Rich

[quote name='99ster' post='136728' date='Feb 8 2008, 05:36 PM']Yep - you just gotta have a Wal! Mine will have been with me 21 years this year... & it will be coming to the grave with me! [/quote] Yup... this year will be the 22nd for me & my P.B.

[quote name='chardbass' post='138616' date='Feb 12 2008, 01:00 AM']How long do 'average' leads last- say, Planet Waves? Compare that to the leads that OBBM or others similar make- what is the life-expectancy of these leads when used regularly? Just because I could, (hey, I was young and reckless) I bought an MIT lead that was mentioned earlier in this thread. I must have paid around £80 for it and got about 7 years constant use from it. I now have a Monster cable which cost half of that and it is into year 4.[/quote] I think I can beat that a bit... I have two Klotz cables that are now entering their 22nd year of faultless service with me

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='139156' date='Feb 12 2008, 11:03 PM']I'd never heard of John Giblin before he was in Simple Minds, and then a friend played me Brand X Products. The track "Wal To Wal" with Percy Jones is fantastic. Simple Minds just didn't highlight his talent at all.[/quote]He's all over Kate Bush's earlier work too. Think 'Babooshka'. Also, Fish's first solo album 'Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors' contains some of his beautiful fretless work, especially 'State Of Mind' and 'Family Business'.

I'd call Weather Report fusion myself. Trouble is, the term 'jazz' is as wide and all encompassing as 'rock'.

John Giblin is a fretless master. He makes it sing in a way I could only dream of.

Ouch. Hope it all turns out ok. I'm told orange juice is the worst thing... all that nasty citric acid...

Yup, similar thing happened to me many moons ago, 86 or summat... my band were rehearsing at a small club in Wokingham called Angie's, they used to let the place out as practice space during the day and then put gigs on at night. Anyway, we were close to packing up when this guy wandered in at the far end of the club. "Oh sorry" he said, "I'm not interrupting am I?". We assured him that he wasn't, but he offered to wait outside -- charming, polite chap he was. "Nah, it's ok" we said, "We're just packing up." "OK" he says, "my group is playing here tonight, thought I'd get here early to see what it's like... oh, name's Herbie Flowers and I'm pleased to meet you all..." You can imagine how far my jaw dropped.

My god, this is the first Elite P I've seen [i]since[/i] the 80s..! what a cracker. Is it yours? And am I allowed to admit that I [i]loved[/i] the 80s? [quote name='wateroftyne' post='106861' date='Dec 20 2007, 08:09 AM']What this thread needs is a little more 80s bling... ...put that in legwarmers and FUNK.[/quote]

[quote name='paul h' post='138103' date='Feb 11 2008, 12:28 PM']It's the closest I have ever come to getting the sound I am after. [b]A combination of Roy Budd, David Holmes, Basement Jaxx[/b] and Lupe Fiasco. Pretty much every part is written on the bass. So when it comes to do an actual bassline I struggle a bit.[/quote] When I first glanced at this, I read it as a "combination of Roy [i]Hudd[/i] and Basement Jaxx...". The mind absolutely boggled for a second!

I bought his SX bass body... I first emailed him about it last Thursday morning, and by mid afternoon he'd put it in the post. Arrived Saturday and it's great, even better than he described it. Bloke's a top banana.

One of my favourites is this from Richard Strauss: "Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them."

Absolutely! Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice - [i]Samuel Johnson[/i] Music is the shorthand of emotion - [i]Leo Tolstoy [/i] Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life - [i]Jean Paul Richter [/i] Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday terms. Sometimes it expresses something you can describe in words, but not always - [i]Tamás Vásáry [/i] Music is an outburst of the soul - [i]Frederick Delius [/i] Without music, life would be a mistake - [i]Friedrich Nietzsche [/i] After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - [i]Aldous Huxley [/i] A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved - [i]Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach[/i] He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once - [i]Robert Browning [/i] What is best in music is not to be found in the notes - [i]Gustav Mahler[/i] The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not move'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons , strategems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted - [i]William Shakespeare [/i] Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail - [i]Luciano Pavarotti [/i] Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness and a gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful, of which it is the invisible but nevertheless dazzling, passionate and eternal form - [i]Plato[/i] Music is the art of the prophets - [i]Martin Luther[/i] Music is love in search of a word - [i]Sidney Lanier [/i] Music is revelation; a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy - [i]Ludwig van Beethoven [/i] The music is in the air. Take as much as you want - [i]Sir Edward Elgar [/i] Music is the universal language of mankind - [i]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [/i] Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without - [i]K'ung-fu-tzu [/i] Music is well said to be the speech of angels. In fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite - [i]Thomas Carlyle [/i] Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art - [i]Herbert Spencer [/i] Music is the flowering of character - [i]K'ung-fu-tzu [/i] Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent - [i]Victor Hugo[/i] Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes - [i]Pablo Casals [/i]

I've just bought [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12252"]jamesemt's SX jazz body [/url](sort of buttery yellow with either white or torty plate, can't decide which I prefer!) -- the intention was to fit the nice neck from my Squier J to it, but it turns out that the Squier neck is too wide for the SX pocket. Rather than arse about with a router, I've just ordered a maple SX neck with pearl blocks from Rondo. I'm planning to fit a neck pickup ashtray and an Artec 3-band EQ, so I'm going to have to drill into the body edge to mount the jack socket. I've already done that for the Squier, so I'm not daunted by the prospect What I'm aiming for is a retro look with a contemporary sound. I'll definitely post pics when it's done.

[quote name='bigd1' post='136414' date='Feb 8 2008, 11:59 AM']I think you will find there is a world of a difference between playing at a wedding gig no matter haw big it is, and being on tour as your Dream theater example.[/quote] Yes, you're right... the wedding gig is far, [i]far[/i] more important. [quote]My point was just to hopefully be clear, has anybody found they really need to take spare instruments when playing gigs?[/quote] As I said before, I've had two gigs in the past where I wished to god I'd had a spare bass, but didn't. So now, I take one just in case it happens again.

Some of them are stuck on with double sided tape. Take a hair dryer to it, the tape loosens and it's easy to prise off. I did this with the Peavey 410s I used to have... took off the name badge but left the red triangle thingy on. They looked loads better. When you want to stick them back on, just use some fresh double sided tape.

Ricky live (on Exit Stage Left), Jazz studio. I think.

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Guys, [b]can those of you wishing to engage in a political debate about the EU start one in the Off-Topic section?[/b] It does have the makings of a good discussion, as long as you keep it civil.

[quote name='finnbass' post='127073' date='Jan 24 2008, 05:00 PM']This is mine: [/quote]That is achingly lovely. The back view especially... the neck joint is a masterpiece.

[quote name='David Nimrod' post='135818' date='Feb 7 2008, 03:28 PM']It's amazing what crap customer service we've got used to when someone just doing the job right seems exceptional...[/quote] nail => head

[quote name='Shockwave' post='135779' date='Feb 7 2008, 02:34 PM']Jazz and funk is pretty few and far between[/quote] Yeah, don't bother trying to interest anyone in fusion. I was in a fusion 3-piece for a while, but in the end we gave up cos we couldn't find anywhere to gig. We were too loud for jazz venues and too jazzy for pubs. The only place we ever really gigged frequently was the Prom, which is sh*t. I tried to form a jazz/funk band a while back but just couldn't find any interested musos.