timtoomany

I was a bit put out when I bought a brand new Boss BR600 recorder and then had to shell out another £20 for a power supply. Perhaps it's the same for these gizmos too? In which case wouldn't blame the seller.

Jealous! Thanks for the review. Personally I'd have the jetglow over the ruby any day.

I was given an album by Jessica Williams Trio called 'Momentum' and was hooked from the beginning. I believe it has the most oblique version of 'Autumn Leaves' ever recorded too. A phenomenal pianist with incredible support; sadly underrated/unknown IMHO. Building on this, I was recommended Bill Evans Live at Village Vanguard, which was a real slow burner for me, but now a vital part of my listening habits many years later.

Interested to hear other people's views on this issue. I play bass, piano, church organ, a bit of rhythm guitar... Realised recently that with all of them I much prefer taking an accompanist role. As far as that goes, I love the way the bass can set the rhythm, give a solid root to the chord changes, throw in a bit of melody. A great all-rounder. For what it's worth I can't write songs for toffee.

I see your Gladys Knight and raise you The Mars Volta. From 1:40 or 4:00. Five times I've seen TMV play live, and four of those times I've witnessed women in the crowd fainting from the intensity of performance/tightness of trousers/overwhelming incomprehensibleness of the music.

I completely agree with this sentiment. Playing a second instruments informs your playing of the first in all kinds of useful and unexpected ways. I always found I could visualise music theory on the keyboard far more easily than the fretboard, and experimenting with chords and scales started to unlock some of the musical concepts that had previously been a mystery to me. This can then be fed back in to your bass playing, which I found far more satisfying and intuitive once I had a handle on the harmony and structure of the music I was playing. I think playing through the standards is a good approach. For what it's worth, I like to convert the chords from a fake book into the Roman numeral system (eg vi - ii - V - I - etc.) because it is much more easy then to pick out the relationships between the different chords in a progression; also to try and use 'efficient' voicing when moving from one chord to another--good voice leading. It was only by noodling around on the piano that all of a sudden I realised - hey, the 9th in one chord is the 13th in the next chord, and so on, and the music theory started dropping in to place. Apologies for a rambling response. Hope it helps. Tim

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Thanks for posting Dave, this is thread is one of the funniest things I've seen for ages. "They're well worth it." Ha ha ha. "and they'll clean up nicely." But how much should I spend on the cleaning lotion?

¿Does 'moist' mean something else en español?

Err, ... kudos. Some story. Sorry to hear about your friend, dog, bass and car. I posted this LP because I thought the kooky 60s way of teaching bass might raise a chuckle, not because I thought anyone really had played bass with The Ventures. Glad to know what the guitars they used were though--they have a unique look--did Mosrite make them as customs? I've been hearing all about the woody thump of 60s basses on another post; on this recording pretty much anything played on the E string sounds like a deep percussive ghost note without any hint of a tone.

Anyone know if Fender make an unmarked fretless jazz neck?

Cheers guys, very grateful for all the recommendations and admonitions. I admit that the suggestions have caused me to reconsider my position on Weather Report thanks to these videos; I even enjoyed some of Joe Zawinul's synth bits.

PLEASE DON'T DELETE THE MODELS WEARING RICKENBACKERS!!

I nearly made it out of the record shop without spending any money ... until I saw this: [url="http://img847.imageshack.us/i/playelectricbasscover.jpg"]Play Electric Bass (cover)[/url] [url="http://img543.imageshack.us/i/playelectricbassbooklet.jpg"]Play Electric Bass (booklet)[/url] The 'Guitar Phonics system' looks like a precursor to tab but is counter-intuitive and nearly incomprehensible. Pretty good fun, never the less.

Agreed. I paid less for my Fender (Mexican) Jazz.