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the slides and slapping got a bit over the top with the brittle jazz sound, but he played some great fingerstyle when he just stuck to the groove. I liked the inclusion of Soup for one/Modjo- lady.

my older brother's first electric was a yellow Hondo Les paul. he sold it and got a strat.

playing along to AC/DC and Def Leppard tracks made for good 8th note timing practice for me- also good for getting note volume and tonal consistency tight as well.

this is the 1996 final gig with the late, great bernard edwards- it's in a double-CD jewel case as opposed to the original card DVD issue I got it in. seen in the tooting store, not sure of others. also there's Dave Mustaine' life in metal autobiog.

for any fellow londoners, there's a copy of the Haynes Fender bass manual in Charing cross library. interesting (and unexpected) interview with Andy McCluskey from OMD in it.

[quote name='silddx' post='1245002' date='May 25 2011, 10:36 PM']Girl Gone Bad by Van Halen was called Ripley when Eddie wrote it, because, of course, he wrote it while playing a Ripley.[/quote] "top Jimmy" also on the 1984 album IIRC features the Ripley guitar with the harmonic notes panned over stereo. [url="http://www.vintagekramer.com/ripley.htm"]on googling I see they did a bass version too[/url] Yes' "I've seen all good people" sounds like Chris Squire's Rick has the Rick-O-Sound outputs panned separately- or is it a guitar doubling his bassline?

[quote name='matski' post='878099' date='Jun 26 2010, 12:56 PM']I've got a videotape from the 'Oil On Canvas' tour stashed away in a box somewhere, and went to the gig at the Brighton Dome. I was already of fan of Mr Karn and when the gig started was well freaked out by his peculiar style of moving around the stage - there was knee high dry ice on stage and he had this weird method of seemingly sliding forwards and backwards and sideways. At first I thought he was on some sort of trolley, turns out he was shuffling about on the tips of his toes at high speed![/quote] yeah- I've got the Best of Japan DVD, and in the live show included on it he does that- quite funny how he moves around the stage like a computer game character- a neat visual trick.

more Stones ones- Mick Taylor on tumbling dice, Ron Wood on Emotional rescue (quite guitar-ish though)

Steve Stevens on Billy Idol's "flesh for fantasy" and the bassline on Alannah Myles' "black velvet" was done on a keyboard (hence the unusual note choices in the fills).

bear in mind that Lauren Laverne burst into tears when Kenickie appeared on Adam & Joe's "Vinyl Justice" segment of their channel4 show, and she couldn't take them poking fun at some of her record collection. glass houses, eh? as said, though, there have been some top music programmes on BBC4 lately.

having used haynes car manuals, I fully expect the one on bass to feature such enlightening instructions as "now play teentown" and "use billy sheehan solo"

I'm pretty sure nearly all the Imagination basslines were done on synth- the slides all sound like pitch bend moves or portamento slides between notes. Faith No More's "evidence" track sounded like it was heavily influenced by Just an illusion.

a heads up for Chic/Nard fans- the book "Chic- the politics of disco" is going for £4.99 in Soho Original bookshop on Charing Cross road. there's also Collins' Need to know bass guitar inc. CD for £3.99.

never actually heard Hipsway, but he was pretty good in Altered Images, doing a sort of Hooky-type thing eg. Happy birthday.

I was also impressed when I tried a Rockbass corvette fretless a while ago- wish they did them with lined fingerboards though.

I'm not a fan of Mr Big, but I think it's cool to see hard rock back. at the risk of getting flamed, I'm interested in hearing the Chickenfoot (Sammy Hagar/Joe Satriani/Michael Anthony/Chad Smith) album preview clips of all the songs are here- [url="http://www.cede.ch/en/music-cd/frames/frameset.cfm?aobj=710439"]http://www.cede.ch/en/music-cd/frames/fram...cfm?aobj=710439[/url] strangely the bass is much more upfront than it was on Van Halen albums (eg. "Turnin left")...

I like the irony of how the Jaco signature custom shop relic etc. Jazz comes with a polishing cloth....there's no finish left to polish....

IIRC Guy Pratt's burgundy Jazz ("betsy"?) has EMGs in it. ps. found a mention of it- [url="http://www.bassplayer.com/article/guy-pratt/Jun-06/20608"]http://www.bassplayer.com/article/guy-pratt/Jun-06/20608[/url]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='479858' date='May 5 2009, 01:14 PM']Monster and a Zon player, if my memory serves my correctly.[/quote] actually, James Eller's main bass is a cheap Japcrap Kay! he says he used it on Cope's "world shut your mouth" because his Musicman was stuck in a lock-up, and the producer of the session loved its tone so much that he subsequently replaced the pickups, had it refinished and used it as his no.1 bass.

James Eller- on several Julian Cope solo songs eg. "Trampoline", and The the's Dusk album.

"lifeline" is a great bassline- although that might have been on a Musicman Sabre. "true" was synth bass though.

there's been a strange tip floating around on Talkbass claimed to improve low B tone- of using a short brass tube to extend the length of the B string past the bridge- the reasoning being along the lines of that for the benefits of through-body stringing (and of siting the B string machinehead further away from the nut)- the physics involved is a bit contentious as you can't alter the tension without changing the pitch of the string, but I think the way the string stretches and flexes when plucked changes in some way.

mastered versions of 3 of the songs are up now- [url="http://www.myspace.com/newmorningblues"]http://www.myspace.com/newmorningblues[/url]

[quote name='Clarky' post='467191' date='Apr 20 2009, 08:34 AM']Fender certainly used to make lined fretless Ps as I bought one (3Ts, rosewood neck) about ten years ago at the old Bass Centre in Wapping (sold it a c oupel of years later as I am cr@p without frets to cover up my rubbish intonation )[/quote] yeah- when Fender revamped the US precisions and jazzes in 1994, they introduced a lined fretless US precision- rosewood board only, no front dots, no skunk stripe, trussrod adjust at the body, graphite neck reinforcement, through-body stringing. it came strung with heavy flatwounds. I've got an old issue of Bass player where they reviewed the whole range of new US standards and deluxes- and it's pictured. IIRC they discontinued it around 1998.