visog
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Hmm well if he wears it any higher it'll be up his nose! Can't tell I'm afraid despite the headstock being in shot a lot. I can't read it but perhaps a fellow BC'er will recognise the shape. P.S. The drummer mimed standing-up! What's all that about!?
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Well it doesn't look like the headstock on his more recent Spellbinders either:
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I remember John Wetton saying in an interview that he had a Spellbinder, and that a customs officer in an airport recognised it from Stanley who'd just been through with his.
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Oh yes, Stanley's played Fender for many hours days now... To be fair, he's always dabbled with other makers and manufactured his own once (Spellbinder). At his Animal Logic gig I saw, he brought a bunch of Ken Smiths. He's had Carl Thompson's for Picolos too. Be interested to see what this 'Stratobasster' pans out like...
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Well the more extreme the fan, dare I say, the "more craddock" the neck, the more extreme the distortion of hand position for chording in the upper register? So the point is that it's a compromise with different makers taking a different position - literally.
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Dear god! That's like being handed Excalibur!
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Agreed, that it probably does put people off especially if people playing/who like it cop an attitude. Fact is, the ear you need, rhythmic sensitivity, ability to translate that to your instrument in real-time is sophisticated. What I wouldn't do is exacerbate it with the sort of 'grand-standing' that fusion became.. I don't think playing fast is sophisticated for example but it is a by-product of the study and practice Jazz requires - looking at you Hadrien.
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Anything saucy happening with electronics do we know? Need more reasons to GAS before the pricing s**ts roundly on the currently appealing fantasy...
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I'm in... Miles and all of his 'children's' work: Joe Zawinul - WR, Herbie - HH, John McLauglin - MO and Chick with RTF. Terrific, super-exciting music. Still trying to learn the essence of the language - hugely sophisticated rhythmically and harmonically but satisfying...
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So yes I was aware of the compound goings-on at the back of the neck but that top picture of the flock of Strandbergs looks as if there is a twist in the fretboard.... but it could be an illusion caused by the multiscale.
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Nice! Let's hope the price is, ahem, 'manageable'. P.S. Do they have torzoidal necks like the LittleGuitarWorks basses as well as fanned frets (like Dingwalls) And headless like Steinberger?
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This basschat thread is half a dozen posts in with no contrary views so here goes... Ed's playing to the dogma of tradition and supposition that groove-orientated music somehow has primacy. It doesn't and his approach is wrong for many situations. His wry observations on the latest YT wunderkind are spot-on but they lurch to the opposite end of the musical spectrum to the absurd, leap-froging all the 'post Stanley/Jaco' great music with active, melodic, up-front bass I love...
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Reminds me of a heavily processed version of John Entwistle's later sound with his Status Buzzard. The chap in video has a Status so that may be the connection. So as the previous poster said a new set of strings, some dirt dialed in from the amp, and plenty of treble too. See about 1hr into this...
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Even Stanley played one... for a little while anyway...
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Bass Guitar Magazine and Bass Player to merge
visog replied to Kevsy71's topic in General Discussion
Isn't he. Rick whilst a guitarist/pianist composer, producer and musicologist... he does have substantial bass coverage including interviews with Victor and Jeff Berlin. Also he has a son who has perfect pitch which has got to be seen (heard?) to be believed! He just tripped 500k subscribers too! -
Not seen the classic before - beautiful! Sort of merge between the current Spitfire and his earlier Goodfellow shape from the '80s. Very nice. God I hope I don't see one in a five...
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Oh and it looks like Darkglass have a new one just out worth exploring... Again on the expensive side but with considerable functionality.
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Compressors!? Oh not sure they've been discussed here before so may have caught us out. I'll cut to the chase - the stock answer is Spectracomp or a Cali if you can afford it.
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Bass Guitar Magazine and Bass Player to merge
visog replied to Kevsy71's topic in General Discussion
Totally agree - Adam Neeley, Rick Beato and Scott Devine will give you (free - not even talking about Scott's subscription site) so much bass and wider music to work on, plus a broad industry perspective which is intelligent, witty and contemporary. The mags on the other hand are little more than advertising catalogues with bizarrely esoteric bass reviews interspersed with bearded post-metal players of which you've never heard. And Victor Wooten on an endless loop. That said, even the mighty Viz is being challenged online now by the consistently high hit-rate Daily Mash... (At least the wordy articles rather than the cartoons..) -
Ibanez's Gerald Veasley (not the custom which is zillions) but the GVB36 has a famously narrow string spacing (14mm)
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I was at this one...
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Love RTF... 'Romantic Warrior' is great and so is the earlier 'Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy' with Bill Connor on guitar. Struggled a bit with their funk odyssey 'No Mystery' but the title track is great with Stanley on bull fiddle.
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Sorry I missed directed you. I was referring to this: Which is neither a 5-string or 33" scale. But it is a Warwick so 1 out of 3. Sorry.
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You seem to be deliberately intellectualizing your app here.... You should be going for usability and transparency. So it's a chord-suggester... there's plenty out there... And I for one think you should do that for yourself as part of the writing process.
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Andertons have given this model another outing today....
