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Or some Culture? Ok - so this probably wouldn't work but I love Gregory as well Listen through to the dub section at the end: Talking of dub, my favourite reggae drum sounds are here. . . One of my other favourite 12"ers. This cost me £4.25 from Daddy Kool when I moved to London in '78. Pretty much all of my student grant found it's way into Mr Kool's coffers, lol. Africa is a land of love, we don't have to wear no boxing glove. . . Anyway, I'll get me coat now

I forgot this by Marcia Aitken - I just luuuuuve this song! I was in JA a couple of years ago and just about every band we saw played this & it filled the floor every time Obviously this riddim has been used a hell of a lot - I guess for the UK it's most remembered for Althea & Donna's Uptown Top Ranking. This is the long version with someone toasting at the end (I'm guessing Trinity?). I always wondered what a pair of "earthman shoes" was and how they looked with some "diamond socks", lol Of course - with the advent of the interweb I've just looked them up:

I saw Chuck Brown in the UK the first time he came over & it was a great show. Must dig out my old double live album & fire the turntable up [i] "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that Go Go Swing"[/i]

[quote name='Rasta' post='692201' date='Dec 23 2009, 11:30 AM']jus can't stick Ali C's voice-good crowd pleasers though.[/quote] Me too - it makes me feel positively ill every time I hear that horrible whine of his! I'm very much a 70's roots / dub / lovers man so a lot of the stuff I like is going to be quite obscure - how about Junior Murvin, Police & Thieves? Helps that you can use the Clash version as a start point as well - in fact, check any of the Clash reggae songs for simple 'white boy' arrangements.

[quote name='Platypus' post='691983' date='Dec 23 2009, 12:21 AM']I won it at £771 will be interesting to see how it turns out.....[/quote] Nice one I got a batch of additional pics from the seller and it looked nice. I was only ever looking at it as an investment though (I generally find late '70's P's too heavy and/or chunky in neck profile). I actually thought £800 was a 'safe' investment price as I was budgeting maybe £200 to be sure of getting it up and running properly. However it may literally be a case of fitting some strings and you're away

[quote name='Platypus' post='691983' date='Dec 23 2009, 12:21 AM']I won it at £771 will be interesting to see how it turns out.....[/quote] Nice one I got a batch of additional pics from the seller and it looked nice. I was only ever looking at it as an investment though (I generally find late '70's P's too heavy and/or chunky in neck profile). I actually thought £800 was a 'safe' investment price as I was budgeting maybe £200 to be sure of getting it up and running properly. However it may literally be a case of fitting some strings and you're away

[quote name='BurritoBass' post='689623' date='Dec 20 2009, 11:32 AM']You could say no strings attached I don't suppose for one minute this is going to stay around the £360 mark. I had a friend who found somebody with an Antiqua 70s Fender bass in immaculate condition. Not everybody plays and sometimes older basses show up. I'd lean towards this being genuine but certainly in need of a service[/quote] I chucked £750 at it but didn't win, lol. I reckoned it would kick around just over £1,000 after some work (depending on whether the pickup is original or not - owner said half of it was new & half original?).

I'm up for a bit of a moan now & then, lol. I've traded, bought & sold a lot of basses and amps/cabs over the past couple of years and pretty much every deal has gone smoothly. However one recent 'trend' I've noticed concerns some overseas buyers. Now, before anyone accuses me of jingoism, I need to say that I've had some very successful trades and deals with people in Europe & the USA so this isn't a general moan against overseas deals. The issue I've come up against recently is mostly from European buyers who want to take advantage of the strength of the Euro to pick up a good deal on Uk stuff. Again I have nothing wrong with this at all - I've done exactly the same when buying from the USA. The problems I've encountered have arisen when someone in Europe wants to offer a trade deal. They are happy to accept my valuation of my bass based in the UK but then insist on valuaing their trade bass within a Euro economy. This happened several times now and a couple of people have got quite stroppy because I won't accept a valuation of something that's maybe 50% higher than it would be worth in the UK. I had one example recently where someone valued quite a common bass at £500 more than several examples had been advertised for here on BC. He kept saying he could easily get this price for it in his country - I, politely, pointed out that he'd be better off selling it locally then and simply buying my bass for cash but he then said there weren't many buyers locally! Ok that's it, moan over. Not really a big deal, just that I've wasted a fair bit of time going round in circles to ne effect, lol.

This has been my 'warm-up' song for years I always play this at soundcheck when the sound guy wants to get a level. Just realised that I should only be posting in this thread if I add a new song each time Here's a nice version of Space Cowboy played on my Overwater J (not by me I hasten to add - it's Simon Merrick, a previous owner & a far better player than me!).

Just spotted this forum and really pleased to see one of the 'big' specialist bass companies supporting grass roots players. Hope this works well for them and helps generates good business

I have to admit that I feel humbled by never having even heard of Betty D before! I'm guessing most of the really funky stuff on that album must be Larry Graham. Doug Rauch was Sanatana's bass man but I've never thought of him as a slapper.

[quote name='51m0n' post='679651' date='Dec 9 2009, 10:21 PM']Betty Davis - Anti Love Song Larry Graham on bass, Tower of Power horns (well some of them) etc etc[/quote] I've been listening to Betty Davis solidly since I first spotted this! Just found this nice little analysis of how to play it as well: There's some great playing on the first album & the bass is just so well produced on some of the songs. This is an 'extra' that didn't even make it on the original release! I'm assuming it's Larry G on bass but Doug Rauch is also credited on the extended album.

Dirk Lance sounds like a porn star name

How about some slower stuff from Angie Stone: The original studio version is more fixed on the groove but I really like some of the bass & drum fills on this live cut If you like this then search in Youtube for Angie Stone Amsterdam & you'll find more clips posted by her bass man - Jackie Clark

[quote name='Toasted' post='686164' date='Dec 16 2009, 11:25 AM']There are plenty of ways around that the Molan. Frieght forwarding companies, compliant friends etc.[/quote] At that price I reckon it'll sell to a 'local' buyer as he's requested. I used to have a great US friend who would buy stuff for me & ship over but they got fed up after one bass was mis-delivered by UPS about 3 times 7 they ended up having to drive 2 hours each way to collect from a depot

[quote name='Toasted' post='686146' date='Dec 16 2009, 11:02 AM']This looks a bit of a deal: [url="http://talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=608954"]http://talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=608954[/url][/quote] [i] "First . . . NO INTERNATIONAL SALES"[/i]

[quote name='sdgrsr400' post='685096' date='Dec 15 2009, 12:53 PM']For 5's I think string spacing is at least as important as scale length. The market trend over the last decade for 5's seems to be towards wider string spacings, which naturally aids slap'n'pop, but I'm not so sure this is a good thing as it almost inevitably means a wider and less accessible neck. So, if you're not really into slap, maybe going for a narrow, fast neck might be the way forward...[/quote] My Spector is my favourite 35" for precisely this reason

[quote name='fatback' post='684993' date='Dec 15 2009, 11:44 AM']Any consensus on what the best 34" fivers might be in terms of B string? I'm facing the same dilemma; I want a fretted five, but I like my fretless 4, and I don't want any confusion betrween 34 and 35. I've small hands too, so sticking to 34 seems to make sense. fatback[/quote] I can't fault my Alleva but they are seriously 'big' money! Depends how much you want to spend really?