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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CrSdJPZLss Best player? Best tone? Best music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CrSdJPZLss Best player? Best tone? Best music?

I bet that'll be different. I caught Jonas years ago with the reformed Mahavishnu and then duetting with John McLaughlin. He used his double-neck Wal for that! He certainly was very sloppy by today's standards...

Ray - thanks for your response but we're beyond aesthetics now... It is what it is... me wanna try with a view to buy... Please tell me where you've seen one on UK soil...

Has anyone seen one of these in the flesh yet? I'm gassing for one but I'd like to try it first... ? Please let me know of any shop sightings...

Played Warwickhunt's Flashback years ago... very heavy! But interesting... Can't help thinking - get a through-neck for the sustain without the weight... but I know the NT changes the the natural compression a little over a bolt-on. Pretty rare bird these days...

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1439747603' post='2845454'] Go, Kevin. You have something exceptional on offer there, bro. Keep up the good work. [/quote] +1 Cracking!... Reminded me a bit of IOU album (in a good way). Must be good if Bilbo didn't say... 'it didn't swing...', or 'would be better on acoustic bass', or 'not enough beards' or 'more elbow patches' p.s. Preston, Glasgow and Lowestoft sounds like the worst tour schedule imaginable.

Makes my gassing look positively conservative! Great collection and commentary. I like how your interest extends from the exotic custom to the everyday basses many more of us have enjoyed...

Would love to help out... but I'm up North. As Bernie is on the South Coast too, I'm sure many of his basses have migrated across towards you. If you can, try out both a neck-through and one of Bernie's bolt-ons which are great too and have a super-secure six bolt join. The 'B' string are fantastic, ring out well, are usable all the way up the neck and have a consistent tone with the rest.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1437593514' post='2827460'] Actually you can argue with that. With the utmost respect, where Yes go next has absolutely nothing to do with Chris Squire. [/quote] Well I guess being harsh about it, Mr Squire can't do much from the afterlife if you believe in that sort of thing. In every other dimension it has everything to do with him as the only original member. From now on in, unless they get JA back as an original, it has no legitimacy apart from the album to album authority on which individual members appeared.

Great thread... Enjoyed everyone's choices... I'll go with three: first and old one with the much missed Chris Squire being supremely musical as ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-rdL2KkvzY Godlike tune. Great melodies. In terms of harmony, this fried my head - the great Jimmy Johnson on bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2HlyupMt8A And here's a wild card for anyone looking for something melodic but different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU9CvQztcrI

[quote name='HazBeen' timestamp='1437081757' post='2823525'] Picked up my new De Gier Bebop 5 today. Haven't been able to put it down.... [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]this one is probably amongst the very best I have owned both in build quality and tone. [/font][/color] [/quote] Hmmm... you're not sure it's the one are you? 'Amongst' is a pretty hesitant recommendation... Clarify... if you've owned 100 5-string jazzers then that would be good but if you've owned, say three.... not good? Oh wait and only 'probably' amongst!?

Hmmm fretless basses are difficult beasts to shift... there's a deal to be done there.... I'd go £750 and work up....

So a new measure for height of the action... can you fit a cat under the strings?....

I've said it before in other posts, and it pains me that he's french, but this guy just kills it... His facility is amazing... http://www.mymusicmasterclass.com/premiumvideos/hadrien-feraud-bass-lesson/

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1435949308' post='2813980'] It probably wouldn't have attracted the same interest if buried in Theory and Technique. [/quote] * Moderators * And can we get Bassace 'counciled' too on the consequences of mis-posting. No cuts just knuckles at this stage. At this rate, I'll be selling my Astra in 'EUBs and Double Basses'

Moderators - please get this moved to 'Theory and Technique' and have the OP roughed-up for posting in General

I'm a huge Yes fan but... now that Squire has gone... Yes has no original members. (AKA SugarBabes Syndrome) So the runners are: Billy Sherwood - Does a pretty good impression of Squire but not sure of calibre of original playing for new material? Tony Levin - Incredible player, most integrity as a monster bass player - odds on favourite Jon Camp - Possible stand-by for Levin when he was sick on ABWH, great Squire fan and player Jeff Berlin - Technically brilliant but with no idiomatic empathy and a disdain for Squire's lines (also bad moustache and fanny-pack, and attitude) Miguel Falcao - Great YouTube Chris Squire enthusiast who captures lines brilliantly... It's where the clever money is... Wild card - Celebrity bass replacement... Pino 'Tasteful to the point of bland' Palladino - no! We need Rickenbacker 'ice-pick in the forehead' bass tone! Get Anderson and Wakeman back and it could work - Bruford out of retirement would be an impossibly exciting bonus...

Maple fingerboard. I'm getting dust around the pick-pus and bridge too.

Chaps, Best non-invasive, non-abrasive ways of cleaning out the cack? My dusty end is looking pretty filthy!

Terrible shame... massive inspiration. I took up bass because of Chris too like so many others..

These lists are guaranteed to cause an argument! I won't argue the travesty that Jaco is so far down the list. Or Chris Squire. But what does strike me is how much it's skewed to the fashion of the day, whenever these sort of lists are made. Also sadly, it bears almost no relation to popular music today.... unfortunately we are the tuba players of this generation.

[quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1435261516' post='2807153'] I depped for a gig. The guys were used to a 'proper' bass. Raised an eyebrow when I pulled a sparkly orange bongo out of the case [/quote] That's a euphemism right?

Yes. You'll be viewed with suspicion for using the newfangled instrument even though it's now 55 plus years old. Jazz purists are essentially the musical Amish who'll argue forever about whether the rhythm sections swings. All while your audience dwindles to other players participating in the jam night. And they'll bitch about your phrasing.

Bass Direct have a nice blue one at the mo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1kll26WsUM