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    Vintage Trouble on Jools...

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    [quote name='Tegs' post='1205286' date='Apr 19 2011, 10:21 PM']Now that's what you call a band! Never seen 'em before, will be looking for them again![/quote]

    +1
    I read about them in Guitarist over the weekend, checked them out on YouTube and was very impressed. I hope to catch them live in London next week. I hear that they're supporting Brian May on tour soon

    Fender Lyte Question

    in Bass Guitars

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    I bought this brand new in 1995 and it's been my number one bass ever since. Never had a problem with pickups or batteries. In fact the only things on it that aren't original are the straplocks. I find it easy to play and very versatile.

    Peter Hook Jazz Solo

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    [quote name='crez5150' post='1136788' date='Feb 22 2011, 10:02 AM']that wasn't really a bass line though was it..... it was a melody line played on a bass. That could have been any instrument[/quote]

    Would it have been so effective on another instument?
    Is there a specific definition of a bassline?

    Peter Hook Jazz Solo

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    In my opinion you don't need to be a virtuoso to be a good musician. Peter Hook is good at what he does and it works brilliantly within the context of Joy Division and New Order. I wonder how good Love Will Tear Us Apart would have been without that bassline.... I'm not going to slag him off!

    Sound Track Of Your Life

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    If I listed all the songs it would turn in to a 10CD box set, so here are some artists who would feature.

    Gary Numan
    Tubeway Army
    Red Guitars
    The Planet Wilson
    James
    L7
    The Specials
    Fun Boy Three
    The Beat
    The Bolshoi
    The Cure
    Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Booker T & The MGs
    Transistor :)
    Big Country
    The Skids
    The Ruts
    Toots & The Maytals
    The Wonder Stuff
    Jesus Jones
    The Sex Pistols
    Jilted John
    Elastica
    The Rolling Stones
    The Who
    Big Joe Turner
    Buddy Holly
    Rise
    Balaam & The Angel

    Reggae - How Do I Play ?

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    [quote name='dumelow' post='1092086' date='Jan 17 2011, 02:12 AM']definitely learn some maytals[/quote]

    Can't go wrong with the Maytals. See if you can find their track "One Eye Enos"
    Toots & The Maytals or Bob Marley & The Wailers are great places to start.

    In my experience playing reggae, what you don't play is as important as what you do play. There's a lot of space in there.

    Some recommended listening

    Under Mi Sensi - Barrington Levy
    Operation Radicaton - Yellowman
    Welcome To Jamrock - Damian Marley
    Another One Bites The Dust - Clint Eastwood & General Saint
    Want Fi Goh Rave - Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Enjoy :)

    Your favourite fretless bass track

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    Gary Numan - A Subway Called You (Mick Karn)
    Gary Numan - She's Got Claws (Mick Karn)
    Gary Numan - We Take Mystery To Bed (Pino Palladino)
    Gary Numan - The Image Is (Pino Palladino)
    Gary Numan - Glitter And Ash (Pino Palladino)
    Gary Numan - Cold Waning (Andy Coughlan)

    Yes, I am a bit of a Numan fan :)

    Your 5 most influential/inspirational bassists

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    In no particular order....

    Paul Gardiner (Tubeway Army/Gary Numan)
    Tony Butler (Big Country)
    Louise Howard (Red Guitars/The Planet Wilson)
    Jim Glennie (James)
    Duck Dunn

    With all of the above it's not their technical ability that influences/inspires me. It's their ability to play the right thing at the right time, to lead or support the song as required, to find the groove and to be imaginative.

    Honourable mentions go to Joe Hubbard, Mark King, Mick Karn, Simon Gallup, Pino Palladino, Andy Coughlan, Glen Matlock, Jean Jacques Burnel, Jackie Jackson (The Maytals) Sir Horace Gentleman, Mark Bedford, David Steele (The Beat) Paul Simonon, Jennifer Finch (L7) The Bass Thing (The Wonder Stuff) Norman Watt-Roy

    Fun at The Bass Cellar

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    [quote name='Hobbayne' post='1072646' date='Dec 30 2010, 12:46 PM']I bought my first proper bass after my Westone Thunder one from Dave Simms in December 1984, a fiesta red 1957 Squire Precision. :) Wish I still had it. A few months later, they closed down. :)
    I bought a Trace Elliot combo from Flying Pig and a week later, they closed down!! :lol:
    I bought a 1996 anniversry P Bass from Peter Cook a few years back, and luckily, they are still there!! :D[/quote]

    I see you're from Greenford... my birthplace!

    Fun at The Bass Cellar

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    The area of West London I grew up in had three great music shops. Tempo (Flying Pig) and Peter Cook's in Hanwell, and the Ealing Music Centre (Dave Simms) in Ealing Broadway. I was definitely spoilt. Buying or browsing, haven't got a bad word to say about any of them.

    Unfortunately only Peter Cook's remains in business. High rates and rents did for the other two.

    how did you end up as a bass player?

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    It's a long story, I'll try and keep it short

    I didn't really start playing bass guitar until I was 20, but in the previous 12 years I'd been playing basslines in some form or other. I played classical piano, keyboards in synth-rock bands, euphonium/tenor horn in the school brass ensemble. I was also fond of working out basslines on piano and guitar, just to see how they fitted in the arrangement. When I was 20, my band had some studio time booked, but our bass player was away. I could play the basslines on guitar, so I borrowed a bass, played on the recordings and quite enjoyed it. This was 1988 and I was primarily a keyboard player who was fed up of carting loads of stuff to rehearsals and gigs. The idea of turning up with just a bass, a combo, and a tuner really appealed. How times have changed! There were also more bands looking for bassists than keyboard players!

    There are a couple of other reasons....

    There are two songs from my teens that really made me want to play bass (although I didn't do it straight away)
    Paul Gardiner's "Stormtrooper In Drag" (bass played by Gary Numan) and "Good Technology" by Red Guitars in 1983 (bass played by Lou Howard) I love both songs for many reasons, but in both cases the bassline made me think "I want to have that power." Neither song has a technically spectacular bassline, but there's something about them and the way they drive the song!
    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLNNq3mxrEw"]Stormtrooper In Drag[/url]
    [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs0OkiCZNRI"]Good Technology[/url]

    The first 4 gigs I ever went to featured Joe Hubbard on bass, and then Tony Butler was the next bassist I saw play live. That's something to aspire to....

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