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So what's the bass angle? Who's on bass? Were they good?

It's a good question to ask as ironically, for a serious 4-figure purchase, you're buying on trust and an aspiration where as in most other situations, you buy with the actual bass in your hand. So I'd firstly ask myself do I truly want/need a unique bass? Then research and go to the next Bass Show, the Bass Gallery and Bass Direct and try out as many of these customs as you can. Also A/B with them with the hi-end mass produced models. Yamaha and Ibanez may not have the cache of a customer built but they've got six-sigma QA (go look it up - it's basically martial arts applied to production systems) which makes for some wonderful basses. Finally, your builder will be you partner in this endeavour so find someone who you get on with and shares your vision. Also, pick someone who's reasonably near to you so you can pop-in when build decisions are made. I went with Bernie Goodfellow who whilst making cracking basses, lives near the Antarctic (well Brighton). ... and then remember Jaco changed everything on a $90 second-hand mass-produced Jazz, albeit of good vintage.

Geddylicous!...

Loving a Spitfire... that blue is nice too... Slaptastic!

That is gorgeous... ticks all the boxes: modern playability but with aged mojo! Tell us Fretmeister - do you worry about dinging a relic'd bass?

So I just got my copy... Nice package... well done. Obviously funded by a certain Metallica bass player and Jaco fan: Robert Trujillo. Not a cheap knock-off like some of the later New York recordings - a quality product produced in conjunction with the Pastorius estate. Not breaking too much new ground... it's the early demo's for his debut solo album. I'd say it's one for the Jaco fans & completists for the new photos, packing and new takes. Continuum and Havona are demo's but clearly he's played them for some time as he's fooling with the melodies and fills. Overall the sound quality is pretty good but with a lot of hiss... dolby not being around in '74. (But I was never a fan of noise reduction anyway as it sucked out the high-end..) Tread carefully though... it;s pretty full-on and by that I mean Jaco is absolutely shredding on every tune, many of which are pretty hard jazz. Weather Report it is not. Most of the tunes are a deadly 16/32nd note groove with some pretty wild electric piano over the top. In fact one of the tunes, 'Balloon Song' ends up sounding very like Yes' 'Gates of Delirium'! He was 22 at the time of this recording and it's all here: groove for days, accurate super-fast phrasing, woody mid-range tone and harmonic chords chiming everywhere. visog

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1400845281' post='2457447'] I always thought they looked alike (take the 's' off https to get the video to embed btw)! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uBOtQOO70Y[/media] [/quote] Me too! Also, I hoped he'd do the cow-bell thing and he did! Cool

Shame... don't want to speak ill but was never much of fan of his metally big-hair stuff - that said, his playing with Yngwie must have been a note-fest to behold. Not sure his case for a bass wang was proven either... Anywho, he was obviously a talented guy - here he is in a more textural Warwick mode: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilsKlbAjhEw"]https://www.youtube....h?v=ilsKlbAjhEw[/url]

Disagree entirely... his touch is sublime and lends new light to old melodies which are obviously his muse... his 'Over the Rainbow' is legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgGvml0cOKA If you're evaluating him in terms of chromatic approach notes or substitutions you'll miss it entirely... just go with a visceral (diatonic) melody with heaps of articulation.

These have got quite a rep in terms of 'bang for buck'... Is this a through-neck? £400 is a good price. Enjoy it!

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.