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I got Blues and Roots - Charlie Mingus'for my birthday last week
it's a comp/reissue from Atlantic
it's joyous.
the first cut is called Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting and I can worship this.

if the last giveaway record was Planet earth that was a shocker for the most part.
the 'recent' Prince album to get is the Rainbow Children
seriously f***ing good
I also like the Live DVD from Las Vegas

it's got Bartolini pick up and pre-amp
especially made apparently

the fingerboard is wenge(?)
the body is maple with poplar (?)

it's lightweight, and very bright
hence flats and raised action
very well made, pretty much flawless. if it was headless I'd be potentially sorted for life.

I got a Grendel 5 and it's the bargain of the year
strung with flats it's become an all purpose #1 gigging anytime groove machine
if the USA ones are that much better than the Czech
I'd be more than keen for whirl.

whoh , wrong forum

every day, I love the freshness
I used to just put 'em on inside out to save on washing but it's just not the same

the only XL-2 I've played did not
my L2 has no truss rod

Moondance is great. Bilbo will be along presently to give plenty of advice on this one.

So What. sometimes people forget 16/8/8. it sounds easy but try and stay on this. half the band a semi-tone away is not always happening, even in Jazz

[quote name='benebass' post='870201' date='Jun 18 2010, 07:28 AM']I'm thinking of trying a 35" five string with flats - apart from the Picatos mentioned in the thread does anyone know any decent ones for a 35" please?

Cheers,

B.[/quote]



I put Sadowsky XL flats on my MTD 2 weeks back
quite good
they are made by LaBella

the B string however was too long for the position of the tuning peg. It's like you need 4x35" scale strings and a 34" scale for the B.

yes it was
good film too. soundtrack also has Brothers Johnson

try a Steinberger and see if you like it
seriously, a challenge anyone to play a proper L2 and not think it's cool

same with a well set up, flatwound Precision
they sound good, real.

if I could only gig with one bass ever again it would be the L2
get out of jail bass in an number of ways.
the fact it plays in tune across the board has to be a good thing eh?

often I have to play it to transcribe it
because my ears are catching up
so it's not a reading tool per se

sometimes it's because I like the vibe or pace of the solo
and I want to figure out 'the flow' which may be more memorable to me than the notes

generally I am not sure what I do with transcriptions
it's just something you do
because deep down it's good for you
I don't need to know why, it just is.

also one day I want to be really good at it. I admire very much people with great ears who have proper theory skills.

Bones is a Kiwi Bass playing legend
he's done a number of both interesting and commercially successful ventures

I am wearing a Midnight Oil tee-shirt as I type this
there is a cool gig poster of theirs...
live in Paris Ballroom etc
with special support act
the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

so yes times change
their Diesel and Dust album went good in the States
plus the ex-pats in London just lap up anything antipodean

Dave Gibbons art?
Martha Washington remains a comic history highlight

slightly more on topic
I think the build on the Long horn is better than my'71
the neck join for one is a million tines better
in fact the construction of the Banana is very good. High quality.
without starting a flame war this is not always the case with mass produced instruments I have played/seen.

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='836996' date='May 14 2010, 10:11 PM']It's funny because boner is slang for an erect penis.

S.P.[/quote]


bugger
now my posts seem borderline homo-erotic

good luck Comrade

CrazyKiwi got both hands on my boner actually
IIRC he enjoyed the low-action
and he's not really known as a Fender man

[url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=612785&highlight=boner"]http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.p...highlight=boner[/url]

now that should link to a hopefully useful thread
and true is last post about tone control indent
not that I ever use it and to check my one had it
IrvNZ had a boner P with the fine tuner bridge

my boner is fretless
the extended upper horn greatly improves balance
this the only Fender I've owned or played without neck dive
it is relatively heavy bass

electronics are normal
but there is the P Plus version
which also had a dicky bridge (fine tuner)

they can get some good coin stateside particularly around desirability of color
the part I don't like on mine is the tuners they are a bit 'slippy' if that is a describing word

there is one of those Big Ass threads about them on TalkBass

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
Louis Armstrong
Herbie Hancock


James Brown
Stevie Wonder
Prince


Pete Townsend
Kate Bush
Mark E Smith

sometimes it's genius to make more of the sum of the parts on hand.
all of these people could do that as well as having an original voice.
genius is also making simple things beautiful, the complex both vast and close and making the listener both appreciate the moment and then be inside it. If that music makes me live it now or if I can remember exactly my brain space when I first heard In a Silent Way that is truly genius.

Dave Holland - "Lazy Snake"
and it sounds like I imagine a lazy snake to be
after a while (and writing out the bass line as best i could) it felt good
but at the start it is very disconcerting or un- synchronized

lets face it
many fine musicians relocate to Aotearoa
we also have Tom from the Thompson Twins and that guy from Frankie Goes to Hollywood

IME a graphite bass with EMG's can fit the description of harsh

I picked up a MTD Grendel last week
and if this is mid-range Tobias
I guess the top line stuff is remarkable

I think Chromes are well good
after about a month on the Bass they are ready

I have not tried TI

"Infected" remains the seminal anti-Thatcher album
hopefully it will be rediscovered and be rightly considered one of the finest musical endeavors from your country.
he's an interesting cat is Mr Johnson