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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1478908105' post='3172704'] Yes, Steps Ahead are one of the bands I never tire of as well Live, over the years there have been various vids with different Bassists. But here is one with Vic. [media]http://youtu.be/mQDAlUG6VyA[/media] [/quote] God that was awful. Domino Theory for better Vic

It's an opportunity to put your creative stamp on an established structure - a 4th plinth if you will. That said, I never want to hear a jazz player rehearsing their II V Is and expecting people to pay to hear it...

Shame - nice guy... great bass player and lets not forget... had the toughest job in the business replacing Jaco in Weather Report.

[quote name='fleabag' timestamp='1478810871' post='3171894'] I only liked the first 2 albums she made, but they were absolute beauts and utterly timeless. The musicians were top grade too [/quote] Whoa steady now... they are great records and of their time but 'Hounds of Love', 'Aerial' and 50WFS are astonishing in their own ways. So bass-wise we have John Giblin, Del Palmer and Eberhard Weber. Not to mention Mick Karn (live) and Kate herself. Not shabby at all.

I have a wooden neck Shark pro active and it's a great bass with a killer action. Bit of slap machine - you won't get much dub reggae out of it but that's the electronics. So £280 for a similar if not better appointed bass sounds very good. Check its integrity carefully though.

The Contra is a great shape... kinda bringing back the single-cut to a viola. But like all these super-basses including Fodera - you're kinda giving off the message that you're pretty hot sh*t. So unless you unleash Anthony Jackson levels of righteous bass testimony, you'll be object of silent ridicule.

Well Don Ellis was Live in 3&2/3 over 4 time back in 1967. But no I'm a 4/4 person.

[quote name='Quilly' timestamp='1477937541' post='3165397'] It's a good thing to have somebody tell you the difference between what you want and what you really need. I'm sure there's lots and lots of Rickenbacker 4003 s and SVT monsters purchased from thomann et al on line and disappointed customers discovering that their teenage object of desire isn't exactly what they thought it was. These stores don't offer advice and will happily take your hard earned cash for the white elephant of your choose. So an expert opinion is invaluable. [/quote] Admirably prosaic but music shops are dream factories. If we all went away with what we truly need there'd be 200 Precisions sold across the UK for active professionals and maybe 100 rigs for the tourers and 100 DI boxes for the sessioneers. That's it! Vast majority would come away with absolutely nothing.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1476899479' post='3158313'] i cant get away from my Cali 76 BC [/quote] Well here are the Andertons team demo'ing this and the Boss and EH pedals.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPyYTjMRkTs Tough to hear the difference although they come out in favour of the transparent Cali. Is the Spectracomp a rival? What would tone prints do for compression?

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1476951836' post='3158667'] "Refuge of the road" by Joni Mitchell with Jaco on bass.....the phrasing, the sensitivity, the tone, the whole world he seems to open up.... [/quote] Oh man that honking multi-tracked fretless horn section. Unbelievable music. Totally brilliant

[quote name='grayn' timestamp='1476792801' post='3157239'] For me it's got to be Chris Squire, particularly on Close To The Edge. Driving, counter-melodic, with a wonderful tone and just plain brilliant. [/quote] 100% agree - tone, notes, counterpoint, singing. Stunning.

A/B if you can... not sure who stocks both... Bass Direct - DG certainly but not sure about the Ampeg. Or try Andertons if you're down south. I say this because part of the Ampeg sound is 'heft' and whilst I agree about the musical overdrive and flexibility of the VU, it didn't have the same heft as the cab sim'ed Le Bass I tried. So try them out... Andertons also now have the Tech 21 Bass Fly Rig which might also do the job for you with some additional bells n whistles... see the thread on this for a link if interested.

How's his hotel business doing?

Hello, Me again... the Anderton chaps have done a good a video on it too in case you haven't seen it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxpdqI76t_Y

Wow - this guy makes it sound awesome.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUC3FbJwUEg

Total hokum... avoid. Spend the time you'd go into town buying it on practising. The reviews are non-committal to appeal to advertiser but with softened signals to say to buyers, 'we warned you this was a bit meh'. Contributors are total bollocks with bizarre tapping lessons interspersed with grindingly basic tutorials on the ins and out of a C chord. (Spoiler: it's C E & G). Or you could listen to Stew McKinsey's spewings on extended range basses - a genre which has an audience of... well you buying this magazine. Listen, I'm not Putin, if you want to buy it go right ahead but be clear it will do absolutely nothing for your playing except degrade it by using up time to buy and read it.

Going to be a bit militant here so... here goes... You can ignore theory study area if are a savant like Hendrix who just hears it. But I'd suggest most people reading this are not! Even the mighty Jaco studied from the arrangers in his formative years. The abstract logic is that multiples of 3, 4, 5, 7 & 12 result in cadences, patterns and forms that result in a myriad of outcomes. Harmony and Melody-wise. And to quote a well-worn phrase, you can't break the rules until you know the rules... So just get on with it and learn it. But here's the rub - I can academically derive any chord, in any key - alterations and colourations included but I can't necessarily apply it in real-time in my bass lines which I guess is the real challenge.

Great band... not really focused on the bass. Just took in the whole vibe...

I'm afraid this is very true: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/sight-of-band-setting-up-strikes-fear-into-drinkers-hearts-20160930114664 No-one want's to hear a live band now unless they're go on to do a proper DJ set or they're Cold Play?

Christ that is unimaginative, derivative, horrid, horrid,horrid. Who designed this thing? Haven't heard or played it though so could be cool... *whispers but I doubt it*

Yes... them too. 1998 apparently. Brand now owned by Peavey.

Just looked at their website re. brands: [color=#000000]Gibson Brands has a portfolio of over 100 well-recognized brand names starting with the #1 guitar brand, Gibson. Other instrument brands include Epiphone, Dobro, Valley Arts, Kramer, Steinberger, Tobias, Slingerland, Maestro, Baldwin, Hamilton, Chickering and Wurlitzer. In professional audio, KRK Systems, TASCAM, Cerwin-Vega, Stanton, and Cakewalk also continue Gibson’s tradition of quality in their respective markets. Consumer electronics brands include Onkyo, Integra, TEAC, and Esoteric.[/color] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]And just noticed this:[/color][/font][/size] [color=#000000]Craig Anderton – Chief Magic Officer, Gibson[/color] They're boned!

Have to agree... they've not exactly been a bass players friend. In Gibson's eye's we're the guitar-players buck-tooth idiot cousin who's happy to plunk away on a short-scale thud machine. They bought and ran down Tobias... And my DAW of choice Cakewalk... and they've un-develped that. And their Victory basses were horrid. Let's raise and angry mob and go burn their factories...

How much!? Presumably that's the Custom Shop difference. Let's hope the QC is better than the regular production!