visog

Difficult to say what's more cynical: [list] [*]AC's variety of endorsed models or, [*]Warwick's outragoues using up of John Entwistle Buzzard/Explorer parts in a supposed separate model? [/list]

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1425668394' post='2709630'] I'm at Brixton [/quote] You're avoiding the issue

I'll pass.. don't want to call your baby ugly but it's got bad tone, bad intonation and substitutes good song-writing for rather studied 'weirdness'.

Hostile/punative venues... Potential audiences stay at home now... massive cultural change over last 20 years - look at the rise in super-market alcohol sales and correlate to pubs closing. When audiences do appear, they generally don't want bands any more - only tunes they recognise are 'classics'/featured in films/featured in X-Factor/Radio which leads me to my next point... Guitar-driven bands old fashioned in this era of Urban/R&B which has been the dominant style form for a little while now.

Isn't 'GuitarChat' down there in the lower forums somewhere? *looks down nose*

That is gorgeous... Is it available in our universe and if so, how many of our earth pounds?

Hi Basschat, Please use your awesome bass recognition skills on this handsome instrument JP is holding but doesn't actually play in this video disappointingly. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDxriM8vgm4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=zDxriM8vgm4[/url] It's a beaut! He used to play Ken Smith and Yamaha. Kinda looks like the latter? visog

Man that's horrid... but each to his own... Didn't Warwick to a 'Katana' named model too? Rather have the Warwick...

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1424900221' post='2701780'] Loved it - Macca is a much-derided (& very talented) man - I wonder how old that clip is? [/quote] I think it's about 10 years old and comes from a special he did from Abbey Road to small audience reminiscing and playing songs and snippets recorded there. He comes across as, amongst other things, a very musical person... And let's not forget, the mighty Jaco, a music snob by all accounts, covered Blackbird.

[quote name='Dazed' timestamp='1424538500' post='2697486'] Or a gloss black at bass direct , video link on page. [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Warwick_Streamer_Stage_II_4_Black.html"]http://www.bassdirec...II_4_Black.html[/url] [/quote] That's a beaut...

Oh and Bright Size Life - that's a cracker. Him and Metheny were barely out of their teens when they made it.

Can't recall seeing the interview portion of this before so thanks... As for the JayDee I assume he's just borrowed on that gig. Here he is with Jeff Berlin, also at BIT I believe this time on someone's Fender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRFbfBGgpbw His demeanour in the clinic is very much like on the DCI video which as others have said, is probably the more lucid side of a troubled individual. Pity bi-polar was not as recognised, and as treatable then. Still we have his solo records, Weather Report and Joni...

Not sure a demo's been posted yet... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7UttqFowU It comes with a wireless transmitter and is sounding pretty cool

[quote name='ribbetingfrog' timestamp='1423473370' post='2685053'] I saw the photo and the price and thought it was a 2x12, I think my eyes popped out cartoon stylie when i realised they wanted £600 for a desktop amp! Eagerly awaiting buying a used one from the one crazy person who buys one. Pretty though �� [/quote] So about the same as the Ashdown....

Well it could be just the thing for me (and Mrs visog). Looking forward to some reviews... Anyone spotted any yet?

You're all thinking it...

Very nice. Coughs *how much did that cost!?*

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1423133250' post='2681093'] You want one that doesn't colour the sound then. Some outboard pres are pretty much a colour box with an eq control, similar to the front end of an amp. [/quote] Not necessarily... Certainly you don't want one that colours it not to you taste but the whole point of the outboard is that you affecting the signal in some way, if only to clean it up, EQ it and boost it. So the MXR, Sadowsky, Aguila, Bassbone are good candidates but I'd encourage you to consider those that add some dirt in your sound too, particularly if you like that vintage rock vibe (Geddy, Chris S, John Wetton). So consider also the Sans Amp range, EBS valve drive and connoisseurs' choice for bass distortion, the Dark Glass B7K.

I'll pitch in for the clanklicious Mr Squire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHl6sDLX8tQ

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1422218569' post='2670046'] Black Eagle reissue! Talman basses! Oh, and that Volvo, or Vulva or whatever it's called... Jon. [/quote] P.S. Looks like Ibanez are going right back to their heritage of borrowing ideas at the mo:[list] [*]Volo - Fodera Matt Garrison (not looks but concept - tuning, ramp, scale, etc.) [*]Black Eagle - Burns [*]Fanned fret - Dingwall [/list]

[size=4]OP: [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Advice on how to get this tone?[/font][/color][/size] [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Looks like a Lakland through a Mark Bass - good gear, good technique, well recorded...[/font][/color]

Like the look of the 33" Volo bass which with ramp, presumably is their take on a Fodera Matt Garrison? [url="http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/show/namm2015/index.html"]http://www.ibanez.co...2015/index.html[/url] And in action here: http://www.ibanez.co.jp/eu/news/f_products/2014/workshop/volo.html

Again?

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1421062117' post='2656615'] No instrument is bounded to a genre or a time frame. The 'Jaco' or 'Pino' styles of fretless playing are not the only 'schools' and the instrument has moved with the music. [/quote] Well I was being provocative but, in fairness, the sum total of this thread would suggest not. (I'll give you Mick Karn but that was 30 years ago.) As for the 'experimental fretless funk' and Tony Franklin, I see that less of a 'school' as a couple of bad cases of bass tourettes.

[quote name='cd_david' timestamp='1420905353' post='2654827'] If prefer my old one [/quote] Oh I see, you left your stash in it....