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Fender Tony Franklin fretless precision.

another unexpected one by Marcus Miller- Billy Idol "sweet sixteen".

there's another disco bassline I like that mysteriously appears on 2 records (not sampled, but ripped off, it seems)-
Whatnauts "help is on the way"
and a year later,
Fat Larry's band "act like you know"

De La Soul sampled it for "name and number" (I think from the Whatnauts song)

Leon Sylvers - the whispers "and the beat goes on"
TM Stevens - Narada Walden I should've loved ya
Freddie Washington - Patrice Rushen's forget me nots

yeah, Hamer fretless 8-string.

I was watching how he had to hold the neck up- serious neck-dive with the 8 machineheads and the explorer body.....

I also wondered why he was playing a strat in the walking on the moon vid- did he only have his guitar with him, not any bass?

well, they're advertising again on partysounds and musofinder for a bassist (and cellist).

here's mine.

Chris Squire sometimes uses a Ranney custom 8 string - he uses 5ths tuning for the high strings on the E and A and octaves for the D and G (or the other way round- can't remember!) eg. on "changes".

both, depending on the tone needed. mostly fingerstyle.

I can get a cutting rock tone fingerstyle, but a pick gives a cleaner tone- less string-fret contact.

when practicing I like to try a bassline I usually play fingerstyle with a pick instead, and vice versa, which improves cross-picking and precision, er, preciseness of picking.

[quote name='lowhand_mike' post='32374' date='Jul 16 2007, 09:45 AM']Got it at the delmar and It's cool to hang out with your ex - Sensless things[/quote]

I never liked the Senseless Things because of the weak typical indie vocals and songwriting, but Morgan Nicholls was/is a brilliant bassist- Easy to smile another great bassline.
I didn't think much of Vent414 either. IMO a great musician stuck in awful bands.


the Stranglers- genetix, no more heroes (intro), shut up (intro), tramp, nuclear device, baroque bordello, Ice
Iron Maiden- rime of the ancient mariner, blood on the world's hands
Joe Jackson- got the time (and the Anthrax cover version)- and another song on Look sharp has a bass solo, i forget the name though
Chic- everybody dance

maybe Gerard's cloned himself and a growing army of him is stalking the forum.

a few companies in the US have a "floating neck" concept- Treker, Bunker guitars, PBC-

the headstock is attached to the neck heel by a steel bar, carrying all the string tension.
the neck has a conventional trussrod to adjust it, but isn't connected to the headstock, it just supports the frets/fingerboard.

so the floating fretboard idea isn't that far-fetched.

you might end up being driven mad by odd rattling from loose adjustment screws though.....

yeah, they've shown a few of the Rock goes to college shows- AC/DC, The Cars, Siouxsie and the banshees.

I keep an eye on the Radio Times website for what's coming up.

they're a band i'd rather watch than be in, too much like hard work- call me lazy!

you need to really enjoy playing the music to do it.

good luck!

this bass isn't human.
it doesn't feel pain.
it cannot be reasoned with!

no, but I've downloaded lots of their tracks to check out - they've advertised several times on partysounds, musofinder etc. for a bassist.
interesting stuff, quite demanding with the odd-time signatures.

this is hilarious-

pay them a few thousand dollars and you'll blag a record deal!

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on this he was using a fretless precision, blonde, maple neck.


I'm trying to find youtube footage of him using 8string fretlesses (he had an 8string Ibanez and a Hamer)

yeah, great stuff.

bit off intonation-wise here and there, love the high bit he was doing in Peanuts with the flanger/wah effect.

John Myung again?

think I'll give this issue a miss, like the last one.

the actual tension of the string can't be different, as the vibrating length, pitch and mass of the string are the same.

however, the extra pressure of the string against the saddle, and possibly the extra length of the string behind the saddle do have some kind of effect on the way the string bends when you pluck it.

I've noticed the difference too on my strung-through warmoth p bass.