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She has........she is.......she was..........she did..........she's never.........she hasn't...........It's a BASS!!!

I used to think that Gerry & The Pacemakers were far better than The Beatles and that Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas version of Do You Want To Know A Secret was superior to the Fab Fours and that Freddie & The Dreamers could wipe the floor with The Kinks. When i reached the age of eleven i realised that these three groups were maybe not as good as i once thought they were.

I think it all depends on how you are actually going to cause embarrassment to yourself. If you are embarrassed by just by sitting in your bedroom listening to The Rubettes then that's a problem but probably not as much as causing embarrassment to yourself by walking into your local pub and shouting out that you love The Nolans.

Why on earth would anyone be embarrassed to say they like a band? What a strange old world we live in.

Here are the string sizes: Pawn Shop Bass VI: 024, 034, 044, 056, 072, 084 Original Fender VI: 025, 035, 045, 055, 075, 095 These are just what i've found on the net so they may vary. For what i've read on the net it seems that the Schecter Hellcat VI is truer to the original Bass VI sound than the Pawn Shop Bass VI. I'm picking my Pawn Shop Bass VI next week. I'm buying one simply because i think it will be good fun for the money.

any soundclips?

This is never far away from my cd player............... http://youtu.be/ryGN3_MkZFs

I prefer the feeler posts ................'not sure if i want to sell this but'..........???????

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1360289461' post='1968258'] I think that Zawinul's synths were alright for the most part until around 'Mr Gone'-I think that album was a little to synth heavy anyway. I don't know if I'd say it was cheesy though.I think it got better again around 'Domino Theory'. The thing with using technology is that there will nearly always be a point where it sounds 'dated'.Be it synth sounds or Simmons drums or whatever. To me though,I've never really found it a problem-it's just where things were at the time,and many modern pieces of equipment still try to replicate these sounds. [/quote] I remember in a review of Mr Gone on it's release the reviewer asked whether Mr Gone was referring to Wayne Shorter as there was less of him and much more synths on it. As you say it's more to do with the synths sounding 'dated' rather than cheesy. For anyone around when these albums were released they were anything but cheesy. These were cutting edge at the time.

[quote name='Fionn' timestamp='1360283366' post='1968215'] There are many things that I love about Weather Report from the Jaco era ... but Zawinuls [b][color=#FFA500]cheesy[/color][/b] synths are not one of them. Don't get me wrong. As a composer and player, I think the man was truly brilliant, but lets face it ... he had a penchant for the smelly stuff. Aye, a prolific purveyor of the stilton-esque, was Joseph. The times and technology cant be blamed for this. Herbie, for example, was sounding infinately classier in those days. Oh, if the music could be reborn I'd love to hear that Weather Report/ Jaco combo, those pieces, those arrangements with the synth parts reconsidered. Less over-bearing, more sympathetic. Rinse out the gross pads, the invasive and torturous plastic lead sounds. So much of Jacos precious playing is lost in this mess of fromage. [/quote] I asked a question on BC last month re: Zawinul's synth sound on the track Forlorn where it is at time totally off kilter. I've just read 'In A Silent Way: A Portrait Of Joe Zawinul' by Brian Glasser. All those synth sounds were just the way Zawinul was. He was always programming and reprogramming his synths. I've never thought of them as cheesy though. I was really into jazz as those Weather Report LPs were being released in the 70s and 80s and they didn't seem (or were thought to be) cheesy at the time. As for Herbie, Future Shock and Rock It (which i both liked at the time) sound a whole lot more cheesy now.

Gino Vannelli (no laughing at the back please...) Brother To Brother from 1978 with Jimmy Haslip on Bass (skip to 4.35 for the bass solo if you're not a fan of Gino!) http://youtu.be/eVm6hL0cynA

I finally got a 1990s MIK Squier Stratocaster. It's plywood, cheap and is just the job!

This thread got me thinking that i've never heard anyone say the word darndest in the UK. I've only ever heard it in the U.S. or in American films or TV.

I wonder why this has had eleven bids up to £122 when the seller clearly states that there is a reserve of £500?

[quote name='Leen2112' timestamp='1360018904' post='1963770'] Mac pah! sorry, try posting this in [url="http://basschat.co.uk/forum/37-site-news/"]http://basschat.co.u...m/37-site-news/[/url] maybe a mod will shed some light. [/quote] Don't have a problem with my mac

I've really liked this LP since buying it in the 70s. Four great bassists for the price of one! http://youtu.be/JFnzH5yGbws

I didn't realise that there was so much love for Copper Foil Tape until i read this thread.

[quote name='Leonard Smalls' timestamp='1359968704' post='1962513'] How's about some mid-90s German fusion? [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atX9ETdi1vw[/media] [/quote] I bought that cd when it came out but it's nearly as far off the original posters quest as this is: http://youtu.be/-vjofqA2SNY

Yes i've been down this road. I had someone who was keen on a bass i'm selling on BC and he asked what the postage was. He replied later saying that as it was short scale he wasn't sure if he could get on with it and that he lived to far to try it out then he would leave it. That's fine. I thought it was really decent of him to reply. Nice bloke! The other experiences were with a couple who that asked me how much postage would be. I replied it would be a £10 and didn't hear from them again. I thought that was a reasonable price and that if they had really wanted the bass a tenner wouldn't have put then off. The other one who required i told them that i'd send it FREE but amazingly didn't get a reply either. Funny old world isn't it?

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359962368' post='1962466'] It was all tongue in cheek...... He liked Mariachi, and his band were mainly LA studio players and Jazzers [as you proberly know] Herb had a great ear for music and produced a lot of stuff over the years, and more than likely TB paved the way for a number of Latin style chart pop at that time. Great head for business as well. Garry [/quote] I have a cd of demos of songs composed by Sharon Sheeley (Eddie Cochran's girlfriend) cut on the U.S. West Coast in the early 60s and Herb sings on some tracks and his voice sounds nothing like it did later on. Interesting and very clever bloke.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1359924009' post='1962192'] Even Herb Albert climbed aboard, sold out and went smooth in a Mexican way.................. Louis Johnson saves the day, or at least stopping it from making number one in the Tower Ballroom Blackpool. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vltC-O7PDYQ[/media] Garry [/quote] Herb was never an established jazz artist so no sell out there. He was always firmly in the pop camp as either composer or producer before his hits with the Tijuana Brass of which none were Hispanic!

[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1359923678' post='1962185'] Crikey, i just found this - Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970... I realise they were re-issued a couple of years ago, but I've only just discovered them being new to this sort of thing and all that (I only got Live Evil last week). They sound like the Holy Grail, I've just ordered them...! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dSvXf0gATo[/media] [/quote] With the great Michael Henderson..................wonderful stuff!!!!!! All of this period Miles is worth a listen and On The Corner from 1972 is the most funky.