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[quote name='johnnylager' post='365983' date='Dec 30 2008, 07:47 AM']Carol Kaye says she did it.[/quote] excellent!

Thanks so much for this thread Bubinga5 et al. I'm really enjoying discovering this stuff. It passed me by first time around. I've some serious shopping to do now.

pm'd again BUMP

PM sent Mike

A set of strings and Stuart clayton's excellent Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards Book plus quite a few bass-tastic CD'ds

Oh yes! Thanks for those.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='360041' date='Dec 21 2008, 04:37 AM']Didn't Conway Twitty appear on a few episodes of Family Guy? Not as a cartoon but actual film of him singing? back to the music - My signature in Talkbs is "I would like to get through one thread without mention of Jaco" I personally have never got the facination with him. I cannot see anything that strikes me as being outstanding. The thing he does with recording a bit live and then playing over the top of it as Michael Manring now does - isn't that what Les Paul invented in the 50s as sound-on-sound? I've always hated the sound he got. When I play a fretless I don't get a sound anything like that and I'm glad. I got involved in a fair few arguments on talkbs with people who couldn't get their heads round someone not liking the almighty Jaco. According to a lot of people there everyone has been influenced by him whether directly of by another player that you like. I proposed that this was, or course, bollokcs. I'm happy if people get a kick out of what he did and I tried to get into his playing but he just doesn't do anything for me.[/quote] Whilst having a very diiferent viewpoint on this to you Delbethot. Thanks for a reasoned and well put post (great Talkbass sig by the way!). Kind of rounds off this rambling thread quite well really but I'm sure that it'll run and run ad nauseam.

I can't see your dilemma at all .It's a 1970's Fender and probably horrible Buy a nice new US standard or CIJ 70's reissue and spend the remaining £2800 on a nice holiday or other musical equipment or anything but this.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='358352' date='Dec 18 2008, 09:58 PM'] No bass in sight. Puts a different dimension on the whole man/myth thing surrounding him, I think. [/quote] Thanks CK That's Never seen/heard that before. First time that I agree with a load of Youtube comments. Toots Midnight Cowboy is one of the loveliest pieces of music I've ever heard. Can't hang around Satchmo is on the telly right now. More love

Markbass102cmd. I've found in the past and when using a big 4x10+1x15 stack to rehearse that depending on the room I usually hadmy amp much louder than at a gig in a large hall. Something to do wi th acoustics and sound bouncing off the back wall apparently. That and the fact that I always gig di'd through the pa in addition to my amp. Our sound engineer likes my 2x10 augmenting the PA subs

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='357002' date='Dec 17 2008, 02:37 PM']Can we keep this clean and on-topic please?[/quote] That's not what I meant that kind of thing was at the other end of Regent St, down the 'dilly.

[quote name='brummie' post='355720' date='Dec 16 2008, 10:32 AM']The Marshall shop is Tony's barbers now or 'F in Tony' to those who use his shop, he can't stop himself swearing all the time. I go to Peter Cooks occasionally - that's a great shop, Pete Townsend used to get his guitars set up there.[/quote] I bought my US Jazz from there and a Str*t about 10 years ago from there. I've always found it a nice shop and competitively priced too.

[quote name='BigAlonBass' post='355355' date='Dec 15 2008, 08:54 PM']£2 a night. To put it in perspective, I had just started my Apprenticeship, and my weekly wages were £5.8s. (£5.40 to all the youngsters reading this.) Gawd, I was rich! [/quote] You wouldn't still have a set list to share with us by any chance?

Before it was taken over by the leather jacket shops Carnaby St had some pretty cool shops, well cool to a teenager with hippy tendencies anyway. Shops selling wave machines and Roger Dean posters, plus a shop selling really cheap imported albums. Strange thing was that they were in single rather than gatefold sleeves. I had a couple of Genesis and Yes albums from there. We often called there en route from Denmark St on the way to warm up in the Sony showroom in Regent St where you could stick on a pair of headphones and listen to Santana on a really expensive system.

[quote name='Jesus' post='354981' date='Dec 15 2008, 01:08 PM']I feel slightly more intelligent now, and a lot more geeky.[/quote] You're in good company here

I'd love to see an old Bells catalogue from the mid '70s. it was my porn of choice when I was a kid.

Goo LucK bump. I wish I had some gigs too.

Me too. ca 1975-78 Awayday ticket to Charing Cross for 25p. burger from Wimpy and cruise up and down Shaftesbury Avenue/ Tottenham Court Rd and Denmark St. I remember all the shops you mention plus the sheet music/ songbook shop upstairs on Shaftesbury avenue. I used to go with my mate Ian who was also 14/15 years old and was never treated snottily or refused a go whether it was a Rick 4001 or a Les Paul. Try that with the clowns that work Tin Pan alley and the B**tard cellar now. I really liked Macaris who I think had 2 shops at one time? I bought my HH VS amp there and sold it back to them several years later for the £100 I paid for it. Aah nostalgia.....It ain't wot it used to be. Mike

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[quote name='northstreet' post='353274' date='Dec 12 2008, 11:48 PM']Thanks for all the advise. I'll be keeping the Ibanez. Re the amp, I've decided on a Behringer 1x15" cab (I know the quality may not be the best but there's not too much to go wrong with a cab) and a Peavey Tour 450. That will give me 300W and should be loud enough. I need more volume I can throw a cheap 2x10" cab into the mix and get the full 450W. Cheers[/quote] Hartke will give you a lot of watts for your buck. I haven't tried Behringer backline kit but there other stuff is cheap and not necessarily that well thought of in the industry. What I've seen of their products when photographing them for a magazine is a bit cheap and nasty. I spent £60 fitting a Celestion driver to an Ashdown Mag 1x15 a few years ago and it transformed the sound and output. That could be another route for you.

I went to see him at a clinic a while ago and he used a EBS Multicomp and an Octaver. I can't remember the make but you may be able to find out from his site. I asked him how he got the Sledgehammer bass sound, as we do it in my band, and he said That he played it on a fretless with a pick and an octaver and compressor I think. Lovely guy and great player. He seemed not too hung up on make of effects and use whatever he's given! Also look at thishttp://www.talkbass.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-411600.html. Mike

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