visog

I agree it's important - particularly if you/the band aren't the focal point and you want to transfer that focus to the music. As a Yes fan, although catastrophically '70s looking now, I loved their logo and the whole unfolding floating island Roger Dean work. By contrast, Rush changed their logos every album... but to me Hemispheres ancient script is my favourite.

When you can't afford it.

Hi, Anyone use this interface for bass? Opinions? Experiences? Thoughts? visog

Needs more 7th chords...

Really? Never seen pics of JW with either of those? Only ever seen him with his Ps and more recently Gibsons and Zons, etc. And I heard he had a Clarke Spellbinder too. I'd have thought he'd have avoided a Rick on Asia to avoid Squire comparisons?

The 'whole step & whole step' requires a position shift in the 1-5 fret area depending on the size of your hands but is eminently do-able in higher positions... Also, one shape formed by the major scale has three of these shapes on three adjacent strings making a very simple pattern with hundreds of permutations. E.g. in C major, we get G-A-B on the A-string, C-D-E on the D-string & F-G-A on the G-string... all starting on the 10th fret Uber-box shape heaven!

He only uses it for one song... but being Yes it's lengthy: the mighty 'Awaken'... It was originally commissioned from Wal by Rick Wakeman for his then bass player Roger Newell.

JW is also a killer song-writer... 'Starless' is a full-on prog classic. Also I second the mention of tone... his gritty P-bass tone on the first UK album is to die for... Yes and a great voice too...

Much discussion on this site about this bass... The original Wal and this Japanese copy he now plays. Unbelievably, there was a left-hand version (no really) for sale here too! I'm holding out for a version with fanned frets... And a whammy for each neck.

Sybass6 - sorry to be a meany but the trouble with sight-reading is that you need heaps of content to practise... I must refer students of sight reading (like me) to Sight Reading Machine for the iO/S. For £1.99 you get an app that generates unlimited numbers of sight-reading exercises to the parameters of your choice, including rests of different values (in bass clef). And it plays them so you can hear of you're right. So my suggestion to all learning sight-readers is check out Simon's e-book for theory and download the app too for practise to put some serious time and effort into 'shedding the music.. Quick edit: I have no affiliation with the app, just a happy customer...

To give you a more precise answer: $600: [url="http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=357"]http://store.hipshot...ct_detail&p=357[/url] (And that's without labour!)

Why oh why? It could be done and would involve cast or machined parts and a custom tuner block and, and, and, would be very expensive conversion. Get a whammy too while you're at it...

[quote name='allighatt0r' timestamp='1397469216' post='2424112'] Check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g6NygXdYtQ [/quote] His tone on this awful and he's not using one of his signature bass! Dreadful... But his isolated bass on WGFA is wonderful and the Alembic has that gritty tone without all that chorused overdrive of the clip above...

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1337342854' post='1658453'] Weather Report 'A Remark You Made' is the great fretelss 'entry level' tune. [/quote] 'Entry level'! Well it's not that many notes but good luck getting that intonation, tone and timbre...

Well that sounds a bit more involved and potentially drilling into your Fodera top. I think the Damien Erskine Skjolds have something like that. As a retro-fit, I'd go with a more simple ramp that gives you the 'wood under your fingers' feel without the fuss of some elaborate construction. Also I think the Gary Willis Ibanez has some adjustable thing happening too but yours is post-build and I don't want to suggest anything that involves Fodera surgery.

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1396814107' post='2417655'] Musings regarding Joni Mitchell .... At the beginning of this live recording she explains that after reading " Beethoven : His Spiritual Development " by J.W.N.Sullivan she was inspired to write this song from the angle of being Ludwig's personal muse and encouraging him to not give up . ( Ironically the volume fluctuates in this recording ) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDSQf-YMMw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=-JDSQf-YMMw[/url] My favourite Joni line is ; He sees the cars as sets of waves Sequences of mass and space from A Strange Boy off the Hejira album [/quote] Spooky! Me too! I love that album but it's so melancholic. 'Refuge of the Roads' shows off Jaco at his lyrical best with multi-tracked basses. Agree with all the praise from this thread. There's a really good Sky documentary on her tracking her early 60's coffee shop roots to her finding her daughter and grand-child. Very moving.

Not sure what you mean by 'cover'. But as for wood, choices are a combination of looks and functionality. So you'd want a wood that compliments your bass, or provides a nice contrast. Like the top of your bass, it can be a laminate if your luthier doesn't have a deep chunk of walnut lying around. Jon Shuker used a laminate to raise the height of mine to just under the strings when fretted at the 24th fret. But don't sweat it too much as if you use the tape option as I'm recommending, you can experiment without altering your (probably very) expensive Fodera. As for woods, mine's walnut - see 4th row down, 4th column: http://www.gbguitars.co.uk/gb_spitfire_gallery3.asp

My view, is short of having it shop-fitted by Fodera which I'm guessing is not an option, I'd get your nearest reputable luthier to make one out of a wood of your choice - (feel under the fingers & looks) and get them to fix it with double-sided tape so you don't make any permanent change to the wood on your bass. Bernie Goodfellow did my original ramp out of a matching walnut top wood and Jon Shucker (who's 200 miles nearer me) made some adjustments when we he set it up recently. Although it sounds flimsy, it works a treat. And shouldn't cost too much...

Sound engineering and acoustics get pretty complicated very quickly... Many variables. Most bass I've heard at a gig was Chemical Brothers... incredible

Agree with comments so far... RTF and early solo albums great, post-70's iffy. However it's worth remembering that whilst the records were a bit ropey, his live shows were great. During the 80's with Clarke/Duke, he used to get musicians out of the audience to play bass, sing as he did when I first saw him at the Manchester Apollo. Also wandered through the audience with a long cable. Another bit of trivia is that Animal Logic was going to have Allan Holdsworth in it and be called 'Electric Rush-hour' but AH baled. Earlier comment from a poster saying they caught him on OGWT when the poster got their first bass made me smile as this happened to me too only it was with a Clarke/Duke show (where he played his Carl Thompson - can't find on YT anywhere) and in the same week, Joni's 'Shadows and Light' with Jaco - both on BBC2. Those were the days. Amazingly I soldiered on with bass!

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1395998225' post='2408725'] He managed to spot that this [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8EotTtv2GU"]https://www.youtube....h?v=r8EotTtv2GU[/url] was lurking somewhere inside this [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJMMT9nXRI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=OVJMMT9nXRI[/url] [/quote] No I think he knew he could make the latter into the former. If music lore is true, he was mixing Yes' 'Big Generator' album at the time....

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1395532688' post='2403526'] he said he only used an Alembic because they're pretty much indestructible! [/quote] That's not what John Entwistle or Jason Newstead have said, at least on occasion! The latter using black ones too.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1395542245' post='2403565'] your kidding me right.? i dig your opinion most of the time Dingus. but in my opinion, , you are way off the mark. sorry. this is, what it is. although bass is what we love, some music should not be touched.. i couldn't think of anything worse than Victor Wooten double thumbing through this piece of music?. and Steve Bailey on a fretless. i would rather take a sh*t on a Rembrant. I'm not being snotty, but i think electric bass doesn't work for everything. [/quote] Go look up sarcasm... I think Dingus is agreeing with you.

Anyone managed to A/B one these Corts against the old Peavey Palladium?

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1394875088' post='2396135'] What are discs 2 and 3 in the pile there? [/quote] [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1394924180' post='2396857'] It's got the 'Invitation' disc instead of the unedited 'Twins'. Surely an inferior edit version shouldn't be in a box set of this price? [/quote] It appears to have both!? Discs 2 and 3 look like Twins I and II, as well as the edited Invitation. Can anyone confirm? Any how, if you're a fan rather than a collector you can get the music for a fraction of the cost of this set.