miles'tone

I LOVE Led Zep so that's why I hope they leave it alone now. Plant's gotta front them and if he himself feels he would be a parody then that be that.

Yes! Nice one

So sorry guys, just cannot get the link up... it's on youtube, 'Marvin Gaye whats going on - HD' Erm.... Enjoy! (Darn my antiquated phone :/)

http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-h3g-uk&safesearch=always&gl=GB&hl=en-GB# Trying that again......

http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-h3g-uk&safesearch=always&gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=fopc4exF 4D0 Here he is live with Marvin Gaye playing 'What's Going On?' his camera time is all too fleeting but now and again you can see 'the hook' in action

http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-h3g-uk&safesearch=always&gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE Sorry to deviate for 5 but while we're talking about musical heroes on kids programs, has anyone seen this? Makes me proud to be a kid from the '70s! Cracking performance...

Brilliant! Cbeebies is the only telly I get to watch these days (yep 2 kids now) and my 2 year old loves the Zings. I get him to slap all over my bass every morning before brekkie so this is going on my bookmarks! Well, you gotta brainwash them as early as you can eh? cheers for that, and cheers to SZ for being able to have a bit of fun with it

http://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-h3g-uk&safesearch=always&gl=GB&hl=en-GB#/watch?v=xhC-hhavnYg

It was astonishing at the time (as it is now) just how good he was at such a young age. I think he'd only been playing bass a couple of years before he got the Jamiroquai gig. I remember in an interview he gave years ago, he said when he was even younger he was a percussionist in the Archaos circus (with his sister?) so he obviously had the rhythmic thang down. Then he picked up the bass and hit the ground running....... After watching the above clip earlier today I found a wicked early Jamiroquai gig in Japan from '93 on youtube (Jamiroquai - live at club citta) - Can't link to anything on my crap phone soz but check it out if you can. (it's left me gassing for a P/J Streamer stage one I can tell you!

I wondered if you could be right here so I checked up on it but if you google 'jimmy page discusses making Led Zepellin III' (at ledzepellin.org) he goes through all the tracks and for Bron-aur he says JPJ used a large bodied acoustic bass guitar that he had defretted and played it acoustically. Wow I've always thought it was that fretless P (you were right about him using it on 'in my time of dying though)

Not forgetting the fretless P-bass on Bron-Y-Aur stomp. So sexy!

Yep I always thought he used flats (read it in an interview once somewhere) but then I got shot down in flames on Talkbass for saying so. Lots of evidence was brought forward by people who say they have met and asked him (which of course could be internet BS) and other interviews he gave say he hated flats and used Roto swingbass 66 roundwound strings and just eqed it that way. He mentioned that when Jimmy used to go off on one, JPJ needed to fill the space up as it was just down to the bass and drums and he found flats too limiting. He also said he'd change them often too so it's not like he was using dead rounds either. but yeah, they always sounded like flats to me.

Congrats mate, I love a happy ending! Nothing like the kindness of strangers to restore a little faith eh? Nice peeps.

Looks very nice indeed. Enjoy!

[quote name='yepmop' timestamp='1345930180' post='1783371'] I have one of these and they are amazing, lovely to play and everyone that hears it, comments on what a great sound it has. The "Out of the box" action is a little high for a fretless but that probably adds to the sound. These can be bought used on flea bay for around £175 [/quote] I did indeed pick one of these basses up last week for 172 quid. It is outstanding value for money, sounds the real deal, a joy to play! Bomb-proof Wilkinson hardware too.

God used to love Bassist. I wrote in once as a kid trying to find out what model Rickenbacker Mani's Jackson pollock-esque one was. They actually printed my letter and I got my answer 4 months later! Wow, remind me never to take t'net for granted. I love the 'any answer in a heart beat' age we now live in, and thank god for Basschat! btw - Mani played a Ric 4005 back in the day popfans -but you already knew that of course

As a single download I suggest 'Amelia' live with Wayne Cochran and the cc riders (it's on Punk Jazz - the Jaco Pastorius anthology) a very young Jaco playing one of his own compositions with them. He's using a Fender Jazz but with Labella flats on (pre rotosound tone) It's a killer tune with one hell of a groove from the young master.

Saw him at the Cardiff show for war of the worlds a coupla years ago. Brilliant show and he had a killer tone. Only knew he was playing when we sat down and read the program before it started. Made my night!

Cool!

If you go on youtube and look for 'Qotsa Glastonbury 2002 No One Knows' (sorry I can't put the link up directly - my phone is cack) you can fleetingly see Nick O finishing a passage with his fingers then reaching to the mic stand to grab a pick for the next bit. Never noticed this before. The rest of the tunes from them that day are well worth a look - that was one hell of a line up back then! Also on one of the tunes (soz can't remember which one and I've got an armful of newborn baby right now so I can't really go trawling even though I want to!) you can clearly see the large pole pieces of his quarter pounder and the down-tuned flubby strings I mentioned earlier.

Dunno about in the studio but saw him live many times on the songs for the deaf tour... P-bass with Basslines SPB3 quarter pounder, bass tuned C-F-B flat- E flat with what looked like quite regular strings as they were REALLY floppy! Played hard with a pick cranked thru a scruffy Ampeg rig. Sounded the same as the album cut to me... Effing awesome! A Sansamp Bassdriver DI will get you there for a recording.

Something worth considering is that when you hear the lemon song it is JPJ playing with complete freedom of thought and expression as Zep were there own bosses so to speak. With Jamerson, all those basslines we adore and love were created within a more restrictive environment; the 'hit factory'. It was his day job. The funk brothers were pretty much told what they would be playing (arrangement wise) and of course they got their freak on within that set up but they weren't calling the creative shots really. jamerson famously would not allow the motown stuff to be played at home complaining that he had to spend all day at work listening to that Sh*t. Jamerson was a jazz cat at heart and would play exactly that during his down time. I guess what I'm trying to get at in a long winded way is that Jamerson has blown us all away with his talent and yet we may never have actually heard him really being himself, creating what HE really wanted to... I also agree that music is not a competition by the way. Both these guys are killer talents.