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[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1482357212' post='3199918'] I prefer Marta Altesa's bass playing [/quote] She is back, not that I've been stalking or anything.

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1482179448' post='3198292'] Pino - tasteful, talented and... dull... Preferred him when he had a bit of individuality and sprayed fretless all over the songs. [/quote] Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmjbiA_wnc

I love the bass in Bruno Mars songs. I also love a Jazz bass played like this. I'm not sure if I look like I'm having this much fun when I play though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KfY1bkxLBo

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1481963794' post='3196540'] I must have listened to this clip a thousand times, and it never gets boring. Firstly because I love funky gospel and secondly there is always a nuance in his playing that I didn't hear before. His bass playing has so many dynamics, you can get and learn so much from it. What I really love just like Pino, there is not one bit of slap bass. Not against it but it shows how amazing bass playing can be without it. it's just off the wall groove playing. And that famous fill at 2.05 minutes. Just a wow peice of bass playing. It's this and Willie Weeks on Donny Hathaways Little Ghetto Boy. What's your favourite.? [media]http://youtu.be/pATcvr3zAhg[/media] [/quote] That drumming is pretty special too.

I found out that 4 mates in a room playing songs is powerful medicine. I've played on and off with the same group of friends for around 25 years now. The last gig we did was around 6 years ago, for various reasons we haven't done anything since. Recently, the brother of the guitarist died very suddenly. That event brought us all together again, as friends and also as a band. All 4 of us have some serious issues to contend with at the moment in our lives, but for 4 hours in that rehearsal room we are invincible. I have also realised that I may have to change my playing position/style as my right forearm, wrist and thumb are starting to give me pain.

The song Genghis Khan has always been a struggle for me. I too learned how to play mostly through Steve Harris. I remember watching Live after Death and being captivated. The spandex always confused me though! I found the best way to get anywhere near keeping up with the pace of some lines was to have a light touch.

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1482089172' post='3197563'] A bass will never give you tone. You can EQ sound or use an effect ( gain, compression,boost). Tone comes from your fingers, that's where you develop your tone. Blue [/quote] Hey Blue. I have to disagree here, I think different basses have a baked in tone, what you do with that tone comes from the fingers.

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1481925192' post='3196416'] Love that song and love that bass line - one of my "desert island basslines". John Gustafson was a really great and really under-rated player. You're right they had some properly good bass players through their ranks, esp in the 70s and 80s. I'm not a fan of Roxy but I love Alan Spenner's playing with them on the albums around Avalon era. LitD was recorded on a unique bass guitar... a hand built/modified P-bass made for Gustafson by Ian Waller a few years before he started building Wal basses full time. The bass had a heavily over wound P-bass pickup that Ian Waller rewound himself by hand. That and Johnny Gus' fingers contributed to that unique sound. Classy player! [/quote] Wow, that's what I love about this forum sometimes. I just assumed it was a standard Precision bass. Now I need a Wal.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1481923034' post='3196393'] Yeah, I'm no fan of Roxy Music but this is great - superb tone & bass line. [/quote] Just been listening to Dance Away, that's a cracking bassline too, very different tone though.

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1481921897' post='3196378'] Bit that was the first word! My former singer was, erm, 'friendly' with Bill Nelson. [/quote] My mum went to school with him! The Axe Victim album cover used to scare me when I was little. I've seen this advert on joinmyband a lot. I'm tempted.

I am addicted to this at the moment. That tone is stunning, coupled with the perfect bass line for an amazing song. http://youtu.be/LRRLTxIxNtM

[quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1481317387' post='3191551'] Plucking over the neck can be a very particular thing and, yes, the feel of the string is really different than down by the pickups. But for the soft, stringy, woody sound it produces that's actually kinda the thing. It's a looser sound and a looser feel - and will (only) work (best) in applications where that sound and feel is what's needed. Horses, courses and all that... [/quote] Yep, I can see where it would work. I like your bass by the way. Very nice.

I mostly play a Precision, I play over the pickup or about an inch to towards the bridge. That playing over the end of the fretboard position feels too loose to me.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1481234101' post='3190928'] 11'138 [/quote] That's not a bad ratio I suppose. Better than mine!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1481233219' post='3190916'] It looks like I've finally made a decent post then? [/quote] How many attempts did it take?!

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1481218129' post='3190716'] It's not mourning as such for me, I'm just showing a little respect for someone who's achievements have enriched my life in some way, in years gone by you doffed your cap if a hearse went past regardless of wether you knew the deceased or not. [/quote] This sums up how I feel exactly. Well put Pete.

If this is the actual bass track then it is quite different to a lot of the transcriptions I have seen. Those tricky triplets in the verse/main riff are not played. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJF06bNLVlo[/media]

Skankdelvar too, some of those posts are genius.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1480975155' post='3188705'] Yeah I like him! Gotta be someone already here as a windup do you think? [/quote] I did wonder about that too. He went from annoying to hilarious on that Carol Kaye thread!

I would like to see CrackerJackLee at a gig. His posts have cheered me right up recently.

[quote name='Painy' timestamp='1480895963' post='3187975'] Works really well doesn't it! [/quote] It also helps that he plays tasteful lines that show off the character of each bass. I've never understood it when non bassists review basses online, they never get the best out of them. Andertons and GAK are terrible for it. As soon as I hear "I'm not a bass player but I'll do my best to show what it can do", I switch off.

As a side note, I love these Angel Dust reviews. It's the way they take the backing out and sometimes the 'in the mix' sound is so different to the bass on it's own.

[quote name='Freddy Le Cragg' timestamp='1480887173' post='3187908'] I have a Laney 4 x 10 cab which sounds mental with bass. [/quote] Good mental?!