miles'tone

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Must of been posted a million times, but this one does it for me.. keep chasing it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmmD53vMyJU
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Yep, that'll do for me.

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I have it on a CD in my car. It has an [i]interesting[/i] effect on my driving
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Ever tried driving to the Bullitt soundtrack album?
When Ice Pick Mike comes on it's probably best for everyone I just pull over really.

Carol Kaye on both scores I believe.

I grew up loving the Smiths. It wasn't until many years later after I'd picked up the bass that I fully understood how good he was ( after the ears got better at picking out the bass )
Andy Rourke is a really original bass player. Beautiful counter melodies all the way.
I'd love to see an interview with him now that could get him to break down some of his basslines find out how he was looking at the music at the time.
It would be a great lesson.

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Saw it earlier, big fan of Stone Roses so loved it - not as informative as I'd have hoped from a documentary but still excellent for SR fans. I didn't see anyone crying, but then again we were at the front so there may have been masses of weeping blokes behind us.
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Massive Roses fan here too and I saw the Made Of Stone movie tonight too and loved it)
I was at Spike Island in 1990 as a fresh faced 18 year old and that gig moved me so much at the time that I drove home, promptly dropped out of catering college and sold my car to buy my first bass and amp (it was Mani who caught my eye - he just seemed so cool and down to earth... and funky! )
I also made it to the Saturday Heaton Park show last June so yes, tonight a loving old misty eye may have brinked a tad, but I didn't bawl, honest!

Abbey Road is my fave (as long as you skip Maxwell's Silver Hammer - a Macca tune that even the other 3 said was like pulling teeth to record. Cheesey.)

But here's another vote for Let It Be....Naked.
It's the one that Paul went back to a few years ago (got loads of sh*t for it) and stripped all the bolt-on strings away by Phil Spector on the original Let It Be.
Sounds ace! It's just the four of them 'getting back' to their roots and simply playing live in the studio.
It's the wild card, check it out.

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I must be lucky.
I've just turned 40, and my 14lb (!) Warwick Streamer LX6 still isn't an issue.
Good (ish) playing posture and a w-i-d-e strap help, though!
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14lbs! Holy Moly!
I've always played with a good posture and a decent strap height too.
The thing that's done me I feel is that I'm 6'1" and worked as a plumber for my day job over the last 10 years (got married and needed a 'proper job')which means crawling around in all sorts of shapes and nooks and crannies. Overstretching trying to reach the problems etc. Me and the missus got rear-ended in the car about 5 years ago too and my lower back has never been the same so it's light basses for evermore now for me I reckon.

I used to own a 70's Ric myself and used to have fun using the stereo feature, by having the neck pickup going out fat and clean through my bass amp and the thinner sounding bridge pickup going through an 80w guitar amp sat on top with various different effects going through it over time. Great fun when jamming for fun but it was a novelty I never really found a place for with any bands I was in at the time to be honest.

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Well there's your answer - don't play until after the three hour mark.
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It does matter since I turned 40. I used to gig alot when I was younger with a 10.5lb Stingray and the weight if it never even crossed my mind.
Now I've put together my own custom P-bass using a lightweight body and parts. It weighs in at 8.3lbs and now once again I can just go out and play without it being an issue. Another plus to it all I found is that my lightweight P is the most resonant and growly bass I've ever owned which is the sound I was always chasing really.

Wow! Awesome thread!!
Congratulations fella, that must've been the best buzz ever!
I too love MK and I've seen Ruby T do her thing at a Jools Holland and his RnB orchestra gig once. She's undoubtedly one of the best, incredible voice. Really pleased for you!
Thanks for sharing the journey.

Wasn't The Imagined Village one of the classic rolling sketches every week on The Two Ronnies?

Don't know mate but it sounds great!

Upon finishing music school in London in the mid-nineties, I passed on a fair few offers of musical work to move back to the sh*t hole in North Wales I'd spent most of my life trying to escspe from to live with the girl of my dreams and live happily ever after.
Ended up working in a factory that almost messed up my hands for life for 2 years while dream girl turned into a nightmare. Lived in a cottage together in the middle of nowhere and pretty much reenacted The Shining except she was Johnny.
Made it back to London eventually but was so out of practice and all my contacts had moved on that the work opportunities never came my way again really.
Ah but for love...

What a cock.

Edit: BUT, I am now happily married to a lovely lady who is very understanding to my musician-ness, I have two amazing sons and life is very good.
On reflection, if I had lived a single day of my life differently I may not have what I have now.
So no, no regrets actually!

Forgive me if I'm being dull but I thought the covers don't come off model P's and J's as aren't they one complete unit all epoxied together?

Wow Mick's tone and groove on that poetry jam are fantastic! He doesn't even look at his bass while he's playing, the lovely weirdo
Just remembered how much I need to try a Wal fretless too.
Cheers for posting that dry_stone!

Big fan of the Vintage V4 here. Inexpensive and easily good enough to be someones main gigging bass never mind back up.
(Yes I've got one, picked it up in a trade with a fellow BCer. Not heavy for a P either. Love it.)

Looks amazing and I'd love to hear how it sounds but the Thumb for me is a flawed design as you've got to hold the thing up as you play it. Tried a few in my time and they are so neck heavy it's ridiculous. Shame the fortress died a death as although a bit funny looking, it was their most comfortable design to play imo.

I've just finished Tom Wictor's latest book "Ghosts and Ballyhoo - Memoirs Of A Failed L.A. Music Journalist" and it is brilliant! Very original angle for a memoir and of course it flows fantastically just like his TB threads. If you liked them you should defo check it out

Ah that's a shame. Still, I'll keep my ears open just incase something happens.
Cheers!

Yes good luck, a beautiful thought.

Any plans for the next one at all anyone? I've not been to one yet and don't want to miss out again.

Looks like a great craic!

Welcome Adj, a fellow South wAlien here! (Taffs Well)
Lovely bass collection you have there
I must try and make a Cardiff get together myself one day, always seem to miss them dagnabbit.

Gutted.

The Doors have been the most inspiring and influential band in my life.

So long Ray and thanks for everything man. You were magnificent. X

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[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f32/interviewing-bassist-stories-866617/"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f32/interviewing-bassist-stories-866617/[/url]

It's on Talkbass so deep apologies to Basschat for posting it, but it deserves reading. Also, I had no idea it existed until BC member [b]Miles'tone[/b] posted it on my thread about old music mags, Miles, massive gratitude to you for posting the link mate!

It's a thread started by Thomas Wictor, an ex Bass Player mag journo who got pissed off with the new BP editor killing his stories and interviews. It's a BIG thread, and it's full of Wictor's anecdotes about his inteviews, and working for BP, and loads of very juicy inside stuff about your favourite bassists, much of it necessarily anonymous.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I am.
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Hey thanks Xilddx, I knew you'd be as enthralled as I am!
Yes got to agree with you that Thomas Wictor is one of the best bass journos we've had. I love his writing and the Interviewing Bassists threads are just amazing on so many levels. So much to absorb and learn from (I find myself going back to it to take notes on all the fantastic album suggestions/youtube links - such great new music to get turned on to!)
But it's the 'all laid bare' personal and spiritual matters that unfold with nothing less than full support and positive well wishing from all the Talkbassers that got me (yes, on Talkbass! ).
Really restored my faith in people.
His writing style (if that's the right word as it is straight from the heart) is so universal everyone can relate to it.

Inspiring stuff!

I absolutely agree with the OP here. Has anyone here heard of the (ex) Bass Player writer Thomas Wictor? He wrote that great book "In Cold Sweat - Interviews With Really Scary Musicians" (his legendary interview with Frank Zappa bassist Scott Thunes takes up nearly half the book!)
Well he was writing for Bass Player at, what anyone who remembers how that mag used to be would call it, it's creative peak. The turn of events that finally led to it becoming the bland, thin paged ad-fest that it is today is explained in this epic (and amazingly troll-free) thread he started on talkbass - the best thread I have ever read on a bass forum bar none (no offence intended to Basschatters or anyone anywhere else in the bass world whatsoever)
The said downturn in the quality of Bassplayer which he was so passionate about actually affected his physical health in the end but this thread is brimming with great interviews and stories that we're canned by the new editor at the time due to them being 'not relevant' anymore.
I really wish we had the Bass Player of old, I'd still be buying it if it was like it used to be (and don't even get me started on our good old 'Bassist'!)
Check it out...


http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f32/interviewing-bassist-stories-866617/