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From Cookie. http://youtu.be/_zd6rarszJo

I was introduced to her with Plantation Lullabies which is very funky and has that Meshell sound, but Peace Beyond Passion is one of the greatest albums I've ever listed to. Her piano playing and bass work is just sublime. Her album Cookie, The Anthropological Mix Tape, is also very cool. A mix of hip hop funk and soul. She's in my sig pic photography by a really great photographer I can't remember. The thing is I kind of lost her later stuff, but like Prince changed over the years, you have to keep the faith.

Damn her playing is killer on Josh,s album. http://youtu.be/I9eED6Krl14

She is not just a great bass player. She's a profound musician. Her music and lyrics never gets old http://youtu.be/lSsyozoHxJc

How cool a guy is Tim Commerford. One guy I would love to have a conversation about bass etc.

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1476374350' post='3153780'] Once the £ hopefully regains some of its losses against the € I'll be ordering an Elwood L with standard arrangement J pickups. [/quote] Will be getting some cash soon. Would love to order an Elwood5, like mine, but with 70,s spacing, a flame maple top with maple FB, black head stock, and pearl blocks. Ok not the same spec at all. Basically my Elwood but different. Ha ha

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1476374350' post='3153780'] Once the £ hopefully regains some of its losses against the € I'll be ordering an Elwood L with standard arrangement J pickups. [/quote]

Not seeing many Maruszczyk Jazz basses on this thread. ??

Has anyone tried Ultimate stands.?

Mine did this. Then the pin that holds the grab button thing snapped and the spring flew out. Hardly Herculean. won't be getting another one

Do you want a noise cancelling phone or an open back that leaks sound a little.? I think by far the best I've used are the Beyer Dynamic dt990 pro open back phones. I find the 770,s close back design make the bass a bit boomy as there bass heavy anyways, great for sound cancelling in a studio, industry standard monitors since the 80,s and are pretry amazing sounding. I will probably never use another headphone other than the 990,s they are just superb. Whatever you do, don't buy Beats by DR Dre. They are over priced fashion headphones, nothing to do with studio/instrument monitoring etc. Skull candy also for me are not great.Haven't tried the Audio Techs but I've heard they are really great.

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1476035710' post='3150687'] If I had £3k ear marked for a bass it wouldn't be going anywhere near a Metro. Yes, we need a revote, so we can have nice cheap basses what were people thinking..!!! [/quote] me neither. My 3k would be looking to Sei or Shuker, way more bass for your money.

Quality components. Kept inside a room apart from gigs. Does this mean my Aguilar AG 500 is going to last a long time. I've had it for 9 years now. I do love it.

Surely anything electronic used now and again is going to last longer than something with day in day out usage.

Strings, preamp, pickups.?. I'm aware he is scooping those mid's, but the zing and tone he's getting from the higher frequencies is great.He's playing a KSD 705. Any ideas.? http://youtu.be/r5dFOGetYMg

Just spotted this, jeez...nearly 3 grand for a Sadowsky Metro. These are suppose to be the affordable line. Seems there missing point over at Sadowsky. I remember ordering one a few years ago, An brand new Rv5 direct from Sadowsky and i paid £1700. http://m.thomann.de/gb/sadowsky_metro_modern_m5_24_tbu.htm?gclid=CL6V58upzc8CFRdmGwod8_EKrQ

Do what Jaco did. Put your fingers in chicken grease. Or olive oil

Lazyness

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1475935130' post='3149913'] I think people are confusing things. To me at least, theory is the harmony side of things, scales, arpeggios etc. How you use them, what you play and when is more a styles kind of thing. You use each of them to to be able to play to a good and versatile standard. Reading is just that, reading. At least that's how things were broken down and taught on my degree course. My knowledge of harmony/theory teaches me what notes can be played over a given chord sequence or in a part. My experience and teaching of styles tells me how those notes should be played given the genre or song that I'm playing. My sight-reading skills get me paid gigs and opportunities like playing for a summer on a cruise ship around the med 6 years ago. [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Being a good sight-reader goes with the other things. I can sight-read something, and use the information given to me in the chart, it's not just dots don't forget, to play in a way that will sound right for that song or piece of music.[/font][/color] Whether anyone needs to have, or to bother and learn anything, is entirely down to that particular individual. However neither being able to sight-read pretty much anything put in front of me, or having a really good harmonic knowledge has ever held me back creatively, in fact it has helped me enormously. [/quote]ooh ooh dont forget theory is also rythm 😊. Ok everything in any song ever written has to do with theory.ill shut up now.

[quote name='mikel' timestamp='1475932898' post='3149877'] To play devils advocate. Surely playing from music is more akin to mimicking what others have played? In fact it is playing exactly what others have already played. To use another analogy. Its like learning a language by reading books, its ok for theory but you only learn to converse with other by doing it. [/quote] this isnt karaoke. Playing from a written peice of music takes years of practice. I wonder what Anthony Jackson would say if you said Anthony, mate your just playing what someone else has played. Ridiculous thing to say. Your lines between reading music and learning theory are blurred.