KevB

Never seem to have room on stage to actually have a backup bass handy if anything happened to the mian one so I stopped taking one. Oddly enough there always seems to be enough room for the guitarist to have 2 with him In terms of quality there's not much in them. Current main is US P, backup is US jazz S-1. If I go to a jam session I'd usually take the jazz as it is in a smaller case than the P, it gives a fair approximation of a P with the S-1 button depressed.

'Singer requests rule clarification in recent heavy metal hokey-cokey championships'

Also never underestimate that if an experienced soundman is constantly hearing different bands in the same venue he'll have a far more initmate knowledge of any odd aspects of how the arrangement of that venue's fixtures and fittings can have on the FOH sound than you will if you've never played there before. Has to be a large element of trust on both sides.

Whatever it was, it pretty much completely passed me by. Other than a very very small number artists which might have been loosely thrown in with punk at the time (Stranglers, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello) it had minimal impact on my listening or musical influences. Interesting to hear all the usual stuff about punk killing off genres such as prog rock. Although it is true that during those (few) years at the height of punk those kind of acts struggled, by the early 80's there were loads of them around again. Unfortunately once Marillion made it big a lot of them got dropped from their labels which always seemed a little short sighted to me. Anyway, punk was always a lot more than just the music and basically just acted in the same way as rock'n'roll did in the 50's (though that was arguably more centred around the music) as a vehical for gnashing ones gums against the 'system' and your parents. I wasn't particularly interested in doing either as a 13 yr old in '77.

Ahh, the luxury of someone actually handling sound for you and being able to use monitors! I have to get the best out of my backline because that is the only source the punters will hear any bass from at all (unless a bit bleeds into my vocal mic but that'll be minimal). Same goes for the 2 guitars. Use a little old PA amp with all of FOUR inputs and all that goes into them are vocal mics. It's actually surprising what you can get away with when you strip it all back but I'd love to be able to have enough stage space to run my wedge monitor to check my vox....

Latest offering from Goo Goo Dolls currently on my little ipod.

I have Nuggets 2 and a few other psychedelia compilations and I've never heard the term before, think people just make this nonsense up to appear more informed than they are sometimes. Were people at the time really referring to these bands as 'freakbeat' bands? I'm a bit young to have been musically switched on in the late 60's.

The active links from the last two lines on the 'What' page don't seem to be working, at least not on my browser. I assume they just link back to the 'Who' and 'Where' sections?

Crosby, Stills & Nash (add Young occasionally to flavour)

Actually, on closer inspection one of those basses looks like a warwick so he's hardly going to make that look any worse than it already is, you go for it son

Always had a soft spot for 'There and Back'. Quite a short album but some nice playing, Mo Foster on bass. Until I looked it up I didn't realise just how little of it Beck actually wrote though!

Never really 'got' them I'm afraid, along with other bands if their ilk. My usual rule of thumb is if the late Tony Wilson had any involvement with a band they'd usually be wildly over hyped and extremely underwhleming. I do have a 'best of' compilation somewhere but I don't think I've ever made it through the full track list. I was asked to learn one of theirs for a recent gig but we didn't play it in the end.

I'd never own a bass I was afraid to gig, that's what they are bought for and if a bass doesn't get a reasonable number of outings per year then it gets moved on.

She was also on Later with Jools Holland recently, probably still on iplayer if you missed it. I guess it was the same backing band, bass player did EUB and normal electric from what I recall, sounded nice.

Chain him to a radiator?

Here's another re-write from Francis Dunnery; [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-_lYlNbccA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-_lYlNbccA[/url]

Been asked to look at 'All My Life' by Foo Fighters but I'm not convinced it is right for the set so I'm going at it a bit half heartedly and not sure what the correct bassline actually is, it's a bit low in the mix. For once I'm not so sure the guitarpro file for it is all that accurate. Guess I'll sort it out eventually. Edit, found some fat kid playing along to it on youtube so I'll just rip that off, sounds close enough. I'm just so dedicated...

I seem to be able to adjust without too much difficulty even though I have a slight back problem (not nearly so bad since I did the right thing and stopped playing golf). I've read the 'strap same height sitting as standing' so many times and I've NEVER got it to work, it is always too high for comfort when in a standing position if I adjust it while sitting. Now I practice sitting with the strap not really doing very much but I'm not one to go for hours at a time playing. I'm also not very tall so this might be less of an issue for those a bit short in the body compared with others, not sure. Currently I guess I'm playing standing up often enough at gigs that my body naturally readjusts. I do notice if I'm not gigging for a long time and then have to go back into it for a new project, then I take time to do some standing practice sessions in advance to get up to speed.

I don't think they were in another band together after Tull but may be wrong. Abrahms formed Blodwyn Pig, I think Glen's band was Wild Turkey?

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1370519430' post='2102083'] "Stormwatch" is a very good album indeed. Some very nice bass playing on it courtesy of Ian Anderson himself too. [/quote] Yes, I'm aware of the health problems with Glascock at the time and the bass playing credits on the album. But I'd never seen this before, which I found interesting - scroll through to the 4min mark. There's JG playing on Dark Ages. I can only assume his tracks never made it to the finished song. And is that a Wal he's playing? don't think I've seen him play one in photos or video before. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxp_H-8hsIw[/media]

Got as far as about 1 minute into track 1 and it sounded like a very slight variation on the original song 'black sabbath'. I'll give the rest a run through when I have more time. Wouldn't bother seeing them live these days, saw last reunion at NEC and OO's voice was dodgy even then, plus the whole point was to get the original lineup together and without Ward it all seems a tad pointless other than a pension fund top up scheme.

I've said it before in Tull related threads, I think Stormwatch is a vastly underrated album. There are patchy periods after 'Crest' as ead says. Of the more modern albums probably Catfish Rising and Roots To Branches are probably the picks but even these are uneven in places. Tull haven't released an authentic studio album now for a long time, TAAB2 came out as Anderson solo and he seems to be at loggerheads with Martin Barre these days so the band has been a collection of backing musicians for a long time. This would be OK if Anderson's voice hadn't taken a nose dive in the 80's and never really recovered, these days it is a pale shadow of former glory (and he isn't getting any younger either) so I've missed the last couple of tours.

Yes, I was going to raise the point about non-album singles myself. A good reason to consider compilation albums as a start point rather than full albums. Fortunately some astute person at apple or wherever made a good fist of it as a 'taster' set with the 'red' and 'blue' compilations. I suspect a lot of people around my age bought these as an introduction and an easy way of getting non album tracks. They are probably due an upgrade though as CD's have much longer playing times than when these first came out so a revised edition could include many more tracks if they stuck with the double CD format. The red set in particular doesn't look very good value anymore with each disc running to less than 45min each!

Didn't have time to look back thru the whole thread and not sure if these really qualify as 'desert rock' but they certainly have a psychedelic element; [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdsCqoJaHE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdsCqoJaHE[/url]

If you want to hear Glen at his best look no further than 'Stand Up', their second proper album. Full of quality stuff (but no LITP, that was a slightly later single). Personally my fave bass player in Tull was the late great John Glascock. However if that 'album about trees' you hated was 'Songs from the Wood' then I'm afraid you probably won't like the albums that probably showcase his playing best. Depends what type of stuff you like, folky or harder edged?