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[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1372334070' post='2124403'] Thanks for the heads up! Downloading it now on iTunes. Edit: quite jazzy, very funky, some great drumming and some great bass. Recommended (although my track 2 is glitched, dunno if it's a download issue or a problem with the original track) [/quote] Re the gitch: Do you have access to your music via their "cloud" service? I don't do itunes, I buy music via Amazon mp3 and although any download can be susceptible to glitches I've found listening to my music via the Amazon cloud to be glitch-free (and slightly better quality than the download. I have no idea why this would be either! ) Great thread this. My next buy will be NWR's solo album. Thanks for alerting me to it's existence!

Yup, here's Felix talking about the Bass Of Doom, RT and the Yellowjackets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWocurALC1A

Hear hear to all of the above! Until Dad's nudist thread () I'd never really checked out the recordings bit. Now I will as it's amazing to hear what the people we chat with sound like. In fact there's so much good music in the running this month that it's inspiring me to dig out the digi 4-track I bought about 6 months ago and still haven't got around to using. It's great to chat about music but you're right, it's only worthwhile if we make as much as we talk (well, personally speaking that is. Been so busy with our new baby I've hardly played at all this year. Great and easy to talk about it though! Right, the mission is to enter the competition myself sometime and keep on listening to and voting for my fellow BCers! Cheeoz, Si.

I heard this today via Facebook and it's the most beautiful thing I've heard in ages. Diamonds in the soles of her shoes - just isolated bass and vocals. What a player! Enjoy! http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2012/06/25/diamonds-on-the-soles-of-her-shoes-isolated-bass-vocals/

Hoora........ah, bugger.

Wow I remember that being on! Can't believe it was '92, how time flies! Thanks for the link.

[quote name='pobrien_ie' timestamp='1372109150' post='2121845'] I can see both sides. The fact that it was supposedly stolen would allow the family to feel somewhat aggrieved. Wasn't he living rough at the time? I suppose it's possible it wasn't 'stolen' at all. One of the stories with Jamerson's Funk Machine is similar. Rumour had he sold it before his death. The now common photos of an older Jameron showing off a bass that is not his '62 P Bass could back that up. Desperate times call for desperate measures and all that. If RT is willing to return the bass for what he paid, that would seem fair to me. Just my tuppence... [/quote] Yes good points there. The fact that RT owns the bass and lets Jaco's sons have access whenever they want and will hand it over if they give him back what he paid for it is the best outcome possible in reality. RT took Jaco's bass to NAMM last year and let a few people play it. Good on him for sharing it with the wider bass world. Better than some collector buying it and hiding it away from everyone again.

The way I question I always have about it all is this: It's widely known and accepted that Jaco's bass of doom was stolen from him. When it surfaced again all those years later it is still stolen property isn't it? Surely the police could simply gone to the vintage guitar dealer who had it and just taken it back and returned the stolen goods to it's rightful owner/next of kin? Seems fair to me. Raising money to buy back what really is theirs shouldn't have been an issue for the Pastorius family anyway. I guess the law was against them in some way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1q-SzURjo [quote name='Bassman Steve' timestamp='1371656135' post='2116689'] Frampton Comes Alive is fretless P if the sleeve art is anything to go by. [/quote] Y'now, I bought this album and it didn't really grab me at all at first. Nothing wrong with it, it's just my tastes are usually a little more 'out there' for want of a better expression. Then I found this video (the link at the top of this post) on bassist Stanley Sheldon's website and now it all makes sense. Frampton Comes Alive was actually a live album filmed in the daytime. No fancy stage show or lighting rig. No big screens or pyros, nothing. Just a few guys on stage playing their instruments to a few thousand people going absolutely apesh*t for them (hard to imagine this happening today). Add to this that the whole concert was released as an album with NO OVERDUBS whatsoever, and this album was the highest selling no.1 album that year and still remains the best selling live album ever! Sheldon had only joined the band eight weeks previously and nailed every song on the album playing a fretless! (Whilst providing some backing vox too!) So yeah, Stanley Sheldon? What a Badass!! (Loving his black/white/maple fretless P in the vid too - super cool!) Cheers again everyone for all the fantastic suggestions here, loving them all. Great to have some new music to get into - nice one! Cheers, Si.

I read a further article (linked from talkbass I think) somewhere that Trujillo paid around $60000 to get the bass of doom back. Can't find it again right now sorry. As for Norman Watt-Roy's Blockhead bass, it was sold here... http://www.andybaxterbass.com/details.php?id=165

[quote name='pobrien_ie' timestamp='1371665387' post='2116819'] Aren't some of John Deacon's Queen basslines on a fretless p? I think Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Somebody to Love are, maybe Under Pressure too. [/quote] Hey you're right about Deaky playing one but the only evidence I can make out on line is he used one on a track called "'39" live. Anyone know if he actually recorded with a fretless?

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1371657486' post='2116710'] Ralphe Armstrong when he was in the Mahavishnu Orchestra - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtckEWfy2vE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtckEWfy2vE[/url] He is also prominent on 'Visions Of The Emerald Beyond' and 'Inner Worlds'. All three super albums. Ralphe has said it was one of the reasons he got the job - no-one was really playing fretless P! [/quote] This album is amazing! Very cinematic with some nice funky passages. Cheers!!

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1371680832' post='2117036'] cheers for that! The strings are Rotosound Tru Bass, the big fat black nylon strings as used by Herbie Flowers, Jah Wobble and Macca [/quote] Very nice! I've always loved Macca's tone on The Beatles rooftop gig using them. I really must give them a go sometime.

[quote name='mcgraham' timestamp='1371708584' post='2117129'] Walked down the aisle to Yann Tiersen Walked out of the church to Totally Addicted to Bass [/quote] and into the last of the V8 Interceptors? (wish I'd thought of that one!)

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1371659997' post='2116760'] This guy's intonation is laughable. What a clown. [/quote] You can't kid a kidder, I'm having none of it! Cheers everyone else for all your suggestions, not got any further so far but I'm going to listen to everything else tomorrow now. Hats off to y'all!

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1371655687' post='2116685'] and finally, errr, here's me playng a fretless P [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4PAaY7XU4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4PAaY7XU4[/url] [/quote] That is a wicked tune mate! Right up my street - even Mrs.'tone liked it. She said ,"Ooo that's good, who's that?" I told her and she said,"That's much nicer than that other rubbish you've been listening too!" Needless to say the Brand X hasn't been going down too well! Cracking tone there Clarky, really smooth. What strings are you using?

[quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1371655279' post='2116679'] Erm, BC's very own wateroftyne? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdDipy8MB0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhdDipy8MB0[/url] [/quote] Yep, I've seen all his fretless youtube vids and his tone on them is pretty much what's doing it for me (and giving me some GAS induced sleepless nights! ) Seriously, he's getting really close to an upright tone on there, more authentic than some EUB's I've tried. I play some upright too but I've not gigged it in ages to be honest.

I've grown up listening to Jaco and many fretless Jazz Bass players - the quintessential fretless tone? - but recently I've fallen in love with the awesome woody tones of the rarer beast that is the fretless P-bass. I know Sting with the Police, Percy Jones with Brand X, Freebo with Bonnie Rait and of course Tony Franklin have all toted one in their time but beyond that, who else? Can anybody suggest any recordings that have a fretless P to the fore (ie. noticeable)? Need some further inspiration! Cheers, Si.

Down the aisle - Just In Time (Frank Sinatra) Signing the register - Dirty Old Town (The Pogues) Walked out to - I'm gonna be (500 miles) (The Proclaimers) Awesome day