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And a fine job you do too, in making us all welcome and part of the basschat family

I guess one shouldn't exaggerate, there are several tracks i like, I did learn the Chicken and Birdland, So I guess more than one spin but not a fan. I do believe he helped make electric bass more acceptable to the wider jazz community, and if he were still alive maybe it would have been as acceptable by now as the dog house. His contribution and influence is without question.

Wow emperors new clothes and all that - thought it was just me but didn't want to say - I have his back catalog because i thought i was missing out. Listened to it once

Oh and Bluejay of course

Schack basses are there this year so I will make the effort, and bring my Wad

We lost or keyboard so became guitar/bass and drums n vocal, but reworked it as a four. Never had feedback again was one plus, Guitarist had to adapt to rhythm and lead, and I had to play more legato than the staccato style i had adopted previously to be heard to cut through his left hand stuff. I now listen and learn tracks differently to identify what i need to cover and what the guitar will cover. sometimes this will need discussion if the track has multiple instruments you have to judge what are the most prominent hook or signature instruments and leave the others out. e.g. the guitarist may have to play a prominent sax part and not the guitar rhythm part and you may have to play the keyboard part but also cover some of the guitar whilst he does the brass. But for me there is no going back.

Love what you are doing here but would suggest you should make the head stock look more like the bass e.g. ( upper and lower horn ) I feel this would look much better in context with the bass as an entity, rather than approaching them both separately. all the best

That could catch on, a couple of sofas and an easy chair, you would need a standard lamp and large rug for effect.

"The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the [url="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Universe"]Universe[/url]. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish." sorry couldn't resist it

TV through a 4x10 cab do you take a sofa to gigs and play laying down

even when blowing is asked for sucking is preferred, well generally speaking

As pointed out by Muzz above - I don't see this being anything to drag me away from the Mark bass I have gigged for ten years, Mesa have just adopted their VPF from the description on the youtube demo.

Icastle has mention both things i would have offered up. Any send and return can break down opening the circuit, I periodically use industrial contact cleaner (being a spark sorry if you dont have this) spray a jack plug and pull it in and out, also wipe the jack off on a cloth to remove any dust or crud and do it again. I do this to all aux jack sockets because your fan pulls air and dust in through them. Always worth doing this once or twice a year. I have also bought a new speaker from EA at great expense import duty and tax, because of a farting noise from the speaker, eventually tracked it down to a loose cable in a speakon i had made up, not before also thinking like you that my markbass speakon socked had a joint problem on the board. Because the sound problem was intermittent this took me months to locate the source, not helped by the fact i had two identical cabs and two different amps both with similar home made cables

It was style over substance, I would have liked to have heard more of his last album etc, but this was about the man, A man dealing with the big C and how that knowledge and end date affects an individual, It was not a musical journey biog. Still Liked it could watch again.

Yep - the same, looks like tortoise shell when glossed up

That should come up great when finished - here is a pic of my Shuker which looks 3 dimensional in the lights [attachment=205907:IMG_1813.jpg] good luck look forward to seeing the finished bass

Thanks Bluejay i can now tune my 5 string using tab.

I stuck with it and enjoyed the Art house style interlaced clips, strange but thought provoking. I was not aware of his intellect and other interests. So wonder now if he had more to do with the input to what was to be an epitaph to him, If you are to die and someone wants to make a documentary about your exit, My guess is he wanted it to be a poetical statement about his inner self not just dismissed as "another old guitarist died today headline".

Just bought a cab from Owen, well packed and quick delivery. Sounds bl dy great too. I had no worry about sending him the cash. Always good to see his opinion on topics too

Reading English - yes Reading music -yes this opens up many more areas for you to explore 5 String bass - Only if your music requires it. The reason i now only play 5 string basses is because for the last 30 years from the early 80's synth bass forced us down this route and now many pop numbers are recorded with 5 string parts. But there are lots of Indie bands, country and folf and jazz where you do not need 5 string low bass.