ezbass Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 I once played Pino's fretless Stingray and I also sat on the table next to Roscoe Beck at the Jazz Cafe whilst he ate his dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1503661821' post='3360061'] Fender made a five WAAAAY before that. Also a six. Both in the 60s. [/quote] [i]Production[/i] bass with a low B as we know it today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1503652336' post='3359915'] I was at school with Les Hurdle (early Donna Summer, Brighteyes and much more) and I shared a flat with Dave Wintour (Wurzles, Wakeman and more) Oh, and I can confidently claim to be first in UK to have played fretless BG. [/quote] Didn't bill wyman make one in the 60s? Edited August 26, 2017 by Geek99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1503685388' post='3360338'] I once played Pino's fretless Stingray and I also sat on the table next to Roscoe Beck at the Jazz Cafe whilst he ate his dinner. [/quote] Gotta be so careful with speed reading...I thought you said 'ate his drummer'!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1503685388' post='3360338'] I also sat on the table next to Roscoe Beck at the Jazz Cafe whilst he ate his dinner. [/quote] We did a couple of gigs as support for The Blue Line in the earely 90s. Roscoe Beck was very interested in my SKC Bogart 5-string Jazz bass and we had a couple of nice chats about it. Back then he had a 4er and a 6er but no 5er. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 About ten years ago, sat drinking beer and chatting with Jimmy Haslip in a small bar in Berlin. In fact it was me and a couple of guys I was doing a show with, along with Allan Holdsworth and Chad Wackerman. A great night (or early morning). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 [quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1503733231' post='3360555'] Gotta be so careful with speed reading...I thought you said 'ate his drummer'!!!!!!!! [/quote] I misread posts all the time and come up with the whackiest things. [quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1503733687' post='3360560'] We did a couple of gigs as support for The Blue Line in the earely 90s. Roscoe Beck was very interested in my SKC Bogart 5-string Jazz bass and we had a couple of nice chats about it. Back then he had a 4er and a 6er but no 5er. [/quote]I'm extremely envious, Roscoe is one of my favourite players and biggest influences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddy Le Cragg Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Played Love Like A Man on Leo Lyons' jazz bass (with the whole band watching). Pressure much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightlyseared Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 My G3 used to belong to Joe Fagan and was played on the Auf Wiedersehen Pet theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painy Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I've got a few. My step mum was the manager of the Who's official fan club in the early seventies. She knew all of the band quite well (is Still in occasional contact with Pete and Roger) but out of them all was closest to John Entwistle. When I was 16 my band had the chance to headline a multi band gig at the LCR venue at the University of East Anglia arranged as part of national youth week. Our roadie had been to see Skunk Anansie there the week before so I got him to point out where on the stage Cass Lewis had stood and made sure to stand in the same position while I played. I'm lead to believe that my Aguilar rig was previously owned by Paul Turner. Probably the best one though is that none other than Dave Swift himself recently liked a comment I made on one of his facebook posts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 [quote name='Lightlyseared' timestamp='1503745294' post='3360652'] My G3 used to belong to Joe Fagan and was played on the Auf Wiedersehen Pet theme. [/quote]I used to go and see Joe all the time at my local when I was nought but a lad. Top fella, bass player and singer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1503666693' post='3360148'] Yes, I suppose it does but he was well known and I wasn't. My brother made a homemade bass guitar, used the coil from a headphone for the pickup but because he didn't have the skills to put frets in the fingerboard he left it fretless. As I was playing DB back then I found it quite easy to play. Deffo 1959 tho, I played it at my school dance. [/quote] [size=4]Wow...1959? What a great story.[/size] [b] [b][size=4]Most Obscure Bass Claim to Fame?......[/size][/b][/b][size=4]The above from 'bassace' for me. Pure story, no name dropping .......[/size][b][b][size=4] [/size][/b][/b] Edited August 26, 2017 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Dean Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I once sat in Vangelis studio while He was recording the music for Blade runner , He had just had a new "Fairlight " keyboard & I got a disapproving look for playing the theme to "Rhubarb & Custard" on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassace Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 [quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1503753730' post='3360730'] [size=4]Wow...1959? What a great story.[/size] [b] [b][size=4]Most Obscure Bass Claim to Fame?......[/size][/b][/b][size=4]The above from 'bassace' for me. Pure story, no name dropping .......[/size][b][b][size=4] [/size][/b][/b] [/quote] Thanks for your kind comments, Lowdown. Just a small mea culpa: it was actually 1960, I've just rooted out my A Levels cert to check the actual year. Still a bit earlier than Bill tho' but does it matter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el borracho Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Here's a tenuous gear related claim to fame. I played in a band whose drummer used the kit in the photo, many years after that picture was taken. Check out the bass player standing behind the kit. Also, the bass player from the Steve Gibbons Band once bought me a pint. Nice bloke but I can't remember his name. [attachment=252156:Ronnie kit.jpg] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) My friend went to buy a DB from a guy in Bristol. I went with her. He mentioned that he was in a band. Again The Wurzles raise their heads in this thread. I bought an Eden 410XLT ex demo from The Gallery. Meshell N'degeocello had used it on a gig. Obviously it made me supremely funky. Edit - ohohoh! James Demeter quoted a post of mine on TB. Edited August 26, 2017 by owen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 [quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1503669964' post='3360190'] I live 20 minutes away from a lady bass player who played bass for Jet Harris whilst he played guitar. Even more obscure is that Phil Collins once bought me a lager and lime and he wasn't a bass player. [/quote] He played it in the video for "you can't hurry love" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1503661821' post='3360061'] Fender made a five WAAAAY before that. Also a six. Both in the 60s. [/quote] But not a low-B Five string. Also the 60s Fender 5-string had the upper frets missing so it had exactly the same range as their 4-string basses. Edited August 27, 2017 by BigRedX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len_derby Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Herbie Flowers is a close neighbour of my in-laws. I've never met him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super al Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 I drive past Roger Waters' house on the river Test quite a bit but recently noticed the teepee (or is it wigwam?) has gone. I read a David Gilmour interview where it mentioned DG having a teepee, maybe he bought it off RW and secretly everything is alright between them. Also Sting's country pad is local and very nice too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) Geezer Butler used to live a couple of doors down from one of my secondary school friends in Lapworth, a village/town a few miles from Birmingham. I say 'lived', I'm not sure he spent much time there. I never saw him, neither did my mate or his parents, but he definitely owned the house. Edited August 26, 2017 by Cato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deep Thought Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 At my first ever gig I was told to turn the bass down by a bloke who I later found out was an ex-soundman for the Who. We recorded an EP at Sawmills Studios near Fowey, where Muse and Oasis have recorded amongst many others, so I have almost certainly pissed in the same bog and eaten at the same table as Chris Wolstenholm/Matt Bellamy et al, and the Gallagher brothers. A chap I used to work with was the drummer for Sutherland Brothers and Quiver ('Lying in the arms of Mary'), and he was part of the touring band for Pink Floyd with The Wall. Nick Mason is a mate of his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Number6 Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 (edited) Nice convoluted tale....My brother's missus's mum is partners with Harvey Bainbridge of former Hawkwind and now Hawklord fame. We started a Hawk trib band before i even knew.....spooky! Edited August 26, 2017 by Number6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntLockyer Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 Just thought of this one. Left to right in the picture. Steve White (Style Council,Paul Weller), Damon Minchella (Ocean Colour Scene, Paul Weller, The Who), Ant Lockyer (who????). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 When I was active on the Cardiff Jazz scene, I loaned my Trace Eliot stack to both Miroslav Vitous and Arild Anderson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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