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Bought a vintage pedal from Chris, excellent communication, fast delivery... I can highly recommend him, you can deal with confidence.

I can only echo the above very positive posts... you can certainly deal with J with the utmost confidence. My bass also arrived well packaged, it was promptly shipped and with great communication throughout.

My first fretless was a Vintage (Vintage being the brand name, not the age of the bass) ICON Jaco Pastorius), it really is lovely to play and has a great tone; and they are unbelievably cheap for what you get. I still have it, and I probably play it more than the other higher end fretless basses that I have acquired since I bought it. They go for around £225 new and around £150 secondhand. Honestly, at this price you cannot go wrong! Edit: to say that I replaced the stock Wilkinson pick-ups with Seymor Duncan Antiquity 11's, the thing now growls like a pit bull Here's a clip of one played mighty well! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xd2394nEYs[/media]

Just seen the news that Kate is the first woman to have eight albums in the UK top 40 album chart at the same time. I've been enjoying her music since Wuthering Heights and The Kick Inside, gutted I couldn't get tickets to see her at the Apollo.

Currently at £1,451 [color=#333333]"Wal bass guitar RARE original 80's Active pick-ups Geddy Lee Rush Model"[/color] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wal-bass-guitar-RARE-original-80s-Active-pick-ups-Geddy-Lee-Rush-Model-/121331902684?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c3ff1e8dc

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[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1372966044' post='2132296'] For the first 3 days (non-stop...)..? Grateful Dead, like back in them thar good ol' days..! [/quote] ++1 the first day taken up entirely with them playing Dark Star! The Dead played the longest set I have ever seen, over 5 hours at Bickershaw Festival (yep the Dead played Wigan!) during their legendary European tour of 1972. In fact my fantasy Glastonbury would probably be just a re-run of that festival. The Dead Beefheat New Riders of the Purple Sage Cheech and Chong The Kinks Hawkwind Family Donovan Country Joe and the Fish Dr John Wishbone Ash Linda Lewis Flaming Groovies The Incredible String Band etc etc. The festival was actually organised by a guy called Jeremy Beadle - who went on to do lesser things including You've been Framed. Both Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello were somewhere amongst the crowd in those muddy northern fields.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1371935156' post='2119907'] That was when bands would regularly do 30-40 date tours of the UK. When I first started going to gigs in the mid-late 70s that there was rarely a week went by that I wasn't going to see somebody. I've got one of my old ticket scrap books in front of me (sad bastard that I am), some sample prices from 1979-1980 are: Motorhead - £2.50 Hawkwind - £2.50 Yes - £4.50 Rainbow - £4.00 Girlschool -£3.00 [/quote] I saw Black Sabbath at the Cosmo in Carlisle in 1969 or 70, I think it was the Arts College Ball, cost 8 old shillings - that is about £0.40p. I first saw the Black Sabbath line-up as Earth, just before they changed their name, in a local village hall in Cumbria, cost 5 old shillings - that was a bargain at £0.25p, most of their set was stuff which would be soon released on their first album.

I use a Bass POD XT amp modeller with headphones for practising, I have had it about ten years or so now. I don't think Line 6 make them any more, or know what they are making second hand; but with 28 classic amps which can be twinned with different 22 cabinets and a further 50+ different classic effects, it does make practising fun. I can also run POD run through an amp in a live setting, as long as the amp is set up for a very clean sound, I can get my Messa Boogie to sound something like an Acoustic 360 or my SWR to sound something like a 60's Marshall Major.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1371914442' post='2119553'] I think that the closest they get to each other is there were a lot of bands at each and both were called festivals. I reckon that's where it ends. Glastonbury is the height of luxury compared with the IOW festival. People slept where they lay and the lack of food was a major problem. My brother shard a sandwich (we always went well prepared) with a girl who was crying she was so hungry! There was little food at the site and local shops soon sold out of all food and their shelves were so bare. Not to mention the hours of queuing for the ferries after it ended. Kids today don't know how good they've got it. Oh, hold on a minute, that's another difference. There are a lot more older people at Glastonbury that there was at the IOW! [/quote] I honestly cannot remember being hungry at the Isle of Wight in 1970; but thinking back, I didn't seem to eat much in those days anyhow. I do remember climbing the hill over to Freshwater Bay and skinny-dippin' in the sea, I'll never forget the toilets (and folks complain about the loos at Glastonbury!), although we had tickets we went and joined the thousands of ticket-less fans watching everything for free on the hill overlooking the arena (a bit of bad planning by the organisers that!). I also remember that the weather was beautiful over the five days we were there, but I often wonder what it would have been like if the weather had turned, it could have been a disaster area. I had no tent, just a sheet of plastic and a sleeping bag, a few cans of beans and a spare pully. That weekend taught me a lot about life.

[quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1371919467' post='2119623'] ..... The simple fact is that rock music and the culture which surrounds it was never the same after Live Aid . That was the moment at which rock entered the mainstream and was no longer focus of anti - establishment sentiment and the vanguard of social revolution . [/quote] Yes, I agree. Two significant events happened within six weeks of each other in 1985. On the 1st June there was The Battle of the Beanfield, which virtually put an end to the free festival movement in the country, then on the 13th July there was Live Aid; now almost 30 years on and we are still living with the legacy of what occurred back then.

I paid £3 for the weekend ticket to the Isle of Wight festival in 1970. Ok back then it was half of my week's wages and you could get 8 pints of larger and lime in a pub for £1: but Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Free, Taste, Chicago, Family, Joni Mitchell, the Groundhogs, ELP, Miles Davis, Ten Years After, Melanie, Sly and the Family Stone, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen and loads more for £3! One thing about being an old codger, you certainly got the opportunity to see some class acts when you were younger! Edited to do a sum: if the average uk price for a pint is now £3 and you could get 8 pints to the pound in 1970, that means a £3 weekend ticket in 1970 would cost you the equivalent of 24 pints x £3 today, which is £72. To put that in perspective, the ticket I bought to see The Who on Thursday, including booking fees cost £78.

[quote name='visog' timestamp='1371895631' post='2119228'] This looks definitive. I can't imagine anyone arguing with this. Glad that's sorted. [/quote] + 2 Musicradar also have Duran Duran's John Taylor voted best bassist of all time (James Jameson was 11th and Jaco 5th) - yes undoubtedly a definitive poll result that one as well.

[left]I have a keen interest in World Music and I have been particularly into Sahara / Western Sahara blues music for a while; worth a search to listen to the unique blend of blues and north west African vocals and rhythms. A few bands are from the nomadic Tuareg people of the Sahara.[/left] [left]A few recommendations: Ali Farka Toure, Tartit, Tourmast, there's loads more. I started off with a 2 cd sampler called "Sahara - Blues of the Desert" and took it from there.[/left] [left]Here's Tourmast in action[/left] [left][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPopO7QIa7k[/media][/left]

+1 Ska-d for Life by Horace Panter +1 Beneath the Underdog by Charlie Mingus +1 Memoirs Of A Geezer by Jah Wobble Other good books I have enjoyed written by or about bass players: Riding Shotgun by Gerry McAvoy [color="#FF0000"]-[/color] a great autobiog from Rory Gallagher’s right hand man for 20 years. Japan and Self Existence by Mick Karn – written a couple of years before Mick died, it is more like a cathartic work of art than a book. Composing Himself by Jack Bruce - I enjoyed this book for the brilliant history of the British jazz, blues and rock scene in the ‘60s where Jack played a massive part. Searching for the Sound, my Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh - interesting to read about the exceptional lengths the Dead went to in order to create their unique live sound.. one set-up for Phil's bass rigg included his pick-ups and bass wired in such a way that each individual string was isolated and played through its own amp and stack of speaker cabinets. My Bass and other Animals by Guy Pratt - very entertaining, Guy has more than a few tales to tell. I am half way through, and really enjoying, The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten, which was also mentioned by Grangur previously on this thread.

This wasn't easy with the limit of ten; but again in no particular order: Willie Dixon Flea Jaco Pastorius Percy Jones Mick Karn Aston Barrett Pino Palladino John Entwistle Jack Bruce James Jameson

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1371059145' post='2109330'] I saw him in Newcastle on Monday. I was in the seats just up on the side of the stage. He took the roof off and sang like an angel. He's 67. Astonishing. [/quote] I was at Newcastle as well, standing thankfully - I have to be able to move to music that powerful. Brilliant gig. He has lost nothing over the years, his voice and guitar work were sublime. I liked the feedback drenched storm / hurricane / tornado representation; the recorded voice at the end "keep away from the towers" etc. was from the Woodstock '69 stage announcements made during a lightning storm. Neil was there with Crosby Still and Nash. He also used the Woodstock stage announcements a lot during his Rust Never Sleeps tour in the late 70s, when - if I remember correctly (!!) - he performed something very similar. Keep on Rockin' in the Free World for a long time yet Shakey old lad! Edited to add - looking forward to my next trip across the A69 to see Pino and The Who next week.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1369937691' post='2094760'] Now THAT I would love to hear! [/quote] But who to pair her with? Pam Ayers and..... Les Claypool?

[quote name='ead' timestamp='1358324349' post='1936848'] Slight hijack here (sorry). Anybody also remember Angie Bowie doing her poetry thing with a bass player noodling in the background? [/quote] Not quite a childhood memory, I was 30 at the time but yes, OGWT 82 - with Mick Karn (noodling!) on bass [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W14YmRABFFg[media] I also remember Japan's first appearance on the OGWT in 1980, especially Mick's bass playing on "Swing" [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sREoOWcSOE[media]

We have been together 25 years, and to be honest we have been very supportive of each other's pastimes and interests; this is possibly why we have such a happy and enduring relationship. I must admit that have tried over that time, but failed miserably, to persuade her to learn the guitar, bass or drums so we can jam together. I don't watch much television at all, so if there is something she fancies watching I just go through to another room, pick up a bass or guitar, turn the amp on, plug in the headphones and lose play for an hour or so.

I first saw Hawkwind playing outside a large inflatable tent at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, I think this was even before Lemmy joined. I saw them quite a few times after that, including the full "Space Ritual" concerts three times. They were a hell of a live band, with a brilliant light show (for the early 70s). An added bonus at most Hawkwind gigs around that time was watching dancer Stacia do her stuff, which certainly added to the pure energy that the band was producing on stage. They were never the same after Dik Mik, Lemmy, Bob Cavert and Nik Turner departed the band.

+ 1 Cash by Cash + 1 Jaco by Bill Milkowski + 1 How Black was our Sabbath by Tangye and Wright + 1 My Bass and other Animals – Guy Pratt I read a heck of a lot and here are a few I would like to recommend... Bassists Riding Shotgun by Gerry McAvoy - a great autobiog from Rory Gallagher’s right hand man for 20 years. One of my favourite quotes from Gerry’s book, regarding a certain leader of a prog rock group “Me being me, I was ready to smack the tw*t right in his flute hole.” It also contains one of the greatest understatements ever written “… he had a ’54 Precision with him as a spare, and after watching our set, he offered it to me for $250. Talk about a bargain.” Gerry snapped his hand off. Japan and Self Existence by Mick Karn – I keep re-reading this one, written a couple of years before Mick died, it is more like a cathartic work of art than a book. Ok, I admit to being biased here, I have always rated Mick’s unique style from his beginnings with Japan through his solo career and his side projects with Dali’s Car, Rain Tree Crow and Polytown; no doubt Mick also had his faults but it makes me angry at the way the music industry and his one time friends appeared to have treated him. Composing Himself by Jack Bruce - I enjoyed this book for the brilliant history of the British jazz, blues and rock scene in the ‘60s where Jack literally played a massive part. Searching for the Sound, my Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh (not finished this one yet, but enjoying it so far… bloody hell it seems that the Dead took drugs!) Other Good Reads Through Gypsy Eyes by Kathy Etchinham - about her time spent with Jimi Hendrix when he first came over to London with Chas Chandler; Jimi sometimes called Kathy by her middle name Mary, as in "The wind cries ….: No Off Switch by Andy Kershaw - from Billy Bragg’s roadie to ambassador of world music and then that downward spiral triggered by Andy’s wife reading a certain text message on his mobile. Looking Back at Me by Wilco Johnson - hang on in there Wilco Highway to Hell – The Life and Death of Ac/Dc’s Bon Scott - Kirriemuir’s finest; more about the man than the band. Up and Down with the Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez - mainly the "adventures" of Keef and Tony, his one time fixer. But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer - an evocative collection of semi fictional shorts about some of the jazz greats - Lester Young, Mingus, Monk, Art Pepper and Chet Baker, exceptional writing. Straight Life by Art Pepper - jazz alto sax player, one of the most brutally honest autobiographies I have read. Conversations with Tom Petty by Paul Zorro – a really interesting read, follows a similar format to Peter Bogdanovick’s film about Tom and the Heartbreakers “Running Down a Dream.” Tom telling, via interview, the story about his life, his music, this band and his collaborations.