Buy this if you have a VHS player - Danny Thompson's "Basically Speaking" £8

[fatback]

Charming or what. And the real deal, no doubt about it. A treat.

Also, wins the prize for the largest number of times the word 'practice' is mentioned in any bass vid I've seen so far.

[Clarky]

He's looking a bit older these days (aren't we all?) but here is discussing his new signature strings from Rotosound which I guess will be released imminently http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsZvnlR8Cg

[steve]

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1347122366' post='1797211']
I bought this recently as I love Danny Thompson's playing with John Martyn and David Sylvian. It was recorded in 1991 (and it shows in the picture quality) but its really quite inspiring. Its a bit slow off the mark (reminiscences about washtub basses etc) but once he gets into playing 'Victoria' its wonderful stuff. In particular I had always wondered about his superb tone and sustain and I discovered that he raised the nut (making it very gruelling for his left hand) in order to deliver the sort of volume and sustain he gets with open strings. I reckon his left and right hands must be like Popeye's! No wonder my wimpy hands cannot deliver anything like his type of tone. Anyways for £8 its a snip, as long as you have a VHS player

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[quote name='sarah thomas' timestamp='1351024848' post='1846446']
It's been re-released on DVD:
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thanks for the heads up Clarky & Sarah, got myself an early xmas present

[sarah thomas]

Hooray! I have finally got my very own copy, even managed to get the family watching a bit of it on Christmas Day, but then Dr Who came on. So now on Boxing Day morn, while they all sleep off their hangovers and their snores rattle the foundations, I finally get to watch it. What a lovely man. It's made me look forward more than ever to his Double Bass Love-in, in March.

[TheRev]

Asked for this for Christmas.....didn't get it :-(

If you want something doing....

[sarah thomas]

I thought I'd been given soap instead of Danny, despite my husband sending the link to his mother, and her saying to him that she had got it. Then she said it was in with the soap, and sure enough, a slip case with the disc in was nestling in the discarded paper. Phew! And the soap's really nice too.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='sarah thomas' timestamp='1356542236' post='1910972']...she said it was in with the soap, and sure enough, a slip case with the disc in was nestling in the discarded paper...[/quote]

Ha..! Nearly slipped up there, then..?

[sarah thomas]

A comment worthy of a drum roll ...