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Mouldy Old Dough...Lieutenant Pigeon!..Yeah I know crazy and stupid but it was the first groove that as a kid I sat up and noticed. Good Times. Sylvia Forget Me Knots Take Another Guess (swing jazz groove) Its difficult cause there's loads more really...

Ha, audition stories..where to begin! Once had a very solid drummer turn up, small kit, looked the biz. Seemed ok until we started to realise after about the fourth tune that he was gonna play the same four on the floor groove to every single song exactly the same every time!...would've sounded great if we had been doing a disco medley but...jeez! Myself and a drummer friend went to a "blues" audition organised by a "name" blues guitarist. I'd never heard of him, seemed like a nice bloke until that is he whacks his Fender 100wt champ up full.....no-one could hear a bloody thing, only what could best be described as SRV on a rocket fuelled megaphone!!...drummer and myself didn't get the gig..apparently we were'nt listening properly....not surprising at those volume levels. I sure we've all got many more.

Rythmn Stick.....I know its a bit flash but hey I just love the reactions as I look up...

70's mega genius, real thinking music, clever, clever writing...incredible talent. Have'nt read the whole thread and wasn't sure if this was an obituary...guess she's still hanging in there. I never realised she smoked so much...yuch

[quote name='alittlebitrobot' timestamp='1427053373' post='2725185'] the sad thing is, I'd prefer the birdy song and I wouldn't get to hear it 'cause I would've closed the video before Teentown even got going. [/quote] ha.. can anyone actually play TT apart that is from Will Lee...

Teentown...then the birdy song

Coming at this from a slightly different angle. Be sure to listen carefully to the basslines your going to record. What may seem ok live or in the shed may not sound quite right when cleanly recorded. I cut some tracks decades ago but I can hardly bear to listen to them now because the notes I played just were not musical enough but I nor anyone else did'nt realise it at the time. Very annoying.

Just to broaden out the discussion a bit. I do find it hard to understand why bassists are seemingly obsessed with "low action", or plays like butter etc. I can understand guitarists thinking this way with the thinness of the strings they play, but bass is a bigger instrument which,lets face it is physically harder to play but which still demands that good tone is produced The idea that you can set up a bass to play "easy" like a guitar is wrong. Bass guitars are almost mini double basses which are not easy at all, at least not to start with. Hence the best tone is achieved like a double bass with a high action which allows the strings to really get moving Apparently Jamersons P had immense high action just like a DB, but boy did he get a great tone, but then Geddy Lees J has amost no action at all and to me it just sounds clanky and grindy which I know appeals to some but it does'nt really sound like a good solid bass tone to me. I shall now retire to my nuclear shelter....

anything by lalo schfrin... 70's funktasticness

Leo did two things right in my opinion throughout the whole Fender product range. The mid 60's P bass body shape and the placement of the PU's. Everything else is kinda, meh...

not a bass but a mint 76 Ampeg V4b amp which I bought back in 1980, I was so proud. It looked so beautiful but was sooo heavy and kinda untrendy at the time . What I would do to have it back in my possession now...wonder where it is.

yes because when you find a cracking drummer you'll wonder why you ever bothered with the guy who could'nt keep it together. RIP Andy Bond...best drummer I ever played with..crisp, effortless metronome groove, sadly missed.

....and it all started with Barry White who found him as a young teenager playing bass in the street apparently. Anyway, love those singles takes me back to being a love sick teen...gawd.

[quote name='ubit' timestamp='1420994890' post='2655947'] Mate, we played a party one night. The electrics were really dodgy and my amp kept cutting out, so there were long periods of no bass in the first set. During the break, I di'd straight into the desk for the rest of the gig. The thing was during the break folk came up to us and said, that was brilliant! One guy even booked us on the strength of that woeful performance. Thing is, you thought your sound was sh*t. Everyone out front never noticed, I bet you all the tea in China! [/quote] And how much time do we all spend talking about and worrying about what bass or amp to buy or take to the gig. Bin sayin it for 30 yrs, the public havent got a clue about bass, it all sounds the same to them whatever you do.

[quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1413996739' post='2584653'] I suppose it's a matter of taste - [size=4]I much prefer low frets.[/size] [/quote] Me to. My old P has been referetted at somepoint with wide frets which are very low. Sublime with flats, my plucking fingers barely have to move.

[quote name='luckman67' timestamp='1420618871' post='2651274'] I have never used flatwound strings only ever used roundwound,from when I started playing bass back in 1987. And some of the videos I've watched the players have left their flatwound strings on for years. Apparently Klaus Voorman has had the same set on for decades. [/quote] Love flats but they can be a bit weird. The Daddarios I use don't seem to have the richness that rounds have when they are new but as they age they thicken up. One set I use are now ten years old and just amazing, woody with the tone open and dense like treacle with it off.

I really need to get a life..ha The one in the B&W photo has the shorter 60's logo. I suppose it would be great if Ray Stiles could come on here and tell all..is he on here?

As per all of the the above..its all good. Here's a true story. We auditioned a drummer once and I swear he took over an hour to set up his kit which was way too much for the band.... roto toms and cymbals everywhere...

Bought my LPB VM P/J there too. Nice shop, and a great light weight bass for silly money...

Might as well have a rant.. Joss Stone. Just for once I wish she would tie her hair back off her face, stop all that over egging the pudding and just sing it straight like say, Gladys Knight, Aretha et al. She's ok, voice is a bit thin for me but.... I do find her quite unwatchable and even sometimes not always good to listen too. There done. ps: I wonder what this site would be like if everyone was of the same opinion?

Someone was well out of tune and in a pub band type of lineup its gonna stickout. Impression I got was that they literally were'nt gig ready to do the show, either that or to much hospitality had been consumed. Pity.

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1375110834' post='2156806'] I enjoyed that, nice sound and tight! I'm a sucker for the harmonising Les Paul/Marshall combination... loved it! [/quote] mmm.. me too you should do a thin lizzy cover ...

Fender Bassman 135 silverface d'id. Used my old one at a local festival and was amazed at the crisp old school sound on the video playback.