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I hope this has come across from the tube. Quite good I thought. https://youtu.be/g0OgxixunK4?feature=shared

Dave, It’s a Broughton HPF-DI with variable HPF, variable impedance, switchable phase and DI (which I don’t use). I went from FDeck to Grace, back to FDeck and finally to Broughton which is my preferred option. Broughton come up with short runs of high quality gizmos from time but you’ve got to catch them.

I’ve had ‘em all but I’m now happy with this somewhat minimalist rig. Sounds wonderful.

All the gear…

I was in a double bass shop with Ray Brown. We talked about E strings. Trouble was I didn’t know it was him until after he left.

It was a stunt vacuum cleaner.

I’ve been in approx 100 bands. I wouldn’t want to see any of them. Honest.

Interesting, that. I switch a lot between two feel and walking but as most of my stuff is freelance I usually discuss it with the drummer so he knows what to expect. I remember once mentioning to the drummer that I could tell when the rhythm is starting to swing and I can be confident in playing two feel. He replied, ‘Yes, but a minim is an awfully long note to be wrong’. Check out Ray Brown playing Have You Met Miss Jones on Oscar’s We Get Requests. That swings in medium tempo two feel like no other.

I last saw him at Symphony Hall five years ago. He was in great voice and closed with Sanfrancisco without a mic. He filled the auditorium with his voice. I met his DB player, Marshall Wood, through the ‘other’ forum and we formed a friendship. TB toured with just his quartet and almost to the end they went all over the place, including a private gig at Buck House for Prince Charles- as he was then.

Tut Tut!

Why, what’s for sale?

‘Do you play requests?’ ‘Only when we’re asked’ seemed to work well enough for us.

Or if you’re asked ‘How do you get that under your chin?’ You sweetly reply ‘By keeping my f*****g mouth shut’. Then be prepared to run if you’re small. Or old.

The DJ hasn’t arrived yet so the stage is clear for you to set up on.

Wow!! Something I never achieved. But wanted to.

Amazing!

Jazz musicians never play the same phrase once.

Hi Nick Thanks for asking. I just got old and it’s about time I stopped. I’m 82 now and nobody has got any business inflicting themselves on an audience at that age. Mind you, I’ve still got a bit of gear and a nice double bass.

The difference between a jazz guitarist and a 12” pizza? The latter will feed a family of four.