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Probably not very much. Just think how good they would have been

This just appeared on my Facebook feed. Never heard of them before, but may have just discovered a new favourite. Real marriage of styles that works really well to my ears. OK, not the most 'Reggae' of tracks on here, but still got that vibe.

There are some Jazz box sets out there that include everything - false starts, four or five takes, takes that get stopped - all in the name of completism. Crazy.

Sad that Go Go never really made it in the mainstream. I seem to remember Chuck Brown's Bustin' Loose was promoted in the early 80s here, but can't see any evidence of it troubling the charts. Although it was an older track I think it came out amongst all the much smoother Jam & Lewis style tracks that dominated at the time. Shame, as there's some great tracks that we missed out on.

And it's on Spotify, so it makes it on the playlist 😎

😞 I love The Butterfly Ball!

And of course, wrote this with Dio taking the vocals:

Pretty sure Roger Glover contributed to Deep Purple lyrics. Hard to tell what as the band seemed quite democratic in their songwriting credits.

Lauren Laverne played this today - a project by Coldcut. Sounded pretty good to me!

Actually, thinking about it a bit more, if Nordstrand are only selling direct in the US (i.e. no retailer/distributor cut) then they may not have a huge margin to cut the price on exports, and Bass Direct do need to make some money, so may be a fair deal after all. Still doesn't detract from it being the first bass I have gassed after since getting my Shuker in 2012

Yes, did think pricing seemed a bit off, but didn't go back and check or crunch the numbers. That's pretty steep.

Some nice, usable tones there. REALLY DON'T NEED ONE!

Thought I'd seen most of the great Tom Jones clips - Janis Joplin is a good one, but this is new to me and an absolute corker!

Ooh, coming my way! I wonder which town? Just seen - Haywards Heath, next town up from me.

Just about the only thing I could dance to back in the day!

I see where you are coming from - some of those crazy old Eastern European models spring to mind, but I still like it a lot.

It was written in a conversational style, and yes, from a PM from a friend, probably wasn't as clear as it needed to be. Sorry.

And we sometimes wonder why there are so few of you on here!

Sounds like the voice of experience 😄

35.5mm - that is small! Got to love the mix of imperial and metric in the spec, and the use of a decimal point of an inch!

Anyone else see the Bass DIrect newsletter? This is slightly bonkers but I love it! https://bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Nordstrand_Acinonyx_Bass.html

OK, all 11 hours and 5 minutes now available! Will keep it updated. Have fun 😎 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59RhYT5dLPwboS9u3njL4S?si=P2uDVC3MQQaMQACfEHilGQ

This was the one I was going to recommend, by Ed Friedland (Hal Leonard being the publisher).

That's great, and like the not too nerdy video.

OK, up to and including page 10 now on the spotify playlist - 136 songs, 9+ hours of reggae! There have been a few more I couldn't find on this tranche - @ubit you seem to like some rarities that don't seem to have made their way on to Spotify, apologies for their omission. If the artist but not the track is on Spotify (e.g. @Reggaebass one of your B sides) I have put a substitute track in, usually the most popular. Take 5 - whilst I am not doing any editing except for only adding one song per artist, I have culled the multiple versions of Take 5. If anyone who contributed a version wants the band they posted represented on the playlist please post a new track by them here and I'll hapily add. Will see if I can reach the end this evening (if you all stop posting for a few hours ).