was insane as they were all listening to stuff like The Clash & The Damned. Their lack of enthusiasm (& also not knowing anybody who played a Hurdy Gurdy) meant I never got to realise my dream of performing it.

This is good news. I'm sure Ashley knows what he's doing & wouldn't do this unless he was sure it would be a bloody good band & a worthy successor to all his other Albion projects. One of the new line-up is Ashley's son so his DNA will be present even if he isn't. I was listening to some old Albion Country Band vinyl only the other night - "No Roses". Superb Stuff.

[quote name='Nibody' timestamp='1327738466' post='1515971'] [sub]But Judas Priest have an all out Gibson (V, Paul, Thunderbird) thing going on.....[/sub] [/quote] No they don't - KK & Glenn have both used Hamers pretty much exclusively for years & Ian Hill always played a Jazz until he started using Spectors. He now has his own Spector signature model. The only Gibson I've ever seen a picture of Ian Hill with was a crappy old solid body violin shaped thing. (Don't know what the new boy uses but to be honest I don't care - it's not Priest without Kenny Downing IMO).

I'd have the Fodera & swap it for a couple of Zons (you didn't say anything about not swapping!).

Those old Rich's are f***ing awesome instruments.

I did a bit of repair work on one of these a few weeks ago & it was a really nice bass - neck felt really good & it sounded great.

I like that.

Clive Gregson - "Strange Persuasions"

I've been trying to find some photos of my old 10 string Chapman Stick to put on this thread but I can't find them anywhere.

Kim Wilde watched me play guitar with Todd Rundgren at the Forum in London in 1994.

Is that the case for the defence or the prosecution?

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1327347669' post='1509780'] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmeirion"]http://en.wikipedia....iki/Portmeirion[/url] cause cool stuff was filme there. [/quote] Yes, but that's not musical is it? "Historically or otherwise" was said in relation to specifically music related stuff.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1327321688' post='1509193'] And the Eisteddfod is in August... [/quote] The Eisteddfod is for serious hardcore Welsh Nationalists only - It's like the Nuremburg Rallies with sheep.

Lots of beautiful places in Wales but there's nothing I would say was a musical "must-see", historically or otherwise.

I used to love looking through the Bells catalogues that my older brother used to get through the post. It was probably spending hours looking at the pictures in those when I was six or seven that planted the seed for me to start playing when I was fourteen.

Just sold my Bogart 5 string to Dave. A great guy & an absolute pleasure to deal with.

[quote name='andytoad' timestamp='1327099914' post='1506586'] Right, Fretless bass...compressor,some light octave, moderate chorus and some twiddley metal things on the fingers. Am I right or way off the mark? [/quote] Funk Fingers are made of wood, not metal. Not used on "Sledgehammer" anyway.

Great interview - thanks for posting it.

[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1326731292' post='1501173'] The Hamer Cruise bass has a skinny neck whichever way you look at it. [/quote] Which one? The original one or the Jazz clone?

Lovely bit of Birdseye! Don't see it too often these says, which is a shame.