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Listened to it once, didn't get it. Not as good as Scott 4 or Nite Flights, but then again not much is.

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1430430250' post='2761477'] G2 announced recently that their 'Mike' was leaving - Parkinson's has finally got the better of him sadly. Loads of time for Mike Rutherford and it must be a tough gig being him. [/quote] Yeah, very sad news. Dave has a pillar of the Genesis trib scene since very soon after the time I started in the mid-90s - and passed on incredibly valuable info about how to keep a Moog Taurus I in tip-top condition (mine weren't).

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1430419702' post='2761322'] Which ones? I've seen G2 and ReGenesis lately. [/quote] First was Invisible Touch, mid-90s to early 2000s, then a stint with In The Cage kind of mid-2000s to 2007 or 08. Did a one off with The Carpet Crawlers from Liverpool around the same time, and was later hired by ReGenesis but didn't gig with them due to cabinet reshuffles. I often bump into current and ex incumbents on the prog gig circuit - there seem to be more Genesis tribs around now than ever before.

Genesis (retired). I've been the "Rutherford" in about 4 UK tribs armed with Shergold, Rickenbacker, Moog and a 12-string acoustic (which was the hardest to play of the lot)

I saw them at the Borderline in London a couple of years ago, great stuff. Is their 21st Century Schizoid Man cover still in the set?

Agree! Having said that it's hard enough to get my guitarist and keyboard to shut up/play quietly at any other time that I take the opportunity to improve my soloing to both help me keep track of where I am, and play something interesting and meaningful at the time. Which is also difficult.

[quote name='acidbass' timestamp='1429740522' post='2754578'] Lol me too! Although I would be partial to my work with Joni Mitchell. [/quote] I'd struggle with the high-waist trousers tbh

Yep, I've got an Analogman BiComprossor which allows either/or/both compressors to be engaged at any time. Or, just get a boost as others have said - Mark Bass Super Booster is another example.

If you're feeling adventurous, try it in 7/8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckp8mJN5ojI

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1429704971' post='2754111'] I play it starting at 5th position, so 2nd finger on the b flat. That way you keep the same pattern as you move around the neck. [/quote] Same here, but maybe third or fourth time around there's some raking down to the F on the E string that works best playing the B flat 1st fret on the A string. Move positions and some different note choices will jump out at you.

Here's someone's photocopies of the relevant pages from The Essential Jaco Pastorius, this is the version originally from Invitation: http://www.youbioit.com/es/article/imagen/4045/imagen19 (click back a couple of pages for Soul Intro if you need that as well)

Get a transcription, read along while listening. Don't try to learn it note for note, just nick your favourite bits.

I'd flatten the EQ.

Are you Doop, by Doop?

I usually say something "Thanks, very kind of you to say, thanks for coming" as others have suggested - acknowledging that it takes a bit of pluck on their part to make the effort to come and make the compliment. What's disappointed me before is name players who, when approached with a similar complimentary manner about how their playing has made an impression, say "nah mate I was rubbish tonight".

Pulsar? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar_(band) (look at the actual state of them)

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1427744827' post='2733829'] Now here's a bassist who gets bassists excited. What do you recommend, and/or what is considered his finest work? [/quote] Some favourites of mine... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlhQ3iC54QM ...originally from Numan's "I Assassin", which is all Pino. And here he is with Nine Inch Nails recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXBiYFoHsOg And with John Mayer, and as always check out his original Grolsch bottle washer straplocks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFgFFNXahcg

do they publish articles about Rickenbackers?

[quote name='Drax' timestamp='1427578847' post='2732024'] Reallt enjoyed that. Never really given them enough of my time. What's the best place to start? [/quote] Get all of it! "Nuclear Burn" 4 CD box, featuring the main Brand X albums plus some extras: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nuclear-Burn-Brand-X/dp/B00O9K8WS4 Currently £12.82 and worth every penny. You get John Giblin on some of it, which is no bad thing (plus a couple of tracks with both of them)

Are they going to do promotion, cover expenses? (don't hold your breath), provide backline to your spec?

Start another band with the keys player, do both for a while and see which one is doing better in a few months.

[quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426897189' post='2723348'] Now that the decades have passed since getting rid of it; I've come to realize that McCartney probably played this bass because they made him a left-handed copy. He got it free. That's all there is to it. [/quote] They initially wanted money for it though, but yes it was a freebie. He's since started using other basses, which were also freebies. What company wouldn't want the world's most influential bassist showing off their wares on stage? You'd be daft not to give him a freebie. McCartney has said in interview "It was the first left-handed bass I´d ever had, ´cause the Hofner was a converted right-hand. It was a freebie and I loved it". Why put it on Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, Revolver if he didn't?

[quote name='Bronner' timestamp='1426897189' post='2723348'] The day I got rid of it I had no remorse and I still don't have any remorse. [/quote] How much did you sell it for, by the way?

No it's white and gold

...and it's a huge improvement on this