miles'tone

Speaking of BAD (as in good), here's Paul Jackson giving it some with Herbie's Headhunters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMcQfyuHVk8&feature=youtube_gdata_player As for the best tone I'VE ever had well that was using someone else's Ampeg rig at a gig I played at the old Barfly in Cardiff. Awesome amp, brilliant house PA with a cracking band mix through the monitors from a great sound engineer. I felt famous for the evening!

[quote name='kennyrodg' timestamp='1370981659' post='2108338'] Ever heard...... This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDsHJW5E1zk [/quote] Nope, but thanks alot as that is BAD (as in good).

Today is my first real opportunity to get back into some focused shedding since our baby no.2 arrived and I have mostly been learning that the super skinny Am jazz special neck that I bought for my custom P project is far too super skinny for my shovel-like hands and it's giving me hand cramps . Geddy Lee I am not! (in many many ways ) Beyond this I've been learning Jerry Scheff's kickin' bassline to L.A. Woman.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1370869701' post='2106574'] According to older musos who were around at the time , Clive Charman ( along with Alan Spenner ) was considered by many to be the best bass player on the scene in London in the early 1970's . After he was in the Jeff Beck Group he ended up playing in a band called Hummingbird , with the truly great Bernard Purdie on drums and Bobby Tench on guitar : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yxyYor-w8 Pretty sure this track features Clive on bass . , too : [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BY4i9ZTm0s&list=PL15CC90C3001C47E3[/media] Clive Charman was also a kind of mentor to Neil Murray ( Whitesnake ect .) when Neil first became a pro player in the early 70's . He used to dep for Clive in Cozy Powell's Hammer , and I think he replaced him in a band called Hanson . Last I heard , Clive was living a quiet life in Florida . [/quote] Hey thanks for the heads up there regarding Hummingbird dingus. I love Bernard 'pretty' Purdie, one of my fave drummers! Chaman and Purdie sound fantastic together on that track. That's another three albums on the shopping list! As is 'Blow By Blow'. I've heard of that album forever so about time I gave it a whirl. (So many albums, so little time) Cheers everyone.

[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' timestamp='1370789768' post='2105523'] Went on Friday, massive SR fan here, saw them 3 times in '89, twice in '95, and was sadly present at Reading too in '96. Thought they were excellent, great sound, and a real groove about them. Better than Heaton park, although the fact it was their reunion meant that Heaton was a much bigger 'event' than Finsbury. Ian Brown is Ian Brown, his legendary status means he can behave how he likes on stage I guess, he was always like that anyway, and his voice is far better than it was. Saw the MoS film too while in London, good documentary, with some new footage (For a change), although could have included more band interviews imo. Always good to see Roses related stuff though. This is a shameless excuse to show my Mani-a-like 4005 too; [/quote] Great stuff! I remember seeing your build diary thread for the 'Rickenmani' when I first joined BC. Outstanding sir! Really impressed. I always wanted a 4005 too but you know how much they go for of course. Ended up getting a 4001 instead but that bloody thing was a dog, awful thing. All sharp edges and no balls. A tech removed a resistor for me and that did beef things up but I had to literally fight yhe thing to play it. I obviously had a bad un but it's put me off them for life really. Now if Rickenbacker reissued the 4005 I would be in for one of them for sure. I'd find a way somehow! Mani's getting great tones from his Epi Jack Casady's these days isn't he. I hope they make a habit of these weekender gigs as if they do a couple next summer I'll be at everyone to make up for missing out this year. Hopefully next time we'll hear some new songs too!

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1370865307' post='2106466'] 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. [/quote] The only involvement Tony Wilson had with the Roses was to openly put them down as they didn't sign to his Factory label. Inevitably when they started making waves of their own doing and couldn't be ignored any longer, they performed on the Other Side Of Midnight programme which he presented. To me they stood apart from the other bands of the 'Madchester' scene as the music went deeper than any of the others, as did the very inspiring interviews they gave in the music rags of the day. The others just came across as wreck-heads on their jollies really. Imho and all that.

Bugger, I was so excited I forgot to paste the link! Sorry about that. Anyway the link provided kindly here by Redstriper is in colour whereas mine was in black and white so cheers for that!

Today I was Facebooked this live studio set by a mate. Never really heard much of Jeff Beck apart from checking out some youtube links when Tal popped up on our collective radar. This band sounds fantastic! Clive Chaman on bass and Cozy Powell on drums. Not come across Clive Chaman before but what a player! Awesome tone from his P-bass too. Anyone know if this was a steady band for Jeff Beck or was this a one off kinda affair? Either way they've got 'it' here... Enjoy!

Today it's... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXrwFBG7-7s&feature=youtube_gdata_player Tomorrow...?

Lesson learned: Don't take your Wal to the pub.

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1370720446' post='2104892'] Johnny Marr playing in May this year, with Andy Rourke as a special guest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeQIscpBSk&feature=youtube_gdata_player [/quote] Nice one Kevin, really enjoyed that!

Ozric Tentacles Zia on live Underslunky always did it for me. Sunscape: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WiHs_1zH10&feature=youtube_gdata_player"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WiHs_1zH10&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/url]

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1370685833' post='2104326'] Must of been posted a million times, but this one does it for me.. keep chasing it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmmD53vMyJU [/quote] Yep, that'll do for me.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1370673017' post='2104167'] I have it on a CD in my car. It has an [i]interesting[/i] effect on my driving [/quote] 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.

[quote name='the_skezz' timestamp='1370654007' post='2104120'] 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. [/quote] 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.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' timestamp='1370457089' post='2101294'] 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! [/quote] 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.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1370448302' post='2101056'] Well there's your answer - don't play until after the three hour mark. [/quote]

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!