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[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1413560528' post='2579618'] the inclusion of a USB stick with all the songs in wav format did help! [/quote] Absolutely - having a legal mp3/flac/wav/etc download sure helps me steer towards the vinyl purchase rather than CD. After all, no one's invented the scrobbling turntable yet. Have they?

For the dying past time of "just sitting and listening", I have a significant preference for vinyl now that disc production quality is better, not to mention having a preference for how it sounds. There was a long long thread here on basschat maybe some time last year about the audio and technical sound quality issues. It got a bit long-winded but generally ignored the fact that some people like apples, some oranges.

Visit Hansa Studios - see https://www.facebook.com/BerlinMusicTours for this and other music tours of the city. The organiser Thilo speaks really good English btw. Also I went to the B-flat jazz club, see http://www.b-flat-berlin.de. Let us know how you get on, I'm going back for new year.

Incidentally, It's "Heroes"'s birthday today. 37! Just for one day.

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1413289490' post='2576734'] pretentious crap, mind you I could only listen to the first minute, does it get any better? [/quote] Similar, just more so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GodUgnO7lY Like?

[quote name='72deluxe' timestamp='1412860420' post='2572744'] If you listen to his recent album "Unstoppable Momentum" there is more "band stuff" going on behind, which makes for a refreshing change. It's very good, although on tour the Wolverhampton Civic was very empty! They missed out on seeing Bryan Beller, Marco Minnemann and Mike Keneally playing Satriani's songs in a very very different style than the videos above. It felt more like a band, and with drive and feeling (particularly thanks to Marco). [/quote] I saw that show in London - first time I've seen JS in many years, but still a great gig. I'm used to seeing BB and MM in the Aristocrats, and again MM in Steven Wilson's band, and to be honest MM looked a bit bored with Joe! But having said that, I love how JS takes a different band on the road for every tour.

Quatro, after the well-known bassist, and fizzy drink from the 80s

[quote name='JamesBass' timestamp='1412722857' post='2571487'] Can someone on Spotify add for me: Who Did You Think I Was or Good Love is on the way - Pino with John Mayer trio Chickhen Grease - Pino with D'Angelo So What - Paul Chambers with Miles Davis [/quote] Done!

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1412618164' post='2570468'] The space occupied by these drones might comfortably have encompassed detailed digressions upon Mr Hackett's career, Mr Collins' sterling work with Brand X and the precise variety of lemon upon which Mr Banks is accustomed to suck. [/quote] Agreed re Brand X - it was nice to see some Flaming Youth though.

[quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1412608543' post='2570327'] I'm with Mrs. S's husband. [/quote] I think Mrs S would have something to say about that as well.

Henrik is on the cover of this month's Bass Player magazine... http://www.newsstand.co.uk/194-Guitar-Magazines/3185-Subscribe-to-BASS-PLAYER-Magazine-Subscription.aspx

[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1412583163' post='2570022'] While the Gabriel era is short compared to the total lifespan of the band, I think it's more accurate to measure things in terms of original albums. As Genesis has been inactive for a fair proportion of the last 20 years or so. Measured in terms of original albums (not compilations etc.) then the Gabriel and Hackett eras are more significant. [/quote] And in terms of quality. Same goes for solo careers: why Mike and Tony got a look in with their lame solo material while Steve's continually inventive and diverse material was ignored was beyond me.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1412520316' post='2569528'] Steve Hackett didn't like it, I just read this on his Facebook page [url="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Hackett/123101228589?fref=nf"]https://www.facebook...1228589?fref=nf[/url] [/quote] Yeah, that's the bit I forgot to mention. Still, my gig dollar is going in his pocket this year as well as last year, and the R-Kive (cringe) compilation is just embarassing really.

One of the best bits was the Hackett/Banks showdown. We raised our handbags and went "Ooo" chez tone at that point. Great footage that I've not seen before from the early 70s (eg Atomic Sunrise), some good bits from around Pete's early solo career but not in enough detail - eg how they got that gated reverb sound on Intruder that defined the 80s from thereon. Disappointing: No Selling England, no Wind & Wuthering. Steurmer getting the "Firth of Fifth" spotlight ("he improvised a bit" said Banks - no, he made a right pigs ear of it actually), the early 80s timeline gets a bit muddled. In general, great to see the five of them in the same place, but I don't think we've learned much we didn't already know.

Chatted to Norman Watt-Roy before a Wilko Johnson gig while the support band were on. Had a nice chat and complimented him on his playing and how it had influenced little tone all those years ago into listening out for a cool bassline, which he nicely acknowledged. Had a few email exchanges with Tony Levin in the mid-90s when his solo career and record label was just starting. Met him at a clinic in a barn somewhere near Stevevage about 2006 or 07 where he was kind enough to let us sit in on his soundcheck, and he signed my original issue Funk Fingers afterwards. There's probably more but it's sunday morning and the brain isn't quite working yet...

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1412442974' post='2569010'] Played on Stevie's left hand, Boogie on Reggae Woman has one of the best bass lines ever IMO - quite Jamerson influenced in note choice, but with that lovely glitchy/gated Moog quality. [/quote] In case you missed it: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/246416-spotify-best-bass-lines-evaaar-playlist-get-involved/page__view__findpost__p__2568122

[quote name='JamesFlashG' timestamp='1412352620' post='2568185'] nice one gonna have to check this out for sure! do you know if the synth bass on stevies are recordings are done by himself on keys? [/quote] This would have been played on TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), an amalgamation of Moog, Arp, Oberheim, Serge and custom-built synths. Stevie would play the actual keys and his recording pals Malcolm Cecil and Bob Margouleff would work the gubbins (switching portamentos in and out, tweaking filters etc) in real time during performance. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto's_Expanding_Head_Band and http://www.geeksandbeats.com/tag/stevie-wonder/ They don't make em like that anymore

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1412350207' post='2568146'] Not got time to do it but can someone at least put some Who, Beatles, Yes, Cream and Rush on there. A bassline related list looks lost without them. [/quote] Done! No Beatles on Spotify though

Bingo: http://bentkallehauge.dk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/boogie-on-.pdf

[quote name='JamesFlashG' timestamp='1412345502' post='2568082'] wow how have i not heard that stevie song before - boogie on reggae woman love it, like a funky 12bb but with some real nice chords changes. I might have to make it part of my practising to transcribe a song from this list each day nice choice who ever it was =P [/quote] You're welcome! Good luck with the transcription! It once appeared in its entirety in Bass Player magazine, transcribed by Bryan Beller, who dubbed it "the hardest song he's ever had to transcribe".

Yep, Dave LaRue for sure, a great player. Check him out with the Dixie Dregs from back in the day. Here's some more with JS from (I think) the same show as the original clip. Familiar fare for Satch fans for the first few minutes, but then after 4m20s it's all systems go, we have lift off on Satriani spaceways. The pickup from 7m45s onwards is amazing all round. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1DzRb4DHGw

I can't bear the music, but I wish I was that good.

Here you go: http://www.timeout.com/london/search?_source=global&_dd=&page_zone=music&keyword=&section=music&on=period&s_date=2014-10-22&e_date=2014-10-26&locationText=&_section_search=music or browse from http://www.timeout.com/london/music

[quote name='DaveFry' timestamp='1412007261' post='2564781'] Here's a man who should know talking about it at 11:50 ; [/quote] Thanks! That's a perfect example of implied metronomic time being all that's need to demonstrate beat placement.