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They weren't around for long but this band should have been massive in my opinion. Audley Freed is a monster guitarist.

Don't know what happened to these guys but this was a cracking album;

6. Run for Cover - Marcus Miller. 20. If I was with a Woman - Ian Dury (?)

I'm intrigued by the 'relic' market, so I think I'm going to chuck my Precision in the ditch down the end of the garden for a while. I might then leave it in the road outside for a few days.

Another one for passive speakers. You can pick up a decent power amp for peanuts but a failed active PA speaker can often end up in the bin. I'd also add that one of the best PA acquisitions in my band was a Behringer graphic equaliser which enables you to take out narrow frequencies that cause problems rather than losing a whole lump of sound around the problem area. Behringer stuff gets quite a bad press but we've never had a single problem.

Stratus is one of my favorite bass grooves. Apparently Lee Sklar only played it a couple of times in the studio and then never played it again, which quite ridiculously means that I've played it dozens more times than he did ( and nowhere near as well).

It's like the Bermuda triangle around there! My Dad used to live in Crishall and I don't think he really knew what county it was in.

Quite mind boggling stuff on Leslie Johnson's Youtube links.

I fancy a short scale. Interested in these and the Gretsch Junior Jets.

Squier Tele, Aerodyne Strat, Gretsch and a Danelectro.

There's a lot of choices out there apart from the usual Fender Precision and Jazz types. I'd also consider the Gretsch Junior Jet basses for a well made and easy to handle guitar. A lot of bang for your buck with them.

If you want to learn to read you'll need to learn Bass clef which is different to Treble clef as used by flute and violin. I found learning the modes of the major scales helpful but, like all scales, it's only useful if you learn what chords they apply to and how chord progressions work. Good luck and have fun.

Don't get no funkier than this IMHO. The riff that David Dyson plays at around 3.40 is something I've shamelessly nicked and shoehorned into anything requiring some funk.

Avant garde jazzer?

Yes.

I'm incapable of following the recipe but don't get any complaints with what I dish up as long as it's greasy spoon. Anyone who thinks the ingredients are wrong can eff off and pay £75 for a 2oz. steak with a green bean balanced on it.

Love this bass line by Anthony Jackson. Also like this bloke's covers which are very accurate and easy to hear.

Always loved Willie Weeks sound on all of this album;

I'm not like other harmonica players and I won't play all over everything for the entire gig.

I found learning about the modes very useful at this stage. It shows how a different chord fits over each individual note in the major scale.

I stand corrected. What do you think my favorite colour should be?😉

Anything by Mick Karn playing a Wal.

Always loved Lee Sklar. Unfortunately, the stuff he did with Phil Collins is about the bottom of the barrel of his superb career for me.