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I would love to hear it mate. I have still never mastered the bass on I want your love and have been playing 24 years. I admit the later stuff is normal speed and he was a phenomenon on bass but I have never seen anyone truly nail I want your love on bass.

Most of the music i listen to bass playing wise is funk,disco,soul,jazz. like the pinnacle of tightness between bass and drums. Most of the Chic Bernard Edwards stuff including the stuff they produced is very difficult and i am beginning to think that it is slightly sped up on the recorded versions. Is there any older guys on here who actually saw Chic or any disco bands live? I would love to hear from them and the what they thought. I can remember a post few years back and he saw Chic live and said it sounded very muddy?

Been listening to Mondays a lot and when i was a kid i just thought they were a joke drugs band really. Lately i realize they were completely dark,funky and original. Its very difficult to find any admiration for their playing and they were really good. I play guitar aswell and Mark Day is a fantastic underrated funk guitarist, Paul Ryder was brilliant.

Simon Gallup made me want to play bass.

I'm selling vinyl at the moment.Ebay fees are a greedy fosters take.

6 hours ago, Count Bassy said:

The Germans gave it to their troops, but they still lost.

Ahhh but did they? I know where I would be rather living at the moment.

Smithy has to be one of the most underrated men in music I think. In both songwriting and guitar playing. You only have to look at how many amazing guitarists who quote him as an influence. Think he must be quite difficult to work with though as they have had a hell of a lot of members over the years.

If you look at most of the "heros" they were all snorters really. Especially slappers. I read a book about ww2 being won on meth. Same thing really. Makes you think.

Him and Bernard though.... Just phenomenal.

Saying that if I didn't think it might kill me now I wouldn't have stopped.

He would never admit it. I'm pretty experienced in various powders and Mark were you off your tits in the early days? Lol.

Been going through my Level 42 concerts on dvd and does anyone else think Mark was clucking blitzed to the tits on these 80s gigs. He's chewing his face off and has unusual amounts of  exuberance.

Nude Jazz was just a joke from Viz. Lol. I do like jazz though.

I'm more into nude jazz/funk/soul/rare groove etc. A metal mate forced me listen to some Type O Negative. Have to admit this is probably the first rock bass player i really liked apart from John Paul Jones and the usual crowd. Shame the guy died he seemed like a decent bloke judging by the interviews i have watched. I thought their cover of Cinnamon Girl was better than Neil Youngs.

if you want this sound live you need an LPF pedal. A lot of the impact of the track has to do with bass filter and a dry sound interspaced with effects on chorus lines etc. A sequencer would help as well as machines quantize better than humans. I would like to think there is some actual bass doubled here, if their isn't the guy who produced it had a very good knowledge/manipulation of ADSR . Breakbeat has a lot to do with this track. The production is very very good and was probably expensive unless you area naughty torrent user with lots of RAM and a Ferrari of a laptop its difficult to replicate. The reason i think we all like it is because its basically disco and some of the finest blokes we admire were in that era. People like Bernard Edwards could play like a machine before they were invented. There are a lot of flourishes with strings and stabs,lots of delay, reverb then back to dry filtered bass. A lot of the guys who produced and played disco also knew a lot of electronic and studio knowledge. This is why i have never shied away from electronic music.

It's a VCF a filter that gives it the squelch a bit like a roland tb303 filter the one that started acid house. I should imagine its a vst put on the sample signature chain although there are a multitude of different ones out there.

The only thing I don't like about JTQ is the hammond.

Think i must have have been in grumpy middle aged man mode. This song is brilliant and growing on me like a fungus. Very talented lady and i am a sucker for Chaka Khan types. I take it all back.

Why can't you swear on here anymore? Brain police as Frank Zappa said.

Anyone going for the kids are alright,the music's great it's just because you are getting old vibe. I'm afraid you are wrong.  Music is plopper these days woefully plopper mainly because of technology handing things to people on a plate. It stifles creativity and causes stagnation because people don't have the hunger as much. And the drugs were better and more interesting then.I know this because of my girlfriends daughters who are both in bands nicking all my 90s vinyl and basically refusing to listen to most things past this. I feel slightly smug about this.

Glastonbury had its day years ago. You can create the experience yourself though by playing loud music in your garden, pitching a tent in your garden then pissing up the side of it and stealing your own shoes.

I quite enjoyed it don't know if it happened like this though. 

No slouch live either by the looks of things plus he sings at the same time.

Drummers are the best person in a band and more underrated than bass players. They always are eccentric and have big cars in my experience. My favourite member of the the band. If you find one you gel with keep him fed and watered,loved,cherished.They are a bit like women.You don't know what you got till it's gone.

I got behind my old drummers kit once and he showed me the ropes and it felt a bit like learning to fly a helicopter. Big respect for drummers.I will stick to bass and guitar I think.