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visog

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  1. Looks like you're catching 'Fodera'. It's an expensive affliction.
  2. FFH is better than 'Open Your Eyes' and 'The Ladder' and all that noughties guff. Nothing beats '70 Yes though. 'Close to the Edge' and 'Relayer' are stunning and good luck learning the bass parts, let alone the vocal harmonies! And don't get me started on the Trevor Rabin years where the mighty melodic Squire was reduced to 8th note chugging behind a wall of distorted guitars. If you want recent Chris Squire, investigate his collaboration with Steve Hackett on Squackett's 'Life within a Day'. Prog-pop I'd call it with some great music. Not classic Squire bass as its not gritty or as over-driven as the early years but some good harmonies none the less.
  3. [quote name='silddx' timestamp='1341606856' post='1721861'] I just got it, thanks for the tip. It's a great issue. Interview with Geddy, Dave Swift's amazing collection, reviews of the new Fender STD Strat and Precision, and a reverse Jag with upside down headstock, and a raft of other interesting stuff. It's always been a good mag, but now it's great. I think this is how a musician's magazine should be, it makes BGM look a bit ridiculous to be honest but hopefully Joel McIver will up their game. The content is well written and there is LOTS of it, the reviews are short but excellent, and there's so much to the whole mag, definitely a 14 sh*tt*r, I can get through BGM in 4 or 5. [/quote] Wait! - I thought the official line was we hated this magazine?
  4. Well all of them of course but the Spitfire's Olive Ash top is gorgeous...
  5. [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1341570082' post='1721037'] The Who - Who's Next - never heard it Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin - heard some but not all of it Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - never heard it Genesis - Nursery Cryme - I think I have heard it but can't be absolutely sure Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick - never heard it Cream - Disraeli Gears - never heard it Pink Floyd - Meddle - never heard it Joni Mitchell - Blue - I OWN ONE!!! Jefferson Airplane - Bless Its Pointed Little Head (Live) - never heard it Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? - heard 4 tracks off it (all the hits) - never really got into Hendrix Bjork - Post - never heard it Yes - The Yes Album - I used to own it and it is a great album!! Radiohead - OK Computer - never heard it What was I doing all that time? It's nice to hear these things and I think if I could get Spotify in work I would try but, when I am at home, I just look for other things. I like a lot of Rush but I think its nostalgia not aesthetics!! [/quote] With the greatest respect Bilbo, you need to get out more... at least to iTunes. (or Amazon 'cause it's cheaper.) From what I can see here, you're mainstream music education is Joni Mitchell and Yes which actually is a pretty great start. To your point, skip nostalgia and go for the Radiohead and Bjork where you'll hear incredible music. I'd go with Geddy's recommendation on 'OK Computer' but sub 'Vespertine' for 'Post'. Note: this is a music recommendation not a bass recommendation. Interestingly, on a Gary Husband's tour a couple of years ago, in his evocations series he did John McLaughlin and also Bjork!
  6. Not sure what 'Brickhouse' is but you say you've got A C E G as chord tones so that's Am7. if that's the chord you're playing against then yes you've hit chord tone bingo. The F# would just be a passing note as you say from the A Dorian scale, i.e. the 6th of A Dorian. Not a note you'd rest on but it sounds OK as it's from the key centre. Jeff Berlin's point on this matter is that waffling around the A Dorian scale generally is OK but doesn't specify the chord you're playing against. So as long as you're playing on the Am7, you're bang on. You've seen this right? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYvUBVMqMk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYvUBVMqMk[/url] (Trouble is... JB's approach has us all playing the same vanilla chord tones... where's the expression!?)
  7. Truckstop, I've a bastard to renovate... bastardisation is in two areas: pick-guard cut down and frets as it's had a defret and refret - the latter not being great. PM me if you're interested. visog
  8. It's a mixed blessing. My GB has acres of sustain which puts the onus on you to damp carefully otherwise the whole things reverberates like a kicked grand piano. (Basically it's my fault!)
  9. Cool - I did not know that. Thanks neepheid. I'll try that on my next string change. visog
  10. Hi all, I've got one of these on my bass and apparently you can change the string spacing. Does anyone know how do you do this? visog
  11. Has any band not covered 'YYZ'? Even Atomic Kitten have done a version.... (probably) Here's Mike Portnoy making a good fist of it... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvzqabY_ou8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvzqabY_ou8[/url]
  12. [quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1339279311' post='1686395'] Oooooh something different ,.......... Controversial [/quote] Not sure it's that controversial... If I'd said a Rickenbacker 5 or a Gibson 5 maybe. Bernie does a great 'B' on his 35" scale basses even if he's perhaps better known for his 4-string 'slap machines'.
  13. For the Gallery, in case you don't know the way, walk down Camden Road then right into Royal College Street and its along there on the left. Expect it to look closed-up. You have to buzz to get in. Very tempting place!
  14. [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1339072730' post='1683226'] I'll try to explain. When players call a 12-bar blues in Bb, it is not actually in Bb, it's key centre starts in Eb major the key which the Bb7 is the dominant chord in. When it goes to the fifth bar, the chord of Eb7 is the dominant chord of the key of Ab major, so, whilst the tune is 'in' Eb, it isn't. THe head of the chart, however, will have a key signature that tells you which notes to play sharp or flat, it does not tell you that the key changes at the fifth bar etc. [/quote] Eh? What! Can you go again only slower...?
  15. GBs - Rumour or Spitfire 5's
  16. Not as well produced as Fly from Here. Some of the songs sounds a bit demo'y... But there's some nice harmonies and playing here and there. And some of the songs have stuck in my head. Check the previews on Amazon before buying as Yes/Fish Out of Water/Genesis it ain't! My theory is that Squire plays differently with Steve Howe who gives him loads of sonic space. Trevor Rabin's power chording constrained him to basic rock playing behind the power-chords. Steve Hackett is somewhere in the middle. So not classic Squire but good playing and singing none the less.
  17. [quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1338231796' post='1671293'] i always loved that bass-line, but always thought it was slapped ? if not - that makes me feel a whole lot better about never having been able to master it smoothly.. [/quote] Slapped, sampled and re-played on a keyboard
  18. Let's not forget the triple-neck Wal, his extended scale Tobias, Lakland and even a fretless Carvin in there somewhere but I don't know on what records he's used those latter ones. In terms of Squire's approach, I think Trevor Rabin changed it dramatically back to a less melodic, more traditional role and the reason? Yes lost the 'band as chamber-orchestra' approach and had to hide behind Rabin's power chords and his primary melodic position. All hail classic Yes circa 71-76!
  19. [quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1337500536' post='1660835'] Sadly not, I've got an ex-student who's got a stand of Cigar-box guitars and that sort of thing; I think he's running as D810 guitars. You could pop by and say hello if you're interested in detritomusicology (making instruments from junk!). [/quote] Unfortunately that rather sums up the NGS these days. (The days of Billy Sheehan, Doug Wimbush and Stu Hamm doing clinics there are long gone.) Bass Day is better for kit and players although I didn't go to last years Band on the Wall mash-up.
  20. Jeff Berlin in the 'pre-chorus' years? Heavily mod'ed admittedly
  21. I'd play a bass with one before you decide... to my ears it didn't affect the tone as much as it did the weight!!!
  22. [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1336830858' post='1651667'] it was nice. Bit polite, and very high string tension for some reason. Also photography courses at uni helped [/quote] High string tension!? It's a 34" so no different to any other standard bass. Tension will be the strings. I use 40-100 on mine and it's fine. Great for slapping. Think Status did a 5 string version too?
  23. Same model and colour scheme - lovely tobacco sunburst but definitely not yours! I've had mine from new. They're a great bass as you'll know. Nice flat fingerboard. Not much tonal variation, even from the actives but what it does, it does well. visog
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