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[quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1346697799' post='1792094'] TA DA!..... [/quote] i've only just noticed this thread that's amazing !

[quote name='bonnp' timestamp='1393527054' post='2381531'] was never into the cure but after reading the posts i will check out the bass lines, any more from that era you would recommend? [/quote] Oooh, tough one. They've been around for a while, so there's lots of choice, and different styles. 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me' would be a good starting album - 'Seventeen seconds' and 'Faith' are very bass heavy, as is 'Pornography', but they're pretty heavy going, mood-wise.

[quote name='floFC' timestamp='1393351368' post='2379178'] I have got the urge to watch the Cure In Orange video. Yeah, the actual video tape... [/quote] plus the one

Certainyly looks like it could do with some Penicillin

Lovely work. Thanks for the guide.

[quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1393354431' post='2379255'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7m2sApVd0[/media] [/quote] Oh yes, indeedy !

Another vote for a CV Jazz - very impressed with mine.

[quote name='MattM' timestamp='1393339058' post='2378928'] Yup. Allegedly Hookys mother was listening to the radio when Inbetween Days came on and thought it was him playing. The high doubled strings bit could be done on a standard 4 string or a VI, the aforementioned Orange vid has Gallup playing it on his 'Ray, with Smith sporting an acoustic as I recall. A Forest - awesome, particularly live... [/quote] Ah yes, but Porl Thompson's on the VI !!

[quote name='floFC' timestamp='1393284714' post='2378395'] Oh. I am a 17 Seconds kind of guy (?). I'd love to play A Forest in a gig. [/quote] plus the one

[quote name='MattM' timestamp='1393249481' post='2377716'] Legend has it Hooky was none too pleased at Gallup being 'heavily influenced' by him on Inbetween Days. [/quote] Which bit ? The introducton ? i'd wager that's Robert Smith on a Fender VI - most of the higher-register bass parts on Cure songs are. Gallup sometime plays them live on the bass IIRC.

[quote name='kendall' timestamp='1393259828' post='2377891'] Fascination Street - such a great bass line to play.... The Cure in Orange - is that the one where Simon rips the wig off Robert Smith and he's left with a crewcut? I remember Shake Dog Shake being pretty damn awesome on that vid...... [/quote] too right - it's a brutal version. damn fine live vid - i remember 'push' being a good'un too. god, i used to love the cure

Well.....if you squint I suppose it looks like a spaceship.

It's not a flying V, it's a flying wing !

I had the same plan with my stunt jazz - a Classic Vibe Jazz....instead of taking my 86 MIJ Fender Jazz in softcases on trains, toilet gigs, etc. BUT it played that well that I got some new pickups for it (Wizard 84s) and I'm very happy. Stay with what you know you like and upgrade would be my advice.

Lovely

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1388774940' post='2325988'] Here are some pics, they look ace, really lovely! Easy to apply too. [/quote] lovely !

Yep - an older-model stingray (there were green-fronted versions too) - I have a vague memory of them being 125 or 150W. There was a time when every practice studio in Newcastle had one or two of these. Not a mind-blowing sound IIRC but for £30...? It'll make him louder !

I cut my bassplaying teeth learning Cure basslines. Top bass player.

Just realised i do have a pic of my two Status basses - a T-bass and a Shark, lurking on the right here