Mcgiver69

The first patch is one of mine.

Nice to see some love for my compatriot Michel Camilo, I remember that gig, it was my first Jazz concert ever. Thanks Bilbo for the video and the memories you brought back. To the people who criticise the music as being "soulless" I think you miss the point, to characterize that piece as soulless you need first to have listen to latin music and then you will understand the context of the tune, it is all about having fun. Because it doesn't contain any Rock, Funk or Soul element it doesn't make it soulless. I know that everyone to it's own but a bit of education goes a long way. Sorry if this sounded a bit patronizing lads.

Andrew Levy, Paul Denman and Tony Grey are other missing on the list of British finest. Looking at the list I come to the conclusion that Britain is the home of some of the finest bass players on earth. We are more than well represented in the world with those cats.

[quote name='SJA' post='309209' date='Oct 18 2008, 01:17 PM']didn't see Later, but I can't tell Friendly fires apart from Bloc Party- same feeble singing over post-punk-lite Gang of Four-rip-off guitars. White lies were similarly pointless on Later- as if we need yet another Joy Division-lite Interpol/Editors clone.[/quote] That is called "The NME" syndrome all bands that appear in that magazine are made of the same material and cut with the same scissors. Haven't seen one of those bands that I can say that impress me. All of them sound the same, look the same, sing the same and in the same way, jump around like a bunch of tw@ts (the same) and even use the same basses and amps (P basses and Ampeg). The whole story short "Boring". Sorry rant over.

I bought a red cherry like the one on the picture, I have to say that is the most comfortable bass I've ever player. Being an active guy I dropped a Bartolini NTBT 2 band preamp in and it turned out to be a beast. I love this bass and definitely is a keeper.

Basically it's Billy Sheehan with an extr P pickup close to the bridge. Sounds very well though

Michael Anthony is a natural left handed but plays right handed. Keith Horne is natural right handed but plays left handed. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4FzbbrtPqw&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4FzbbrtPqw...feature=related[/url]

Yeah top bloke with a brilliant sense of humor and humanity. God bless him and good luck to him where ever he is right now. He will be really missed.

It is the great Tony Grey and proudly from Great Britain!!!!!

Hi guys, Just scored this bad boy (girl?) on the Bay for a song and wonder what do you know about these basses, I know that they are similar to the Dyna basses (Made in USA) but made in Korea. This on is passive with twin buckers and vol-vol/tone-tone electronics. [attachment=11540:aba9_1.JPG] Cheers, The Mac.

very true, too. MWAHHHHHHH!

Lets see, so Jazz has to be only trad or bop? I thought that the main concept of Jazz was that your imagination was the limit. Cheap shots are easy specially when your body of work can be written in a sheet of toilet paper. Music is art and by any means you can't talk about poor note choices when you are improvising. I tell you some people .......

Saw him a couple of years ago and that was one of the best gigs ever, full of energy and great music. BTW I hate his bassplayer his tone and touch are so ridiculously good that makes my blood boil. I also have the birthday DVD and that was another great gig too.

Or you can get an old computer or laptop and install Ubuntu Studio Linux in it, no latency problems and all the free software in the world. Oh did I forget to mention free ASIO and free software?

If I'm not mistaken Monk was the first to ever record a Jazz record with an electric bass.