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[quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1327799712' post='1517107'] If you can do Kool and the Gang then i raise you a Heatwave: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2_nfr8Xe3c&feature=related[/media] [/quote] Maybe this should be in the tenuous claims to fame thread.... The original guitarist was [url="http://www.heatwave72.com/erie%20rasmussen.jpeg"]Eric Johns Rasmussen[/url]. He and his wife moved to NZ in the early 80's and she was my primary school teacher for a few months. [url="http://www.vocalelite.com.au/portfolio/eric-rasmussen"]They're in Sydney[/url] now. He came into class and gave us a talk on playing guitar - both were cool as f***. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKH7BHzq_VM[/media] Another piece of useless trivia... The keyboardist in Heatwave was Rod Temperton who wrote some of the fro-est disco hits. This is despite being from Cleethorpes. Quincy Jones was introduced to him, and Rod ended up writing a number of killer tracks for Michael Jacksons Off The Wall and Thriller albums including Thriller, Rock With You and Off The Wall.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1327785832' post='1516880'] but i never really heard an Abba track that really grooves. of course what i say means nothing as groove is subjective [/quote] Y'got two of the best examples right there. Rutgar Gunnarsson is an incredible groove merchant but don't [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f28/rutger-gunnarsson-abbas-bass-player-202887/"]take my word[/url] for it. He also has a connection with brass like many bass players (John Entwhistle, Herbie Flowers) having scored all of Abba's brass parts.

And noone's mentioned Abba yet...? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za05HBtGsgU&ob=av2e[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjLoHdbVeE&ob=av2e[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GtyMeEcPPE[/media] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QZKZ3eqOXY

And more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLQRW7J_D0U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtfZbj4J71A

Some more blasts from my past - these are the ones I remember before we all shifted to NZ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hihp_Jjdnsg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28LoWh7nV9Q

BTW, slightly off topic but this is the best non-Jaydee tone he ever got IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqZHO6CGqs&feature=related Eden and Alembic. Who'd have thought, eh?

Love MM with Luther - awesome. But can't stand MM when he does gentle songs that consist entirely of solo slapping. Just hideous. The way I look at it, slapping is about emphasising rhythm. So when Mark King starts thrashing away with Phil Gould on the Live At Wembley vid, that all makes sense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCv-5EonBuo When Marcus starts doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhbi8GSsqrU I feel despair. Kind of liked that clip by Prime but he needs to get a better sound. More warmth and more hi-fi.

www.entrechat.co.uk is available if any one is interested.

I just tend to use parallel; no volume differences then plus parallel is used in Smith basses so I get a nice funky sound. Nice mod for MM SR5 HS owners though! Thanks for sharing.

Geez, they've let themselves go a bit...age does that unfortunately. Still my fave girl group though.

The only ones I can claim are Cherie Blair at her hairdressers civil partnership ceremony...and Craig Revell Horwood at a charidee gig.

IIRC they trademarked their headstock design it's difficult to prove in a court that something is identical when there's a small change and then translate that small change into a $ value unless trademarking/copyright protection is used which establishes a set of legal principles which can be referred to

I believe the copyright/trademark protection on Fender has expired?

[quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1327398509' post='1510418'] I consider myself the ideal professional. I treat my fellow band members, audience and crew members with the respect that they deserve as fellow music lovers. [/quote] "Get out."

Indeed, but it sets a bad example nevertheless. The last thing the music business needs is yet more deluded prima donnas filled with an overwhelming sense of their self importance...oh wait, without them, there probably wouldn't be a music business. I stand corrected. Speaking of which, I also need to do a wee edit.

Hank? FWIW he could assume less about the individual reading the message and make the effort to learn how to spell dubious correctly. Otherwise he just comes across as a pompous c*ck. Seriously, if there's a problem, he needs to deal with it 1:1 not post lazy, dumb ass messages to an imaginary audience at large.

Stop posting. Pearls are a basschat secret.

Me. Although I'd be upset if any of my instruments had beer spilled on them or were stolen, regardless of the value.

Beyond a certain point I would make my own. In fact I hope to do that sometime next year. Have just discovered a stunning species of wood which looks like quilted maple but apparently has the tonal character of mahogany. Not cheap for the fancy stuff but I'm reeeeeeeal curious...

Nothing surprises me any more. Once American bass players get hyped about something, common sense seems to go out the window. I've played a Fodera Imperial and an MG and they were nice basses but sounded a little sterile. In terms of build quality they were very good but not two thousand quid better than a Sei, Smith or Shuker. OK so they season their necks for years after being laminated but that doesn't justify the cost. At that level its mostly about image I think. So, yer pays yer money...

I'm in the same boat. Warm and hugely growly with a nice bit of crispness...and its versatile. The only basses I've bought in the last three years are another Spector (which does the same trick) and the Steiny (which was on my bucket list). The only way I can think of improving is to make my own bass and see if I can achieve the same.