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[quote name='AntLockyer' timestamp='1427306212' post='2728665'] I think there are some cool young blues artists playing the blues and being influenced by the modern world. Jarekus Singleton and Gary Clarke jnr both are modern I their own way. [/quote] Thanks - I'll check them out.

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1427311761' post='2728802'] Another outfit a couple of mates of mine have introduced me to is the Tedeschi / Trucks Band: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9I6lQNK6Ok"]https://www.youtube....h?v=R9I6lQNK6Ok[/url] Really like this band :-) [/quote] Love them (although poor old Derek could do with some stage presence lessons)!!

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1427310531' post='2728774'] I take your point, and I assume what you're describing in your article is probably what needed to happen to Jazz when it broke away from the "Standards" and went from being an acoustic art form to being electric, thus spawning off Jazz Rock / Fusion etc.? There was (maybe still is) a lot of opposition to that change - maybe it was a good thing to happen (I like both sides of it by the way) and it's probably kept Jazz alive, but maybe that's another discussion for another time. Guys like Robben Ford and Robert Cray, have moved the Blues from what it was back in the past era so it's not the standard 12 or 8 bar format (in most cases) - I just can't help feeling that anything too far outside that would be a bit like putting too many flavours in a really nice dish? [/quote] Good point with the jazz reference that shows that the new can come along and doesn't have to kill off the old. Robben Ford and Robert Cray are both great, and Cray certainly moved things on, but, wait for it, that was 1986!! Scary to think where those 29 years went!

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1427286558' post='2728239'] I had a read of the article on the link, and I think the Blues would be diluted far too much if elements of trip hop and dubstep and any of the other modern stuff came into it. It doesn't need it - I'd rather see a band knocking out a raw, gritty, traditional Chicago Blues than something that has moved it on into the 21st Century and (IMO) doesn't fit the genre. It comes across that I'm being too much of a traditionalist, but I was born about the time of the British Blues Boom of the early 1960's, and didn't get into it until about the late 1980's, so I think it is possible for a younger generation to get into people like Muddy Waters, the Kings, Paul Butterfield, Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, John Mayall, etc... The main problem is that there isn't any programming on TV and radio (apart from Paul Jones show on R2 on Monday nights) that promotes the Blues in this country. [/quote] [quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1427288583' post='2728294'] So you missed Bernard Doherty's 'Ladies Night' on PlanetRock last week. He does have a weekly blues-power show. Last week's show was female blues artists. If anyone caught this show, do you know who sang Can't Find My Way Home, the last but one track? It was playing as I drove home, Doherty Pi**ed off at 7:48 ("See ya") and the last three tracks played unannounced. [/quote] First up, I think there is a lack of mainstream exposure - pfretrock, the show on Planet rock is only going to preach to the converted, or grab a tiny number of younger rock fans who haven't changed station when it comes on. Louisthebass - nothing wrong with you or I liking the traditional stuff, I just genuinely worry that the new generation of players are seeing us as an audience so are playing to us, not their peers, therefore the Blues isn't going to continue to develop and will never reach the level of popularity it enjoyed when the likes of John Mayall brought it into Rock & Roll for the first time.

Never played one but would love one - they look great and sound great (and distinctive). I'd also love one of their 12 strings. AIn't gonna happen though

That really is a great headstock design.

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1427058564' post='2725308'] Thanks for that - I'm tweeting your blog to Basschat's followers as we speak [/quote] Thanks Bluejay

I've just posted a blog Are we Loving the Blues to Death? in order to hopefully kick off a conversation about how we can help stop the Blues from stagnating (much as Country has by re-inventing itself as Americana, and folk has by, well, just being more modern and interesting I guess). I have voiced an opinion at the end, but it is more as a conversation starter rather than a strongly held point of view. I'd love to hear how others see this so please have a read and post either on here or on the blog itself. Thanks for your time. [url="http://modlock.co.uk/?p=112"]Are we Loving the Blues to Death?[/url]

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1427025982' post='2724777'] Yeah.....Sorry Mykebass...getting my BB's and Albrts mixed up....thanks for spotting that..... [/quote] No worries, nice tune - just gone on to the set list

[quote name='jonnythenotes' timestamp='1427014063' post='2724591'] A great Funky style blues thing to demo is Honey Hush...BB King. [/quote] Do you mean Albert Collins Jonny - big BB King fan and can't find a version by him? Cheers, Mike

Solid body, flatwounds on fretless 5 string. Loud enough for practice and playing along learning tracks off CD, even down to a low D although C and the open B are a little quiet. I never plug in at home.

[quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426519612' post='2718761'] Also re-listened to Son of a Preacher Man. Nice bass line on that one too. Clever because the bass is actually fairly busy, but doesn't crowd the vocals. The bass also really helps establish a kind of jubilant and playful feel, which is important to keeping a lively mood. I liked that song before, but never really noticed the bass until you pointed it out. Do you know the brand of bass that's being used (it's a nice tone for a slow song, especially if one wants to play busy but not anger the singer)? If I had to take a wild guess I would say those are flat wound strings, but I'm not really sure. [/quote] A 59 P borrowed from Chip Moman, a Memphis producer/session player.

[quote name='skywalker' timestamp='1426517745' post='2718719'] Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues Rolling in the Deep - Adele Smooth Operator - Sade Make Me Smile - Steve Harley Black Velvet - Alannah Myles Candy - Paolo Nitini Any of the Cream above + Wonderful Tonight Fly me to the Moon - Sinatra version Might not be everyone's cup of tea but I like them. [/quote] [quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426518507' post='2718736'] No need to apologize for the songs you chose. Everyone likes something. Just listening to Sade, 'Smooth Operator' ... nice fretless tone and you are right, hard to imagine the song being as good without that bass line. Velvety tone, like the singer. Really good job by the bass of matching the feel of the overall composition with tone and line. Well done. [/quote] Exactly, and nothing wrong with a bit of Sinatra. Someone will be along shortly to tell you about Black Velvet though!

[quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426518151' post='2718727'] Just re-listened to Hazy Shade of Winter. Tastefully done, very musical. On the verses the bass plays double-time with the snare to push the beat, then there's a little walking bit in-between the gaps when the other instruments drop out, and then the bass drops out of parts of verses for effect. A musician's approach, much like the way McCartney is a musician first and bass player second. Bass was played with a view as to totality of the composition. Very nice. Will listen to the rest. [/quote] Glad you liked that. The Labi Siffre for me is all about that classic muted tone, not necessarily a killer line, but again, plays to the song brilliantly.

The three that always pop into my head are: Simon & Garfunkel Hazy Shade of Winter (Joe Osborn) Dusty Springfield Son of a Preacher Man (Tommy Cogbill) Labi Siffre It Must Be Love (don't know bass player)

How fantastic having local TV show supporting local bands, and your band are great too - sort of thing I'd love to be playing.

As someone who doesn't suffer in the slightest with nerves I've got to say Happy Jack's suggestion sounds absolutely spot on--nice work Jack!

Hi Bob, if you go to the Bass Guitar section there is a pinned thread on dating your Fender. Cheers, Mike

Four years on, it's still Tommy Cogbill for me: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/188373-underrated-bass-players/page__st__330__p__2007517__hl__underated__fromsearch__1#entry2007517"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/188373-underrated-bass-players/page__st__330__p__2007517__hl__underated__fromsearch__1#entry2007517[/url]

[quote name='fiatcoupe432' timestamp='1425647339' post='2709357'] Guys please, they are lots of eastern european members here on the forum and they are all honest ..... please don't generalise ! I'm not eastern european but i dealt many times with members here from abroad and never had a problem ! i actually been scammed by 2 times and both times i can assure you they were not from east europe or europe...... so please, some people might get offended ..... [/quote] Can't speak for the others, and I know I didn't go the eastern European route, but it was really a reflection on what happens when reading something written by someone in what isn't their first language - the accent just seems to lend itself to the phrasing. I wasn't, and I hope the others were not, casting aspersions on the honesty of any particular nationality. All the same, sorry if it did cause offence but that was far, far from the intention.

Fair play to Artisan for coming back on and taking the criticism on the chin (or would in the bollocks be more in keeping with the rest of the thread)!

[quote name='lou24d53' timestamp='1425387196' post='2706734'] Anyone else find themselves reading that script section in an Eastern European accent? [/quote] [quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1425387287' post='2706736'] Yep, hate to admit it but I did. [/quote] 'fraid to say I went badly Hispanic Ras52 - time to get the bargepole out of storage!!

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1425053290' post='2703470'] Not so different these days, to be honest - the last time I was burgled, they took my flatmate's laptop. The police suggested I might like to have a gander round the local Cash Converters and similar shops to see if it was in any of those. Which took a while, as there's a depressingly large number of such shops down the Walworth Road! [/quote] Blimey, don't see that place name checked very often! Only pawnbrokers when I lived there was Harvey & Thompson, huge great jewellers with a tiny pawnshop at the back, Only guitar I ever saw in there was a Kay acoustic even worse than the one I owned at the time!!

Well that was a loud one! Only time I've ended up with ringing ears with this band! The Rumble was great, kept up very happily with loads of room to spare. I had the tweeter on its low setting, an at this volume gave quite a lot of percussive noise - playing fretless with flats. Was quite nice but I would have liked to tweak it but was too far away, in a really tight space. Very happy with the result and looking forward to getting the second one. Will post a terrible phone photo later.