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[quote name='ped' post='486329' date='May 12 2009, 08:29 PM']Only just started listening to Feat recently - Starting off with 'Feats Don't Fail Me Now' - fave tracks are 'Spanish Moon' and 'Skin It Back' - really love the grooves, kind of like an early more southern Steely Dan. Which album should I get next?[/quote] All of 'em! Seriously - at least those with Lowell George. In particular, Sailin' Shoes, Dixie Chicken, The Last Record Album, Time Loves A Hero plus the live double album Waiting For Columbus. There's a few compilations and the post-Lowell George Feat have gone on to produce a bunch more albums. So there's a few to choose from!

Very sadly, I've had to miss this round of dates by one of my absolute all-time favourite bands but will console myself by watching the DVD, 'High Wire Act - Live In St Louis'

Try Strings Direct which also incorporates 'Holiday Music' & 'Lefties': [url="http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/"]http://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/[/url] Owner Steve Jolly is a 'leftie' himself and set up 'Lefties' many years ago when the Holiday Music shop was still in east London. Cheers, Steve

Only just spotted this thread CK, but I echo the sentiments of every one on here and wish you the very best of luck wherever you are. Safe journey. Steve

Looks nice but I'd like to see it without any scratchplate at all and would prefer if the input (without the surround) followed the line of the control knobs, keeping it more out of the way too. Alternatively place it appropriately on the lower side, maybe recessed or simply flush with the body. What's the cost likely to be of this bass? Cheers, Steve

Ooooh yeeeaaah!!

[quote name='far0n' post='478022' date='May 3 2009, 12:12 AM']Obviously you're drunk...[/quote] Hey... wha' d'ya mean "obviously"...? Are you intoxicating that I'm insinuated!?! <hic> Seriously though, I have to say I don't get in drunk after a gig. I simply can't afford to lose the old driving license otherwise it's pretty much goodbye music career!! The only thing that goes on after a gig is the kettle! Followed by the computer (to check email). Followed by, if anything, something on the laid-back side. A bit of Joni, maybe. Or maybe a bit of Latin/Jazz. It's probably 2 or 3am after all! Cheerzzzzz, Steve

[quote name='bassace' post='474560' date='Apr 28 2009, 08:29 PM']But you can't get them on Spotify. Wake up you guys![/quote] Hah - Spotify, Shmotify!! But you can get 'em on Last.fm!

[quote name='YouMa' post='473908' date='Apr 28 2009, 02:12 AM']I cant believe how high the guy with the combover can get his voice,pretty impressive they are on the whistle test dvds.I think jan akkerman endorsed trace elliott for a while.[/quote] Yeh that's Thijs van Leer. Does an amazing yodel solo too!

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='473725' date='Apr 27 2009, 09:21 PM']Can't seem to get to the bottom of why he plays like this...[/quote] 'Cos he can?

I still remember their first appearance here on TV on BBC2's Old Grey Whistle Test (around 1972 I think?). They played 'Eruption' from the album 'Moving Waves'. My brother and I sat gob-smacked with our chins on the floor! I've been a fan ever since and later saw them at The Rainbow little knowing I was in the audience for what would be one of my fave live albums. Steve

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='472694' date='Apr 26 2009, 02:35 PM']So where's Jan Akkerman?[/quote] He's been running the Jan Akkerman Band for a few years now. As I understand it, there was a bit of a falling out!!!

I've supported Focus a couple of times and would just say a big [b]+1[/b] Keyboardist/vocalist Thijs van Leer allegedly saw a Dutch Focus tribute band a few years ago and was suitably impressed enough to invite them to 'be Focus'! Result, or what!? Since then, he's been (re-)joined by original Focus drummer Pierre van der Linden, who himself is no slouch. Worth a punt if you're into this stuff (...or not!). Cheers, Steve

Interesting and entertaining read. Especially "...We love you, Manchester..."!!! Thanks for posting. Cheers, Steve

I've not used Flightcasepro before though I did use Flightcase Warehouse when I wanted a case for my GT-6B. They do a ready-made one (£99 inc delivery), though mine took a tad longer as they had the materials on order at the time. Good sturdy case though. [url="http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/music/typeproducts2.asp?id=3824-2678"]http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/music...sp?id=3824-2678[/url] If you've not already seen it: Orange AD200b [url="http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/music/listproducts.asp?modelid=3466"]http://www.flightcasewarehouse.co.uk/music...sp?modelid=3466[/url] Cheers Steve

[quote name='grumble' post='469119' date='Apr 21 2009, 10:52 PM']Who the hell is this Warwick guy anyway, didnt he drive for Toleman and Renault ?? Really showing my age with that [/quote] Aha - the best racing driver never to win a Grand Prix!

[quote name='grumble' post='467938' date='Apr 20 2009, 11:13 PM']I WANT one..... [url="http://bass-guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Hallmark-SweptWing-Vintage-Series-Bass-Guitar?sku=517691"]drool[/url] I hear the divorce courts are quite friendly places nowadays..... [/quote] If all else fails, you could always use it to dig yourself a nice deep hole to hide in..!

[quote name='Prosebass' post='467312' date='Apr 20 2009, 11:18 AM']Why not ? if you are in a high energy punk / thrash band , the mosh pit is full and everyone is frantic then go for it if you think it fits the performance. Why is it crass and setting a bad example ? its your gear to do as you please with. May not be very fitting with an MOR / AOR or Jazz set but then everyone will be sat down at those gigs (audience will be too old to stand for any amount of time) so not very apt in that instance. People attach themselves too much to possessions and in a way smashing things up makes a positive statement that these things are transient and unimportant in the greater scheme of things.[/quote] I look forward to seeing pictures from your next gig and your smashed up bass....

Been done. Move on.

+1 for the previously mentioned Karen Carpenter and Mama Cass. From around the same time, I would add the superb DUSTY SPRINGFIELD. BONNIE RAITT, who also plays some excellent slide guitar. Her bassist for many years was Freebo. JUDEE SILL (bass player Jim Pons of 'The Turtles'). Any other fans here? A most under-rated singer-songwriter who died in 1979 of a drug overdose. She had perfect pitch, was a multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, bass, ukelele, church organist, orchestrator) and had the first album released on the then-new Asylum record label in 1971. In her earlier years, while feeling depressed, she was a partner in a series of armed robberies, holding up a series of liquor stores and gas stations. (She carried a .38 and practised hold-ups in front of the mirror as she didn't want to blurt out, as the old joke goes, "Ok, mothersticker - this is a f*ckup!"). [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RBpoH9pdA8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RBpoH9pdA8[/url]

Some excellent playing here and not just from bassist Cohen.

Many excellent femme vox mentioned above (though, imho, they still don't come close to Joni!) But another fave of mine, not yet mentioned, is ANNIE LENNOX. Various bass players including at times producer Stephen Lipson. Steve

[quote name='YouMa' post='466521' date='Apr 19 2009, 03:08 AM']Good call steve i forget about her, and the yellow taxi in the refuge of the roads,you sir are a scholar![/quote] If you've not heard it, check out Big Yellow Taxi (2007) from the album 'Shine' [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN6J16qVVM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN6J16qVVM[/url] (comment on youtube: "...there is actually no guitar on this song. All of the instruments you can hear come from the Yamaha Motif synthesiser (including that driving guitar riff which is a patch called 'Latin Jam'...")

+1 for Kate Bush But, for me, the female singer (and songwriter) who still leaves everyone standing: JONI MITCHELL (bass players: mainly Jaco Pastorius, Larry Klein) Cheers, Steve

Some excellent clips there. It led me to spend the last hour following a 'video trail' through the likes of Incognito, Earth Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Marcus Miller etc, and ending up with Jaco having a bit of fun. Apologies if you've seen this before - happy birthday, dude... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRcFi6kBTS4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRcFi6kBTS4[/url]