Bass Guitar magazine

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1464381267' post='3059124']
Scenario #1 - Just Dave Swift on the cover:
95% of bass players: [i]'Who's that bloke on the cover of BGM?'[/i]
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Wasn't just Dave on the front of the magazine not so long ago? I seem to recall a picture posted somewhere, sometime...?

[barneyg42]

[quote name='megallica' timestamp='1464379992' post='3059101']
Don't see many ibanez musician basses in bass magazines so quite pleased with this cover
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He's a big fan of Ibanez, has a big collection. Very interesting guy, did a talk at the South East Bass Bash a few years ago and a few of us lot are friends with him on Facebook and he's always got some interesting stuff to say and show. I like him, always very humble to be playing with Jools and always likes to big up the guests that he backs.

Edited May 27, 2016 by barneyg42

[yorks5stringer]

Given BGM is not the Radio Times and is bought by the mainly informed Bass Player, I just struggle with the 'celebrity coupling'. I mean where was the singer from Slipknot for the last cover? Or Nile Rodgers on the one before?

[CamdenRob]

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1464381604' post='3059128']


OK... 99%.
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Ha... I suspect this is closer to the truth.

[wateroftyne]

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1464414546' post='3059277']
Ha... I suspect this is closer to the truth.
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Yeah.. me too.

Don't get me wrong - I like Dave Swift. Great player, and seems like a nice bloke.

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1464385107' post='3059167']

Wasn't just Dave on the front of the magazine not so long ago? I seem to recall a picture posted somewhere, sometime...?
[/quote]

[Mykesbass]

Having just seen the earlier cover I looked again at the new one which is celebrating his time on TV as Jools' bass player. Puts the cover in a different light in my opinion.

[arthurhenry]

This is common practice and is done in order to boost sales. Put Ozzy Osbourne next to his bass player on a magazine cover and it's likely that some Ozzy fans will buy the magazine, regardless of their interest (or lack of) in bass.

[EBS_freak]

Has Jools got that sort of level of appeal?

[barneyg42]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1464428491' post='3059364']
Has Jools got that sort of level of appeal?
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He's on the Beeb every week, seems like appeal to me!

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='barneyg42' timestamp='1464430524' post='3059383']


He's on the Beeb every week, seems like appeal to me!
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So is David Cameron.

[barneyg42]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1464437880' post='3059454']


So is David Cameron.
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I never see his bass player though!!!

[ped]

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1464426913' post='3059352']
This is common practice and is done in order to boost sales. Put Ozzy Osbourne next to his bass player on a magazine cover and it's likely that some Ozzy fans will buy the magazine, regardless of their interest (or lack of) in bass.
[/quote]

This. Dave is also a really good friend of the forum. Cool mag, cool guy, cool bass, cool gig.

[Grassie]

I couldn't give a monkey's if they put Jools on the cover. I know who Dave Swift is, but I don't know who half the other players interviewed in this month's edition are, regardless of what bands they're in.

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='Grassie' timestamp='1464452338' post='3059592']
I couldn't give a monkey's if they put Jools on the cover. I know who Dave Swift is, but I don't know who half the other players interviewed in this month's edition are, regardless of what bands they're in.
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That's because they aren't pictured with their band mates.

Clue : one of them is a luthier.

[Lynottfan]

I was a subscriber for a long time time to this magazine (started with issue 1 ) Dave Swift aside, BGM has been rather lacking for some time, and the tribute article they did to Bernard Edwards the other month was poor.

[12stringbassist]

No offence to Dave Swift intended at all, but at least having Jools Holland on the cover lets me know who he plays with.
I can find out more by reading the article.

[troubadour]

Even if the band leader was a [i]waxy faced, glorified pub pianist[/i]*, I don't suppose it's a gig too many of us would have turned down?

* quote attributed to one John Joseph Wardle

Edited May 30, 2016 by troubadour

[EBS_freak]

I know this is a morbid thought, but if Jools was to
snuff it, what other gigs are these guys doing?

I know DS was doing something with that guy off Pointless - but what else keeps these guys busy?

[yorks5stringer]

I believe Richard Osman does Two Tribes when not on Pointless...

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1464647071' post='3061183']
I believe Richard Osman does Two Tribes when not on Pointless...
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DS gigs with the other one - Alexander Armstrong.

[yorks5stringer]

Interesting Review of the Torun 5 in the new edition, written by someone we all recognise....

[Silvia Bluejay]

That bass is pure bling! It won't be to everybody's taste, but that's the point, I think.

[FlatEric]

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1464451632' post='3059589']
This. Dave is also a really good friend of the forum. Cool mag, cool guy, cool bass, cool gig.
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Well said!

Dave is a great bass player, with a good feel for various styles of music.
A professional, who is out there on a Very Regular basis, doing his stuff and a friend of mine.

He is a very genuine person, who has developed a very health interest in Classic Japanese
instruments - mainly Ibanez, as after playing all sorts of things over the years, has now recognised
the quality of that era and is playing them on a regular basis.

Top Bloke!



Jools just happens to be on the cover!!

[Dood]

I had a 4 page feature in BGM back in 2011.*






Which I wrote.
About my basses.




Well that's never going to make me famous it ha ha!!