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Or you get in 'The Works' for £8.99 a couple of months after the publication date...

which you'd pay to Kurt Vonnegut for his '76 novella, "Slapstick, or Lonesome no More" featuring the characters with middle names such as 'Daffodil-11' - nouns with numbers to create artificial families and end loneliness... Oh wait! We're doing 8-string basses! So here's Chris Squire's Rick-8...

Jeff Corallini had some pretty extraordinary basses pass through his hands on his channel. His latest is intriguing - a fanned fretless, which sort of makes sense?

Saw Stanley and George Duke years ago in the 80s at the Manchester Apollo. Great show... Phillip Bailey from EWF guested and sang 'Easy Lover'...

OMG basschat... way to begrudgingly permit women to play guitars without tripping over their stilettos. Bring it on! You fat old tattoed, died-haired anachronisms.. you might actually get a gig supporting! Here's my favourite of the new wave...

Reverb!? On a bass!? Seriously?

Cool! Your 4-string Thumb is pretty nice too!

World is a very different place now - especially for music, and within that guitar-based rock... Fun times... still got my Blazer from around this time too (from Curly Music in Liverpool. The bassist from the Icicle Works was working there at the time.)

Yep! Should be TL... Going to see them in three weeks at the Bridgewater Hall... Can't wait I think Bill Rieflin has been 're positioned' to back-line keyboards with a new drummer taking his place.

Not sure South-West includes Brighton? If it does, give Bernie Goodfellow a ring. He's a bit of a wiz with bass and guitar builds. Not sure I've seen him do a T-Bird but he's done numerous original and cloned designed to a very high standard - Mark King and Lawrence Cottle are users. http://www.gbguitars.co.uk/gb_news.asp

Liberty City, Jaco Pastorius. I love Basschat! I love these recommendations. Both beautiful music. 'Liberty City' is just the tune, the album is the wonderful, 'Word of Mouth'. For what it's worth, I think Jaco, Mick and Percy Jones are the only fretless players to achieve a unique voice. Everyone else following some of the previously mentioned..

Not sure of your logic. GAS always strikes... if you've got 'the one bass' it pops up with your effects... or amp. I'm just chiming in because of your cool thread title, "The GAS is always greener"

What's the correct interpretation?

I once e-mailed Mark at BD on this topic. Whilst I'm indifferent about the playing in the demos, I found that the 3 Leaf audio interface they used for a while tended to make everything sound samey. Even 'character' basses like a Rick or Alembic. They all sounded mid-rangey, with a pronounced presence. Not unpleasant as such but stripping each bass of its inherent character is absolutely what you don't want in a sample video - which I think these are, more than reviews as such.

Sorry, posted a picture of Hansford and his true temperament Warwick earlier but didn't realise the vid was still available. He talks about it here:

Your post suggested she was being disingenuous describing herself a 'New York bassist'.

From the picture of HL's bass, there a big adjustment going on on the 24fret of the 'E' that doesn't seem to be replicated earlier in other part of the board? Hansford Rowe did try 'true temperament' a few years ago where the other instruments have to match it. Quite a different fretshape on the board. Some synths have a true temperament setting if you want to give it a go. Trouble is, because the ear adjusts to the equal temperament system, the 'true' sounds out of tune. Which hints that because it's truer in terms of replicating the overtone series, it doesn't necessarily result in better music.

So living and working in New York, she's supposed to say she's a Tel Aviv based bass player? Right ok - so you can only work where you're from originally?

John Wetton's tone - bass and voice is great on this record. Starless is legend...

Bloody hell - not cutting our newbie any slack here.... or his Missus if they listen to this spicy enchilada in the car... As well as your harmelodics above, I'd add Yes' Fragile to the sound mix and I think Drama's a good suggestion already made. Rush-wise I'd go Moving Pictures for their best balance of songs, bass tone and musicianship. And if Mr Tacuma doesn't open up your sound palette (if you can find it), I'd go with Jaco Pastorius' self-titled album with his inscrutable mug-shot on the cover.

It's the law... Might have to drop into Bass Direct and give an X a go... Perhaps it's just me but the tone of the bass changes the tactility of the bass - think how back solo'ing your pick-up and adding some mid-conjours up 16th note fingerstyle, etc. Would love to hear/feel what his pedal is like...

I'm with Lee Van Cleef... also who is your average 16 year old newb, probably a higher proportion of woman than when we learnt, going to associated with? The lady in question who presents a pithy 'let's get to it' tutorial or a Basschatter male pedant who just make opinions, not helpful videos.

Henry 'King Thumb' Thomas had a nice one... I think it's a neck-though like the one to which Mcnach refers. Remember Rockschool? I'd be cautious of paying too much for the romantic notion of some hidden gem. They were good in the day but entry-level basses have come so far in recent years that unless you have terminal nostalgia, you'd be better with a modern cheapie...

I think 'Dickey-Boy' knew exactly what he was doing with the album title judging by his picture. Touch of the Pat Mustard's about him.