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I like this one better: http://www.foxmusic.de/index_zemaitis.html

Yes, starting an octave below a conventional 4 string bass.

Not King Crimson, but it is John Wetton: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw3E_gcoeOs[/media]

I don't get stage fright any more. I don't even get nervous. I think I've had it hammered out of me through having to give lectures in my real job.

This is a fantastic resource and I appreciate the effort you've put in.

I'm having this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/P-Bass-Precision-Pickguard-Custom-Fender-13-Hole-Guitar-Pick-Guard-Bandito-/321999029167?hash=item4af8a343af:g:Cf8AAOSwX~dWs5PD

[quote name='grandad' timestamp='1471070558' post='3110293'] I offer the following definitions: 1. Pro = main activity and main source of income. 2. Semi-pro = engaged in the activity and paid but not relying on the activity solely to earn a living. 3. Amateur = unpaid. 4. Wanabe = someone who aspires to 1. or 2. (usually derogatory and implying ineptitude). 5. Hobbyist = activity pursued outside one's main occupation and pursued primarily for pleasure. [/quote] On those definitions, semi pro in that I get paid a reasonable amount of cash to play gigs a couple of times a month... feels more like a hobby though... I do it for fun and enjoy gigging enormously.

[quote name='Coldflows' timestamp='1466606708' post='3077191'] I have seen one on ebay that might be close : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sanox-Sound-Creator-/272254332369?hash=item3f639f6dd1:g:5uoAAOSw2GlXHfTZ Is that what his looked like? i think it looks really cool. In [/quote] I like that. I'm guessing, looking at the bridge, that it could do with a little setting up...

For me, a self-confessed fanboy, I would recommend Hatful of Hollow. It's technically a compilation of singles and Peel sessions, but I think it captures them at their absolute best. Couple it with The World won't listen and you've got an excellent representation of their best material right up to Strangeways. They were incredibly consistent live. I have more than 40 live bootleg recordings of them and they were spot on every night. Rank, their official live album was pretty good.

I would start with Spotify... the back catalogue is all there. I've managed to narrow down my preference to the period between the mid 60s and early 90s...

Perfect. I much prefer the wider spacing of the 12th fret dots compared with current models.

[quote name='Xsterling' timestamp='1462005343' post='3039444'] According to de serial number it was made in 2001, if that matters. [/quote] UK RRP in 2002 was £1250.

[quote name='Lasermonkey' timestamp='1461296716' post='3033400'] On the JM and Jag, the upper slide switch engages the "rhythm circuit" on the neck pickup. This has its own volume and tone control, which are the two roller wheels you can see next to it. It's much darker than the standard neck pickup sound, but I've found it useful at times. These controls are independent of the main tone and volume knobs. On the Jaguar, the three lower switches are, from left-right: Strangle Switch (it's a high-pass filter, which takes out a fair chunk of the bottom-end); bridge pickup on/off; neck pickup on/off. I have a few more Fender offsets. There's a couple of Japanese Jazzmasters, a Pawnshop Bass VI and a '65 Electric XII. Oh, and a Jazz Bass! Guess what colour that is.... [/quote] Wow!

My copy is out on loan. If you put the progressions on here we can have a crack at it

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1418570274' post='2631247'] Joe Osborn, Jazz bass with flats - lots of Simon and Garfunkel, 5th Dimension, and other West Coast sixties pop.[/quote] This. I put LaBella Deep Talking flats on my jazz when I realised that Joe Osborn played on so many tunes of that era that I thought had an amazing bass sound.

If you want to learn how to play jazz standards, the best way is to ignore web pages that say you need to learn hundreds of tunes and just get with some like-minded people who want to do the same thing. Learn a tune a week and by the end of the year you have a setlist for a two hour gig. Play-along recordings are a great way to practice playing standard changes... The Aebersold series are tried and tested and there are specific volumes that tackle "beginner tunes", Volume 54 Maiden Voyage and Volume 70 Killer Joe are good ones that have the tunes that other beginners tend to want to try. Some of the tunes are easy in the sense that they're easy to solo over... making a walking line for Impressions that doesn't get boring is more challenging. The tunes are stereo separated with drums and piano on one track and drums and bass on the other, so you can remove the bass. Musicians who have played on volumes in the Aebersold series include people of the calibre of Ron Carter, so they can be a bit more inspiring than midi versions.

There are also rubber picks called Wedgies that have an almost fingerstyle sound to them... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Musical-Instruments-Wedgie-Rubber-Pick-Pack-3-1mm/dp/B0002Z2CZY

Oh and as far as grip goes, it's similar to Dood's, but with the thumb and forefinger parallel and the tip of the pick pointing out at 90 degrees.

I swear by these: http://www.wegenpicks.com/ I play Django Reinhardt style guitar (gypsy jazz, if you will), and the pick is a key factor of that style. The machined grooves on the surface and thickness of the pick (3 mm) gives a grip that I've not found anywhere else and an amazing attack. They're pricey but of the four I've bought over the past ten years I still have two. One I gave to a guy in my "band", one I gave to a bassist called Sonny Thompson at a drunken jam in a hotel in Rome.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1458205735' post='3005496'] I like Ritters but that's pretty awful.... [/quote] If Liberace was a bass player...

Robert Trujillo paid $60k for Jaco's bass, IIRC.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1458135348' post='3005002'] Produced following advice from the KLF book "The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way". Although it only reached number 5 in the UK chart. [/quote] Yep... and it was truly awful.

Matthew Wilder - Break my Stride [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy46iOwWQiE[/media] Chapman stick alert

Edelweiss - Bring me Edelweiss.

[quote name='Geddys nose' timestamp='1457878906' post='3002570'] I posted a little bit but lurked more, Can't remember many of the names from back then, I think Dude Barr was on-later of the Dudepit (Use to hang on there too) [/quote] Same here. I found the uk.music.guitar (or whatever it was called) group slightly more useful for discussion as the US traffic was kind of slow at the times of day that I had internet access back then. Anyone else remember Jarl Sigurd? Check out this spam... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.guitar.bass/-fyQ1_wevuE