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[quote name='visog' timestamp='1394043701' post='2387337'] We that's quite nifty playing... [size=2]* mumbles if it's actually him*[/size] [/quote] OK found some documentary evidence of TM Stevens with John Mclaughlin.... and its pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBcj96KuRm8 Not strictly Mahavishnu Orchestra - it's one of his later projects but some great playing from TMS none the less...

Thumbs-up.... nice 'grand piano' tone

Wayfarers - check, floral shirt - check, belly on full paunch - check Now remove frequencies below 1 KHz the bass guitar. I give you Level 42! Bit harsh as I fit the above description as well although not as adept as Mr King..

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1482483485' post='3200876'] For me, then, if I don't convert, I need a 5er with a nut width not exceeding 1.75". Any such thing? [/quote] Wow - that's narrow

> [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Has anyone here converted a 4 string to a 5 string?[/font][/color] [font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][color="#323232"]God no. You can get perfectly serviceable 5s for the price of a 4 to 5 conversion bridge.[/color][/font] [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Just buy a 5... unless you actually mean, 'I want to have a go at converting a 4 to 5'... in which case knock yourself out...[/font][/color] [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]but don't expect anyone to buy the results unless to turn it back to a 4...[/font][/color]

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1482270384' post='3199177'] Dave Swift is a new endorsee [/quote] Right so... all good players, etc and good challenge to my point. But I was really referring to a romantic musical hero we aspire to be rather than the jobbing functional musicians you cite.. Which is what the Ibby's are in fact - jobbing and functional. Don't get me wrong - I'm an owner of multiple Ibbys and my first proper instrument was a Blazer sat behind me as I write this. Currently lusting after pretty-much all their bass workshop range which for a big manufacturer I think is a great bit of product R&D and should be applaud. Now if only they can distil mojo and pour a little into each truss rod cavity...

[b] Anybody played an Alembic Essence...........?[/b] Yes. Seem to recall Stuart Zender had one.

Name anyone who plays one...? Not accepting tier-3 obscure heavy metal. Fieldy does not count as he's silly. Right so everyone has said Gary Willis... good call. Great bassist but entirely singular views on a bass. So anyone else? Without tattoos on their face?

Sad to see this in the news... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-38370464 I suppose it's partly my fault as I was only an occasional buyer of 'Prog' magazine but I worry a little that this is yet another nail in the coffin for what is increasingly becoming the music of the last century.

Pino - tasteful, talented and... dull... Preferred him when he had a bit of individuality and sprayed fretless all over the songs.

From Rod Stewart's band for one I remember...

Agree with above comments about lines not that hard to play but I'd caveat that with some of timings are tricky and add in some pretty complex harmony vocals and you have a sophisticated musical capability. We haven't mentioned his tone too much in this thread yet. I've posted this a number of times in other threads but here again is his gloriously squelched distort 'o' rick... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwhMw5lwzNg (Not the Wal in the picture)

I do too. I think looking back it probably was more of a co-leader project with Andrew Jackman as his orchestration is a big part of it but Squire sings and plays so well on it. Also hurrah for no guitar to let the arrangements and his bass shine through... Bill Bruford rocks on it too...

I wouldn't get your hopes up guys - its vinyl and old (live instruments) coming back for their last gasp for going under finally. The turntables will all be in the loft again by March

Which version of the Bassbone have you got as the V2s have a similar high-pass filter as the Thumpinator - selectable to 80Hz or 150Hz (or off). Maybe the Thumpinator has better thresholds for 5-string at the low-B which is ~31Hz?

Anderton chaps having a play-through... Sounds great... like a decent modern amp with their distortion circuits thrown in... which makes sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evM7uXSI2Po&t=545s

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1480677039' post='3186280'] Easier to change a bolt on [/quote] I was waiting for that... how many of us have ever changed a neck on a bass? And re. bassjim's comment, "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I think I've read somewhere a bolt on has more natural compression ? More punch or something? Whatever it is" [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Other way around: through-necks have more natural compression with a longer sustain from the fundamental. Bolt-ons have the brighter, punchier 'quick' response.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Both good... although I wouldn't avoid a through-neck just to avoid neck changes! Also, these days, the countersunk six-bolt+ neck joints of many (Goodfellow, Dingwall and Ritter) to name but three make for an equally stable joint.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Not sure about those 3-bolt neck joints from Fender and others [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]And who said shimming in this day and age of super-flexible bridge and nut adjustment.[/font][/color]

Book-wise I'd recommend 'Ultimate Slap Bass' by Stuart Clayton, and I believe the now very old 'Slap It' by Tony Oppenheimer is very good but I've never used it myself. I think a book and a metronome is preferable to a video in acquiring the technique once you're past the basics.

Saw Stanley way back with Animal Logic. He had tonnes of basses on stage for that gig for some reason. Mostly played his Alembic and a Ken Smith though.

Well I'm not too much into the doghouse, even if it is a rare one. Your other Alembic vids are great....

For me this area is very polarising with the broad definition of 'Jazz Funk' being unhelpful... Most pure Jazz Funk, i.e. groove-based I find dull to the point of bad disco/porn soundtrack (chicca-wow) RTF - I love except but they're more Jazz Rock to my ears and when they did get more Jazz Funk on 'No Mystery' I didn't like it. (title track excepted) Grooves without development are boring. Which is probably why I'm not keen on many forms of dance music. (I realise by writing this I'm excluding myself from 75% of popular music... *reaches for Joe's Garage...*)

About 5 years ago PMT in Manchester created a Warwick wall with neon signage and oodles high-end German models as well as some of the budget lines. It's just an empty space of cobwebs and memories now... think they had a tough time shifting them at the prices... but for whatever reason they never re-stocked.

Please use the appropriate dog house forum for this sort of material. Mods - please move...

[quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1479032916' post='3173374'] I know Walter Trout has played a lowly Squier Strat for donkeys years. I'm sure he could have any guitar he liked but wouldn't be without the Squier. [/quote] Robert Fripp and his Tokai Les Pauls after owning and using the real thing throughout the 70s. (He had a couple of nice vintage black beauties...).

Didn't want to be insensitive re. Vic's passing but the balance of output and talent on that vid was shocking@ Michael Brecker! Peter Erskine Mike Mainierie and of course Vic. Dunno who the strummy guitar player was but not Mike Stern unfortunately although I dont think he could save it...