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They are bass related. There's Allan Holdsworth with Jimmy Haslip, Michel Pettruciani with Anthony Jackson, a couple of Dream Theater, Michael Manring, and a few others too.

My other experience, (not bass related), I was on holiday with my brother, and staying in a Travelodge on fishermans wharf in San Fransisco. I woke one night a could clearly see a figure crouching down at the foot of the one bed, hands and arms over the head. It disappeared after a few seconds. The following night my brother woke me shouting, he had seen the figure of a woman, dressed in old fashioned clothing, standing at the foot of his bed. The area was devastated by an earthquake and fire in 1906. Was the figure that I saw protecting herself from smoke and fire ?

I don't like it personally, but I don't like 60s music anyway. However it is most definitely a landmark recording, for all the reasons mentioned by mr Discreet.

It's cos you try too hard.

[quote name='cheddatom' timestamp='1438779978' post='2837186'] Those who are dead against bass solos - are you just thinking about the context of the music that you play? Is it just that you can't imagine a good bass solo in this context? I find it very strange for any musician to write off an almost infinite amount of musical possibilities just because it's called a "bass solo", but it would make sense if you were talking about your pub-rock-covers band. [/quote] That's what I'm thinking too. I can't believe a musician would object to their particular instrument solo'd.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1438777713' post='2837128'] No, no, no, no, NO!! Electric bass guitar is not and should not [i]ever [/i]be a solo instrument. It only shines [i]in concert[/i] and in a supporting role. If you're a bass player and for some unfathomable reason want to play interminable 'solos' then for God's sake do everyone a favour and buy a guitar. Then go and play it somewhere where I can't hear it! All that Jaco/Manring/Wootten stuff leaves me cold... like a stupid dwarf, it's not big and it's not clever. [/quote] No, sorry but that is wrong. Electric bass can sound sound very beautiful solo'd, it's obviously down to the musician playing it of course, but there are many, many fine musicians who play beautiful solos on electric bass.

[quote name='Dan Dare' timestamp='1438777785' post='2837129'] I'm part of the engine room. If I don't like it, I should be playing a different instrument. [/quote] That's just in your particular band though, and your role within it. Bass is an instrument like any other, it has the capacity to sound as beautiful solo'd as any other.

I love and do solo bass, but that's a different thing I guess. A bass solo, yes why on earth not ? It's as valid as any other instrument soloing.

I've had two odd experiences, neither bass related. One happened about 20 years ago. My parents owned a caravan in Lincolnshire, me and my elder brother used to go up there fairly recently for weekends. I'd have been 17 or 18 at the time, my brother early 20s. So both fit and healthy, and definitely not under the influence of anything at the time. The one Friday night we set off. Our route would be M42/A42, then it's across country going through Melton Mowbray, past Rutland water to Stamford. This particular night we took the wrong turn when we got off the motorway, and ended up on a dual carriageway, heading towards Leicester. We knew what we'd done, but thought no problem, there's bound to be a pull through, wel'll just do a U turn. We saw a man standing on the verge, old, wearing a brown rain coat, a hat, with a bag on the ground next to him. As we got to him, he stepped out into the road, straight in front of us, and just totally vanished. There was no bump, no sound at all, except for us panicking. Looking back we couldn't see anything. Literally 20 seconds later there was a pull in across the central reservation, so we did a U turn and went back, there was no sign of him, or his bag. Writing this now, on a sunny morning in my garden drinking coffee, I've gone all cold. We both saw him.

I've had two odd experiences, neither bass related. One happened about 20 years ago. My parents owned a caravan in Lincolnshire, me and my elder brother used to go up there fairly recently for weekends. The one Friday night we set off. Our route would be M42/A42, then it's across country going through Melton Mowbray, past Rutland water to Stamford. This particular night we took the wrong turn when we got off the motorway, and ended up on a dual carriageway, heading towards Leicester. We knew what we'd done, but thought no problem, there's bound to be a pull through, wel'll just do a U turn. We saw a man standing on the verge, old, wearing a brown rain coat, a hat, with a bag on the ground next to him. As we got to him, he stepped out into the road, straight in front of us, and just totally vanished. There was no bump, no sound at all, except for us panicking. Looking back we couldn't see anything. Literally 20 seconds later there was a pull in across the central reservation, so we did a U turn and went back, there was no sign of him, or his bag. Writing this now, on a sunny morning in my garden drinking coffee, I've gone all cold. We both saw him.

Phil Jones Bass Double Four. Probably as small as you'll get. I use mine playing for various 4 and 5 piece jazz bands, and also for my own solo bass stuff. It easily handles small gigs. It's about the size of a shoe box, but don't let the diminutive size put you off, it still sounds like a bass amp.

[quote name='the boy' timestamp='1438724662' post='2836781'] Seriously???? [/quote] Yep to both 😁

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1438723878' post='2836768'] What's the stone tape theory then? Sounds intriguing [/quote] Basically that some hauntings are kind of recordings that are etched into the buildings fabric, and are replayed over and over again. People have tried to record them by leaving recording devices over night to pick up sounds and voices, this is called evp or electronic voice phenomena.

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1438702798' post='2836543'] My weirdest one wasn't bass related, but was when i was a student. There was a big parkland behind the campus which we sometimes used to dawdle around at night after a few drinks and smokes. One night we found a interesting old derelict shell of a park lodge building which was being renovated, with some scaffolding, workmen's lighting etc, and unusual ornamental gardens outside, right at the furthest part of the park. We went back exploring a few more times over several weeks as it was quite interesting and scary to walk arounds the grounds in the dark. That all came to a stop the next time we went and found it was all completed and fully occupied, with plenty of noise and bustle and visible thru the new glass windows were lots of people moving about, sitting at tables and chatting in the well-lit interior. We didn't bother going there for a while after, but when we came across it again a month or so later, it was still all derelict, run down and completely empty. Never got to the bottom of that one. its since been converted into a restaurant. [/quote] That's the stone tape theory. My mom knows someone who was on holiday. The last day she took a photo of an empty rainswept beach (yep she was holidaying in the uk 😁), when she got the photos printed, the empty beach was in fact occupied with lots of people all wearing old fashioned clothing.

I've gone cold just reading the first post my imagination is a bit wild and it doesn't take a lot to get it working ! I know a guy, he was one of my tutors at uni, his double bass was very, very old. He used to share a flat with his brother. A few times his brother complained about him playing his double bass late at night. Thing is, he never did, and it only happened when my tutor wasn't there.

I think, judging by all the various basses being suggested here as being examples of "the Swiss army knife of basses", that it is indeed down to you the player, and pretty much any bass will do.

It seems to me to be a pretty unenforceable law, so just ignore it. Most times you buy a cd off amazon they give you a free download of the album. If you buy my cd or vinyl off bandcamp then you also a free download, much like most other people selling CDs on there.