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Just now, Paul S said:

 

That's kind of my situation.  I am 66 (how did that happen?) and play in just the one band - a blues/rock trio.  It is the band I most enjoy of all that I have been in - I play music I love with a two laid back guys who are absolutely on the money.  If and when this band folds I'll most likely pack it all in as I will never find anything like this one again.    

I'd have given that post a ❤️ if that was an option, Paul! It's just great hearing you and @Rich sharing such positive stories about your bands. 

2 minutes ago, markbunney said:

He is having issues with his partner and the time taken up by playing in the band.

We have 10 gigs booked next year and he doesn't want to take on any more, unless they are last minute cancellations. We have got to the point where I think we could get a booking every weekend, so there is a big gap in what we could do, vs what we are able to do.

 

We are currently only playing once a month anyway and barely having any rehearsals so IMO it is not taking up a great deal of time. But as the months are rolling on, the gigs & practices are having to start later, and are becoming more infrequent, but when we do have a gig, they are generally really good.

 

The 4 of us get on well, and the band is otherwise pretty stress-free, its just a frustration that we are having to deal with.

Sounds like the band has got itself to a really good place in terms of potential bookings - nice one!

Whereabouts are you guys based? If some of you want to do (a lot) more than 10 gigs, could you consider getting a dep in to cover?

Thought we were going to be 100 BC'ers and done, but we've had another twenty add their votes since then 😊. These are the ones who have received more than 10 votes apiece from 120 of us :

23 minutes ago, Geek99 said:

Im Not sure why any of those Motown players are listed since carol kaye recorded all of it. No question. 

Who would recommend dropping from the list (from the 5 or fewer votes crowd) next time around?

On 07/12/2023 at 00:03, EBS_freak said:

Didn't read that you could add another in before completing... so I'd like to offer up Rutger Gunnarsson and fave bass line of his, One Of Us.

Btw great shout adding Rutger! Out of interest why this bass line rather than perhaps something like his awesome bass line to Dancing Queen? I kinda feel he's a spiritual successor to Carol Kaye - any merit in that thought?

Oooh...Macca has just slipped to third 😊

11 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

Full price for an SY300 is £650 and for that I would expect a USB cable as well as the correct PSU for the country where it being sold.

Yeah fair enough. 

Full price of a Helix Stomp XL is around £600. If that also comes with a USB cable, I'll concede the point.

59 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

The Line6 Helix comes with a USB cable.

Maybe wrong, but I'm not sure any of the Helix in the comparable price range to the SY-300 does though? Yours was a £1k+ product. 

I agree with @Woodinblack the more important thing is the right power supply - can't use it without one. For me, a USB cable costs a few quid and is not worth stressing about, particularly when you've just bagged a bargain?

And the even more important thing is if the SY-300 is actually any good / going to be usable live?

22 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

Not a lot of love for esteemed funk/slap merchants - not even MM -  among the BC massive. Well, there's a surprise....naht!

But there's definitely some love - Les Claypool, MM and Flea have all got 7 votes apiece. I think most of us would take our hats off to pretty much everyone in that list of 30 even if they didn't quite make it into our top 3.

Interestingly Mixcraft has been described as being the "closest you will get to Garage Band on a Windows system". It's < £100 and allows video editing too.

I take @Happy Jack's point. But I think we shouldn't devalue our time either, so if a particular daw is say £40 cheaper but its UI is much less intuitive and takes a lot more time/effort to get used to, then I'd want to take that into account when evaluating cost and value.

Sold Frank an octave pedal. It's always a pleasure dealing with him: top bloke and very smooth transaction.

With exactly 100 votes in, the BC verdict on our favourite bass players is as follows:

1 hour ago, EssentialTension said:

I am my favourite bass player so can I be on the list?

 

Please.

We will be in touch, please leave your contact details after the tone. No need to call back if you don't hear from us. 

Appreciate that's frustrating although, trying to remember, and I'm not sure if any of my pedals which have needed USB type-B cables to connect have actually been supplied with them in the box.

I mean, should I be feeling quite so smug that my three choices (Jamerson, Entwistle and Geddy Lee) have all made it into the top 10? Or does it merely confirm what a boring / conventional bass player I am who needs to get out more? 😅

5 minutes ago, neepheid said:

Eh, it's just a bit of fun.

Absolutely! 

Although also doubling up as a really useful survey of the views of musicians who know and appreciate bass probably better than anyone else. 

I think if we asked the public at large, most would probably not even heard of James Jamerson? They would obviously know Paul McCartney but I bet half of them wouldn't know he played bass, haha! 

10 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Still leaving the problem that it's impossible to change one's vote.

Plus also I think you can only replace the names of the bottom few and not the votes already cast against them, so ideally the most popular choices need to be listed from the start. 

If I/we run this again next year, we can maybe replace the least popular in this poll with some of the suggestions folk have made along the way. 

Bumping this old but excellent thread 😊

Nice little article from Music Radar - pretty up to date (Sept 2023):

5 underrated DAWs that aren't Logic, Ableton or Pro Tools, and why you should consider switching | MusicRadar

On 25/10/2023 at 20:50, Chienmortbb said:

I was going to say that, but then I thought I should do some more listening, even recording but the main thing is it all seems much clearer than the B1-Four. 
 

I am struggling with a bug, but will try to get some recordings comparing the two units, either Tomorrow or Friday. 

 

Added Monday 30th   Still got the bug, so don't hold your breath.

Guess I've got the same question as @JohnDaBass ie can you hear quite a difference between the B1-4 and B2-4 in terms of sound quality? 

With 75 85 95 esteemed BC'ers already having cast their votes, seems like there's a definite "Top 5":

1. James Jamerson

2. Paul McCartney

3. Pino Palladino Bernard Edwards

4. Bernard Edwards Pino Palladino

5. John Entwistle

With a chasing pack of:

6. Chris Squire

7. Duck Dunn 

8. Carol Kaye 7= Geddy Lee

9. John Paul Jones

10= Jaco Pastorius 10. Geddy Lee 9= Carol Kaye

10= Jack Bruce                                9= Geezer Butler

I love working with drummers who have electronic kits. Can pretty much choose any kit they want and can get the FoH very nicely balanced. 

Just now, peteb said:

What I want to know is why Gene Simmons, Adam Clayton and Sid Vicious are not on the list? 

 

Cos we've 30 slots only alas.

Which of the greats would you drop to make way for them?

7 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Who has received no votes. That worked well then.

As in I've swapped him out for Flea, so hopefully Flea gets some votes...isn't he due one from you?

4 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

How difficult would it be to create a knockout contest using the polls? Flea vs Entwhistle, Macartney vs Nate watts, Jamerson vs duck dunn. Start with 100 bassists and eventually we get to the winner (obviously Jamerson).

I think knowing the final answer in advance is going to make it a bit less exciting, haha! 

It's a shame we can't include a wider selection but it's interesting which names regularly feature that are not on the list, so maybe next Xmas we can do a more refined list (or @Dad3353 will help me figure out how we can broaden the poll).

What I do love about our poll, though, is that's there's perhaps no more thought-through a group of musicians to be asking this particular question to.

2 minutes ago, dudewheresmybass said:

burton, geezer but I don't see Harris there 

I know, I know...but which of the greats would you cast aside to make room for Steve H?

And how about posting a clip of his best bass line ever to make up for his absence on the poll (limited to 30)?