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[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1426511250' post='2718607'] I like it too... but I hate signature basses, I'd be much more likely to buy one if it didn't have his name on it. [/quote] How much is one like that?

Poor old Pharrell - the Gayes are after "Happy" now, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/mar/13/marvin-gayes-family-says-pharrells-happy-is-another-copy

[quote name='dmz' timestamp='1426106366' post='2714562'] ....don't forget his playing on a few Brand X albums too in the late 70's - try out the "Product" and "Do they hurt" albums and perhaps "Is there anything about". These albums also feature the genius that is Percy Jones ! [/quote] Good recommendation - Product includes some two-bass action from both JG and PJ, eg Wal To Wal (just the two of them plus a Roland CR-78, and some Phil Collins), and And So To F.

[quote name='wombatboter' timestamp='1426095659' post='2714363'] One of my favourite Gilblin-songs....haunting fretless, beautiful [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9wIVZBhT0"]http://www.youtube....h?v=Uh9wIVZBhT0[/url] [/quote] Cor. I never knew that wasn't Tony Levin.

A musicologist writes: http://joebennett.net/2014/02/01/did-robin-thicke-steal-a-song-from-marvin-gaye/ Essentially, despite different chords, underlying rhythm, basslines, key, vocal melody, lyrics, they sound a bit like each other and have highish pitched male vocal. The concluding sentence is interesting: "The act of putting an electric piano together with a cowbell and a 120BPM disco beat would need to have been judged a creative act in itself, making instrumentation and possibly even genre into protectable Intellectual Property. Which would have had massive implications for future creators of music".

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1426034446' post='2713738'] We have an ex John Giblin Aria in the shop. I play it every now and then in the pathetic hope it might make me sound like him. It never does. . . [/quote] Same here, but with the Takamine TB-10 he used in the Before The Dawn show. On the other hand, he doesn't sound much like me either, whatever bass he uses.

[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1424883410' post='2701562'] Until very recently I had one of these... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/136006-for-sale-shergold-twin-neck/page__view__findpost__p__1233806"]http://basschat.co.u...ost__p__1233806[/url] (see [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/254282-more-love-for-wunjo-and-basschat"]http://basschat.co.u...jo-and-basschat[/url] for what happened to it) [/quote] How curious - if anyone's interested, the guy who bought my Shergold double from Wunjo has recenty listed it on eBay... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shergold-Custom-Double-8-String-4-String-Double-Neck-Bass-UK-1980-/141595790819

[quote name='Count Bassy' timestamp='1425858047' post='2711623'] Well, I didn't learn that way (though many people probably wish I had). But seriously, it seems a really weird idea to video yourself doing something and then put it on the net. I have the same concerns with people reporting their every moment on facebook. To me it seems very sad, almost as if these people need to do these things to make themselves feel OK about themselves, or to justify their existence. I can't believe that these people do it out of altruism to help their fellow bassists learn stuff. [/quote] I didn't learn that way either, but it's a useful educational tool to be able to see how someone else has interpreted a line, and to be able to discriminate between the good and the less so. In this case, it's a demonstration of the player's timing, groove, and recall - despite not being a note-for-note rendition, but I don't think that really matters. I wish(!) I could play it that well, she's done a much better version than I could. Check out her "Dry Cleaner From Des Moines" as well. I have recorded clips of myself playing both bass and guitar parts on uploaded them on youtube - not as a vanity project (I'm not good enough) nor an altruistic venture, but so that I could unload the lines from my mental conveyor belt and make room for other stuff, knowing that the vids are there for reference if needed. Why upload them? So I don't need to keep a local copy. Are they public? Yes, and pretty much every one has had a comment saying "got any tab?" *sigh*

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1425730641' post='2710120'] Straight to the Editorial " Ears still ringing from the London Bass Guitar Show? Ours certainly are and what a mighty event it was! here at the Bass Guitar Magazine command bunker we're still reeling from the sheer amazingness of the bass players and gear we witnessed over that epic weekend in March...." [/quote] Maybe they're referring to March 2014, and they're in need of better earplugs

Show him this (and the guitarist/drummer/vocalist/audio engineer equivalents by the same guy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-zKMsj5rio

If you're going, get your ticket from http://primusville.com/tickets/ rather than any of the other outlets. The cost works out a few quid cheaper than the usual, eg O2 Priority

Round up a few more keyboard players... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGzWqAc16l0

You'd better have this on your list by the way. Try to get Diz in for the trumpet solo as well. What a fantastic bass tone as well from Nate - check the break at 2m08s, again at 3m29s. The soaring line at 1m51s with Stevie's lyrics are beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6f6BOKXXxg

Until very recently I had one of these... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/136006-for-sale-shergold-twin-neck/page__view__findpost__p__1233806 (see http://basschat.co.uk/topic/254282-more-love-for-wunjo-and-basschat for what happened to it)

Check this out - Macca with Bill Black's upright playing Heartbreak Hotel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uzC5KC_260 ... not a bad go, considering he's playing "upside down".

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1424628584' post='2698487'] Even Stevie Wonder can't drop that from his set.... the problem with it is people play it with no groove or purpose beyond the riff... I'd ban the gtr from the riff... but then you'd need a funk gtr player. [/quote] Ban everyone from it apart from the drums and any handy clavinet you have lying around. And the horns of course.

My overseas gig itineraries... 1996 - The Musical Box, Atlanta (early incarnation of the Genesis tribute band) 2000 - King Crimson, Prague (their tour didn't originally include a London date. guess what happened) 2007 - Genesis, Prague (one of very few standing gigs on the "reunion" tour) 2007 - The Police, Vienna (ditto) 2008 - King Crimson in Chicago/Dave Matthews Band in Alpine Valley (and folk I met at the KC gig took me to see Extreme at the Chicago House Of Blues, I turned down their offer of the Scorpions) 2008 - Dave Brubeck, San Francisco Symphony Hall 2011 - Phish, Denver (3 shows) 2011 - Kraftwerk, Munich 2013 - Kraftwerk, Dusseldorf 2014 - Alain Caron in Paris (on honeymoon, still trying to work out how I managed this)

Music minus mp3 leaves this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQ2p5QSbyc And here's the science bit: http://theghostinthemp3.com/theghostinthemp3.html

[quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' timestamp='1424261563' post='2694449'] I had rega 2 . The nuts. I now have pink triangle. [/quote] You can probably get some ointment for that

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1424274262' post='2694629'] All the best with the recuperation Ray. Another amp and speakers here, other systems always seem a little unnatural to me. Oh, and another vinyl evangelist I'm afraid!! [/quote] +1, well vinyl enthusiast. Rega Planar 2, Marantz PM6005 amp, Celestion DL4 Series 2 speakers.

[quote name='paul j h' timestamp='1424261684' post='2694453'] not wanting to highjack this thread but does anyone buy CD's anymore I have loads that I want to sell but not sure if the market is there anymore. I guess Ebay is the way to test. [/quote] Only when vinyl with digital download isn't available, or too expensive. How about Music Magpie?

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1424114844' post='2692826'] Anything Gabriel's done from Up onwards is filler and I'm guessing that's a big chunk of his recent shows. [/quote] From the So 25 shows, there are two post-Up songs, both brand new - so hardly filler. For me the filler at the O2 show was firstly the weak stuff from So itself: That Voice Again, Big Time; and the songs worn this by over-familiarity, like Sledgehammer, In Your Eyes, Solsbury Hill. The highlights for me were We Do What We're Told and Excellent Birds from the So set, and otherwise The Tower That Ate People, Family Snapshot, The Family & The Fishing Net, Secret World. Worth seeing once (at the O2), but I didn't go back for the next show a year later at Wembley Arena. Count me in for the Us 25 anniversary shows in 2017 though.

Probably Dire Straits, Alchemy. Highly recommended, it's not that long but feels like it is. Also, I'm quite proud that I managed to keep a lady friend occupied without any complaint during the entire side 2 (that's track 4-7, CD fans) of The Yes Album.

IndigO2 is a pretty good venue. Not huge. standing area downstairs, sitting upstairs Good sound system. I'll be at the O2 the same night for DMB in the main arena. Does my ticket get me into TTB as well? I've read elsewhere that the bands overlap so you can see some of everyone.

Rush - Moving Pictures Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Yes - Relayer King Crimson - Red Bowie - Heroes