Mykesbass

Fantastic Negrito Britney Howard (Alabama Shakes) Songhoy Blues White Denim and another vote for Tedeschi Trucks. All vaguely in the Blues genre, but not old school 12 bar blues or the sort of thing you hear pub RnB bands chugging out.

But what is Smooth Jazz? Are Dave Gruisin, Eric Gale and Bob James Smooth? Is a track like Dexter Gordon's Guess I'll Hang my Tears Out to Dry Smooth ? I personally think it is all down to radio formatting. Jazz FM's Dinner Jazz anyone?😵

Don't love it, but it was reactions like @Paul S that made me start this thread as there is so much good stuff out there:

Don't know if George Melly ever did it on stage, but his Man, Woman, Bulldog party piece left nothing to the imagination.

Oh and Siouxie Dear Prudence in the running for best.

Which was a Barrett Strong original.

OK, for something completely different, Bing Crosby, Frank SInatra, Louis Armstrong - Got to be High Society. "Well you take some bass...now you're getting some place"

You trying to merge this with my recent Off Topic post? 😀

The next one 😑

Being complimented by @Dood's former drummer at a jam, and making people dance.

Not always. My Fender Pro 800 has an IEC C19. Proper pain when the PA company collected that one up at the end of a gig!

I wonder if Oldfield is aware of this mistaken identity?! Interestingly, a quick Google to see if this has ever come up before shows a result for Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, Baron Havers QC who represented the Crown in the case against the Guildford Four.

https://pastdaily.com/2013/12/27/mike-oldfield-concert-1973-nights-roundtable-concert-edition/

Ok, gets even more puzzling then. Bobby Sands had some musical background, wrote lyrics for a Christy Moore song, so what on earth is that picture all about?!

Indeed. Wasn't meant to be cryptic.

Whole thing's a bit odd.

OK, PLEASE don't get political on this thread - I'm posting out of historical interest. I saw a Peter Cook Ned Callan bass advertised on Facebook. It looked interesting (as all basses do to us GAS stricken bass players). So I followed one of the links, and was stunned to see who the second most (in)famous Peter Cook bass player was! https://www.pulsebeatguitars.com/html/1970s/1972_Callan.php?fbclid=IwAR2RCOpZc_NHWU3xso7Lw6KGiKZQF8jZ8adEUcJv9fL41k11fvUvW2-v2xY

They have a great reputation, but the only time I played through one at a backline provided gig, without the extension cab, I found it woefully underpowered, with a not very loud guitarist, and not very heavy drummer.

Me too. And although it gets regularly slated on here, I find at least one new act every year that I like through Later.

There's also some full blown old rubbish in there too though! Topol, a pretty dreadful Tom Jones offering (and I like quite a lot of his stuff), The Bachelors, Englebert and the Mike Samme Singers. Pretty dreadful, easily taking the shine off the good stuff.

Schertler are pretty rare here, but are very high quality and sound great, and there's one up for sale on here for a very good price.

IMO acoustic guitar can sound quite nice through a bass amp - nicer than an electric guitar through bass, or acoustic through standard guitar amp.

I'm 55. I've recently come across Fantastic Negrito, White Denim, and solo material from Britney Howard of Alabama Shakes. All with roots in the Blues and Classic Rock. And there's plenty more where they came from. Give Fantastic Negrito a whirl Dave - might just be the right thing for you.

There's great music being made currently. We just have to look harder to find it.